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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Architecting with Steel: Design Large, Complex 3D-Printed Structures leveraging Fusion!
Meet "The Brænch"—an organic 3-meter-high steel structure fabricated with advanced 3D printing technology. This class showcases how our cross-disciplinary team used Fusion to unlock novel design workflows and create unique architectural elements that are 3 times cheaper than if they were die cast. We'll demonstrate why architects should consider adding Fusion to their toolbox for generative design, optimization, and FEA simulation to move beyond certain limitations of Rhino/Grasshopper. Through detailed examples, we'll present an integrated workflow improving material efficiency and structural performance in large-scale metal components. The class targets architects first approaching manufacturing, practically demonstrating how to align design with fabrication requirements, opening possibilities for applications such as façade components and structural elements while leveraging additive manufacturing to tackle material transportation, construction cost, and supply chain challenges.
9p
61p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Enabling Industrialized Construction with the Informed Design API
In this session, we’ll cover the new Informed Design API. Informed Design is an Autodesk offering aimed at connecting products created in Inventor or Autodesk Fusion software with project data in Revit software. This will improve project outcomes and increase productivity by bringing together the capabilities of our manufacturing software with our architecture, engineering, and construction software. The class will start with an overview of Informed Design and how the API can be used to extend and customize the offering. We’ll cover product creation in Inventor and Fusion. And we’ll look at how to create good BIM content by generating well-formed Revit families for use in a Revit project. Then we’ll show how to create outputs from a Revit project at scale. We’ll follow up with an overview of specific examples of how our customers and partners are using the API, followed by an example of how to use the API.
25p
New Orleans 2022
Pharma Industry: Why BIM Can Become a Digital Transformation Cornerstone
Building information modeling (BIM) processes with federated 3D models and centralized common data environments (CDEs) are well-accepted norms in project delivery. Yet, the benefits derived from this digitalization favor the engineering companies over the manufacturing owner. Moreover, the owner's transformation focus is mostly on digitizing highly regulated drug releases and manufacturing performance. Converging these two digital approaches is not often seen as a priority. Yet, it may be a foundational step toward a successful digital transformation for businesses and their people. We’ll make the case for data convergence between digital assets (descriptive digital twins) and manufacturing data and analytics to solve business problems, like accessing the right information and documentation without time loss. We’ll share how the human-centered approach made visible the foundational benefit of BIM by linking objects to information using BIM 360 (collaborate) and data fusion technologies, and which KPIs can demonstrate value.
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
The Manufacturing Shortcut: A Hands-On Configurations Lab with Rivian’s Prototyping Secrets

Ready to slash setup times and boost Machinist efficiency? In this 90-minute hands-on lab, dive into Autodesk Fusion Configurations alongside experts from Rivian and Autodesk. Using a provided PC, you’ll learn to build a configurable work-holding setup—straight from Rivian’s playbook for prototyping and production. Discover how to minimize manual setup, reduce errors, and free up time for what matters: programming and perfecting your parts. Leave with practical skills to streamline your workflows and impress your team.

Panel / Nashville 2025
Engineering Reimagined: Industry Perspectives on the Role of AI Agent
Join industry leaders as they explore how artificial intelligence (AI) agents are transforming engineering workflows and redefining possibilities across the Design and Make sectors. This panel brings together pioneers from diverse disciplines to share real-world implementations, challenges, and breakthrough opportunities emerging from AI agent integration. Panelists will discuss how these technologies move beyond traditional Automation, Integration, & Customization to become true collaborative partners in the design process. From optimizing complex systems and automating routine tasks to enabling entirely new approaches to problem-solving, discover how leading organizations are using AI agents to enhance human capabilities rather than replace them.
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Engineering Efficiency Unleashed: Hands-On Synera Training
This workshop will introduce engineers to Synera’s process Automation, Integration, & Customization capabilities through hands-on implementation. You'll create Automation, Integration, & Customization solutions for common engineering workflows that reduce manual tasks and eliminate repetitive processes. Through guided exercises and real-world scenarios, you'll configure Synera to streamline documentation creation, automate design validations, and create intelligent workflows tailored to your requirements. We’ll show you how to integrate Synera with your existing solutions, including Inventor software, Autodesk Fusion 360 software, Moldflow, NAVASTO, and more.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Beyond Additive: Bringing Generative Design to the Machine Shop
While generative design offers innovative, organic forms, its realization has largely been limited to prototyping via additive manufacturing. Conventional computer numerical control (CNC) Machinist, despite its advancements and suitability for mass production, has primarily focused on geometric parts, alongside making the production more efficient, autonomous, and lights out. This project investigates a paradigm shift by exploring the integration of generative design with modern CNC Machinist techniques. We’ll delve into recent developments in CAM software, using Autodesk Fusion 360 software and modern CNC techniques that enable the fabrication of complex, freeform designs developed through generative algorithms. By examining a successful case study of bicycle components, current limitations, and potential applications across various industries, this presentation aims to highlight the potential of this integrated approach to bring generative design to mass manufacturing, moving beyond prototyping and into real-world applications.
41p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
More Power! The Manufacturing Data Model Enables Cloud-Based Workflows and Automation, Integration, & Customization for the Autodesk Fusion Ecosystem
GraphQL is used to expose the rich, granular data of the Autodesk Platform Services Manufacturing Data Model. This class will cover the GraphQL introduction and syntax, and explore how to get the data you want. It will also show examples of automating workflows with this rich data. The data itself is authored by Autodesk Fusion software, but the data model is available to anyone you wish to share with. This manufacturing data can easily be used for analysis, processing, and sharing—without needing desktop authoring tools. You can use cloud functionality through GraphQL to seamlessly browse through hubs, projects, folders, files, and component properties—and use customized queries to fetch valuable data, integrate with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, automate project administrative tasks, and more.
23p
36p
Panel / Nashville 2025
Meet the Leaders Behind Autodesk Data Models: The Data Foundation for the Autodesk Design and Make Platform
About $2 trillion, that’s the amount of money the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry lost due to bad data—data that is inaccurate, inaccessible, and incomplete. In the industries Autodesk serves, data is a critical lifeline for project decisions and Automation, Integration, & Customizations. But all too frequently, that data is not easily accessible, or, even worse, the available data is simply bad. Across the globe, the ability to use data in an insightful manner is no longer a nice-to-have. It has become a primary source of competitive advantage. Furthermore, with acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI), the need for data is increasing exponentially. Those who use their data to make informed decisions and gain performance insights will ultimately emerge as leaders in their industries. Meet the leaders behind the industry data models to learn more about how Autodesk will solve top customer problems.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Dynamic Cutting Force Prediction for Optimized Milling Parameter Selection in Autodesk Fusion
Machinist dynamics models may be used to predict milling performance and select optimal parameters at the computer numerical control (CNC) path planning stage. The intent is to select parameters that enable first part correct performance and avoid trial-and-error parameter identification. This requires that chatter, or self-excited vibration, does not occur, and that acceptable accuracy and surface finish are achieved. This session will demonstrate dynamic force prediction for Autodesk Fusion toolpaths, which incorporates the tool tip vibration response to predict the dynamic cutting force and tool vibration and the effect of relative vibration between the cutting tool and workpiece on the milling stability. This enables us to identify and correct locations where chatter occurs before part production. It introduces a feed rate optimization capability that modifies cutting times by updating the feed rate. And it has been shown to reduce cycle times by up to 50%. We’ll select an aerospace part and show results.
34p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Product Design-Make-Use: Integrating Sensor Data and Digital Prototyping Technology
Digital Prototypings, powered by real-time data, AI, and IoT, are poised to revolutionize product design and manufacturing workflows within the design-make-use lifecycle. By enabling data-driven, predictive processes, Digital Prototypings transform how products are conceived, iterated, and validated. What if IoT sensor data embedded in a product can detect stresses during its operation, which can be derived to automatically redesign a stronger and more efficient iteration? What if IoT sensor data embedded in a 3D printer can detect defects on a layer-by-layer basis to make real-time, in-situ adjustments to prevent manufacturing failures and scrap? Questions like these are not only being asked but explored and tested at Autodesk Research. Through a performance-aided design approach, we are harnessing sensor data to drive real-time optimizations, using a flying vehicle as a cutting-edge testbed to redefine the future of design and manufacturing.
46p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
The Productivity Gap: Rethinking Skills in the Age of AI
For years, manufacturing has focused on the idea of a skills gap—the belief that we need more people trained to perform traditional tasks. But what if that assumption is limiting progress? What if the real challenge is a productivity gap—the growing difference between what skilled people are capable of and what current systems allow them to do? In this session, Al Whatmough, CEO of Toolpath, will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and Automation, Integration, & Customization can shift the role of humans on the shop floor. Instead of replacing people, the opportunity is to empower them, automate the mundane, elevate decision making, and redesign work around human strengths. This session will spark a lively discussion about the future of manufacturing work. What roles will evolve? What skills will truly matter? And how can we build tools, workflows, and cultures that help people do their best work? Join the conversation and help shape what comes next.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Exploring Visualization of 3D Objects in USD Format: Transform Designs with Sensor Data Insights
In this session, we will present a research prototype featuring a web app add-in for Autodesk Fusion software that visualizes 3D objects in USD (Universal Scene Description) format using NVIDIA Omniverse. The use case involves an innovative product design process that integrates sensor-collected performance data into the design, setting the stage for a novel performance-aided design approach. This session will begin with guidance on downloading the Omniverse libraries from public NVIDIA repositories, and will cover how to develop a custom Autodesk Fusion add-in capable of presenting a streamed Omniverse application running on the cloud. You’ll gain comprehensive understanding of the potential and step-by-step guidance for this innovative approach, which enables designers to go beyond traditional Digital Prototyping visualization dashboards and optimize designs using actionable insights from sensor data to ensure products perform as designed in the real world.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Intelligent Hole Machinist Unveiled: A Live Demo of Our Multiaxis, Machine-Aware Drilling Add-In for Autodesk Fusion
Get an inside look at our multiaxis drilling add-in for Autodesk Fusion software. It automatically detects holes, groups them by orientation, and respects machine kinematics to optimize computer numerical control (CNC) workflows, including cross drilling and advanced parameter controls. This live demo will walk you through the entire process—from hole detection to final toolpath generation—showing how to reduce programming time, prevent collisions, and ensure consistent results. By automating repetitive tasks and adding safety checks that prevent unintended breakthroughs or hole intersections, shops have cut drilling cycle times by up to 40%. Whether you’re a CNC programmer, manufacturing engineer, or CAM enthusiast, this session will offer an exciting glimpse at how intelligent drilling Automation, Integration, & Customization can boost your productivity and profitability.
22p
22p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Introduction to Fusion Data Management
Learn essential practices for effective data management in Autodesk Fusion. This course covers how to organize your data and utilize Fusion's collaboration tools to enhance team productivity and streamline product development. Gain practical tips and insights into new data management capabilities, enabling you to improve your workflows immediately. Ideal for users aiming to optimize design and collaboration processes.
16p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Mastering Design and Engineering in Autodesk Fusion: Expert Techniques to Make Consumer Product Design Far Less Time Consuming
Autodesk Fusion software is one of the most powerful design and engineering tools available. It enables industrial designers, mechanical engineers, and product design engineers to design, analyze, and even manufacture ideas quickly and easily. Because of this, the Fusion userbase is growing faster than ever. Thankfully, there are plenty of learning resources to help those new users get started. However, it can be challenging to find advanced content that shows users how to "level up" from an intermediate or even an advanced level. In this technical session, you'll learn the most-effective techniques to take your product design and engineering skills to the next level and beyond. You'll learn how to get the most out of Fusion so you can design the best products possible and get them to market before the competition. If you're interested in becoming a Fusion design and engineering expert, or you simply want to make consumer product design less time-consuming, this class is for you!
48p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Banishing Obsolescence from Your Electronics Design
At Avnet, our mission is to accelerate the adoption and seamless supply of new technologies. We understand the challenges engineers face when bringing innovative designs to life, and we’re here to help. Our latest app is designed to empower engineers by providing direct access to critical resources, streamlining the design process, and optimizing the supply chain. This session will be an engaged demonstration of Autodesk Fusion Electronics and Avnet’s App to solve for the most-challenging obsolescence problems within your electronics supply chain.
Meetup / Nashville 2025
Network with Fusion Factory Ecosystem Partners and Discuss Manufacturing Data Models Meetup
Join us for an engaging and interactive networking event centered around the Factory Experience at Autodesk University. This meetup is designed to provide attendees with curated, casual networking opportunities while exploring the concept-to-production process using Autodesk Fusion. Connect with peers and Autodeskers who share a passion for innovation, design, and manufacturing, and gain behind-the-scenes insights into the Factory Experience. Kickstart the session with conversations and discussions about the Fusion Factory Experience, focusing on the integration of CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB processes in Autodesk Fusion. Learn how the team designs, develops, and produces a brand-new consumer product each year, showcasing success stories and innovations throughout the entire product development cycle. Additionally, we will have expert knowledge about the new Manufacturing data model and its APIs, as well as discuss any customization questions you may have. Engage with product design and manufacturing enthusiasts, sharing experiences and insights in a vibrant community dedicated to advancing product development and manufacturing.
Meetup / Nashville 2025
Fusion Community Meetup: Discover Avnet & meet Hackster

Join us for an exciting and interactive networking event where we'll dive into the world of Autodesk Fusion, Avnet, and Hackster. This meetup is designed to provide attendees with curated, casual networking opportunities centered around 3D design, manufacturing, and hardware development. Connect with peers and Autodeskers who share a passion for innovation and design, and explore the cutting-edge tools and communities that are driving the future of design and manufacturing.
Kickstart the session by engaging in conversations and discussions about the latest developments and success stories from Autodesk Fusion, Avnet, and influencers from the Hackster community. Network with experts and gain hands-on insights into how the Avnet App works on the Autodesk Fusion platform, driving value for users and streamlining consumer product development. Share experiences and learn about Avnet's role in guiding designers and manufacturers from concept to delivery. Connect with Hackster's vibrant community dedicated to learning hardware and celebrating innovative achievements together.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Circuit to Sky: A Mechatronic Drone Design with Autodesk Fusion
Designing a drone is more than just assembling parts—it’s about bringing together electronics, mechanics, and performance into one seamless system. In this session, we will explore how to create a fully functional mechatronic drone using the all-in-one capabilities of Autodesk Fusion software. You’ll learn how to integrate a complete 3D mechanical assembly, and run simulations to validate both thermal performance and structural integrity. Whether you’re an engineer, product designer, or educator, this session will show you how to take your ideas from circuit to sky with efficiency, precision, and confidence.
30p
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