Export Locators As Points

[bdavison]

i have intersected a lot of curves and have a crapload of locators at the intersection points - i am now trying to export out as a point cloud to use in rhino....any thoughts?

thanks

[joojaa]

Write them out with a script. What kind of point cloud formats does rhino support nowdays

[bdavison]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 03/17/08, 06:13 AM) [snapback]282721[/snapback]
Write them out with a script. What kind of point cloud formats does rhino support nowdays

I have a rhinoscript to import point values from excel. I am not familiar with melscript - do you know where to find source to export the locator values in excel format? thx

[joojaa]

Write them out as csv its quite trivial (didnt test from my head should work, ive been doing this a loong time)

CODE
{//protect global pollution
$fileId=fopen "C:/someDir/somename.csv" "w";
for ($item in ls -type locator){
  $loc=xform("-q","-t", "-ws", listRelatives("-p", $item));
  fprint $fileId ($loc[0]+";"+$loc[1]+";"+$loc[2]+"\n");
}
fclose $fileId;
}

Please note this will not work in maya ple (no export will) Tough you could echo them in segments into a text outout and copypaste them to a file