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It would be nice to be able to run a 3D print checker that would highlight problem areas for 3D printing. This could be a new subsection of "Analysis" that you could toggle on/off the highlight problem areas as you choose to change or accept them.
I had an idea that got archived for that but it makes so much sense and would cover things like this, moldability, machinability, etc.
I'm sure somebody on the team has done PCB design or ASIC layout. It's incredibly useful.
It'd be great also to be able to say «I'm using Shapeways laser sintered plastic» when you start a design, and then have all of the tools adapt by adding snaps to make anything you design consistent with the design rules (even better still if we could change the process later on and have everything adjust accordingly).
You're right, the method of 3D printing (or injection molding, or lost wax investment casting, or CNC machinging etc. etc.) really effects the rules or guidelines a checker would use to validate that a design is compatible with fabrication method. I can imagine that you could select the design rule verification under "Analysis" and edit the fabrication method at any time which would in turn change the highlighted problem areas on the model.
For an app that integrates 3D printing as tightly as Fusion 360 this is really a must have.
I can do that in Geomagic Design and I am purposely not comparing F360 here with another often named high dollar tool, but with a software in a roughly comparable price spectrum. This is the direct competition 😉
Geomagice Design was formerly Alibre Design before it was bought by 3D Systems, one of the leading mnufacturers of Industrial 3D printers.
I'm not Brian but I have a lot of thoughts and could write for days on the subject.
The lowest hanging fruit is an improved draft analysis. That'd help with FDM, SLA, DLP, CNC, injection molding, and metal stamping. Specify the substrate and orientation (or splitting plane) and technology / design rules. In the case of FDM, you care about overhangs so on the top any draft angle is fine but on the bottom there are limits. You can have small unsupported overhangs (say text protruding 1mm from the body) but if you try making a bridge and you probably need support. Just detecting when you'd need support and offering simple fixes would make things a lot better.
For molded parts, identifying undercuts would also be huge. There are lots of cases where a very small design change can take you from a complex multipart mold with picks and inserts and mechanisms to a two part mold (much cheaper and easier to automate with significantly shorter cycle time).
A huge thing for me is thickness and separation. What is the smallest feature that a given technology can reasonably reproduce ? Can it make 0.1mm thick walls ? Can it put two walls 0.1mm apart without them joining ? Can a given hole or gap be produced ? Will a printed gear be free moving ?
Another big thing is warping. If you're cutting metal or wood that's not (generally) a huge deal, but if you're making an FDM print or even doing DMLS (or really most technologies), nonuniform shrinkage is going to leave you with things that bend. There are work arounds for that but it'd be nice to say «this long, thin, flat thing is probably going to curl if you print or mold it with anything with a nontrivial thermal expansion coefficient».
If a molded part is too thick or doesn't have uniform (or at least gradually changing) walls good stress relief, you'll end up with sinking and warping.
Better still - how much warping can we expect and what differences can we expect between the designed dimensions and the manufactured dimensions (especially for separation of things that need a particular distance and relative orientation between them).
For stamped metal and molded parts, bend radii are important. It's probably easy to stamp a curve with a radius of 10x the sheet thickness, but if you try putting one in with a radius of 0.1x the thickness, you'll almost certainly have problems.
