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.

Imagine the possibilities of a fully digitized company in parallel with the real physical entity in an AI-based learning environment. This “digital twin” is described as an instance in the Metaverse. Now imagine a universal, bi-directional communication learning component that auto operates machinery based on key datasets including web traffic, inventory, and even utility electric consumption. No need to imagine, because we’re perfecting the platform. With the support of Lenovo’s powerful workstations & NVIDIA’s Omniverse we now have the ability to research the use of digital twin technologies as a real viable technological solution. Fusion360 is the launching point in design for workflow simulation in a dream ecosystem. In this industry talk, Aram Goganian of Predator Cycling, discusses the application of Fusion360 as a key facilitator for the integration of design, simulation, part management, & 3D print preparation within the development of workflow software system, Ayowork.

Autodesk now has Fusion 360 Manage Extension, Upchain, Fusion 360 Manage, and Vault PLM (Fusion 360 Manage connected to Vault). You know PLM could benefit your organization, but don’t know where to start. We have helped many customers navigate the options they have and identify which PLM solution would benefit them the most, we can help you too.

Kinect Fusion allows you to paint in 3D using a Kinect device as a wand, aggregating a point cloud representing a 3D volume (and allowing you to export a mesh of the capture surface). Kinect Fusion started as a UK-based research project between Microsoft Research Cambridge and Imperial College London. It was introduced into the Kinect for Windows® SDK in the 1.7 release, and has the potential to enable low-cost, high-quality reality capture for anyone with a Kinect device. This class looks at a prototype integration of Kinect Fusion inside AutoCAD software, investigating the quality of the results and the potential for further development.

Automated modern manufacturing technologies require a highly trained workforce, with equipment that punishes novices and cheerfully damages itself if mishandled. Advances in manufacturing often require investments in new equipment and extensive retraining—costs that often leave established manufacturers behind. Learn how to increase productivity through establishing robust, easy-to-use, error-resistant, end-to-end evolving workflows that build on existing manufacturing expertise and equipment. These workflows scale and equip designers with manufacturing expertise while also driving automation—providing a giant leap forward in usability for operators through proactively identifying and highlighting errors. In this session, we’ll use real examples to illustrate the process drawn from our educational expertise in transforming the prototyping experience of hundreds of novice students per year, enabling them to go from concept to custom part in a couple of weeks with a 90% first-time success rate.

The Fusion Data API unifies the way you can access data stored on Autodesk Forge, model hierarchy information, and properties of Autodesk Fusion 360 models. This API is based on GraphQL, an industry-standard technology that makes it easy to discover the properties and relationship information that the Fusion Data API provides.

While manufacturing departments come in all shapes and sizes, business owners and production managers will all face similar challenges, such as keeping up with design changes, needing to automate computer numerical control (CNC) machine usage, and improving part quality—all while addressing potential skills gaps in their workforces. This class will look at these challenges in detail, and then use an example manufacturing department to illustrate how they can be addressed with a series of scenarios where Autodesk Fusion 360 software can be used to provide possible solutions.

Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software can facilitate the dream of an online and integrated world for process management. This tool provides many industry-standard processes already loaded into the system, but one size does not always fit all. Whether young or established, capture your processes quickly. Many get star-struck by Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage, only to get caught up in how customizable it can be—which can lead to trying to get every detail right. This approach tends to impair. The best approach is to weave together the principles of starting simply, using the out-of-the-box processes, avoiding perfectionism, and putting user adoption first. This will manifest in a faster return on investment. Do not get left with an imperfect perfected process with nothing to show for your hard work. Lean toward being agile, building simply on the system foundations with the user always at the forefront of your plans. Ultimately, user adoption leads to happy directors and CEOs who haven’t wasted their money—and we all want that.

When company leaders purchase Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software for their organization, they’re typically looking to manage their Items and Bills of Materials (BOMs), the change process that goes along with it, and quality processes. What some customers don't realize, though, is that they don't have to stop at managing workflows within Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage. Since the tool has the capabilities of building a workspace from scratch—and, more importantly, the ability to build any workflow with the workflow editor—users are really only limited by their imaginations in terms of what business processes they manage with Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage. This course will provide a variety of examples of "outside the box" workflows that customers are managing with Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage. We’ll outline each customer's challenges, solutions, and outcomes. In addition, we’ll discuss the return on investment each customer realized by implementing these outside-the-box workflows.

In this class, Autodesk and GKN Aerospace will present how you can use Autodesk Fusion 360 software as a start-to-finish powerhouse for metal additive design and manufacturing. Starting with generative design, we can quickly explore possible print orientations and material possibilities, and build in automated design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) best practices to create designs that are optimized for structural performance, while minimizing the amount of required post processing. Once a design is selected, we’ll show how we can use the Additive Build Extension in Autodesk Fusion 360 to quickly create highly customizable support templates to generate intelligent support setups with a single click, and export directly to a powder bed additive printer for manufacturing.

Many components in manufacturing or woodworking (just to name two industries) start their production journey as flat materials. This makes an easy-to-handle workflow for mass production very important, especially when you’re running a job shop. Attend this training to take a closer look at the full workflow, starting with designing or importing parts, moving to creating a nesting layout of all components, and closing with the computer numerical control (CNC) production.

Cheaper? Faster? Better? Pick two? Why, when you can have all three?! When planning to tie processes and data sources together, there’s no better option than using Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software and Vault Pro software to put them all in one place. This class will showcase the journey of a mid-size company that had the audacity to create a global solution to unite resources and projects in that one instance on a global scale. We’ll walk through the steps and missteps along the way, and cover what to look out for on your journey.

It was a Friday morning, just before lunch, when a Teams message dinged: "RED ALERT!" Little did the speaker know that in less than a week the shop would be cutting metal on an innovative new suspension design created with the use of Autodesk design and manufacturing toolsets in Autodesk Fusion 360 and Inventor software. Exploring multiple design technologies—including Generative Design, Shape Generator, and finite element analysis (FEA) tools with Inventor Nastran software—a team collaborated to design and manufacture a new truck suspension prototype that shaved an unheard-of 20% off the weight of the suspension assembly. Three weeks later, the new prototype was on the showroom floor at a national truck show. How did we get there? What technologies did we use? And how did we choose one technology over another? This case study will retrace our steps and help you identify decision points you can apply in your own design scenarios. Most of all, this story will showcase the possibilities Autodesk design tools open up.

Keeping your production floor productive is more important than ever before. After all, a computer numerical control (CNC) machine or worker sitting idle costs your business money. Prodsmart already helps manufacturers and fabricators to schedule, track, and trace their production and quality processes in real time. But what if you want to go further? In this live demonstration, you'll learn how you can maximize Autodesk Fusion 360 software, Fusion Team, and Prodsmart to further improve your production efficiency.

With millions of uses per year, 2D Contour is by far the most-used toolpath in Autodesk Fusion 360 manufacturing. From finishing a silhouette to tabbing a flange, 2D Contour offers the simplicity and flexibility to do almost anything. Want to explore uses for 2D Contour that you never imagined? Join me for a MasterClass in controlling 2D Contour down to the last toolpath segment.

With the release of Inventor 2023 software, users can now send their CAD data directly from Inventor to Autodesk Fusion 360 software. This opens a host of new capabilities for Inventor users in generative design, simulation, and subtractive and additive manufacturing. This presentation will demonstrate, through compelling customer case studies, how Inventor users can now take advantage of this workflow to explore the benefits of using metal additive manufacturing to manufacture their products. Metal additive and hybrid manufacturing can offer tangible advantages in product performance due to the design freedoms the process enables, manufacturing sustainability, supply lead time, and component cost. In addition, the advances in accessible hardware and software is making this technology feasible for nearly all industrial sectors. With the connection from Inventor to Autodesk Fusion 360, you can now learn how these advantages in metal additive manufacturing can also benefit your business today.

Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage App Store is a collection of free, ready-to-implement workspaces that contain business processes and templates. Benefit from industry best practices with preconfigured fields, tabs, workflows, roles, and permissions. Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage apps reduce implementation time and enhance ROI during your Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage deployment. You can try apps with User Acceptance Testing before going live, as they contain scripts, reports, picklists, and everything needed. Your Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage tenant administrator adds the roles to groups and anyone within the group can start using the app.

Victoria Hand Project (VHP) is a charity that designs and deploys low-cost, 3D-printed prosthetic arms in developing countries. VHP provides medical professionals in low-income countries with the tools and training to create custom prosthetic arms. VHP has developed software solutions which use Autodesk Fusion 360 software to efficiently create these devices. Recently, VHP struggled to create prosthetic devices for upper-arm amputees (i.e., above elbow), due to the complex geometry of the 3D scans and the in-depth knowledge/workflow required to make the devices. Through the new Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension, VHP can now organically convert the complex mesh bodies of upper-arm scans into solid bodies for further 3D modeling. This has substantially improved the workflow of creating upper-arm prosthetic sockets, and allows for automation using APIs. This empowers VHP’s in-country partners to create custom upper-arm prosthetic devices quickly and easily, allowing for improved access to prosthetic care.

ModuleWorks would like to fully support the Autodesk Fusion 360 user base, and present any relevant topics about ModuleWorks' technology that’s being integrated into Autodesk Fusion 360. This presentation will highlight Autodesk Fusion 360 software’s journey throughout the coming one to two years, and expand on the content that will be launched throughout this period and the functionalities that ModuleWorks technology will bring to Autodesk Fusion 360 users. This could include topics regarding multi-axis and particularly easy-to-use multi-axis. We would like to fully educate the user base about what’s to come from all fronts. The message of the presentation is the democratization of five-axis capabilities through ModuleWorks' technology and Autodesk Fusion 360.

As companies have adopted Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software to handle their company's engineering data, how many other systems are you using to handle everything else? Is it just via email? If so, how’s the tracking? Are you paying for other systems additionally? At Owens Corning, we’ve taken the product lifecycle management (PLM) system and tailored it to meet the other areas of use in the office. This session will display the thoughts and concepts used to develop a robust system to be used for all aspects of a company, relating them to the projects that we work on.