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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

Creating Your First Additive Setup

Welcome to Chapter 7. In previous chapters, we covered how to create and modify models for 3D printing. Now, we can start to go over how to set up a 3D print using Fusion 360. Before we can walk over to our 3D printer and press print, we need to define the process digitally on our slicer, which in this chapter will be Fusion 360. 3D printing using Fusion 360 can be as simple as pressing a single button if we first take the time to define mission-critical information, such as which printer we will be using and which material we will be printing with. In this chapter, we will dig a little deeper into how to use Fusion 360 effectively, so we can understand how the machine and print settings libraries work together to help us create an additive setup, so that we can go from a digital design to additive manufacturing.

In Fusion 360, a critical first step for 3D printing is to create an additive manufacturing setup. This simple yet powerful dialog includes...