topic Re: Opening STL in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Opening STL

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:43:23 GMT

I want to open exsisting stl file. I watched a tutorial to see how that was done. However, this is where the problem exsists. Clicking Modify does not show many of the options in the drop down menu that was in the video. What is missing for me are these.

Insert T-Spline

Insert Mesh

Convert

Make Uniform

Repair Body

Display Mode

Enable better Performance

Help me figure this out please.

Re: Opening STL

karyeka — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 06:26:07 GMT

The tutorial seems to have been out of date with all the changes to modify menu. Sorry, we will look into the tutorial.

Please see the pictures below for all the commands mentioned below. Insert T-Spline and Mesh are in Insert Menu. Convert remains in the Modify stack.

please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Anand

Fusion360 Development

Re: Opening STL

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:28:54 GMT

Thank you for the reply. However, my question was not answered. I will ask it again. How do I open a .stl file in Fusion 360?

Best regards

Bill Brown

Re: Opening STL

yqliu — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:35:06 GMT

Hi Bill, if you click the "Insert Mesh" item under the "Insert" group (see the picture above in Anand's reply), it will show you a file open dialog and you can select your STL file there. This might be the simplest way. Or you can upload the stl file into a project and then open it from the side panel.

Re: Opening STL

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:45:25 GMT

I am providing a screenshot of Insert tab on my version of Fusion 360. There is NO insert mesh on the drop down menu. At least not my version of 360. Someone at Autodesk needs to find a correct answer to my question.

Re: Opening STL

sdpatil — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:02:58 GMT

Hi,

"Insert Mesh" option is available within "Sculpt" workspace.

Please switch to Sculpt workspace from Model. In the snap we see you are in Model workspace.

I hope this will help you!

Re: Opening STL

karyeka — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:58:20 GMT

By "Insert Mesh" command from the Insert Menu (first picture above) in a Direct Modeling design. For a Parametric Design, you'll need use Create Form to start a form, and place the STL mesh there.

What are the kinds of things you'd like to do once you've imported an STL?

There are few things at the moment you can do with the Mesh bodies (scale, translate, rotate, T-Spline snap). This is an area where we intend to add more in the future. Please review Jake Fowler and Paul Deyo's posts at http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketching-sculpting-modeling-and/stl-import-conversion/td-p/3840142/highlight/true/page/2

Also - http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketching-sculpting-modeling-and/solids-from-stl/m-p/4741155/highlight/true#M3654

and http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketching-sculpting-modeling-and/can-t-select-a-body/td-p/5481787

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Anand

Fusion360 Development

Re: Opening STL

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:58:54 GMT

I do not know if insert mesh is in my version of 360. It is not where
anyone says it is. I do not have a sculpt. At least not on a blank canvas.

Re: Opening STL

daniel_lyall — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:09:20 GMT

in you screen shot see the pinkish ball that`s the enter sculpt command once in the sculpt page look at all ready posted picks for where to find what you wont .stl are meshes

Re: Opening STL

Oceanconcepts — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:49:55 GMT

Fusion has two major modes of operation: “Direct Modeling” (do not capture design history option) and Parametric, or history based modeling- that’s where you have the timeline at the bottom of the screen. Some of the command options are in different places depending on which mode you are in, which can be confusing.

The image above, showing the Sculpt workspace, is what you see if you are in Direct modeling mode. In that case the command you are looking for becomes available when you select the Sculpt environment. You can enter Direct Modeling by selecting that option from the root component of a design.

To enter the Sculpt environment when you are in history based modeling, you need to select the Create Form option here:

Once you are in that mode, the Mesh command will appear under the Insert menu.

Personally I tend to use the Direct, no history mode if I am developing a concept, and enter history based modeling once I have a good idea where I am headed.

Re: Opening STL

patrick.miller — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:41:20 GMT

Hey bbrown1951,

Can you tell me what tutorial you were looking at or post a link to the tutorial? We obviously want to make sure content is accurate when we move commands. Thanks.