Selecting 2 Bodies to export to STL

[castleworksmotorsports]

I have two mesh bodies that I have brought into Fusion.

I would like to export these both as a single STL file, however I am having trouble selecting both of them.

I am able to select one at a time and save it as an STL file but not both.

Can you point out what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

[ampster40]

not sure if this is possible with meshes but try combining both bodies first, then export or save as stl.

I don't recall the correct terminology at the moment, but you may need to convert those meshes into bodies or workable entities within F360, then combine, then export out to stl. 

HTH

[Anonymous]

You can select the component and when you export as STL you get a choice whether to export one body or all bodies. However, the slicer will consider these as separate entities with gaps (even zero size gaps) between them. Which might not be what you want. I would usually combine bodies like this into one entity.

[castleworksmotorsports]

When I try to select the second body that is not highlighted, the first one deselects. It seems like I can only choose one or the other. I didn't see an option to select all bodies? I wonder if I did something odd when I brought the second mesh body in?

You mentioned combining them both, can you walk me through how to combine them?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Ah, a picture says 1000 words. You would usually right click on the body's parent component and select "save as stl". Then you would have the option to save as "one file" or "one file per body". However, you have two bodies in different components (sort of). You can try right clicking the root component and see what that does.

To combine two bodies, just use modify/combine and select the relevant bodies. However, that's for normal bodies. I will admit that I haven't dealt with mesh bodies and combining before. This was the first link I found when searching though, which may help you

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/screencast/Main/Details/3e12c04...

Edit: the video says to right click the body and convert mesh to brep. Then you have a solid body...

[dieselguy65]

doesnt selecting the first body, then hold shift and select the second one work?

i dont have your file in front of me.

but thats the method i use

[castleworksmotorsports]

Unfortunately I have not been able to combine these two mesh files. I looked at the video link and followed it, but could not figure out how to get into the direct modeling mode as he said.

I have attached the file. Any help in combining these into a single STL file would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin

[castleworksmotorsports]

I did try holding the shift key down, but it just toggles between the two. I have attached the file here.