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3D Printing with Fusion 360

By : Sualp Ozel
Book Image

3D Printing with Fusion 360

By: Sualp Ozel

Overview of this book

As 3D printing gains traction, the demand for CAD experts in manufacturing grows. If you're a fan of Autodesk Fusion and crave hands-on experience with automated modeling, generative design, and the full potential of additive manufacturing, this book is your guide to elevating your design and 3D printing skills. In this book, you’ll learn how to open CAD or Mesh files in Fusion and expertly repair, edit, and prepare them for 3D printing. You’ll unlock the secrets of effective print preparation, learning about print settings, support structures, and part orientation. This book also highlights Fusion’s diverse preferences designed specifically for additive manufacturing. Subsequent chapters will guide you in choosing the right part orientation and position, as well as creating suitable support structures based on your chosen printing technology. You’ll simulate the printing process to detect and remedy common print failures associated with the metal powder bed fusion process. Finally, you’ll leverage templates and scripts to automate routine tasks around print preparation. By the end of this 3D printing book, you'll be armed with the knowledge and skills necessary to harness the power of Fusion for additive manufacturing, meeting the growing demand with confidence.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) and Fusion 360
6
Part 2: Print Preparation – Creating an Additive Setup
10
Part 3: Print Preparation – Positioning Parts, Generating Supports, and Toolpaths
15
Part 4: Metal Printing, Process Simulation, and Automation

Support Structures

Welcome to Chapter 10. In this chapter, we will learn all about how to generate and slice support structures for fused filament fabrication (FFF), stereolithography (SLA), and digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing.

Most mainstream additive manufacturing technologies (except for binder jetting, selective laser sintering, and multi-axis deposition) require support structures to be generated and printed for sections of components that have large overhanging surfaces. In this chapter, we will highlight the bar and volume support structures, which can be used for both FFF and SLA/DLP 3D printing.

Almost everything we will learn in this chapter also applies to generating support structures for parts to be printed with metal powder bed fusion (MPBF) printers, but we will dive deeper into positioning parts and generating support structures for the MPBF process in Chapter 12. As the MPBF technology is capable of printing parts and support structures with higher...