# Exporting to as GLTF changes names

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/exporting-to-as-gltf-changes-names/34623>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** python, file-export, centerlines, vmtk-centerline\
**Created:** [February 29, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/exporting-to-as-gltf-changes-names/34623 "2024-02-29T18:34:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/exporting-to-as-gltf-changes-names/34623/1 "2024-02-29T18:34:22Z")

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I am trying to export the centerline from a scene with a python script.

OBJ/STL etc. don’t export the centerline at all.

So I have to use GLTF - which works fine so far.  
The problem here is that it exports the whole scene - including camera, bounding box, arrows, mesh etc.

And then it’s naming everything mesh0, mesh1, mesh2 …

I need a way to isolate the centerline curve somehow.

How can I do this?  
Is there a way to only export the curve with the gltfexporter?  
Or otherwise have the names etc. so that I can isolate it that way later?