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Exporting artifacts

Every evaluation already writes its artifacts. Export commands and the app’s Export button copy or re-project them.

From the CLI

Section titled “From the CLI”
Terminal window
machinewright export step "assemblies.your_package.assemblies.Product" --location product.step
machinewright export bom  "assemblies.your_package.assemblies.Product" --location bom.csv
machinewright export bundle "assemblies.your_package.assemblies.Product" --location artifacts/

For portable projects, project evaluate writes the same bundle:

Terminal window
machinewright project evaluate my-machine.main 0.1.0 inputs.json artifacts/

What is in a bundle

Section titled “What is in a bundle”
Artifact Purpose
*.step Full assembly for CAD tools
*.stl Mesh of the assembly
*.svg Preview image
*.bom.json, *.bom.csv Structured bill of materials
*.hardware-graph.json Canonical graph
*.hardware-graph.dot Graphviz view of the graph
*.manifest.json Provenance: graph digest and artifact hashes
*.print-layout.stl Plate layout, when the design has printed parts

From the app

Section titled “From the app”

The Export button (also Cmd+Shift+E) has two tabs:

  • Assembly exports the whole design as STEP or STL. It is a save-as copy of exactly what the viewport shows.
  • Parts exports per-part or one combined STL/STEP for all parts, printed parts only, or the current selection. Selecting an assembly in the graph covers all parts beneath it. Parts can keep their assembly position or be exported at their own origin.