STL file import for sculpting edit?

[Anonymous]

i have built a model in another design program and exported as stl, now i import stl into fusion,can i edit it using the sculpting workspace?

[Anonymous]

please do so because on my end when i convert it looks like it only does the shoulder area but not even a good conversion, also it does not let me do it by using the actual conversion process but by going into the model workspace and turning it into a component and then i can use the conversion option...

[Anonymous]

thanks for trying but this video player sucks i have no control over pause as if i push stop/pause it just keeps playing

[Anonymous]

i do want to know how you did that hole thru the model cuz i cant and i keep hearing to make the model into parts but if i cant cut a hole thru it never mind trying to cut a arm and legs off

[PhilProcarioJr]

You import the obj into a new file, make sure you save the new file or it wont let you import. Then from the menu select Create Base Feature.

Then right click on the mesh and select mesh to brep.

Then you can either leave base feature mode if you want history or continue on. Select a face then start a sketch.

Then push pull the shape.

Hope this helps.

[PhilProcarioJr]

This isn't going to really help you though because its not a water tight mesh so you end up with surfaces instead of solids...to fix this mesh in Fusion is a waste of time, you could do it a million times faster in another app like Blender and since the quads are all non planar they get converted into triangles which is really bad to work with in Fusion. So again your wasting a lot of time.

[Anonymous]

thanks i did not know about the base feature " well i did not know it was a feature as im very dependent with common used tools and therefor i dont explore what else can help me do what, so that being said im not sure what is the point of Create Base Feature. but i see how you used it here, thanks

[Anonymous]

ok phil i hear you and you might be right which is why i thought i wasted $400 on this old program i bought 3 years ago called NetFabb Private and i recall something about watertight and i guess it was for 3d printing ? well i used that soft as well as Instant Meshes which is how i got my model to be Quadface for Fusion

[Anonymous]

that file you uploaded  is kinda small for a model that size , I found an im file online and I will see how fusion reacts to it before I post it up for you . 

[Anonymous]

thanks,

[Anonymous]

one more thing guys can someone address me how to clean up my tree? remodeling is crazy when i have this spine that has alot of parts and there all on the tree but not in one folder amed SPINE 

[Anonymous]

OK that model i found would not work , here is a make human model that is in sculpt mode with the start mesh models . I hope this gives you an idea of how this program HANDLES imported mesh with lots of points . now this type of model once in can have edge lines manually thinned out . I have used t splines under rhino there are webinar for that product that help show you  how to use the software to make mostly jewelry but can be applied to anything . t-splines needs less points to make a smooth model then a mesh and that is the problem when pulling in mesh models to it . 

good luck with what your trying to do . 

i used win rar to make 4 volumes three posted here and one posted in next post 

[Anonymous]

volume 4 

[PhilProcarioJr]

@Anonymous

Watertight means that the mesh is a closed shape, a solid, no holes in it. In theory it got its name to help people understand, the mesh can hold water...no leaks. The term is MOSTLY found in rapid prototyping (3d Printing).

This is why programs like Topogun and blender come in handy, you can retopoligize say the Head and bring that model in and work on it. If you plan to use T-Splines the theory of less is more comes to mind. You don't want or need high poly count meshes to convert to T-Splines, except in a few rare cases. Honestly even a human head probably only needs 100 or so faces to make a very nice looking model as a T-Spline. Study information online about Sub-D modeling as the concepts and workings are almost identical. Keep in mind I'm just trying to help save you time and frustration. These poly heavy meshes are not a good starting point for a base model in CAD apps, maybe someday but not right now.

[TrippyLighting]

@Anonymous for what particular purpose did you attach almost 16 Mb of data proken into 4 pices ?

If there is an upload limit of 4Mb then that si a rather obvious indication that you should not upload such large files.

To me  the humanoid mesh discussed in this thread does not look like it's  modeled. It would appear to come first from scanned data that with some sort of software than was automatically re-meshed. that why it has too many polygons and the topology is so terrible.

The level of detail in that model can be had with 1/4 of the polygons or even less ig the topology is better. Then it is also quite editable in Sculpt mode.

To get a humanoid mesh from MakeHuman into Fusion one only needs to load down MakeHuman as it is free software and then expport it as a .obj. that will allow you to observe in fact outstaning topology for a human mesh.

[Anonymous]

Was just to give then a demo of what an imported mesh into fusion will function like with there hardware .

[Anonymous]

thanks for the tip

[Anonymous]

your correct this is a 3D scan of a toy, and then brought into Instant Meshes for a Quad 

[Anonymous]

np i understood your point , thanks tho

[Anonymous]

has anyone looked at mudbox ? 

[Anonymous]

I actually think im just about done with what  was looking to do so thanks ya'll for the support, i just wanted to out fit this robotic skeleton with the a flexible 3D printing plastic which is what i was going to print the human body with but before all that i wanted to do some boolean op on the human body with the robotic skeleton and remodel from the inside so i can ater assemble the Android and as you can see by the photo below i when thru diff iterations before i found the right body type.