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Setting up for 3D printing

Setting up for 3D printing - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Setting up for 3D printing

- [Narrator] Creating a mold and interrupting production to test the plastic part, is not usually feasible. One of the earliest uses of additive manufacturing, was to create a 3D print of parts, to be able to do a hands-on design review. Instead of trying to keep up with all the changes that are happening in the rapidly developing world of additive manufacturing, Fusion 360 takes a slightly different approach to creating 3D prints. Focusing primarily on creating the mesh data, that will be transferred to the printer. To start the 3D print process, go to the file menu and select 3d print. You'll begin by selecting the body that you want to print. You can choose to preview a mesh, you can choose from macro level quality refinement, with low being 16,600 triangles and high being a 114,000 triangles. Let's go with medium. But let's take a look at the refinement options we have. We can set a custom surface deviation,…

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