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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Setting up a process simulation

In this section, we will demonstrate how to create a metal additive manufacturing setup using a powder bed fusion printer and initiate a process simulation, in order to analyze the deformation a part will experience during the 3D-printing process.

In order to demonstrate this functionality, we will use the Fusion document named L Brackets, as shown in Figure 13.1. This model consists of three components with varying overhang angles. Component1 has an overhang angle of 0 degrees, Component2 has an overhang angle of 15 degrees, and Component3 has an overhang angle of 30 degrees.

Figure 13.1 – Three components with various overhang angles

After changing the Fusion workspace from DESIGN to MANUFACTURE, we can create an additive setup using a Renishaw AM 250 machine from Fusion’s machine library. In this setup, we will select the RenAM250 Titanium Ti6Al4V-1123-Q 60 micron print setting, as shown in Figure 13...