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 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 are run past their trial periods, they fall back to the free, reduced-set, Netfabb Basic.
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File handling |
Import and export mesh files |
Import and export CAD files |
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Mesh editing |
Edit and repair meshes |
Preserve parametric information from CAD files wherever possible and/or applicable |
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Machine-specific slicing |
Generate buildfiles for various 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 |
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Define and apply custom toolpath strategies from toolpath-generating functions |
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Machine-agnostic slicing |
Read and view slice information |
Freely generate and process machine-agnostic slicing information with contour and hatching paths, optionally assign exposure parameters, and export to formats like CLI and PNG |
Apply custom toolpath generators ("EBPA", "Encrypted Buildstyle Post-processing Archive") |
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Develop and administrate EBPAs |
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Support structure generation |
Generate support structures as permitted by selected machine |
Generate support structures without machine limitations |
Generate lattice-based volume support and optimize it though simulation |
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Latticing |
Use latticing with certain machines |
Use latticing without machine restriction |
Use unrestricted, adaptive volume and surface latticing, define your own lattice topologies and transitions |
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Simulation and iterative optimization |
Perform iterative topology and lattice topology optimization, and limited thermo-mechanical simulation of metal powderbed fusion processes |
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Automation |
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Automate Netfabb via Lua scripting 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 |
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Online collaboration |
Host "local cloud" network storage |
An additional, separate product, Autodesk® Netfabb® Local Simulation, provides unlimited thermo-mechanical simulation of metal powderbed fusion processes.