topic Re: No triangles while previewing mesh in Fusion Support Forum

No triangles while previewing mesh

andremascarenhas9 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 01:06:50 GMT

I am in the 3D print workspace, and I am unable to preview the mesh, with the number of triangles showing as 0.

I went through my Preferences, and I do not have the Mesh option.

How can I fix this?

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:22:51 GMT

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

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g-andresen — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:29:57 GMT

Hi,

~~at the moment you have a solid and no Mesh. That's why you don't see any triangles.~~
~~You will see them when you save the solid as a mesh (3mf or STL) and open it again as such.~~

Sorry, preview should still work.

günther

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

HughesTooling — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:25:28 GMT

I wonder if it's because you have your print utility set to custom but you haven't picked a program. In your image it says None.

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

TrippyLighting — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:03:12 GMT

Nah, because the behavior is the same as the "Export as Mesh" dialogue. You simply have to disable preview and then re-enable and then it shows the preview. This is a bug!

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

HughesTooling — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:23:50 GMT

@TrippyLighting wrote:

Nah, because the behavior is the same as the "Export as Mesh" dialogue. You simply have to disable preview and then re-enable and then it shows the preview. This is a bug!

Is that a mac bug? I can't make it fail, or does it only fail occasionally?

Mark

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:03:20 GMT

@andremascarenhas9

Where did you go?

Did you figure it out?

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

TrippyLighting — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:33:16 GMT

@HughesTooling wrote:

@TrippyLighting wrote:

Nah, because the behavior is the same as the "Export as Mesh" dialogue. You simply have to disable preview and then re-enable and then it shows the preview. This is a bug!

Is that a mac bug? I can't make it fail, or does it only fail occasionally?

Mark

No, I did a quick test on my Work computer (Win 10), but the behavior is the same on macOS.

Created a sketch, extruded and filleted a body.

Selected it in the browser, right-clicked and selected "Export as mesh".

By default preview is enabled bit does not show a triangulated mesh.

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

HughesTooling — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:53:40 GMT

Strange, I've tried all I can and it never fails on Win8.1. Wouldn't have thought the Windows version would make a difference.

Mark

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

andremascarenhas9 — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 08:15:31 GMT

Hello everyone. Thank you so much for your replies!

Firstly, I would like to apologize for my late response. I've been really busy with my class assignments. But I have managed to fix it!

In the screenshot I attached, I had 'Send to 3D print Utility' in the Output section enabled. All I had to do was disable it, and I have gotten my mesh preview. So @HughesTooling , you were right.

Re: No triangles while previewing mesh

andremascarenhas9 — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 08:18:47 GMT

I apologize for my late reply. I have gotten around the issue, and I have posted my fix in this post. I just had to disable 'Send to 3D Print Utility', and I've gotten my mesh preview.