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Choose Text (the default), for any of these text file types: text files (*.txt), CSV (comma-separated values) files (*.csv), data files (*.dat), or, if the license includes LiveLink™ for Excel®, Microsoft Excel workbook (*.xlsx).
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Choose Unstructured VTK file (*.vtu), for saving to an unstructured VTK file.
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Choose STL binary file (*.stl) or STL text file (*.stl) for saving to an STL file. The options to export to STL files are only available for Volume, Surface (Plot), Slice, Multislice, Isosurface (Plot), and Radiation Pattern plots.
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Choose PLY binary file (*.ply) or PLY text file (*.ply) for saving to a PLY file, a file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format, principally designed to store 3D data from scanners. The options to export to PLY files are only available for Volume, Surface (Plot), Slice, Multislice, Isosurface (Plot), and Radiation Pattern plots.
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Choose 3MF file (*.3mf) for saving to a 3MF file, a file format known as the 3D Manufacturing Format principally designed as a 3D printing format for additive manufacturing. The options to export to 3MF files are only available for Volume, Surface (Plot), Slice, Multislice, Isosurface (Plot), and Radiation Pattern plots. A warning appears when the resulting file does not seem fit for 3D printing.
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Choose Append as rows (the default) to append the curve data as rows, which results in a data file where all curves’ coordinates appears in rows and two columns for their x-coordinate and y-coordinate values, respectively.
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Choose Append as columns to append the curve data as columns, which results in a data file where all curves’ coordinates appears columns, the first one for their common x-coordinate values and subsequent columns, one for each curve’s y-coordinate values. This format can be more convenient for use as input to interpolation functions and for further processing in external software products such as MATLAB® and Excel®.
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The Include header and Full precision check boxes are selected by default. Click to clear the check box if you do not want to include a header, or to limit the precision in the output to six significant figures (and which provides an output that contains all significant figures for data stored as double-precision numbers). If you save the plot data as a VTK file, the Include header check box is not available. For export to STL files, none of these check boxes are available.
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By default the data is unsorted. Select the Sort check box to sort the data by increasing x, y, and z coordinates.
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From the If the file exists list, select Overwrite (the default) to replace the data in the file with the data you export, or choose Append to append the data to the end of the file. Appending data can be useful when exporting data for a parametric sweep, for example. If you save the plot data as a VTK file, the If the file exists list is not available.
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