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Turn big ideas into real-world impact

Power innovation from concept to production. From headphones to industrial machines, Autodesk scales to fit your needs at every step of your design and make journey.

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Connected tools. Connected teams. Better products.

Manufacturing teams often juggle disconnected tools, outdated data, and patchwork workflows. Fusion changes that by unifying design, manufacturing, electronics, and data into a single platform. It enables real-time collaboration, eliminates handoff delays, and keeps you moving from concept to production without breaking stride.

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Consumer products

Bring your best consumer product ideas to life with integrated design, manufacturing, electronics, and data management.

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Industrial equipment manufacturing

Create smarter, more reliable machinery with integrated solutions to streamline development.

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Building products & fabrication

Automate development, connect manufacturing, and make it easy for clients to spec your products in projects.

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Mobility & transportation

Drive innovation more quickly and effectively with agile studio tools built for mobility & transportation design.

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Software for product design & manufacturing

  • Fusion
    Cloud-based 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, PCB, and PDM software for product design.
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  • Product Design & Manufacturing collection
    Get Inventor + AutoCAD + Autodesk Fusion + more-Professional-grade tools for product development and manufacturing planning.
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  • Fusion Manage
    Enhance workflows and improve collaboration with configurable cloud-based PLM.
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  • Inventor
    Powerful product design and engineering tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, visualization, and documentation.
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  • Vault
    Product data management software-available as Vault Basic, Vault Professional, Vault Office
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  • AutoCAD
    2D and 3D CAD tools, with enhanced insights, AI-automations, and collaboration features. Subscription includes AutoCAD on desktop, web, mobile, and seven specialized toolsets.
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AI is reshaping manufacturing—are you ready?

Explore how AI will become critical in design and manufacturing organizations—enhancing innovation and boosting productivity.

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How manufacturers get ahead with Autodesk

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    "Innovation and design are really important to us. [Fusion] helps us make manufacturing more efficient and improve the end product."

    Ben Appleyard, Operations Director, Hawk Furniture
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    "Fusion is an incredible, full-suite CAD software where you can design anything you want in it. But you can also take that design into manufacturing, and it becomes real."

    Ryan Krause, Co-founder, Sample Studio
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    "Our workshop has gone from being a hive of activity with sketchbooks scattered everywhere to one where we have taken control of the entire build for our machines."

    Mark Taylor, Engineering Director, Mastenbroek
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    "In the past we were often using spreadsheets and a lot of our processes were very siloed. [Fusion Manage] improved our efficiency 4X."

    TJ Ward, Engineering Lab Manager, Made by Gather
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Frequently asked questions about design and manufacturing (FAQ)

A product is an item manufactured to benefit your customers. Your services can also be referred to as your product. Nowadays, many "smart" products merge physical items with internet-connected digital services, which offer ongoing value to the customer beyond the physical item's value.

Product design is the process of imagining, creating, and iterating on solutions that solve problems for customers in commercial sectors like industrial machinery or automotive manufacturing or directly for the public in sectors such as consumer products. 

The product design process begins with research to understand the market and customer needs. Designers use knowledge, empathy, and creativity to conceptualize solutions.  

Hand sketches, prototypes, technical drawings, and 3D computer-aided designs (CAD) models are created to communicate and review the proposed product design solution and to coordinate the design process among stakeholders. Further prototyping is used to test and validate concept designs with real customers.  

The final output is a product requirements document, specification, technical drawing, and visuals. Typically, product designers work with design engineers to develop concept designs ready for manufacturing. 

Jobs in product design could include design manager, industrial designer, product designer, UI/UX designer, graphic designer, animation designer, design engineer, technical designer, design drafter, CAD designer, CAD technician, and CAD operator. 

Manufacturing is the process of converting raw materials or components into finished products through various techniques, tools, and machinery. It involves a series of steps, including designing, planning, sourcing materials, assembling, testing, and packaging. 

Manufacturing is carried out in many industries; examples include Industrial machinery, automotive, building products, consumer products, and electronics. The goal of manufacturing is to create products that meet specific quality standards, are cost-effective, and can be delivered to customers in a timely manner. 

Jobs in manufacturing could include production worker/operator, quality control inspector, manufacturing engineer, industrial engineer, CAD/CAM engineer, CAM programmer, CNC machinist/setter/operator, fabricator, supply chain manager, maintenance technician, logistics coordinator, CAD designer, CAD technician, and CAD operator.