I'd like to be able to save a snapshot of my work as a 3dm file. While incremental save is great, I want to continue to work on the file I started with and not the incremental file. So in this way I can just throw off a copy of the file before I do something "destructive" to my model that I might not be able to undo.

So I'd want to write a script without UI that does the following:

-Select All
-Export as 3dm file with the file name being base_filename+time (or instead of time could be an increment)

It should be a pretty easy script, I just can't find in other examples how to specify the params to export.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Scott

Hi Scott, try the following put into a shortcut key:

script: /* save snapsnot to .3dm file */ var name = moi.geometryDatabase.currentFileName; if ( !name ) { moi.ui.alert( 'filename not set' ); } else { name = name.substr(0,name.length-4); var date = new Date(); name += (date.getMonth()+1) + '_' + date.getDate() + '_' + date.getFullYear() + '_' + date.getTime() + '.3dm'; moi.geometryDatabase.selectAll(); moi.geometryDatabase.fileExport( name ); moi.geometryDatabase.deselectAll(); }


One thing to look out for is you can't have a colon : character in a filename so don't try to format the date like that in the filename, that won't work.

moi.geometryDatabase.fileExport() also takes a second optional paramter for options but it's for controlling meshing options for export to a mesh format, not anything for .3dm format export.

- Michael

Thanks Michael!
Should it start with:

moi.geometryDatabase.selectAll();

Scott

Hi Scott,

> Thanks Michael!
> Should it start with:
>
> moi.geometryDatabase.selectAll();

You can put that at the start if you like - but the above script already does that just right before the call to moi.geometryDatabase.fileExport(), I've highlighted it here:

script: /* save snapsnot to .3dm file */ var name = moi.geometryDatabase.currentFileName; if ( !name ) { moi.ui.alert( 'filename not set' ); } else { name = name.substr(0,name.length-4); var date = new Date(); name += (date.getMonth()+1) + '_' + date.getDate() + '_' + date.getFullYear() + '_' + date.getTime() + '.3dm'; moi.geometryDatabase.selectAll(); moi.geometryDatabase.fileExport( name ); moi.geometryDatabase.deselectAll(); }

- Michael

Oh! Didn't see it for some reason. Thanks this works great.