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Autodesk® Fusion 360™ is the only tool that connects entire product development process into a single CAD / CAM / CAE cloud-based platform.
Fusion 360 is free for academia. Available on both PC and Mac, with Android and Apple apps for anytime, anywhere access.
Integrate these lectures and hands-on Fusion 360 resources into your classroom's curriculum.
Students can learn CAD, CAM, and CAE fundamentals at their own speed by enrolling in this self-paced course.
Guide your students’ progress with distance learning materials for manufacturing and engineering.
Design
Overview
Sketching
Freeform Modeling
Surface Modeling
Parametric Modeling
Mesh Modeling
Direct Modeling
PCB Design Integration
Conceptualize your various design interations in a single platform. The unified environment combines multiple modeling methods, giving you the flexibility to create high-quality products.
Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions, and a powerful suite of sketch tools. Control complex splines and curves with a robust analysis toolset.
As an industrial designer, this allows me to get the results that I seek... from sketch to a model ready for 3D printing.
- Ujwal IK
Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and increase the density of T-spline faces.
It would have taken an entire day, maybe 2, but with T-spline modeling, I was able to do it in minutes.
- Jason Pohl Senior Designer, Orange County Choppers
Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching or designing geometry.
It’s like a digital version of clay, except when you’re pushing it around, it doesn’t leave thumbprints.
- Jason Pohl Senior Designer, Orange County Choppers
Create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep, etc., that update with design changes.
It really frees you up and you stop being timid. You just do it, because it’s all being captured right now.
- Gareth Conner Creative Conners
Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.
The best thing about Fusion 360 is you can integrate different modeling styles.
- Matt Johnson Industrial Designer, Coalesse
Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features.
Creating 3D objects from 2D sketches is very easy. The modify tools in Fusion 360 make it possible to change your models.
- Carson Bruess
Synchronize bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.
I like the integration between Fusion 360 and EAGLE. It's the main reason I decided on EAGLE.
- Senior Electrical Engineer
3D Modeling
Overview
Sketching
Parametric Modeling
Direct Modeling
Freeform Modeling
Surface Modeling
Sheet Metal
Mesh Modeling
Assemblies
PCB Design Integration
Engineer products with a comprehensive set of modeling tools. Ensure form, fit, and function of your products with various analysis methods.
Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions, and a powerful suite of sketch tools.
What used to take days, now is done in hours.
- Jim McWherter Brand Motion
Create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep, etc., that update with design changes.
With the eight-hour process for me to do in another tool, I can hop into Fusion 360 and have something in two hours the first time.
- Christian Welch Swissomation
Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features.
I love creating models with Fusion 360, it is very easy to sculpt, shape, and scale. Other programs make it very square and not exactly what I want.
- Kate Jovanovic
Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and edit them with intuitive push-pull gestures.
Fusion 360 allows me to resolve the form in 3D & create renderings 50% faster than existing tools.
- Deborah Laun Brownlie Design
Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching or designing geometry.
In Fusion 360, within 20 minutes I had both contact points for the truck. In another tool, I would have budgeted 3-4 hours.
- Ed Eaton Dimonte Group
Design sheet metal parts components, document flat patterns using 2D drawings and DXFs, and manufacture your design with cutting strategies for water jet, laser and plasma machines.
We could finally use a CAD program that didn't need hours of preparation before starting to design. You just sit and start creating.
- Luciana Montivero
Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.
My favorite features are user experience and speed. Design something and then build it in a day, whereas previously it might have taken a week.
- Adam Ellison Co-founder, Modbot
Assemble designs with a traditional bottom-up, middle-out, or top-down approach and analyze assembly motion.
You can just start modeling your ideas... large assemblies can be animated well.
- Consumer Goods Product Designer
Synchronize bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.
I like the integration between Fusion 360 and EAGLE. It's the main reason I decided on EAGLE.
- Senior Electrical Engineer
Electronics
Overview
Sketching
Freeform Modeling
Surface Modeling
Parametric Modeling
Mesh Modeling
Direct Modeling
PCB Design Integration
Conceptualize your various design interations in a single platform. The unified environment combines multiple modeling methods, giving you the flexibility to create high-quality products.
Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions, and a powerful suite of sketch tools. Control complex splines and curves with a robust analysis toolset.
As an industrial designer, this allows me to get the results that I seek... from sketch to a model ready for 3D printing.
- Ujwal IK
Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and increase the density of T-spline faces.
It would have taken an entire day, maybe 2, but with T-spline modeling, I was able to do it in minutes.
- Jason Pohl Senior Designer, Orange County Choppers
Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching or designing geometry.
It’s like a digital version of clay, except when you’re pushing it around, it doesn’t leave thumbprints.
- Jason Pohl Senior Designer, Orange County Choppers
Create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep, etc., that update with design changes.
It really frees you up and you stop being timid. You just do it, because it’s all being captured right now.
- Gareth Conner Creative Conners
Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.
The best thing about Fusion 360 is you can integrate different modeling styles.
- Matt Johnson Industrial Designer, Coalesse
Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features.
Creating 3D objects from 2D sketches is very easy. The modify tools in Fusion 360 make it possible to change your models.
- Carson Bruess
Synchronize bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.
I like the integration between Fusion 360 and EAGLE. It's the main reason I decided on EAGLE.
- Senior Electrical Engineer
Rapid Prototyping / Make
Overview
3D Printing
CAM
Rendering
Quickly create your prototypes to validate your design prior to manufacturing. Reduce the impact of design changes, so you can produce your final product faster.
Build supports, preview slices, and generate toolpaths for a variety of 3D printers, and then send designs directly to your favorite 3D print utility.
Within 10 minutes, we see something in 3D and then send it to the 3D printer.
- Ian Redern Fabric
Your toolpaths update with every design change through our fully integrated manufacturing tools, making it quick and easy to machine prototypes.
This has allowed me to reduce the production time by nearly 80%.
- Consumer Product Company
Create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging local or cloud rendering.
It’s so easy to render, the team was able to create 15 variations of color and material in 15 minutes, not 120 minutes it would have taken before.
- Mike Kowalski Brownlie Design
Generative Design
Overview
Define Project Objective
Generate & Explore Designs
Export CAD-ready Files
Cloud Solve
Explore multiple manufacturing-ready outcomes that meet your design specifications while reducing weight, improving performance, and consolidating parts.
Identify your design requirements, constraints, materials, and manufacturing options to generate manufacturing-ready designs.
Additive manufacturing and generative design are helping improve product performance for our customers, optimizing strength, weight, and cost.
- Steven Szymeczek Co-Founder, Penumbra
Simultaneously generate multiple options of your design in order to meet manufacturing process and product performance requirements.
Generative design is so unique. It allows us to explore many different design options we wouldn't have been able to with traditional methods.
- Kevin Quinn Director, General Motors
Choose a generative design outcome to export and import the CAD-ready geometries into Fusion 360. The results can be edited with T-spline tools for any fine adjustments or aestheic requirements.
Things like generative design allow us to implement, execute, and manufacture in a completely different fashion than we're thinking today.
- Frank DeSantis VP, Black & Decker
Using cloud credits, simultaneously solve for various design outcomes, freeing up your time to focus on other tasks.
We don’t have to spend months & years guessing & simulating what we think the right solution is, we look at a whole range of solutions, telling us if our idea is feasible right from the beginning.
- Matt Otto R & D Engineer, Crown Equipment
Simulation
Overview
Cloud Simulation
Study Breadth
Simplify
Compare Results
Static Stress
Modal Frequency
Thermal & Thermal Stress
Buckling
Non-linear Stress
Event Simulation
Shape Optimization
Test your designs to ensure they will survive real world conditions. Simulate your products digitally, reducing the cost of prototyping by using fully-validated solvers.
Using cloud credits, setup and analyze multiple tests quickly while eliminating the need for expensive hardware.
I can offload the renderings and simulations to the cloud instead of tying up my machine for 3-4 hours and have it back in 10 minutes.
- Christian Welch Swissomation
Test for up to eight different failure criterion, including nonlinear, event, and more.
Freeform modeling T-splines, parametric modeling,...[and] rendering (cloud-based), CAM and simulation, all in one product.
- Bonne Wilce
Cut solve time or explore design changes specific to the simulation workspace.
Fusion 360 is superior in terms of its low price & the possibility of using it for the entire workflow, from modeling to analysis to rendering.
- Tatsuhiko Sekiya Photosynth
Easily visualize the benefits of design changes across 4 different iterations in a single, synchronized view.
We had all different kind of software packages, right now everything is integrated into the same software, and it’s so easy to use.
- Timon Alferink Engineer, KMP Motorsport Products
Determine displacements, stresses, and other effects resulting from static loads on parts or assemblies.
I also love the versatility of being able to model and stress test all in the same platform. Perfection!
- Chris Johnson Customer Success Representative
Avoid destructive vibration by understanding the natural frequencies of your systems.
We require scalable, flexible, cost-effective tools, focused on innovation and value, rather than squeezing max revenue from dated software.
- Mechanical Engineer Small Engineering Firm
Understand thermal distributions and how they interact with physical forces.
It's amazing how CAD programs just keep getting harder to use. Except for this one.
- Luciana Montivero
Predict unexpected failure modes for slender members under compression using simulation.
I also love the versatility of being able to model and stress test all in the same platform. Perfection!
- Chris Johnson Customer Success Representative
Analyze permanent deformations and nonlinear materials of your design.
With Fusion 360, we can quickly flip between modeling, rendering, and FEA.
- Adam Ellison Co-founder, Modbot
Ensure your design will withstand various impact scenarios.
I fell in love with how easy it is to use.
- Johan Sandflo Founder, SandFlo Golf Co.
Identify unnecessary regions in your design for light-weighting, utilizing integrated simulation.
Manufacturing
Overview
2.5 & 3-axis Milling
3+2 Milling (5-axis Positional)
4-axis Milling
5-axis Simultaneous Milling
Setup Probing
Turning
Mill-Turning
Water Jet, Laser Cutter, Plasma Cutter
Free Post Processor Library
From high-efficiency roughing with Adaptive Clearing to simplified control of multi-axis machines with Tool Orientation, Fusion 360 makes it easy to program your CNC machine, fast. Manufacture with 2.5, 3, 4, and 5-axis milling, probing, turning, mill-turning, and profiling operations paired with a powerful post engine all included alongside professional design tools.
Quickly set up jobs and generate toolpaths to machine quality parts while reducing wear on your tools with fully integrated CAM, including 2.5 and 3-axis operations.
The quality of parts coming off our machines has improved due to more efficient programming strategies, as well as the integrated CAD environment.
- Jonathan Bancroft G2 Crowd
Leverage your shop's multi-axis capabilities with straightforward positional 5-axis programming that will significantly reduce machine setup time between operations.
With our other program, it would take an hour to calculate toolpaths. With Fusion 360, just a couple of minutes.
- Jeff Hooper Backhand Bikes
Create indexed or wrapped toolpaths using the rotary axis of your machine for complex geometry.
I needed the ability to cut past the base of the part to avoid tool changes. This has allowed me to reduce the production time by nearly 80%.
- Dave Killalea
Mill complex geometry, avoid collisions, and reduce tool lengths for superior surface finished with simultaneous full 5-axis operations.
I can have something from design stage to off the machine in one hour.
- Phil Butterworth MJK Performance
Leverage in-machine touch probes to shift work offsets and simplify your setup process.
Fusion 360 is our CAM workhorse. It has be able to do everything we have needed so far.
- Administrator Machine Shop
Program 2D turned parts and verify your turning toolpaths with stock simulation to identify errors or collisions with the model, stock, tools, and workholding.
Fusion 360 is our CAM workhorse. It has be able to do everything we have needed so far.
- Administrator Machine Shop
Combine milling and turning operations to create more complex parts without switching machines.
Fusion 360 has reduced our time to market by about 60%.
- KMP Motorsports
Generate toolpaths from solid model features, including flattened sheet metal components, to operate water jet, laser, and plasma cutters.
Full-featured CAM and CAD reduced time to make products by over 20%.
- Sean Miksys Great Lakes Machining
Post full NC programs in seconds with a post from our extensive library of free, open source, and fully editable post processors.
On our very first project, we saved over $14,000 by reducing cycle time by 9 minutes with no additional tool wear.
- Daniel Colbert Colbert Manufacturing
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