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The py.py script is an import plugin to get a carving from a skeinforge python procedural script, in order to make procedural objects.

This is similar in concept, although different in execution, to the Masked Retriever's parametric scripts at:
http://blog.thingiverse.com/2009/10/20/parametric-objects-again/
http://blog.thingiverse.com/2009/10/19/parametric-object-party-day-1-the-power-of-standard-custom/

An example procedural script is circular_wave.py in the model folder.

An import plugin is a script in the import_plugins folder which has the function getCarving. It is meant to be run from the interpret tool. To ensure that the plugin works on platforms which do not handle file capitalization properly, give the plugin a lower case name. The getCarving function takes the file name of a python script and returns the carving.

This example gets a carving for the python script circular_wave.py. This example is run in a terminal in the folder which contains circular_wave.py and py.py.


> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 22 2007, 01:43:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import py
>>> py.getCarving()
0.20000000298, 999999999.0, -999999999.0, [8.72782748851e-17, None
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many more lines of the carving
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Modules
		__init__ skeinforge_tools.skeinforge_utilities.euclidean skeinforge_tools.skeinforge_utilities.gcodec os sys

Classes
		PythonCarving   class PythonCarving     A python carving.     Methods defined here: __init__(self, fileName) Add empty lists. __repr__(self) Get the string representation of this carving. getCarveCornerMaximum(self) Get the corner maximum of the vertices. getCarveCornerMinimum(self) Get the corner minimum of the vertices. getCarveLayerThickness(self) Get the layer thickness. getCarveRotatedBoundaryLayers(self) Get the rotated boundary layers. importModule(self) Import the python script and store the layers. setCarveBridgeLayerThickness(self, bridgeLayerThickness) Set the bridge layer thickness.  If the infill is not in the direction of the bridge, the bridge layer thickness should be given as None or not set at all. setCarveImportRadius(self, importRadius) Set the import radius. setCarveIsCorrectMesh(self, isCorrectMesh) Set the is correct mesh flag. setCarveLayerThickness(self, layerThickness) Set the layer thickness.

Functions
		getCarving(fileName='') Get the triangle mesh for the slc file. main() Display the inset dialog.

Data
		__author__ = 'Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)' __credits__ = 'Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/>\nArt of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>' __date__ = '$Date: 2008/21/04 $' __license__ = 'GPL 3.0' absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (2, 7, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384)

Author
		Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)

Credits
		Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/> Art of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>