Simulation lets designers test (simulate) their designs before reaching the manufacturing process. This enables iterative changes without the time and money (and potential waste) that can go into making a product only to find it doesn't meet the standards needed. The Simulation workspace in Fusion 360 software can feel a little intimidating at first glance—with so many options to choose from. This class will take you through the basic steps of a static stress simulation, showing you how to set up a simulation in detail, what all the options are for, and how the results can be analyzed and used to influence future design decisions. You will leave this class feeling more confident and ready to improve your whole design process!

This class will be an introduction to Generative Design in Fusion 360 software for people who are just getting started with the tool. Generative Design in Fusion 360 is a set of tools that enables you to set the criteria for the part that you want to design by setting up connection, boundaries, materials, and loads to say how you want it to react. You then upload the information to the server, and it will return results and options for how the part can look, weigh, and react to the loads applied. When you find one that works for you, you can download it and modify it or use it in an assembly. So, let’s go back to the basics and start using Generative Design in Fusion 360.

Fusion 360 software is not like other CAD tools when it comes to positioning components in an assembly. There are no mates here. Fusion 360 has a different model for putting components together. It uses Joints to both position components and describe their motion. This class will help you to make sense of Joints in Fusion 360. Starting with the foundational concepts of assembly, degrees of freedom, positioning, and motion, we will progress into the deeper topics of flexible subassemblies, the behavior of grounded components, and so on. We will describe the various joint types that can be used in your model, and scenarios where they are applicable. We will attempt to demystify assembly modeling in Fusion 360. Virtually sit down (or stand up—it's up to you!) with two Fusion 360 modeling experts and senior members of the Fusion 360 development team. The topics and workflows we will discuss come directly from Fusion 360 customers just like you.

In this session, you’ll get a look at how Generative Design in Fusion 360 software can help you improve the way you design and make engineering decisions. We will review the development progress we made throughout the year, and highlight why those features were key to improving how users can find success with generative design. We'll also look into the future at how we’ll be expanding the types of problems that can easily be solved with Generative Design in Fusion 360.

This class presents a workflow for effectively using the simulation tools in the new Sim 360 cloud-based services, which are similar in terms of ease of use and workflows to the Inventor® Simulation. After this class, you will be able to confidently apply this technology to your own workplace. The class focuses on the additional benefits to be gained on top of the simulation features that are available in Inventor® Professional software, including cloud computing, Fusion 360™, and fatigue analysis. We demonstrate real-life customer examples and show how Sim 360 can be effectively used to set up and run analyses to help you make innovative products.

This class will demonstrate the symbiotic relationship between hand sketching (digital) and 3D CAD. We will detail how you can capitalize on 2 sides of the same coin to improve skills on the other side. Come explore how sketching can improve CAD skills and how CAD skills can improve drawing and conceptualizing ability. The class will touch on workflow for SketchBook software and Fusion 360 software in addition to collaboration between the two.

Designing and manufacturing the prototype of a fixed-wing drone that can fly stably requires complicated computing, design modeling, and manufacturing processes. These are very difficult, especially for the new students in the aerospace arena. However, Fusion 360 software can help make the workflow simple. Fusion 360 has greatly improved the efficiency and flexibility of drone structure design. Using the models exported by Fusion 360, students can produce the drone prototype through 3D printing, and then assemble the whole aircraft in a very short time. In this class, you’ll see the workflow from design to manufacturing and the flight-test scenarios. Find out how Fusion 360 makes it so simple and fast, and helps young students realize their flying dream.

Fusion 360 software is available at no cost to all Product Design Suite 2015 software subscribers. The goal of this class is to explain what Fusion 360 software is, what is new, what is coming, and also to share how subscribers of Product Design Suite 2015 can take advantage of the software’s functionality. Fusion 360 software is a cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tool for product development that enables product teams and stakeholders to work together within an integrated design, engineering, and fabrication experience across platforms and devices. In this new way of working, users have the context to understand all aspects of a project and to collaborate with anyone and everyone, at any time. With Fusion 360 software, gone are the days of traditional data management and fragmented ways of working together on design projects.

Air pollution is a global health issue, and affects more than 90% of the world’s population. Our team at University of Colorado Boulder, with support from the Autodesk Foundation, has developed air-quality feedback systems and other environmental sensors to help improve public health around the world. We use engineering technology to address global health problems. In partnership with a team from Autodesk Pier 9, a health-based air-quality feedback system (the desktop lamp featured at Autodesk University’s Factory exhibit) was developed using distance design techniques. Fusion 360 software’s CAD, CAM, and Render workspaces were used to collaboratively design the product with inputs from team members in multiple cities, and the electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) integration with EAGLE software was used to design the open-source circuit board. This class will introduce the field of global engineering, with specific examples of how we use CAD, ECAD, and CAM to rapidly prototype solutions to global health problems, from Rwanda to San Francisco.

Inventor software is Autodesk's top tool for mechanical design. Fusion 360 software provides the electronics designer with a great tool for printed circuit board (PCB) design. In agile product development, it is important that these two very different engineering disciplines work closely together, especially because more and more products are made up of PCBs in addition to mechanical components. In this session, you will learn how to set up an effective workflow for mechanical and electrical design.

The challenge that all electronic designers encounter is acquiring or building components that will be used in their products. The added variant to this already elaborate process is building or generating 3D models that need to be associated for effective mechanical modeling. For this presentation, we will be showing techniques used to build electronic component footprints with associated 3D models. We will also teach you how to create 3D models of electronic components using Fusion 360 software.

The class will start by demonstrating the use of Spice in EAGLE software to predict the performance of the circuit, and will analyze the results of the Spice simulation and how a component will dissipate its power. We will then show and verify the thermal simulation results and the iteration process via A360 collaboration. In a real-world scenario engineers and designers do not always get it "right" the first time, so it takes multiple backs and forths between the designer and the engineer to determine a design that works and is efficient, yet meets all specifications. We'll demonstrate this process between EAGLE and Fusion 360 software's capabilities, and show the class how a normal workflow in the industry would operate using EAGLE and Fusion 360 smoothly and seamlessly.

Discover how MakerBot used the Fusion 360 APIs and to link the MakerBot Cloud Services to create seamless CAD-to-Part Workflows. Learn how you can tie Fusion 360 product development process to browser-based printing experience, which enables desktop design and prototyping collaboration.

Fusion 360 Simulation software offers a rich set of analysis types to simulate real-world problems. Whether it’s simple static stress, optimizing a shape to reduce weight, or simulating a bird hitting an airplane, it’s all there. One of the biggest challenges is to set up the simulation properly so the results are reasonable. Interpretation of results to selection of the best alternative for manufacturing is another challenge. While demystifying simulation with tips and tricks from community forums, we will also highlight the pitfalls one needs to avoid. Collaboration and knowledge sharing are key to mastering simulation tools.

At this roundtable session, we discuss how collaboration fits in the design and simulation processes. We want to learn how you collaborate and share data in your work environments and what tools, functionality, and information are important when designers, engineers, and simulation experts need to work together. We explore the latest versions of Fusion 360™ and Sim 360™ cloud services, their integration with Autodesk® 360 Pro, and how they are using the cloud and online data management. We will gather your feedback about the current capabilities and give you a chance to influence future improvements.

If you’ve considered using cloud services but can’t find answers to questions like, “How do I ensure that nobody, not even service provider’s staff can access my data?” “Who has the encryption keys?” “How is the data destroyed after use?” this class is for you. The focus of this class will be to understand and summarize your concerns about security of moving data to the cloud and adoption of new Autodesk, Inc., services. We will discuss potential scenarios/options that could address your concerns. No service can guarantee total security and protection, and there is no “silver bullet” addressing all potential security concerns. In the class we will try to define what you can do with Autodesk to demonstrate that Autodesk 360 cloud services are secure and ready for sensitive workloads that require a higher standard of encryption.

This session details developing a digital twin for the healthcare market, specifically for operating theatres where we try to combine the medical and technical world to improve patient safety and reduce surgical site infection which leads to mortality. Creating this digital twin is a sum of data analytics, CFD simulations, and the use of visualisation tools such as VR and AR. In practise, this leads to a better design process and lifecycle of the OR that guarantees the optimal safety for the patient. We are still in a development phase and using the following Autodesk products: Revit, Fusion 360, CFD, 3ds Max and Interactive.

Fusion 360 software installs and runs on Windows 10 and macOS, just like traditional applications. However, all of Fusion 360 software’s data is synchronized to the Autodesk Cloud, hosted on Amazon Cloud servers, which provides numerous data management benefits. Having a high-level understanding of how Fusion 360 stores its data is critical for business owners who have chosen to use Fusion 360 as their digital design and manufacturing tool. What isn’t obvious to business owners is this: The first employee to set up and use Fusion 360 in their business becomes the owner of all the data created with Fusion 360. This class will explain why and how business owners or IT managers can make sure they have control over their companies’ intellectual property.

We invite customers who have a need to simulate thermal management of electronics to attend this roundtable. We plan on discussing and discovering common electrical computer-aided design (ECAD) and mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) workflows, going from ideation, conceptual layout, and final design. Thermal management fits in this design process throughout and we will present some mockups on how we see the next generation of simulation fitting into the design process. We hope to gain insight from the roundtable regarding how participants currently manage the ECAD data and use it along with MCAD data to perform thermal simulation, where their struggles are, and what could be done to make everything easier. This session features CFD, Forge, and Fusion 360.

Are you an industrial designer (or a CAD user in general)? Are you not doing much with the simulation tools? Come and learn why and how you should be exploiting finite element analysis (FEA) and simulation in Fusion 360 software. Engineers are designers’ teammates, not opponents. Design and validation tools will help you collaborate with engineers more effectively. Those tools will also help you to carry a design to production with fewer changes. You’ll go to engineering with a sound concept, rather than something that needs a lot of help. We will talk about static stress, shape optimization, and maybe even a little generative design.