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Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2020 10:15:03 GMT

Hello,

I'm pretty new into the 3d world. I want to send a fusion 360 file to a friend which works into solidworks 2019. I sent him .iges files.

When he opened it, the body was hollow but was full into fusion 360 . I don't know what could be the problem.

If someone has an idea to fix that, it will help me a lot.

Thank you

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

HughesTooling — Fri, 29 May 2020 10:33:52 GMT

Solidworks should have an option to stitch and heal surfaces into a solid while importing. Another option would be to send a STEP file as most programs with read in an exported solid as a solid from STEP files.

Mark

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:03:36 GMT

Attach your IGES file (you might need to zip in order to Attach) and I will check in SolidWorks.

As suggested by @HughesTooling I would have used STEP, but IGES should also have worked if the user has experience with SolidWorks.

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:33:06 GMT

I tried to send it into .step but it's the same. When you cut the model in two pieces, it is empty. i don't know where it can come. Maybe i've made mistakes during modeling cause i'm still newbie. but when i open it into fusion and cut it in 2 pieces, it's shown as a full body and not an hollow one. My friend told me that it can maybe come from fusion, showing something full even if it isn't the case. I have really no idea.

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:03:18 GMT

Ive been running into the same issue, when you do the heal gaps and surfaces in solidworks it changes your model slightly, then it ask for a feature recognition which really screws things up. I've had to go back into fusion and remove all my my fillet radii in order to get a model in that didn't have holes.

Sometimes the fillet will be broke into several different pieces, especially in tangent corners, or I'll end up with a fillet that blends to another fillet and that freaks solidworks out. I havent found any easy fixes. I hoping you might have better luck

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

artemSIV — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:25:42 GMT

empty

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:21:29 GMT

Just a couple of pictures showing examples to follow up my post above

the picture above is an example of the fillets kinda overlapping each other which caused a gap in solidworks

and the mirror image below that imported good

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:53:45 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
... Maybe i've made mistakes during modeling cause i'm still newbie.

File>Export and then Attach your original *.f3d file here for diagnosis.

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:54:35 GMT

@artemSIV wrote:
empty

???

What is empty?

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

artemSIV — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:07:15 GMT

Sorry, I wrote the wrong solution path there and deleted it later:)

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

artemSIV — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:10:59 GMT

Now everything is all right

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

Anonymous — Sun, 31 May 2020 09:47:32 GMT

first thing on, thanks to each one of you to helped me with this problem. it's only a fillet problem if i understood well. How have you find that "bad" fillet to correct it? cause i've got some others models with the same problem and wanted to correct'em.

Another question, have you any tips to avoid that kind of problems in the future?

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

artemSIV — Sun, 31 May 2020 09:57:08 GMT

Solidworks has excellent functionality for the diagnosis and treatment of imported bodies. It was these tools that I took advantage of. There are very problematic models, but this is very rare. Fusion 360 may not find this error, while another CAD can detect it. These are just compatibility issues.

Here the error is not in one rounding. Solidworks swears at 549 faces and 3 holes when importing.

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

TheCADWhisperer — Sun, 31 May 2020 10:18:48 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Another question, have you any tips to avoid that kind of problems in the future?

File>Export and then Attach your *.f3d file here for diagnosis and end all doubt.

Re: Fusion 360 file convert problem to solidworks

Anonymous — Sun, 31 May 2020 10:43:46 GMT

there's the *.f3d file