I was using Freecad 18 before which was from the ubuntu repos and opening an step assembly would open it as an assembly.
Now I am on the latest version of Freecad from the freecad repos and the same STEPs open as single parts.
Is there any setting for fixing this?
STEP Assemblies Now Open As Single Solids
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Re: STEP Assemblies Now Open As Single Solids
I found the solution, disabling compound merge in step import settings fixes it.
Re: STEP Assemblies Now Open As Single Solids
You're able the seperate them too. Have a look at Part_ExplodeCompound
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Max
Max
Re: STEP Assemblies Now Open As Single Solids
with one challenge:
for me the compound is exploded into about 32000 `Compound.NN` objects....The tool will also explode non-compound shapes into their lower-level constituents: compsolids into solids, solids into shells, shells into faces, faces into wires, wires into edges, edges into vertices.
and that takes >45minutes or so - if i try to save the file it takes >1h....
(most of the parts are edges and so on... only a handful are the *solids*)
Thanks!! That solved it for me!
same file as before: about ~200 Parts. easy