topic Re: How to Reduce the Polygon/Edge Count in the Heel Of a Shoe??? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How to Reduce the Polygon/Edge Count in the Heel Of a Shoe???

mrabushkaCBMH2 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:05:24 GMT

@TrippyLighting mentioned I cannot Thicken the "Sole Offset 0mm" by 2mm in the attached Design due to the Polygon/Edge count in the heel. @jhackney1972 showed me a clever work around using surfaces which got the job done and I'm glad I learned his clever technique because it will come in handy for other projects as well. However, for future reference I'm wondering what the technique is to reduce the Polygon/Edge count in the attached Form example so Fusion doesn't run into problems working with Bodies (like my Thickening example) due to an overly complex geometry of Polygons/Edges. In the attached Design the Form needs to conform to the stl.

2mm Thicken command doesn't work

For those interested the clever work around by @jhackney1972 is here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/shoe-sole-thickening-error/m-p/13662124/highlight/true#M315948

Re: How to Reduce the Polygon/Edge Count in the Heel Of a Shoe???

TrippyLighting — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:42:58 GMT

I show that in the video I posted in the other thread you linked to. However, it appears to have been swallowed by the black froum hole.

So here it is again:

Re: How to Reduce the Polygon/Edge Count in the Heel Of a Shoe???

mrabushkaCBMH2 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:24:08 GMT

Thank you for the video. It's strange that the above video disappeared from the other post. In Blender when you raise the bottom edge of the shoe to give Blender something to snap to you change the height of the shoe. Is there a way to get that height back and create the bottom of the shoe again with the same curvature in the heel like in the stl?

Re: How to Reduce the Polygon/Edge Count in the Heel Of a Shoe???

TrippyLighting — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:18:38 GMT

@mrabushkaCBMH2 wrote:

... Is there a way to get that height back and create the bottom of the shoe again with the same curvature in the heel like in the stl?

Yes! I'll create another video to demonstrate that.

Re: How to Reduce the Polygon/Edge Count in the Heel Of a Shoe???

TrippyLighting — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:44:42 GMT

Here is another more complete screen recording:

Re: How to Reduce the Polygon/Edge Count in the Heel Of a Shoe???

mrabushkaCBMH2 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:28:46 GMT

Thank you for taking the time to make this how-to video. I was hoping it would be a much simpler process where I could just make a sphere around the shoe last, click on shrink wrap and it would conform to the last. Even though it's much more complicated than I was hoping for it does have less polygon/edge count than my original T-spline model created in Fusion 360. Thank you for demonstrating this solution!