topic Re: Mesh to Brep Missing in Fusion Support Forum

Mesh to Brep Missing

garrett_carroll65 — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:58:08 GMT

I can not seem to find where the Mesh to BRep option was moved to. It is not available in the search function, I have the design history turned off and am in the mesh work space. I am on version 2.0.3802 and using Win 10 Pro.

This is a feature I have used in the past and I did find a video on youtube that was uploaded today show how to do it but they were using mac.

Anyone have an idea as to what is happening here?

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

James.Youmatz — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:23:35 GMT

Hi @garrett_carroll65,

Welcome to the Fusion 360 community!

It's been a while since I've used this command, but I believe it's located in the Model environment, under the Modify menu.

Thanks,

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

garrett_carroll65 — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:33:10 GMT

I wonder when they moved it, I watched a video that was posted yesterday to youtube and it was in the mesh area to make the conversion. Also where it was the last time I used it.

Thank you for showing me the new location.

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

rogueiq — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:04:26 GMT

I'm struggling with this same issue. I am in the model environment, but compared to the screenshot shown I am missing both the "convert" button and the "mesh" sub-menu in my Modify drop-down.

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

James.Youmatz — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:10:27 GMT

Hi @rogueiq,

Is the timeline enabled or disabled? The mesh environment is a direct modeling only procedure, so the timeline needs to be off. To do this, please refer to this guide here.

Alternatively, if you do not want to fully disable the timeline, you can select, Create->New Base Feature to temporarily go into the direct modeling environment until you finish the base feature.

Thanks,

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

rogueiq — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:21:17 GMT

I had not been aware of that requirement. disabled and there it was, thank you!

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

doug_bailey — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:18:50 GMT

I'm having a similar issue with "Mesh to BRep" not showing up.

I downloaded the "Applecore" stl file from Thingiverse - it's an apple core shaped bobbin to wrap charger cables around to keep them tidy.

However, the new C-to-Lightning cables don't fit in the slot, so I want to widen it. My intention is to convert from the stl to Brep and then edit.

But after "opening" the stl, and turning off history, I don't get the option to go to B-Rep in Convert, only T-Spline. And the conversion breaks because the stl has triangles in it and won't convert to splines.

Any idea what happened to the B-rep conversion feature in this case?

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

James.Youmatz — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:47:08 GMT

Hi @doug_bailey,

It is in the Modify menu under Mesh:

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

josephgeek — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:50:46 GMT

This feature appears to have moved again. The mesh editor is now a preview feature. Does this exist any more?

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:21:26 GMT

It is missing until you turn off capture design history. It would be much less misleading to grey out the Mesh to BRep option with design history turned on.

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:34:44 GMT

now with the new update of fusion 360 i can't find mesh to brep anymore...only possibility is brep to mesh...

How will it work in the latest update?

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:26:50 GMT

I had the same issue on the latest version 2.0.6. I couldn't see option to convert "Mesh to BRep" (stl objects to solid)
I had to disable the timeline by "right-click" on the root component and then "Do not capture Design History".

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

garrett_carroll65 — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:55:32 GMT

Why does no one look at the date on the original post?

This was solved years ago..

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:57:50 GMT

Beste,

hier mis ik ook de functie mesh to Brep. Heb de tijdlijn uit, en de mesh omgeving in preferences aangezet.

kan de edit functie mesh wel gebruiken, kom dan in menu mesh. Kan dan alleen vanuit component naar mesh.

Weet iemand of dit een instelling is?

Vreemd, dat in het menu onder modify geen mehs beschikbaar is, zie foto

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

g-andresen — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:04:14 GMT

Hi,

günther

Hi Guenther

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:34:42 GMT

also not available with right click, see picture.

Re: Hi Guenther

g-andresen — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:46:46 GMT

Hi,

First:

günther

Re: Hi Guenther

PhDEdd — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:22:49 GMT

This is so ****ing stupid.

Why do you have to turn off design history to make the option visible? This is one of those things that takes 30 minutes of Googling for NO reason other than for terrible UI design.

Not to mention the locations of things changes. The "Model" menu doesn't exist anymore.

Re: Hi Guenther

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:19:25 GMT

@PhDEdd wrote:
This is so ****ing stupid.
Not to mention the locations of things changes.

Bothered by change?

Uhm, well...

Re: Mesh to Brep Missing

PhDEdd — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:24:07 GMT

More bothered by poor UI.

Thanks for your insightful reply.