Hello all, I am using a foreach setup manipulate geometry for every piece that is coming from a different department, , when I make a test region to work on around hundred pieces , the speed is fine, but I will be handling several thousand pieces, is there a way to visualise a progress report or to dump out a txt file for each piece number processed.

also found this

hou.InterruptableOperation in the H13 manual at
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini13.0/hom/hou/InterruptableOperation [sidefx.com]

Although, I don't know if i can apply with my lil python knowledge. If it is the right direction I can ask my colleagues,

Thanks

I think you can do this using the Python SOP, creating the file before Foreach and writing to it inside the Foreach.

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I think you can do this using the Python SOP, creating the file before Foreach and writing to it inside the Foreach.

We came up with a similar idea, to run an external python script per for each and to write out a TXT file, we will try it tomorrow, will update the info here if we succeed

You don't need to use an external script. You can just use the regular IO in Python inline.

There is a very handy operator for this in orbolt:

http://www.orbolt.com/asset/CalebHoward::trace_foreach [orbolt.com]

If you wanna just create a Progress Report on the “For Each SOP” ,So you can simply use Script SOP inside For Each ,Just take your Iteration Number and convert it to percentage and print it with Script SOP ! :idea:

Check Attached File 8)


NOTE : This sample just take Iteration Number for “Each Group” , “Each Number” , “Each Primitives/Points” ,But you can complete it to take Iteration Number for “Each Attribute Value”

NOTE 2: To see your Progress Report ,You should open Console Window. (Python Shell must be close)

If you like to save some files (e.g txt) on the disk just for showing progress report ,You don't need to use Python scripts ,Just append a “File SOP” and “Null SOP” to it's input inside “For Each” node and set “File Mode” to “Write Files” and use Percentage channel (In my attached project) instead of frame number ,Something like this :
C:\ProgressReport\Progress_Percent_`chs(“../Precent_Compute/Percent”)`.txt

thanks man, this works perfect. hope to return the favour in someday