Fusion 360 - Unlock 100K Faces for STL 3D Printing - Ask LarsLive

Unlock 100K Faces for STL 3D Printing is a snippet of Sunday's Ask LarsLive. You Can watch the full episode here:
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[@Despiser25]

Ive had more Mesh troubles than any other thing. Its almost like magic. Then I come here and even though its very old and the UI is different I immediately saw the error of my ways by watching you try and delete the faces and not being able to. I had been here too many time to count. Then you said the magic words. "You need to be in the solids menu." All of a sudden the stl I had been fighting for months was in my model with actual faces to align with, lol. Thank you very much.

[@kbrickman]

Thanks so much Lars!

[@kortt]

Very useful information, thanks Lars!

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome

[@OldCurmudgeon3DP]

Support should be used for really steep overhangs or long ones to help prevent warping.

[@swamihuman9395]

Valiant effort, Lars! BUT ALAS, as many know, mesh to solid in a 3D solid app is most often impractical, or outright undoable. To F360's credit, I will say that I have found the Mesh Workspace useful on a number of occasions (even w/ hi-poly count STLs). But even here, a proper mesh app is generally advised. For mesh repair, Netfabb is hard to beat (free online version, albeit not as full-featured as the stand-alone, pay version).

[@avejst]

Looking good Thanks for sharing :-)

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome 👍😊

[@wernerstricker5152]

Great video Lars. When I want to work with STL files I steer clear of Fusion. I turn to another great Autodesk program, Meshmixer! If Meshmixer can't fix a file, I run it through Netfabb.

[@cadcamstuff]

Good point. As far as I know, all the mesh functions within Fusion are coming from mesh mixer anyways.

[@Th3mast3r69]

anyone else notice the hands are backward? Thumbs should be on the inside not outside

[@achillesmjb]

What happened to the "Patch" command? Cannot locate in updated app. Thx.

[@cadcamstuff]

I the design Workspace, patch has been replaced by surface, found above the icons

[@achillesmjb]

@@cadcamstuff Thx

[@jlb0077]

What if your mesh file has an error?

[@cadcamstuff]

When you are trying to bring it into Fusion? Then you might be in trouble