Hi all,

Does exists some "BOM script" (Bill Of Materials)?
It will be enough script, which exports list to TXT of all named and visible objects in this syntax for instance: Object Name;Number;Type of construction (solid, curve, closed curve, etc...), which can be seen on "Info Panel".




Thanks
Mik

Hi Mik, re: BOM script - the closest thing to that is probably the attached script which I recently wrote for someone else, it allows you to select solids and then it will generate a .csv file similar to what you describe, the file can then be imported into a spreadsheet program.

This type of thing will probably work better in the future when MoI has an "instancing" mechanism in it.

- Michael

EDIT: 4/30/2017 - Updated CutList.js to work with locales that use commas as decimal separator

This is it, Michael!

Thank you very much.

Mik

Have you a little image of a possible result for some objects ?

Hi Pilou, it doesn't make any result in MoI, it makes a .csv text file which can then be opened with a spreadsheet program like Excel.

- Michael

Yes it's the example image "Moi Objects Start / Result in Excel end"
for have an idea! Now I have just the Up Corner page ot the first post! :)

Hi Pilou, sorry I don't have any image prepared for that. If someone is asking for a .csv file it's pretty much guaranteed that they already know what a spreadsheet looks like, so making an image of one wouldn't really do anything helpful for them.

- Michael

Yes but it was just for make a little article in section Utilities or Script / Plugins of my site! :)
I will see that i can make!

Seems curves are not taken in count!
And there is problem with accents! ;)

(import inside excel made without format) :)

Hi Pilou, yes both of those are normal - curves don't correspond to a finished object that will be correspond so the script only gathers up solids. It could be modified easily to look for curves also though if you had some use for that. And also usually a .csv file is just a plain ascii text file and so can't contain accented characters. It might work with some programs though, what spreadsheet program are you using to read it in?

- Michael

<< what spreadsheet program are you using to read it in?
Refound Excel on my computer! ;)

Does it possible to link CutList with the CVolume of Max Smirnov ?

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7421.71

Hi Pilou, also what happens with your accented characters if you open the .csv file in Notepad, do they display ok there?

If so try saving it out again from Notepad using the Encoding UTF-8 option on the Notepad save dialog, your new file will contain a "Byte Order Mark" at the front of it which may then get recognized by your spreadsheet program.

- Michael

Yes good accents are visible on the Notepad! :)

Ok perfect!

Waiting the CVolume by Max! :)

Hi Pilou,

> Does it possible to link it with the CVolume of Max Smirnov ?

It could be possible, you'd need to copy the volume calculation code into the .csv generator script.

- Michael

Hi Pilou,

re:
> Yes good accents are visible on the Notepad! :)

So that means your text file is ok (meaning it has UTF-8 text data in it), it's just that Excel doesn't interpret it as UTF-8 text using the regular file open method.

You could try saving it out from Notepad as UTF-8 which will put the Byte Order Mark at the front of the file which may get Excel to read it as UTF-8 text, or you could try using the Data > From Text method in Excel to read it which I think has a way to specify that it's UTF-8 text as described here:
https://www.itg.ias.edu/content/how-import-csv-file-uses-utf-8-character-encoding-0

- Michael

Seems Excel accept directly (Ansi from the Moi Cutlist modified in Notpad in UTF8)

Just Sphere has extra measures ! ?

The original file 3dm (With Curve, Sphere, Box, Cylinder)

http://moiscript.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/3/8/3938813/cutlist.3dm

From the CVolume by Max there are Volume, Surface , Mass, Density, Material and Center of Mass! :)

Hi Pilou,

re: Just Sphere has extra measures ! ?

Looks like that's because of the French way of having commas for the decimal point separator. Since commas are also used as item separators in the .csv file that makes Excel think there are more columns there.

This can be fixed by tuning up the CutList.js script file, on lines 31-33 of the script there's this currently:

		cutobj.x = moi.ui.formatCoordinate( bbox.xLength, 6 );
		cutobj.y = moi.ui.formatCoordinate( bbox.yLength, 6 );
		cutobj.z = moi.ui.formatCoordinate( bbox.zLength, 6 );

Try replacing those lines with this instead and see if that fixes it:

		cutobj.x = moi.ui.formatCoordinate( bbox.xLength, 6 ).replace( ',' , '.' );
		cutobj.y = moi.ui.formatCoordinate( bbox.yLength, 6 ).replace( ',' , '.' );
		cutobj.z = moi.ui.formatCoordinate( bbox.zLength, 6 ).replace( ',' , '.' );

- Michael

Yes the famous "decimal" point! :)

It's with little things like that billions are losted in reality in Space discovery with satellites, space rockets etc...!

<< Try replacing those lines with this instead and see if that fixes it:

So perfect!
(I believe that this Moi export who is regulated on Ansi for any reason)


I am affraid that was a littme more difficult for the CVolume... :)



PS
This correction will works also for people who have not decimal point problem
or we must have 2 versions ?