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Simulation for Fusion 360 brings powerful simulation tools to every designer and engineer. Now you can make the right design decisions, improve your product functionality, and identify critical areas in your design. In this class you will discover how to setup simulation, create loads and supports, analyze results, and share it on the cloud. You will learn how to analyze your model using Linear Static Stress and Modal analysis.

"At last year’s Forge DevCon, we looked at our approach to developing a data platform built for a future where design and make have converged . . . a future where accessing, modifying, and connecting data at any phase in your project or product lifecycle have become critical to success . . . a future that becomes more and more of a reality every day. Come check out the progress we’ve made on the Forge Data platform, where we’re heading in the future, and how you can leverage Forge Data for your business."

As with many software as a service (SaaS) providers, Autodesk offers products that support cloud-based collaboration and enable application deliverables right to your desktop or mobile device. As customers, we need to understand what these tools can do for us and how to apply them to our corporate needs. What does Autodesk® PLM 360 cloud-based data management look like to our company? Will BIM 360™ Field or BIM 360™ Glue® cloud-based software help us to better manage site or subcontractor products and deliverables? How can we capitalize on Fusion 360™ software for project-based collaboration between manufacturers and construction teams to solve real-world problems? What about mobile apps, such as Autodesk® FormIt™ for site-based problem description and resolution for project managers? What does it really look like to be able to access any of my work from anywhere: at my desk, in the boardroom, or what have you? Join us for a panel discussion on these powerful new technologies.

This class will introduce attendees to the Fusion Connect development platform. You will learn how to model a digital twin of your machine assets, and (using a little business logic along with our point-and-click tools) you will learn how to build an Internet of Things application that turns your data into actionable events—visual status and graphs that you can capitalize on to collect operational feedback instantaneously from your customers and improve design or build unique value business offerings based on your products. This session features SeeControl (now Fusion Connect) and Fusion Connect.

This class will introduce attendees to the Fusion Connect development platform. You will learn how to model a digital twin of your machine assets, and (using a little business logic, along with our point-and-click tools) you will learn how to build an Internet of Things application that turns your data into actionable events-visual status and graphs that you can capitalize on to collect operational feedback instantaneously from your customers and improve design, or build unique value business offerings based on your products. This session will feature Fusion Connect.

This class will present both techniques and actual working methods and workflows used by end-user companies utilizing Inventor software with customized toolsets. The creation of architectural content, furniture, cabinetry, millwork, doors, windows, trade show booths, stairs, store fixtures, and interiors for boats, planes, and tour buses are just a few of the industries utilizing the software today. This class will emphasize actual construction procedures using the latest version of Inventor software and several core development tools. The presentation of multiple approaches to shortening cycle time to manufacturing is the key in increasing accuracy as well as time to manufacturing. One-button CNC can be a reality. If 25% or more of your design is utilizing wood products, this class will assist you by presenting automated alternatives. The end goal is that designers have more time for creativity, enabling them to work more efficiently and accurately.

In today’s market, more and more parts are needing faster turnaround times at lower costs. Multitasking machines help you complete a part in a single operation while reducing your setup times. In this class, we will start with the history of Mazak as an organization and how it created the multitasking machine market. We will cover the different architectures available in the industry and each of their benefits and shortcomings. From a functionality standpoint, we will discuss different types of synchronization, the reasoning behind each one, and their best-case uses. By showcasing some examples through case studies, we aim to highlight the higher-value work customers can obtain by utilizing these types of machine to their full potentials. Finally, we will look to the future and the use of hybrid multitasking machines.

How do you do use the secure, scalable, and cost-effective capabilities of the cloud to accelerate your design and engineering process? In this session, we will show you how Autodesk cloud solutions such as Fusion 360 are built on a secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade Amazon Web Services platform, as well as how desktop solutions such as Inventor can be deployed on a secure virtual private cloud for enterprise-grade security and lower total cost of ownership.

We4bee pursues the goal of establishing a worldwide network of high-tech beehives. This is not only to promote environmental research and education, but also to establish an early warning system for earthquakes and other natural disasters. This project collaborates with the University of Würzburg, Germany. In this class Dr. Claudia Leikam (CEO of we4bee), Professor Hotho and Padraig Davidson from the Chair of Computer Science X (big data and machine learning), Professor Jürgen Tautz (THE bee expert), and the engineer Hans Neumayr will give us an overview about this research project. Hans Neumayr used Fusion 360 software and EAGLE software to create the electronics equipment and some mechanical parts of the beehives. Professor Hotho and Mr. Davidson will provide information on data collection and analysis. Professor Tautz is the well-known bee expert, and Dr. Leikam will give you a view of the scientific aspects of this amazing project.

This session is for admins who are considering upgrading their teams to a Premium plan. With new plans for named users available, it can be tough to figure out which is the best fit for your company. Hear directly from a customer on why they chose Premium, and what challenges the Premium features helped them overcome. Learn tips and tricks from product managers on how to maximize the value of product usage reporting with user details and single sign-in so your company can be more efficient with administrative tasks and software spend. Attendees will leave the session with clearer understandings of the differences between a Standard and Premium plans, so they can make the right purchasing decisions for their companies.

This session is for admins who want to learn more about the steps required to transition to named user. We will cover step-by-step instructions that will help you add users with our four invite workflows, assign users to your subscriptions with import to assign and active directory group sync, update your license type to a named user subscription using automation or self-service by end users, and detail the new sign-in process for your users. Attendees will leave the session ready to transition and set up their new named user subscriptions in the most efficient way possible.

While Fusion 360 is really focused on product design and development, there's many times this wonderfully useful, flexible, and affordable tool comes in handy when putting a building together! In this class we'll dive into using Fusion as a design tool for building elements, show some real-world examples of it's use on architecture projects, and talk about how to use Fusion along with Revit and other BIM tools as part of the overall construction project. I'll show examples of creative fabrication, generative design, FEA, sheet metal modeling, complex organic forms, and digital fabrication; all things Revit isn't so hot at but Fusion handles with ease. I'll also show examples of creating Revit Families from Fusion imports. Come see why you'll want to add this tool to your creative toolbox!

Design is rarely a perfectly linear and straightforward process. Often a single tool cannot accommodate all the workflows and even when it does, it is rarely the right fit. By leveraging the different tools within the Autodesk PDM collection (Autodesk Inventor, 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 when designing parts for formative manufacturing - Injection molding. From making a mold in Inventor to validating your part for Injection molding in Fusion 360, the Autodesk PDM collection helps you connect these workflows right on your Desktop using Fusion 360 desktop connector.

This course will focus on the nonlinear study types within the simulation capabilities of Autodesk Fusion 360.Simulation should be an integral part of the design process to ensure that the design will perform as expected.Knowing when and how to leverage the nonlinear study types will help build your simulation skills.To answer the question of "when", we will consider the limitations of static stress and how Nonlinear Static Stress and Event Simulation go beyond those limitations.In order to answer the question of "how", we will examine the advanced material models (such as elasto-plastic and Mooney-Rivlin) and the options that we can and should utilize within the interface.

To obtain better simulation results, a systematic and powerful mesh is key. While some finite element analysis (FEA) software products have advanced meshing tools to help obtain a superior analytical model, applying these tools can be complicated. Using the guidelines and tricks taught in this session upfront, during your CAD modeling for simulation with Autodesk software, you can develop a better mesh more efficiently and obtain accurate and precise results. This class will explain first how to recognize mesh qualities, then how to use CAD modeling techniques to obtain a refined mesh more efficiently, saving time and money in your analysis efforts.

In this class, we’ll cover four topics of automotive manufacturing: mold simulation and CAM, factory planning, automated manufacturing, and emerging design and manufacturing technology. We’ll begin with the challenges that automotive tooling companies face, and how the use of new technology and increased machine utilization can address the needs of more-complex and accurate tooling. From there we’ll move to factory planning and ways in which to address the challenges that drive change in manufacturing facilities; the problems that arise because of change; and the use of a unified digital model to manage this. We’ll then look at how manufacturing productivity can be increased using intelligent automation, and how it can improve consistency and component reliability. And we’ll finish discussing the use of emerging technology like generative design and additive and hybrid manufacturing, as manufacturers look to improve performance and efficiency of vehicles to meet sustainability and regulatory requirements.

Desktop-scale 3D printing has become ubiquitous in many industries today. As this growth continues, the demand for ever-larger printed parts has increased exponentially. The move to large-format additive manufacturing (AM[ad1] ) is not as simple as just scaling up. Large-format AM delivers a whole new set of challenges not widely understood by the average designer or engineer. In this class, we will demonstrate how to create 3D-printing toolpaths in Fusion 360 software for both typical desktop-scale 3D prints, and large-scale robot-based printing using the new Fusion 360 robot post processor. We will compare and contrast these two workflows and discuss the additional strategies necessary for successful large-format AM. To close the class, we will summarize the three major categories of difficulties faced and how to mitigate them when moving into large-format additive: access to software tools and simulation solutions; process physics and material properties; and machine selection and equipment.

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.