3D Printing Essentials Usage Instructions

1. Select one or more components.
2. Specify the arrangement type: Same Location or Arrange in XYZ.
3. If you selected Same Location as your arrangement type, enter the Number of copies.
4. If you selected Arrange in XYZ as your arrangement type, enter the quantity in X, Y or Z and Gap between components.
5. If necessary, select the “Flip” option for X, Y or Z axis to control the sign of the axis (+ or -).
6. Press OK.

Result: New components will be created.

1. Select a component.
• If the design only has a single component Fusion will auto-select it.
• This command is limited to components with solid bodies and does not work with components with mesh or surface bodies.
2. Press OK.

Result: The selected component will be rotated such that its bounding box occupies the least amount of volume, and the shortest side of its bounding box is aligned to the global Z axis. This function is a common pre-processing step for nesting parts within the build volume of an SLS/MJF 3D printer.

1. Select one or more solid bodies as Input Bodies.
• This command is limited to solid bodies and does not work with mesh bodies.
2. If necessary, customize the various inputs that control the size and shape of the Sinterbox such as; Cage thickness, Bar width , Bar spacing as well as positive and negative XYZ offsets.
3. Press OK.

Result: A new component named “Siterbox” will be created. While creating the Sinterbox, if the Move Bodies to New Component checkbox was active, Fusion will transfer the bodies you selected as input to the newly created component and remove all empty components. This will ensure that the new component can be translated and rotated as a group and be 3D nested within the build volume of your 3D printer when using the Arrange command in the Design workspace or the Additive Arrange command in the Manufacture workspace.

1. Select a CSV file containing a list of Label text.
2. Specify a planar face on a solid body.
• This command is limited to solid bodies and does not work with mesh bodies.
3. Edit the Text position, Extrusion options, and Arrange options.
4. Press OK.

Result: New components will be created with a label. All the components will be renamed to include the label text.
This command is limited to parametric modeling and does not work in direct modeling

1. Select a solid body as input to the Body to Split.
• This command is limited to solid bodies and does not work with mesh bodies.
2. Select a Construction plane or any of the default planes within the Origin folder (XY, XZ, YZ) as an input to the Splitting plane.
3. Select your distribution type (Rectangular or Triangular) which controls the pattern for the pins and holes.
4. Enter the numerical inputs to control the shape, dimensions and placement of the pins and holes. 3 out of the 6 inputs (Hole Spacing, Pin height and Pin diameter) require a positive number and cannot be 0 mm.
5. If necessary, activate the Flip Direction checkbox to control which body will have the holes and which one will have the pins.
6. Press OK.

Result: The input body will be split into 2 bodies. The opacity of the body with the holes will be 90% by default. You can edit the opacity as well as the suffix Fusion automatically adds to the body with the pins and the body with the holes in the pins and holes tab of the settings dialog which is located in the 3D Print Panel > Settings.
This command is limited to parametric modeling and does not work in direct modeling.

1. If you are in parametric modeling mode, select whether you wish to capture design history or not while using this automation script.
2. Select one or more MESH file (STL, OBJ or 3MF) to import to the active Fusion Design.

Result: A new component will be created for each STL / OBJ mesh file and renamed to match the name of the mesh file. If you use this automation to open 3MF Files, the part names and assembly structure included in the 3MF file will be preserved. Fusion will inspect each mesh body and repair it if necessary. This automation will attempt to repair the problem mesh bodies using the “Close Holes” repair type first. If a mesh body still needs further repair, the automation will undo the previous repair action and attempt to repair the mesh body using the “Stitch and Remove” repair type. If a mesh body still needs further repair, the automation will undo the previous repair action and attempt to repair the mesh body using the “Wrap” repair type. All repaired mesh bodies and components will be renamed with a suffix “(repaired). The suffix can be customized by editing the text input located in the “Mesh Import” tab of the “Settings” dialog,. The “Settings” dialog can be accessed from the pull down options within the 3D PRINT Panel. If you are using this automation in parametric modeling and select to capture the design history while using it, the import and repair actions will be captured in timeline and grouped together. This group will also be renamed “Mesh import Automation”. This automation can be undone as a group using Fusion’s native Undo command or the keyboard shortcut CTRL + Z.