Design for Additive Manufacturing: FDM
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Use design for manufacturing concepts to optimize your parts for 3D printing with fused
deposition modeling (FDM) technology.
deposition modeling (FDM) technology.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you need to know
- Using the exercise files
- Design for manufacturing
- What is FDM?
- Thermoplastics
- CAD vs. CAM
- CAM basics in Cura
- CAM basics in MakerBot Print
- Using third-party GCode Viewer
- Exploring build plate surfaces
- Exploring build plate adhesion
- Understanding overhangs and support
- Creating supportless designs
- 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
- Support material and build plate adhesion
- Shells, infill, top, and bottom layers
- Small details
- Support material and rafts
- Line width and wall thickness
- Shells, infill, roofs, and floors
- Designing assemblies
- Print in place strategies
- 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
- Next steps
Taught by
Kacie Hultgren
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