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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

Summary

Whether you are planning on 3D printing using an FFF printer or a top-down or bottom-up SLA/DLP printer, you will need to generate support structures in order to successfully print overhanging areas or islands in your sliced model. Depending on your 3D printing technology, you may need to generate volume supports or bar supports.

Controlling the size and shape (and therefore, the strength) of these supports plays a critical role in whether your prints will be successful or not. In this chapter, we explored how to generate volume supports and bar supports for FFF prints. We discussed how to effectively apply these supports to the entire body or selected surfaces within our components. We showcased how to apply supports to both solid and mesh bodies. We demonstrated the impact of changing support settings as well as slicing settings to control how those supports are sliced and toolpaths are generated. We touched on the impact of the gap between our parts and the support structures...