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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
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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 talked about modifying parts for manufacturing purposes. We started this chapter by discussing how to use the Insert Derive workflow within Fusion 360 to manage our model changes for 3D printing. We utilized this workflow to aggregate components from multiple Fusion 360 designs and make changes that impact the downstream manufacturing processes but do not impact the upstream design document. We talked about the benefits of this workflow as it allowed us to bring in designs, along with their parameters, from multiple sources into a single manufacturing document. We also highlighted how utilizing this workflow blocks us from deleting source components, so long as those components are referenced in our manufacturing document.

Next, we introduced the concept of the MANUFACTURE workspace and how to create manufacturing models. We demonstrated how we can modify our parts within the manufacturing model of the same document. We highlighted that the main benefit...