topic Re: Problem exporting to STL in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:46:43 GMT

Hi,

I have problems to export some projects to stl, the errors are the following:

Error: Autodesk Translation Services failed to translate the current document to stl file!
Error: STL Translator failed to export data

If I create a new box there are no problems but with some other more elaborate projects (not all) I can't export.

I attached an example.

I'm new to this program, maybe I'm missing some basics.

Thank you

Re: Problem exporting to STL

lucasliraAU — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:59:11 GMT

Hello Friend!

I've been exporting your attached file to the extension in STL. in my Fusion 360, I did not find any kind of problem exporting was a success. I am attaching the file for your validation.

For you to prepare an export in STL you must select the part as shown in the attached images:

By following these steps you can implement this in other projects.

I hope it has helped you, your STL file is attached 🙂

Re: Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 16:21:06 GMT

Thank you for the reply, I just tried again selecting the body but it failed again in the same way.

Re: Problem exporting to STL

etfrench — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:52:15 GMT

Can you make a screencast to show your selection process?

Re: Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 18:34:02 GMT

I tried both by selecting manually the object and selecting by clicking on "Bodies" -> "Body1"

Re: Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:36:10 GMT

I tried to modify a project that I can export correctly by extruding a couple of faces, after the extrusion it starts giving me this problem.

With a project I solved this by simply moving the body in the positive axes value region of the space, but when I tried this on others it didn't work.

I don't know what to do.

Re: Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:51:58 GMT

I was just having this same problem. After random clicks, it rendered and worked for me--I had preview mesh selected. Wondering if it was an issue on the server side. Is yours working now?

Re: Problem exporting to STL

daniel_lyall — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 22:28:03 GMT

@lucasliraAU wrote:

Hello Friend!

For you to prepare an export in STL you must select the part as shown in the attached images: No you can select the top of the tree the body or 3D print under the make menu they all should just work

@Anonymous It's more than likely a problem at your end in fusion, I can not fail the stl export doing it every way possible. This is a case for the fusion support staff and what you should in your picks is correct.

It will help support if you show this fail in a screencast, and attach your error log files

@jeff_strater can you have a look or pass on please.

Re: Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:54:19 GMT

What I seem to be seeing us an unusually long render time. It errors, but continues processing, so eventually I see it.

Note this is with multiple stl, and multiple ways of generating the stl.

Re: Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:32:00 GMT

I tried to install Fusion on my laptop and there the export works...

I attached the screencast and the diagnostic logs.

Re: Problem exporting to STL

daniel_lyall — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 19:43:51 GMT

@jeff_strater Please and thank you

Re: Problem exporting to STL

jeff_strater — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 20:42:28 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Happy to take a look. I have the same experience as @daniel_lyall with this model. It exports fine for me. The export succeeds, and I can bring the resulting STL back into Fusion, and it looks fine. Can you please record a screencast of the exact steps you take to experience the failure? Perhaps we are doing things in a different order, or with different values in the STL dialog.

Jeff

Re: Problem exporting to STL

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:02:08 GMT

See my previous post.

Maybe I should just reinstall the software.