TESTACPSCRIPT error

[kudryavcevrm]

Hello All!

Plant 3D 2013 (ver G.55.00), Win7 64-bit.

We permanently meet an error after Plant command

(TESTACPSCRIPT "TESTSCRIPT")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\variants\varmain\__init__.py", line 94, in create
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128)
nil

Here's a steps to reproduce:

1) create simple script TESTSCRIPT (see attachement). Save it as "C:\AutoCAD Plant 3D 2013 Content\CPak Common\CustomScripts\TestScript.py". You can save it in ANSI or UTF-8 encoding, it does not matter

2) Open plant 3d. In command line write such strings

PLANTREGISTERCUSTOMSCRIPTS

(arxload "PnP3dACPAdapter.arx")
(TESTACPSCRIPT "TESTSCRIPT")

What's wrong,please help me! Also there's a strange behavior with (TESTACPSCRIPT1 "TESTSCRIPT") which does not produce an errors, but also  it is not produce errors when using any other script name, like (TESTACPSCRIPT1 "anY_text_Here")

How to test scripts????

[kudryavcevrm · Accepted solution]

solved. Don't forget to quit autocad after PLANTREGISTERCUSTOMSCRIPTS.

But :

script errors are very uninformative(spurious),i.e. many of error messages are similar :(, like

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-6: ordinal not in range(128)

How to debug scripts?????????????? Can I use native Phyton  IDLE debugger??????

[Anonymous]

you need a parameter name in your script...

instead of:

def TESTSCRIPT(s, D=80.0, L=150.0, OF=-1, K=1, **kw):
    CYLINDER(s, R=D/2, H=L, O=0.0).rotateY(90)

you need it to read:

def TESTSCRIPT(s, D=80.0, L=150.0, OF=-1, K=1, **kw):
    o1 = CYLINDER(s, R=D/2, H=L, O=0.0).rotateY(90)

That's the first thing I noticed.  The o1 can be anything.  I just tend to use o for OBJECT and 1 for the sequence, or first solid object. The next object would be o2, o3, o4, etc.  I know you are just testing this out but you have translate options as well to move the solid around in X, Y or Z directions.

Give that a try.

[kudryavcevrm]

Scott Hallmark
, thank you for useful advice

[david.flores]

Thanks Scott;

Each comment helps me with writing my Python scripts.

[mlandmann]

I tried this. I cannot get any metafiles to procude in the customscripts directory. Does anyone know what the problem is?