SIMULATION in FUSION 360: IMPROVE the STRENGTH of your 3D prints!

Learn how to use Finite Element Simulation in Fusion 360 to optimize the strength of your parts!
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[@danko6582]

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[@witgangyounotube287]

yeah and you will see this video recommended over and over instead of newer video's from same channel:/ i've watched this channel for a long time yet this video only now popped up in the side list after watching some other 3d print related stuff..also on my youtube recommandation page are only video's i've watched or a good 90% of them..epic fail..

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[@lukeandliz]

​@@mRcOOL5YO the benefit is 3 years later, you forget you saw the video and get to watch it again🤣

[@3DPrintingNerd]

Very informative! Thank you very much for this, Stefan!

[@nobocks]

better than your shit channel especially you are full time on it !

[@103798]

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[@Anonymouspock]

LOL it's not that he's drunk, it's some actual medical condition as he's mentioned in some Q&A.

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Nobock really!!! I bet you are fun at parties, oh wait you don't get invited.

[@nobocks]

Don't attack this guy in person, just his content, thank you !

[@doxielain2231]

Pity fusion 360 took away simulation from the hobbyist version.

[@mirzacenanovic]

Love to see proper engineering applied to design! As you have pointed out, the MAIN introduction of error in the approximation is the assumption about the boundary conditions and of course material properties, PLA under load behaves highly non-linear and, as pointed out, the FDM technology causes the resulting material to behave anisotropically. This means that these tools cannot and should not be used for analyzing absolute stress distribution or decision making due to absolute stresses. That said, comparative studies can be carried out. Your discussions about proper boundary conditions are superb! Keep up the good work! The makers world needs more high quality videos like this.

[@FBPrepping]

Border conditions can be assessed by destructive testing, while taking in account and adding to the database the conditions the 3d printed part was made. Although that testing is not made under any industry standard, it is valuable data though, because it considers the worst case, real life scenario.

[@adamluter]

CNC Kitchen continues to grow and blossom! Excellent video, you are a real hero of the community!

[@user-qx7tm5df8j]

10 sekunden das video geguckt > nachgeschaut wo der channel ist > deutschland > wusste ichs doch :D

[@Deqster]

Adding a very minor relief cut on the back surface of the bracket near the bottom screw would allow you to create a small constraint surface just at the bottom corner. This would prevent unrealistic results due to constraining the entire surface.

[@CNCKitchen]

True!

[@Deqster]

@@CNCKitchen love your channel by the way, especially your methodical but garage-doable testing regiments! Also your video on heat resistance testing of various materials led me to be able to powder coat PLA! More on that another time

[@flubba86]

I love playing with the stress analysis features in Fusion 360, and this was a very interesting video. But I am disappointed that the end result was "make it thicker", I was hoping you'd do some kind of automatic structural optimisation. You don't need finite state analysis to tell you that a thicker part can take higher load then the original.

[@EPortillo5000]

Well the analysis tell you where to make it thicker and where is not needed.

[@MiklaDfar]

As a previous engineer pretty familiar with FEM (ANSYS) you did an EXCELLENT job with this video. Not sure about Fusion but you could have simulated the wall with a fixed constraint to not allow movement in the -X direction on the back of the support surface. Also, you might want to include design constraints such as being able to easily mount the bracket. For instance, your design makes it very difficult to securely attach that center and bottom hole with a Phillip's screw as the bracket would impede the screwdriver. Love that fact you correlated the analysis results with actual testing.

[@CreeperInDisguise]

Ah, I love these kinds of videos, I always learn something new! Keep up the great work Stefan!

[@fataxe1]

I'd love to see Joel do a video himself where he makes simulations himself. It's always useful to have another set of eyes from a different background for design problems like this. 3d printing has been an interesting area where you don't need engineering to make things work, but learning tools from the engineering tool box can help you so much.

[@android4cg]

One of the best professional 3d printing channel on KZbin. Great!

[@deanallenjones]

Joel the 3d Printing Nerd was right to send me here. You have much to teach me

[@steelmilkjug]

Great video! You said the KEY POINT in Engineering/Design/Analytics: "If your assumptions are off, your results will be garbage".

[@joscythe556]

There's so much more to FEM than people think. I dare to say it's one of the most underestimated parts of engineering, because people assume that "pretty colorful images" guarantee accurate and realistic results. Even if you choose the right load case and boundary conditions you might still use the wrong element type or solver and get numerical artifacts without even knowing ( if you don't know what to look for).

[@EvanRisk]

When you added the friction less surface to the back of the bracket I immediately shook my head. Then you added a note all was good.

[@haythamhakla]

Im not too familiar with stress analysis, but could you explain what is the issue with the frictionless surface assumption?

[@rikdol]

@@TheGoodoftheLand The problem with commenters like yourself, is that you don't take time to listen to information in the actual video, and rather bash a comment you don't agree with. Or, in this case, defend a stupid question. Because the reason why "using a friction less surface is bad" , is given directly after he applied it in the video @9:53. Just because you don't know about a topic, doesn't mean no one does.

[@haythamhakla]

@@rikdol This is an informative video for the general public. People like myself watch an learn from it. The question I asked may sound stupid from the point of view of someone who is more familiar with the topic, but for me, it is totally reasonable. I watched the entire video and the reference @9:53 still didn't clear my confusion about this point so I was proactive and asked for clarification. If you know better, please go ahead and explain this point.

[@rikdol]

@haytham hakla a frictionless surface will be unable to move away from the wall. Earlier in the video ( @1:50, look closely to the bottom part) it shows that the part is bending. When a surface is set to be frictionless, it will be unable to move during a stresstest. So a test like this for stress and bending or warping of material under high load, won't be realistic. Another example of the part moving away from the wall is @20:00, circled in red..

[@haythamhakla]

@@rikdol Thanks for clarifying

[@alexandrevaliquette1941]

THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT I WAS HOPING FOR!!! I had to learn about stress analysis in Fusion 360 for my 3d printing designs. It will confirm my intuition before starting a print! I will be able to compare design A vs B vs C vs D and only print the two bests ones!!!! Thank you so much Stephan Alex from Québec, Canada

[@ikbendusan]

this video drove me to support you on patreon. keep it up mate

[@CNCKitchen]

Thanks, your support is highly appreciated!

[@victorforslund4047]

Great video but I have a suggestion. This is basically "euler bernoulli beam theory" By increasing the area of inertia the structural strength increases. You can test this by flexing a ruler. The side with the greater inertia is harder to flex. My suggest is that the middle support in the triangle should be flipped 90 degrees to increase its inertia. But anyways this was a great solution and a great video

[@nono9370]

Victor Forslund hard to print if you want it to remain in the middle

[@soulsbreaker]

Plastic KRCHLKFSADATCJKeck loved it jaja

[@me1ne]

They have removed this feature from the free personal license version :(

[@engineeredaf1920]

What a great video!! I'm so glad you included the lesson about the FEA constraints at the end! This has the greatest influence on the analysis results. I think normally, fixed supports for bolt holes is not a good assumption because they should allow free rotation with linear support at bolt head(Fixed support makes part artificially stiffer) But looks like your failure correlated well!

[@joetke]

OMG! Noch einmal! The German engineering excellence is not a myth! Rigorous demo. Love it. Thanks a lot Stefan! I used to work in Lahr, Germany, 50 km away from Strasbourg where I live. I did appreciate the seriousness of German engineers (IT sectors) but never understood their humor - still wondering whether it exists ;) - my German language knowledge being so wanting...

[@justincomisk]

I wonder if applying a shell to the body in the model work-space would help make it slightly more accurate for 3D print simulations.

[@CNCKitchen]

Also thought about that. Might give it a try next time.

[@Bordpie]

Some FEA software like ABAQUS can model shell elements e.g. only modelling elements on the surface of the part, and then you define the thickness with a separate parameter. That and a way to approximate part infill would be really nice in Fusion.

[@Bordpie]

Having specific shell type mesh and simulations is partly for ease of computation, and partly for accuracy. A shell mesh generally just covers the outside surface of the part, so the mesh is less complex to model the same part, or you can have a finer mesh for the same computational cost. It generalises it a bit using just a surface mesh e.g. it may assume the variation in stress between the inside and outside of the shell is negligible, which it is if the shell thickness is low compared to the size of the overall model. In FEA, it's important to make the mesh variation smooth e.g. for a given element (smallest 3D shapes in the mesh formed between mesh nodes) you don't want the difference in length of the edges to be too much, something like 1:3 (ideally it should be as close to 1 as possible) ratio between any two edges on an element, otherwise the results become quite innacurate. If you modelled the entire 3-dimensional shell, you may have small edges between the inside and outside of the model, but much longer ones on the surfaces of the objects. So in order to get an accurate simulation, all the edges would have to be similar in length to the ones passing through the shell, and that could make the mesh way more complex again, for not much gain in simulation accuracy. Kind of like in the video where Stefan mentions you should have no less than two elements over the thickness of the part in order to accurately model it with this type of mesh. I'm not sure if one element thickness is good enough for a shell assumption (I'm not an expert in FEA), but even so a very fine mesh would be required. This is basically what a shell type mesh property is for, greatly reducing the computational effort (and user effort) to make an accurate model of this type. In terms of the infill, I was only really thinking of having an internal mesh with different material properties to the surface, modelling the infill exactly would be very difficult unless it could be done in a slicer or with the G-code or something. I'm just thinking the internal mesh could have material properties which better models infill e.g. with 10% infill the Youngs modulus is only 10% for the infill (I'm not exactly sure that example is correct as again I'm not an expert in FEA but you get the idea). I suppose overall the mesh may be just as complex as these ones but I think it would be far more representative. Rather than modelling a solid part, modelling the surface to have diferent properties than the infill is essentially what I'm advocating.

[@Bordpie]

I'm assuming the elements in Fusion are solid continuum elements, since there's no way to change the element type from what I can see. The modelling feature in Fusion evidently is simplified for basic simulations and ease of use. Shell elements are solved differently to solid continuum elements and are better suited to that type of structure. Since practically all 3D prints are shell type structures, something built into Fusion which could model that type of structure accurately would be nice. I'm not an expert but have used FEA to an in depth level for a specific application. Perhaps the standard elements are suitable for that type of structure, I don't know. I do know that in ABAQUS which I have used before, there are standard continuum elements and shell continuum elements, so evidently there is a need for them. Reading into it a bit more, the shell continuum elements have a plane stress assumption, so only the stresses along the surface are measured and stresses normal to the surface are assumed to be neglible. The elements can distinguish the stress variation through the thickness of the part however, with more shell element layers giving a more accurate picture, although that's probably not very important since the shells are generally quite thin on 3D prints. I'm not sure if it would be suitable to all types of model actually. For the infill, I don't see how it would see it as an incompressible solid if the infill was represented as a mesh. If you gave the infill mesh different bulk material properties which reflected it's behaviour e.g. such as Stefans video on infill strength. With low infill settings, the lattice structure is large compared to the overall object and could be significant, but low infill doesn't affect part strength much as we all know. Also at higher infill settings, the lattice is more dense and begins to act as a continuum, so a solid mesh should be a fairly accurate model.

[@Bordpie]

In retrospect, I think I was proposing something (using a shell type mesh to possibly model a 3d printed part more accurately) which seemed to make sense at first but actually might not be correct since I'm not an expert in FEA like I've mentioned, but I have used FEA to understand how it works. Ultimately the proposal is that Autodesk adds some feature, to either fusion or another piece of software, which more accurately and efficiently models 3D printed objects. If they could make a tool which generates a mesh for the shell of the object, then generates a mesh on the inside of the part for the infill with one click and simple data e.g. shell thickness, Youngs Modulus etc. A step further would be to model the anisotropic structure of a 3D printed part i.e a 3D printed part has different strength as well as other properties depending on the direction it is printed. If they gave you a little arrow and allowed you to point it in the direction the part will be printed, then it could apply the properties to the model based on that, perhaps even structure the mesh to be in line with the layer lines of the print. You'll never be able to model a 3D printed part perfectly, but each of the things above would bring it one step closer to being accurate. You could defnitely model a 3D printed part using existing FEA software, but it would be time consuming and laborious. If someone could make something that could automate the above, that would be really useful for the 3D printing community. I guess there hasn't really been any incentive for that type of modelling until recently, since 3D printing has mostly been used for prototypes and not fully functioning parts. Maybe this software exists already although I hope it's not behind a high paywall.

[@ChernaTom]

Amazing video! But how would you screw in that last hole? xD

[@CNCKitchen]

😅 I should maybe update the design a little.

[@MT-em8mg]

I am just wondering about the material and process data due to the 3D printing process. It seems that the FEM simulations are performed with full material, but printer settings such as filling, wall thickness ,or layer height are not considered. In this case, why do the simulation results roughly match the test results? Thank you very much for your help!

Dude, you are very creative, and your tests and information is invaluable... But I am really appalled that you do so much for advocating lock-in oriented proprietary software with closed formats instead of open-source software. As an example, FreeCAD is a good open source solid parametric 3D CAD and also has an excellent finite elements workbench that you could use to make exactly that same type of analysis you did in your video -- yes, even in the remote year of 2018. And it is not the only one, Salome Platform is another one which is solely dedicated to that and used in universities all around the world.

[@petersnape1537]

Stefan, Very nice video. You certainly improved on the original design and taught us all a few things about the finite analysis package. However I would like to point out that the original testing concept was flawed in order to simplify the testing. The final loading of the brackets was to occur with weights more or less equally placed on the front and rear rails. Consequently this would place greater shear forces on the top inner corner of the bracket. I suggest that under these conditions the only point to fail in the bracket will be that same top left corner. and I also presume that the ultimate load would be less than half of the loads that you measured (probably a lot less). This mode of loading could be readily tested by placing a light weight cylinder on top of two wooden blocks in the place of the rails and then loading the cylinder using the same strap tensioner. The finite element simulation should also be changed to involve the two weights (and don't forget the small twisting force due to the filament spools forcing the wooden rails apart).

[@CalebDiT]

Oooh, you got some o' that stronger, yellow filament! Nice! If it's possible in Fusion 360, make sure your fillets are curvature continuous, otherwise there might be imperceptible discontinuities that can be treated like cracks. Another important thing to consider is controlling the failures. If a failure at spot X would be dangerous, but a failure at spot Y would be safe, make sure there's a higher probability of failure at Y.

[@MrTigerpirro]

+CNC Kitchen I would like to see you try adding a thin section in the middle (like an I beam) with strengthened "cutouts" for the screws instead of thickening the material. If you print from the base and up this should avoid having to add support material.

[@lezorn]

19:00 Bless you

[@MixedGears]

Hehe, funny enough I just printed two designs in exactly yellow plastika Trček.

[@josiahong5177]

Noice, but, fusion 360 personal no longer can do this. I think

[@WayofWood]

Very interesting topic and well done video!

[@demacherius1]

Now that was a useful lunchtime at work. I now need to find a use for my new knolege

[@OiDepp]

Ich weis nicht was besser ist - der Inhalt, oder die Machart und die Umsetzung der Videos. Ich denke, weil hier alles in jeder Hinsicht perfekt ist :) i love it, you get a Hug & a Kiss :D

[@jimster1111]

this video hasnt aged well lol. unless you can afford the licence now

[@YG-we7cl]

You should try reinforcing a bracket with carbon fiber tow! Like this : www.thingiverse.com/thing:985864 I'd love to see a good video on that! I have some epoxy and carbon tow waiting but didn't had the time to create a test piece with proper channels so far. Seeing how a bracket with channels for carbon tow is made in fusion would be a nice video subject too!

[@toastrecon]

It would be awesome if (assuming they haven't done this already) they could simulate the FDM part using their own slicer. Design part -> Slice -> generate GCode -> import theoretical FDM part with infill properties -> do FEA analysis. Bonus if this is automatic somehow!

[@fraserdaniel3999]

In my limited knowledge, I have learnt that different printing parameters change the properties of the final part. Does the simulation take all of that into account?

[@shilohkirby]

Finally I can validate putting an i9 in my computer by running stress simulations

[@johnschindler9641]

Hold that thought! Autodesk says Starting on September 6, 2022: The ability to run simulation studies on a local computer will no longer be an option for simulation solving. All simulation study types within the simulation workspace of Fusion 360 will only have the cloud-solving option. And it will probably be a lot slower than an i9.

[@IBMClynes]

Stephen you make an excellent instructor knock off the suicide attempts with the bracket testing.😁

[@felixd1127]

Hey Stefan, druck dir doch mal zuerst einen .... Messequipment-Schutzhelm 😁

[@CNCKitchen]

Da hast du vollkommen Recht!

[@eccomi21]

und ich sitz hier und reg mich derbe ueber cloud credits auf

[@FUKYFILM]

Nice video. But it would be more interesting, if you would have the different orientation of model when printing. 3D prints actually behaves like composites, but FEM simulation in Fusion does not take that into account. It is like cherrypicking the easiest possible design. But in real world, you have to take the delayerazitation into account

[@TORDesign]

How do you locally solve the buckling analysis like in your video? Because mine wont do it and Autodesk help says,"Note: Local solving is supported for Static Stress, Modal Frequencies, Thermal, and Thermal Stress analyses. All other simulation types must be solved in the cloud"

[@Duci1989]

He says that in the video as well.

[@joiseystud]

Could you just add a reaction force to the back of the bracket?

[@jacksonpat6624]

wow ive never seen a video of yours before at least 1,000 vies!! great video!!

[@CNCKitchen]

Just hit the bell icon and you will be reminded of new videos at the point of release 😉

[@Lonegnr]

Very tempted to make one of these shelves, but I'm noticing that using the same stated settings, Cura is giving me an estimated 40g per bracket vs the stated 67g. What could be causing such a big difference? Edit: I get an estimate of 72g per bracket at 100% infill. Edit2: Figured it out. The shared STL has incorrect dimensions. The slot for the 1in timber is only 0.7in wide. I imagine if I could resize it to the correct size (not doable on my printer), the filament use estimate would fall in line. If you want to use the STL as-provided, you'll want wood cuts that are 0.7inx2in.

[@jlg23us]

I may have missed it, but why is the dwnforce being applied to the very end of the shelf. Not really how a shelf is used. The load would be carried at the middle or more towards the wall... or at least thats how I load my shelving. I mean it could be used as a pull up bar for somepeople 😉

[@SeattleShelby]

I have to wonder about the validity of some of the FEAs considering anything made from plastic would suffer large displacements and would require Large Displacement Theory in a plastic-elastic model. Neither of these are the default options in any FEA software that I know of.

[@kiges]

Did you analyze the part considering that it was produced with 3D printing? I think you know that a 100% filled FDM part will not have the same strength as an injection molded part. Did you reflect the disadvantage of layer-by-layer production to your FEM analysis? I don't know if there is a way to do this, but maybe there is such a feature in package programs.

[@rawnomusic2542]

Can you do this with steel details? Can you choose preset material, make custom values on the material strenght?

[@dabj9546]

You should have left the middle screw further up where it was before anyway. It would help a lot with the strength just the screwing might be a little harder. Auf Wiedersehen!

[@johnesteer9537]

excellent ....i used to do some fea about 20 years ago...did not know fea available on f360..is cloud buckkling available free for 'hobby' can you constrain to simulate washers?

[@yuthokr01]

Great intro to FEA methods, going to show my high school robotics students. But I had a question - you use von Mises stress criterion, which I always thought applied to metals, but not for polymers (and certainly not anisotropic composites and non-annealed 3d printed thermoplastics with its inherent planar shear path). Does Fusion or any other basic solid modeling/FEA package feature stress criterion more appropriate for plastics?

[@dmotivate]

What bracket is that for your Titan? And did you lose 15mm from Y? Any suggestions? I am currently using it but haven't gotten it to work correctly yet due to the offset. (I would like to find a way to not lose the 15mm.

[@aldrinram]

I' thought that the Von Mises criterion is only applicable on isotropic material. So can fusion360 analyze polymer or composites(or any anisotropic material) ? By the way, it's a really nice video !

[@redpug5042]

iirc, fusion will also do generative design, where you tell it what geometry you want, and where forces will be, and it will generate an optimized structure to support it.

[@IsraelMolina1997]

The analysis is for 100% infill? How i can configure the analysis for 15% infill? Thanks for the awesome video!

[@Nevir202]

Given your failure mode, what if you changed the upper arm, such that you used a significantly longer screw, which went into that upper arm, with the head of the screw ending up 25mm or more away from the wall? Having a steel rod present there would help with any buckling and having the support directly in line with the tension force would make pulling it away from the wall much harder.

[@MrHuggaga]

so now to do anisotropic simulation then? does fusion support it at all or will i have to use a dedicated FEA-program for this? I mean, the ones included in Fuison, Inventor or CATIA are way simpler to use than ansys for example, so it would be nice if i can do it in the CAD program...

[@hammerfallen12345]

Hi! Is there a program for checking strenght on a 3 model? Where we are now with 3d printer program and Cad program i think we should had develope a program for this. Maybe there is already one that come with more expensive cad program. But there should be one free that are for plastic material by now

[@edwarddejong8025]

Optimizing for 3D printing is going to be very big in the future, as we start to make more and more parts using 3D printing, the ability to get a stronger part at the same weight is going to be crucial, and we will need clever tools to iterate the designs. The organic optimizing tools i have seen often leave fragile brace members and thus are not usable in real life. The optimization has to take into account fragility. Buckminster Fuller theorized that using his octet truss to make octet trusses would yield an almost infinite strength to weight ratio, but each support member of the braces gets thinner and more fragile, and thus the structure would collapse like a house of cards.

[@RichardRecupero]

What's more nuts is we fly in planes that prob were built before this tech was available.

[@Fenlandia]

I wouldn't call the results worthless but I get your point on those assumptions!

[@genome692002]

this needs a new video to verify the simulation.. as we don't want to do all that simulation for nothing...

[@danko6582]

This finite element analysis simulation assumes the material properties are isotropic and structurally homogeneous. You'd need to model layer alignment, layer delamination, and shell and infill to be accurate and that would require huge processing power.

[@TechnologistAtWork]

I don't understand how increasing thickness and shifting stuff around would help. Adding more segments to cover gaps is the only good solution. Bridges are pretty good demonstration of that. Just don't leave long segments running far without support.

[@gustavomanuelreanopulache5314]

Free question, it is possible to simulate the gcode generated by 3d printing to check if the grid type is the most acceptable. Thank you greetings from Peru

[@ethirion3534]

would have made that in carbon fiber with a printed mould. if you include complete strands of carbonfiber you will get up to aluminium. just without the ductile deformation

[@Handsy_McGee]

Couldn't you also change the cross section of the bottom member, say to a slight oblique triangle? That should reduce buckling and torsion quite a bit with less material

[@TheRealStructurer]

I hope that since this was posted the functionality is still around in the free version. I’ll will try this on a hook I’m making 👍🏻

[@superme63]

While the design programs are extremely capable, they are far too difficult for novices.

[@tparty22]

Nice sofware presentation, however the trick is to save material and gain the strenght at the same time. For this solution I wouldn't need the software, just my common sense.

[@davidewing9088]

Isn't Fusion 360 eliminating the static simulation feature from the personal license?

[@Sensaatioko86]

It doesnt let you solve on your computer, because it checks is it a free or pro version of fusion. And when its hobby version, you cant use those tools.

[@muchmore344]

Von Misis is not usefull if you are use laminated materials. One has to look at positiv normal stress in the orientation of the layers. This shows were delamination will ocur.

[@tarekt.4008]

Super Video 😁👍🏼 Dein letztes Video mit der Typografie-Analyse hat mir echt geholfen für mein Druck.

[@lukasskymuh5910]

Topologie 😊

[@tarekt.4008]

Hehe ja Autokorrektur hat zugeschlagen 😅

[@ryanbabros7981]

The final middle hole location would reduce stress in that area, but would increase stress in my life when mounting it to the wall haha

[@neelbien]

the free version has the modelling greyed out, has this been changed from the version you used?

[@1q1q1q1q1q1q1qw]

very cool video i would suggest a test where you put a woodboard on top of two breakets anthen pull down inthe centerpoint of the board

[@yeroca]

This is exactly the kind of video I was looking for, thanks! I am new to mechanical design, but had heard of FEA in the past, and wondered how difficult it would be to use for designing my functional parts.

[@frijoli9579]

Cool video. This is the difference between brute force engineering vs mathematical. They both work. One is typically quicker to market, and the other just works.

[@56Seeker]

Three quick observations: How did you get a scew driver to the middle fixing hole? (Every bracket designer forgets this) Would changing the bottom member to a triangular cross section affect the result? The bottom member has a high slenderness with respect to the plane of stress; and narrower, deeper section may have performed better. Great video, I really appreciate your work.

[@LuxBacelo]

2:23 "We are working with mostly that are hollow and Fusion360 is just not made for that." YET. I think they will add a most precise simulation for FDM print in the future. Great video!

[@kesterbelgrove818]

CNCKitchen; where did you get the fusion 360 drawing of the bracket, so I can follow along. I bought the stl file but can't do simulations on it. Can anyone help?

[@vegasvideoguy]

Yours and Joel's stress tests were NOT real-world testing. You put the stress only on the outer wood support. If you wanted a real/correct test, you should have put two pieces of wood in the uprights with a parallel piece of wood or other material to hold the hook to (in the middle which would correctly distribute the weight evenly). Then and only then would this setup be what a volume of these parts represent. In fact, if you did this test with at least three of these supports, then that would be even more accurate in test simulation.

[@Thirtybird]

Pretty much every video has already said they know exactly that.

[@ianide2480]

The added thickness to the bottom strut had the most impact, followed by moving the the web to create two triangles. Now if you would have added 5mm to the entire outer perimeter the web and wall support, and then print it solid...... This is a shelf bracket so I didn't really understand why skimp on the thickness in the first place, or even try to save material. Sure it will print faster but, oh well.. What I would have done is create a T-slot bracket for the wall, print that completely solid. Create a full triangle, no webbing, with a single hole in the center of the bracket to hang stuff on (or slide a pole through for more options), to fit into the T-slot but print that with infill 25% or less. The T-slot would be stronger/thicker (not to mention printed solid) eliminating stress points on the bracket and there would be added functionality with a T-slot bracket on the wall. If you decide you don't want a shelf there later on, well there are tons of accessories you can make and stick into a T-slot. Great video BTW,.You are one of the few youtubers that I've never regretted subscribing to.

[@itgschumpfaischgnuagloabat2058]

Hi Stefan. Danke für deine Videos. Du machst das sehr sympathisch, vermutlich weil du mich an meine nerdness erinnerst.

[@johnroyal4913]

I could tell you that those would break just from building cars. An i-team type spark would make things much stronger.

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

Just watched one on topology optimisation and all the way through was thinking 'Sort your boundary conditions out!"... Nice to see him come back to that at the end of this video.

[@JohnOCFII]

Stefan - that was fantastic! I learned quite a bit watching this video. Thanks for taking the time to share!

[@pmwilliams123]

After seeing the sudden and extreme failure of one of the parts, it occurs to me that there would be significant value in designing an impending failure signal into the part. The classic engineering concept of the failure signal was based upon the materials used, such as steel or wood that bends, groans, or otherwise signals when it is close to failure. However, certain types of optimization may inadvertently take away these signals. Understanding the consequences of the optimization steps often involves careful inspection of the performance in many of the design goal dimensions.

[@pipiferry]

Yay plastika Trček from Slovenia

[@tophatvideosinc.5858]

I think that f360 is a bit extreme for this kind of stuff, since your average 3d printing hobbyist likely doesn't use the software or print enough filament to outweigh the insane subscription cost. Especially since that bracket is only 70€ USD in filament it's completely viable to print one and test it. And adjust the model as needed afterwards. Plus, there is free web software that does the same thing anyways.

[@pangrac1]

Which one?

[@newperspective5918]

"If your assumptions are bad, your results will be worthless", haha thats rough and quite savage. Put it on a t-shirt! ;)

[@RebellisSpiritus]

Do you have a secret bet with Thomas Sanladerer who will make a better shelf with Fusion 360 simulation?

[@trashblob]

Thats really cool! I did not know about this Feature. I have to play with this a little bit later!

[@rock3tcatU233]

Use Soviet steel, very stronk!

[@Chikimingo]

awesome video, thanks!