/*
This script works with a Rhino script to combine exported curves into 
one document. 


Cobbled together by Chris Reilly [creilly 4T saic D0T edu] in 2007. 

This script is distributed under a Creative Commons

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License

see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ for details
*/


// JavaScript Document

//read number of curves from 'Curve_Count.txt' which was output by Rhino. 
alert ("Select the file 'Curve_Count.txt'");
var textFilePath = File.openDialog("Select the file 'Curve_Count'");
var fileRef = new File(textFilePath);
fileRef.open("r");
var curveCount = fileRef.readln(0);

//locate and open the laser cutter template file
alert ("Select the laser cutter template file");
var templateFilePath = File.openDialog("Select the laser cutter template file");
var laserFile = new File(templateFilePath);
open (laserFile);

//cycle through the source curve files
for (var count = 0; count < curveCount; count++) {
	
	var curvePath = new File (fileRef.parent + "/" + count + ".ai"); //the slash may have to be changed for Windows
	open (curvePath);//open the curve source file count.ai
	var curvePathConverted = curvePath.name.substr(0,(curvePath.name.length - 3)) + " [Converted].ai";
	doc = app.documents.getByName(curvePathConverted); //bring <count>.ai to front. refer to as documents[1] since illustrator does a stupid renaming thing when opening the Rhino curves
	// = app.activeDocument; 
	
	//select all paths in curve source files and move to laser cutter template
	if ( doc.pathItems.length > 0 ) { 
		
		//cycles through each pathitem in curve source file
		for ( i = doc.pathItems.length - 1; i >= 0; i-- ) { 
			pathArt = doc.pathItems[i];  
			pathArt.selected = true; 
			
			var my_object = doc.pathItems[i];
			app.activeDocument = documents[laserFile.name];
			var destination_layer = app.activeDocument.layers["Layer " + parseFloat(count + 1)]; 
			my_object.move(destination_layer,ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
		} 
	} 
	
	//close the last curve source document w/o saving
	app.activeDocument = app.documents.getByName(curvePathConverted);
	aiDocument = app.activeDocument; 
	aiDocument.close( SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES ); 
	aiDocument = null; 
	
	//create the next layer in the laser cutter template
	app.activeDocument = documents[laserFile.name];
	app.activeDocument.layers.add();
	
}