How to export from Gh?

Grasshopper
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There is a bunch of export options but no exporter

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Am I missing something obvious?

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Depends on what you’re planning to export. If it’s 3D geometry, bake it into Rhino first and export it from there.

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Are they pre-applied to the baked object? How does it work? Where do you connect the options output?

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No need to do this.

You can export directly with the ‘Export Model Block Definition’ component

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Do you have any knowledge how Rhino blocks are read in other software?

The guy from my team said that even closed b-reps from Rhino are interpreted as as a bunch of connected surfaces (in some other software from our machines), therefore things needs to be done in Inventor.

Has anything changed in this regard V7 to V9?

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I guess it depends how you export.

Did you try *.stp?

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We will try several ways. I want to see how juggling with options improves the export quality.

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Hi Martin

Have you tried exporting to step file?

I get red warning all the time, whatever extension I choose: .stp or .step

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The red baloon reads that the file could not be saved.

Export as 3md is fine, so my setup is good when it comes to naming etc.

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What does the message balloon say?

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File could not be saved.

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Are you using the latest WIP?

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Always

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Does the folder exist?

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Sure things. Export to .3dm is fine when extension is changed.

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Overwrite?

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Whatever the settings it won’t work for step

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What’s in your export options?

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S: tried all of them

Scs: False

Et: False

Eb: True

I tried any combination of these, no change.

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For me it exports even without these options plugged in

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As a step file?