topic Re: no "Save as Mesh" in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:44:31 GMT

I was able to purchase a license via our non-profit support, techsoup account. I am not able to save an STL file with this install. Is there a reduced functionality with this license. No "Save as Mesh" option is presented. Export has no STL option.

I read somewhere that I may be using a cloud version and that is why this functionality is missing. Can I use a local version, which might have this feature enables, with this low cost license?

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

HughesTooling — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:43:57 GMT

If you are using the browser version then no you can not export or import from your local drives. The browser version runs on a remote desktop so can't access your local drives. One option would be to download the file from your hub, not from within Fusion. If you click the file's version in Fusion's browser there's an option to view details on the web, from there you can download and you should get all export formats.

One problem might be you'll get all the bodies\components in the design this way, if that's a problem you could use derive to push a body out to a new design then download the new design.

Mark

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:04:19 GMT

Forgive me, I don't know enough to tell if I'm using "browser version" as opposed to what I guess might be local/app version? How can I tell which is in place? I just installed this thing by running an exe on a windows box. Did I answer some question in the install that made it run remotely? Is there a way make it run as a local app? Does that require a reinstall?

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:29:08 GMT

I see now I'm in the wrong forum, sorry. I see I have the word "browser" on my 360 screen. Maybe that means I'm using browser. I suppose I'd rather use my local machine as this is not a collaborative effort right now.

Do I need to reinstall, or is there a way to flip the switch to running all local?

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

HughesTooling — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:40:42 GMT

No you don't have the browser version if you ran an exe on you windows machine. There a lot of misinformation out there about Fusion. Only the file storage is cloud based, the main app is installed on your PC. There is a version available to educational users that runs on a remote desktop but doesn't sound like that's what you have.

First don't attach pictures use the Insert Photo option or just paste from the clipboard, viewing attached picture is a pain on this forum!

What's in your design? Just create a cube then right click the top node in the browser and see if you have save to mesh.

Mark

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:48:08 GMT

Your suggestion about viewing from the web works. STL is an option for downloading there. Thanks.

So, you have shined a light on my real problem, how to get out of this state. How can I switch to whatever the opposite of "browser version" is called?

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:59:03 GMT

yep, simple box allows for mesh saving. So, something in the model prevents saving as STL? Thanks for helping to get off the ground.

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:15:19 GMT

Hmm, so I downloaded from the web, opened that STL on the desktop and now Save as Mesh is an option. So, whatever was in the way got dropped in the STL creation?

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:48:12 GMT

I still seemed to be locked into everything being in the "hub." I open a local STL and fusion will not let me save the project to my local machine. How can I get out of this environment. Did I shoot myself in the foot by selecting that in the install process? I'd really like to do both, collaborate when I choose to do so and save locally when I learning how to walk.

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

HughesTooling — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:08:53 GMT

Fusion is designed to save to the cloud, if you don't want that some things just will not work. You have the option to Export, export to f3d will save a native fusion design to your hard drive but you will not be able to create 2d drawing this way or distributed designs (assembly designs with links to other designs). You are not missing anything with your install or how you installed, Fusion's just designed to work with cloud storage.

Mark

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

HughesTooling — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:17:48 GMT

@ray.stell wrote:

I still seemed to be locked into everything being in the "hub." I open a local STL and fusion will not let me save the project to my local machine. How can I get out of this environment. Did I shoot myself in the foot by selecting that in the install process? I'd really like to do both, collaborate when I choose to do so and save locally when I learning how to walk.

How did you open the STL file, did you use open from the file menu? You might find it more convenient if you just start a new design then use insert mesh from the insert menu.

Re: no "Save as Mesh"

ray.stell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:19:30 GMT

yep, did a file/open.

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