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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

Print settings and creating an additive setup

We can utilize the Print Settings library to find and download the latest print settings available from Autodesk for all types of 3D printers, just as we used the web-based Machine Library in the previous section. Autodesk hosts the Print Settings library for Fusion 360 at https://cam.autodesk.com/printsettingslist. After launching the web page, we can use the search bar to find the print settings we are looking for or use the filters for 3D printing technology and machine vendor to narrow down the extensive list of print settings available on this web page. Once we find the print setting we need, as shown in Figure 7.15, we can simply download it to our computer using the Download button:

Figure 7.15 – Fusion 360’s Print Settings library on the web

We can also access the entire Print Settings library of Fusion 360 during an additive setup creation. After selecting our machine, as we did in the...

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