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Exporting a number of bodies to STL produces the last body selected

beauglehalld — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:50:45 GMT

An interesting quirk/glitch (I think bug). I have a file with a number of bodies to be individually 3D printed. As the export for each takes a couple of minutes (by pushing through cloud - seems a waste, but anyway), I created each job in rapid succession (eg. body one - export, body 2, export, .... body 5, export). The jobs then show up with the unique names and produce the correct file names, but each exported STL is the last body (eg. Body 5). If I wait for each export to complete, they export correctly. This should be easy to recreate - just have multiple bodies, and select/export each in quick succession. View the resultant files.

Has anyone else come across this? I really don't want to waste a half hour exporting files, when I should really be able to batch them like this. It seems to me a case that was just not thought of by programmers, and just pulls the "currently active", rather than setting the active bodies to export in each export job. An oversite, if you will. But, it can/should be fixed. Unless, of course, I'm doing something ludicrously wrong. But given that it works correctly if I do exactly the same process (except I also wait for the arduously long export each time), I don't think it's anything I'm doing.

Thoughts/solutions/workarounds appreciated.

Betreff: Exporting a number of bodies to STL produces the last body selected

g-andresen — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:20:11 GMT

Hi,

maybe this helps?

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günther

Re: Exporting a number of bodies to STL produces the last body selected

beauglehalld — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 01:49:04 GMT

Thanks @Anonymous. This is a great alternative and workaround. I would have accepted it as a solution, except I really want someone from Autodesk to look at the underlying issue, as if it occurs in this instance of exports, what other instances will it also not queue up jobs with correct settings? Hence I have left it for now.

Re: Exporting a number of bodies to STL produces the last body selected

g-andresen — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:22:55 GMT

Hi,

@beauglehalld schrieb:

This is a great alternative and workaround.

This is a designated export option and not a workaround.

günther

Re: Exporting a number of bodies to STL produces the last body selected

beauglehalld — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:31:43 GMT

It is an export, but it is also a work-around for the original issue - which is that it doesn't seem to correctly "save" the export settings for each individual export. "The jobs then show up with the unique names and produce the correct file names, but each exported STL is the last body (eg. Body 5).", which is also a valid export, but is not working correctly. Just because one export works doesn't mean that there's not still a bug in the other.