Mesh Editor - Storage Location question

Mesh Editor - Storage Location question

Chad-Smith
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Mesh Editor - Storage Location question

Chad-Smith
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This is maybe more a question for Autodesk, but happy to hear for anyone with some experience.

 

To begin, a ReCap project that is published to ACC is stored in a Docs folder and can be opened from that location in the future.

When a Mesh is generated locally, I have noticed that the Mesh project files are stored in the ReCap cloud project under the Support folder of 'model'. No problem with this, since the files are centrally stored with the project.

 

However, there appears to be a difference with a Cloud Mesh Project.

When creating this project, it asks for a new destination folder. This destination has to be unique and unused, otherwise it will not allow you to create the project. I have also experienced numerous problems when wanting to recreate the Cloud Mesh Project, even after deleting the previous folder.

 

It would appear that the Cloud Mesh Project is far less forgiving than Local. So much so that I have been solely creating Local so that I can avoid the problems with creating a Cloud one.

 

I guess my question is, with the Cloud workflow are we expected to create a project in its own unique folder every single time?

e.g. folder structure

|-- ReCap Project

        |-- Support Files

                |-- model (for Local)

        |-- Cloud Mesh Project 1

        |-- Cloud Mesh Project 2

        |-- Cloud Mesh Project 3

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zhaoyang_ma
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Hi @Chad-Smith,

 

The answer is yes as of Autodesk ReCap Pro 2026.  For the workflow of Scan to Mesh (cloud), the mesh name need to be unique in a given location. For more information about this workflow, you can refer to this help document

For Scan to Mesh (cloud), the resultant mesh and related files do not necessarily need to be in the folder of a ReCap project or the related ReCap project. 

 

Best regards!

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