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Design for Additive Manufacturing: FDM

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Additive Manufacturing Courses 3D Printing Courses Assembly Language Courses Cura Courses

Course Description

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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