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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

Simulating an additive toolpath

In the previous section, we learned how to generate additive toolpaths for an FFF process using Fusion 360. In this section, we will focus on how to simulate these additive toolpaths. Within the MANUFACTURE workspace of Fusion 360, we have two paths we can follow in order to simulate the additive toolpath.

The first one is by selecting the Additive Toolpath line item in the browser for the active setup and right-clicking on it. As shown in Figure 11.9 with callout 1, we can access the Simulate Additive Toolpath command within this right-click menu. The second option we have is to utilize the Simulate Additive Toolpath command located within the ACTIONS panel of the ADDITIVE tab. Both of these commands will result in the same outcome, which is the simulation of the additive toolpath for the active additive setup.

Figure 11.9 – How to access the Simulate Additive Toolpath command

Figure 11.9 – How to access the Simulate Additive Toolpath command

Once we simulate the additive toolpath...