Can't stich and can't draw

[ybehari]

So in Fusion 360 I created imported a .stl model and wanted to create a drawing of it, but Fusion didn't allow me.

So after some research online, I found that I needed to stich the model, yet Fusion didn't allow me to do that either. 

I searched this on the forums and couldn't find an answer that fixed my problem.

I'm not sure what to do now.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

You do not need to stitch, you need to convert the STL (mesh) model into solid bodies.  This is carried out using the Mesh toolbar.  Here is the converted model and a picture of a drawing created from it.  This drawing in on a B-Size sheet at a 40:1 scale, this model is tiny!

[hamid.sh.]

You can make drawing from a mesh, only solid bodies can be used. Most of the time it's best to use the mesh as visual reference to create a proper solid body using Fusion's solid modeling tools. If you have subscription you can try converting mesh with prismatic method, but with most models that won't work. In your mesh car's body is such, i.e. not going to convert in prismatic way (you can try Faceted method, but will give you a faceted body...). It has problems also:

 

Except the car body other bodies were easy to convert:

File is attached.

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[ybehari]

OMG Thanks SOOOOOOO much this was driving me crazy!!

oh and also I will fix up my super small model 😂 

[ybehari]

Thxx for pointing out problems, it'll rlly help in completing the car design!

I'm very new to fusion and used to blender - all this stuff is rlly new to me lmao