This session is intended to illustrate a series of pro tips and best practices for efficient product development. We’ll introduce and demonstrate some undiscovered gems in Upchain's capabilities, and share examples of how they can be used to save time and costs and improve user experience at the very least. We’ll go over how Upchain handles traditional PDM/PLM functions (i.e., facilitating part reuse), and we’ll showcase new modern capabilities that never existed in legacy systems.

Keeping your production floor productive is more important than ever before. After all, a computer numerical control (CNC) machine or worker sitting idle costs your business money. Prodsmart already helps manufacturers and fabricators to schedule, track, and trace their production and quality processes in real time. But what if you want to go further? In this live demonstration, you'll learn how you can maximize Autodesk Fusion 360 software, Fusion Team, and Prodsmart to further improve your production efficiency.

With the release of Inventor 2023 software, users can now send their CAD data directly from Inventor to Autodesk Fusion 360 software. This opens a host of new capabilities for Inventor users in generative design, simulation, and subtractive and additive manufacturing. This presentation will demonstrate, through compelling customer case studies, how Inventor users can now take advantage of this workflow to explore the benefits of using metal additive manufacturing to manufacture their products. Metal additive and hybrid manufacturing can offer tangible advantages in product performance due to the design freedoms the process enables, manufacturing sustainability, supply lead time, and component cost. In addition, the advances in accessible hardware and software is making this technology feasible for nearly all industrial sectors. With the connection from Inventor to Autodesk Fusion 360, you can now learn how these advantages in metal additive manufacturing can also benefit your business today.

Cheaper? Faster? Better? Pick two? Why, when you can have all three?! When planning to tie processes and data sources together, there’s no better option than using Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software and Vault Pro software to put them all in one place. This class will showcase the journey of a mid-size company that had the audacity to create a global solution to unite resources and projects in that one instance on a global scale. We’ll walk through the steps and missteps along the way, and cover what to look out for on your journey.

Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage App Store is a collection of free, ready-to-implement workspaces that contain business processes and templates. Benefit from industry best practices with preconfigured fields, tabs, workflows, roles, and permissions. Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage apps reduce implementation time and enhance ROI during your Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage deployment. You can try apps with User Acceptance Testing before going live, as they contain scripts, reports, picklists, and everything needed. Your Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage tenant administrator adds the roles to groups and anyone within the group can start using the app.

Vault product data management (PDM) software enables users to control and manage their design data from concept right through to design and manufacture. Within a regulated industry there are several key steps and systems, along with collaboration with other departments, to adhere to before the final phase, implementation of a project, or product delivery. This class will delve into best approaches and practices of Vault implementation and configuration, as well as industry standards and integration with other systems and departments.

With millions of uses per year, 2D Contour is by far the most-used toolpath in Autodesk Fusion 360 manufacturing. From finishing a silhouette to tabbing a flange, 2D Contour offers the simplicity and flexibility to do almost anything. Want to explore uses for 2D Contour that you never imagined? Join me for a MasterClass in controlling 2D Contour down to the last toolpath segment.

In the real world, one program just can’t do it all. Sketching, massing models, final design, animation, and rendering of engineering models—this class will discuss the workflow for using multiple Autodesk products in a production environment. Discover the ins and outs of this workflow, starting with a sketch, moving to Inventor software for final design, then finishing with 3ds Max software and Arnold to render the final animation. Learn how Autodesk Drive can help manage the workflow files, review the Inventor-to-3ds-Max import process, and see how to render photo-quality images. We’ll cover how to use Arnold materials and lights to light the scene and composition to create compelling images. And we’ll show you how the Camera controls can adjust the scene exposure and depth of field. Get ahead of the competition by learning to create your renderings using photographic composition in a streamlined workflow.

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.

It was a Friday morning, just before lunch, when a Teams message dinged: "RED ALERT!" Little did the speaker know that in less than a week the shop would be cutting metal on an innovative new suspension design created with the use of Autodesk design and manufacturing toolsets in Autodesk Fusion 360 and Inventor software. Exploring multiple design technologies—including Generative Design, Shape Generator, and finite element analysis (FEA) tools with Inventor Nastran software—a team collaborated to design and manufacture a new truck suspension prototype that shaved an unheard-of 20% off the weight of the suspension assembly. Three weeks later, the new prototype was on the showroom floor at a national truck show. How did we get there? What technologies did we use? And how did we choose one technology over another? This case study will retrace our steps and help you identify decision points you can apply in your own design scenarios. Most of all, this story will showcase the possibilities Autodesk design tools open up.

Autodesk Fusion 360 software is arguably one of the most feature-rich and affordable CAD tools on the market. But some people still think that there surely must be a catch or a compromise. Well, we’re here to show that Autodesk Fusion 360 is an innovative CAD tool and can easily do what traditional CAD tools can do, plus a whole lot more! Using a real-world example of a complex, component-heavy design for a physically huge 3D printer built simultaneously at the University of Warwick and Autodesk’s Birmingham Technology Centre, we’ll show how Autodesk Fusion 360 handled deeply nested subassemblies of electromechanical components designed with both top-down and bottom-up modeling strategies. We’ll show how Autodesk Fusion 360 effortlessly empowered the project team to streamline the whole of their design and development process, collaborating in real time and taking their designs from concept all the way through verification and documentation onto manufacturing through seamless integration with computer numerical control (CNC) systems.

You’ve seen how iLogic automation can tame tedious and error-prone tasks, making you and your fellow Inventor users more efficient. Now it’s time to explore some of the often-overlooked tips, tricks, and tools that can assist you as an Inventor automation developer. Are you still using message boxes to debug? Would you like to learn a better way? Would you like to better understand how to navigate Inventor software’s application programming interface (API)? Would you like to present your iLogic rules as buttons on the ribbon menu? Join me and other Inventor automation-focused users like yourself to explore these productivity-enhancing tips and tricks.

In this session, we’ll share insights regarding how to review, evaluate, and showcase digital prototypes in context, holistically. Using the example of a kitchen, we’re showing how Autodesk Fusion 360 and Revit data can be used in VRED software to influence and inform the design and layout process. You’ll learn how to import and set up the data, prepare it for real-time and XR review, and collaborate with colleagues remotely to make an educated decision. Join us and understand the value of advanced visualization and digital prototyping with VRED for your product-development process. Learn how to involve all stakeholders by delivering the same high-quality visualization on any device from anywhere at any time.

Victoria Hand Project (VHP) is a charity that designs and deploys low-cost, 3D-printed prosthetic arms in developing countries. VHP provides medical professionals in low-income countries with the tools and training to create custom prosthetic arms. VHP has developed software solutions which use Autodesk Fusion 360 software to efficiently create these devices. Recently, VHP struggled to create prosthetic devices for upper-arm amputees (i.e., above elbow), due to the complex geometry of the 3D scans and the in-depth knowledge/workflow required to make the devices. Through the new Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension, VHP can now organically convert the complex mesh bodies of upper-arm scans into solid bodies for further 3D modeling. This has substantially improved the workflow of creating upper-arm prosthetic sockets, and allows for automation using APIs. This empowers VHP’s in-country partners to create custom upper-arm prosthetic devices quickly and easily, allowing for improved access to prosthetic care.

Increase your efficiency at creating, analyzing, and viewing simulation results with Inventor Nastran software. Whether you’re just beginning with Inventor Nastran or have extensive experience, the information provided in this presentation will help with all aspects of the analysis and the navigation of the Inventor Nastran interface.

Achieving long-term economic viability requires sustainable manufacturing. Globally, rising costs of materials, energy, and compliance—as well as consumer, investor, and community demands—are exerting pressure on firms. Our experiences suggest that environmental improvements are linked to increased profitability and competitiveness. Nevertheless, many small and medium-sized businesses (which account for nearly all businesses) have yet to take advantage of these opportunities. Let's pinpoint the issue. Client pressure, a lack of knowledge and resources, or simply not knowing where to start are all issues. This workshop will bring together manufacturing industry thought leaders to help them discover more-sustainable processes and apply early, predictive, and real-time analysis. We'll also discuss roadblocks to effective stakeholder collaboration and communication. When you return to work, you’ll be armed with the raw data collected during this session.

Discover the advantages Autodesk's new generative techniques have over well-known optimization methods. We’ll explain this using two next-generation technologies: Generative Modeling and Generative Design. The session will give you a solid understanding of differences and how to apply the two techniques. You’ll learn how to verify results in the simulation environment of Autodesk Fusion 360 and Inventor Nastran software, and how to interpret safety factors and von Mises stress values. Safely removing a significant amount of material without fear of structural failure is not easy, but you’ll see how to do it easily and safely. You’ll learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to increase product-development agility and optimize the design-to-manufacturing process. Generative Design capabilities are in Autodesk Fusion 360 and Inventor software. Cloud collaboration makes it possible to verify one design in different Autodesk software systems. You’ll also have the opportunity to get your questions directly to the people creating new features.

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.

Skeletal modeling has been around for a while, but there are a lot of nuances within the methodology. This class will go from beginner to advanced looking at these nuances, as well as looking at a unique methodology for structural modeling and also how you can apply iLogic and Vault copy design to make this methodology vastly more efficient. We’ll cover how it was applied to the TMT (30-meter telescope) project—a new class of extremely large telescopes that will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects with unprecedented sensitivity. With its 30-meter-diameter prime mirror, TMT will be three times as wide, with nine times more area, than the world's largest currently existing visible-light telescope. This will provide an unparalleled resolution, with TMT images more than 12 times sharper than those from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. See also how this methodology could be applied to other projects.

Manufacturing companies are under increasing pressure to provide unique products to their customers, while simultaneously improving their overall efficiency. Getting sales and engineering working effectively together to efficiently produce accurate proposals for configurable products can be a challenge at the best of times. The current difficulties with finding and retaining staff, combined with increasing demand for product customization, make it even harder. This session will address the requirements, challenges, lessons learned, best practices, and value obtained from using Inventor models directly in a web-based configure-price-quote (CPQ) solution developed with the Autodesk Forge Design Automation API for Inventor software.