topic Convert form to mesh? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Convert form to mesh?

joshpigford — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 15:00:35 GMT

I created a Form using the "Create Form" tool, now I'd like to use the Mesh toolset to reduce it to create a low poly effect.

But I can't figure out how to make the form available to the Mesh tools.

jeff_strater — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 15:31:12 GMT

Save the form as STL

Open a new design, import the STL

edit it with the mesh workspace

Reduce Mesh

I haven't tried this workflow myself, but I'll give it a try now, just to make sure it works.

Jeff

jeff_strater — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 15:53:35 GMT

Yeah, that works. Here's a screencast. Note that you have to turn on the Mesh preview feature:

Also, I noticed that if I reduced the mesh too much, it started chopping out the boundary, so you want to avoid that.

This is actually a pretty clever way to get to that kind of a low-poly look. I'll have to remember this for later.

Screencast:

Jeff