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Exporting polygonal models

Exporting polygonal models - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Exporting polygonal models

- [Instructor] Solid models are great, but they're not the only game in town. If you want to export your models for a more 3-D printing workflow, or show people your designs without giving them access to the master CAD files in Fusion format or STEP format, you can export as STL. I'm using the 5-3 example file and let's select Body3. If you right-click on this, you can say, "Save as STL." In fact, if you right-click on the main exercise file you can save as STL and it will ask if you want all of these meshed into one file or if you want them as one file per body. For purposes of this, I'm just going to export one body like this and say, "Save as STL." Binary is usually correct. I have Refinement on High. Now, Preview Mesh can be turned on, but one warning for this. It is a toggle, which means that once you turn it on, it will stay on until you turn it off. So, the next time you run the save as STL command, this will automatically be on, and you may be waiting quite a bit if you have a…

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