Script Release: Assembly Tree V3

[NateLiquidGravity]

Assembly Tree V3 Updated 9/23/2020
by NateLiqGrav

Fixed issues with special characters in file names.
Added GUID option.

Assembly Tree V2 Updated 12/31/2018
by NateLiqGrav
Had 25 downloads when replaced by V3

Now with a user interface (based on albie0803's) and rainbow bubbles.
Also now works with unsaved files and creates a red alert when discovered (as seen in image)


Assembly Tree V1 12/20/2018
by NateLiqGrav

List all the parts in an assembly and it's sub-assemblies. See the results in the photo below. The green lines are where my mouse was hovering. Those are links to open the assembly/parts.

Use AssemblyTree to print in the console
Use AssemblyTreeHTML to make and load an HTML file with tree and links to files
Use AssemblyTreeHTML2 to make and load an HTML file with bubbles and links to files
Pass it an assembly object.
AssemblyTreeHTML and AssemblyTreeHTML2 need the location and name to save the html file as.
verbose is optional. 0 = off, 1 = filenames, 2 = filenames and parameters
DO NOT USE tabstep or string_stream they are for internal use of the function only.

Example usage at the bottom of the script.

 

[idslk]

Hello Nate,

cool work!
May you can add a File input box for the file location stuff

Regards
Stefan

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

Yeah I can do but won't be able until after the holidays.

 

[DavidJ]

If - like me - your 'My documents' lives in a non-standard location, be particularly careful when editing the file locations in the script. If you just edit the user name, you may get failures. Took a while for me to realise why it wasn't working...

 

[albie0803]

Will this work with vault locations?

All the HTML commands throw the following error:

System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.
   at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path, Boolean checkAdditional)
   at System.IO.Path.GetFileName(String path)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.PlatformAdaptationLayer.OpenInputFileStream(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
   at IronPython.Runtime.PythonFile.__init__(CodeContext context, String name, String mode, Int32 buffering)
   at IronPython.Modules.Builtin.open(CodeContext context, String name, String mode, Int32 buffering)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.FuncCallInstruction`5.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.LightLambda.Run5[T0,T1,T2,T3,T4,TRet](T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2, T3 arg3, T4 arg4)
   at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute4[T0,T1,T2,T3,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2, T3 arg3)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.DynamicInstruction`5.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.LightLambda.Run4[T0,T1,T2,T3,TRet](T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2, T3 arg3)
   at IronPython.Compiler.PythonCallTargets.OriginalCallTarget3(PythonFunction function, Object arg0, Object arg1, Object arg2)
   at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute5[T0,T1,T2,T3,T4,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2, T3 arg3, T4 arg4)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.DynamicInstruction`6.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.LightLambda.Run2[T0,T1,TRet](T0 arg0, T1 arg1)
   at IronPython.Compiler.PythonScriptCode.RunWorker(CodeContext ctx)
   at Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting.ScriptSource.Execute(ScriptScope scope)
   at AlibreScript.UI.IronTextBoxControl.#ijb(Object #9A)

The filepath is correct, I copied it directly from the folder window bar to be sure.

AssemblyTreeHTML(Assem,"C:\Users\allan\Documents\Alibre Script Library\Tree\savehtml1.html", 0)

Edit: This worked, changing the \ to /
AssemblyTreeHTML(Assem,"C:/Users/allan/Documents/Alibre Script Library/Tree/savehtml1.html", 0)

 

[albie0803]

AssemblyTreeHTML2

The function is nice but the progressive darker background only works so far.

 

[albie0803]

I've had a bit of fun and added input boxes and a folder path.

Use at your own risk!

Thanks so much Nate for the work you have done on this, it is way above my coding level. I'm sure it will be well appreciated by the community.

 

[DavidJ]

Will this work with vault locations?

Seems to work OK with Vault for me.

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

The function is nice but the progressive darker background only works so far.

Yeah I figured that may happen to someone. I was thinking about altering it so that it goes through a rainbow instead of grayscale thereby giving it many more steps. Alternatively wrap the text and make the background of the text constant.

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

Bumping to alert to V2 update in original post.

I've had a bit of fun and added input boxes and a folder path.

Use at your own risk!

Thanks so much Nate for the work you have done on this, it is way above my coding level. I'm sure it will be well appreciated by the community.

Your welcome. I used your user interface as a jumping off point for V2. Thanks.

I've detailed some tricks in there that you might like.

 

[albie0803]

Finally able to check this out (back at work, my home comp died) and I like the changes you have made.

 

[DavidJ]

Hi Nate,

I asked another user to run your Assembly Tree v2 script as we were trying to capture the assembly structure and paths through a series of actions to gather evidence of a very obscure issue.

Though your script runs fine for me, it errored out for the other user with

File "<string>", line 275, in AssemblyTreeHTMLGen2

File "C:\PROGRAM FILES\ALIBRE DESIGN\PROGRAM\ADDONS\ALIBRESCRIPT\PythonLib\urllib.py", line 1250, in quote

File "C:\PROGRAM FILES\ALIBRE DESIGN\PROGRAM\ADDONS\ALIBRESCRIPT\PythonLib\nturl2path.py", line 65, in pathname2url

KeyError: ⅛


Does that suggest anything in particular to you? The assembly is quite complex, is there some limits to how deep sub-assemblies can go before the script has issues?? Or is it just a character in a name that the script doesn't like?

 

[idslk]

Hello David,

where has the other user installed alibre? Standard drive and folder? If not...

Regards
Stefan

 

[DavidJ]

Stefan, it's a 'plain vanilla' install of AD. Default directory.

I can imagine that fraction characters from part names might cause problems when handling HTML. Pity, as Nate's script is a great way to capture a record of the structure - just not in this particular case it seems.

 

[idslk]

KeyError: ⅛

Checked it. If the 1/8 is part of the filename, it will cause the error. Such characters have to be "recoded" with some extra lines of script...
Regards
Stefan

 

[DavidJ]

At least that explains the symptoms. I'll have to find an alternative approach.

 

[DavidJ]

I'm not missing a similar script somewhere that wouldn't get 'confused' by the fraction characters.....? presumably something that didn't use a web page as the output.

I don't seem to remember anything like that...

 

[idslk]

Hello David,

how should the result-(file?)look like and what will you do with it?

Regards
Stefan

 

[DavidJ]

Stefan - it's not too critical exactly what it looks like. The need is to

1. Make the full assembly structure clear.
2. Show paths for all files related to the assembly.

It is primarily to look for changes after user has made edits / saved - some weird things have been reported, and we need to gather evidence. So I'd want to compare 2 or more listings, and hone in on any differences. So any output that makes the comparison simpler is good.

A bonus (but not essential), would be to also capture the GUID of the files - that would capture if any 'Save As' operations had gone on.

I'm comfortable with spreadsheet, text file, etc.

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

I think I fixed it. Give this a try. If it works I will update the first post.

Edit: Moved file download see first post.