topic Re: inconsistent conversion of body to .stl file in Fusion Support Forum

inconsistent conversion of body to .stl file

JoBar2 — Mon, 01 May 2023 20:39:21 GMT

Steps to reproduce
A single body converts to .stl correctly. A single body comprised of several bodies linked through standard F360 Boolean commands does not consistently convert to .stl correctly. Portions of the single body are missing after the .stl conversion.

Expected results
I expect that a single body regardless of how it is comprised should convert. My part has 13K triangles, medium refinement.

Actual results
An inconsistent portion of the conversion goes missing.

URL where issue occurs
ip address 2600:1702:3f00:2d20::2d

Browser
Microsoft Edge

OS
Windows

Re: inconsistent conversion of body to .stl file

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 03 May 2023 17:53:54 GMT

@JoBar2

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file that illustrates this issue to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Re: inconsistent conversion of body to .stl file

JoBar2 — Wed, 03 May 2023 21:21:49 GMT

I am somewhat embarrassed. The problem was not the model geometry nor the .stl file generated by F360. Rather it was a corrupted Cura slicer. I switched to the Prusa slicer and it generated perfect g-code. I am embarrassed because I should have done the simple check of saving the .stl file generated by F360, followed by inserting that file as a mesh file for further examination. When I did this and saw no difference, I had to conclude, correctly, that the problem lay with the slicer (in my defense, I did check the slicer on another, smaller model and it seemed O.K.).

At any rate, thank you for your time and interest.

Regards,

Joel Barlow