With so many different software products installed with Factory Design Suite, it is hard for a user to know where to start. This class demonstrates the entire workflow of Factory Design Suite. We cover how to use Autodesk® 360 cloud service to quickly get 2D layout data from a sales engineer at a client site and return a completed 3D layout that is in sync with the 2D layout. We cover, in detail, new Revit®-based software interoperability that enables data to be transferred to Inventor® software for completion of factory layouts from concept to finish.

We’ve all been there. Multiple sources of information, various software systems, and everyone needing to efficiently communicate to complete the project. AnyCAD software provides the medium to use, reuse, and exchange data of various types and from different sources. In this class, we’ll explore the different types of data supported by Inventor software and the applications included in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. We’ll dive into handling change and ensuring we associatively (when possible) share the data. What can AnyCAD do? It can associatively import DWG™ to build parts; keep third-party data in their non-native format; use 2D and 3D PDF for communication; perform to-and-from exchange with Revit software; share with others using the A360 cloud-based collaboration service; export Inventor bills of material (BOM) information to nonengineering users; and associatively share information with Fusion 360 software—and who knows what else!

You’ve been given the responsibility to manage CAD within your department and/or organization, but your job title does not include “CAD manager.” You do not or cannot dedicate all of your time to this task. So how do you do this? We’ll use my transition from reseller to mining equipment manufacturer as a way of examining how to get buy-in from management, how to get participation by the users (and your peers), where to start, and how to proceed, as well as reviewing my continuing development with time and project management. Let’s talk processes, procedures, training, CAD, management, and continual leadership.

Effective change management is critical to deliver your products and projects on time, with the right quality and within budget. Throughout the product lifecycle many changes can happen. Change management isn't just for engineering and manufacturing but also other stakeholders such as suppliers, service, and so on. In this class you will see how Fusion Lifecycle software can help you take control of change by offering a collaborative environment where product changes are fully defined, reviewed, approved, and implemented. We will show you the out-of-the-box workflows and see how we can easily extend them to respond to change requests in time, quickly discover and assess the scope of changes, learn the complete change history log, and manage team activities in context of your change activities.

Fusion 360 software now offers a simple workflow for programming industrial robot arms. Anyone familiar with post-processing machine code from Fusion 360 can now create robot code in the same way. During this lab, users will use the manufacturing space from Fusion 360 to generate robot native code that can drive industrial robot arms. First, we will show a generic robot workflow within Fusion 360 that will post with the ABB post processor. Then, we will cover exporting code into a virtual robot simulator, ABB RobotStudio, for validation. We’ll then pivot to recordings at Autodesk Technology Centers, explaining calibration of various coordinate systems localizing the robot arm and robot operation for milling applications. We’ll introduce other applications that participants can use with this workflow, such as welding and additive. Finally, we will share various case studies from Autodesk Technology Center residents and customers utilizing Fusion 360 for industrial robots.

In this class, you will learn how to best identify parts for redesign. You will receive a few examples and then see in Fusion 360 software how to redesign the parts keeping design-for-manufacturing (DFM) rules for metal additive manufacturing (AM) in mind. The goal is to redesign the parts using simple operations in Fusion 360 to see that you don't need an organic topology optimized part to get an economical use case. You’ll learn the limits of metal AM and when it is definitely not smart to use this technology.

Having all process-related information at hand in real time by using a PLM (product lifecycle management) system helps to reveal inefficiencies and bottlenecks in your daily processes. Learn how you can use PLM to determine automatic key performance indicators (KPIs) and reports to assess your company’s success. In the next step, see how these insights can be improved to continuously improve the flow of information and collaboration.

This class will cover the benefits of using BIM 360 Docs as a central hub for many different stakeholders in a plant project. In this session, we’ll look at ideal workflows for transferring and managing data models from Mechanical, Plant and Process engineering into BIM 360 Docs. Based on a real world experience we will share best practices and lessons learned on how to synchronize engineering data from model authoring systems into the Cloud. We will discuss and demonstrate the importance of all project participants having access to these models with intuitive tools to search and analyze models, and in doing so, creating full project awareness. The session will conclude with the various positive business impacts companies can achieve by implementing such a hybrid environment.

Generative Design technology in Autodesk Fusion 360 software is becoming a household name for those who want to achieve better engineering outcomes in less time. In this session, you'll get a look at how Generative Design technology in Fusion 360 has matured in 2023, and we'll take a deep dive into how these improvements will help enable your success in the future. In addition to our technology discussion, we will also review examples where Generative Design technology has played a role in helping customers achieve new levels of success.

As a mechanical engineering student in Finland and a CNC machine operator in the metal industry, Muluken Admassu has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities in design, product development, and manufacturing. With his work and studies, he puts sustainability at the forefront. In this session, Admassu will share his journey from Africa to Finland and beginning his engineering work before ever seeing technology advancements. Admassu will also discuss the incorporation of sustainability considerations in his projects and unlocking new technology to go beyond the unexpected.

Generative design is often seen as an alien parts generator. In this session, we will share how we incorporated this design exploration method into our traditional design process, and how we applied the method on a very typical welded parts assembly of an automatic tools changer on a CNC machine tool. With no specific expectations, as we believed it was already fully optimized, we achieved almost 20% of mass reduction, positively impacting the overall machine precision. And as a side benefit—we got really good-looking parts. You'll learn which selection method we used to identify potential parts for generative design and how we defined the success criteria. We'll cover the whole process, from multiple designs exploration up to production and installation itself. We'll also discuss our generative design rollout plan.

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.

This class will showcase the interoperability and advantages of having Vault software at the center of all your designs and documentation.

This session's speaker loves technical drawings. Bold outlines, crisp details, precise lettering—he loves it all. But is technical drawing dead? It's said that we live in the age of the paperless office—can this be true? This class was so popular at AU2022 that we ran it twice, and we still had to turn people away! Let's continue the discussion. In this activity-based roundtable, we'll ask the big questions about the future of technical drawing. How did we develop the technical drawing? Why? What have we learned that we should keep? What place do technical drawings hold in the world of digital prototyping and building information modeling (BIM) projects? How will we communicate design intent in the future? How many people got caught out when we moved from hand drawing to CAD? Will we be next? Maybe technical drawings aren't yet dead, but how must design collaboration and communication adapt to meet our future needs? Join us to review technical drawings past and present, and prepare yourself for the future

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.

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.

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.

CAM Assist, a new software system from CloudNC, leverages AI to autocomplete much of the difficult work involved with programming a computer numerical control (CNC) machine to manufacture a component. The CAM Assist add-in for Autodesk Fusion 360 is newly available for Autodesk customers. In this session, CloudNC founder Theo Saville shows how CAM Assist generates machining strategies in one click, enabling any user to reduce their CAM programming time and operate at a more advanced level, with greater consistency. CAM Assist helps workshop operators fill the manufacturing skills gap and optimize their team to scale revenue by enabling less-experienced programmers to do far more and machine more-complex components.

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.

You don't have time to learn 3D modeling? All your legacy data is 2D? Your customers demand 2D drawings from you? You know that there is a better way to get your work done, and help your colleagues downstream—but you’re under too much pressure to spend time working this out? Well, 2D and 3D workflows don't have to be mutually exclusive. Your best option could be a combination of both. You can have the flexibility of 2D AutoCAD software when you need it, and the automation power of Inventor software when you're ready. In this presentation, we'll see how you can move from 2D to 3D at your own rate. We'll show you how to reuse your legacy 2D data in a 3D workflow, and how to repurpose your 3D data as 2D drawings for your customers. AutoCAD and Inventor work better together, for 2D + 3D workflows.