This industrial case study will cover a recent design and make collaboration between Autodesk and Impression Technologies, an industry leading Automotive hot forming solutions provider. Together we will present a comparison of several mold designs across a range of design approaches and manufacturing technologies. We will demonstrate how optimizing design for additive manufacturing can be leveraged to achieve; more efficient production times and material usage, improved part quality, and reduced part cost and energy consumption. During the project experts from Autodesk and ITL collaborated via Autodesk CFD and the Fusion 360 platform. We utilized simulation and several design methodologies, including conformal cooling and the application of lattice structures via Fusion 360’s Product Design extension. The project culminated in the tooling production using Autodesk’s Birmingham Technology Centre metal Additive Manufacturing systems, and testing and validation at ITL’s research facility.

Autodesk VRED 3D visualization software helps designers and engineers create product presentations, design reviews, and virtual prototypes using interactive GPU ray tracing and both analytic and cloud-rendering modes. This session highlights the AWS Quick Start designed for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals who are planning to implement or extend their Autodesk VRED workloads on the AWS Cloud to enable realtime, virtual, design reviews.

Modern manufacturing technology has given the designer a large selection of possible avenues for manufacturing a component. However, with this variety, it is difficult to know which method would provide the most sustainable results. By leveraging manufacturing sustainability metrics, in this session, we’ll showcase how Fusion 360 users can select a manufacturing workflow to ensure a reduced impact for their manufactured component. Focusing on Additive, Subtractive and Hybrid manufacturing workflows, our case study will highlight how to use manufacturing energy consumption and waste metrics to select the most sustainable manufacturing method for your designs. Furthermore, this session will dive into on going research on how these decisions can be made within the design phase of product development, through leveraging predictive manufacturing energy and waste models.

Frustrated with repeated model quality and coordination issues with Piping models on your projects? Come join this class to learn how SSOE has adopted Revit Fabrication Parts on many of its Industrial and Manufacturing projects for initial design modeling. Discover how Revit Fabrication Parts can enable Specification based modeling – something that traditionally would have been accomplished with other products such as AutoCAD Plant 3D. We’ll cover the benefits of using one common platform (Revit) to complete Building Design as well as when Specification Based modeling should or shouldn’t be used. Finally, we’ll discuss unique challenges SSOE faced as an AE firm as we adopted Revit Fabrication Parts and how we overcame those obstacles to produce higher quality designs to our clients saving them time, trouble, and money.

Over the last decade, Danville/Pittsylvania County has developed a world-class manufacturing training pipeline to address the skills-gap and workforce shortage. Over $100M invested in innovative training programs, robust K-12 through university collaboration and key strategic alignments has resulted in impact at the local, state, and national level. Explore best practices and lessons learned from a tactical and strategic prospective and receive advice for setting up your workforce training pipeline.

In this panel we will interview multiple firms who have had custom software solutions created for them and their firm. We will look at some of the reasons that drove them to create custom tools, whether it was for a competitive edge, the desire to make their Autodesk products that much better, or for the sheer love of innovation and pushing the limits. We will get a good perspective on some of their challenges, lessons learned through their experiences, and if they would consider embarking on this journey again. The panel will consist of architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing professionals. Most of them are innovators and intrapreneurs, who is a person who disrupts an industry from within the walls of their own company. If you have ever cared about innovation, and wondered what it's like to build your own product, this class is for you!

Manufacturing companies are under increasing pressure to provide unique products to their customers while at the same time, 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. The session addresses 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 Forge Design Automation API for Inventor.

It’s time to Zero, how can university research help us transition to Net Zero? PrintCity, has 6 large research projects (€50M) that enhance Sustainability and the Circular Economy transition, to reduce our impact on the environment. Projects span a range of industries and grand challenges to make new materials, more sustainable products and extend the life of electronics. With a state-of-the-art digital manufacturing facility, PrintCity’s research is delivered by a multidisciplinary team who are passionate about sustainability and are proud to work for the UK’s #1 Greenest University, Manchester Metropolitan. Projects include producing 95-98% recycled FDM filaments from single use plastics, 3D printing concrete replacing virgin sand with recycled aggregates (demolition waste) and using 3D print for repair. Learn how Fusion 360 is being used to design new, more sustainable products. Learn more about how PrintCity’s sustainability research is helping us transition to Net Zero.

The consumer product industry is more competitive than ever before. In order to maintain an edge over the competition, it is important to differentiate your product from the pack. Fusion 360 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 utilize two tools from the the Fusion Product Design Extension. First, you will learn how to apply a volumetric lattice to your parts (to lightweight them and create visually distinct geometry). Next, you will learn how to apply 3D printable patterns/textures to the surface of your part (to provide grip and/or a visual "pop"). If you design consumer products and are interested in taking your products to the next level, this class is for you.

Generative Design technology in Fusion 360 continues to grow and expand to help you achieve better engineering outcomes. In this session, you’ll get a look at how generative design technology in Fusion 360 has matured in 2022 and how our improvements will help enable your success. You will hear about one of our customers' journey with generative design, all the way through manufacturing and physical validation. We'll also look into the future at how we’ll be expanding the types of engineering outcomes that can be explored with generative design technology in Fusion 360.

Generative modelling is a brand-new feature in Fusion 360 that offers up creative design solutions in canvas in a matter of minutes. Users simply let the software know where the shape they want to create should be, and generative modelling will automatically come up with a variety of different suggestions for shapes. Unlike generative design technology which has come before, generative modelling requires no detailed setup information from the user, just click the faces to connect, obstacles to avoid, press go and see multiple creative possibilities start to take shape in real time. In this case study, you will get a firsthand view of how two designers have used Generative Modelling to expand their creativity and explore possibilities, in two very different applications. From initial concept all the way through to manufacturing. Their stories help show the advantages that an automated design tool like generative modelling can provide.

A 14 year journey through multiple iterations, SLI has arrived at a point where it can build a 14 story high-rise structure in a factory and assemble it on a job site as if it was a kit of parts. We are far from the end of the journey; for example, we're now 60% of the way from completing a load-bearing version of our solution which will be assembled as a low-rise residential home for homeless people. Without significant refinement in our manufacturing processes and assembly processes, we will not achieve the level of affordability that we intend for our solution to provide. So we clearly understand the necessity to transform our design manufacturing and delivery processes via a comprehensive use of digital tools. Our partnership with Autodesk is intended to be a mutually beneficial collaboration as a result of our bringing to Autodesk all of our current and past experiences gleaned from our industrialized construction journey.

Join Autodesk's Alex Pena Workflow Analyst, Amy Marks VP of Industrialized Construction, Tiffany Bachmeier Director of Global M&E and Advanced Manufacturing, along with a panel of industry-leading customers in a discussion about convergence. As companies evolve their future states to include outcomes and solutions like Industrialized Construction, IFM, and Digital Twins – we will consider and discuss the future of data, sustainability, and talent for ecosystem transformation. Autodesk is helping you differentiate from the competition by providing thought leadership, consulting, success plans, technical and product adoption support for you as your industries flex in capabilities beyond your primary businesses and harness emerging outcomes, project strategies, and business models.

How do we ensure graduates have the requisite skills that businesses need when modern digital tools are advancing so rapidly? How do we teach those students to be versatile to adapt to the digital technology changes? How do businesses know what work flows, technologies and platforms can help them with digital transformation, and what skills and personas would help them exploit it? The answer: PrintCity, a digital manufacturing facility in Manchester, where students and businesses collide, collaborate and innovate. An open-door policy, a first of a kind MSc Course with multi-disciplinary in-take, a commercial service and an open collaborative space to encourage managed serendipity. The outcome; enhanced student experience, accelerated graduate outcomes, high-quality employment and digital transformation. Learn how PrintCity is obliterating the labour cliff. Powered by Fusion 360, PrintCity has converged design and manufacturing to deliver over 150 projects with businesses since 2018.

Manufacturing errors and quality issues are one of the biggest obstacles for product makers when it comes to achieving business goals and remaining competitive. The reason is often a lack of understanding between collaborating areas of the supply chain because CAD model documentation is difficult to understand or incomplete. In this course, you will learn how model-based definition in Inventor can provide an alternative approach to creating understandable and accurate documentation that is ready to be reused downstream. The content of this AU course focuses on how MBD can help fully define a CAD model earlier in the design process than ever before, while unlocking new potential for automation in areas such as manufacturing and quality management. The benefits of model-based definition are highlighted as part of a direct comparison between the traditional and a forward-thinking approach that can provide greater clarity, accuracy and efficiency in the product lifecycle.

Decathlon, the most preferred brand in France and the European sporting goods retailer, 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 how Generative Design helps Decathlon to reimagine the bike of the Future. Today, evangelize this to the brand passion, his team continue to promote the use of Generative Design to create new ways of making new products. To help optimize the process, the project teams of Charles decided to use computational design as an exploratory tool. Decathlon wanted to observe how Generative Design could be used starting in the design phase and consequently wanted 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 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 is is a panel that will feature 3-4 global partners of different types (systems integrators, platinum partners, applications developers) from multiple industries (arhitecture and engineering, construction, design & manufacturing) who are building services on the Forge platform or connecting to Fusion or Revit, or who are connecting critical data sets (eg material databases) to our products through Forge data. The discussion will be more business-oriented than technical, and will focus on why the partners are investing, why this is important for them, how this activity is evolving and growing their businesses.

case study from the Red Sea Development which illustrates our journey from defining our digital delivery requirements to the construction of hotels using prefabrication and off-site manufacturing. With examples of precast volumetric apartments, laminated structural timber frames and entire villa modules assembled and shipped to site, we will share lessons learned from managing information, design models and shop drawings during the design, procurement, and construction phases for 3,000 buildings. Learn how we, as the owner, configured and implemented BIM 360 for our large scale complex projects. Our BIM processes, workflows and use of BIM 360, were awarded the BSI Kitemark for delivering projects to ISO 19650 standards. Our challenge is ensuring everyone has the knowledge and skills to participate in our digital delivery process. We will explain how we invest in education and training to onboard teams quickly, improve methods of working and increase productivity.

You can see plastic injection moulded 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 moulding simulation tools and the Product Design extension in Fusion 360, there is now the opportunity to take the design of injection moulded components all the way from concept through to design, manufacturing validation and tooling manufacture all without ever leaving Fusion. 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 mould, validating the mould, cutting chips on the CNC to make the mould and finally producing the part.