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Hey. So if you need to take one of your components out of your assembly design and save them out or export them out, there's a few options to be aware of. Here we go. Hey, teller, Beck with tech and espresso today, we're talking about save as and export. So let's look at it. When I go activate one of these components, I have three different components in one design. If I go look at the project file, you can see the assembly that they all live in. It's one design file. What I'd like to do is take this top component, which has a couple sketches and a couple features, and I'd like to save it out. Now, the options I get with a right click save copy as save SDL and export. Let's do STL first that is saving it out as a effectively triangle mesh that you're probably familiar with when it comes to three D printing.

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And from that STL file, you can take it and do a mesh refinement work with the mesh workspace. If you want to infusion, um, would not recommend that if you plan to do any more modeling anymore, CAD modeling, parametric modeling, all of that basically goes away when you're, when it comes to an SDL. So kind of a different topic for today. Let's try to preserve the structure of the geometry. So what we do is a save copy as, or an export. So as we're about to explore, when you do a save as, or an export, both of these are going to remove any kind of references that it might have to the assembly. And what does that mean? That means that when I do a save copy, as which we're going to explore what that means and what it's doing and just a minute, but I think it's important that you realize that once you've saved this out, the references that it's going to have to the assembly, if I were to come in and let's say, let's do a very basic test here.

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I'm going to stretch this face. Okay. Just modified it. Awesome. Very cool. Now, if we go look at this component that was saved based on what was done in the assembly, it has no reference to this assembly file, but it will have the history of the design that you created. So let's now explore, save as an export or let's just save copy ass. First thing. There's no real, uh, questions other than what do you want the new name to be, and then where's it going? And it's effectively looking into the same project folder that it is, and this is getting saved immediately into your project folder. You can think into your cloud data and this new file gets created. And if I double click on it, it's going to load it and let's examine it real quick. First thing I want to note is the original sketches and features are, it did reference another part.

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And this base feature is absolutely there because I referenced some of the other components that it was touching. So if you go kind of examine those, it was touching this base component here, middle component. And if I throw in a cylinder, that's not referencing or touching anything else, and then save that out. You'll notice that it only grabs it's sketch and features that it related to it. Doesn't grab those other base features that if, if they're not referenced or, you know, touching maybe is one way to think of that, let's get rid of this. Cool. So the important things is it is keeping the history tree of that model. This is a fusion three D file that can go into other designs if we want it to, and we can continue to work on it. We could even move it out of this folder into others.

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If that be helpful for file management. Now looking at the next part of this, if we were to activate the top again and export. So if we right click choose export, how is this different? It's very similar. First thing is if you were to save this right to the project cloud or right to the project file, it's effectively the same thing as a saved copy. As I think there's nothing I've found that they are different just yet. Um, it's saving, it's forcing you to do a fusion three D file. You have to give it a name and it drops it in. It keeps the file references. Now I think that's there just for convenience for users. If we turn that off and we go to save to my computer, very different, this is saving it locally out on your computer somewhere, you specify the location, the desktop, things like that.

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I'm going to export this to top component. We export it out to the desktop, can see it does not come into the project file manager into my cloud drive. So what I'll have to do is upload it. If I select the files, bring that in it's it's referencing this fusion three D file. It comes in as the top component. So it does keep the history tree. Very cool. It's effectively the same thing as the saved copy as, so I can save this locally to my hard drive. And that gives me some other flexibilities to work with. Now, one thing that I kind of skipped over very quickly was when we're working with the assembly, if I go to export, you'll notice that we're saving it to the computer locally. And again, we can of course specify where it goes. But what about the file types?

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Fusion 3d is great. If you're going to want to keep that file history, the design history of how it's being built, but that's not very friendly when it comes to working with other systems out there, fusion 3d file. I'm not aware of many applications out there that can open a fusion three D file. In fact, a quick Google search shows me that only fusion can open this type of file. So that's friendly for going forward in fusion. So if you want to get this to other systems out there, solid works and Venter cam simulation, I just instep are going to be much better to work with and saving out, especially when the fusion three 30 file cannot be opened by anything, but Hey, thanks for watching. She got this beginner playlist they made for you or this other video that YouTube thinks will be helpful. See, in the next video.