Importing question

[smallfavor]

I drew some profile curves in Rhino, saved them out to a .3dm file and uploaded it to Fusion.  When I open the file I can find no lines anywhere.

Why is that?

attached is a show of the Rhino file contents.

 I then tried uploading the whole 6mb file and STILL nothing appears!   I read the following list of files that can be uploaded:

You can upload following file types to Fusion 360: 

• Alias files (*.wire) 
• AutoCAD DWG files(*.dwg) 
• Autodesk Fusion 360 files (*.f3d) 
• Autodesk Fusion 360 Drawing files (*.f2d) 
• Autodesk Fusion 360 Toolpath files (*.cam360) 
• Autodesk Inventor files (*.iam, *.ipt) 
• Catia V5 files (*.CATProduct, *.CATPart) 
• DXF files (*.dxf) 
• FBX files (*.fbx) 
• IGES files (*.iges, *.ige, *.igs) 
• NX files (*.prt) 
• OBJ files (*.obj) 
• Parasolid Binary files (*.x_b) 
• Parasolid Text files (*.x_t) 
• Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Parametric files (*.asm, *.prt) 
• Pro/ENGINEER Granite files (*.g) 
• Pro/ENGINEER Neutral files (*.neu) 
• Rhino files (*.3dm) 
• SAT/SMT files (*.sab, *.sat, *.smb, *.smt) 
• SolidWorks files (*.prt, *.asm, *.sldprt, *.sldasm) 
• STEP files (*.ste, *.step, *.stp) 
• STL files (*.stl) 
• SketchUp files (*.sku) 

 But that's apparently bull**** as I've already tried to upload dxf and that fails as well.  So what is it that's making things so lame???

[jeff_strater]

For most external formats, Fusion only imports surface and body information, not curve information, and that is true for Rhino files.

Jeff

[smallfavor]

Okay, fair enough, but what of the rhino surfaces?  I've been successful importing such before and now that's failing as well.  So too with the sketchup files.

What format is best to export from Rhino for uploading and use of Fusion?  Also, is there some type of controlled curved file (perhaps Illustrator0 that will import to fusion?

I can produce the profiles I want much easier in any application other than fusion.

[jeff_strater]

Rhino surfaces should import fine.  I would recommend using STEP or IGES to export those from Rhino.  If you have an example where you think that a file exported from Rhino, which contains surfaces, is not importing into Fusion, please post it here and we will take a look at it.

Sketchup files are a different beast entirely.  Sketchup is a mesh modeler.  You can import Sketchup designs into Fusion, but the result will be one or more mesh bodies in Fusion.  That's fine, but understand that what you can do with a mesh body in Fusion is limited.  If the model is simple, you can convert it to a BRep model, but the results of that are not always useful.  For instance, a Sketchup cylinder will come into Fusion as a faceted model (likely lots of narrow triangles), so converting that to a BRep won't produce a nice smooth cylinder.  Also, Fusion will not recognize that as a cylindrical surface, so you won't be able to do things like create a work axis through the cylinder's axis, or recognize the top as a circle.

You can definitely use Illustrator to draw 2D curves, and bring those into Fusion.  SVG or DXF output is the best for that workflow.  However, there are things to be aware of here, as well.  Some programs produce better SVG output than others.  Some programs will output curves as tiny line segments.  Other programs have tolerance problems, so Fusion will not recognize a region as closed.  Even if that is not a problem, curves like splines will come into Fusion as a non-native spline curve.  The shape will be correct, but you will not be able to edit those splines in Fusion, to change their shape.

[Anonymous]

To export curves from Rhino AutoCAD Drawing Exchange (*.dxf) works. I just used it for simple curves so far, but for those it worked as expected... (Perhaps the size is wrong?!)

[smallfavor]

Thanks Jeff,

Here's link to the SU model uploaded.  It shows up online but will not open locally in the app.  I'll try to use AI to create some curves and import.  Also, I'm attaching the .3dm file for you inspection.  (Sorry about the weight.)

http://a360.co/2kwwJyO

Here's another screencast -- a bit long, but it shows the sizes of 5 different files output from Rhino (one is in an earlier Rhino version), the uploading process from the local app, and the results in the data panel.   Not only are .dwg files very small, they never seem to finish uploading.  

https://www.screencast.com/t/s1XF9Uryys

One the things that bugs me is all Rhino models come in with a z-axis that doesn't match with fusion.  Is there some setting that would rectify this?

Also I can't tell which file is the result of which uploaded.   That would be useful for comparisons.

[smallfavor]

yeah that seemed to work fine - thanks