SIMSOLID™ is next generation, high capacity, structural FEA. It uses new computational methods which allow the solution of assemblies with hundreds to thousands of parts directly on a standard desktop computer. SIMSOLID completely eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time consuming, expertise extensive and error prone tasks done in traditional FEA.SIMSOLID is the perfect complement to existing CAD embedded simulation. It extends the analysis range and provides feedback in seconds to minutes.

This class will provide an introduction to SIMSOLID working with Autodesk Fusion 360. It will give an in-depth overview of SIMSOLID's unique meshless approach and will provide numerous industry examples including large assemblies and lattice based designs.

The attendee will learn new techniques for performing preliminary design analysis on rapidly evolving designs.

Whether it’s being used in rapid prototyping and consumer products or small-run manufacturing, 3D printing has become an important part of the workflows of many hobbyists, artists, engineers, and fabrication companies. This course is a discussion of the landscape of the 3D-printing industry, and how to break through the hype that surrounds it. You will discover how 3D printing is being used in the real world for both personal and professional uses. From creating art to engineering prototypes, this course will also explore the expanding use of 3D printers and their place in an enhanced design workflow. Finally, we’ll look at the practicality of how you can gain immediate returns from 3D printing your designs today. This session features Inventor Professional and Fusion 360.

3D printing has revolutionized the design and manufacturing production workflow, making the creation of design prototypes as easy as pushing a button. Fusion 360 software has become an indispensable tool in this revolution, letting designers and engineers create and iterate their designs faster than ever before. This course will step through the process of developing, printing, and iterating the design of a real product prototype-learning the different phases of the design used to create a 3D-printable final product. Fusion 360 and Print Studio are used every day for a variety of purposes, from the office, to the house, to production and marketing. This course will explore the creation of a unique spinner toy that you can assemble, personalize, and take home with you. This session will feature Fusion 360, Print Studio, and a live 3D printing demonstration.

Mechanical motion is all around. From a simple door hinge to a car cylinder piston, it's easy to forget that even simple real-world motions can be complex operations in 3D animation software. This class will explore several methods for automating complex motion animation in 3ds Max 2018 software. Designers will learn how to wire parameters and import the assembly into 3ds Max, and how to create similar constraints using 3ds Max tools. You will learn strategies for building a hierarchy based on animation requirements, as well as basic parameter wiring and the setting up of links and inverse kinematics to mimic specific constraints. The class will step through multiple short lessons that let you animate specific moveable parts. Finally, attendees will see what advantages each tool has for different steps in the animation of complex motion.

3D printing has revolutionized the design and manufacturing production workflow, making the creation of design prototypes as easy as pushing a button. Fusion 360 software is quickly becoming an indispensable tool in this revolution, enabling designers and engineers to create and iterate their design faster than ever before. This course will step through the process of developing, printing, and iterating the design of a real product prototype. There are products used every day for a variety of purposes, from the office to the house. This course will explore the development of a household product. You will step through the process of designing the product, learning the different phases of the design used to create a 3D-printable final product. This session features Fusion 360.

Whether it's being used in rapid prototyping and consumer products or small-run manufacturing, 3D printing has become an important part of the workflows of many hobbyists, artists, engineers, and fabrication companies. This course will look at the landscape of the 3D printing industry in order to break through the hype that surrounds it. You will discover how 3D printing is being used in the real world for both personal and professional uses. From creating art to engineering prototypes, this course will also explore the expanding use of 3D printers and their place in an enhanced design workflow. The course discusses the current state and future implications of 3D printing in the real world.

Simulation technology for designers is opening powerful design tools to a wide community of designers. Now you can make the right design decisions, improve your product functionality, and decrease weight without time-consuming setup, model simplifications, and hard-to-interpret results. In this class you will discover how easily you can improve your design with a 1-Click Solution. No extensive experience or specialized education or training is needed for our Simulation software tools. In addition, I will demonstrate a couple of early implementations of the Fusion 360 app calculators that will help you to quickly generate right models, such as gears or bolted connections. This software is powered by known and industry-proven Inventor Design Accelerators technology.

AnyCAD lets you associatively update designs from any CAD tool, letting you connect design across disciplines and teams. This class will cover how AnyCAD can automatically update toolpaths, increasing the productivity in your company or shop. Even in-house design teams can often span multiple products and use many design formats. Instead of creating 2D drawings and putting your CAM programmers back at square one, or forcing them to use a CAD-specific CAM product, use AnyCAD to connect your CAD—including SOLIDWORKS, Siemens NX, PTC Creo, IGES, and STEP—to your favorite CAM tool. If you get various parts from contractors or customers, and you don’t want to purchase a costly license of their design software when small changes are needed during the manufacturing process, AnyCAD can bring the designs into Inventor software or Fusion 360 software, while maintaining associativity to the original design. This class will show you how to unlock the connectivity and flexibility of AnyCAD and apply it to your manufacturing process.

Learn how to take your design from within Fusion 360 software and apply 2D and 3D toolpaths. This class will open up the door and let you create G-code for your computer numerical control (CNC) machines. Simply start at the beginning, create toolpaths, simulate and verify, post G-code, and see how easy it is to handle design changes.

This class will cover the fundamental concepts of programming in HSMWorks, Inventor HSM, and Fusion 360. Attendees should expect to learn core concepts necessary for programming any part as well as general best practices from seasoned machinists and product experts.

Fusion 360 software includes powerful design tools. Mastering the assembly design tools will enable you to explore more designs faster and build smarter designs that respond to changes quickly and easily. This class will cover the setup of projects, design methodology best practices, theory on why and how tools work, and how to best apply these concepts to real-world design problems. This session features Fusion 360.

This class will show attendees how to use the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app and the Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform for team collaboration.

The session will present concept design development workflow for industrial designers with Fusion 360 software quick Sculpt and Solid Modeling, plus Rendering. We will also mix with Physical Sketching on Wacom Tablet. The class is about introducing new early design iteration process with Fusion 360 software for industrial designers. Traditionally, designers start sketching when they’ve received overall goal/direction for the product. This class suggests that designers mix quick 3D modeling with their traditional sketching workflow. For example, Fusion 360 software has super-flexible Sculpt Modeling, and it takes just a few minutes to generate basic forms. Designers can start their sketches over these basic product forms and find balance and details based on real scale. This session features Fusion 360 and SketchBook Pro.

Students are learning and designing in new ways. They have an empathetic understanding of the people they are designing for. They are experimental. Students work together to produce creative solutions to even the most complex challenges. Autodesk Fusion 360 is the end-to-end integrated product development platform that allows teams to keep the design on one platform from concept to production (preserving intent and preventing needless rework). It is CAD reinvented. In this class you will learn how to help your students collaborate better, iterate faster and design differently.  Help them meet the expectations of next generation designers and engineers when they enter the job market.

With engineering and design changing rapidily, the toolsets used to create the products of the future need to change. This class will take attendees through how the Product Design and Manufacturing collection, in particular the connection between Fusion 360 and Inventor, can address the challenges of the future. We will show how a connected cloud workflow can help designers and engineers take a product from concept through to manufacture utilising a truely integrated, advanced manufacturing toolset.

Applications built on Forge software can allow for greater levels of visibility and transparency around sustainability measures by integrating sustainability parameters—such as greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, and so on—into the design-and-make process through a common data environment with 3D models. This class will introduce Forge application developers and customers to the opportunity of developing Forge applications that capitalize on the data of BIM (Building Information Modeling) or engineering models to improve outcomes along these sustainability parameters, or to make sophisticated design choices for better buildings or products with less negative environmental impact. This class will include examples of Forge for sustainability applications, case studies, industry insights, innovative ideas, and experiences from the AEC and D&M industries.

This class will show attendees how to use the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app in the process that starts with designing concept models and ends with manufacturing ready parts.

A hands-on tutorial session to design critical parts using shape optimisation on the cloud within Fusion 360. Attendees will start from the basics of design and learn how starting with basic CAD geometry and applying loads can lead to optimised geometry which is best suited to additive manufacture and 3D printing.

The dilemma of choosing to open a startup or a nonprofit is always present in the mind of entrepreneurs. In this age, where small startups are raising money and there are huge investments in the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner/operator (AECO) industry, what is missing and what can be an opportunity? In this panel, the San Francisco Computational Design Institute will try to find the winning formula. This effort aims to promote cooperation under the same umbrella and help the AECO community as a whole. We will focus on how we, as experts, can help our community to share our knowledge and provide better solutions. The panel will host: Zachary Kron from Autodesk Dynamo Team Matt Jezyk: Tesla Dennis Shelden: Georgia Tech Kayleigh Houde: Buro Happold - BHoM All our panelists come from different experiences and career paths, universities, enterprises, startup and they contributed and are keep contributing in the main open-source or closed source initiatives in the AEC space. They will answers to questions related to how to run successfully and open-source project, a startup, they will share with us their personally story and career paths, and they will provide some good insights for other organizations who are approaching this Digital Transformation.

This class is for you if you’re a Fusion 360 user who regularly works with imported data, with the primary goal of reverse-engineering a design from that imported data. We’ll explore some techniques to use data—such as meshes, curves, images, and even solids and surfaces—from other design systems to create a basis for creating a reliable, native, parametric Fusion 360 design that represents that data as closely as possible. Learn what Fusion 360 can and cannot do when working with imported data. Learn how to avoid common performance problems when working with imported meshes and curves.