Hey guys,
I haven’t made anything in maxscript for a while and im trying to create a new xref object based on a file in a subdirectory, but i just cant get that function working.
the help file doesn’t have any examples of how to use it and i was wondering if anyone could post an example of how to use it?
hers what i have so far –
filename = “D:\work\research\place houses\01.max”
objectname = “test”
New_Object = xrefs.addNewXrefobject filename objectname
ps i wish autodesk would include working examples of every sript. another language i use called max/msp by cycling 74 is fatastic like that. all you have you do is right click on the function and it brings up a working example of the script. its the best way to learn!
Works just as expected.
You have to make sure that you know the name of the object in the scene you are xrefing.
For instance:
Say I have a scene saved that has a box named “XRefObj”.
The path to the file is “c:\ est\XrefTest.max”
The following code will work.
theXrefBox = xrefs.addNewXrefObject "c:\ est\\XrefTest.max" "XrefObj"
That might help.
-Dave
ahh right! thanks heaps. i was wanting to just import all objects from that xref file, (without it being a scene xref). im thinking the only way to do that would be to inspect the file with a script then, and return a list of all objects, and feed that to the xref creation script.
or maybe i could just group them all in the file and import the group, if that works, not sure.
btw, to get all the names of objects in a maxfile which isn’t loaded you can use this command:
myNewObjs = getMAXFileObjectNames "c:\ est.max"
Maybe that helps you.
cheers
Ulrich