PRINT selected objects name

[Richardd013]

Hi is there a way to print the list of selected objects in Maya using python or MEL?

I'm looking for a way to automate this instead of copy-pasting them manually cause it'll save me some time.

I need to put the list of the objects in excel later on.

Thank you!

[brentmc]

The MEL command to list the selected objects is:

ls -sl

[Richardd013]

that worked! but how to make it printed verticaly instead?

[brentmc · Accepted solution]

In that case you will need to loop over the selection and print each item followed by a newline:

{
    string $obj;
    string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
    for ($obj in $sel) {
        print($obj + "\n");
    }
}

You can do a lot in Maya with some simple programming skills so you should look for some introductory tutorials on MEL to get started.