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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

Automating Repetitive Tasks

Welcome to Chapter 14. In previous chapters, we demonstrated how to use Fusion 360 to design new models and import models from external sources. We also highlighted how to generate a setup to additively manufacture those models with various 3D-printing technologies. Now that we have a good understanding of how to use Fusion 360 and have experience in creating setups, arranging our parts, and creating support structures for various additive technologies, let’s learn more about how to automate and optimize Fusion 360, so that we don’t have to edit every input dialog for every single additive setup.

In this chapter, we will highlight how to automate various aspects of Fusion in order to minimize our interaction with the software, creating an additive setup and generating a toolpath. We will start the chapter by highlighting existing automations within Fusion’s ecosystem by introducing you to the Autodesk App Store. Then, we will highlight...