I have an instanced asteroid field and want to export the instance SOP as Geometry. I have tried ROP and fbx and alembic export with no luck. It keeps exporting the single Sphere only and not the entire instanced field.

How do I get this out as the full asteroid field (and not just the base sphere)?

Scene attached.

No help?

I don't see anything being exported in your scene. There aren't any render nodes at all.

I see an instance object and the object to instance, but there's nothing in the scene for exporting instances.

The instance object cannot be exported. It is used by mantra and some other renderers to tell it to render instances using the point cloud as the template points. It's also largely obsolete even with mantra.

To write out instances as an alembic, use 'copy to points' to copy the template geometry onto the template points with 'pack and instance' enabled. Then add a unique path attribute to each instance using a wrangle. Connect this to an alembic rop to write out as an alembic.

I've added a setup for exporting to your scene.