Design & Engineering
Find elegant solutions to your most interesting problems
Find elegant solutions to your most interesting problems
As supply chains shift, customer demands evolve, and competitive pressures introduce exciting new challenges—you see nothing but opportunity.
You believe that good design and good engineering can solve any problem. So do we.
You believe that good design and good engineering can solve any problem. So do we.
The race to bring successful products to market is ripe with challenges—and opportunities. Because where others see roadblocks, you see complex, delightful, impossible problems. Little mysteries to solve. Puzzles to unlock. New paths to efficiency.
Explore new possibilities in your development process with Autodesk design and manufacturing software.
Solutions for product design and engineering
Software for design and engineering
Where designers and engineers see opportunity
"We want to collaborate with our suppliers and our customers... to make sure that we look at the manufacturability of the products at a really early stage."
Will Bridgman, Chairman, Warren Services
"Robots are saving manufacturing jobs. By making robots more adaptable to individual needs, we're going where the market is headed."
Anders Bundsgaard, Founder and CEO, Odico
"I think designing sustainably is essential to remaining competitive. I think the companies that don't do it will be left behind."
Charles Cambianica, Advanced Design Project Leader, Decathlon
Stay ahead of product design and engineering trends
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Empowering innovation with Autodesk AI
Empowering innovation with Autodesk AI
Harnessing the power of AI is no longer a nice to have—it’s now a must to keep up. Read how Autodesk AI can help you better translate imagination to reality.
CONVERGENCE
State of Design & Make 2025
State of Design & Make 2025
Explore why design and manufacturing leaders are optimistic about the global landscape and where they're prioritizing investments for digital transformation.
Data & insights
Cloud connectivity in manufacturing
Cloud connectivity in manufacturing
New forms of automation and the power of the cloud to connect people and machines everywhere, all the time, is delivering a tectonic shift in manufacturing. Watch the roundtable to find out how.
AUTOMATION
Fueling innovation with AI
Fueling innovation with AI
Learn how advanced technologies and a collaborative approach transform how work gets done in this report from Harvard Business Review.
How vision becomes reality
Improve your margin and expand market share
Sell more, spend less. It sounds simple, but modern product development organizations understand that driving real growth is much more complex. You must find new ways to delight your customers by delivering your best ideas with speed, impact, and manufacturability in mind.
Sell more, spend less. It sounds simple, but modern product development organizations understand that driving real growth is much more complex. You must find new ways to delight your customers by delivering your best ideas with speed, impact, and manufacturability in mind.
Partnerships for a robust design and engineering ecosystem
Autodesk partners with industry leaders to develop deeper software integrations, helping our customers differentiate with data, expand on capabilities, and automate time-consuming processes.
Sustainability software
Makersite
Makersite
Makersite for Fusion 360 aids design engineers in balancing risk from cost, carbon, and material selection to make more sustainable design choices earlier. Makersite aids in evaluating designs analyzing multiple criteria in real-time including compliance, risk, health, safety, and sustainability. Understand and reduce the design’s sustainable impact with real-time feedback, to increase product quality while reducing time to market.
Manufacturing software
Xometry
Xometry
The Xometry Instant Quote App gives design engineers price and lead time estimates including multiple-manufacturing method, directly inside Fusion 360. Design-for-manufacturability feedback reveals the impact of design changes on cost in real-time, helping to reduce part cost and time to market. Completed designs can be ordered and manufactured on-demand directly from the Xometry Supplier Network.
Design software
Ansys
Ansys
Autodesk and Ansys bring integrated electromagnetic analysis to design and engineering teams with the Autodesk Fusion 360 Signal Integrity Extension. PCB designers can test fewer prototypes for signal degradation, with increased confidence that the product will work as required. Our strategic alliance delivers integrated PCB and enclosure design to improve product quality while reducing design cycle time.
Empower your developers with Autodesk Platform Services (APS)
Empower your developers with Autodesk Platform Services (APS)
Transform your processes by connecting your data, applications, and enterprise software. Unlock the power of your design and make data with the cloud and APS.
Begin the transformation of your design and engineering process
Begin the transformation of your design and engineering process
Autodesk design and manufacturing solutions adapt to your needs with a wide range of capabilities that provide cross-discipline, cross-industry, interoperable workflows that support your processes. When you're ready, talk to Autodesk Sales about how you can solve your most interesting problems.
Autodesk design and manufacturing solutions adapt to your needs with a wide range of capabilities that provide cross-discipline, cross-industry, interoperable workflows that support your processes. When you're ready, talk to Autodesk Sales about how you can solve your most interesting problems.
Begin the transformation of your design and engineering process
Begin the transformation of your design and engineering process
Autodesk design and manufacturing solutions adapt to your needs with a wide range of capabilities that provide cross-discipline, cross-industry, interoperable workflows that support your processes. When you're ready, talk to Autodesk Sales about how you can solve your most interesting problems.
Autodesk design and manufacturing solutions adapt to your needs with a wide range of capabilities that provide cross-discipline, cross-industry, interoperable workflows that support your processes. When you're ready, talk to Autodesk Sales about how you can solve your most interesting problems.
Design and engineering FAQs
Design engineering is a collaborative and creative problem-solving process that transforms concept designs into tangible products. This requires specialized knowledge and experience to ensure that the final product meets customer expectations, serves its intended purpose, and can be manufactured profitably.
Examples of design engineering include building and civil infrastructure construction, industrial equipment design and consumer product design, and material manufacturing and processing. Jobs in design engineering could include industrial designer, mechanical, electrical, or electronic engineer, simulation specialist, CAD designer, and CAD drafter.
A design engineer uses mathematical principles, engineering physics, industry knowledge, and specialist software to address problems and develop an idea from its conceptual stage to a detailed design. The detailed design must meet requirements and be delivered profitably and is communicated to stakeholders such as manufacturing and procurement via a computer-aided design (CAD) model, technical drawings, a "bill of materials" (BOM), and a specification. The engineering design development process is collaborative and can include multiple disciplines, including industrial design, mechanical, electrical, and electronic engineering, and also includes feedback from customers, suppliers, manufacturing, and project management.
Design engineering is crucial for successful product development businesses. The objective of design development is to imagine and agree on a product solution that benefits both customers and the business. Design development is constrained by budget, engineering capacity, and time to market. The design engineering process is iterative and cyclical, with ideas undergoing multiple rounds of prototyping, testing, evaluation, and review until the final design is considered optimal and reliable enough for production. The design engineering process starts by defining the problem, then brainstorming potential solutions before creating prototypes, testing them, gathering feedback, and evaluating whether the problem statement can be further refined, and whether to reject or accept the proposed solutions, or whether the solutions can be improved with another development cycle.