Manufacturers all around the world are trying to increase efficiency by reducing scrap, increasing quality, reducing cycle time, and automating traditionally manual processes. The Autodesk Fusion 360 manufacturing extensions address these challenges by eliminating disconnected platforms and costly overheads. These tools are an extension of the core product. They encompass specialized technologies and provide flexible consumption of the technology.

In this technical deep dive, we'll walk through a real machined project designed in Inventor and programmed in Autodesk Fusion Manufacturing Extension. Follow the complete workflow: creating and iterating the part in Inventor, uploading to Fusion, applying toolpaths, generating G-code, and efficiently updating toolpaths after design changes using simple refreshes. We'll cover both the cloud approach (AnyCAD linked references and Desktop Connector) and the enterprise version using Vault Professional software for controlled releases and revision management. We'll share the actual files, challenges encountered, key lessons, and measurable time savings. You'll leave with actionable steps to build an effective digital thread between design and manufacturing teams.

Explore AI-driven manufacturing by integrating advanced language models with Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage. This presentation will demonstrate how AI can revolutionize manufacturing workflows, streamlining communication, collaboration, and data management. You'll learn how to use AI technologies to overcome common industry challenges and improve efficiency and productivity. We'll showcase real-world examples of AI-enhanced Fusion 360 Manage integrations for a seamless and effective manufacturing experience. Our practical live demonstrations will reveal how integrating AI reduces data-processing time, enabling faster decision making and agile responses to manufacturing changes. You'll leave equipped with the knowledge to transform your own workflows and unlock AI-driven innovation with Fusion 360 Manage.

Have you attended our Autodesk University Factory Live Experience? Want to learn how we created some of the parts using Autodesk Fusion 360 software’s newest extension? In this session, the team that helped design the casing for the Autodesk University name badges will walk through how the NEW Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can automate your design for plastic injection molding by defining your manufacturing up front, automating repetitive modeling tasks, creating manufacturing-specific features, and checking for manufacturing defects through simulation. These tools can increase your speed of development, improve your relationship with suppliers, and reduce your time to market. Come see how Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can help you with your next plastic injection molding design!

Designing plastic parts can take up a lot of time and be prone to errors. In this session, you’ll learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension to automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks using manufacturing-aware features such as Boss, Snap Fit, Web, Rib, and Rest. We’ll demonstrate the best practices for using plastic part rules to control your design and capture know-how for easy creation, editing, and reuse. In addition, we’ll share tips and tricks for creating complex geometric patterns and use presets.

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.

In this class, Autodesk and GKN Aerospace will present how you can use Autodesk Fusion 360 software as a start-to-finish powerhouse for metal additive design and manufacturing. Starting with generative design, we can quickly explore possible print orientations and material possibilities, and build in automated design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) best practices to create designs that are optimized for structural performance, while minimizing the amount of required post processing. Once a design is selected, we’ll show how we can use the Additive Build Extension in Autodesk Fusion 360 to quickly create highly customizable support templates to generate intelligent support setups with a single click, and export directly to a powder bed additive printer for manufacturing.

Why not invest in a more efficient business? Nesting is all about increasing manufacturing efficiency by minimizing material waste, shortening machine cycle times, and reducing production costs. Make a sound investment by implementing Fusion 360 Nesting software into your production workflow! Optimize the placement of machined components to eliminate repetitive cutting motion, saving tooling and machine wear. Reduce wasted stock material, scrap, and inventory overhead. Simplify design changes and streamline your CAD to CAM programming workflow. Minimizing human interaction during the fabrication process means reduced labor time. Save on materials, time, and labor while increasing productivity and profitability!

This session will cover the updates made to the Simulation Workspace in Autodesk Fusion 360 over the past few years. There will be four main categories that we will cover in this session: Static Simulation, Dynamic Simulation, Injection Molding Simulation, and Electronics Cooling. We have added a number of new features and capabilities as well as study types in the Simulation Workspace, and we'd like to give you an overview of those capabilities, as well as tips on how to get the most value out of those features

Many manufacturing companies have design engineering teams that are already "digitally mature." However, this is just a small part of the business when we consider every other function in the process of manufacturing parts. Consider that 70% of projects are still over budget or late, and up to 40% of engineering time is spent looking for the right files or information. This class will look at how customers are using tools—such as FlexSim, Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension, and Autodesk Fusion Operations—connected together to break down silos between departments, have change control over manufacturing BOMs and process definitions, and predict production issues before they arise. We will show how accurate simulation models based on real-world data can ensure projects remain on time and budget. And we’ll show how a connected data platform and change management platform can ensure data is well connected, reducing the time spent finding the right data.

Autodesk Fusion 360 software continues to evolve for design and manufacturing in a single package. Sheet metal components can be designed using Fusion 360 or imported for virtually any CAD package to have the cutting toolpaths created using the Fusion 360 Manufacture workspace. This class will demonstrate methods for creating nests using both the Arrange command as well as the Nesting using the Nesting and Fabrication Extension. This class will demonstrate how you can use both Advanced Arrange and Nesting to arrange components on a sheet that can be cut using the Fusion 360 Manufacture workspace. The presentation will cover creating or importing files to be nested, setting up nest materials, creating nests, and finally using the Manufacture workspace to add cutting toolpaths to cut out the nests.

This industrial case study will cover a recent design-and-make collaboration between Autodesk and Impression Technologies (ITL), an industry-leading, automotive, hot-forming solutions provider. Together we’ll present a comparison of several mold designs across a range of design approaches and manufacturing technologies. We’ll demonstrate how optimizing design for additive manufacturing can be maximized to achieve more-efficient production times and material usage, improved part quality, and reduced part cost and energy consumption. During the project, experts from Autodesk and ITL collaborated via Autodesk CFD software and the Autodesk Fusion 360 platform. We used simulation and several design methodologies, including conformal cooling and the application of lattice structures via the Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design extension. The project culminated in the tooling production using Autodesk’s Birmingham Technology Centre metal additive manufacturing systems, and testing and validation at ITL’s research facility.

The Fusion data management experience has come a long way. We are the pioneers of cloud-based CAD/CAM, breaking new norms in the industry. Offering easy access to your data from anywhere, anytime, and on any machine. The past few years have shown the true benefit of cloud-based data. It's imperative to enable individuals and teams to collaborate in real-time, staying connected with their projects even when working remotely. Now, we're working on connecting your data together on a common data platform. We're expanding on our APIs, and making sure that relevant data is captured and retained through the entire design-to-make process. Join us as we explore data management improvements that have been recently released, as well as those currently being explored in research and development in the area of data management for Autodesk Fusion, ranging from the data management integration with the desktop client to the web client, from the base product to the Manage Extension.

Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are cornerstones of any solid manufacturing process. Whereas QA looks to the future to ensure product requirements and goals will be met, QC focuses on the past and present of the process to ensure the goals have been achieved. Autodesk Fusion 360 software and Prodsmart provide data integrity to the quality management process through inspection methods, QC reports, and feedback reporting in a connected environment to enhance collaboration and audit tracking.

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.

Modern consumer products and industrial machines are made up of hundreds or thousands of components to form large assemblies. These components could be machined, 3D printed, molded, electrical, electronic, or off-the-shelf items using various manufacturing and design processes. Effectively managing these assemblies can be a real challenge for companies with multidisciplinary teams that simultaneously contribute to the project from all Autodesk Fusion 360 workspaces. This technical instruction will provide attendees with techniques and methods to improve their development processes when creating large assemblies. Such methods will include: simplifying into subassemblies, using top-down or bottom-up modeling where appropriate, using the manage extension for data traceability, and simplifying geometry with configurations to reduce the load on the PC. You will learn new and improved ways to optimize your product development and collaborative processes.

In this talk, we’ll explore the application of hybrid manufacturing to injection mold tools for both modification and repair, demonstrating a circular economy where tools can be modular, reusable, and rapidly modified. Hybrid manufacturing uses machine tools that combine additive and subtractive operations, and provide particular value to the modification and life extension of mold tools. We'll demonstrate a workflow using Autodesk software to (a) identify unwanted features or damage on a mold, (b) capture physical geometric data, (c) program processes to remove and repair features and damage, (d) redeposit material, and (e) machine new features. We'll demonstrate both the digital and physical aspects of the workflow, and aim to present the final physical output—a brand-new injection-molded component, made in the Autodesk Moldflow Laboratory in Kilsyth, Australia. This project is a collaboration between the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Autodesk.

Join us as we explore improvements that we've made in research and development in the area of data management for Autodesk Fusion 360, from Fusion 360 software's canvas, to Fusion Team, to the Manage Extension.

Designing parts for the injection molding process often relies on experience and generic guidelines. Determining the needed geometry for design features can be very time consuming. In this session, we’ll look at how we can streamline this process using Autodesk Fusion 360 software and its extensions. Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension includes tools for the quick addition of common features, such as snaps and bosses, to Autodesk Fusion 360 parts. Will these features work? Will the snap fail during initial assembly? Will there be sink marks if a boss is molded as designed? Autodesk Fusion 360 Simulation Extension tools for stress analysis and mold-filling simulation help answer these key questions. Now we can catch and correct potential issues early in the design cycle, when there’s still time to react and costs of changes are relatively low.

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.