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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)
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Part 1: Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) and Fusion 360
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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

In this chapter, we learned all about metal additive manufacturing. We started this chapter by highlighting all the additive manufacturing technologies you can utilize to create metal parts. We demonstrated how to use fused filament fabrication printers from UltiMaker and Raise3D and metal filaments from companies such as BASF to 3D print metal parts that require debinding and sintering. We also showcased how you can use any FFF 3D printer with customized extruders and specialized metal filaments from companies such as The Virtual Foundry to 3D print with metal filaments. Each of these solutions requires the 3D-printed part to be further processed by debinding and sintering. We then highlighted how to create metal parts using directed energy deposition technology utilizing printers such as the Meltio M450 printer available within Fusion 360’s machine library.

In the next section, we demonstrated how to create additive setups using MPBF printers. We showcased how additive...