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.

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 to automate user workflows. This class will cover a basic overview of the Fusion 360 API and how to get started. We will 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.

How can you create a team of people who will champion technology strategy inside your firm? In this panel discussion, we'll explore techniques and ideas for preparing innovative teams within an established company, focusing on how to get your change strategy off the drawing board. We will present findings from last year's session on this subject and share what the audience had to say. Finding like-minded individuals who share your vision is critical, but there are many more important steps when vying for a better process. We'll explore a multitude of strategies from Autodesk software and the real world that have worked in the past, as well as look at what to avoid. How do you follow through? How do you propose a business case? What staffing do you need? If you are struggling to learn how to adapt your business to the fast-paced, ever-changing climate of technology implementation, this is the panel for you!

This session will highlight several exciting Autodesk partnership programs available to educators to inspire students to participate in design based learning, projects and competitions across science, coding & engineering. You will learn how our partnerships with Project Lead the Way and F1 in Schools engage students in developing the skills necessary for achieving academic and future career success.

This roundtable is an extension of the class entitled Customizing Fusion 360 Using its Programming Interface. It is an open forum where we can address questions related to the class and any other Fusion software API. It will also be an opportunity to discuss the future of Fusion software’s programming interface and to voice your opinion about the functionality needed and priorities.

The Forge Viewer is built on the three.js library and can be easily extended and mixed with three.js functionality. This class will demonstrate just how flexible and customizable the Forge Viewer is by walking you through a set of code samples. Topics covered will include WebVR support, mixing your model components with custom graphics, changing the appearance of your components by adding custom materials and shaders, and animating your models.

Maybe you've used CAD for years and modeled parts and assemblies the traditional way. Or maybe you're familiar with the traditional bottom-up CAD design process, and you've noticed Fusion 360 software looks a little different. In this class, we'll compare the assembly design process in Inventor software with the processes you can use in Fusion 360. After all, you want to know all the facts before evaluating what's best for you.

Whether you're a budding entrepreneur or an established machine tool manufacturer, social media has grown to be a major platform for business innovation, customer growth, and brand loyalty. Led by John Saunders of NYC CNC, let's discuss the specific roles that YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and more play in modern manufacturing, and why your company should-or should not-use social media. We'll cover best practices, dos and don'ts, how to successfully build a social channel, and how to measure results.

Let your customers unleash their inner rock star. Engineer to order has been done, but what about design to order? Learn how to create flexible complex designs driven from customer inputs. Increase efficiencies and margins using the sculpting tools in the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app and the automation capabilities of Inventor software. We use our startup, Orphanage Guitars, as a case study to illustrate how our customers are able to design their own custom carved-top electric guitars to their specifications in a matter of minutes. We let you behind the curtain, show our process, and discuss the pros and cons of alternative mass customization methods.

The Fusion 360 Drawings Team has implemented a lot of new and exciting functionality this year. This class aims to provide an overview of current capabilities: multisheet sheet metal, faster dimensioning, and smart templates, as well as a sneak peek into what the Fusion 360 Drawings Team is working on. We will cover this through a series of demonstrations that create shop drawings ready for manufacture. After attending, users will be able to apply what they've seen to get more from their Fusion 360 software.

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.

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.

In this class, we will talk about everything you need to know to get started with Simulation in Fusion 360 software. We will look at how to take advantage of simulation in the context of your Fusion 360 design, the benefits of simulation being tied to the cloud for both solving and collaboration, the problems types that can be solved, and the basic steps to get up and running with your first simulation.

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.

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.