Batch export to PDF

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Permalink Reply by Richard Schaffranek on February 22, 2017 at 5:27am

Hallo max,

yes there is, you can automate rhino print command, and if you don't have a freeware pdf export it should work without clicking for each file. I have a sample file, will need to go through me archive so maybe until tomorrow...

Best

Richard

Permalink Reply by Max Malein on February 23, 2017 at 2:04pm

Just in case someone needs it one day. This is the best workflow I could get so far:

1. Install free PDFCreator printer.

2. In PDFCreator settings enable "autosave" option and provide a saving path along with the naming template.

3. Set PDFCreator as your printer in Rhino

4. Use attached c# component to automate print command. Every tree branch will end up in a separate PDF file

Drawbacks:

- all geometry should be baked in advance and then referenced back to grasshopper because my code uses GUIDs to select elements in the viewport.

- you need to use boolean toggle instead of a button to run script otherwise grasshopper canvas stops responding. I have no idea why.

Attachments:

• printPDF.gh, 4 KB