Importing OBJ files and then editing them in fusion360
If they are triangulated meshes then above a limit of 10k polygons, then Fusion 360 is really not good in working with meshes. Unless hat stuff is of a more of a prismatic/mechanical nature that you might've downloaded from Thingyverse. Then there are things that can be done with Fusion 360
Again, an image is worth a thousand words.
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Without knowing what type of mesh you are talking about I cannot be of any further help, so please post an image or maybe even better one of your .obj files.
So here is yet another question:
Do you just want to download such items and modify them, or do you want to create original content ?
If you want modify existing mesh objects such as the attached, Autodesk Meshmixer is what you need to get your head around, It's widely used in the maker scene where people are eager to share and there are many good tutorials available that help you through it.
However, such objects usually do not originate in Meshmixer. This object can be created from scratch in Fusion 360 using a variety of tools probably in the Patch environment.
That model was like textured with a leaf textured and an Alpha channel. It was likely meant as a prop for Sub-Modelers. When imported into Fusion 360 all th textures are lost and you only have the geometry to work with.
I would assume that at some point in time this was a quad mesh model, which can be converted into a T-Spline and can be modified easily. Maybe check in your Mesh preferences hat auto triangulation on import is not enabled.
@Anonymous
Well I import OBJ files all the time and it works great. The thing is I think that you are not very familiar with
the correct approach here and also what will and what will not work.
That takes practise to get good at.
Claas Kuhnen
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Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
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I've asked a number of questions in this thread to see what the nature of these .obj files are.
Please answer those or perhaps share one of the .obj files you are having problems with.
I import .obj quad meshes all the time mostly without problems.
Triangulated stuff requires very different workflows.
And don't forget to un-check this (fusion has this turned on by default for what ever reason)
some other mesh editing software will also automatically triangulate quad meshes because they only operate on triangulated meshes (i'm thinking mesh mixer here). I've come across a few cases where someone thought they had a triangulated mesh because of this fusion setting, but actually had a perfectly good quad mesh.