Help to prepare a mesh for 3D printing
Could you attach that mesh to your next post ?
My assumption is that you should be able to do all of that in the new mesh workspace in F360.
That is a lot of detail for a 1" tall model. What sort of 3D printer do you intend on using ?
This mesh will unlikely print out of the box with any software. It contains open meshes, even in the 3DS file and the reds to be taken care of somehow.
Add to this that the 3DS file certainly was a nice quad mesh at some point but is now triangulated, even though that can be cleaned up in Blender.
If you are interested in quality I'd take a completely different approach.
Once you have nice quads, import all the small sub meshes into T-Splines in Fusion 360 and then into BReps. Then combine them or trim with the surface tools and then into a solid.
then you can create a .stl of a complete surface that should be printable.
The mesh a hand is not a bad mesh.
It originated in 3DS Max and was mostly (95+%) a quad mesh. However it got triangulated somewhere, which is a shame as it takes additional work in another application to clean it up.
I've been able to clean it up enough in Blender to import into Fusion 360 and make T-Splines out of it.
The way this was modeled, however, was for rendering only, not for 3D printing.
All the sub meshes in this design are open surfaces that intersect on another. Making a homogenous surface out of this which does not get rejected b a 3D slicer might be THE challenge and involves a lot of work.
I wonder where where it is advertized that you can just download any form of mesh and 3D print it. Iv'e seen that so often on this Forum to believe this is a conincidence.
It is illusory to expect from someone with 2 weeks experience in Blender as well as in Fusion and likely computer graphics terminology to even begin to know what to to do. That is not easily conveyed into a simple tutorial. IF I find a good workflow I might make one to show the general idea.
Just to be clear, one can perfectly fine import a high quality quad mesh into Fusion 360, turn it into a T-Spline, from there into a solid body, add mechanical features and then 3D print it. I've done this myself. However, that requires a solid understanding of what characteristics a mesh needs to have in order for that to work.
In that case the level detail provide by the faceted mesh is enough or a 1" tall object.
If' you'd print it in say, 5" tall with the same printer you might start to se faceting and visible artifacts. Glad this worked out for you.
As far as mesh repair goes. I repaired/closed your mesh successfully in both Meshmixer and the mesh workspace in Fusion 360.
On my 27" monitor the detail level just did not look like what you might want.
