3D Printing
Week 7 (Tutorial) For our first tutorial lesson in week 7, we learned more in-depth about 3D printing. We had previously gone through the basics of 3D printing in the previous semester. Background Information 3D printing is a form of Additive Manufacturing (AM), where a physical object or part is created from a 3D digital model file by adding and laying down successive thin layers of material upon one another. 3D printing allows us to create objects that cannot be normally created using subtractive manufacturing. Workflow in 3D Printing 1. Creating a printable 3D Design in Fusion 360 Firstly, we have to create a 3D digital model file in a 3D modelling software. For example, Fusion 360 is a Computer-aided Drafting and Drawing (CADD) software that allows us to sketch and design physical components. 2. Converting the 3D design into a 3D representable file (STL or 3MF) These are the common input file types for 3D printers. This step can be done by exporting the 3D digital model file as an