The 3D Printing Essentials Fusion Addin supports following features:

• Duplicate Components (Design & Manufacture workspaces)
• Minimize Bounding Box (Design workspace)
• Sinterbox (Design workspace)
• Label (Design workspace)
• Pins and Holes (Design workspace)
• Mesh Import Automation (Design workspace)
• Step File Import Automation (Design workspace)
• FFF Setup Automation (Design workspace)
• SLA/DLP Setup Automation (Design workspace)
• MJF/SLS Setup Automation (Design workspace)
• Minimum Part Gap Analysis (Design & Manufacture workspaces)
• Settings (Design workspace)
• Scale (Manufacture workspace)
• Mirror (Manufacture workspace)
• Netfabb for Fusion (Manufacture workspace)
• Post Configurator (Manufacture workspace)

This Addin also adds a “3D Printing Essentials” folder with the following machines, print settings and templates to Fusion’s libraries:

• PRUSA – i3MK3S+ (Machine library)
• ELEGOO - Saturn4 Ultra (Machine library)
• HP – Jet Fusion 5000 (Machine library)
• PLA (Direct Drive) (Print settings library)
• ELEGOO Saturn 4 Ultra - Generic - 50 micron (Print settings library)
• HP - MJF (Print settings library)
• FFF - Automatic Orientation (Template library)
• FFF - Additive Arrange (Template library)
• FFF - Solid Volume Supports (Template library)
• SLA - Braced Bar Support (Template library)
• SLA - Automatic Orientation (Template library)
• SLA - Additive Arrange (Template library)
• MJF - Additive Arrange V1 (Template library)

You can find all usage instructions in the following help document:

https://up1.autodesk.com/prd/2026/NETFE/ADD2E5F3-A368-5FC0-B1AD-48FD5B8FF84F/general_instructions.html

Install:
1. Download the installer from the Autodesk App Store.
2. Right-click on the "Downloads" folder and select "Open in Finder".
3. Right-click on the "3DPrintingEssentials-macos.pkg" -> "Open With" -> "Installer".

Uninstall:
You can unload the add-in without uninstalling it by clicking the "Stop" button when the add-in is selected in the list box on the "Add-Ins" tab of the "Scripts and Add-Ins" dialog.
Unchecking "Run on Startup" causes the add-in not to be loaded in future Fusion sessions.
- Navigate to the ./ApplicationsPlugins folder and select the app bundle you want to uninstall
- Either drag the app bundle to the Trash or right-click and select “Move to Trash”
- Right-click on the Trash-Can and select “Empty Trash”
- If you prefer keystrokes, you can also just select the app bundle and then hit Command+Delete to move the app to Trash, then empty the Trash and the app will be removed.

Impact of the 6th feature: If the Move bodies to the new component checkbox is checked when generating a sinterbox for a subset of component instances in an assembly, unselected component instances will be removed when generating a sinterbox.