In Fusion 360 I can't select all components of an object for 3d printing.

[Anonymous]

I am having trouble selecting all components in Fusion 360 for 3d printing. I have an object to 3d print. It is comprised of 4 components. When I try to select the object consisting of its 4 components to export to Cura for 3d printing, I am only able to select one component at a time versus the whole object consisting of all 4 components. Thus I could only print parts of the whole, which wont work. I've tried regrouping the components, reelecting them in different ways, but still no luck. I am able to select the whole object for other processes without problems but when it comes to the 3d print action only one component gets highlighted. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[paul.clauss · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous Thanks for posting. You should be able to select the top level component group in your design (this will select all the components in your design) and then hide the components that you do not wish to include in the exported STL. I hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

Thanks, that works. I was attempting to window select all the components and then do the 3d print command. It worked to select active group on the top component group that housed the four components and hit 3d print. Thanks

[autodeskHCGNN]

Helpful but still would be nice if you could click and select more than one component/body -- especially since there is already a selector box that says "Selection" which for other Fusion360 functions works just fine for multiple component/body selections

[kymC6Q8L]

Its not a great workflow but the best way to achieve what your after is to select the body and copy to a new component.  You can then either have all thr bodies under one component or copy them under a parent component and export from there.

Hope this helps.

Kym

[autodeskHCGNN]

My message was more about a feature request as it would seem to be both simple and consistent with both the overall UI as well as the specific UI for "3D Print" to allow multiple selection.

If anything the current UI is *misleading* since when you select it says "1 selected" implying that one could select more than one.

Beyond that the workflow is as it is.

I end up doing one of 2 things...

Either

1. Exporting individual bodies/components individually and sequentially to Prusa slicer
2. Exporting the entire collection to Prusa slicer and then deleting the objects I don't want in Prusa slicer

whichever requires fewer clicks...