The Fusion 360 3D CAD design app is the new metaphor for designing differently and efficiently. From design to engineering in a product design and development workflow, hear from your academic peers on their successful integrations of the Fusion 360 app into their curricular offerings. Find out how you can accelerate learning and inspire students to use Digital Prototyping easily and collaboratively.

For years I've used 3D printers when teaching workshops to young (and not so young) makers. As delighted as participants are to see their objects appear, we always run out of time. This same problem applies to my design and prototyping cycle. A computer numerical control (CNC) router can, in many cases, cut the same object in less time. Inventables' Carvey is luggable, enclosed, and features a safety interlock-perfect for groups of young people. And it's extremely well supported by Fusion 360 computer-aided machining (CAM). Add in machinable wax, and you've got the perfect material for learning: you can run at high feed rates, you don't have to contend with fine particulates, and you can recover and reuse nearly 100% of the material for the next workshop. I'll share my process, tips, and techniques for using this combination to go from model to material quickly, quietly, and cleanly.

In this class, you will learn how to model and make the Hulkbuster Suit, which was featured in the Iron Man movie series, with Fusion 360 software. The Mark XLIV Armor, better known as the Hulkbuster, is Tony Stark's 44th Iron Man suit, made with the help of Bruce Banner. The armor was brought into play to protect Wakanda from Thanos's invading army in this year’s blockbuster movie Avengers: Infinity War. We'll explore the digital workflow with Fusion 360. Using ReCap software to convert human scan data to mesh model, we’ll use Fusion 360 to model the suit to fit the human mesh. We’ll then create pattern creation with ExactFlat Online, lay out a nested flat pattern, and cut out stock sheet using Fusion 360 CAM 2D profile cutting. We’ll assemble all the parts together, and the Mark XLIV Armor will be finalized with perfect shape and size. The Hulkbuster Suit model for this class can be viewed on the Fusion 360 gallery.

This hands-on lab will demonstrate a reverse-engineering workflow that uses ReCap 360 software to move a real-life object into the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app, moving items from the ground to the cloud. In the Fusion 360 app, attendees will discover how to use OBJ files produced from photogrammetry to create powerful designs in the Fusion 360 app.

Address your programming questions to our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our software development teams. If you're writing Solutions that are based on these technologies or you're just about to start and want to know more, this is the perfect forum to both get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with and meet your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

3D printing has the ability to empower clinicians. This class will focus on the benefits of using or starting a hospital-based 3D design and printing program to help design new training models and assist with improving patient care. This session features Fusion 360.

When the concept itself or the concept designer cannot convey the idea or design to the engineer or manufacturing, it becomes the industrial designer’s job to walk the line between concept and engineering in order to convey the challenging concept to engineering and manufacturing. This class will not only explore personal experiences of a professional industrial designer working between concept and manufacturing, but will also identify key workflows or processes of how the industrial designer can communicate design concepts more effectively through communication techniques with engineering and manufacturing. This class is for anyone who would like to learn or have an understanding of the workflow and thought process of the industrial design industry and learn class-explained techniques and workflows to communicate concept and designs to others.

The BUILD panel, moderated by Autodesk Senior Director, Rick Rundell, will review snapshots of applied research within the context of Architecture Engineering and Construction Industries followed by an extended discussion surrounding such topics. By positioning Reality Computing technologies (UAV’s, 3D Scanning, and reality capture); Construction Automation (3D Printing and Design Robotics); Automated Computational Workflows (Dynamo driven structural optimization-to robotic fabrication); and integrated building control systems through Physical Computing the discussion will frame the state of the art with the goal of understanding the critical interrelationships that will be required during the next ten years of research and development.

Four perspectives, each representing disparate aspects of AEC research, will be presented. First, Gustav Fagerstrom, Senior Technical Design at the global engineering firm BuroHappold, will present a series of Drone-based reality capture experiments using Autodesk’s ReCap that focus on the gathering, analysis, and three dimensional visualization of complex data from existing urban contexts. Nick Cote, a Design Roboticist at Autodesk’s Pier9 robotics research laboratory, will present a series of projects leveraging emerging computational workflows that link 3D design space, performance optimization, and automated fabrication through Design Robotics. Nathan King, DDes, BUILD Programs Manager, will present the contemporary context of automation in AEC industries through the lens of Robotics and Additive Manufacturing. Finally, Andy Payne, DDes, Principal Research Engineer at Autodesk,  will discuss the potential of intelligent building control systems to meet the multifaceted demands of user satisfaction and performance thus allowing the built environment to sense, respond, and adapt over time.  

University Technical College (UTC) Leeds is a new type of school in the United Kingdom for 14 to 18 year olds. Using Fusion 360 software, UTC Leeds has created a global classroom where students can work alongside industry professionals virtually, via Fusion 360 software’s collaborative features. Students are set challenging briefs designed specially to encourage virtual collaboration within Fusion 360 software. Pedagogically, students practice an iterative design process using 3D printing for its true value, before feeding back into Fusion 360 software’s collaborative environment. This class demonstrates real case studies and presents the pedagogical approach for teaching high-quality digital skills to students. The class creates a foundation for how Fusion 360 software and 3D printing can unite to create a world-class curriculum. Students opting to study at a UTC aspire to work within the engineering sector. The United Kingdom has a shortfall of engineers, with an estimated 1.2 million needed by 2020. This session features Fusion 360.

This course will focus on the Digital Prototype,this is the critical stage after concept modeling is complete and you are refining a design prior to making a physical model.

We'll explore the entire process- everything from ; Initial curve layout, the main body work , matching exiting geometry- all the way to making revisions after a design review.

Join me in this course and you'll learn how to make high quality digital prototypes and make better faster design and development decisions.

Get ready to Design, Develop & Deploy!

This class will serve as an introduction to the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app, covering typical processes and workflows. Gain a clear understanding of the user interface, commands, and functionality. Additionally, learn about the fundamentals necessary to bring the Fusion 360 app into your work environment, and get started designing products differently.

This class will explore Fusion 360 software as the common language in a unique project between interior and industrial design students, their faculty, and a high-production manufacturer. The presentation will illustrate how Fusion 360 was used to translate design ideas to manufacture a high-quality prototype, and serve as an educational tool for students and professionals, while improving workflow and project outcomes. The prototype, Mobile Kitchen, or MO:KI, is a bespoke collection of modular, mobile units that push the boundaries of the cooking experience and the traditional work triangle for an improved user experience. The concept affords flexibility in organizing an environment responsive to the tactile needs of a chef. We will discuss current research and design in anticipation of commercialization, using Fusion 360. This talk will highlight not only the process of design and production, but also the ongoing collaboration between education, manufacturing, and Autodesk as a pathway for future learning and making.

Do you want to offer customized products to your customers but save on engineering and CAM-programming time? In this class, you’ll learn how to parametrically build your product models, use Microsoft Excel and Google sheet for easy parameter input, and generate CAM toolpaths with minimal-to-no user interaction with the Inventor CAM and Fusion 360 CAM API. You’ll learn how to overcome the limitations of nesting CNC milling toolpaths on a flat sheet material to have a seamless and time-saving workflow from order to production.

Sheet metal forming is an integral part of the manufacturing industry, and sheet metal parts can be found everywhere: cars (fenders, hoods, and doors), home appliances (freezers and sinks), and airplane panels. The complexity involved in simulating a deformation-based process like sheet metal forming, which is characterized by large deformation and an abundant amount of contact, has been streamlined in Fusion 360 software. This class will explore several methods for designing, setting up, and running sheet metal forming simulations for processes such as stamping and deep drawing in Fusion 360 Event Simulation. Designers will learn how to set up loading conditions, contact conditions, fixed and displacement boundary conditions, and nonlinear material properties for both quasistatic and dynamic-type simulations. Finally, the class will explore how to correctly interpret sheet metal forming simulation results for use in design and manufacturing.

Discovery how Autodesk Factory Design tools can help you to experience Digital Factory and improve your workflows and efficiency. Using different data types for one purpose, creating efficient and well-planned factories. Also, you will discover how can you use your BIM models for Factory Design.

In this 90-minute software demonstration, we’ll utilize some of Fusion 360 software’s latest CAM and collaborative functionality to tackle some of the biggest challenges our customers face. Design modification, quality control, and the accessing of difficult to machine areas can all prolong project completion. We’ll use brand-new toolpaths and probing functionality to demonstrate best practices for the designing, machining, and inspection of a complex mold tool. By the end of this session, we hope to expand your Fusion 360 knowledge, providing you with the latest information to help you improve your manufacturing efficiency.

The design and engineering world is about to go through a major disruption from single user focused, file based "monolithic", hard to learn, desktop CAD to deeply collaborative, highly tailored, and simple to use "database on the cloud" CAD experiences.These workflows will be enabled by the Forge High Frequency Data Management (HFDM) SDK and Forge IDX - the tools Autodesk is using to build next generation products such as Quantum and Fusion Web.

HFDM puts data at the center of Forge application development, enabling developers to build rich and collaborative, data-centric applications and reactive systems at scale. The Forge HFDM data service is a central hub that stores and communicates rapidly changing data between different clients, apps, and connected services while keeping all users in sync. We will show examples of what you can build with HFDM and discuss core architectural concepts and practices, highlighting customer value and benefits.

Forge IDX is a next generation cloud application leveraging HFDM, that lets you easily build rich, collaborative, and smart applications and services using the latest Autodesk technologies. IDX integrates environments for design, development, and publishing, while making it easy for multidisciplinary teams to work together.

Conceptual modeling is critical to the design workflow, and with Fusion 360 software, it's extremely easy and fast. In this class, we'll talk about how best to approach conceptual modeling from within Fusion 360, and we'll cover different techniques that will save you time when you need to reuse your work. Discover how to use stamps to create incredible details within moments, and replicate it across your work. Capitalize on your existing work to drive your designs through modeling, marketing, and media. And all of this accumulates in showing real-world examples and their conceptual design process using Fusion 360. This class will do this all while using the power of parameters inside of your model for fast, quick changes that won't break your existing concepts. At the end of this class, you will understand new approaches for conceptual modeling inside of Fusion 360, and understand the best way to transition your work throughout your design process.

Additive manufacturing doesn’t have to be complex. Autodesk Netfabb is the right tool to reduce the complexity and streamline your AM workflow. This presentation will cover the end-to-end workflow of the additive manufacturing process using Netfabb and Simulation Utility. We’ll focus on the most challenging AM process, DMLS, in this presentation. The aim of the presentation is to show how Autodesk Netfabb will help you make the most of additive manufacturing starting from a CAD model all the way to build preparation and simulation build results.

This presentation will focus on the newly developed Topology Optimization technology now being used in Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software and also found in Autodesk Nastran standalone, Fusion 360 Ultimate software, Inventor Simulation software, and Dreamcatcher software. We will begin with an introduction of how Topology Optimization works, and then we'll focus on the Autodesk Nastran In-CAD interface for Topology Optimization. We will perform several examples that will include how to produce designs with minimized mass and maximized stiffness that comply with various design and manufacturing constraints. Examples will include minimized mass with stress and compliance design constraints and various manufacturing constraints such as additive and subtractive with symmetry. We will show a complete workflow that includes importing optimized .STL geometry and building a verification analysis model.