Configurations Player

[Cator]

Hi everyone,
for all those who use configurations to create many versions of the same part or assembly, I created this simple script that allows the timed and sequential opening of the configuration as in a sort of temporal presentation. It is useful for explaining the "history" of the piece or open assembly through images.
Regards,
Francesco

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

To automatically detect which environment you are in you can use some code which I stole from @idslk like this:

#Get Enviroment ---------- Thanks IDSLK
try:
    Enviroment = CurrentAssembly()
    EnviromentText = 'Assembly ' + str(Enviroment)
except:
    Enviroment = CurrentPart()
    EnviromentText = 'Part, Name: ' + str(Enviroment)

this lets you do things like:

if EnviromentText.startswith('Assembly'):
    print('This is an assembly')

or:

if EnviromentText.startswith('Part'):
    print('This is a Part')

And also things like

for j, configuration in enumerate (Enviroment.Configurations):
    time.sleep(T)
    P=Enviroment.GetConfiguration(Enviroment.Configurations[j].Name)
    P.Activate()

 

[Cator]

Thanks Nate!!
I want to try inserting it, it would certainly save some wasted shots.....
What if I wanted to make the window animated through those screens that I collaged into the window? Unfortunately the advice you gave me in PM is beyond my expertise.... do you think you can give me some application examples?

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

I'm afraid I didn't get that working. The image in that AlibreScript form does not update. Switching to a UtilityDialog was actually worse as it prevented the model from regenerating correctly.
You could write a custom winforms but that is a bunch of work.
I'd suggest saving the images to the computer, so the user can do something with them after. The script found in this post is a great example of that:
https://www.alibre.com/forum/index.php?threads/motion-script-needs-update-for-v27.24421/post-164392