Lattice Design for Additive Manufacturing in SolidWorks

[Lucas]

I want to share the methods that I developed to create lattice structures in SolidWorks for 3D printing. There isn’t many explanations available on the internet, so I did it in a detailed way. It’s not super complex but has many small steps and working with large lattice files can be very troublesome. Hope it helps.

If someone want to make a YouTube video from it, please feel free to do so, just link this post for future discussion.

(This might as well work in others CAD software, but with different tools nomenclature)

[mattpeneguy]

This is interesting. It definitely gives more control over the interior of parts than what is available for infill from slicers.
You could even run FEA and tweak the infill, which is difficult to impossible to do using slicers.

[zxys001]

I want to share the methods that I developed to create lattice structures in SolidWorks for 3D printing. There isn’t many explanations available on the internet, so I did it in a detailed way. It’s not super complex but has many small steps and working with large lattice files can be very troublesome. Hope it helps.

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If someone want to make a YouTube video from it, please feel free to do so, just link this post for future discussion.

(This might as well work in others CAD software, but with different tools nomenclature)

Nice work, Lucas!

[Tom G]

Not only useful, I find the cell design quite beautiful. Great explanation!

[Lucas]

Thanks guys, glad you liked it