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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Exporting mesh files or sending models to your slicer

Transferring a model from Fusion 360 to a third-party slicer from the design workspace has a very similar workflow to tessellating models. Instead of using the MESH tab to tessellate the model, we can simply use the 3D PRINT command located within the UTILITY tab of the MAKE panel. The 3D PRINT dialog allows us to choose a single object to be exported out of Fusion 360. That selection could be a solid body, a surface body or a mesh body, or a component containing one or more of those bodies.

Exporting models directly to third-party slicers

As shown in Figure 5.8, by selecting a body and choosing the relevant refinement options, we can preview the mesh outcome within the 3D PRINT dialog. Just like in the TESSELLATE command, we can edit Refinement Options to get the desired quality out of our export process.

The 3D PRINT dialog has several unique options, which we will cover next. The first one is the Format dropdown. Using...