Is there a way to preserve face names when exporting to STEP? Names of solids come through ok, but I'm not seeing the face names in the export.

- Peer

@PEER

Edit :sorry i have read SVG for STEP ...sorry! But maybe the same trick can works :) (not tested)

The only way i have found for name something in SVG format is use the Color Style!

See my little section! ;) https://moiscript.weebly.com/anime-svg.html

Hi Peer, it doesn't look like the STEP library tries to read or write a name attribute on faces.

Do you know of a program that supports it? If so can you make an example file?

Thanks, - Michael

Michael & Pilou,

Supposedly NX, SolidWorks, and Fusion do this. I found the following example from an NX export on another forum:

#79=ADVANCED_FACE('LOADSURFACE1',(#55,#56,#57,#58,#59,#60),#44,.F.);

However, Pilou's RGB color code workaround might just work. I'll give that a try.

This is for marking boundary condition faces for finite element analysis.

- Peer

Hi Peer,

re:
> Supposedly NX, SolidWorks, and Fusion do this. I found the following example
> from an NX export on another forum:

I've updated MoI v5's STEP input/export so it should now support name labels on ADVANCED_FACE entities.

- Michael

Wow thanks Michael! That'll be a great help for data transfer.

- Peer