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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

Generating an additive toolpath

In the previous chapters, we covered how to create an additive setup, orient and place our parts within the build volume, and generate support structures. In this section, we will build on this knowledge and demonstrate how to generate an additive toolpath for such an additive setup.

In order to demonstrate how to generate an additive toolpath within Fusion 360, let us use the Connector-Assembly provided within the GitHub page for this chapter. This Fusion 360 document consists of three components. As you can see in Figure 11.1, the main component is named Connector. There are two additional components named Carbon Fiber Rod. Based on how the parts are assembled, the carbon fiber rods are meant to be embedded within the Connector. In order to manufacture such an assembly using traditional manufacturing methods, we would have to build the Connecter in two halves, so we can embed the carbon fiber rods. Alternatively, we would have to drill access holes...