Export Assembly as .SAT File

[Zero__]

Hi -

I am trying to export an assembly as a .sat file so that I can use it as a robot end-effector tool in RobotStudio. I open my assembly, right click the highest level at the browser and select Export, and I get the message "Local Export is not supported right now for distributed designs". I'm not sure what Fusion 360 defines as a distributed designs, but I'm assuming its an assembly made of separate designs/components.

Can anyone recomend a workaround? I don't need any sort of history or smartness to the exported model, I just need the components rigged together, exported as a .sat file.

Thanks!

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Zero__,

I don't have too much experience in this area, but if I had to take a stab at it it may be due to the links you have with your components. You may need to break those first (since I believe that those are the distributed designs that the error is referring to.) I could be wrong, but I'd give that a shot first and see what happens. Just know that once you break the links, it will be unreferenced to the original file.

Hope this helps, and like I said I will try to look into this a little further.

[Zero__]

Hi James - thanks for the suggestion. How do I break the links? At first I thought you meant deleting the joints, but I'm thinking you mean the association between the components in the model and the individual designs they're actually linked to.

[James.Youmatz · Accepted solution]

You see the kind of chain-like image next to your component's name? This indicates that there is a link between your model and an outside component. To break it, right-click it and select "Break Link". This may solve the export issue, but now it is no longer referenced to its original file.

Hopefully this works for you. If not, let me know!

[jeff_strater]

Hi @Zero__,

You can do this without breaking links.  What that error message is telling you is that you cannot export from within the Fusion client itself.  Instead, you have to export from A360.  So, open the details in A360, then choose Export from the toolbox:

Then choose SAT as the Format to export to:

and choose Export.  This will do a cloud export to your project.  This will then appear in your A360 project, where it can be downloaded.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[Zero__]

I created a copy of the assembly, broke the chains and this worked. Thanks!

[Zero__]

Thank you!

[James.Youmatz]

You're welcome. I'd definitely look into what @jeff_strater said as well though. My method was just a quick workaround and breaking the links may not always be the most ideal situation.

Cool project by the way!