Export Visible to STEP

[Slava_S]

Hello, 

I use Inventor since 2015, and still missing a functionality of exporting 'clean' assemblies to STEP files to customers - all hidden parts should not be shown. 

The main GA assembly has many sub assemblies with different view representations. We toggle between main assembly views and save them to STEP, however all hidden parts are still visible.

In old Inventors we noticed that regardless the current view, STEP was exported to last saved state of each subassembly. In 2023 everything is shown and it is a mess.

"Copy to model state" and "Shrinkwrap"/"derive" did not work well for us. 

Please share your ideas or iLogic codes.

Thank you all

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Slava,

I am sorry I am confused. STEP Export does skip invisible components or suppressed components. The exported STEP should be wysywyg. Please share an example that illustrates the opposite behavior. I would like to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

Johnson