topic Mesh section ability? in Inventor Forum

Mesh section ability?

nkloski — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:38:53 GMT

Hi all....I have Fusion as well as Inventor but want to start using / learning Inventor to up my general modeling repertoire. Somewhat frequently I bring in 3D scans into Fusion and use the Mesh Section functionality to create slices of an STL then snap sketch entities to those sections. Does Inventor have a way of doing that, using a similar semi-automated workflow where the mesh sections are pre-created for you and the deviation from the mesh section is shown when recreating sketch entities?

Re: Mesh section ability?

johnsonshiue — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:36:29 GMT

Hi Nick,

Inventor does not have the dedicated Mesh Design environment as Fusion. Inventor's mesh related workflow is fairly limited. If you work with mesh data a lot, I suggest you use Fusion to edit the mesh.

Many thanks!

Re: Mesh section ability?

nkloski — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:49:54 GMT

Thanks! I use Meshmixer extensively for actually working with meshes, I was more asking if people use Inventor for reverse engineering solid models from scans. I know Inventor (and Fusion for that matter) is not a reverse engineering-dedicated application, but I wanted to know if people use Inventor not to edit meshes, but for reverse engineering workflows using scans. It seems as if that is directly in the wheelhouse for a solid modeling program, but I am starting to see that Autodesk might have put more work into Fusion for RE workflows from scans than Inventor? Does that seem right to say?