Hi Guys.
I Imported a 3d file from thingiverse and wanted to cut from the bottom of the object halfway. Once i created a sketch at the bottom covering the whole model and pressed extrude cut. I get the error "Error: No target body found to cut or intersect!.
My model was imported from an STL file. IS there some steps I am missing for Fusion to properly reconize this file.
I have attached a some pics for clarifcation
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You can only view stl files in Fusion. You can't cut them or make changes to them, unless you right click and convert them to a B-rep.
If your going to convert them they can not have a bunch of triangles and they have to be less then 10,000 polygons.
So in short based on the model in your picture, about all you can do is use it as a reference to model a part Fusion can work with.
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
.stl files are mesh files, usually densely triangulated. that triangulation or faceting makes it difficult to impossible to translate them into solid model.
So the first lesson is that .stl files are NOT solid models and that makes one heck of a difference!
In this case this simple mechanical part is likely quicker to re-design in Fusion 360 then it might be converted.
If you post the file, or a link to it I can take a look at it and maybe make a screencast.
Post your file.
Did you read through all of the previous posts and understood what was said ?
I wonder what the heck you have tried in the months since you first posted in this thread.
Trying to use Mesh to BRep convert this mesh into a solid is really just not what you should be doing at al to accomplish what you want. I can do this in less than 10, maybe even 5 minutes in Blender and be off to printing the object. All the while maintaining the mesh nature of this object as that appears to be all that's needed.
If what you describe is really al you want to do, then Fusion 360 is really not the right tool to do so and trying to brute-force this mesh into a BRep by simply converting is really silly.
If you want to learn how to convert this mesh model into an accurate CAD model, a solid model with precise , defined dimensions and not a mesh model then watch this screencast that took me less than a minute to find searching with Google and see if you can take away anything from it:
@Anonymous wrote:
you may have to jump into patch and close the opening, but its just as simple.
And that works ?
I have a hard time believing that this works, without converting a mesh into a BRep before.
There is an option in the mesh workspace to split with a plane and it has option for filling any openings.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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Yes but that fills the cut surface, so to speak. If you want to make something wider, then there's nothing I can see in the mesh workspace that will fill the gap.
I was wondering if I can just create a face group and move it up/down, similar to how I can do tis in Blender with Vertex groups.
Aside from the bush selection tool feeling rather clunky Fusion 360 crashed and I've got over things to do than working with meshes in an application that is really no well suited to do just to prove it can be one. Blender is FOSS and the only thing that is not free is the time that someone needs to spend learning it. There is a wealth of tutorials out there or it for every aspect of the software.
There are some 3D printing tools in Blender that do not exist in Fusion 360.
Do it in tinkercad first import the stl File then modify it, and then group all forms you added.
