This class will cover the story and the key technicalities of My Home Experience, an ambitious project that is replacing “normal” decorated apartments by customizable virtual reality (VR) ones all across Brazil. We will start by showing off how a partnership between IM Designs and MRV is helping change the way people experience their dream homes. We’ll then dive into how to prepare your data set to fit your immersive technology (XR) hardware. For that, we’ll show how we solved performance and hardware limitation issues while achieving incredibly realistic looks through a series of optimization techniques in 3ds Max software, and we’ll explain their impact on real-time rendering. You’ll gain info about light baking, UVs, retopology, RTT for baking AO, normals, and more. On the hardware side, we’ll see how those techniques affect your GPU, CPU, and memory, and how to profile them to boost rendering performance. We’ll then finish by showing off the final implementation in untethered VR, and its challenges. We hope everyone learns a lot from our case.

Product development is a pain, right? It doesn't have to be. Let us walk you through it. We're 2 industrial designers with a knack for teaching. Design Thinking is a great process to move a team quickly from problem space to solutions. But it's just that: a cognitive process. What do you do with all those great ideas? This class will be a hands-on introduction to Design Thinking and Making. In small teams, we'll work rapidly through a design challenge, using a human-centered approach, and develop virtual prototypes using Fusion 360 software. Participants will be given a project brief, and we'll select teams at random. The focus of this highly engaging workshop is to rapidly develop a product solution (as a team) through Design Thinking and conceptual realization using Fusion 360. Teams will prepare and present their solutions in an informal share.

Vault product data management (PDM) software helps designers and engineers better organise design data, enhance documentation management, and streamline revision processes of their product data. Product data is not exclusively used by development teams, but should also be available outside the engineering department. On the other hand, the engineers require data from upstream processes such as sales orders and specifications. And that's where a product lifecycle management (PLM) system like Fusion Lifecycle software comes into the play. Fusion Lifecycle serves as a company-wide information source for activities before, during, and after development actions, supported by automated processes. In this class, we will have a look at how both worlds (PDM and PLM) can be tied together to streamline the workflows throughout the whole product development cycle.

What, why and how you can leverage the Autodesk App Store to find new customers, grow your sales internationally, and engage Autodesk customers across platforms and industries - AEC, Mfg, Infrastructure, Revit, Navisworks, BIM 360, Inventor, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Civil 3D Max, Maya and more! (Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

In this class, we’ll explore the journey one person has taken to create numerous 3D prints and designs—with a case study of two specific, very popular, 3D-printed designs—using Fusion 360 software and other Autodesk tools. These designs help demonstrate the value of Fusion 360 software’s multiple workspaces, while requiring the user to find alternative workflows to overcome some limitations. Both projects are 3D-printable items that can be printed on most home 3D printers or through any commercial service. Come and share my experience.

Laurens Wijnschenk will take you through the past year of what has been added and updated in the Subtractive Manufacturing environment, as well as show you how to use it and what you need to do to make use of these features. And of course, we’ll take a small peek into the future.

Autodesk Forge is an on-demand web services platform. That means you need to be online to connect to the Autodesk servers to use the various Forge APIs. However, the Autodesk Forge Viewer can work with multiple online, as well as offline sources. There are times where an offline workflow is preferable because of lack of connectivity, security concerns, or performance. In this lecture, we will explore how to optimally use the Forge Viewer in an offline mode, and how to cache and synchronize the data with the server for Mobile and Web applications requiring temporary offline mode capabilities.

In today's difficult times, all around the world engineers and designers like you are constantly facing challenges, including reducing costs, reducing weight, making innovative product designs faster, and on and on. In this session we will show you, step by step, how to use the powerful yet easy-to-use simulation capabilities of Fusion 360 Simulation. The class is aimed at designers and engineers who have never used simulation within their workplace or even believe that they do not need simulation. This session will also go through workflows and tips based on industry best practices to help you use Fusion 360 Simulation confidently.

This lab will guide attendees to understand the main techniques and methods to prepare complex preconstruction documentation and how to take advantage of the BIM and Manufacturing worlds combined together. The class will drive participants to investigate and test the potential of the interaction between the 2 approaches. The aim is showing how a BIM model could be prepared for construction documentation using Fusion 360 and Revit; a particular focus will be put on complex cladding. The main inspiration is the stunning building designed by Zaha Hadid for the Reinold Messner Museum. This is located in Plan de Corones, Italy, and it is composed of a concrete structure "smoothed" with complex concrete panels cladding. The scope of this class is reproducing a similar building and explaining how architects and engineers can take advantage of Autodesk solutions to approach complex designs and make informed decisions. The model that will be created will be then organised to manage the complex concrete cladding and to finally produce the molds and prepare the elements to be placed on the construction site.

30 St Mary Axe, known to most as "The Gherkin," is arguably the most recognisable building on the London skyline. Designed by Foster and Partners, its organic glazed facade has caught the eye of visitors to London since its erection. This hands-on lab is based on a tutorial I developed and uploaded to YouTube (https://youtu.be/NS0JboPxa78) in April 2017. The tutorial walks the user through the process of developing the Gherkin solely using Dynamo and Revit adaptive components. The tutorial has since amassed over 23,000 views, with the largest portion of viewers from the United Kingdom. When search terms 'Revit' and 'Dynamo' are together input to YouTube, the above tutorial appears third in the results, showing the demand by viewers. This hands-on lab will give all participants an insight into how easily geometry and information can be manipulated using the Autodesk suite of design tools. The result of this manipulation is utilised to create a real-world output in the form of the Gherkin, a fitting case study for Autodesk University London.

Presented by Fusion 360 Quality Assurance, this class will focus on the challenges presented by larger models, such as performance, clutter, and informational or screen overload. Discover Fusion 360 software tools to help you stay organized. Learn how to prevent performance problems as we explore solutions in the user interface, your workflows, hardware configurations, and data management. Starting with the newly distributed design workflows, we'll also demonstrate commands and tools to increase productivity and extend the power of your assemblies and designs in Fusion 360 software.

Inventor software is a high-end, mission-critical application that businesses depend on to generate designs and bills of materials, and produce drawings that keep the doors open and the lights on. Reliability, efficiency, and productivity are key, yet most engineers and IT support staff are uninformed and oblivious to the needs of the tool, resulting in the purchase of hardware unfit for the task. Simply throwing money at the most expensive options on that workstation configurator won't translate into more performance in 3D CAD; in fact, it can have quite the exact opposite effect. So in this class, we'll clarify exactly what Inventor needs from a workstation, and how to purchase right and smart using real-world, large-assembly manufacturing data sets for benchmark testing. We'll also clarify a few hardware myths and confusions along the way, helping you to understand exactly what to buy to power your business as efficiently as possible.

Fusion Team is a powerful data management solution for your Fusion designs as well as other file types. In this class we will explore how companies can benefit from Fusion Team over a Fusion Personal or A360 solution. We will learn how to identify an interesting or important point in our design as a milestone which will control when other changes get consumed. We will learn how to work with multiple different CAD sources in Fusion to streamline our design process. Learn how to set up a library project of common components for reuse in your designs. You can also reuse designs from other projects which can streamline your design lifecycle. Learn how to utilize Connected Desktop allowing you to ad-hoc manage other CAD sources and pick up the component references. We will learn how to administrate your organizations team with Users, Roles and Project types providing the level of security to ensure only the right team members see your designs. We will also learn how to work with the new Trash Bin feature allowing you to delete items but not lose them forever. If you are an enthusiast or hobbyist looking to expand your organization and data management, or an already scaled company then Fusion Team is for you and this class will help.

This session will be a look at the inner workings of Fusion 360 software from 2 of the people who helped build it. Jeff Strater (developer, architect), and Phil Eichmiller (quality engineer, tester) will demonstrate and discuss the core principles and technology at the core of Fusion 360 software’s modeling, sketch, and assembly compute engines. Focusing on performance and stability, this is a class for CAD aficionados interested in a deep understanding of the inner workings of Fusion 360 and how those are best used in modeling and assembly workflows. We'll show you how Fusion 360 is best used for productivity, and for top-down, bottom-up, and streamlined product design workflows.

Are you starting with a blank screen? Or do you have a library of components? This is the top-down versus the bottom-up design question. Most designs use both. Your workflow should start with a strategy to get the most out of these styles of design. This class will dive into these different workflows in detail, using Fusion 360 software. Explore top-down design, including the body or component—what's the difference and why you should start with either; workflows to create in place components—starting off on the right foot; and when and how to reuse the designs you’re making. Learn about techniques for bottom-up design, including upload—what’s the best way to get large or small designs from anywhere into Fusion 360 software; file management via Fusion 360—keeping track of it all; design preparation—how to better prepare designs for insert and use; and distributed design workflows—inserting and using the parts you already have.

The world of manufacturing and production technology is constantly changing. The uprising of the maker movement has seen many people gaining access to an array of machinery and technology on a scale never before seen and opening many doors that were previously locked solid, encouraging many ideas to become reality that have previously been unachievable. Micromanufacturing is the transformation of dreams and ideas into reality through the use of low-cost, minimalistic production technology and equipment in home-style businesses across the globe. In this class, we’ll cover the evolution of micromanufacturing, the ability it has to transform small ideas into viable products for a fraction of the cost of traditional manufacture, and some real-world applications for micromanufacturing in an innovative, small-scale production environment.

We’ll take a look at common CAM programming workflows to analyze the repetitive steps within each. We’ll then walk through the steps to create a template that minimizes those repetitive steps to drastically reduce overall programming time. We’ll also take a look at the tools available to speed up iterations, with both native and imported CAD data. If you’re interested in efficient use of Fusion 360 software in a rapid prototyping manufacturing environment, this class is for you.

Heard about Fusion 360 software? Seen a few videos? Haven't taken the plunge yet? Online tutorials not your thing? This class is for people who want an in-person and up-close introduction to Fusion 360 software. We'll cover the basics, from login to exit, sketch to part, to assembly and beyond. The intent is to give you an overview that will help you understand the scope and power of Fusion 360 software, whether you’re a CAD veteran or just curious about what it can do for you. This session features Fusion 360 and A360.

Are you a Fusion 360 master? Well, come to this session to step up your Fusion 360 skills. No matter what level of expertise you have with Fusion 360 3D CAD/CAM software, you'll leave this session with a few tricks up your sleeve. We'll cover some golden nuggets from every workspace in Fusion 360. Some tricks will help you model faster, a few will improve your computer's performance, and others are just plain cool. Come to this session to add some best practices to your Fusion 360 arsenal. Make sure to check out our weekly quick tips to prepare you for this session: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmA_xUT-8UlIh4hHJDCEDLPi3wQiMrPRY

The Fusion 360 platform is an extremely powerful tool for design and manufacturing, and with the inclusion of an easy-to-use API, it can become even more powerful in the automation of user workflows. This class will cover a basic overview of the Fusion 360 API and how to get started. We’ll introduce students to a simplified method of creating and distributing Fusion 360 scripts and add-ins. Focusing on actual customer problems and sample applications, students will learn how to quickly write simple Python scripts to automate tasks and create useful utilities and workflow enhancements.