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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Arranging Components Automatically

Before utilizing 3D printing, companies often compare the cost per part against traditional manufacturing methods such as injection molding or CNC machining. When evaluating 3D printing versus injection molding for producing plastic parts, the economies of scale are on the side of 3D printing for prototyping and small production runs. It will generally be cheaper to 3D print a single component than injection-molding it. However, in small batch production, in order to decrease the per part cost of a given component, it is better practice to effectively 3D arrange parts within the build volume of capable hardware such as SLS and MJF 3D printers.

To arrange components within the build volume of a plastic powder bed printer, Fusion 360 offers two workflows. The first workflow can be accessed within the DESIGN workspace. The ARRANGE command located in the SOLID tab’s MODIFY panel shown in Figure 8.20 allows us to select one or more components...