Writing to files?
Today, I have two ways I do my scripts:
-
Use a program I've written to generate the scripts from Excel, where I do
my calculations. This makes for awkward script programming when I want to do
something complicated, but it allows me to use the measurements as input for
a parts list when I'm going to buy stuff when building the object. -
Use Excel to simply generate a few seed measurements variables into a
script which I include in the main script, then script normally and do the
calculations in the script. Neater scripting, but doesn't allow me to export
the calculated values in a sample way, so I can't generate the parts lists.
I would like to work according to #2, but that would require duplicating a
lot of calculations (with all the errors that'll bring). However, if there
was a simple way to export some variables, it would be doable.
Basically, something like (for example):
writefile("c:\temp\myfile.txt", myvar); //Appends variable to file, creating
the file if needed
writefile("c:\temp\myfile.txt", myothervar);
Which would result in (assuming values 1 and 2):
myvar=1
myothervar=2
This, of course, would be easy to handle in further processing stages.
Of course, some command to delete a file would also be needed.
Basically, OpenSCAD is great when it works alone, but when you have to put
it in a larger process, some means of connecting things together is needed.
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I just use echo and then post process the output with python.
On 23 March 2017 at 11:48, Troberg troberg.anders@gmail.com wrote:
Today, I have two ways I do my scripts:
-
Use a program I've written to generate the scripts from Excel, where I
do
my calculations. This makes for awkward script programming when I want to
do
something complicated, but it allows me to use the measurements as input
for
a parts list when I'm going to buy stuff when building the object. -
Use Excel to simply generate a few seed measurements variables into a
script which I include in the main script, then script normally and do the
calculations in the script. Neater scripting, but doesn't allow me to
export
the calculated values in a sample way, so I can't generate the parts lists.
I would like to work according to #2, but that would require duplicating a
lot of calculations (with all the errors that'll bring). However, if there
was a simple way to export some variables, it would be doable.
Basically, something like (for example):
writefile("c:\temp\myfile.txt", myvar); //Appends variable to file,
creating
the file if needed
writefile("c:\temp\myfile.txt", myothervar);
Which would result in (assuming values 1 and 2):
myvar=1
myothervar=2
This, of course, would be easy to handle in further processing stages.
Of course, some command to delete a file would also be needed.
Basically, OpenSCAD is great when it works alone, but when you have to put
it in a larger process, some means of connecting things together is needed.
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Is there a way to redirect the echo output to a file, or do I have to do the
copy-paste dance?
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If you are using the GUI, the later.
You could try the command line
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Using_OpenSCAD_in_a_command_line_environment
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