From the course: 3D Scanning: From Mesh to Model
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Importing STL models and aligning - Fusion 360 Tutorial
From the course: 3D Scanning: From Mesh to Model
Importing STL models and aligning
- [Instructor] Fusion 360 offers a different way of doing reverse engineering if you're looking to be a little bit more loose in your translation, but allowing yourself a little bit, actually, quite a bit more flexibility with how you work with shapes. For example, you can turn something like this into something like this, matching the shape of a scan. Where we start with a scan and we end up with a body that is pretty darn close. We're going to be going into how to use the sculpting tools inside of Fusion in this section. So what I want you to do is insert a mesh and select the 10-1 Sample File Key fob file. This will come in like this. Notice if we turn on the origin, this is slightly under and away from the origin. That is actually okay. We don't have to have it perfectly aligned for purposes of this video. It's totally fine to have this, and it's actually better to do it so that we can work with the models a little…
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