Exporting Meshes

This task shows you how to export subdivision surfaces and meshes from the Imagine & Shape workbench to another software.
The types of features that can be exported are as follows:
  • Subdivision Feature
  • Symmetry Feature
  • Instance Feature
  • Net Feature

  1. Click Export Subdivision in the Creation toolbar.
    A Tools Palette appears. The following options are available:
    • Flip Y up and Z up.
    • Export nothing: No color or material is exported.
    • Export color: Exports color in a .mtl file associated to a subdivision surface.
    • Export material: Exports material with its original name.
    • Edition: Defines the scale factor related to the selected elements.
    • Create a single obj file: Creates a single file containing all meshes. If not selected, a file for each mesh will be created.
    • Apply (Enter): Applies the command.

  2. Select one or more subdivision surfaces.

  3. Click Apply (Enter) to validate the export.
    For each subdivision surface, three files are created:
     
    • A summary file of the export.
    • For each selected mesh, an obj file containing the coordinates of all the vertices of the mesh, and for each face of the mesh, the list of the vertex indices in the same mesh.
    • An mtl file containing the parameters of the color or material applied to each selected feature.

The *.obj file cannot export weight applied on the vertices and edges of the subdivision surfaces.
You can only export color of the whole body instead of each individual face.