Exported STL has 0 KB

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi,

I used OSSmooth to Import an Isosurface into Hypermesh from a previeous optimisation. I want to export part of an assembly to stl, so I can't directly use the export from OSSmooth. When I create the faces from the 'find faces' panel and try to export as stl. The resulting file is created but has 0 KB and no model inside.

I don't know what I can try to resolve this issue as there is no error message.

 

Greetings from Germany,

Marius

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2016

    Hi Marius,

     

    After extracting face elements, make sure the name of the components doesn't start with ^ (ex: ^faces).

     

    Rename the face elements component and export to .stl format.

  • Rahul_P1
    Rahul_P1
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2016

    make sure all the elements you are exporting are tria elements, only tria elements can be exported as .stl

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2016

    Hi Prakash,Hi Rahul,

     

    Thank you for the help!

    In the end, the name was the problem.

     

    Greetings,

    Marius

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