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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

Customizing presets and using templates

In previous chapters, we demonstrated how to create an additive setup using Fusion 360’s MANUFACTURE workspace. We also showcased how to orient parts, arrange them within the build volume, and generate supports. We highlighted how to simulate the additive toolpath and generate the necessary machine file.

In this section, we will showcase how to customize Fusion’s machine and print setting library in order to speed up the process of creating an additive setup. We will also touch on how to customize the default inputs for various dialogs within an additive setup, and how to create presets to combine multiple custom support operations into a single command, effectively generating support structures for our models.

Even though the process of creating an additive setup is straightforward, it does involve selecting a machine and a print setting explicitly for every single setup. Within the MANUFACTURE workspace of Fusion 360, we...