topic Re: OBJ verses STL in Fusion Support Forum

OBJ verses STL

greenwoods1462 — Wed, 12 May 2021 10:03:59 GMT

Hello,

I have always used STL for my models but have recently been told that OBJ file format is better.

I make model railway locomotives, design in Fusion 360 and print via shapeways.

Am I being given the best advice - is OBJ better for my type of work? Will it create a smoother finish?

Many thanks in advance

Re: OBJ verses STL

HughesTooling — Thu, 13 May 2021 09:26:09 GMT

For 3d printing it will not make any difference, actually as you have no control over the mesh exported using the online translators it will be worse because it defaults to a quite coarse mesh.

The only way to have control over meshing of a OBJ would be to mesh in Fusion then export the mesh, more work than STL and you'd get exactly the same mesh.

Brep to Mesh dialog is the same as the STL export dialog.