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3D Printing with Fusion 360

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246642
Length 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Generating an additive toolpath

In the previous chapters, we covered how to create an additive setup, orient and place our parts within the build volume, and generate support structures. In this section, we will build on this knowledge and demonstrate how to generate an additive toolpath for such an additive setup.

In order to demonstrate how to generate an additive toolpath within Fusion 360, let us use the Connector-Assembly provided within the GitHub page for this chapter. This Fusion 360 document consists of three components. As you can see in Figure 11.1, the main component is named Connector. There are two additional components named Carbon Fiber Rod. Based on how the parts are assembled, the carbon fiber rods are meant to be embedded within the Connector. In order to manufacture such an assembly using traditional manufacturing methods, we would have to build the Connecter in two halves, so we can embed the carbon fiber rods. Alternatively, we would have to drill access holes...

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