Design in Solid mode and cannot define radius segments

[xncrman]

OK I know this issue has been brought up a million times but I need some direction for answers.

I happen to be designing a telescope 10" tube clamp as a home project. I have the complete unit of parts designed in Solid mode and looks great. But when I export the radius's are all in large flat segments which will cause fitment issues and not smooth round surfaces for bearing surfaces. I want to 3D fdm to make these parts but no matter how I export the file it is far from smooth.  

I have searched F360 and cannot find any settings to increase the amount of segments to smooth the lines in a radius.  Years ago using Sketchup had that feature. Please can someone direct me to a solution to create smoother product without starting all over in Mesh Mode?

[jhackney1972]

Please attach your model.  Also, are you exporting to FDM for additive design or did you really mean 3MF which is a standard mesh output?  If you do not know how to attach your Fusion 360 model follow these easy steps. Open the model in Fusion 360, select the File menu, then Export and save as a F3D or F3Z file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section, of a forum post, to attach it.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

If you save the model via save as mesh you can select the quality (low, medium, custom ...).

günther

[xncrman]

Thank you for your reply. Attached is the model.  To define my earlier post, I export to STL for post processing for 3d printing. As shown in the attached jpg file the radius's all have very large segments and I cannot find a process to change to a larger number of segment to smooth the radius. The outer part of the hub needs to be smooth to ride on bearings for rotation.

[jhackney1972]

@g-andresen has offered you a good solution.  Here are a couple of screen captures, one of my settings and one of the result.  STL is attached if it will help.

[xncrman · Accepted solution]

Thank you. I found the Tessellate command under the Create tab in Mesh probably about the same time you were answering my last reply. I knew there had to be a way to get what I wanted I just hadn't exposed myself to all the commands and functions. At age 65 I love engineering my designs and using Fusion 360 and self taught about 4 years ago. Great way to spend retirement making new ideas I previous had no time for..

A sincere gratitude for your fast response! Quality of life is never stop learning and creating.

John

[davebYYPCU]

Well I think you are in the wrong rabbit hole.  If you are going into Mesh Environment.

Remain in Solid, Export as STL, the settings there as outlined will do as you wish.  But to have the solid model desecrated by Tesselating is just plain unnecessary.

Something to investigate, and why your question seemed odd in the first place, we don’t use Mesh for much except reverse engineering from Mesh Models.

Might help....

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

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@xncrman wrote:

Thank you. I found the Tessellate command under the Create tab in Mesh probably about the same time you were answering my last reply. I knew there had to be a way to get what I wanted

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Did you try right click on a body or component and select Save As Mesh?

If you right click a component with subcomponents only the visible ones will be exported even though rather unhelpfully all bodies in the subassembly will show ( only the ones visible will show the mesh preview.

Mark