Very welcome. I have a video coming out tomorrow on the plastic design tools added and updated with some of my feedback. I will try to get it out before the afternoon.
Nice video, if you want to 3D print that shape today you have to convert it to a mesh , then you can manufacture it. In the future you won’t need to do that. That’s one of the many reasons this is a preview function as of today. Let me know if you have any other questions
Thanks for the tip Sualp! I remember seeing this previewed months ago and was excited to see it show up today! I hope it continues to evolve! I like the solidify slider option to make it easier for powder/resin to drain if needed.
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign if you want to edit a volumetric lattice, find the body that you have applied the lattice to in the browser right click and then you will see a new edit volumetric lattice button
Lightweighting. better control on what happens inside a 3d printed part. Most print slicers will create infill. If you can create it you can control the structure better and still save weight and print time.
I can generate lattice structure using volmetric lattice in Fusion 360; however, I couldn't render any lattice in Fusion 360. Do you know how to do it? Thanks
The lattice in Fusion is a graphic until you convert it to a mesh. When its a mesh it maintains the external main body as part of the feature. If you just show the mesh result you can render it BUT you are dealing with a mesh body now. While rendering typically uses a mesh to calculate the light/reflections, rendering a mesh might be less than ideal unfortunately. BUT you should be able to convert the graphical vol lattice into the mesh body by right clicking on it, then render that.
Great video, really wish I can do this volumetric lattice feature and generative design in an open source software like bender or freecad. If anyone know pls do tell
Hi Hollee, actual generative design and volumetric lattice is not in blender or any free cad program that I know of. Fusion is probably the cheapest for true Generative Design, but still the cost of the commercial license plus $35/solve. I did a video making a lattice in Blender based off a workflow created by Roman R. But in order to make that lattice work it is a lot of manual steps. If i find something you can be sure I will make a video :)
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Well actually a software that also does generative design is NTolopology, but it's way more expensive than fusion. It also let's you deal with lattices and mesh optimisation in a pretty neat way (similar to blender geometric nodes). great showcase Matt, as always, fantastic work
Yes NTopology is well outside of the open source realm:) I think it was close to $10k a year last I checked. I haven't looked recently to see if Rhino offers any lattice tools now. Autodesk has other tools that allow it but they cost a good bit more. The tools are slowly coming into Fusion 360, but I did notice this seems to be destructive in Fusion right now. The original body isn't maintained. So I don't know if the lattice is just graphics at the moment but no new timeline features showed up. I need to play with it a bit to better get the workflow down.
In the beginning I was recommending fusion 360 for everyone, now I'm getting a bit upset with the tool, since you need to purchase a lot of individual licenses/credits to use the full functionality of the software. It can became insanely expensive!!!!
It is true Guilherme that if you buy everything but we do have to level set the other tools on the market. Most CAD packages don't have Generative Design, so to pay $35/solve is much more efficient for the occasional user than $10k a year for other solutions. As of right now it is the most cost effective Gen Design solution I am aware of. So $400/year plus $35/solve or you can buy unlimited solves(which cost a good bit, but can really pay for itself if that is what you use). PCB creation in Fusion 360 is a tough one. There are free and cheap tools out there but the professional grade tools that are going into Fusion 360 from Eagle offer a great value. If you were to buy Eagle or Altium as a stand alone option it is expensive. Simulation is another area. I know the hobby license is a bit limited but very basic simulation in say Solidworks requires you to have the upper license which I believe is over $8000 plus $1500/year. On top of that to get the simulation package with eCAD sim, and flow, motion studies etc you are adding a lot on top of that price. I think where Fusion has sort of made a mistake is offering so much for so long at a free or very low price that now people are upset having to pay more for what they consider basic tools. Lattice creation if you were to buy Netfabb with Fusion 360 its almost $5000/year. From a business perspective not a lot of people need Netfabb, but Autodesk can't include everything from their more expensive full suite solutions into Fusion 360. So Netfabb mesh to CAD conversion, lattice creation and probably other mesh tools are showing up in part. Do I think it's worth the $400 just for the product design tools as they stand today? Probably not unless you waste a lot of time modeling bosses and snap latches and need volumetric lattice. Just remember to consider the other options on the market, their cost, functionality and restrictions. I don't know if you were a solidworks user but when they decided to take away their free 2d autocad clone and begin charging $400/year everyone got really upset. I would say for the same price fusion holds a lot of value! Just my opinion so take it for whatever that is worth :)
Sorry Kiran but the lattice created is a mesh body and unfortunately mesh bodies can't be substituted for a simulation mesh body. You can convert the mesh to a faceted solid body but that would be hard on the simulation solver.
