Shayne Prichard
What’s a Fusion Hub? How do you make sure your team is in the same Hub? Follow this guide to achieve a seamless Autodesk Fusion onboarding experience for your team.
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Creating your Autodesk Fusion Hub is one of the most important steps after purchasing Fusion, yet it’s often overlooked or rushed. A properly set up Fusion Hub ensures your entire team works in one centralized, secure environment, avoiding data silos, ownership issues, and rework later.
This guide walks you through exactly how to create, configure, and onboard users into a single Fusion Hub, so your team can collaborate from day one.
What is a Fusion Hub?
A Fusion Hub is the centralized workspace where your team stores designs, manages access, and collaborates in Autodesk Fusion. Every Fusion user must belong to a Hub to save and share design data.
When set up correctly, your Hub becomes:
- The single source of truth for all Fusion design data
- A shared space for cross-team collaboration
- A way to maintain clear data ownership and access control
This is why getting everyone into the same Hub from the start is critical.
Why Fusion Hub setup matters
During installation, every user is prompted to either:
- Join an existing Fusion Hub, or
- Create a brand-new one
If users create their own Hubs:
- Teams end up scattered across multiple Hubs
- Collaboration becomes difficult or impossible
- Data ownership may default to individual users—not your organization
The fix is simple: invite users to your Hub before assigning them a Fusion subscription.
How to join or create a Fusion Hub
Typically, an administrator or team owner installs Fusion first and creates the Hub. This experience is the same for every user, which is why centralized setup matters.
When the admin creates the Hub:
- It becomes the default workspace for invited users
- Files are saved in one shared location immediately
- No consolidation is required later
You can rename your Fusion Hub at any time—choose a recognizable name like your company or team brand.
More importantly, your users may unintentionally become the administrators and owners of your company’s data because they have created their own Hub to which you do not have access.
How do you avoid this scenario? It’s quite simple: before you assign your Fusion subscriptions to your users, first invite them to your Fusion Hub. This ensures your users have the same centralized location to store their files.
By inviting users to your Hub first and then assigning them a subscription, you ensure they land in the right place to start working. There will be no need to consolidate multiple Fusion Hubs later on.
Best practice: Invite users before assigning subscriptions
This is the single most important step in the process.
By inviting users to your Hub before assigning licenses:
- Users automatically land in the correct Hub
- No accidental Hub creation occurs
- You maintain centralized control of design data
If users accept the invite right away, that’s okay—they may start a 30-day trial, but they will not be prompted to create their own Hub.
How to invite your team to the Fusion Hub
Here are the recommended steps for onboarding new users to your Hub:
- Select the appropriate administrator/owner to install Fusion for the first time.
- During this installation, you are prompted to create your Fusion Hub.
- Select a name that your users will recognize. Don’t worry – you can change your Hub name at any time.
- Access Fusion administration: Navigate to your Fusion Hub & Navigate to the administration settings.
- Select the Members and Roles tab.
- Select Invite.
- Enter or copy and paste your users’ email addresses.
- Select Invite.
- Your users will then receive an email invite from noreply@autodesk.com. Since this is an automated email, please ensure that your users look for it in their spam or junk folders just in case.
- Your users may select to join your Hub right away, which is okay! They will go through the process of installing Fusion at this point and start a 30-day trial. The good news is they will not be prompted to create their own additional Fusion Hub.
- Assign Fusion subscriptions to your users. Once you have assigned each user a Fusion subscription, any user that installed Fusion prior to obtaining a subscription will have their trial converted to an active subscription the next time they open Fusion.
Just a reminder, the first user to install Fusion and create your company’s Fusion Hub may not be an actual administrator. You may not want them to be an administrator or have control over your company’s design data. It is recommended to select the right user as the administrator and owner to create the Hub.
The good news is that other Fusion administrators will be able to modify a user’s access at any time.
How to set up a Fusion Hub: Step-by-step tutorial
Check out this step-by-step tutorial, where we’ll take you through the entire process:
Avoid these common Fusion Hub mistakes
- ❌ Assigning subscriptions before inviting users
- ❌ Allowing multiple Hubs to be created unintentionally
- ❌ Managing collaboration across separate Hubs
A few minutes of upfront setup prevents long-term data and governance headaches.
Smooth sailing from here on out
A smooth onboarding process is crucial after purchasing Fusion for your team. To ensure effective collaboration and avoid data ownership issues, it’s essential to guide your team through the right steps. By inviting users to join your Fusion Hub before assigning subscriptions, you create a centralized location for collaboration. This not only prevents the creation of multiple Hubs but also safeguards against unintentional data ownership by individual users.
Following the recommended steps for onboarding, including selecting the appropriate administrator, inviting users to the Fusion Hub, and assigning subscriptions, sets the foundation for a seamless and efficient workflow. Remember, taking the time to establish the right Fusion Hub setup initially eliminates the need for future consolidations and ensures a cohesive working environment for your team.