# Exporting Robot Description Files from Onshape

## Setting up Onshape developer key

Get API key from the Onshape Developer Portal

{% embed url="<https://cad.onshape.com/appstore/dev-portal>" %}

When creating the key, make sure that at least “Application can read your documents” is selected.

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export the key as environment variable

```bash
export ONSHAPE_API=https://cad.onshape.com
export ONSHAPE_ACCESS_KEY=Your_Access_Key
export ONSHAPE_SECRET_KEY=Your_Secret_Key
```

{% hint style="info" %}

## Note

It might be more convenient to put the above three lines into a file and source it everything we need it.

For example, we can do

```bash
source ~/Documents/onshape-api-key.sh
```

{% endhint %}

## Generating the description files

Please refer to the [README](https://github.com/HybridRobotics/Berkeley-Humanoid-Lite-Assets) of Berkeley-Humanoid-Lite-Assets repository for more information and instructions.


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