Get "Export as PLY" in the export menu

Hi! I was watching a CGFigures tutorial in YouTube to model in blender molecules and electronic pontential maps. I noticed that he uses the option “Export as PLY” but i do not have that option in my version of Avogadro. How can I enable it?

Avogadro 1.99.0 for macOS

Should be there… File ⇒ Export ⇒ PLY Render…

I found a solution: i wanted to attach a screenshot of the app, so i changed the interface language to “british english” (just to have english interface) and the button showed up!

Avogadro was set to Italian (like the system language) and the option was not available, so i switched back to italian and the option disappeared. I just figured out that some functionalities are tied to the language preferences.

This is the other screenshot (as a new user it didn’t let me upload 2 screenshots in one reply)

Interesting. Seems like somehow the versions with translation will drop menu items if they’re un-translated?

That would be bad. Right now, Italian is ~35%

Can you check a few other menu items between English and Italian? Thanks.

Surely, i’m going to look at the menus in the next days and i’ll let you know!

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