Sending an object to the 3D printing app ignores joints

[iulianOnofrei]

I created a component with a body, then added a joint from the center of one of its side faces to the origin:

but when I send it to PrusaSlicer, it gets loaded with the orientation that it had before the joint:

Is it an actual bug or just a setting that I need to toggle on?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Joints connect components
When exporting as 3mf or STL, bodies (solids) are converted into mesh bodies.
The definition of the position in which a solid is to be sliced is made in the slicer app.

günther

[laughingcreek · Accepted solution]

the origin location of the exported model is dependent on where you export from.  if you select the component directly, then you won't see any of the joint transform, because the component origin is used.  if you export from the top level, you will see the transform, b/c the model origin will be used.