From the course: 3D Scanning: From Mesh to Model
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Mesh reduction for CAD import - Fusion 360 Tutorial
From the course: 3D Scanning: From Mesh to Model
Mesh reduction for CAD import
- [Instructor] Before we bring this into Fusion 360 or your solid modeling program of choice, it's good to maybe reduce the complexity of your model slightly. This was from the previous video. So I'm going to have my objects browser on. I'm going to remove these other planes, because we don't really need them anymore, by clicking on them and clicking on the little trashcan here, so that we're left with the key fob. We have some artifacts from the scanner. You can see these radial lines here. So what I want to do is a couple of different things. I want to go to Select and do Ctrl + A, Ctrl + A to select all, A for all, and go to Deform and Smooth. So it's a little bit of global smoothing. It's probably too aggressive in its first run like this, so I'm going to change this to maybe .4 and say Accept. That's a little bit nicer smoothing. Kind of see that. What I want is to evaluate this model to see if anything is going…
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