# How to export .stl as a consolidate part (parallelization)
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-export-stl-as-a-consolidate-part-parallelization/3137
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 8, 2019, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-export-stl-as-a-consolidate-part-parallelization/3137 "2019-12-08T06:00:18Z")
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### Author:  [@lihao](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/lihao)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2019, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-export-stl-as-a-consolidate-part-parallelization/3137/1 "2019-12-08T06:00:18Z")
Dear all,
We hope to output this result as an stl for 3D printing. As you could see in the figure, we use parallelization computation, thus the part is divided into several subdomains. I used “extract surface”, then save data. And I got 16 stl files.
Would it be possible to export the stl as a whole part?
Sincerely yours,
Hao
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-export-stl-as-a-consolidate-part-parallelization/3137/2 "2019-12-09T10:34:26Z")
I just tried with to save a parallel data in .stl format and the writer seems to reduce the data and even informs you about it.
Can you try with ParaView 5.7.0 ?
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### Author:  [@lihao](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/lihao)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-export-stl-as-a-consolidate-part-parallelization/3137/3 "2019-12-09T10:55:49Z")
Dear Mathieu,
Thanks for your message.
I tested again with ParaView 5.7.0.
It works.
Best regards,
Hao