You're reading from 3D Printing with Fusion 360 Design for additive manufacturing, and level up your simulation and print preparation skills

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246642

Length 438 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

G-code

Tools

Autodesk Fusion 360

Concepts

3D Printing

Author (1):

Sualp Ozel

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) and Fusion

2. Chapter 1: Opening, Inspecting, and Repairing CAD and Mesh files FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Editing CAD/Mesh Files with DFAM Principles in Mind

4. Chapter 3: Creating Lightweight Parts, and Identifying and Fixing Potential Failures with Simulation

5. Chapter 4: Hollowing and Latticing Parts to Reduce Material and Energy Usage

6. Part 2: Print Preparation – Creating an Additive Setup

7. Chapter 5: Tessellating Models and Exporting Mesh Files to Third-Party Slicers

8. Chapter 6: Introducing the Manufacture Workspace for Print Preparation

9. Chapter 7: Creating Your First Additive Setup

10. Part 3: Print Preparation – Positioning Parts, Generating Supports, and Toolpaths

11. Chapter 8: Arranging and Orienting Components

12. Chapter 9: Print Settings

13. Chapter 10: Support Structures

14. Chapter 11: Slicing Models and Simulating the Toolpath

15. Part 4: Metal Printing, Process Simulation, and Automation

16. Chapter 12: 3D Printing with Metal Printers

17. Chapter 13: Simulating the MPBF Process

18. Chapter 14: Automating Repetitive Tasks

19. Index

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Technical requirements

Everything covered in this chapter is accessible to users with the personal, trial, commercial, startup, or educational Fusion 360 license types.

There are certain Fusion 360 additive machines, such as metal powder bed fusion (MPBF) 3D printers and their respective print settings and support structure generation capabilities, which are not available until gaining access to the Additive Build extension. As with all other Fusion 360 extensions, the Additive Build extension is not available for personal use. As we will not cover topics specific to metal 3D printing in this chapter, you should be able to follow along with all the examples in this chapter with no issues.

If you have a commercial license of Fusion 360, to create an additive setup with a metal powder bed fusion machine, you will also need access to the Additive Build extension (https://www.autodesk.com/products/Fusion-360/additive-build-extension).

Autodesk offers a 14-day trial for the Additive...