{"id":9729,"date":"2018-07-11T09:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=9729"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:34:10","slug":"quick-tip-body-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/quick-tip-body-count\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICK TIP: Body Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this QUICK TIP, I wanted to cover something I set out to do not too long ago, which was to figure out an <em>initial<\/em> component\/body count for a design I had consolidated using generative design.\u00a0Unfortunately, this\u00a0doesn\u2019t show up in properties, and from my experience isn&#8217;t readily available, so I had to get a little creative in my solution&#8230;then a brilliant and talented guy showed me another powerful way to do this using Text Commands in Fusion 360. 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