[Closed] batch import

Mar 31, 2008 9:55 am

so I just finished importing 64 layers of illustrator files as splines, and decided i don’t like the AI format and might want to use the DWF’s instead and was thinking man it sure would be great if i could do this with a simple script instead of by hand. but i have no real experience with max script and the listener wasn’t giving me a good head start. so i thought id seek advice from CG society. so
any ideas on how to incremental import multiple files, would be helpful.

4 Replies

coren

Mar 31, 2008 9:55 am

some time ago I created this little script that import every file with the given suffix and inside a choosen folder.(sorry for my english)
Hope it will be useful
bye!


dirpath=undefined
theSuffix="*.dxf"
dirpath=getSavePath caption:"choose a folder" 

if(dirpath!=undefined)do
(
	dirpath=dirpath+"\\"+theSuffix
	files =getFiles dirpath
	for f in files do (
		importFile f  #noPrompt 
	
	)
)

DevIII

Mar 31, 2008 9:55 am

hey corren, sorry for the late reply

thats not working for me. Im going to take the script too someone with more experience in max script later this week and see what he thinks tho, thanks for the starting point. it might be a version differnce sense Im using max 2008, and you wrote that “some time ago” hopefully my scripting expert can give me the solution and Ill update this post then.

thanks again.