Looking for some help to loop through imported dxf layers

[Anonymous]

Hi there

What I'm trying to do with fusion

1. Import in dxf's
2. Extrude them using api

What my problem is

I'm not a coder, this is a side project I do in my spare time. I'll show my problem then explain

pcb_profiles1 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(0)

pcb_profiles2 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(1)

pcb_profiles3 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(2)

pcb_profiles4 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(3)

pcb_profiles5= sketches.item(0).profiles.item(4)

pcb_profiles6 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(5)

pcb_profiles7 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(6)

pcb_profiles8 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(7)

• My problem is that this code works for my testing dxf as it has 7 geomtries on the dxf layer, but if I bring in another dxf one that doesn't have 7 geometries on this layer then my code doesn't work

What I'm trying to do to fix this problem

I would like to be able to loop through the layer so that if I had 1 geometry or 100 geometries the code would work

something along the lines of

pcb_profiles1 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(1)

pcb_profiles+1 = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(+1)

I know this isn't the correct way but it shows what I would like

Any Help would be much appreciated

[JeromeBriot]

Hello,

Try:

for i in range(0, sketches.item(0).profiles.count):
    profile = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(i)

Or:

for profile in sketches.item(0).profiles:
    profile

 That's the basic idea.

[Anonymous]

Hi Jerome

Thank you so much for your fast reply to my problem and I apologise for my reply being so late

I'm still having a couple issues with my code and I was hoping if you wouldn't mind having a quick look at them to see if it is anything obvious that I'm doing wrong

• With your first suggestion

for i in range(0, sketches.item(0).profiles.count):
    profile = sketches.item(0).profiles.item(i)

• My main issue with this was that when I tried to run the code it was asking for the profile to be defined

I attempted a few ways to do this but nothing seemed to work, which is annoying as it seems like such a simple and basic task but this proves my point in that I'm not a proper coder and this is a side project

If you have any ideas as to how I could get round this problem I'm all ears

• My first attempt at defining a profile

profile = adsk.core.ObjectCollection.create()

With this I was getting a TypeError: Unsupported Operand type(s) for -: 'ObjectCollection' and 'Profile'

I had a look about to see if there was anyone else with this error in hope that they would have a solution to my problem but I couldn't see any but that is probably more me not looking in the correct areas

• My second attempt at defining a profile

sketch = sketches.add(xyPlane)
profile = sketch.profiles.item(0)

With this I was getting a TypeError: create()missing 2 required positional arguments: ' Curves' and 'ChainOptions'

Again I had a look about to see if there was anyone else out there with this same error and if they had a solution for it but again nothig came of it

• If you have any ideas as to how I could fix these issues fire away

for profile in sketches.item(0).profiles:
    profile

For your second suggestion

This one seems more promising as the code runs through with no issues buta few other errors that I haven't encountered before have come up and I'm still working my way through them at the moment