topic Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Exporting Simulation Mesh

brownemBP5CW — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 20:04:19 GMT

I'm presently work on a team that is using a mixture of Fusion for drawing and modeling, and third-party software for FEA (because Fusion doesn't offer the material we are planning to build with, nor does it seem to accept the custom one we put in. The sim keep throwing errors). We have been exporting STEP files from Fusion and getting them to our FEA engineer, but after showing him the simulation capabilities of Fusion, he is asking if he can get an export of the mesh in MED of UNV. Is it possible to do this with Fusion, just export the mesh?

Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh

jan.vonasek — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:40:25 GMT

It is possible to use custom material. Can you please share material data you want to use?

Currently there is no export functionality for mesh data.

Note: We plan to visually indicate what material properties are out of limits.

Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh

tomas.bujnoch — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:59:37 GMT

No, currently there isn't a way to export neither the mesh nor the mesh with mapped result values. To be honest, currently there is not even a plan to do so. In between the rows of your question I can sense that the reason for which you'd like to export mesh is simply the weak set of post-processing features in the current Fusion360 version. Clearly, current Fusion360 simulation solution is in it's early stages of development and we plan to add other features in next releases (e.g. clipping planes, surface and point probes are coming in January). If I'm right about your motivation, would you please give us a clue, what would you see as important w.r.t. simulation results processing? Not promising anything, but maybe we'll find the correspondence to our plans and maybe we can shuffle a bit with a list of things to be done. Thank you, Tomas B.

Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh

brownemBP5CW — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:52:36 GMT

Sorry about the delay, things got a little hectic and this post honestly slipped my mind.

@jan.vonasek - the material we are trying to use is a graphite, but these varry widely in all properties from all manufacturers. It isn't like metal were you can say two samples of a certain type of steel (say, 1061) will be similar to each other, regardless of origin. The only way we've found to input a custom material is taking an existing material (usually ceramic, in this case), copying it and editting it in favorites. The trouble is, after closing and re-opening Fusion, it keeps defaulting back to the Fusion 360 library, and won't let us select the custom material or add it back into favorites. Fusion's interface to accept and work with custom material libraries needs a lot of work. A way to build a material library as a part of the file, that then shows up for everyone working on the file, would be amazing.

@tomas.bujnoch - The engineer who is handling our FEA could probably answer this question better than I, but I do suspect that the weaker post-processing capabilities was part of his motivation for asking mesh export from Fusion. I know the other part is that he loves working inside Linux, and Fusion doesn't seem to have a desktop client for Linux distros yet.

Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh

shekar_sub — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:08:05 GMT

To add a custom material please try these links:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/materials-properties-and-simulation/m-p/6775305#M89491

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOM6YD9TV4

Please see if this helps.

Regards

shekar

Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:08:32 GMT

Hello,

is there a posibility to export the meshe by now?

we are doing a studying project and would like to use fusion 360 for this! or is there an other posibillitiy using an free to use for universitys program from autodesk?

Regards

Lukas Müller

Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:46:18 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
.... or is there an other posibillitiy using an free to use for universitys program from autodesk?

Autodesk has several analysis programs free for universities and students.

https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/featured

What problem are you having using Fusion for your analysis?

You might also investigate Nastran or Simulation Mechanical.

https://forums.autodesk.com/

Re: Exporting Simulation Mesh

mcmillr — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:55:31 GMT

This has now been implemented.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/exporting-simulation-mesh-and-results-from-fusion/td-p/9446174