How to best work with a multi part product?
Hi,
If you are looking for exporting each thing alone in both formats, the first thing to do is to make everything a component
because you see a body can only be exported in stl format, but a component can be exported in many other formats
just go to the browser and right click the component you want to export and then hit export
now after exporting them you can upload them and insert them in a new project
Regards
Saeed
Saeed Hamza
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Hi,
Saeed's reply covers #1. Unfortunately, there isn't a quick way to export multiple components at once, so it has to be one at a time.
For #2, If you know you will want to reuse a component in multiple designs, it is better to create that component separately in its own file, then insert it into the design where you want to use it. This creates an externally referenced component (x-ref). You'll see this by the chain link icon next to the inserted component in the browser. You can open that component to make edits, then it will update in any design where it is used.
For #3, If you have already created all of your components in one design then you you're only choice is to use "Save Copy As" on a component to create a new design. Then you have to delete that component and then insert the new design to replace the original component. At this time there is no good way to do a "save and replace" in order to maintain any existing references. We recognize this is a gap in the distributed design workflow, so we are currently working on improving this.
Tyler Henderson
Principal User Experience Designer
For the purpose of sharing data with manufacturers I would only export each part in the diffferent gemeric formats as @SaeedHamza has described.
if you've followed Fusion 360's R.U.L.E #1 your components might have dependencies but should not share construction history and other elements.
If you export your components into their own files, where those components depend on other things, these might break and create yellow warnings in the timeline in the exported file, but many things can be fixed.
It takes a little experience to figure out what to avoid.
