As additive manufacturing (AM) gains greater industrial exposure, there's a drive toward defining practical, high-value processes and products. Defining viable business cases is critical to ensure successful technology adoption. Focusing on the marine industry and using a "propeller" as a familiar marine object for a case study, we'll explore 4 different design/manufacturing iterations aimed at highlighting the opportunities that AM offers. By fabricating these 4 components with wire and arc additive, a considerable portion of the process chain will be revealed from both hardware and software perspectives. We'll be exploring the designs and investigating design features facilitated by AM; looking at preparing these components for manufacture; seeing how these components are built considering the distortion and stress, geometric fidelity, and thermal management; and, finally, looking at post-processing techniques to bring these components to final form.

You're a part of the Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform and you're asking yourself, 'What else works with the Autodesk 360 platform? What else is available with the Autodesk 360 platform that I am not aware of?' In this class we will give a high-level overview of how the Autodesk 360 services and products collaborate with manufacturing products such as Inventor software, Solidworks software, and Catia software, to name a few. We will demonstrate the integration between the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app and the Autodesk 360 platform, and we'll examine how these products interact to provide a complete solution for the manufacturing world.

Join product managers Al Whatmough and Tom McCollough as they share the road map for Autodesk's range of CAM software.

This class is designed for existing users of the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app who are looking to take advantage of the CAM capabilities found inside the Fusion 360 app. Topics covered will include fixturing, multiple setups, multipart setups, 3+2 machining, setup sheet customization, and post processing.

This class covers how to implement KeyShot into your product development workflow to improve efficiency and get the best rendering results.

This class will be an overview of how managing production within the Autodesk manufacturing ecosystem lets seamless workflows and real-time insight into production status. We will demonstrate a workflow- starting in design within Autodesk CAD Solutions, moving to programming with Autodesk CAM Solutions, demonstrating production tracking and quality assurance in Fusion 360 Production, and showing how production data can be fed back into design and programming to increase overall production speed and efficiency. These clear communication channels can dramatically reduce the amount of overhead that job shops need to manage by presenting the right information to the right people at the right time. This is the benefit of operating within the Autodesk network.

This class will explore Fusion 360 software as the common language in a unique project between interior and industrial design students, their faculty, and a high-production manufacturer. The presentation will illustrate how Fusion 360 was used to translate design ideas to manufacture a high-quality prototype, and serve as an educational tool for students and professionals, while improving workflow and project outcomes. The prototype, Mobile Kitchen, or MO:KI, is a bespoke collection of modular, mobile units that push the boundaries of the cooking experience and the traditional work triangle for an improved user experience. The concept affords flexibility in organizing an environment responsive to the tactile needs of a chef. We will discuss current research and design in anticipation of commercialization, using Fusion 360. This talk will highlight not only the process of design and production, but also the ongoing collaboration between education, manufacturing, and Autodesk as a pathway for future learning and making.

Do you want to offer customized products to your customers but save on engineering and CAM-programming time? In this class, you’ll learn how to parametrically build your product models, use Microsoft Excel and Google sheet for easy parameter input, and generate CAM toolpaths with minimal-to-no user interaction with the Inventor CAM and Fusion 360 CAM API. You’ll learn how to overcome the limitations of nesting CNC milling toolpaths on a flat sheet material to have a seamless and time-saving workflow from order to production.

The design and engineering world is about to go through a major disruption from single user focused, file based "monolithic", hard to learn, desktop CAD to deeply collaborative, highly tailored, and simple to use "database on the cloud" CAD experiences.These workflows will be enabled by the Forge High Frequency Data Management (HFDM) SDK and Forge IDX - the tools Autodesk is using to build next generation products such as Quantum and Fusion Web.

HFDM puts data at the center of Forge application development, enabling developers to build rich and collaborative, data-centric applications and reactive systems at scale. The Forge HFDM data service is a central hub that stores and communicates rapidly changing data between different clients, apps, and connected services while keeping all users in sync. We will show examples of what you can build with HFDM and discuss core architectural concepts and practices, highlighting customer value and benefits.

Forge IDX is a next generation cloud application leveraging HFDM, that lets you easily build rich, collaborative, and smart applications and services using the latest Autodesk technologies. IDX integrates environments for design, development, and publishing, while making it easy for multidisciplinary teams to work together.

Additive manufacturing doesn’t have to be complex. Autodesk Netfabb is the right tool to reduce the complexity and streamline your AM workflow. This presentation will cover the end-to-end workflow of the additive manufacturing process using Netfabb and Simulation Utility. We’ll focus on the most challenging AM process, DMLS, in this presentation. The aim of the presentation is to show how Autodesk Netfabb will help you make the most of additive manufacturing starting from a CAD model all the way to build preparation and simulation build results.

This course will focus on the nonlinear study types within the simulation capabilities of Autodesk Fusion 360.Simulation should be an integral part of the design process to ensure that the design will perform as expected.Knowing when and how to leverage the nonlinear study types will help build your simulation skills.To answer the question of "when", we will consider the limitations of static stress and how Nonlinear Static Stress and Event Simulation go beyond those limitations.In order to answer the question of "how", we will examine the advanced material models (such as elasto-plastic and Mooney-Rivlin) and the options that we can and should utilize within the interface.

This class will demonstrate how to use Fusion Production software to streamline the production of CNC parts. Attendees will learn how to set up and configure workcells and workstations using Fusion Production. Attendees will also learn how to track jobs as they are related to manufacturing, and get a visual view of current workloads of the available workcells and workstations. This class will also demonstrate how tasks can be moved from one workcell or workstation to a different workcell or workstation with more capacity.

This class will cover the core concepts of 3D programming in Fusion 360 software, including valuable tips, tricks, and best practices from product experts. Attendees should expect to learn full 3D workflows, including generating, containing, and manipulating a variety of 3D roughing and finishing toolpaths. Users will leave with an understanding of what it takes to utilize Fusion 360 to quickly and effectively program parts. We'll highlight the power and flexibility of integrated CAM using Fusion 360, providing real-world scenarios in the manufacturing industry.

This class will discuss how material, parts, tooling, tool holders, CAD, and CAM are influenced by the move to 3- or 4-axis computer numerical control (CNC) machining. Any machine shop, manufacturing company, R&D group, or entrepreneur can gain significant advantages from 5-axis machining, whether simultaneous 5-axis or positional 3+2. The Autodesk CAM software systems, including Fusion 360 software, offer solid workflows to adopt 5-axis machining, including CAM sample files, vendor work holding, integrated parametric CAD for modeling fixtures and raw material, and 5-axis CAM toolpaths.

This class will cover the core concepts of multiaxis programming in Fusion 360 software, including positional and simultaneous 5 axis-areas of the CAM workspace that can add significant value, but are often ignored for the more accessible 2D and 3D toolpaths. Pick up tips, tricks, and best practices from product experts. Attendees should expect to learn full multiaxis workflows, including generating, containing, and controlling complex toolpaths.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create a shoe from scratch in Fusion 360 software. Starting with a 3D scan created using ReCap Pro software as a template, the workshop will show you how to insert an STereoLithography (STL) or Mesh into Fusion 360, utilizing the Mesh Environment. To achieve the perfect design, the tutorial will elaborate on the optimum methods of inserts sketches or guides to reference when modeling. Starting from a 2D sketch, the workshop will let users create and modify T-spline bodies to produce the basic form of a shoe design around the 3D scan. Finally, in the Patch workspace, you’ll begin to learn how to add key design features using surface modeling. You’ll learn how to add key features to the design, such as the midsole, and convert surfaces into BREP bodies ready for 3D printing. We’ll provide all the tools you’ll need to begin creating footwear designs in Fusion 360.

Learn strategies on how to successfully implement new cutting tools, materials, or machinery into your manufacturing workflow to boost productivity and profitability. Class discussion will include tips and formulas on understanding the basics of speeds and feeds, including how to capitalize on Autodesk CAM tool libraries and templates. Class will also cover resources and advice on implementing process reliability, exploring new tool technologies, and discovering shop techniques to maximize tool value.

Surfacing toolpaths are driven by surfaces. Learn how to create the right surfaces that will create the perfect toolpaths. Learn industry tips and tricks from real-life examples of how the speaker has used surfaces to create the perfect toolpaths in any CAM system. We'll take a deep look at the technology that drives the toolpath so we can better understand how we should create the correct surface.

In this class, we’ll go over workflow tips and modeling tricks, as well as API scripts, and toolpath recipes to take the most complicated parts and break them down into simple, manageable tasks. We’ll go over several real-world examples with the focus being on thinking less, and producing more.

This class is for Fusion 360 software users who want to go beyond the basics and learn how to get the most out of their design experiences. You will learn the favorite tricks and design techniques of 2 experts. This class is for Fusion 360 users who understand the basics of sketching, parametric solid and surface modeling, and sculpting with T-Splines. We will help you avoid some common pitfalls, and you’ll learn how to build more efficient and stable designs. This session features Fusion 360.