Making polygons from nparticle instances?

[chriso]

I have been trying to figure out how to make a polygon mesh from instanced Maya nParticles. I am doing this in Maya 2020. I have done a lot of searching and so far I have only been able to find old mel/python scripts that do not work in Maya 2020 or forums posts that claim that the MASH "bake instancer to objects" utility will work. I have tried to use the utility on my particle instancer and each time it crashes Maya2020. Can someone point me to something that might work?
Thanks,

[bfx]

What you want is instToGeo

I use this on instanced particles and it works ok. Usually what I do after running the tool is grab all the output mesh, combine into one mesh, export to alembic and then reimport.

http://pythonfiddle.com/insttogeo/

[system]

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