This session will show you how to use Autodesk products for the complete electromechanical design workflow of a maker project. You'll learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 software for the structural and mechanical design, AutoCAD Electrical software for the electrical design, and Inventor software to combine the two into a full electromechanical workflow and wiring harness design.

University College London at Here East, a new manufacturing center in east London opened in 2018, hosts a new master’s degree in design for manufacture uniquely within a school of architecture. Equipped with industrial robots, computer numerical control (CNC) milling and turning machines for fabrication and structural frames, large-scale metrology, and climate chambers for testing, UCL at Here East strives to cultivate an environment with students at the interface between a design studio and the point of industrial production. How might the well-established methods for manufacturing in automotive and aerospace be used in construction? This session will present an educator’s approach of “model-make-measure,” showing how the course connects students with the properties of materials used to construct buildings and the fabrication processes these materials undergo existing as nominal digital design intent. Examples will show how this approach has suggested novel design outcomes and ways of working, offering skills transferrable to the construction industry.

How often have you made a simple change to a part file in Inventor software, only to return to the assembly—which EXPLODES! We know that this has happened to you—it's happened to the speaker, too! In this class, we will learn simple and effective strategies for building parametric, stable assemblies that can easily be updated. We will discuss best practice for structuring assemblies and how to scale when working with large assemblies. We will learn how to use relationships effectively, and when to use the alternatives. We will learn how to prepare a design for “top down” parametric change, and how we can trigger changes using iLogic. Finally, we will learn how to document our design intent to ensure that our colleagues can work with our assemblies as effectively as we can.

Fusion Lifecycle software can be deployed faster than any other PLM (product lifecycle management) tool on the market. This was tested for a company that wanted to take its ventilator project to production in the shortest time possible due to the COVID-19 ventilator shortage. A prototype of the ventilator was completed using Fusion 360 software. Now it is time to take it into mass production using Items and BOMs, ECO, and NPI Workspace of Fusion Lifecycle.

International TechneGroup (ITI) is expert in CAD data interoperability, and the firm has partnered with Autodesk in order to help CAD users convert CAD data into Inventor software through an automated and accurate process. Specific market trends drive companies to change their CAD systems to Inventor software. Design teams may have invested years of effort and large amounts of resources into these legacy CAD designs; therefore, changing CAD systems and migrating valuable CAD data can be a painful process. Stakeholders’ biggest concerns when moving CAD data to Inventor include preserving intellectual properties, such as design intelligence, parametrics, and features. Join us to learn about the drivers and technology behind CAD conversion with GoToINVENTOR, a partnership between ITI and Autodesk. As well as explaining the technology behind automated CAD conversion, we will introduce you to GoToINVENTOR and show you how we can support your CAD conversion project in a fully automated process.

Companies struggle with cost overruns, supply chain disruptions, and inefficient production due to poorly managed Bills of Materials (BOMs). Inaccurate BOMs can lead to delays, excess inventory, and missed revenue opportunities. So, let's take a deep dive into the important world of the BOM and build a blueprint for successful product development and equipment manufacturing. This session will equip you with practical strategies to create accurate, optimized BOMs. We'll explore best practices, tools, and case studies to streamline BOM processes. We'll start in CAD, building a good foundation. Then we'll move this information into product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other production-related applications.

The industry is responsible for a significant part of the global GHG emissions from energy. It is crucial that modern organizations understand energy use in their production facilities. Energy-use planning should consider not only the total amount consumed, but also timing—taking into account intermittent renewable generation, dynamic pricing, and variable CO2 intensity. On-site generation and energy storage cannot be evaluated without a model of the production process. FlexSim is a simulation product that has been used in manufacturing applications for more than 20 years. Flexcon Helios extends general-purpose FlexSim and can specify power requirements for different phases of any process modeled in FlexSim. The simulation can predict a realistic power curve, and the Flexcon Helios module allows users to define a dynamic policy on how energy sources are used. If coupled with an intermittency model, dynamic pricing, or CO2 intensity data, this approach can assess the total costs and carbon footprint of the process.

Automated Modeling is a new tool in the Design Workspace that automates the process of exploring and creating new design concepts based on simple definitions of what to connect and what to avoid. Imagine simplifying your work-holding methods so that, within minutes, you're presented with several design alternatives of various shapes, styles, and complexity to use moving forward. Automated Modeling in Autodesk Fusion 360 is going to change the way you approach and explore new ideas for clever work-holding of complex parts for computer numerical control (CNC) machining.

If you want to produce mechanical drawings that are intelligent and easy to manage, this class is for you. You'll learn how to reuse intelligent mechanical objects across multiple drawings, and how to build and export a component database that integrates with your ERP system. Insert an automatic parts list with an exact count, and watch as the Bill of Materials (BOM) updates itself intelligently with new or modified mechanical components. In addition, you'll discover how to annotate more-accurate and consistent designs by accessing standardized symbols that automatically update when design changes are made. Want to insert standard-based title blocks with different scale factors? No problem. You'll also learn how to create and update designs by defining foreground and background objects, as well as how to automatically generate hidden lines with specific layer management. You'll acquire valuable skills to create mechanical designs with ease and efficiency, saving you countless hours.

Using Autodesk Fusion 360 software, we embraced a digital thread from design to production (or, as they say in sales, "from curiosity to cash"). Our new processes revolve around Fusion 360 and deliver improvements in process reliability and predictability. Just as importantly, this change let us create a new cloud-based digital customer experience. In this session, we'll look at how we applied Fusion 360 to create our new computer numerical control (CNC) manufacturing processes, and examine how we created the necessary Fusion 360 add-ins. Then we'll show how we took the further step of integrating Fusion 360, and our Fusion 360 add-in (created with the Fusion 360 API), with our cloud-based internal and customer-facing IT system. For our customers, the result is a new cloud-based customer experience that enables orders, reorders, and customization more easily than ever before. See how we went from standardizing on Fusion 360 to making it the core of our digital business transformation.

While product demand is increasing, specialized employees are hard to find. Meanwhile, increasing production efficiency and using less labor is becoming more important every day. In the first half of this class, we will discuss how using multitasking machines can help you increase your throughput, reduce waste, and improve efficiency on your manufacturing floor. Since "multi-tasking” means different things to different people, we will help you navigate the world of turn/mill, turnmill, mill/turn, millturn, and Swiss lathes. Using customer-driven experience and results, we will provide real-world examples comparing traditional machining methods to innovative multitasking techniques. In the second half of the class, Matthew Yates and Josh Postell from Rivian will present how they use Autodesk Fusion 360 software to program their computer numerical control (CNC) machines, and how the latest and upcoming software improvements make them more productive.

Last year we presented the Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage "App Store.” This year, we'll quickly review how it works, and then we'll introduce a few of the new apps that have been added since. If you've been a customer for some time, you may be particularly interested in new capabilities that are now included in our default tenants. These new apps are available to old customers through the App Store! In particular, we've added capabilities for managing product concepts/ideas and requirements so collaboration and approvals can begin before designs ever start, minimizing product development risks and costs. As always, you can implement apps easily and at no additional software costs, so you can increase the value of your systems without onerous upgrades. And there will be more apps to come!

The bill of materials (BOM) is at the heart of any manufacturing company, but each department (design, purchasing, production) and each system (PDM, ERP, MES, PLM) has its own view, understanding, and expectation of what the BOM should look like. Data is usually transferred manually from one system to another, which is time consuming and error prone. This session will explain where the BOM is created, how it moves between teams, how and why it is transformed, and what tool should do what to support this transition. We'll use practical examples to show how a BOM starts in Inventor and Vault software and moves between the above systems, and how these systems can be integrated with each other.

Coster Group is a multinational provider of spray packaging solutions and aerosol-filling equipment. The company is family owned and was founded in 1963 in Italy, and it currently employs 1,000+ employees. It addresses all segments of the market with a complete range of aerosol valves and actuators, spray pumps, dispensers, and anodizing solutions, and has a global production network spread. The Group decided to invest in Autodesk product lifecycle management (PLM) software in order to optimize its product development processes. The firm adopted a step-by-step development, by transitioning the CAD in the first phase, then the product data management (PDM) system, and then finally implementing Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage. Coster Machines Division managing director will help us understand how to successfully manage such an initiative!

Whether you're laying out kitchen cabinets, designing resilient product packaging, or analyzing item placement in a shipping container, manually arranging components can be inefficient, laborious, and often costly. The Advanced Arrange options in Autodesk Fusion 360 software's Nesting and Fabrication extension offer automated solutions to optimize component placement, maximize material usage, employ multi-sheet true shape arrangement, implement grain direction control, and much more! In this class, you'll learn how Advanced Arrange can save you time and money by taking the guess work out of arranging, orienting, and nesting components for manufacturing. We'll discuss workflows for Object Selection, Rotation, Quantity, and Envelope Setup. We'll also cover Arrange Solvers for 2D Rectangular, 2D True Shape, and 3D Arrange.

This session will cover how Simulation and Generative Models allow you to create multiple shape variations in Simplify and Edit Model workspaces. In Design Workspace, Configurations allow users to quickly create multiple variations of a design based on feature parameters, physical material, and suppression, to name a few. Configurations created in the Design Workspace can be seamlessly consumed in Simulation and Generative Design. Using this, one can create multiple simulation studies quickly for analysis and compare them in the results workspace. In Generative Design this is useful to quickly create multiple studies involving different setup parameters resulting in a richer design space to explore outcomes.

Do you want to know how it's possible that the von Mises stress is twice as big as the yield point value and the model doesn't fail? Do you want to learn how to quickly prepare a simulation without errors? And, most importantly, do you want to learn how to correctly evaluate the results? This is the session just for you. FEA simulation software has been on the market for years, offering advanced analysis capabilities. However, knowledge from engineering practice is still lacking. These days, time moves faster than our traditional engineering workflow. Times have changed and now there is no time for trying. It's necessary to prepare a model with good mesh quality and results convergence in the first iteration. We will present good practices as well as tips and tricks for the simulation workflow. We'll look at complex and real industry examples in Autodesk Fusion 360 software and Inventor Nastran software.

This session will showcase the new features and capabilities added to Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage since the last Autodesk University.

Fusion connects product development from ideation through shop floor fulfillment integrating a broad array of both design & manufacturing solutions. Fusion connects shared data across your processes and tools to help designers, machinists & business leaders make better decisions and improve profitability and sustainability. Meet the partners that help make that happen from hot startups to established industry leaders. Autodesk's ever-evolving partner ecosystem delivers modern solutions, allowing Fusion customers to leverage the latest advancements in sustainable design, toolpath automation, data management, and automated manufacturing. Join this session to hear from some of our key partners and explore how together we are accelerating innovation in manufacturing.

As our world becomes increasingly digital, interoperability is becoming more and more important. In many industries, including health care, manufacturing, and construction, interoperability is seen as a key factor in improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing innovation. It is also important for the development of new technologies and innovations and for enabling different systems to work together. Interoperability can help foster collaboration and accelerate the pace of technological progress. That said, two powerful products—AutoCAD toolsets and Inventor software—make one powerful pair that will maximize the capabilities of your CAD software with 2D and 3D workflows that work together. This class will show you how to use AutoCAD toolsets with Inventor to design faster, get more from your models, and save time on manual tasks that enable us to work together seamlessly.