Importing 3d Curves from VXmodel

[War-Pig]

I have just purchased a Creaform 3d scanner and I would like to use Fusion 360 for reverse engineering. The issue I am having is that when I open an exported file from VXModel I lose the cross sections and pipe centre line data. I know that it will import into Inventor and Solidworks as VXModel is designed to work with these CAD packages. Is there anything I can do to import directly into Fusion 360 or do I have to export these entities in DXF format and work from there?

[jhackney1972]

If you can import models into Solidworks and Inventor, you must be using a neutral form such as STEP or SAT files to do it.  Fusion 360 can accept these files types if you have any license except a Personal and it will accept STEP files if you have a Fusion 360 Personal license.

[War-Pig]

Yes, export format is Step. However I lose sketches (3D curves) when imported into Fusion 360 where as they come into Solidworks and Inventor. I can get DXF to work but I lose alignment sometimes. Any ideas?

[jhackney1972]

If the STEP file will not read correctly, I have no other suggestion.  I only responded because you were talking about using a DXF instead of STEP in your original post.

[HughesTooling]

There was a request for this on the ideastation a long time ago and it got marked as implemented but I could not get it to work and I'm pretty sure it never worked. No one seemed to reply from autodesk after it got marked as implemented.

Here's the link

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-archived/import-3d-wire-data-from-iges-or-step...

Only formats that seem to work are DWG and DXF. Odd thing is if you upload a step file using the online HUB not the data panel you can view curves but when you translate to a Fusion file it's empty!

Mark

[bkg8YXDK]

Only Solidworks, Inventor and Solid Edge

Fusion is not implemented

ref:

VXmodel: How to transfer your scan to CAD - YouTube