Find out about what the Development Team is working on for a future release of Inventor software and related offerings to help you design and make great products.

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.

Can 2D wiring drawings and 3D mesh models play together? This class will explore the possibilities of using iPhone/iPad Pro LiDAR to create mesh models of substation assets in the field. In this case study, working with a utility customer, we scanned their substation wiring panels with an iPad and iPhone Pro. Next, we created mesh models in a ReCap Photo environment and connected it to its 2D drawings in AutoCAD Electrical software. Finally, we attached it as part of a lifecycle in Vault software. Capturing this data could allow engineers and designers to see the actual wiring in a model with their 2D wiring drawing. This can also allow snapshots of how the rack was wired at that point in time. We’ll go over the process of retrieving the data, the differences in hardware, exploring the advantages and shortcomings of the data retrieved and how we may further the process as the technology improves.

During Autodesk University 2021, we shared a developed workflow for how designers can bring data together through designing the part, the PCB (printed circuit board), and even how to manufacture the plastic components. With the complexity of electronic part designs, there are often various aspects that we need to consider in order for the part to both work and perform as expected. In this class, we’ll demonstrate how the Autodesk Fusion 360 workflow has matured to incorporate mechanical engineering aspects to smooth this product design workflow. We’ll use a sample product, the Autodesk University Digital Badge, to demo how to integrate mechanical design requirements and simulation into the product design process.

Have you seen the amazing things the cinema and TV industry are doing with real-time virtual production (VP)? Do you find VP amazing, but don't have a clue where or how to start? Then this class is for you! We’ll show you the entire process of building a real-time VP laboratory from Revit software to construction, choosing equipment such as cameras, microphones, computers, SDI routers, connectors, lenses, lights, sensors, and much more. We'll also dive into the required software for all the VP workflow—such as 3ds Max software, Revit, Aximmetry, Pixotope, Unreal Engine, source control, production management—and all the important steps. All that while showing the cost of everything. Basically, you'll leave the class ready to build a lab for yourself or for your business’s marketing department—which is exactly what we did! At IM Designs, we're saving millions on content production, travel, and assistance to other companies producing content with our existing 3D production workforce. Autodesk University 2022 is going to be legendary!

You can see plastic injection-molded parts everywhere. From the consumer products and children's toys in our homes all the way through to the interiors of the cars we drive. With the addition of injection-molding simulation tools and Product Design Extension in Autodesk Fusion 360, there’s the opportunity to take the design of injection-molded components all the way from concept through to design, manufacturing validation and tooling manufacture all without ever leaving Autodesk Fusion 360. So that's what we'll do! We'll follow the whole process from start to finish. We'll look at designing a part, designing the mold, validating the mold, cutting chips on a computer numerical control (CNC) machine to make the mold, and producing the part.

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.

It is estimated that 80% of the environmental impact is determined at the design phase. However, many designers lack the tools to assess the impact of their design choices. In addition, an increasing number of companies are setting up ambitious sustainability goals, but the data required to drive the actions are often in disparate systems throughout the organization, or kept in PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) systems, which means that designs are already locked up. Autodesk and Makersite collaborated to bring sustainability insights into early product-design phases by connecting relevant lifecycle assessment data to the Autodesk Fusion 360 Design workspace. We’ve created a more holistic workflow to provide even more insights into sustainable design, directly within the design environment. The analysis can also recommend material alternatives and provide costing information to help designers make more-sustainable decisions, faster, with greater impact.

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!

This session will be an introduction to the world of Alias product design, concept modeling, and detailed surface modeling. We’ll look at how automation can speed up the design process—allowing faster and more informed design making, as well creating shareable and reusable IP across the design pipeline. Experience-based decision making is becoming more important, and we’ll look at trends and offer insights into how this can help industrial and product designers gather customers insights. Disparate tools need cross-team and cross-function collaboration, making the designers of tomorrow even more efficient. Making decisions faster (with confidence) across teams and geographies is key. We believe that the future of design will start with the customer, and how we ensure that connection works (as well as enterprise-wide integration) in a seamless manner.

Tablets and smartphones are ubiquitous and extremely powerful, in both in our daily lives and our professional workflows. But how can we use them in our CAD lives? The AutoCAD web app lets us use the copious amounts of data we include in our DWG™ files anywhere we are. Whether in the coffee shop, on the factory floor, or in the middle of a field (cell signal notwithstanding), you can get to your DWG files in the cloud, make changes to the native geometry, and share your changes with others. Other apps can help you complete your workflow, from marking up prints to sharing designs. This class will go through the basics of adding cloud access to the AutoCAD web app, drawing new geometry, and modifying existing work, as well as pulling information such as dimensions and areas from your drawings. We’ll also cover best practices and access for non-AutoCAD users, as well as some additional apps that can be useful in the field.

In this roundtable, there will be a 20-minute panel discussion, plus live polling via smartphone with live results on the screen. Then there will be 20-minute breakout sessions with discussion cards.

This session will cover modeling in Revit software and producing high-end renderings in 3ds Max software. We’ll include various ways of linking the Revit architectural model into 3ds Max. You can include lights, sky settings, and material assignments as part of the export process. Learn how to change materials assignments in 3ds Max, and how to add lights and cameras and adjust exposure controls. See how to test the rendering and adjust the model, materials, and lights to achieve the required results. Create enhanced renderings, modeling in Revit, and rendering in 3ds Max.

You've no doubt seen great training videos and course guides that made learning seem easy. Well it's time for you to create these types of resources yourself—but where do you start? What kind of hardware, software, sound equipment, scripts, and cameras do you need to become your own video/training producer? In this class we will answer these questions while passing along effective practices for using Camtasia software as our editing tool of choice. We will show you how to set up a video capture environment and produce output for computers, Apple iPads, and television. We will cover story boarding, audio/video capturing, using voice recognition, captioning, and basic voice-over editing. We will also discuss some techniques you can use to refine your training using video drafting to evaluate your technique, voice, and pacing. If you have wanted to start making your own training videos but weren't sure how to do it, this class will give you everything you need to get started.

2015 is the year in which virtual reality (VR) is finally ready for the masses. Google Cardboard was perfect for democratizing VR, while products like Samsung Gear VR have helped increase the quality for scenarios that require it. Importantly, both technologies are powered by mobile phones. This session will look at the steps to create web-based VR for design visualization using Autodesk, Inc.’s, View and Data API, and how you can extend this core implementation via native Android SDKs for both Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR. We will also spend time looking at Augmented Reality technologies such as Magic Leap and Microsoft HoloLens to understand the implications for design and engineering.

Project MOnACO (Manufacturing Of a large-scale AM Component) is a $1.1 million research collaboration with GE Aviation et al. funded by the Clean Sky 2 program. The focus is to cut noise and emissions from the civil aerospace market using disruptive technologies. The aim is to converge design and manufacturing using the A.T.L.A.S. machine that’s currently the largest metal powder additive manufacturing of its kind (build size >1m). Autodesk is leading the design of the turbine center frame assembly using multiphysics Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360, the new product design extension for lattices and manufacturing simulation (Netfabb et al.) workflows geared toward large-scale additive manufacturing. The latest design is 34% lighter than its predecessor, and the components have been consolidated from 150 parts to a single part. In this talk, we’ll discuss how we applied Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) workflows using Autodesk design and make tools to solve tomorrow's problems.

Decathlon—the European sporting goods retailer and the most preferred brand in France—looks to the future of design through the lens of generative design and sustainability. Charles Cambianica, advanced design co-leader at Decathlon, presented two years ago on how generative design was helping Decathlon reimagine the bike of the future. Today, his team continues to promote the use of generative design to create new ways of making new products. To help optimize the process, Charles’s project teams decided to use computational design as an exploratory tool. Decathlon wanted to explore how it could use generative design starting in the design phase to shrink the carbon footprint of the thousands of products it manufactures each year.

Design is rarely a perfectly linear and straightforward process. Often a single tool cannot accommodate all the workflows—and even when it does, it’s rarely the right fit. By maximizing the different tools within the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (Inventor software, Autodesk Fusion 360, Desktop Connector), designers and engineers can now design, make, and collaborate on products to reduce the lead time faced in today's manufacturing. This course will cover the complete workflow involved in designing parts for formative manufacturing—injection molding. From making a mold in Inventor to validating your part for injection molding in Autodesk Fusion 360, the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection helps you connect these workflows right on your desktop using Autodesk Fusion 360 Desktop Connector.

The consumer product industry is more competitive than ever before. In order to maintain an edge over the competition, it’s important to differentiate your product from the pack. Autodesk Fusion 360 software is leading the industry with advanced tools to help you design lighter and more complex products with ease. In this class, you'll learn how to best use two tools from Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension. First, you’ll learn how to apply a volumetric lattice to your parts (to lightweight them and create visually distinct geometry). Next, to provide grip and/or a visual interest, you’ll learn how to apply 3D-printable patterns and textures to your part’s surface. If you design consumer products and are interested in taking your products to the next level, this class is for you.

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.