Generative design is a hot topic, but existing manufacturing methods like casting and injection molding seem to be hiding behind the curtains. This presentation will focus less so on additive manufacturing and more so on mass manufacturing methods currently being used industry wide. By leveraging existing generative design technology with casting and injection molding best practices, we can re-shape how current product design for manufacturing workflows can be achieved. By demonstrating the capabilities of new generative design technology, this talk will expose the new feature enhancements showcasing a realistic approach to the manufacturing and product design world which can be implemented into product design and manufacturing workflows today.

Join us for a dynamic Autodesk University session focusing on the strategic role of configurations in consumer product design through Autodesk Fusion 360. We’ll discuss how to use this powerful feature to create highly customizable, efficient, and innovative products that appeal to diverse consumer needs. The session will highlight practical examples and best practices, equipping you with the knowledge to integrate configurations effectively in your design process to enhance product performance and market appeal.

During Autodesk University 2021, we shared a developed workflow for how designers can bring data together through designing the part, the PCB, and even how to manufacture the plastic components. With the complexity of electronic part designs, there are often various aspects that need to be considered for the part to both work and perform as expected. In this class, we will demonstrate how the Fusion 360 workflow has matured to incorporate mechanical engineering aspects to smooth this product design workflow. We will use a sample product, the Autodesk University Digital Badge, to demo how to integrate mechanical design requirements and simulation into the product design process.

This class demonstrates the use of Fusion 360 software as a service throughout various stages of product design, while taking advantage of the software's intuitive approach and versatile modeling modes. The class combines quick demos and project examples in areas such as consumer products, sports equipment, and packaging. Attendees discover how Fusion 360 makes it easy to turn early concepts into final designs as part of the Autodesk® Product Design Suite. The class also highlights the exciting opportunities that Fusion 360 provides for cloud-based collaboration, thanks to the Autodesk® 360 cloud services hub.

"Sustainability" means many different things to different manufacturers. In some cases designers and engineers strive to make a product perform with greater energy efficiency. In other cases they focus on making the product easy to recycle at the end of its life or they design out restricted substances with advanced material selections. Regardless of the focus, the design and detailed-engineering phases hold many opportunities to decrease the environmental impact of a product. During this hour attendees will learn about current trends in sustainable product design and compliance, and we'll explore which are relevant to their products or product lines. Attendees will also learn how to easily apply Autodesk, Inc., tools at key points in design and engineering workflows to aid in the exploration of more sustainable design alternatives.

Fusion 360 software is available at no cost to all Product Design Suite 2015 software subscribers. The goal of this class is to explain what Fusion 360 software is, what is new, what is coming, and also to share how subscribers of Product Design Suite 2015 can take advantage of the software’s functionality. Fusion 360 software is a cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tool for product development that enables product teams and stakeholders to work together within an integrated design, engineering, and fabrication experience across platforms and devices. In this new way of working, users have the context to understand all aspects of a project and to collaborate with anyone and everyone, at any time. With Fusion 360 software, gone are the days of traditional data management and fragmented ways of working together on design projects.

Have you attended our AU Factory Live Experience? Want to learn how we created some of the parts using Fusion 360's newest extension? Here the team who helped design the casing for the AU Name badges will walk through how the NEW Product Design Extension can automate your design for Plastic Injection Molding by, defining your manufacturing up front, automating repetitive modeling tasks, creating manufacturing specific features and checking for manufacturing defects through simulation. These tools can increase your speed of development, improve your relationship with suppliers and reduce your time to market. Come see how the Product Design Extension can help you with your next Plastic Injection Molding design!

Innovative design and production practices are rapidly changing everything we touch on a day to day basis, as well as how these things are created. Autodesk's Product Design Suite gives design teams the tools they need to push the boundaries of existing design processes. This session (segment?) will follow the use of several Product Design Suite design and visualization tools in a typical product design workflow, and will highlight the strengths of Intel's hardware solutions throughout that process.

Do you need to take a concept and make it a reality? Does that reality include injection-molded parts? Do you need to get your design reviewed and approved quickly? If the answer to even 2 out of 3 of these questions is "yes," you should attend this class. We will also look at answers to these questions, and at an even more important question: How can we make changes on an overall assembly's shape while still developing individual piece details? To do this we will explore workflows within Product Design Suite software and add a dash of Simulation DFM software for good measure.

In this class, we will take you on a tour of Autodesk® Product Design Suite 2013. We will show you what you can do with this flexible set of tools that are specialized in 3D mechanical design, simulation, tooling, electrical design, visualization, documentation, and collaboration. Using the design suite tools, you can evaluate and optimize machines while exchanging information with others throughout the design workflow. You will learn what you can accomplish by combining the Digital Prototyping capabilities of Autodesk® Inventor® software with enhanced design, visualization, and cloud services tools to reduce development costs and get machine designs to your clients faster and with less rework.

Manufacturers are under more pressure than ever to deliver better products faster, at lower cost, and with less waste. Join us to explore future manufacturing trends and technology that can help you succeed in this rapidly changing era of digital transformation. Better product design and manufacturing start here

In the era of smart, connected, customizable products, the objects we buy should get better over time. How might we design for this? Google's mobile phone Project Ara is one example of a product designed to be modular, customized, and upgraded. Enabling products to change and last is among the best ways to make them more sustainable. Learn how to apply these principles to design future-proof products in Fusion 360 software. Discover how designing for modularity and upgradability dovetails with making products easier to disassemble and repair. Celebrated Fusion 360 software designer Paul Sohi (Denise Schindler prosthetic leg) and sustainable-design maven Dawn Danby (Sustainability Workshop) join forces to bring you this high-energy session. This session features Fusion 360.

The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection offers tools and workflows, enabling multidisciplinary collaboration from ideas to manufactured products. This class will demonstrate use cases showing how Vault Professional software captures all relevant data to share the right information to all people involved at the right time. Follow best practices and practical use cases. Discuss challenges encountered in daily work of engineering and requirements of downstream processes of procurement, manufacturing planning, and machining. Watch live demonstrations using built-in capabilities, and learn how automation options of Inventor software and Vault Professional may eliminate repetitive and tedious tasks. Additional class materials are going to share all samples, configurations, and automation snippets used and shown during the class.

Did you know Fusion 360 software is included with Product Design Suite? Have you wanted to start using Fusion 360 software and didn't know exactly where to start? This class is for you! We will go over the unique value Fusion 360 software brings to Product Design Suite, and some tips on how you can start using it today. Fusion 360 software enhances your product design workflow and collaboration, and it reduces the overhead of managing data and learning new tools. We'll explore different ways to do exactly that! This session features Fusion 360, AutoCAD, and Inventor Professional.

An introduction to the world of Alias Product Design, Concept Modelling and Detailed Surface Modelling. We look at how Automation can speed up the design process – allowing faster and more informed design making as well creating shareable and re-usable IP across the design pipeline. Experience based decision making is becoming more important and we look at trends and offer insights into how this can help Industrial and Product designers gather customers insights. Disparate tools needs cross team and cross function collaboration – making the designers of tomorrow even more efficient. Making decisions faster (with confidence) across teams and geographies is key. Finally we believe that the future of design will start with the customer – and how we ensure that connection works (as well as enterprise wide integration) in a seamless manner.

Designing plastic parts can take up a lot of time and be prone to errors. You will learn how use Product Design Extension to automate time consuming and repetitive tasks using manufacturing aware features such as Boss, Snap Fit, Web, Rib and Rest. We will demonstrate the best practices for using Plastic Part Rules to control your design and capture know-how for easy creation, editing and reuse. In addition we will share tips and tricks for creating complex geometric patterns and use Presets.

Sabic is a major manufacturer of long fiber filled polypropylene. These long fiber filled plastics can be used to produce light weight structural components with excellent structural properties. Light weighting products is particularly important in the Automotive and Transportation industry, where weight reduction is a major driver for improving fuel economy and reduces the overall carbon footprint over the product life. To leverage the high strength-to-weight ratio, the design of the products have to account for the manufacturing process. The Autodesk Moldflow 2012 release includes the ability to calculate the orientation of long fibers during the injection molding process, which is the main component in understanding the strength characteristics of the products. The understanding of the strength of the products can then in turn be fed back into the design to optimize the design of a lightweight, yet strong, plastic product.

This product briefing will showcase the latest advances in Dynamo visual scripting, Dynamo Player for workflow automation, and Generative Design in Revit software for automated design exploration. Come learn from Autodesk AEC Generative Design product managers about where they've been focusing their efforts and what’s on the road map for future releases. We’ll use real-world examples to showcase these tools and show how we’ve improved the authoring experience in Dynamo and the running experience in both Dynamo Player and Generative Design in Revit. This briefing will demonstrate the value that Dynamo and Generative Design in Revit bring to the design process. We’ll show how customers are using the tools to automate their workflows and design explorations in their projects in order to optimize sustainability and efficiency and produce less construction waste. We’ll cover the product principles that we use to prioritize new work and future direction. Finally, we’ll address the future of the product.