Hello,
Many users asked for a more flexible tool to export STL files from Fusion 360.
3D Print Plus and 3D Print Pro are the answers to most of their requests.
Common features for 3D Print Plus and 3D Print Pro:
Extra features for 3D Print Pro:
3D Print Plus is freely available and 3D Print Pro must be purchased.
Both work on Windows and Mac. They are available on the Autodesk App Store:
Once installed, you'll find them under the TOOLS tab in the DESIGN workspace.
The blue icon is for 3D Print Plus and the red ones are for 3D Print Pro.
There is also a menu available for 3D Print Pro under the MAKE dropdown.
Click on the help button at the bottom of each dialog to access the help files.
I hope you'll find these add-ins useful. Let me know!
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
Both 3D Print Plus and 3D Print Pro support most of the common 3D print utilities:
The information below are given on the 09/11/2019. Check further messages for any updates.
3D print utilities fully supported on Windows:
Known limitations on Windows:
3D print utilities fully supported on Mac:
Known limitations on Mac:
Feel free to contact me if the software you use is not listed.
I'll do my best to add its support in 3D Print Plus and 3D Print Pro.
Note that you can add a custom utility by entering the path to its executable file.
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
New versions available:
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
What a nice surprise!
I wanted to try it out on macOS, but the installation fails. Is it trying to install something at the top level of my home directory?
Hello @GRSnyder,
I'm sorry that the installation failed. The add-in has been downloaded many times by Mac users and none of them reported this issue.
I only wrote the core application. The installers are created by people at Autodesk.
I'll try to investigate this issue further.
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
It doesn't seem to be specific to this particular plugin - I tried a couple of others and they all give the same error message.
@JeromeBriot pointed me toward this article about that error, and the first suggested solution on that page worked for me. For some reason, my Fusion 360 ApplicationPlugins directories had become owned by root, which is odd since everything around them had permissions typical for files in ~/Library.
I changed the ownerships back to myself and then everything worked fine. If anyone else has this problem, here's the command I used:
sudo chown -R myname "/Users/myname/
Library/Containers/com.autodesk.mas.fusion360/Data/Library/Application\ Support/Autodesk/ApplicationPlugins" "/Users/myname/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/ApplicationPlugins"
New version available (1.2.0):
Read the first message of this discussion for installation instructions.
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
New version available (1.3.0):
Read the first message of this discussion for installation instructions.
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
Would this (either the plus or the pro) allow me to do the following:
Have one button (or hotkey press) automatically iterate through all components in the current design and export an STL of all the bodies in that component to STL named "document-component.stl"? So if there was a document named Test and it had two components (each with multiple bodies) - Part1 and Part2 - you'd click this export and it'd output two STL files Test-Part1.stl and Test-Part2.stl
Thanks!
New version available (1.4.0):
Read the first message of this discussion for installation instructions.
3D Print Plus has been dowloaded more than 700 times around the world:
Feel free to contact me if you face any issue or if you need a missing feature.
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
@BarrettJacobsen wrote:
Would this (either the plus or the pro) allow me to do the following:
Hello,
Right click on the root component and select "Save as STL". Next choose "One File Per Body" in the dialog.
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
Thanks, but that would give me an STL per body when I want an STL per component (which may have multiple bodies, that should be in the single STL for that component).
I was able to script what I was looking for via the python scripting interface, though.
I'd like to export several bodies in one go, and bring them to my slicer (prusa slicer) as one project, but still being able to arrange them induvidually in the slicer. Is this possible?
Best regards,
Erik Karlsson
If you're using PrusaSlicer, I'd just export them all as a single STL and then use the split objects feature of Prusa Slicer - https://help.prusa3d.com/en/article/split-to-objects-parts_1751?preview=true#split-to-objects
New version available (1.5.0):
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
Hello Jerome, I am having trouble in trying to upgrade to latest version for Cura 4.6 support. Previous was working perfect with older Cura version. Your 3d Printer Plus icon is not showing up in the Tools, Make area. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and restarting Fusion several times. Any suggestions for things to check on Win10 OS?
-Dan
@dmartinS68QJ, try this:
Did you install Cura in its default folder "C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 4.6" ?
Jérôme Briot, Freelance engineer - Mechanical design and prototyping
3D Print Plus / Pro | IDF Import | GitHub To Fusion 360 | Tube Bending Data Exchanger | Slice Data Export
Memory Used | Basic Calculator | Check Computer Specifications | Import spline from any CSV file
Yes Cura is installed in default location. C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 4.6\
The .\Roaming\3DPrintPlusForFusion360 folder does not exist in my user profile. I just promoted my user id to be local admin and reran the installer. Folder still was not created.
Bonjour Jérôme,
Je n'est pas trouvé d'explication sur les règles de nommage du fichier stl.
Avec le %R% j'ai le nom du fichier, quelle lettre utiliser pour avoir le nom du body ?
Merci d'avance pour ta réponse et félicitations pour ton travail.
Bonne soirée.
Philippe