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Ronald Jones. Remembering back to the old days of Inventor, trying to create a 3D print of your model was difficult. There was file exporting, waiting, and sometimes even some profanities. The tides have changes though, with advancements in additive manufacturing and 3D printing Autodesk has included a tool in Inventor that allow us to quickly generate the mesh file we need for our 3D printers, and even send a file directly to the printer for use.
Not the American rock band. This tool is easy to find, navigating to the Environments panel we are greeted by an image of a 3D printer towards the middle of the page. Clicking on this tool launches a representation of a print bed. This tool is designed to work natively with an Autodesk Ember printer, or a number of other 3D printers. From this environment, we can now set the orientation of our part, do some direct modeling if say we need to make it a bit longer, or even insert work planes.
This is where it really gets cool, users have the ability to send this part over to Autodesk Print Studio or even Meshmixer. Users also have the ability to send this print directly to their printer.
Utilizing the Print Options tool, you can refine your mesh structure, units, and even color. With 3D printers becoming more and more affordable and cramming more technology into a smaller price tag, this new way of thinking almost sells itself.
Thinking back to my days in industry our department literally had an entire area dedicated to machines we needed to machine and manufacture prototypes. These lathes, mills, and saws could be replaced with one 3D printer that takes up a heck of a lot less space and time. Prototype creation can take hours of your time cutting chips on a mill. Errors can be caught earlier and normally cost less to revise, seeing as you only have a plastic part and not a full blown metal prototype.
From here users can use the same 3D printing tools described above. This means that a file can be created in any number of CAD packages then translated and printed using Autodesk Inventor.
Manufacturing and design is quickly evolving and changing, prototypes that use to be made out of metal and machined on a lathe or mill, are now being printed in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of their metal ancestors. Using Inventor for 3D printing allows users to design a protype in canvas from Inventor, eliminating the need for 3rd party programs and exporting Inventor files to any number of "generic" CAD formats.
Another benefit of this, is the ability to make changes quickily. Because everything is inside of Inventor a quick change to the part doesn't warrant exporting and transferring to another program.
This saves valuable time allowing the user to create a new 3D print with just a few clicks. The Future of Making Things is evolving rapidly, Inventor gives the flexibility to stay ahead of the curve. Skip to main content. Knowledge Network. To translate this article, select a language. View Original Translate. English Original X. View Original X. Ronald Jones , Sr. Solutions Engineer. Ronald Jones Sr.
Solutions Engineer contributions 98 posts 68 kudos 9 solutions 6 ideas. Inventor and 3D Printing 3D printing is quickly becoming the standard for prototyping. Prototyping Out of Plastic?
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