*Failed to Boolean bodies together

[shermancrane1980]

relatively new to Fusion, so I haven't encountered this error until now, and what I'm finding here doesn't quite answer it for me. I am trying to make a figure with some arms coming off the side, so i figured I would use the body of the figure as a tool to trim the arms so they can attach flush, but i got the following error.

I thought it might have been the gap between the segments

But when I try it with single segments I still get the same result. 

I would like to look out for this in the future, so can someone shed some lite on what sort of thing causes this and how to fix it?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. convert Mesh to BREP

2. combine solids

günther

[TrippyLighting]

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@g-andresen wrote:

1. convert Mesh to BREP

2. combine solids

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That works in this case, but thee are hundreds of threads on tis forum where the combine does not work.

It might be best to convert the Barrel into a mesh (Mesh tab ->Create->Tesselate) and then combine in the mesh tap.

But only do this as the latest possible stage o the design.

@shermancrane1980 I don;t assume you are using a pid subscription, but if you do, you can use the organinc mesh conversion, which would ht ehe best option in this case.

Or, if you have a free subscription, you can use InstantMeshes, or the quadriflow remesher in Blender to convert the triangulated mesh into a quad mesh , import it into Fusion and then into a T-Spline and the BRep. Sounds like a lot, but is usually very quick to do and returns much superior results as opposed to convert the traingulated mesh directly int o faceted solid.

I can create a screencast later is needed.

[shermancrane1980]

I tried converting the disks to mesh and you're right, I was able to combine/cut just fine. but why won't it work as a solid?  that's really what brought me here. The arm mesh was initially converted to solids, but trying to do a combine/cut after that is where the issues are coming from. I don't think it would be an issue, but does the fact the disks were created via sketch cause a problem? 

[shermancrane1980]

will that work for you if you combine/cut? because initially I had already converted the mesh and it won't let me do that. I'm not trying to join the two. i want to use the disk to trim the arm off so I can make a removable arm that site flush when installed.