The Mesh Enabler application converts mesh features to solid base features or surface features. This function can be applied to individual or multi-selected mesh features or mesh feature folders.

After installing Mesh Enabler, right click on one or more imported mesh features of interest, and convert them into Base features solids, surfaces, or composites through a new context menu command. The graphical mesh data is converted into B-Rep Model data that can be used similar to imported solids and surfaces. I’m running build , version Zero issues. This is really a critical add-in Still does not work in Inventor , no respone to e-mail from Rocky Zhang whatsoever. No alternative way to convert meshes.

Please update as soon as possible. We need it desperately. This is a great and very useful addin I depend on it in my daily workflow Have directly emailed the developer with no response I suggest everyone email frequently and perhaps we will get somewhere. Like others, I rely on this. I need to update to and need this to keep my workflow! I use this Add-In constantly, but it needs to be updated to support Inventor This plugin is the only thing holding be back to , I want to be in the future!

Please make this compatible with version! It doesn’t show up in the add-ins window, so I can’t even enable it to see if it will convert my mesh to solid. There is a missing step in the instructions that you need for and probably the others. Make sure to pull up the “add in” option under the tools tab They really should document that! Can you make sure the addin is loaded after installation? It works for Professional version for me.

The publisher, Rocky Zhang, even said he updated it for below. Version 1. Anyways, for anyone that is installing the. I thought the installation was taking forever, but it was because I didn’t close Inventor first. Good luck! Thank you too, for the follow up Rocky Zhang.

I have a similar problem. Wayne Newberry. It works probably fine, I installed it twice as shown in the comments here but then i noticed that the readme states, that it only supports up to triangles. Sadly this makes is useless to me. The Build-in feature of Inventor just cant handle so many facets too. Mine says that it does convert, but it may take a ng time. Then it took The smoothening will help average out rugged sufaces from an stl Good luck! Thank you so much for making this, i looked for answers on how to convert the file to an object for hours, but found no answer.

Luckily, I stumbled uppon this saving grace and I am pleased to say that it works. Thank you for that complaint Thank god for your comment, i can’t believe Autodesk haven’t put this in the installation instructions. First time I installed this, it didn’t work to make solid objects, it did automatically surfaces that I couldn’t edit.

I reinstalled it and than it works. It is a little finicky, but by doing a solid extrude and then importing a mesh over and then making the mesh a solid, I was able to use the combine feature to make a cut requires two solids. If you aren’t getting the option when right clicking, make sure that you are right clicking on the mesh object under the mesh tree.

Also, as others have said make sure to enable the add-on. It isn’t automatic. This tool is especially helpful when i need to modify.

Reading all the Reviews where users couldn’t figure out how to use Mesh Enabler – this isn’t a Help forum – go over here and ask for help. I installed this newer version of mesh Enabler for use with autodesk inventor but I had to revert to an older version. It only converted my. But the moment i switched over to using mm in the ISO standard, the. This review should probably be under a bug reporting site but I cant find that so I hope the Autodesk team finds this here.

Worked on Inventor after doind this:. Thanks Luis Gaiato! I thought it woudn’t work. Very importont information. Tahnk you! Would be helpful if this information will be implemented in the description. Even though it is listed the 1. Please correct the file on the database, or correct listing if you don’t have the latest release yet. I used this tool in and was able to multi-select mesh surfaces to convert it worked very well.

But now in the ability to multi-select meshes is not available. I can only select 1 mesh at a time, process, then select again etc. I’d give 5 stars if I could multi-select again. You should post over in the Inventor forum and include the file. It has worked for me for many years. Mark the automatic load box. Hello, when will the version for inventor be available? Mesh enabler 1. Same problem for me!

Inventor with Windows 10 and newest MeshEnabler version. Hopefully there’s going to be a fix. Doesnt do what its say it does, spent hours, ends up making something that isnt a solid and you cant print it anyway. Wast of time! I dont know why. When it converts the. I wonder, have anybody else experience this? Does anybody know how to correct this issue? I had the same problem and it took me a while to get it corrected.

Good god this addin really is a must have for work with shape generation. Can’t believe it isn’t standard with inventor. Iv’e downloaded the application. Enabled add-ins on Inventor, but the option “Convert to Base Feature” never shows up. You need to enable first. Sorry, but you should try it. I used this with Inventor , it took min to convert the part, however i am only running this on a laptop. Demorei para conseguir baixar, mais no final deu certo.

Buongiorno, ho a disposizione inventor per studenti in italiano. Cosa posso fare? I use this tool to import. I can convert to solids and edit the designs. Just don’t forget to set the load behavior in the Add-in Manager, on “Load Automatically”.

This article is very informative, but I’d you help me with a thing. I imported a stl. Also, I cannot calculate the properties mass, volume

Autodesk inventor 2016 mesh enabler free

 
Enabled add-ins on Inventor, but the option “Convert to Base Feature” never shows up. Alexandria Avery May 21, It isn’t automatic. This next comment doesn’t really have anything to do with how the Mesh Enabler works other than how you import then use the Enabler: Make sure you know what your units are of the.

Autodesk inventor 2016 mesh enabler free

 
It doesn’t show up in the add-ins window, so I can’t even enable it to see if it will convert my mesh to solid. Works great with Inventor Prof Lorenzo Barabino November 12,