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Design for Additive Manufacturing: FDM

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Overview

Use design for manufacturing concepts to optimize your parts for 3D printing with fused
deposition modeling (FDM) technology.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you need to know
  • Using the exercise files
1. FDM Basics
  • Design for manufacturing
  • What is FDM?
  • Thermoplastics
2. CAD and CAM
  • CAD vs. CAM
  • CAM basics in Cura
  • CAM basics in MakerBot Print
  • Using third-party GCode Viewer
3. Bases and Supports
  • Exploring build plate surfaces
  • Exploring build plate adhesion
  • Understanding overhangs and support
  • Creating supportless designs
4. Features and Options
  • The body of a 3D print
  • Optimizing line width
  • Understanding layer height and resolution
  • Creating small details
  • Achieving accuracy and fit
  • Planning for strength and flexibility
  • Exploring color options
5. Optimizing with Cura
  • Support material and build plate adhesion
  • Shells, infill, top, and bottom layers
  • Small details
6. Optimizing with MakerBot
  • Support material and rafts
  • Line width and wall thickness
  • Shells, infill, roofs, and floors
7. Assemblies
  • Designing assemblies
  • Print in place strategies
8. Design a Hinged Box
  • Setting up your project
  • Sketching the box
  • Navigation basics
  • Modeling the box
  • Sketching the hinge
  • Modeling the hinge
  • Separating the knuckles
  • Creating components and assembling a joint
  • 3D printing with Cura
  • 3D printing with MakerBot Print
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Kacie Hultgren

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