topic Re: Export a body as a step or iges format with a right click on the body in Fusion Support Forum

Export a body as a step or iges format with a right click on the body

elwood165 — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:33:20 GMT

able to export a body as a dxf, iges or step format on a right button Click

add iges and step export on to bodies.

Re: Export a body as a step or iges format with a right click on the body

jhackney1972 — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:39:56 GMT

I can only guess what you are trying to convey with your forum post. You want to have some right click features added to the right click menu. Well next time, you need to "state" your request a bit more clearly instead of having others guess what you desire. Unless the reader is very familiar with Fusion 360, and knew these right click options did not currently exit, would not understand what your post is about.

I am assuming you know these options are already located under Export but I assume left click there is too much effort.

Re: Export a body as a step or iges format with a right click on the body

Bryan.Hook — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:41:17 GMT

This is old, but it still came across my google search. In short, you want components and not bodies. You can right click and export individual Components (as many file types), but not bodies. It seems with bodies a lot of people are saving them as stl's and then converting them, I assume because they don't know Fusion 360 that well; and the way it handles "assemblies" is quite different than other software I've used.

If you use the top menu to export as the other toxic human being commented before me, you'll export every body and component in the project.

So if you want to export individual parts, each part needs to be its own "component" not a separate "body." I still get hung up on this as I only use Fusion 360 once in a while for work, and recently created a project with different bodies instead of components myself.

Re: Export a body as a step or iges format with a right click on the body

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 21:38:54 GMT

@Bryan.Hook wrote:
This is old....

Did right click Export Component exist back then?