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You are just not going to get this to work in Fusion! You have over 7,000 curves, more than 50K surfaces and just over 500 polysurfaces! Fusion does not perform well with more than about 1,000 curves, not sure when it comes to surfaces but doubt it will with 50K+.
Mark Hughes
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@jay.d.gulledge wrote:
I am unable to import DXF files, none that I create seem to work. I am converting PDF's to DXF
Edit. Just noticed the surfaces were created in Rhino while importing. Rhino has a setting to convert wide polylines to surfaces, when I uncheck this setting all I get is curves, 58 thousand of them!
Don't know if you have any options with the conversion but what appears to be dotted lines are actually multiple surfaces.
Here for example this line is 48 surfaces. All the hatched areas have this problem and account for thousands of surfaces in your file.
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You could try using QCad to clean it up after the conversion. It would help if the hatches where on a different layer so you could select them easier and delete (in QCad). You'll need to experiment to see how the hatches convert with different converters and see how the conversion looks in QCad or any other CAD program before trying to import into Fusion. If you can remove all the hatches and text it will probably be OK in Fusion.
Mark
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@jay.d.gulledge If you're stuck with the hatches after the conversion, another option is select the curves you need and move them to another layer or paste to another drawing in QCad. This would be a bit tedious but still easier than trying to delete the hatches.
For example this section is just 12 curves.
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@jay.d.gulledge Sorry but this sort of conversion might be a waste of time. There are no arcs or splines in this file, just lines connected into polylines to look like curves.
This is what one of the ribs look like after extruding, 96 flat surfaces jointed to look like a curve.
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Hi,
Neat project. Is the airplane a Mosquito? One of my favorites.
There is a way to use AutoCAD on a trial basis. This would let you sort out things like layers and remove all the extra information.
Also, if the files can be broken up so one shape per file is what you are working with, it gets easier.
And last, have you thought about redrawing the parts using sketch tools in Fusion? There is a workflow that uses imagery to help you draw.
https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=SLD-INSERT-CANVAS
The magic to the Canvas command is to right click on it in the browser and "calibrate".
Phil Eichmiller
Software Engineer
Quality Assurance
Autodesk, Inc.
