While generative design offers innovative, organic forms, its realization has largely been limited to prototyping via additive manufacturing. Conventional computer numerical control (CNC) machining, despite its advancements and suitability for mass production, has primarily focused on geometric parts, alongside making the production more efficient, autonomous, and lights out. This project investigates a paradigm shift by exploring the integration of generative design with modern CNC machining techniques. We’ll delve into recent developments in CAM software, using Autodesk Fusion 360 software and modern CNC techniques that enable the fabrication of complex, freeform designs developed through generative algorithms. By examining a successful case study of bicycle components, current limitations, and potential applications across various industries, this presentation aims to highlight the potential of this integrated approach to bring generative design to mass manufacturing, moving beyond prototyping and into real-world applications.

This presentation is centered on optimizing the performance of your desktop or laptop workstation for your design workflows. The concepts covered are relevant to AEC, industrial machinery, Revit, Inventor, and even AutoCAD—though some tweaks may be necessary based on the specific software, and I will give those. Given that many of us depend on AutoCAD for sharing designs and generating printouts, mastering these setup strategies can significantly save time, especially when handling large datasets/drawings. By thoughtfully configuring your system and software, we will consider how it interacts with other applications so you can improve overall performance across all your design tools.

The ideal lifecycle is possible. Everyone can manage change the way they want—and, in fact, they do. Because, the way you manage files now, regardless of whether you like it or not, is what you choose to do. To move past the basics of file management into the area of drawing revisions, approvals, security, and advanced property management, you need to deal with lifecycles. In this class, we’ll look at Vault lifecycles and help you decide which is the best course of action. This class will introduce you to the powerful tools that are available in Vault Workgroup and Vault Professional for revision management, approval workflows, and engineering change orders (ECOs). Learn how categories are used to control the flow of your data and how versions and revisions are intertwined. We’ll also cover how to apply different revision schemes and how to initiate and track change via a change order.

A compelling visualization is a key element for a successful presentation. Whether for an internal design review or an external customer-facing presentation, good storytelling is essential when working with any kind of complex data. This class will show you how to get more of your Inventor engineering data with the powerful visualization of VRED software. You will experience how easily and quickly you can tell your story with your data with astonishing quality. Learn how to import, reference, manage, and update Inventor data natively in VRED, and choose if you want to create real-time scenes, photorealistic renderings, engineering lighting analysis, virtual reality experiences, portable EXE files, or cloud-based visual content. We are looking forward to showing you a seamless process between Inventor software and VRED, and demonstrating how to sync data, configurations, and transformation.

In this class, you will learn how to best identify parts for redesign. You will receive a few examples and then see in Fusion 360 software how to redesign the parts keeping design-for-manufacturing (DFM) rules for metal additive manufacturing (AM) in mind. The goal is to redesign the parts using simple operations in Fusion 360 to see that you don't need an organic topology optimized part to get an economical use case. You’ll learn the limits of metal AM and when it is definitely not smart to use this technology.

Having all process-related information at hand in real time by using a PLM (product lifecycle management) system helps to reveal inefficiencies and bottlenecks in your daily processes. Learn how you can use PLM to determine automatic key performance indicators (KPIs) and reports to assess your company’s success. In the next step, see how these insights can be improved to continuously improve the flow of information and collaboration.

In this class, we'll look at how you can utilize core features and functionality within Inventor software and apply that within your design tasks. These core topics will focus on Frame Generator, Design Accelerators, iLogic, Stress Analysis, and Tube and Pipe.

This class will cover a broad range of elements that can be introduced by utilizing the power of iLogic within Inventor software. This 60-minute session will cover it all, from introducing the fundamentals to how more-powerful functions can be applied. We will show examples that organizations take advantage of today using this powerful capability. Topics covered will include developing standards-based designs; capturing engineering knowledge; developing recipes from existing assemblies to help build new designs; creating drawings using the latest updates from Inventor; as well as retrieving data from other sources and automating functions within a file such as CAM and FEA.

This lecture will cover planned functionality for Vault product data management software. First, we aim to deliver a great, modern, context-sensitive user experience, which means we are making sure every persona/role within the company gets the right set of capabilities and the right technology. Our investments focus on perfecting and modernizing the experience. Secondly, we aim to enable you to connect to your data anywhere, everywhere by increasing data accessibility. Finally, we will reveal useful insights so you can improve your decision-making process by relying on the managed data.

Using a multiaxis machine tool is a great method for reducing the machining time when manufacturing components. This presentation will give an overview of how this software can speed up the process of programming multiaxis computer numerical control (CNC) machines to manufacture complex components. The focal point of this presentation will be showing how CAM can simplify the machining of complex components, while minimizing mistakes in the process and increasing productivity.

In this class, we’ll introduce you to simple and powerful features in mechanical toolsets that help you transform your AutoCAD drawing into smart-drawing entities that can help increase productivity and efficiency. We’ll do a simple walk-through of converting your AutoCAD tables to a smart BOM database. You’ll learn an automatic dimensioning feature under power tools to make your drawing annotation simpler and faster. Later, we’ll add intelligent balloons to the drawing views that you’ve created in AutoCAD using model documentation. Finally, we’ll utilize the drawing design standards in AutoCAD Mechanical software to make your drawing views and annotations adhere to your company standards and create effectiveness to save costs and time with your drawing maintenance.

Each release of AutoCAD software translates to bigger and better features, but some old tools have never changed. Scripting is one of these tools. It's still just as powerful today as it was when introduced into AutoCAD software back in the late ‘90s. If you can key in commands at the command line, you can script. If you're not familiar with the Action Recorder, you’ll learn in this class how to create some easy macros to use for increased speed of design. Regardless of your knowledge of scripting or the Action Recorder, you'll go from zero to hero in 60 minutes in this class.

This intermediate-to-advanced hands-on lab offers AutoCAD 3D software veterans a chance to explore the 2D model documentation of 3D models from AutoCAD 2017 software. After creating base views and projected views from 3D solid or surface models, we’ll explore sectional views. Using 3D models, we will create full, half, offset, and aligned sectional drawing views. We will create circular and rectangular detail views. We will explore editing techniques of the 3D models and update the derived drawing views. We will also explore undocumented Auxiliary View features. If you used AutoCAD 3D software in the past to create 2D multiview drawings from 3D models, attend this class and get ready to be surprised. This session features AutoCAD, AutoCAD 360, and AutoCAD Mechanical.

Selling complex and customized equipment is challenging at best, and creating a compelling bid package is critical to winning more business. This class will show how to use Factory Design Suite software to accelerate the creation of a build proposal, how to create compelling content, and how to create a bill of equipment required for costing the proposal.

Are you working with AutoCAD software but wish you had more tools designed specifically for manufacturing? Are you using one of the suites or collections but wondering what this included thing called AutoCAD Mechanical software is for? In this fast-paced, rapid-fire class, we will look at the things that make AutoCAD Mechanical software special. We will explore why you should be using it for your mechanical and manufacturing design and detailing, including examining the built-in calculators, component library, detailing and annotation tools, defining structure—everything, and the nuts and bolts of it!

This course will focus on instructing new users on how to use the Inventor CAM add-on to create milling toolpaths. You will learn the key skills and knowledge required to take a 3D model, set it up in the CAM environment, and assign the toolpaths needed to generate the computer numerical control (CNC) code required by milling machines. The demonstration in this class will focus on a simple design that requires 2D milling toolpaths. This will let us stay focused on the workflow and learn how to create the toolpaths. Specifically, we’ll generate the face, 2D adaptive, 2D pocket, 2D contour, and drill toolpaths for the demonstration model. To complete the course, you’ll also learn how to use the Simulation option to visualize the new toolpaths, and how to output the CNC code required to machine a model.

Save time. Increase efficiency. Save money. Although AutoCAD software, especially AutoCAD Mechanical software, ships with over half a million standard parts and features, a specific item you require may not exist. For example, GOST steel shapes and piping parts. There are other cases where you need a variation of an existing standard part. For example, a steel shape with a hole in a specific place. In all such scenarios, AutoCAD Mechanical software provides the ability to build your own content and store it in custom content libraries, which you can share across different teams and co-workers. The class aims to show you how to use the Content Manager in AutoCAD Mechanical software to build custom content.

Are you working with AutoCAD software but wish you had more tools designed specifically for manufacturing? Are you using the Autodesk® Product Design Suite but wonder what this included thing called AutoCAD® Mechanical is for? Ever wished you could take experienced AutoCAD users and use their skills to detail your Inventor® software 3D models? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the class for you. In this fast-paced, rapid-fire class, we look at the things that make AutoCAD Mechanical software special. We explore why you should be using it for your mechanical and manufacturing design and detailing, including examining the built-in calculators, component library, detailing and annotation tools, defining structure, and the other nuts and bolts contained within.

This class will look at how Alias software and VRED software enable the design and visualization of heavy machinery and equipment.

This session will give you inspiration regarding how to improve your workflows by making them digital and transparent to every employee inside your organization. For example, if your company is using external and/or hired resources to get peaks in the workload done faster, imagine a digital workflow that will make that resource be up and running on your processes, workflows, and procedures in no time. This session is a good fit if your company employs between 2 and 100 people with high-quality standards and procedures.