NGON obj export support

[cekuhnen]

Fusions OBJ export only supports tries making it look more like an STL export.

For rendering this produces heavy meshes.

compare this with MOI which meshes with NGONs

[deyop]

I think this is similar to another Idea Station request. It is something for which we have an assigned task and so should be coming in the future. Regarding rendering I would imagine the quads will still be reduced to triangles for rendering purposes regardless of the quad display however the quads are needed for compatible modeling activities. Thanks http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Fusion-360-IdeaStation-Request-a/T-spline-box-object-exporting-to-OBJ/...

[Anonymous]

Strongly believe this could be a really powerful feature if done right- MOI is the gold standard for meshing NURBs data, but is still limited by long triangles at the edges of patches. A lot of product rendering requires good UV mapping, and quad dominant meshes are essential for that- my pipeline is still: F360 export to .iges, MOI mesher to .obj ngons, Blender UV/render

Any product that can improve the meshing solution further would make a massive number of sales simply to studios that want to improve the meshing of their data.

I still dream of modelling solids, with all the tangency control of NURBs etc, and then having a mesher operate with the same fidelity as http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/modo/plugins/meshfusion/

As I understand it, the linked thread is more about the export of meshes from T-Spline data, rather than finished Solids data?

[cekuhnen]

Hello fellow Blender user 😉

NURBS to mesh I think is always a trade-off but MOI is pretty fantastic.

I also mesh based on how far an object is away, more refined meshing for close ups

corser meshing for objects more far away.

[moth3r]

I am not using Fusion 360 polygon export at all. As said that's unusable and ignorant of our actual needs. So I completely rely on Moi for all of that. I am not advertising Moi but actually trying to raise your attention to the fact this app developed by just one developer fixed most of the problems I have encountered with Fusion.