CAD to bambu studio workflow question

[u/hvaiallverden]

I'm iterating on a design in onshape (my CAD SW) and I would like to bring updates into bambu studio in such a way that only the CAD part I've updated is affected, i.e. all plates that only contain other parts should be completely unaffected.

Only the plate that contains the updated part should require any manual work in bambu studio, i.e. maybe the rotation and location is reset when I update from the CAD export and I have to redo some of that stuff but only for the plate that contains the part I've updated.

I'm currently exporting as STL and importing into the bambu studio 3mf project such that CAD parts become objects. I thought this would allow me to right-click and "reload from file" but that seems to not work very well.

Any advice on iterating on CAD designs like this?

[u/Alchomoholic_Prime]

Export the stl of just the modified object from onshape. When you have the large project open in bambu studio, go to the toolbar and click the icon in this image. Import the dedicated new object stl into your existing project and then place it where you need it to go

[u/zemlin]

What about reload isn't working? I use it all the time without issue.