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Allow the creation of export batches

Allow the creation of export batches

There's often situations where you need to export parts of your design into special formats. May it be for production or to just give it to other people.

 

This can include:

 

- Export to stl for 3D printing or 3D milling

- Save as DXF for laser cutting or milling

- Export to STEP for further use in other software or to hand out to other people.

 

At least for me these 3 would be the main cases. Problem now is that if you have multiple of them in one design and you change things in your design, the re-export of all this stuff is annoying and unhandy. It would be great to be able to define export batches where all of the defined parts get exported in one click. Maybe packing them as a zip file could be a good idea.

 

 

3 Comments

Not only that but currently if you want to export a single body or component as anything but STL, you currently have to «save copy as», open that up, and export from there, so any changes get de-synced.

deyop
Alumni
Status changed to: Future Consideration
I think we understand your desire here but feel free to add additional comments to clarify different workflows. Thanks
Helmi74
Collaborator

I think the basic idea is to make exports easier for different situations:

 

1. Make it easy to quickly export parts of a design (component level) without having to copy to new files, delete every other stuff and so on.

 

2. Enable us to do repetetive exports to easily be able to re-export stuff that was exported before in the same format after updating the drawing. Like exporting 5 STLs and 3 STEP files from different components with one click. There we should also discuss orientation (maybe in a later step) but this is also something that i will bring to discussion independent from this topic

 

At least for quick exports it would be great to get them to disk directly without the need to go through the dashboard - or probably be able to directly send it to others via the dashboard (easy download link or send-by-email function).

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