Are you using large data sets? Are your commands taking too long to run? Are you pushing AutoCAD or your hardware to its limits? This session will give you valuable insights into the ways AutoCAD is taking advantage of the latest advances in processor technology. It will be led by members of the AutoCAD Desktop team and will explore how to take advantage both of AutoCAD features as well Xeon based workstations and servers with Iris Pro graphics.

Just because you designed a plastic part, doesn’t mean it can be manufactured at scale. Product design has a significant impact on the cost and timing of part manufacturing. In this class, you’ll learn how to identify and address costly manufacturing issues with Injection Molding Simulation in Autodesk Fusion 360.

This class will show how to use Generative Design Technology to optimise fluid paths in Fusion 360. Taking examples of real valves, the class will show the full workflow to get a model ready, explore it, generate multiple CAD-ready solutions based on our constraints and product performance requirements.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems such as Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software or Upchain run in the cloud while Vault software and most enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are still installed on-premises. Hidden behind firewalls, on-premises software cannot directly receive update notifications from cloud applications, and have difficulty synchronizing with changes from cloud systems. Polling data from large data sets is time consuming and inefficient. Automated synchronization and digital transformation of data between hybrid PDM, PLM, and ERP systems require more-sophisticated solutions. This class will demonstrate how to efficiently send data from cloud to on-premise systems. We’ll use different examples to demonstrate how the Autodesk Forge Webhooks API and Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Action Scripts are used to automatically update entities in Vault software, or how cloud PLM systems automatically send Bill of Materials (BOM) data to on-premise ERP systems without the need for the on-premise software to poll for data.

Generative design is changing the way we design, engineer, and manufacture the products of tomorrow. By capitalizing on cloud technology, hundreds or thousands of higher-performing design options can be generated based on objectives, enabling users to make trade-offs for different materials, performance, and production options. The benefits of generative design are also not restricted to just the world of additive manufacturing, but can also be capitalized on with subtractive manufacturing, and even as design inspiration for traditional techniques. In this presentation, we’ll learn how to use Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360 software to create multiple models that meet production, performance, and cost requirements, and we’ll choose which ones to produce.

For years, companies have been investing in sustainability initiatives like reduced energy consumption and efficient use of resources. Mostly, sustainability has been directed toward tackling process-caused environmental impacts. However, the focus must shift to a product’s components. Companies need to target sustainability in the design phase, not just in the operational phase. Whenever the design starts, sustainability must be a feature of the product and not an afterthought. Currently, there are 28 million CAD users globally, and an opportunity to capture up to 10Gton of CO2eq per year. In this talk, we’ll discuss how to empower designers to improve the environmental performances of their projects by delivering trusted sustainability insights in the context of their design tools. Find out how the SimaPro API can extract all required information using Fusion Data and Autodesk Forge APIs to calculate the environmental impact and return results to the designer in real time.

How can university research help us transition to net zero? PrintCity has six large research projects (€50 million) that enhance sustainability and the circular economy transition to reduce our impact on the environment. Projects span a range of industries and grand challenges to make new materials and more-sustainable products, and extend the life of electronics. With an advanced digital manufacturing facility, PrintCity’s research is delivered by a multidisciplinary team that is passionate about sustainability and proud to work for the United Kingdom’s #1 Greenest University, Manchester Metropolitan. Projects include producing 95%-98% recycled FDM filaments from single-use plastics, 3D-printing concrete to replace virgin sand with recycled aggregates (demolition waste), and using 3D printing for repair. Learn how Autodesk Fusion 360 software is being used to design new, more sustainable products. Learn more about how PrintCity’s sustainability research is helping us transition to net zero.

Approximately 200 billion cubic meters of gas are flared or vented globally each year, of which the United States is a significant contributor. Obantarla’s mission is to mitigate methane and CO2 emissions by replacing flares with systems that produce economically viable, low-carbon chemical products. At scale, Obantarla’s chemical-processing technology will significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption from the domestic upstream oil and gas sector. Obantarla is a rapidly growing small group of engineers from diverse backgrounds. The firm also draws on industry partners to help design and specify parts of its chemical reactor. During its startup phase and subsequent expansion, Obantarla has greatly benefitted from using Vault software to manage CAD files and drawings, as well as requirement documents. Furthermore, the generative design tools available in Autodesk Fusion 360 software have allowed for rapid design iterations of complex custom parts for additive manufacturing.

From its early days, Autodesk Fusion 360 software has included ever-improving tools for working collaboratively on decentralized teams. With an eye toward education and a few extra capabilities added just for the education space, Autodesk Fusion 360 is ready to become a central part of the process of teaching design, engineering, and manufacturing. These tools are not usually the focus when discussing Autodesk Fusion 360 for the classroom, but they are the critical elements that make Autodesk Fusion 360 the best solution for your classroom. In this session, you’ll see these communication and collaboration tools in use as we look at the process for creating, managing, and completing a class. We’ll explore the tools that teachers will find most useful for conducting their classes in today's dynamic environment to ensure you can keep offering the best instruction, regardless of where you or your students are working.

This session will explore the use of Autodesk Fusion 360 software to teach engineering design at the university level. The use of Fusion Teams and cloud workspaces has enabled effective group work, with blended learning approaches being widely adopted across the globe. This talk will discuss how Autodesk Fusion 360 became an essential tool for teaching online, and how it enabled us at the University of Warwick to continue to deliver high-quality teaching in the School of Engineering. We’ll discuss our approach to signing up and delivering the first learning experiences with Autodesk Fusion 360 to a cohort of nearly 400 first-year general engineering students. We’ll show how students were able to continue working seamlessly on both individual and group projects across all four years of the degree course remotely. And, of course, we’ll look at some of the amazing and innovative work they did. With remote design teams undoubtedly being an important aspect of the future of work, seeing what students can do with design software today is a must.

Project MOnACO (Manufacturing Of a large-scale AM Component) is a $1.1 million research collaboration with GE Aviation et al. funded by the Clean Sky 2 program. The focus is to cut noise and emissions from the civil aerospace market using disruptive technologies. The aim is to converge design and manufacturing using the A.T.L.A.S. machine that’s currently the largest metal powder additive manufacturing of its kind (build size >1m). Autodesk is leading the design of the turbine center frame assembly using multiphysics Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360, the new product design extension for lattices and manufacturing simulation (Netfabb et al.) workflows geared toward large-scale additive manufacturing. The latest design is 34% lighter than its predecessor, and the components have been consolidated from 150 parts to a single part. In this talk, we’ll discuss how we applied Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) workflows using Autodesk design and make tools to solve tomorrow's problems.

How do we ensure graduates have the requisite skills that businesses need when modern digital tools are advancing so rapidly? How do we teach those students to be versatile to adapt to the digital technology changes? How do businesses know what workflows, technologies, and platforms can help them with digital transformation, and what skills and personas would help them exploit it? The answer? PrintCity, a digital manufacturing facility in Manchester, England, where students and businesses collide, collaborate, and innovate. PrintCity has an open-door policy, a first-of-a-kind master of science degree course with multidisciplinary intake, a commercial service, and an open collaborative space to encourage managed serendipity. The outcome? Enhanced student experience, accelerated graduate outcomes, high-quality employment, and digital transformation. Learn how PrintCity is obliterating the labor cliff. Powered by Autodesk Fusion 360 software, PrintCity has converged design and manufacturing to deliver more than 150 projects with businesses since 2018.

Imperial College London Rocketry is a team of undergraduate engineers learning about aerospace through the design, build, and launch of rockets. With the desire to reach space one day, efficiency in both our process and our designs is critical. Follow us as we take you through our journey in preparation for the 2021 edition of the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC). EuRoC is an annual rocketry competition hosting university teams from all over Europe with the aim of building and launching rockets to reach a set altitude. Learn the basics of high-powered rocket design, and see how we integrate Autodesk Fusion 360 software into our process. We’ll cover the many challenges we faced and the decisions we made throughout a grueling week-long competition. And you’ll hear how the lessons we learned inform what we do now. Presented by current engineering students, you’ll see the impact of the experience on our personal and professional development, as well as our plans for this year’s edition of the competition.

When designing new products, it’s easy to focus on new technologies and futuristic forms, overlooking cultural heritage. This talk will explore how to take advantage of new innovative tools for designing, making, using, and connecting products, while maintaining a strong connection with the user’s cultural identity. An example of this process is Checho, a voice-controlled smart home hub that plays music, answers questions, and performs multiple tasks in and around the home, similar to Amazon Echo and Google Home. What makes Checho unique is its relation to Latinx culture. It’s made out of solid wood and accentuated with traditional Guatemalan fabric, which conceals its high-tech internal components. Checho was designed with Autodesk Fusion 360 software and fabricated via computer numerical control (CNC) milling, reinforcing the concept of using advanced tools without compromising traditional cultural identity. For more details on Checho, visit: https://www.rit.edu/artdesign/spotlights/checho-traditional-smart-hub

Designing plastic parts can take up a lot of time and be prone to errors. In this session, you’ll learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension to automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks using manufacturing-aware features such as Boss, Snap Fit, Web, Rib, and Rest. We’ll demonstrate the best practices for using plastic part rules to control your design and capture know-how for easy creation, editing, and reuse. In addition, we’ll share tips and tricks for creating complex geometric patterns and use presets.

Designing parts for the injection molding process often relies on experience and generic guidelines. Determining the needed geometry for design features can be very time consuming. In this session, we’ll look at how we can streamline this process using Autodesk Fusion 360 software and its extensions. Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension includes tools for the quick addition of common features, such as snaps and bosses, to Autodesk Fusion 360 parts. Will these features work? Will the snap fail during initial assembly? Will there be sink marks if a boss is molded as designed? Autodesk Fusion 360 Simulation Extension tools for stress analysis and mold-filling simulation help answer these key questions. Now we can catch and correct potential issues early in the design cycle, when there’s still time to react and costs of changes are relatively low.

You can see plastic injection-molded parts everywhere. From the consumer products and children's toys in our homes all the way through to the interiors of the cars we drive. With the addition of injection-molding simulation tools and Product Design Extension in Autodesk Fusion 360, there’s the opportunity to take the design of injection-molded components all the way from concept through to design, manufacturing validation and tooling manufacture all without ever leaving Autodesk Fusion 360. So that's what we'll do! We'll follow the whole process from start to finish. We'll look at designing a part, designing the mold, validating the mold, cutting chips on a computer numerical control (CNC) machine to make the mold, and producing the part.

The consumer product industry is more competitive than ever before. In order to maintain an edge over the competition, it’s important to differentiate your product from the pack. Autodesk Fusion 360 software is leading the industry with advanced tools to help you design lighter and more complex products with ease. In this class, you'll learn how to best use two tools from Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension. First, you’ll learn how to apply a volumetric lattice to your parts (to lightweight them and create visually distinct geometry). Next, to provide grip and/or a visual interest, you’ll learn how to apply 3D-printable patterns and textures to your part’s surface. If you design consumer products and are interested in taking your products to the next level, this class is for you.

Have you attended our Autodesk University Factory Live Experience? Want to learn how we created some of the parts using Autodesk Fusion 360 software’s newest extension? In this session, the team that helped design the casing for the Autodesk University name badges will walk through how the NEW Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can automate your design for plastic injection molding by defining your manufacturing up front, automating repetitive modeling tasks, creating manufacturing-specific features, and checking for manufacturing defects through simulation. These tools can increase your speed of development, improve your relationship with suppliers, and reduce your time to market. Come see how Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can help you with your next plastic injection molding design!

Come to this class to learn how you can use an engineering-based generative design tool for concept development. Autodesk Fusion 360 is consistently growing in popularity as a hard modeler for production/concept design. The combination of generative design and exploration of the form tool (T-spline modeling) can yield diverse results. In addition, generative design can produce a wide range of models with different manufacturing and material properties. Each result can be adjusted for density and then modified with the form tool and/or solid/surface modification. As a bonus, there are mesh tolls for added modification and combination with additional data sources.