Ticket #3834 - Loss of coordinate systems during .stp (AP214) import/export

[ghostami]

Virgin post, I am working on something for one of my friends. I have created a gantry design in freecad but after I exported it to step, all the objects are all over the shop. I am not really sure what really happen, need help from you guys to see if this can be sloved.

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OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 32-bit
Version: 0.18.4 (GitTag)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-18
Hash: 980bf9060e28555fecd9e3462f68ca74007b70f8
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)

[realthunder]

Virgin post, I am working on something for one of my friends. I have created a gantry design in freecad but after I exported it to step, all the objects are all over the shop. I am not really sure what really happen, need help from you guys to see if this can be sloved.

That's not really related to the issue of this thread. I see that you are using 0.18. Can you please download 0.19 and try again?

[easyw-fc]

I am working on something for one of my friends. I have created a gantry design in freecad but after I exported it to step, all the objects are all over the shop.

In FC 0.18 if your objects are inside 'Part' containers and those containers have a Placement different from (0,0,0), you will need to add a new Part container and place all the others inside it. This will give you a STEP exporting conserving all the assigned placements.
This has been fixed in FC0.19 using the new STEP exporter (unchecking the legacy exporter)