Thank you for posting this. "Saving all....in a single file" is a life saver. I tried making a sub-assembly per the video instructions and that failed as my mates still tried to break. However, I was able to suppress or hide the parts I didn't want to print and then save per above and it worked awesome. Thanks again.
Holy crap! I am an engineering student at GVSU and my intro class for engineering had a solidworks final where we had to make the parts on this video and make this assembly .
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. I would suggest making the title of the video more relevant For examle "Save assemblies as a single STL file for 3D Printing" or "Three ways of saving subasseemblies as....." The reason I mention this becuase When I saw it's 8 minutes long I thought to myself it can't be what I am looking for, surely it should be a simple option. Thank you
I used mate to put the two objects together in the assembly. If I don't mate them, they are separate in the STL file. Can I have objects that touch and still be separate?
Wow,really what i was looking for long time after i have done my design ,i can not find the file after i have saved to STL file, can you help me how to fix this, please?
When hitting Save As, you’ll be prompted to choose where you want to save the document to-typically this is the last saved to location or current location of the assembly you’re working in. When you then hit Save to confirm, the final screen with the STL preview will also give you a summary of the destination filepath that you need to confirm. Hope this helps!
I saved an assembly as a part, then saved the part as an STL. When I open the STL, it is only one object. The STL option for saving all as one body is unchecked. I am not getting the result shown in your video. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Wonder full I was trying to 3D print an STL and it kept splitting the assembly at the slicer level, this fused the parts so it printed as one item, thank you so much.
Man, can you help me to do this process in reverse. I mean I have the stl of an assembly, and am trying to convert it back to an sldasm file. Can you help me out please!
When you open the file in SOLIDWORKS, you should see some options for feature recognition and be able to open an STL file in SOLIDWORKS. But there isn't a native SOLIDWORKS function that can convert an STL into a SOLIDWORKS assembly. You would have to put in some manual effort to split the bodies into separate part files and import them back into an assembly file. This blog outlines some editing options for working with that geometry, but sadly, there's no magic button that exists out-of-the-box to convert an STL into an SLDASM: www.goengineer.com/blog/modify-imported-body-solidworks
I have lots of .xt parts (parasolid format) files. I would like to make 3D printing. I know that .stl is the preferred format to do 3D printing. My doubt is can i insert all the .xt files in to solidworks assembly mode and once assembly process is completed then can i saves as the file into .stl. Will all the .xt files convert? Can you please guide me on this.
Hi Anand, Typically Parasolid format imports with few geometric errors so they can be saved into .STL straight away. Sometimes you may need to repair the models before saving into .STL though. Just make sure to follow the instructions of 'Import Diagnostics' if they come up after an import.
Thanks! To save someone some time: Save as STL, then go to options, checkbox "save all components of and assembly in a single file". 4:17
Thank you for posting this. "Saving all....in a single file" is a life saver. I tried making a sub-assembly per the video instructions and that failed as my mates still tried to break. However, I was able to suppress or hide the parts I didn't want to print and then save per above and it worked awesome. Thanks again.
TL:DW ?
Here I saved your time.
Method 1 : 1:05
Method 2 : 3:07 (I'm goin to try this one)
Method 3 : 5:27
Thanks mate. You could improve (Y)
@Casey Jonathan omg it's working!
perfect, exactly what i needed, method 1 worked flawlesly
Thank you, I was losing my mind with the multiple files thing, love from France !
Thank you. Even after 2 years there are people like me stumbling across your video.
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Holy crap! I am an engineering student at GVSU and my intro class for engineering had a solidworks final where we had to make the parts on this video and make this assembly .
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This Helped THANK YOU !!!! subbed !
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. I would suggest making the title of the video more relevant For examle "Save assemblies as a single STL file for 3D Printing" or "Three ways of saving subasseemblies as....." The reason I mention this becuase When I saw it's 8 minutes long I thought to myself it can't be what I am looking for, surely it should be a simple option.
Thank you
Thanks for posting this video with useful information.
Very Important Thank you
Merci beaucoup, ça m'a vraiment aider :D
Its very helpful to me thank you for this video👍🙏
Thank you!
excellent video , thanks
you legend. thank you
dont understand how can someone dislike this video
Thank you, you made it easy. Cheers!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much
thank you, you solved my problem :)
Thank you!, helped me a lot
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I used mate to put the two objects together in the assembly. If I don't mate them, they are separate in the STL file. Can I have objects that touch and still be separate?
Wow,really what i was looking for long time after i have done my design ,i can not find the file after i have saved to STL file, can you help me how to fix this, please?
When hitting Save As, you’ll be prompted to choose where you want to save the document to-typically this is the last saved to location or current location of the assembly you’re working in. When you then hit Save to confirm, the final screen with the STL preview will also give you a summary of the destination filepath that you need to confirm. Hope this helps!
I saved an assembly as a part, then saved the part as an STL. When I open the STL, it is only one object. The STL option for saving all as one body is unchecked. I am not getting the result shown in your video. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks you very much !!!!!!!! :D ^^
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but the output does not have separate graphics bodies like yours,,,can u help me?
Wonder full I was trying to 3D print an STL and it kept splitting the assembly at the slicer level, this fused the parts so it printed as one item, thank you so much.
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Hello, i want seperate stl's for each body. The save components as a single file is unchecked but i still get ONE SINGLE STL. Whats going on?
Thank you, good video!!
Man, can you help me to do this process in reverse. I mean I have the stl of an assembly, and am trying to convert it back to an sldasm file. Can you help me out please!
When you open the file in SOLIDWORKS, you should see some options for feature recognition and be able to open an STL file in SOLIDWORKS. But there isn't a native SOLIDWORKS function that can convert an STL into a SOLIDWORKS assembly. You would have to put in some manual effort to split the bodies into separate part files and import them back into an assembly file. This blog outlines some editing options for working with that geometry, but sadly, there's no magic button that exists out-of-the-box to convert an STL into an SLDASM: www.goengineer.com/blog/modify-imported-body-solidworks
I have lots of .xt parts (parasolid format) files. I would like to make 3D printing. I know that .stl is the preferred format to do 3D printing. My doubt is can i insert all the .xt files in to solidworks assembly mode and once assembly process is completed then can i saves as the file into .stl. Will all the .xt files convert?
Can you please guide me on this.
Hi Anand,
Typically Parasolid format imports with few geometric errors so they can be saved into .STL straight away. Sometimes you may need to repair the models before saving into .STL though. Just make sure to follow the instructions of 'Import Diagnostics' if they come up after an import.
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