exporting step files with color

[drshi...@gmail.com]

Hi all

I noticed that the nice new Assembly feature is able to export STEP files with colors. Perhaps this is due to the use of from .occ_impl.assembly import Color and from .occ_impl.exporters.assembly import exportAssembly

I can't quite figure out how to export a basic shape to a STEP or STL files using the standard exporters

from cadquery import exporters

exporters.export(shape, 'shape.stp', exportType='STEP')  # no options for color in the arguments

Wondering if anyone has managed to export a workplane object as STEP files with color

All the best

Jon

[Adam Urbanczyk]

You cannot currently color cq.Workplane objects (cq.Workplane has no color property) so what you want is simply not implemented. You could construct a dummy cq.Assembly object with a single cq.Workplane and export that.

[Jonathan Shimwell]

Nice suggestion, I shall make a dummy assembly and color then export like that. Thanks Adam.

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