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Fabrizio Cimò
Fabrizio Cimò
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Fabrizio Cimò

Fabrizio Cimò is an Italian engineer who has always had a passion for the world of 3D graphics and design. During his first degree in industrial design, he started uploading video lessons covering 3D modeling tools such as Rhinoceros, Blender, and Fusion 360 on his YouTube channel. Sometime later, Autodesk noticed his work and asked him to keep promoting Fusion 360 as an official student ambassador. During this time, he also joined Dynamis PRC, a racing team from Milano PT competing in the Formula SAE championship; thanks to this experience and his avid curiosity, he improved his knowledge of the manufacturing world. Today, Fabrizio works as a machine designer for an important company in the laser-cutting sector.
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Creating a new printing preset

All the options we are about to cover can be accessed when editing the printing profile assigned to an additive manufacturing setup. To reach the options, we just have to expand Setup1, under the design tree, and right-click on the printing profile, which in the example is called ABS 1.75mm.

Figure 17.1: Printing profile

Figure 17.1: Printing profile

In the menu, click on Edit to access all the printing settings contained inside Print Setting Editor:

Figure 17.2: Print Setting Editor

Figure 17.2: Print Setting Editor

On the left, we can find all the printing presets for the selected material (in our case, ABS 1.75mm). At the moment, there are two built-in printing presets – Normal and Strong. The main difference between the two is the density of the material interior and other minor details, such as the number of perimeters and the number of top and bottom layers.

We can duplicate a default preset to create a custom printing profile. To do this...

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Fabrizio Cimò

Fabrizio Cimò is an Italian engineer who has always had a passion for the world of 3D graphics and design. During his first degree in industrial design, he started uploading video lessons covering 3D modeling tools such as Rhinoceros, Blender, and Fusion 360 on his YouTube channel. Sometime later, Autodesk noticed his work and asked him to keep promoting Fusion 360 as an official student ambassador. During this time, he also joined Dynamis PRC, a racing team from Milano PT competing in the Formula SAE championship; thanks to this experience and his avid curiosity, he improved his knowledge of the manufacturing world. Today, Fabrizio works as a machine designer for an important company in the laser-cutting sector.
Read more about Fabrizio Cimò