module 'App' has no attribute 'ActiveDocument', but it works in the Python console ?

[techGuy]

I would like to get the name of the active document in my code.

This is my code:

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filename = App.ActiveDocument.Name

which returns an error: module 'App' has no attribute 'ActiveDocument'

Yet in the Python console of FreeCAD:

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>>> App.ActiveDocument.Name
'naca2412_BH'

What am I missing ?

Thanks

[onekk]

Hello,

first if all you miss to read this:

viewtopic.php?t=2264

Second:

From where you issue the commands, from an external python interpreter?

This information is crucial as if you want to use "FreeCAD as a library" younshoukd read the wiki page describing sone caveats as it is not a "common use case", not exotic but not so common.

Regards

Carlo D.

[techGuy]

From where you issue the commands, from an external python interpreter?

I ran the Python command in CfdOF workbench in FreeCAD

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My code is running as part of the CfdOF workbench code, in one of the workbench's modules.

This information is crucial as if you want to use "FreeCADvasca library" younshoukd read the wiki page describing sone caveats as it is not a "common use case", not exotic but not so common.

I am not using the "FreeCADvasca library".

My code is running in CfdTools.py in the CfdOF workbench. https://github.com/jaheyns/CfdOF

[techGuy]

I figured it out. The correct syntax is:

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App = FreeCAD
filename = App.ActiveDocument.Name

Here is a good API reference https://freecad.github.io/SourceDoc/modules.html

[onekk]

...

From a single line of code it is difficult to guess what you are importing and what not.

For this reason it is better to post a MWE (Minimal Working Example) even if the example is not "working" at all.

Usually App is a widespread way to refer to FreeCAD module (IMHO a bad way as it works in FreeCAD Puthin console but not in a stand-alone script.

Same for Gui to refer to FreeCADGui module.

I have amended my post thanks to note the mistyping.

Regards

Carlo D.