NOTE: please check in the comments the solution I have found.

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NOTE: please check in the comments the solution I have found.

Is there any way to export from CAD a bunch of parts as STL and then break it apart into individual objects’ own STL files? That would save so much time of exporting individual parts to STL…

I think it’s time I upload individual files to thingiverse as until now I have only had the floating all parts STL file … so any shortcut would be highly time saving.
https://is.gd/6Qjylf

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Yes, most host software have an ungroup or split function. Slic3r standalone, Ideamaker, Cura (I believe), etc.

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Yea the split function is there but no export all individual parts to their own STLs… did I overlooked that option?

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@Florian_Ford possibly Blender has this export option? Been a while so not positive

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This is plain stupid, to work through all these programs when the Slicer can ungroup…it will be so little effort on the creators part to make a checkbox in the save to STL to save each object to its own STL …

Moreover, it shouldn’t be hard for a coder to make an Openscad script to take a STL and iterate among all objects inside and save each to a file …

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Wow, I just managed to do it by mistake :slight_smile: …

In Meshmixer:

  1. import STL,
  2. go to straight to Print (lowest Icon on the Left Ribbon),
  3. then select the “Separate Shells” button at about the middle of the left stack.
  4. Once Meshmixer splits the whole file in individual meshes Select the first one then Scroll down to the last one and Shift+Click that one to have all meshes selected and Hit “Repair Selected”.
  5. Once that is finished Hit “Export”.
    You’ll be asked a name for the file (and I was dissapointed that again i’m saving a single file but did it anyway and surpise surprise).

The result of the save is one file named combined.stl and a bunch of files named 0, 1,…

Presto, I am so happy, took screenshots of the process and will upload them on G+.

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Please check https://plus.google.com/u/0/117473262013510481637/posts/LGQZt76z9jY for the screenshot series for this solution.