Autodesk Netfabb Ultimate 2020 R0

The Autodesk team is pleased to announce the availability of Netfabb 2020 is a software application tailored for additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and 3D printing.

What's New in 2020 (April 2019)

Announcements
- Autodesk PowerShape Utility for Netfabb® has been discontinued and removed from the installer.
- Autodesk Simulation Utility LT for Netfabb is no longer available in Netfabb Premium but remains included in Netfabb Ultimate.
- Simulation on the cloud has been discontinued. It is no longer available as a simulation target for Simulation Utility LT or Simulation Utility.
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Repairing and remeshing
- A new tool repairs gaps between meshes and works best for shapes with organic or smoothly curved surfaces and significant gap widths.
- Another new repair tool closes holes such that adjacent mesh curvature observed.
- A new remeshing algorithm, Manifold Remesh, is aimed at producing valid parts even from meshes with non-closed shells by giving those open shells a thickness and a closed and oriented surface.
Supports
- A new support action is available to generate latticed bar support. These scaffolding-like structures provide significant rigidity even in overhangs with undercuts as they can reach into these recesses without sacrificing support strength or requiring part-to-part support.
- For editing the density map of a part and its support, two new methods are now available in addition to the existing one with a spherical volume of effect: one to affect a cylindrical volume that automatically extends from the supported surface to the respective end on the platform or another part surface, and one where you specify the area by using brush control on the part's surface.
- Bar supports created through area-based support action can have their bottom ends split into multiple bars similar to a tree root to provide stronger buildplate attachment.
- As downskin analysis can take some based on the complexity of a part, it can now be switched from being performed automatically to be performed on demand by clicking a button.
Machine workspaces
- New machine workspaces include models by Cincinnati Inc. and Solidscape.
No-build zones
- The no-build and no-packing zones across Netfabb have been reworked and unified into one common function.
. No-build zones look the same everywhere, on regular part platforms and machine workspaces.
. Parts can be freely converted from and into no-build zones.
. Custom no-build zones (as opposed to those mandated by the build-in machine workspaces) have their own section in the project tree.
. No-build zones are observed during toolpath creation in workspaces, when moving parts to Slices, and when running packers.
Measurement
- A new circle-related measurement now measures the distance between arbitrary circle centers directly without projecting the distance onto the plane of the reference circle.
- Blueprints can now be created on custom paper sizes.
GUI
- The gizmo for moving and rotating can now be switched to always be active when at least one part is selected instead of requiring to click any of the transformation controls Move, Rotate, and Scale. Toggle this using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+G.
Slicing
- As Netfabb projects slice contours downwards to create slice volume, the first layer has always been exported empty. For the formats CLI and SLC, you now have a new switch to change this behavior so this first empty slice is omitted and the slice stacks begins with a non-empty first layer.
- A new hatch generation method calculates hatches for exposure by several lasers at once.
List labeling
- We added a dialog to List labeling where you can adjust spacing and arrangement rules for how Netfabb should place the generated part copies on the platform.
Collision detection
- When parts have attachments like supports or baseplates, these are no longer ignored during detection.
Simulation Utility
Edit Geometry on Import
- When importing part and support structure files, users now have significant control over volume fraction and homogenization options in the new Edit Geometry dialog:
Easier File Sharing
- PRM files used in a project are now saved with the related TIVUS file. This applies to both generic and custom PRM files. When you open a TIVUS file sent to you by another user, the associated PRM file is linked, and added to your PRM library, if it's not already there.
- Simulation projects can be exported in a single compressed archive file, with options to include only the setup data, or the complete setup, mesh, and result data.
New Build Plate Controls
- Instead of having the top of the build plate snapped to the bottom of the part, you can now deselect the option "Snap to minimum Z coordinate" if you want to sink parts or support structures into the build plate.
- The spatial relationship between the part and the build plate is more accurately preserved when adjusting the X or Y dimensions of the build plate. The Z dimension of the build plate can increase by expanding downward but not upward.
Animation Z Height Controls
- Controls originally provided only for Directed Energy Deposition (DED) simulations are now available for powder bed simulations as well. Users can enter a particular layer number or Z height they want to examine, in addition to the controls for time and increment number.
Advanced Toolpath Utility
- Smoke simulation: Analyze the generation of smoke during toolpath exposure and check automatically for beam obstruction to minimize negative effects from energy dispersal.
- Bookmarks: Bookmark code lines to quickly jump to them
- Separation of value and unit: Specify the unit as a separate string when defining a parameter to have more options for handling them. This is useful for localization and on-the-fly unit conversion, for example.
- Multi-window editing: Split editor windows so that you can view and edit different sections of the same code at once.
- Import and export parameter profiles: Export multiple toolpath parameter values at once and share them. Not just ATU can import these profiles, but Netfabb as well, when using an EBPA to generate toolpathing.
- Parameter profile manager: Improvements to how the parameter tree is displayed, expanded, and collapsed make working with it more fluid. You can now also search for parameters by name to find more quickly what you are looking for.
- File loading: Improvements to the GUI now show recent files, and a context menu offers useful additional functions.

About Autodesk Netfabb. Autodesk Netfabb is a software application tailored for additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and 3D printing. It prepares three-dimensional files for printing and converts them into 2.5-dimensional slice files, consisting of a list of two-dimensional slice layers. To help users prepare the print, features are available for viewing, editing, repairing, and analyzing three-dimensional STL-files or slice-based files in various formats. To perform the print preparation operations, Netfabb uses an STL file format to create a mesh of the part.

According to Netfabb, there were already 80,000 users of its products worldwide before it became a part of the Autodesk family. Since Netfabb's acquisition by Autodesk in 2015, they have continued to expand its tools and capabilities year on year and 2020 is no exception.

The 2020 Release provides easier file sharing, and improved file import controls on homogenization and volume fraction. Controls for build plate adjustment and animations are enhanced.

Netfabb is available to customers in 4 different subscription models: Netfabb Standard, Netfabb Premium, Netfabb Ultimate and Netfabb Simulation.


About Autodesk. Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world. Everyone—from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists, students and hobbyists—uses Autodesk software to unlock their creativity and solve important challenges.

Product: Autodesk Netfabb
Version: 2020 R0 Ultimate
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.netfabb.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer
Size: 1.1 Gb