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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

Part 4: Metal Printing, Process Simulation, and Automation

This final part of the book is all about metal 3D printing and automation. First, we will introduce the various ways you can use Autodesk Fusion to create an additive setup for a metal 3D print. We will explain how you can utilize fused filament fabrication, binder jetting, directed energy deposition, and metal powder bed fusion technologies to create metal parts. Then, we will demonstrate how to simulate the metal powder bed fusion process in order to detect potential print failures. We will also demonstrate how to compensate for large distortions in our models and ultimately minimize possible print failures.

We will end the book by highlighting various automation techniques that we can utilize to reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks. We will introduce premade automation tools available for download and use on the Autodesk App Store. We will introduce the concept of operation templates as well as scripts created with...