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Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

binkalsharma0001 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:04:44 GMT

Hello,

I recently started using inventor for my project and when I am trying to import an assembly from fusion to inventor, it is changing the porous box to the bulk part somehow. Can anyone please help me understand why this is happening. I have attached the images of fusion, inventor and export for the reference. Additionally, you can see the project in fusion with porous box and with solid box in fusion here via following links:

Fusion 360: https://a360.co/4fY6BVC

Inventor:https://autode.sk/3DU5yZA

Please help me find if there is something missing or wrong when I am importing this assemble.

Re: Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

kacper.suchomski — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:36:48 GMT

Inventor and Fusion are 2 different programs with a different set of tools and capabilities.

Structural mesh is metadata that in the modeling process has the character of texture, not geometry. At the same time, it is a function that Inventor does not have (and therefore will not read).

A way to transfer geometry (not texture) could be to export the file from Fusion to STL format.

Re: Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

binkalsharma0001 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:04:28 GMT

Nope. it didn't work. I tried all the different formats available. Is there any way I can create a gyroid box in inventor?

Re: Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

kacper.suchomski — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:40:03 GMT

As I mentioned, the structural lattice in the modeling process is just a texture - it is responsible for the visualization of the model, not its geometry.

To generate the model in Fusion, point to the body in the browser, right-click and select the option to convert to mesh. This will give you geometry - for now it is just a visual effect (similar to visualizing perforated sheet metal in KeyShot).

Re: Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

binkalsharma0001 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:15:27 GMT

I think because I have student license, it is not allowing me to create internal lattice. I tried meshing the lattice and then export, though it keeps the shape, it doesn't work properly in Ansys. Can you please suggest me any other way possible?

Re: Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

kacper.suchomski — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:18:55 GMT

How did you prepare the lattice in the previous files?

Re: Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

binkalsharma0001 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:27:26 GMT

I created it using fusion 360 (educational license) only. you can see the file via following link. https://a360.co/3CbeedI

I am having trouble exporting it to inventor or ansys for simulation purposes

Re: Importing porous structure in inventor assembly

johnsonshiue — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:57:41 GMT

Hi! I believe the model is a mesh model. Couldn't you use Fusion Simulation to analyze the model?

Many thanks!