Hi shane, or a path with spaces in it will probably work if you add double quotes around it, like:

script: moi.filesystem.shellExecute( '"/Users/shane/Library/Application Support/Moi/UpdateRhinoClipboard"', 'target=moi', true /*wait for finish*/ ); moi.command.execCommand( 'paste' );

So that's got single quotes ' ' around the outside, and then double quotes " " inside of that.

I'll see about updating moi.filesystem.shellExecute() to handle that automatically when there are any spaces in the path.

- Michael

Thanks Michael, the double quotes did the trick! I tried it on some larger files and it seems to be working great.

Hi Shane,

re:
> Thanks Michael, the double quotes did the trick! I tried it on some larger files and it seems to be working great.

That's great!

So for the other direction going from MoI into Rhino, you'll need to set up a Python script like the attached one. It appears that Rhino v7 Mac uses the Rhino v6 Mac clipboard format so put target=Rhinov6 as the command-line parameter to the UpdateRhinoClipboard executable inside the .py file.

Then for your paste into Rhino you'll need it set up something like:

RunPythonScript /Applications/RhinoPasteFromMoi.py Paste

- Michael

Thanks Michael for working on this! I haven't tried the MOI > Rhino yet as I rarely go that way. Once my workload lightens up I will give it a try.

I`ve tried today and MoI3d -> Rhino v7 went ok without any additional plugin. Thanks Michael for making possible again copy-paste between Rhino->MoI with your additional plugin. It`s very useful.

Hi, after this Copy-Paste tweak I have problem copy-paste inside of MoI3d. Because when I hit copy-paste inside MoI3d then nothing happen (pasted mesh is not pasting). I have to click "save as" and after hitting that button pasting is finishing properly. So I cancel saving and I have pasted mesh. Is there any simpler way to copy-paste inside Moi3d without clicking on "Save As" button to finish pasting operation?

Hi mdesign, so this is happening when you modify the Paste command in MoI to run the helper program for enabling copy/paste to Rhino v7?

What operating system are you running on and what version of Moi are you using?

Can you show what you have for your paste keyboard shortcut now?

- Michael

Sorry for late reply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4njmGKkPKI

Windows x64

1) create cube
2) ctrl-c cube (copy cube)
3) del cube
4) ctrl-v cube (paste cube). Nothing happen. There is no cube in the scene.
5) Click save as - cube will paste properly.

This is very annoying on bigger projects.

Cheers!!!

Hi mdesign, so this is happening when you modify the Paste command in MoI to run the helper program for enabling copy/paste to Rhino v7?

Or have you not done any modification to the paste keyboard shortcut ?

If you have modified it can you show what you have in the keyboard shortcut now for Ctrl+V ?

- Michael

I`ve done modification on ctrl-V shortcut as you adviced before to have copy-paste feature between MoI and Rhino 7.

And it works well. But after doing that it broke my pasting inside MoI (with using ctrl-v). Maybe I should give other shortcut for Rhino paste not ctrl-v because I broke paste functionality inside MoI (when I use only MoI and I don`t use MoI-Rhino coop).

Hi mdesign, it looks like the shortcut key is not quite right, there's a description for how it needs to be set up earlier in this thread here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9890.22

The key thing that you're missing:

So where you have "c:\UpdateRhinoClipboard.exe", you instead need it to be "c:\\UpdateRhinoClipboard.exe" - note the doubled backslash.

There is probably a bug where if you give an invalid path to moi.filesystem.shellExecute() with the "wait for finished" enabled it ends up getting stuck waiting for a non-existent program to finish running and then running some other command cancels out from that wait. I'll see if I can fix that up.

- Michael

Hi mdesign, also it looks like you may have 2 sets of quotes around the c:\UpdateRhinoClipboard.exe, one pair of single quote ' characters and another pair of double quote " characters. Modify that to have just one or the other in that spot.

- Michael

It works!!! Thank you Michael for your effort with solving my issue. I`ve changed single backslash to double and removed unneeded pair of quotes. It helped to solve that issue exactly as you said.

Cheers!!!

You're welcome mdesign, I'm glad that it's working now!

I have tuned up the shellExecute method for v5 so that if there was an error in launching the program it won't try to wait for it to finish.

- Michael