Simulating ENTER key when using Camber SendCommand node

[Gauzdx]

I am using the command IFCINFRAEXPORT which needs a file path parameter. I am able to send the command to the command line but I want to execute it by automatically pressing ENTER key. Is this possible?

[mzjensen]

Hi @Gauzdx,

What I would recommend instead is to set FILEDIA to 0 before running the command, which will allow you to pass in the filepath as a command line input. You can then set FILEDIA back to 1 again once the export is finished so that everything is returned to normal. This could all be done in the Dynamo script as a string of commands, for example:

There’s a similar example from awhile ago here:

Exporting object data to SDF/SHP

This is my method as well. I’ve found that MAPEXPORT is the easiest, but the problem is that I typically want many separate SDF files to import into InfraWorks as coverage areas because then they will show up separately in the surface layers window. That way you can toggle the visibility on/off for individual layers. With MAPEXPORT you can export multiple features along with their CAD layer attribute to a single file, but then in InfraWorks you only have one data source and therefore lose the v…

Hope that helps!