Take a look into the future of additive manufacturing. Find out about how design and manufacturing challenges are changing as additive manufacturing becomes more accessible.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the most disruptive and fastest-evolving manufacturing technologies available. How will you be prepared to take advantage of its benefits and adopt your 3D printing investments to where the industry is moving? Join the "Future of Additive Manufacturing" talk to learn about where AM is heading with new capabilities like generative design; how and why the software, materials, and machines that drive the industry are speeding adoption; and why all manufacturers and engineers should seriously consider AM as a viable, powerful, and unique alternative to traditional manufacturing techniques.

This session will discuss and demonstrate how design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), generative design, and integrated CAM functionality within Fusion 360 software can help businesses optimally capitalize on additive manufacturing (AM), and where opportunities often exist to apply this strategy. In considering requirements, we will briefly review technical AM hardware on the marketplace and how complimentary software including Fusion 360 and Netfabb software can integrate into AM workflows to enable businesses to break down barriers to digital manufacturing. Providing insights into the functional and collaborative tools and technologies available across CAD and AM, as well as opportunities for 3D printing, we’ll explore some best practices that you could follow as you explore opportunities for applying additive manufacturing strategies.

Additive Manufacturing is increasingly common in product design and manufacturing, and companies that effectively adopt additive manufacturing develop an understanding of its uses and limitations. Markforged is revolutionizing additive manufacturing with cost-effective metal and composite additive technologies. In conjunction with Autodesk's Generative Design tools, the technology can be used to create designs performance-optimized for their applications and manufactured easily with additive. In this class, learn how to bridge the gap between the two powerful design and manufacturing technologies. we'll go through practical workflows for using Generative Design in conjunction with Additive Manufacturing to get parts that meet the performance requirements of your applications.

Come to an overview of the current state of additive manufacturing (3D printing), and see how manufacturers are using the key benefits of the technology to design products differently. This session will also provide insight into the various Autodesk technologies that help users exploit additive manufacturing.

This class will describe the workflows that Optomec uses to translate CAD designs into printed features on existing parts or surfaces. We will cover specific additive-manufacturing challenges that are related to Aerosol Jet printing and how we have used Autodesk, Inc., packages to address our needs. We will further explore the subtle differences between additive and subtractive manufacturing and how Autodesk has worked to address the philosophical differences in an easy-to-understand way. Attendees will develop a deeper knowledge of the use of Autodesk products for additive manufacturing and how they can be adapted to suit their specific additive requirements. Attendees will also learn about the differences between additive and subtractive methodologies and how they apply to CAD and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) development as a whole. This session features AutoCAD and FeatureCAM.

Additive manufacturing doesn’t have to be complex. Autodesk Netfabb is the right tool to reduce the complexity and streamline your AM workflow. This presentation will cover the end-to-end workflow of the additive manufacturing process using Netfabb and Simulation Utility. We’ll focus on the most challenging AM process, DMLS, in this presentation. The aim of the presentation is to show how Autodesk Netfabb will help you make the most of additive manufacturing starting from a CAD model all the way to build preparation and simulation build results.

With the release of Inventor 2023 software, users can now send their CAD data directly from Inventor to Autodesk Fusion 360 software. This opens a host of new capabilities for Inventor users in generative design, simulation, and subtractive and additive manufacturing. This presentation will demonstrate, through compelling customer case studies, how Inventor users can now take advantage of this workflow to explore the benefits of using metal additive manufacturing to manufacture their products. Metal additive and hybrid manufacturing can offer tangible advantages in product performance due to the design freedoms the process enables, manufacturing sustainability, supply lead time, and component cost. In addition, the advances in accessible hardware and software is making this technology feasible for nearly all industrial sectors. With the connection from Inventor to Autodesk Fusion 360, you can now learn how these advantages in metal additive manufacturing can also benefit your business today.

Desktop-scale 3D printing has become ubiquitous in many industries today. As this growth continues, the demand for ever-larger printed parts has increased exponentially. The move to large-format additive manufacturing (AM[ad1] ) is not as simple as just scaling up. Large-format AM delivers a whole new set of challenges not widely understood by the average designer or engineer. In this class, we will demonstrate how to create 3D-printing toolpaths in Fusion 360 software for both typical desktop-scale 3D prints, and large-scale robot-based printing using the new Fusion 360 robot post processor. We will compare and contrast these two workflows and discuss the additional strategies necessary for successful large-format AM. To close the class, we will summarize the three major categories of difficulties faced and how to mitigate them when moving into large-format additive: access to software tools and simulation solutions; process physics and material properties; and machine selection and equipment.

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is one of the most predominantly used additive manufacturing (AM) technologies today, producing functional metallic parts in several industries such as aerospace, medical, and automotive. As an emerging and complex technology, the manufacturing design guidelines and rules of LPBF along with its impact on sustainability are not well understood. This session builds off design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) principles as they apply to specific process parameters and machine dynamics defined in LPBF. These include recoater blade interference, support structure, and part distortion. This session also provides insight into the impact of AM on sustainability, as well as highlighting key design considerations to improving the implications on sustainability. With these considerations in mind, the session will explore how a user can implement design variables into their workflow using Autodesk Netfabb and its Simulation Utility.

Learn how to kickstart your design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) process by using Fusion Lifecycle software for rapid innovation and concurrent design. Conventional design methodologies tend to be linear with siloed functional groups relegated to their respective touchpoints in the design development lifecycle. The complexities and nuances of DfAM require a modern and flexible approach that facilitates additive manufacturing’s unique design space and value proposition. With an emphasis on exploring divergent and creative thinking, we will examine how Fusion Lifecycle can manage innovative design development for DfAM and become the foundation of a digital product thread.

The additive manufacturing (AM) industry continues to grow, doubling in size roughly every five years. With this also comes an increasing environmental footprint. AM holds many promised environmental benefits. From lightweight parts for electric vehicles and reduced material consumption through optimized designs and flexible localized production, there’s no shortage of potential. However, many caveats remain. How do you print parts that perform better and last longer? Is the lightest part necessarily the most sustainable? How can we design not just for the printing process, but also for post processing, shipping, and the entire product lifecycle? In this class, we’ll look at design technology and case studies that will provide insight into these questions. We’ll also cover how you can start putting these technologies and workflows into practice to turn promised sustainability ideas into reality—while avoiding common pitfalls.

Additive manufacturing (AM), better known as 3D printing, is disrupting the manufacturing industry. Its capabilities and build processes make additive technologies ideal for applications such as light-weighting and component consolidation. In order to fully capitalize on the awesome power of AM, an understanding of the technology and its limitations is crucial. However, this is not a natural skill for most designers and engineers. Since AM is so new and different from traditional manufacturing, it comes with a completely different set of design considerations. When properly understood and applied, design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) can vastly improve printing times and it results in higher-quality parts. This class will focus on general design practices that apply to all types of AM, including metal (SLM) and polymer materials. Lab dataset is available at https://autode.sk/3pCQ0xQ

Autodesk Netfabb is the right tool to reduce the complexity and streamline your AM workflow. This hands-on session will cover the end-to-end workflow of the additive manufacturing process using Netfabb and Simulation Utility. We’ll focus on the most challenging AM process, DMLS, in this session. The aim of the hands-on session is to show how Autodesk Netfabb will help you make the most of additive manufacturing starting from a CAD model all the way to build preparation and acquiring simulation build results.

As additive manufacturing (AM) gains greater industrial exposure, there's a drive toward defining practical, high-value processes and products. Defining viable business cases is critical to ensure successful technology adoption. Focusing on the marine industry and using a "propeller" as a familiar marine object for a case study, we'll explore 4 different design/manufacturing iterations aimed at highlighting the opportunities that AM offers. By fabricating these 4 components with wire and arc additive, a considerable portion of the process chain will be revealed from both hardware and software perspectives. We'll be exploring the designs and investigating design features facilitated by AM; looking at preparing these components for manufacture; seeing how these components are built considering the distortion and stress, geometric fidelity, and thermal management; and, finally, looking at post-processing techniques to bring these components to final form.

This session will highlight the key challenges facing additive manufacturers. The machines and materials for 3D printing are expensive, and the process is slow in comparison to moulding or casting. By carefully selecting parts that are suitable for printing, and optimising parts for maximum strength and minimum weight, additive manufacturers can succeed by making unique parts that cannot be made any other way.

This hands-on class will look at advanced manufacturing workflows by additive manufacturing within Fusion 360 software. Within the additive manufacturing workspace, Fusion 360 lets the users design and then manufacture their parts additively, either via powder bed or fused filament fabrication. Metal powder-bed manufacture (for example, SLM or DMLS) is a relatively new addition to Fusion 360, with fused filament fabrication being newer still. Hence, to many Fusion 360 users, the workflows may seem undefined. This class will take the audience on a journey to clarify these workflows. This journey will move from initial generatively designed part design, involving design for both types of additive manufacturing, right through to the final printing of the part—drawing on customer projects as examples. This class will conclude by teaching you how to combine powder bed and fused filament fabrication to work in tandem, enabling an extremely effective and powerful project workflow.

Autodesk has historically developed software and provided consulting services for metal additively manufactured (AM) lattice-type structures. Common powder-bed processes include SLM (Selective Laser Melting) / DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering), and EBM (Electron Beam Melting). When considering real-life applications of these structures, many assumptions are made about the characteristics of the manufactured material. Among others, these include strength, elastic moduli, thermal properties, material density, surface finish, and structural stability. These characteristics are affected by many factors, including machine parameters, build orientation, and feature size. This session features Autodesk Explicit Solver, Nastran, Netfabb, Within.

This seminar will cover design for digital manufacturing (DfDM) with a focus on additive manufacturing (DfAM). Capitalizing on the learnings from more than 1,000 projects posted on the You3Dit marketplace, we’ll walk our attendees through a DfAM process for translating customer needs into a design optimized for additive manufacturing, enabling performance, process, and product breakthroughs. We will describe high-level DfDM implications for common digital manufacturing tools, such as laser cutters, computer numerical control (CNC) machines, waterjet, and more. We will describe the overall DfDM process in the context of Fusion 360 software and how that workflow is optimized to support DfAM and other digital manufacturing technologies. Lastly, as a group we’ll create a set of design rules related to a new and powerful manufacturing process: “X.” The class will last 60 minutes, including 15 minutes at the end for questions and answers.