3D scanned surface ( mesh) -> how to give thickness in easy flow ?

[huttu77]

What is the best workflow to manipulate the 3D scanned surface (mesh) to get it actual surface in Fusion and give it a thickness to it so on.

I have tried to use Meshmixer, Instant mesh etc...but it so messy and hassle to do that between many software...and even after that Fusion gives all kind of errors to make thickness to surface. I can tell...I have tried this so many ways that I'd be pleased to get some easy flow to do this.( maybe a video ? ) I can import the scanned surface mesh to Fusion and turn it to "surface" with very bad surface quality ( this is matter of free version of Fusion I think ) but even this bad surface quality I can't give any thickness to add...all kind of errors appears. Thicken won't work either on surface or solid  enviroment.

I assume I'd need to try updated paid version of Fusion but before that I'd like to know if there is fluid workflow to do this in paid version either. 

Or is there a way to work with scanned surface in Fusion anyhow? I have found that "surface mesh" and "solid meshes" are totally different to work with. 

[laughingcreek]

95% of the time the best workflow for working with meshes in fusion is to use it as a visual reference only and to model the object with native fusion geometry.  probably  99% for scanned meshes, which will have considerably worse geometry than a mesh made from a cad model.  direct conversion is almost always a dead end workflow.

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@huttu77 wrote:

I'd like to know if there is fluid workflow to do this in paid version either. 

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@huttu77 

The GIGO Principle applies with mesh geometry. (Actually with any geometry, but especially mesh geometry.)

Can you Attach your original file here?