Exporting file leads to app crash

Hi there,

First of all, I really love your app.

I really have fun modeling and everything was working fine last time I used it a couple of months ago.

But yesterday I tried to export a model then it crashed. I thought it was peculiar so I tried again and it crashed again. I then tried to export just the image but it crashed again. Anyhow I tried to export it it continued to crash. I even uninstall / reinstalled the app but it keeps crashing.

I am on a Galaxy Tab S6 Lite with Android version 13

A little help would be appreciated.

Have a good day!

That’s frustrating for sure. This might not help but maybe saving the project as a new file might do the trick. Or try to export it as a different type from what you were trying that was crashing the app. Maybe try decimating the model some in case it’s too large of a file for your tablet to handle the export?? I dunno, just throwing ideas out there.

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Hi MTK426, I appreciate your input and your desire to help, but I tried all formats (PNG, glTF, OBJ, STL, PLY Nomad) and even with a brand new model (just a sphere) it still crashes…

Have a good one!

Most likely due to device memory. How many polygons is your model? Did you decimate before trying to export?
Also, make sure no other programs/apps are running in the background.

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I thank you for taking your time trying to help me but unfortunately it’s not that for sure. With just Nomad Sculpt running, even by only trying to export the PNG of a simple basic sphere, it crashes.

And as I said, everything was working just fine a few months ago, exporting the OBJ of pretty complex models.

What’s the device?
Android version?
Did you update Android it recently?
Did you install something recently (a security app or something)?

the exporting crashing is happening to me on my andriod work tablet samsung s9 fe plus after the 1.94 update can only export stl when i try to export anny thing els it just crashes.
i even reinstalled a copple of times but that sadly didnt fix anny thing.
i have nothing runnig in the back even after a clean and a restart same thing happens every thing works great for me exept exporting witch is the one i use a lot :stuck_out_tongue: is thare anny way to fix this.
thank you so mutch in advance

Hello, I’m experiencing the same issue on my iPad Pro… When I try to export a project in OBJ or switch to a previous version of the same project, the app crashes unexpectedly! It’s really frustrating to see all your work become useless because you can’t do anything with the project.

Could you please look into fixing this? Other than that, the app is fantastic, but this issue significantly reduces its value and potential.

It likely runs out of memory, can’t do anything about it.

I don’t think so. The document is 600MB… is that the total storage the app allows?

What’s your iPad Pro?
That’s the only thing that matters: the number of ram on your device

Btw there’s a faq on this question FAQ | Nomad
I’ve answer this query a ton of time

Same issue here. 6gb ram tablet. Crashes every time on exporting. Doesn’t matter what type file. Model is 16 k. Decimated, etc. wont even export the default low poly sphere. Help???

Are you on Android? Up to date version?

Yes, everything is new and up to date. Android 14, 6gb ram, 512gb hdd. I think it is a bug in how Nomad communicates with Android and the filing system?? It does not know where to go? It’s like there is no filing system set up. on my phone it works perfectly, with less ram, etc… Big files too. I can’t even get any file to export on the tablet. I’ve completely tried removing the software, and all files, etc… restart and reinstall of Nomad and try to export the default sphere file. No go. Immediately crashes. I’m really hoping it is a function of the software.

Thx, Android devices have differences here and there.

I’ll assume you are on latest Nomad 2.2

  • Does it crash after you are presented with the popup that lets you select file or before?

  • What is the phone model exactly? (If you can find it here https://www.gsmarena.com, that way I can check in my crash report if it’s caused by this particular model)

  • any particular thing in your tablet, like security or file permission stuff

Not really a clean solution but if you really need the file, after crashing you can find it at `Android/data/com.stephaneginier.nomad/files/tmp_session`.

And to access the files in Android/data you need to install a “special privileged” file manager app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mi.android.globalFileexplorer

(You can also change the Nomad main folder in the about menu, if it works for you)

Yes latest nomad version.

Crashes as soon as I pick export to file, any file version.

On my phone it works great. Tablet is the no go. But, the Phone is a Samsung Galaxy s22 ultra.

Regarding TABLET security or permissions, nothing setup like that, that I know of.

Right now I can make sculpts on the tablet no problem big or small. Just can’t export for now. So what I have to do is connect tablet to computer get project file off tablet to PC. Then connect phone to PC and upload project file to phone. Then Open project file on phone nomad sculpt app and export from there. Tedious for now, but that is my working process. Uggh right?

If anyone knows a better solution please let me know.

  • David

Definitely look at the “change main folder solution” then. Each time you hit the export button the export is written in the “tmp_session” folder.

So you can always hit the export button and then cancel (no crash), and you know where you file is.

It’s a workaround though, I’m surprised it crashes on the s22, I got a s23 and it works fine. I’ll take a look still. Just in case, try to change the export location in case you always try the same folder (for example the downloads folders).

It doesn’t crash on the s22. It is perfect there. It is on my meswao 14” tablet that it is crashing.