Feature #2335: export in .obj file should use the objects labels

[Kunda1]

issue #2335: export in .obj file should use the objects labels (Related is also issue #2336: importing .obj file should use the object names as labels)
Looks like a user named damian in the bug tracker offered a fix. His repo link is 404 (his github user is @caceres
Maybe someone can ping him on github ?

[Kunda1]

https://github.com/caceres

[Kunda1]

bump

[Kunda1]

Should we keep pursuing this ticket or close?

[Kunda1]

please advise

[Kunda1]

feedback from the community is welcome...

[chrisb]

Would be nice to have. Another good choice is to propose the FreeCAD filename prefix.

[cadfunforfweeee]

On Ubuntu Linux 20.04 (e.g. installed using apt-get install freecad), all you have to do is edit ./src/Mod/Arch/importOBJ.py and change "obj.Name" to "obj.Label" where it gets written to a file (search for outfile.write).

Not sure if it's possible/if issues can arise using non-unique object labels in FreeCAD or what might happen in a Wavefront OBJ file with duplicate object names (or for import?) but this works a charm.

If you know how to use git/diff/patch, git diff fix against master branch commit 0926a4148bcff11249fd4f56bc30256102ffe105 below:

diff --git a/src/Mod/Arch/importOBJ.py b/src/Mod/Arch/importOBJ.py
index 0dd361d186..2cd5a156dd 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Arch/importOBJ.py
+++ b/src/Mod/Arch/importOBJ.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ def export(exportList,filename,colors=None):
else:
offsetv += len(vlist)
offsetvn += len(vnlist)
- outfile.write("o " + obj.Name + "\n")
+ outfile.write("o " + obj.Label + "\n")

# write material
m = False

[chrisb]

Since my last post the naming of export files was improved.