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Export Fusion 360 to Bambu Studio Workflow

Guide for preparing and exporting your Fusion 360 models for 3D printing with Bambu Studio.

This focuses on a F360 design that has only a single body. It will work for designs with more, but trying to keep this cheat sheet simple, but complete.

Overview

This workflow covers the process from Fusion 360 -> Bambu Studio -> Printing

Exporting the Model

You've got your design to where you want to print the body. You need to Right-Click one of the Parent, Component, or Body. All three will work, but I generally will use the "Component".

Note

The default name that F360 will pick for saving the model will be different depending on which you use. For the example below, the name will be - Parent: Something v1 - Component: Thing - Body: Body1

Parent/Component/Body

Save As Mesh (Menu item)

Right-Click of the Component ("Thing:1" in example) will bring up a context menu that will include Save As Mesh.

Save As Mesh

Save As Mesh (Dialog)

You shouldn't have to change anything in this dialog (unless you followed some YouTuber's advice and fouled thing up 😀), but you can check my settings if you need to: Save As Mesh Dialog Settings.

Usually, you'll just need to click OK here.

Note

I'll try to get a cheat sheet up about saving multiple bodies before you actually need it. Generally I only do that when I've got a lot of bodies and I'm taking a short cut or the bodies are for a multi-color print.

Save As Mesh Dialog

Save As (Dialog)

After clicking OK in the small dialog, a bigger Save As dialog will come up.

Check to make sure it's doing what you want it to:

  1. Under Name: (red box) it should have the name to save to, change if desired
  2. The checkbox (left side of yellow box) next to Save to my computer should be checked
  3. The path (right side of yellow box) should be your STL folder
    • If the path is wrong, you can click the ellipsis (yellow arrow) and change it

Then click the Save button. If you have already saved an STL with this name it will ask if you want to overwrite it. If you are making updates, then you probably want to overwrite it. If you don't want to overwrite, you can change the name by clicking No then editing the name (red box) and clicking Save again.

Save As Dialog

Start Bambu Studio

Start Bambu Studio by clicking its green icon in the taskbar (at the bottom of your screen). Once it comes up, click on the Prepare tab at the top.

Select Prepare Tab

You will see a build plate in the main window and settings on the left.

Prepare Tab

Note: you should see Bambu Lab H2S not ...H2D

If needed you can:

  • Sync Info (red box) - recommend that for the filaments you use "Overwrite"
  • Change the build plate (blue box)
  • Switch between normal or strong (yellow box)...you want one of the two "User Presets"

Import the Model

Open file explorer (the yellow file folder in your taskbar at the bottom of the screen). Navigate to your STL folder (there is a quick link on the left-navigation area).

If the model you want to print is the last one you saved, it should be at the top. You can check you have the right one by clicking it and looking at the preview in the file folder. Once you have the model you want to print, drag the file into Bambu Studio. You'll see a white box, let go of the mouse.

Copy model into Bambu Studio

Tweaking the Model

The model will be selected, but if you click you may deselect it. Easy enough, just click it again to select it.

Once selected you can:

  1. Change Color - Type the number that corresponds to the filament that you want to use.
  2. Scale the model - Click "Scale (S)" icon at the top (yellow arrow)
  3. Put a different face down - Click "Lay on Face (F)" icon at the top (red arrow)

You can also add another plate to put more models on (blue arrow)

Tweaking the Model

Slice and Print

The easy part! Click Slice Plate. Bambu Studio will slice the model and change you to the Preview tab. If you want to make changes, you will need to go back to the Prepare tab!

After the slice completes, you can click Print plate

Note

If you have multiple plates, both "Slice Plate" and "Print Plate" act on the selected plate (the darker one). To select a different plate, just click on it anywhere other than where there is a model.