Save to mesh using Fusion 360 Online

[drewblazo]

How can we save a body to mesh when we use the online version of Fusion 360? With the standard desktop there's a plethora of ways. Simplest being right click on the object in the browser tree and save as mesh. I went to teach my students how to export their models so we could talk about slicing, but you can imagine my frustration when the simple right click "save as mesh" didn't appear for them. They're all using school-issued Chromebooks at school so the online version has, thus far, been absolutely brilliant. 

Reddit did find one work around, but it is not the most useful.

Click File>Export. Which takes you to the online fusion team. Then click view. Then click the little download button in the upper right. Then go back to your email to click a link to download your model.

Setting aside that this is (at minimum) 8 clicks through different pages that need to load, and that there is no 3MF option in this method, this is no go. It exports the entire design not individual bodies. So if you have different bodies/components you can't seem to export them separately, making slicing and printing all but impossible.

tl;dr: How do you simply and effectively save individual bodies/components to mesh using the online version of fusion?

[HughesTooling]

Because the browser version is just a remote desktop it has no access to your drives and you have no useful access to the remote desktop's drives, the workaround saving to your hub is the only option.

You could use Derive to push a copy of a body\component out to a project\folder so you don't have to download the whole design. If you edit the original model you'd need to open the derived design and update, the original download link should still work for the updated version. You might want to view any updates in the browser before downloading again.

Mark

[drewblazo]

Well that is a bummer. Seems like something a big company like Autodesk could figure out. I mean how many other websites let you create anything from images, to lithophones, to sliced gecode files, and download them? Heck, even their own product (TinkerCAD) can do it.

Is it possible for you to elaborate on "Derive" real quick? I'll have to show a bunch of 9th graders how to do it.

[HughesTooling]

The difference between Fusion and those other programmes is Fusion is running on a remote desktop not in the browser. Autodesk experimented with a true browser version for a while but gave up on it. 

They have already modified InsertMesh and InsertSVG with the option to import from the data panel so hopefully they'll do something similar with Save As Mesh in the future. They've already done something similar in the manufacture workspace so you can save G code direct to the browser.

As for derive it's on the Create menu and gives quite a good explanation if you mouse over it.

[drewblazo]

Holy smokes. This shows the level of new to this I am. I can do all my slicing, prep, supports, and export gcode... RIGHT IN FUSION. Sometimes I forget, as an educator, that this is a crazy powerful piece of software.

This is a game changer. I'm going to be taking a deep dive into the manufacture tab now. I don't see why I would waste my time trying to export a model and teach the kids ANOTHER piece of software. Thank you for this.

[HughesTooling]

If your 3d printers are supported then yes, a lot easier to do it all in Fusion. Even if there isn't the correct printer it shouldn't be too difficult to modify one of the supplied machine setups.

Mark

[drewblazo]

Oh no. It's there. Every other slicer I've seen I have to modify the Ender 3 to be an Ender 3v2. But Fusion actually has the specs for the Ender 3v2 built in. I'm sold.