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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Support Structures

Welcome to Chapter 10. In this chapter, we will learn all about how to generate and slice support structures for fused filament fabrication (FFF), stereolithography (SLA), and digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing.

Most mainstream additive manufacturing technologies (except for binder jetting, selective laser sintering, and multi-axis deposition) require support structures to be generated and printed for sections of components that have large overhanging surfaces. In this chapter, we will highlight the bar and volume support structures, which can be used for both FFF and SLA/DLP 3D printing.

Almost everything we will learn in this chapter also applies to generating support structures for parts to be printed with metal powder bed fusion (MPBF) printers, but we will dive deeper into positioning parts and generating support structures for the MPBF process in Chapter 12. As the MPBF technology is capable of printing parts and support structures with higher...