[Plugin] Export Batch DAE

TIG

Of course... with the right code...

TIG

Dear TIG

Sorry, I am completely new to this and I am looking for a batch conversion of 3ds to dae.
I see that you have already the batch export from skp to dae and I guess that the below code would do the trick. However I am completly incapable of joining the information into something that works. May I kindly ask you to do this? I will be super grateful if you will help me.

Is it possible to modify this script to batch import 3ds files instead of skp and export to dae? (and how?)

Reason for asking is that I have more than 1000 3ds files that I need in 3rd party software and I need to have the sketchup version of dae.

I posted some example code that does [could do] exactly this... it's in another post from earlier today... do a Search...

RasmusL

Dear TIG

Sorry, I am completely new to this and I am looking for a batch conversion of 3ds to dae.
I see that you have already the batch export from skp to dae and I guess that the above code would do the trick. However I am completly incapable of joining the information into something that works. May I kindly ask you to do this? I will be super grateful if you will help me.

Is it possible to modify this script to batch import 3ds files instead of skp and export to dae? (and how?)

Reason for asking is that I have more than 1000 3ds files that I need in 3rd party software and I need to have the sketchup version of dae.

RasmusL

I think it is in this topic, from 4:32 today?

I tried it, but how do I get it to loop through all the 3ds files like a batch.

TIG

@rasmusl said:

I think it is in this topic, from 4:32 today?

I tried it, but how do I get it to loop through all the 3ds files like a batch.

Get the user to choose one 3DS file in the folder.
Currently the code uses the returned file path.
BUT let's say we have the returned
filepath=UI.openpanel(...)
From that you can find
folder=File.dirname(filepath)
[There's currently no API UI.getfolder() method... ]
From the folder you can find all of the 3DS files...
There are several ways, e.g...
files=[] Dir.entries(folder).each{|f|files << File.join(folder,f) if File.extname(f).downcase==".3ds"}
Now we have an array of all 3ds files in that folder...
Each array element is a full path...
Use a 'batch' process like this...
` files.each{|file|

ALL OF THE CODE TO IMPORT/EXPORT '3ds file' GOES HERE...

}`
Unless you want to pay to have a properly written script I'll leave it there...
Hint: to process files in subfolders do something similar to the above but this time make a list of all folders in the 'selected' folder, then iterate through the contents of each of those in turn, adding any 3ds files to the array for the ultimate batch processing

Please be wary - I have typed this from memory, so it's untested...

glro

@tig said:

Of course... with the right code...

OK... i'll keep working on it then.

My question is linked to ae snapshot plugin, when it is used to collect informations about all skp files on the hard drive, create a thumbnail and a file shortcut in a specified folder.

I adapted Jim FOLTZ's code to open each skp file in a folder, zoom out and save, so when it is saved, aesnapshot creates automatically the thumbnail and the file shortcut


model = Sketchup.active_model # Open model
entities = model.entities # All entities in model
selection = model.selection # Current selection


#choose a file
skppath = UI.openpanel "choose a file","*.skp"
skppath = File.dirname(skppath)
skppath = skppath.tr("\\","/")
skppath = skppath + "/"
	  
#skppath ="C;/recap_skp/"
#open dir and loop all skps
dir = Dir.open(skppath)
begin
  dir.each {|x|
       next if x !~ /\.skp$/i
       x = "#{x}"
       sourcefile = skppath+x
       x = x[0,x.length-4]

#prompt between files
        prompt2 = UI.messagebox("registering #{sourcefile} ?",MB_OKCANCEL) 
			if prompt2 ==2
			fail
			end
 
              #open model file                 
       Sketchup.file_new
         status = Sketchup.open_file sourcefile

      #zoom out

      view = Sketchup.active_model.active_view
       new_view = view.zoom_extents
      #save
      status = model.save sourcefile 
   
    }
      
ensure
  dir.close
end

    UI.messagebox "Finished"

I am not sure about the necessity of the prompt between the files register

TIG

I expect that the prompt is a device to get the view zoomed before doing the export, otherwise you might find it's exported before the zoom is finished ?

glro

@tig said:

I expect that the prompt is a device to get the view zoomed before doing the export, otherwise you might find it's exported before the zoom is finished ?

yes

maybe a timer would be enough, so it would not be necessary to wait and click for each file

TIG

model.options["PageOptions"]["ShowTransition"] = false
might help...
OR this entire thing as an example ?

<span class="syntaxdefault">def scenes2images</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">()<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_model<br />  view</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_view<br />  width</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">view</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">vpwidth</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">to_int<br />  height</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">view</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">vpheight</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">to_int<br /></span><span class="syntaxcomment">### you can change the width/height away from the default if you desire<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  pages</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">pages<br />  pages_times</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=[]<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  pages</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">each</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">page</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">pages_times</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">push</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">([</span><span class="syntaxdefault">page</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault">page</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">transition_time</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">])<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    page</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">transition_time</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">0.0 </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">}<br /></span><span class="syntaxcomment">### remembers pages' transition times and sets them all to 0<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  filepath</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">File</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">dirname</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">path</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)+</span><span class="syntaxstring">"\\"<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  0</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">upto</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">pages</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">count</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">-</span><span class="syntaxdefault">1</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)do|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">images</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    </span><span class="syntaxcomment">### this msgbox pauses and lets each view refresh and the image process...<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">messagebox</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">"Exporting Image of Scene..."</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_view</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">write_image</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">"#{filepath+pages.selected_page.name}.jpg"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault">width</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault">height</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault">true</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">send_action</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">"pageNext;"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  end</span><span class="syntaxcomment">#loop<br />### reset pages' transition times<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  pages_times</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">each</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{|array|array[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">0</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">].</span><span class="syntaxdefault">transition_time</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=array[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">1</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">]}<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">messagebox</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">"Scenes' Image Exporting - Completed."</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">end</span><span class="syntaxcomment">#def<br />&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault"></span>