About Autodesk® Netfabb®

Autodesk® Netfabb® is a software application tailored for additive manufacturing in various methods. With it, you can repair, arrange, orient, and prepare three-dimensional files, be they tessellated (triangle mesh) or parametric (CAD), and produce slice and print data. To help with these tasks, Netfabb provides tools and functions for viewing, editing, repairing, supporting, and analyzing three-dimensional mesh files or slice-based files in various formats.

Typical application scenarios

• Load a file of one format, mesh or parametric, and export it in another format
• Repair broken mesh
• Rotate and arrange multiple parts on the build platform, manually or automatically for optimized use of space and printing time
• Hollow solid parts
• Measure geometric properties
• Generate volume or surface lattice
• Simulate and optimize solid parts and lattices
• Slice volumetric parts and generate exposure path and data for contours, infill, and hatching
• Generate build files in g-code, CLI, image stacks, and selected machine-specific formats
• Generate support structures
• Correctively deform part shapes
• Optimize support structures
• Simulate thermo-mechanical conditions during metal-additive manufacturing

Feature comparison

Netfabb is available in three subscriptions, Standard, Premium, and Ultimate. Additionally, if any of the respective installations are run without a license, or past their trial periods, they switch to a free, basic version that is just called Netfabb. The following table compares the versions.

Note: The listed features are all cumulative towards Netfabb Ultimate.

	Netfabb	Netfabb Standard	Netfabb Premium	Netfabb Ultimate
File handling	Import and export mesh files	Import and export CAD files
Mesh editing	Edit and repair meshes	Preserve parametric information from CAD files wherever possible and/or sensible
Machine-specific slicing	Generate buildfiles for various FFF, resin photopolymerisation, and selected polymer powderbed machines	Generate buildfiles for additional binder-jetting, laser-sintering, and resin photopolymerisation machines	Generate buildfiles for a large range of metal powderbed machines
Machine-agnostic slicing	Read and view slice information	Freely generate and process machine-agnostic slicing information with contour and hatching paths, and export to formats like CLI and PNG		Apply custom toolpath generators ("Encrypted Buildstyle Post-processing Archive")
				Define and administrate custom toolpath generators ("Encrypted Buildstyle Post-processing Archive")
Support structure generation	Generate support structures as permitted by selected machine		Generate support structures without machine limitations
Latticing		Use latticing with certain machines	Use latticing without machine restriction	Use unrestricted, adaptive latticing and surface latticing, define your own lattice topologies and transitions
Simulation and iterative optimization				Perform iterative topology and lattice topology optimization, and limited thermo-mechanical simulation of metal powderbed printing processes
Automation				Automate Netfabb via Lua scripting Technology Preview: Use Lua functions to accept and execute tasks from a network-residing task server, and return task results to it; also, host a task server
Online collaboration	Technology Preview: Access Autodesk Cloud online storage for collaboration and sharing, access "local cloud" network storage (requires active Fusion 360 subscription)			Technology Preview: Host "local cloud" network storage

An additional, separate product, Autodesk® Netfabb® Local Simulation, provides unlimited thermo-mechanical simulation of metal powderbed printing processes.