exporting single parts and surface within a part studio as seperate stl files

tanja_matzerath

Hey everyone,

I am using a python script to export a PartStudio as stl.  For this I have created a function as described here (https://colab.research.google.com/github/PTC-Education/PTC-API-Playground/blob/main/Onshape_API_Snippets.ipynb#scrollTo=Ql6qSU3pzWEC ; 01.5 PartStudios -Export STL).

However, my PartStudio consists of individual parts and surfaces.

So my question is: How can I pass the information to the client which part or surface I want exported as stl?

An alternative would of course be to store the individual parts in one sheet each, so that the element ID changes, but I don't like this solution very much.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks in advance

Matt_Shields

Yes, it's possible.  When you make the POST request to https://cad.onshape.com/api/partstudios/d/{}/w/{}/e/{}/translations, you can send along parameters such as individual part IDs you want. You could use the parts endpoint to retrieve the part IDs and then grab the one you want.  Then, for example, you could add

json={
  "configuration": "",  # Add configurations if needed
  "formatName": "STL",  # Use a valid translation name
  "storeInDocument": False,
  "partIds": "JOD".     # Part ID grabbed from an earlier call
}

to your POST request.

Example:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/100W3o_Fw_cXdPbWplirfsUOLfKms92bH?usp=sharing

tanja_matzerath

Thank you very much. This is exactly what I was looking for.