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Please attach your STL file to a reply post.
John Hackney, Retired
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@arthur_brevet wrote:
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As STL files are imported into Fusion 360 as mesh bodies,
True!
@arthur_brevet wrote:
... I first need to convert this mesh body into a solid body...
Not true!
Share a screenshot and describe in detail how you want to split it in two. Is it a simple plane cut?
That can be done with Autodesk Meshmixer.
You could try to ZIP the file and then attach it ?
"I cant attach the file because it exceeds the maximum size of 71 MB"
"The problem is that the procedure for converting to a solid body causes the software to crash every time, it freezes and stops responding"
I suspect that these two facts are highly correlated. How big is the STL? My guess is that Fusion is not actually crashing (do you see a crash dialog?), but, instead, the conversion you have requested will take a LONG time. If you let it run long enough, I'm willing to bet that it will complete. How long will depend on exactly how big the mesh is.
Whether you should convert the mesh highly depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to print it, there is no need to convert to a solid. However, if you want to, say, make a drawing from it, you will need a solid.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
In Fusion create an offset plane at the height you need to split the mesh then use mesh Plane Cut to split the mesh.
Set the fill type to get a closed mesh.
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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@arthur_brevet wrote:
Hello. I wanted to use the ''split body'' function to split the volume of the mesh body in two, so I don't know if it's a simple flat cut. As for the file, I could zip it up to put it on the blog but it's not my file, and it's copyrighted so I don't think I can or should share it freely. But I've downloaded Autodesk Meshmixer and I'm going to give it a try.
If a flat split will not work you could create a body then convert the body into a mesh and use the mesh to cut your mesh. Might still take a while to process but probably quicker then what you're seeing now.
Here I have the mesh I want to split and a mesh body I created as a cutting tool. I've set combine to keep the cutting tool and create a new component. You can then repeat using intersect If you need a component for both parts.
After cutting.
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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@arthur_brevet wrote:I've downloaded Autodesk Meshmixer and I'm going to give it a try.
In MeshMixer go to Edit>Plane Cut
Use the arc and triad to locate the plane...
