Whether prototyping or designing your next product, enclosure design can be difficult to coordinate between your electronics design and mechanical design. This talk will look at several examples of how to make your next enclosure project easier using Fusion 360 software and Eagle.

Today’s smarter products require multidisciplinary levels of engineering. Converging the electrical and mechanical portions of a design is a critical stage in the product development process. Design teams must have an effective bidirectional electronic CAD (ECAD) / mechanical CAD (MCAD) collaborative environment. This class will introduce the first-ever cloud-connected ECAD-to-MCAD workflow between EAGLE software and Fusion 360 software. By creating a pulse oximeter, this class will showcase the workflows of creating a printed circuit board (PCB) and assigning 3D models to the electronics in EAGLE. The PCB will be live linked into Fusion 360, where an enclosure will be built around the PCB. You’ll learn strategies to ensure serial ports and LCDs are built into the enclosure. The class will demonstrate the power of cloud connectivity by making changes to the board layout, and showing how the live linking works parametrically with respect to the enclosure. We will then perform thermal validation of the board in a Fusion 360 thermal simulation.

With products becoming smarter and more connected, the need for an integrated Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is paramount. This class will introduce the first-ever cloud connected ECAD to MCAD workflow. We will discuss how EAGLE and Fusion 360 can work side by side to create schematics and generate board layouts from 3D CAD geometry and accurate 3D representations of PCBs to create enclosures within Fusion 360.

The class will start by demonstrating the use of Spice in EAGLE software to predict the performance of the circuit, and will analyze the results of the Spice simulation and how a component will dissipate its power. We will then show and verify the thermal simulation results and the iteration process via A360 collaboration. In a real-world scenario engineers and designers do not always get it "right" the first time, so it takes multiple backs and forths between the designer and the engineer to determine a design that works and is efficient, yet meets all specifications. We'll demonstrate this process between EAGLE and Fusion 360 software's capabilities, and show the class how a normal workflow in the industry would operate using EAGLE and Fusion 360 smoothly and seamlessly.

Many of the products we design and finally use are developed in mechanical CAD software. However, in almost all products, you’ll also find an electronic part. Without them, most products would be pointless. With the two Autodesk programs Fusion 360 software and EAGLE software, these two worlds grow together. This class will provide insight into the world of electronics. We intend to explain very basic things: What is a printed circuit board (PCB) and how is it manufactured? Which electronic components are used? How is an electronic layout created in EAGLE and how can a mechanical engineer use, change, and create a layout in Fusion 360? These basic questions will be explained using some illustrative examples.

How can you design, prototype, and successfully launch products when your team is remote? Fusion 360 software and EAGLE CAD software have the collaborative tools you need to enable remote teams. Learn to simultaneously build great products using the Team and Collaboration features of Fusion 360 and EAGLE.

Air pollution is a global health issue, and affects more than 90% of the world’s population. Our team at University of Colorado Boulder, with support from the Autodesk Foundation, has developed air-quality feedback systems and other environmental sensors to help improve public health around the world. We use engineering technology to address global health problems. In partnership with a team from Autodesk Pier 9, a health-based air-quality feedback system (the desktop lamp featured at Autodesk University’s Factory exhibit) was developed using distance design techniques. Fusion 360 software’s CAD, CAM, and Render workspaces were used to collaboratively design the product with inputs from team members in multiple cities, and the electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) integration with EAGLE software was used to design the open-source circuit board. This class will introduce the field of global engineering, with specific examples of how we use CAD, ECAD, and CAM to rapidly prototype solutions to global health problems, from Rwanda to San Francisco.

Are you an Industrial Designer looking to add light or color or sound to an object?Are you a mechanical engineer looking to add sensors or motion control to a system?Are you an architect looking to transform spaces by controlling the room around you?If so, this course is for you!

This course is an intro to electronics design using Autodesk EAGLE and focuses on practical electronics for the non-EE.Spend 60 minutes learning about the design and fabrication of the most fundamental of elements in any electronic system, the Printed Circuit Board (PCB).In this course, we will learn what a PCB is and even design our own PCBs from scratch.We will learn the range of modular electronics options available which simplify electronics design and make design accessible for non-engineers.

The challenge that all electronic designers encounter is acquiring or building components that will be used in their products. The added variant to this already elaborate process is building or generating 3D models that need to be associated for effective mechanical modeling. For this presentation, we will be showing techniques used to build electronic component footprints with associated 3D models. We will also teach you how to create 3D models of electronic components using Fusion 360 software.

Looking for an easy way to add wireless communications to a project? Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee? Wireless electronics is considered by many to be a dark art, even electrical engineers! However, today’s modular hardware and simplified software resources has made it possible for even nonelectrical engineers to successfully add wireless communications to their designs. This course is for mechanical engineers, industrial designers, architects, and software engineers looking to control objects wirelessly or gather data from devices or systems remotely. Spend time with us learning to add Wi-Fi to your next project! Using Eagle, we will build a small sensor-based system that posts data to the cloud and responds to commands from your browser. Some familiarity with embedded software platforms, including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or similar will be helpful but is not required. Familiarity with breadboarding concepts will also be helpful.

Sales prototypes are often different than engineering prototypes. They are quicker to make, are less sensitive to cost, and need to be exciting. In this class, you’ll learn to create sales prototypes that will help sell your ideas. You’ll learn how to recognize which features your prototype needs, how to create three-second demos, and how to close licensing deals or sales. Using Fusion 360 software, EAGLE, and off-the-shelf components, you can quickly make cheap influential prototypes that close deals. Prototypes enable you to amp up your presentations. Close more deals, sell more ideas, and discover which products are winners.

The ability for teams to address and adapt to change is becoming a critical element of survival for many organizations in the current digital transformation landscape. We can acquire new tools and design new processes, but how do you ensure that your employees apply these technologies in their daily work? Equipping our staff for the future is one of the essential pillars of Royal HaskoningDHV’s (RHDHV) digital transformation. Our ambition is to provide 90% of colleagues with relevant digital skills and competencies, to prepare the organization for the future. Together with Autodesk and Eagle Point software, RHDHV managed to increase productivity around learning and ensure targeted learning for our employees. In this industry talk, RHDHV will share how to prepare the workforce for the future of work, improve workforce ROI, and put together a training strategy that meets industry requirements, energizes employees, and is aligned with company culture.

As technology rapidly evolves, it is important to develop a technology adoption strategy. This session, jointly presented by WSP, HNTB, and Eagle Point Software, explores their journeys through developing a technology strategy for operational staff. We will share helpful techniques to assist with the development and implementation of an effective technology adoption strategy, leveraging best practices and standards for applied training, and information on industry tools for assessing skills gaps, which can be used to create a skills taxonomy and personalized approach to training. The presenters' goal is to inspire viewers to think outside the box and consider the importance of developing a technology adoption strategy that will accelerate technology adoption, increase productivity, and drive growth across an organization.

Inspired by the integrated product-development capabilities in Fusion 360 software, this class will walk through the advantages of using the multidisciplinary workspaces (ECAD, modeling, CAM) of the product-innovation platform. You will learn how to save time and money while avoiding frustration by rapidly exploring iterations of a design to optimize a printed circuit board (PCB) and mechanical components for an electromechanical assembly. To fully encompass the design process, we will use ECAD and EAGLE to address basic PCB design principles. We will then use the PCB design to create a parametric electromechanical assembly in Fusion 360, after which, we will use the CAM workspace to develop machining operations for the mechanical components. Finally, we will make a design change to the base PCB component, and we will update the assembly model and CAM operations to illustrate the efficiency and interdisciplinary communication benefits of integrated product development in Fusion 360.

This class dives into our cross-divisional project at Autodesk for the making of a SmartBridge inside our Pier9 facility.We'll walk through our case study where we used structural analysis, Eagle, Revit and Forge to design and plan the layout of sensors onto an interior pedestrian footbridge. Using sensors for strain, acceleration, temperature, pressure, humidity, sound and cameras, we created the "nervous system". We then integrated all this live sensor data into Autodesk's cloud environment, and used Forge to bring all the data into one context on top of the BIM.Using data at the centre, we'll show you how we learned from the data to create various machine learning analytics for interacting with people on the bridge. In our class, we'll go over how we applied big data analysis techniques, machine learning, computer vision and visualization in the cloud to make our bridge "smart".(Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

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.