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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

Summary

In this chapter, we talked about how to automate our workflows when creating additive setups and generating toolpaths. We started the chapter by highlighting how to use the Autodesk App Store to search for apps that can improve our productivity for certain design and manufacturing workflows. We demonstrated how to download, install, and use an app named DuplicateComponents, in order to quickly create multiple copies of the same component so that we can print multiple parts within the same build volume.

Then, we learned how to associate print settings with a given machine so that we can select the machine and print setting combination with ease when creating an additive setup. We then highlighted how to customize inputs for various dialogs, such as part orientation or additive arrange, and save our inputs as user defaults so that the next time we use those commands, we don’t have to edit the inputs to match our preferences. We also learned how to inquire the parameter...