DF-FFF stands for Design for Fused Filament Fabrication, which is a design methodology for the specific additive manufacturing (AM) process Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and is summarized in this web page as a framework, knowledge base/database, design rules, and flowcharts of the methods and processes to be followed to design with FFF (see Figure 1).

This methodology is framed within the conventional theory of design methodologies, concurrent engineering, DF-X (Design for X) [1]–[4], and is a specific case of design for manufacturing (DFM) applied to AM processes or DFAM (Design For Additive Manufacturing) [5] , focusing only on FFF or Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM).

References

[1]         W. A. K. Geoffrey Boothroyd Peter Dewhurst, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Third Edition, Third Edit. CRC Press, 2011.

[2]         G. E. Dieter, L. C. Schmidt, and others, Engineering design. McGraw-Hill Higher Education Boston, 2009.

[3]         G. Pahl and W. Beitz, Engineering design: a systematic approach. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.

[4]         Carles Riba Romeva, Diseño Concurrente. EDICIONS UPC, 2002.

[5]         L. L. Lopez Taborda, H. Maury, and J. Pacheco, “Design for additive manufacturing: a comprehensive review of the tendencies and limitations of methodologies,” Rapid Prototyp. J., vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 918–966, Jun. 2021.