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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Working with Mesh files natively in Fusion 360

In the previous section, we talked about how to open CAD files and edit them for 3D printing. In this section, we will insert Mesh files and learn how to work with them in various ways.

After inserting a Mesh file into Fusion 360, we have three ways we can work with those models. We can edit inserted mesh bodies in the following ways:

As Mesh bodies
After converting them into solid bodies
By recreating them as solid bodies

Editing inserted Mesh bodies as mesh bodies

The mesh functionality within Fusion 360 is available for both parametric and direct modeling methodologies. When working with mesh files, there are several reasons why we may want to simply keep them as mesh bodies to prepare them for 3D printing purposes. Using a mesh body, we can do quick manipulations, such as scaling a mesh body up or down with SCALE MESH, cutting a mesh body in two with PLANE CUT, hollowing a mesh body with SHELL, and combining...