Fusion360 Car Modeling, youtube. Vol 11

Progress so far. I modeled hood, front and lamp socket. Still no bumpers. Wheel openings are bit this and that not matched in precise circle.

Problem areas on hood

There are some sharp corners still… This may be the trickies part to model in hood.

Box model

Front part is now separated from the body for front bumper modeling.

Back view

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STL web viewer

This is a STL model loader test made with Chat GPT and Claude AI coding. Currently I am trainee in Fab Lab Oulu.

You can download code from my github page.

STL web viewer
X Y Z
Size [mm]
Volume—
Area—
Triangles—
Rotate
Material
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Convert Binary PLY file into Ascii format

Another great scanned test model from Artec 3D files.

This time file needed to be converted into ascii format inside Meshlab because it was produced by scanner software as binary file. It opens in Meshlab for sure but not with Cinema 4D PLY importer python script.

  1. open up PLY file in notepad ++ and you can verify the script is messed up. Hmm what garbage is this? Actually it is not garbage and not messed up but it is in binary format so it’s not readable in Ascii-format.

2. Open PLY file in Meshlab and Export as a new PLY file without checking Binary encoding. There was a good tip on this blog.

3. Import into Cinema 4D with PLY python script and you are done!. Model appears to have 5000 000 polygons which can be reduced now with polygon reduction tool but I am positive that Meshlab has better tools for that.

4. If you open the file in Notepad ++ and you can see it is clean now.

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More PLY import testing in R19

Well now I tried importing a model with several parts and it works just fine.

World coordinates are different so you have to rotate the model in Cinema. After importing a tall model looks like it has a taken sideways direction.

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