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[EASY QUESTION] Exporting an assembly model as .stl format

Open traceforward opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

I can not export an assembly model which I created with cq.Assembly() with exporters.exportSTL. How can I do that. Please help. Thanks in advance.

traceforward avatar Jan 19 '22 06:01 traceforward

Use toCompound and then export.

adam-urbanczyk avatar Jan 19 '22 06:01 adam-urbanczyk

@adam-urbanczyk Since this is not the first time someone ask this, shouldn't we consider the exportStl to automatically make a compound of the assembly ? I'm pretty sure it's trivial to do, and would be more transparent for users

Jojain avatar Jan 19 '22 22:01 Jojain

Maybe, but I really wonder what is the use of such an STL.

adam-urbanczyk avatar Jan 20 '22 06:01 adam-urbanczyk

This issue has already been addressed, but I'm going to post this response here for archival purposes. It's a good explanation from someone in the KiCAD community of why you would want to fuse and print an assembly.

jmwright avatar Jan 03 '23 20:01 jmwright