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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

Introduction to design history with Fusion 360

In Chapter 1, we briefly touched on how Fusion 360 can capture the design history of model changes. In this chapter, we will dig a little deeper into this topic and showcase some of the benefits and drawbacks of capturing design history (parametric modeling) versus not capturing design history (direct modeling).

In the context of Fusion 360, Parametric Modeling is a methodology based on features and constraints. All features you add to a model are captured over time and any changes you make to a given feature propagate downstream in your timeline and impact the subsequent features and ultimately the final outcome of your design. This makes parametric modeling a powerful tool for creating design alternatives based on rules.

In contrast, direct modeling is a methodology where the features you add to your model are not all stored or editable. A subset of direct modeling features can be edited. However, those features do not interact...