How to export all bodies or components as separate .step files for manufacturing?

[romaincavroy]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working for a manufacturer who needs me to send every compoents of a model as separate steps.

So far I don't know how to do it other than by exporting every components one by one and my model have close to 80 components...

Any idea to make those exports in one time?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Bests,

[etfrench]

This Add-In by @lichtzeichenanlage will do the job for you.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Thank you for recommending my little add-in. In the last weeks I've used it regularly (like 30-40 times in 2 month)  so it should be fairly stable. At least for my workflow.

[l.drewicz]

Hi @lichtzeichenanlage ,

I'm unable to use your plugin. After chucking the latest build from GitHub to the appropriate directory (%appdata%\Autodesk\Autodesk Fusion 360\API\AddIns) I see no Add-In at all:

Can you advise? Is there a file I need to run? I have restarted my machine, but no dice.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

@l.drewicz Thank you for testing my little add-in. I just tested the installation twice. Once via download of the main branch as zip file and once by downloading the release 1.0.0 ExportIt.zip file and both ways do work just fine.  It looks like you named the directory EportIt. If you rename it to ExportIt (adding a lowercase x after the uppercase E) it should work.

[l.drewicz]

that was it! thanks!

[lichtzeichenanlage]

@l.drewiczI'm glad it works now. Don't hesitate to ask if I can do more.

[pbroughtonHXEP7]

Thanks @lichtzeichenanlage for this add-in! I wanted to also mention that I needed to make sure my component names didn't have a "/" in them when exporting to STEP, as this would cause execution to halt. Just a tip in case other people have this issue.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

@pbroughtonHXEP7 : Thank you for the feedback. Slash and/or backslash in filenames are problematic to handle by the operating system because they're used as a separator in the directory path. But you're right the add-in should handle it by replacing it with a non-conflicting character.

I've created an issue on github for this and will fix it in a later update:

https://github.com/WilkoV/Fusion360_ExportIt/issues/41