Many of the products we design and finally use are developed in mechanical CAD software. However, in almost all products, you’ll also find an electronic part. Without them, most products would be pointless. With the two Autodesk programs Fusion 360 software and EAGLE software, these two worlds grow together. This class will provide insight into the world of electronics. We intend to explain very basic things: What is a printed circuit board (PCB) and how is it manufactured? Which electronic components are used? How is an electronic layout created in EAGLE and how can a mechanical engineer use, change, and create a layout in Fusion 360? These basic questions will be explained using some illustrative examples.

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.

Whether prototyping or designing your next product, enclosure design can be difficult to coordinate between your electronics design and mechanical design. This talk will look at several examples of how to make your next enclosure project easier using Fusion 360 software and Eagle.

This seminar will cover design for digital manufacturing (DfDM) with a focus on additive manufacturing (DfAM). Capitalizing on the learnings from more than 1,000 projects posted on the You3Dit marketplace, we’ll walk our attendees through a DfAM process for translating customer needs into a design optimized for additive manufacturing, enabling performance, process, and product breakthroughs. We will describe high-level DfDM implications for common digital manufacturing tools, such as laser cutters, computer numerical control (CNC) machines, waterjet, and more. We will describe the overall DfDM process in the context of Fusion 360 software and how that workflow is optimized to support DfAM and other digital manufacturing technologies. Lastly, as a group we’ll create a set of design rules related to a new and powerful manufacturing process: “X.” The class will last 60 minutes, including 15 minutes at the end for questions and answers.

Bills of materials (BOMs) serve several purposes throughout a product lifecycle. While BOM data is usually created by CAD designers and managed in product data management (PDM) systems such as Vault software, it also needs to be shared with departments outside engineering where BOM information is used for production planning, assembling, or purchasing. Each of these steps requires a different view of the same BOM. Sometimes BOMs even need to be extended with information such as "work stages" or "work orders.” Sharing and enriching BOM information is usually done in systems other than Vault, such as Fusion 360 Manage or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This class will explore bills of materials and their different uses. We'll showcase different ways to share BOM data among product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, PDM systems, and ERP systems. And we’ll analyze the available APIs to help you implement BOM workflows among Vault Professional (PDM), Fusion 360 Manage (PLM), and ERP systems.

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.

With products becoming smarter and more connected, the need for an integrated Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is paramount. This class will introduce the first-ever cloud connected ECAD to MCAD workflow. We will discuss how EAGLE and Fusion 360 can work side by side to create schematics and generate board layouts from 3D CAD geometry and accurate 3D representations of PCBs to create enclosures within Fusion 360.

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.

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.

CFD simulations enables a deep insight about fluid flow behaviour under the guidance of simulation setup. Apart from basic static-region CFD cases such as air flow in a duct or two-phase flow of a heat exchanger, we need an additional approach to define their rotating parts (blades) while simulating rotating devices such as centrifugal fans, axial flow fans, pumps, turbo chargers etc., especially when we're optimizing the blade geometry.In this hands-on lab, we'll set a CFD simulation of an axial flow fan by using Autodesk CFD Rotating Region Method.Please see my past webinar video in Turkish:

Engineers and designers are constantly pressed to deliver greater performance while simultaneously cutting costs and using up less space. This phenomenon requires many design revisions, and the designer and engineer must work together to arrive at the best possible solution that meets the design criteria. This class will start by demonstrating how to create simulation-ready geometry within the Fusion 360 Simplify workspace. Iterating seamlessly between Fusion 360 software and Autodesk CFD software, this class will dive into setting up rapidly prototyped electronics-board configurations and evaluating its thermal performance. Stepping through electronics-cooling best practices, postprocessing simulation results, and evaluating multiple designs—you will learn not only how to validate the original design, but also how to innovate and land on the best possible design. You will learn the effectiveness of iteration CAD modifications and up-front simulation, and master rapid prototyping workflows.

This roundtable session focuses on forthcoming capabilities in Sim 360 cloud-based software, including fluid flow simulation (CFD) and design optimization. We will start with CFD and introduce new techniques for quickly setting up and solving models, going from a sample design in the Fusion 360™ cloud service to all the way through reviewing, interpreting, and comparing liquid or gas flow results. The second part of the session will focus on design optimization workflows in Sim 360. We will demonstrate new options for defining multiple design objectives and then rapidly testing many alternatives at once using the cloud. No prior simulation experience is required; however we will compare and contrast the unique collaboration, geometry editing and simplification, and solving capabilities in Sim 360 with those available in other simulation packages.

Every design and analysis project contains a unique set of challenges that often necessitate a clever workflow utilizing many different pieces of software. In this class we will discuss how Autodesk, Inc., products were used in the design and analysis of a composite swingarm for an electric motorcycle. In particular, you will learn how the Fusion 360 app, Simulation Composite Analysis software, Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform, and a labs project called Arro are enabling the Design and Analysis Team to digitally prototype this advanced swingarm.

Are you new to Fusion 360 software or are you an Inventor user looking to make the switch to Fusion 360? If so, this is the class for you. We will be focusing on the 2 methods that Fusion 360 uses to design a multiple-component assembly. Additionally, you will learn how to incorporate motion into this design once you've fully assembled and constrained it. For you existing Inventor users, we will discuss the similarities and differences to help you make the transition.

The rendering workspace is where your designs come to life. Why spend 1,000 words describing the beauty of your design when a simple gorgeous image would do the same? Over the course of 60 minutes, we'll teach you how to utilize Fusion 360 software's rendering workspace to turn your perfectly engineered designs into photorealistic images. We'll use real-world examples to showcase how scene settings, lighting techniques, texture maps, and advanced material editing can take your renderings to the next level.

Designing and making a custom-fit Ironman suit with my son for Comic-Con International: San Diego is the inspiration for this class. It's like asking a tailor to use CAD for textile design or requesting a well-cut Italian suit made from metal. It started with the shape of my son. Then the compounded complexity of modeling sheet metal layers that custom fit him. Last but not least, how were we to work out the flat pattern of these complex surfaces? Finally, we had to make it, but with what and how? In this class, we'll explore a digital workflow with Fusion 360 software. We can use ReCap Pro software to convert human scan data to mesh model. We can refine mesh model with ReMake software. We can use Fusion 360 for sheet metal design based on the human mesh. And we can do flat pattern creation with ExactFlat Online software. We then lay out a nested flat pattern and cut on stock sheet using Fusion 360 CAM 2D profile cutting. We assemble all the parts together, and the custom-fit Ironman suit is finalized with perfect shape and size.

Learn the features and workflows needed for brake press sheet metal design. Create material-specific rules in a library to be referenced and shared. Discover the selection-based flange tool to create base, contour, edge, and join flanges. Cut across bends by unfolding and folding your bent bodies. After attending this class, you will have the knowledge needed to be effective in sheet metal design.

Hear about how Fusion Connect customers are profiting from the Internet of Things (IoT) and what connected products have done for their business. Expect to hear some great success stories and valuable advice about those who’ve embraced connected products and have begun building new business opportunities from IoT. This session features Fusion Connect ( Formerly SeeControl ). 

This class will look at the Fusion 360 application's APIs (application programming interfaces) and how you can use these APIs to extend the Fusion 360 app functionality. We will also discuss how you can use the APIs as part of your automation or integration processes.