Hi! Is the Rhino .stp exporter able to include metadata per object? If not, would this be too hard of a feature to include? Ideally, it would be great if the Rhino Object userstrings becomes metadata in the .stp @dale ?

@tim - is this something you know about?

Hi David, This might be possible. Do you have a really, really simple (like a single plane) step file with metadata on an object that I could look at? That would help in trying to figure out what step entity I need to look at. I realize you’re asking for export but knowing what to actually set i…

I need this as well.. Is it possible to specify meta data for a STEP file in Rhino?

Hej Morten - [image] Morten: I need this as well.. Did you see Tim’s request about an example? Without such thing, nothing will be done… -wim

I asked Copilot to create a sample file but it was nonsense… So here’s a simple *.stp file I exported out of Artec Studio. The header: ISO-10303-21; HEADER; FILE_DESCRIPTION(('STEP AP242'), '1'); FILE_NAME('Cylinder 1', '2025-03-19T16:17:40', ('Default author'), ('Default organiza…

Bumping this feature request. For Naval Architects, Classification societies are wanting a platform agnostic file type for 3D model review and are preferring *.step files at the moment. Only issue is that they need the metadata for proper review.

Export STEP with metadata

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wim (Wim Dekeyser) July 21, 2025, 2:51pm 7

Feature request: RH-88499 File IO: STEP MetaData
-w

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Export STEP with metadata

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