James Krenisky
At AU 2025, we shared our future vision for how artificial intelligence will transform the way people design and make. We’re now entering an agentic era of AI—where intelligent systems can make decisions, act autonomously, and collaborate with people to accelerate innovation.
With fifteen years of AI research and product development under its belt, Autodesk is prepared to help our customers meet this moment. Autodesk AI, for example, is already built natively into the Autodesk Platform. MCP servers integrated into Autodesk Assistant will allow our customers to take advantage of its agentic AI enhancements to accomplish design and manufacturing workflows faster while still maintaining trust that their data and IP are secure and adhere to enterprise governance requirements.
Table of Contents
- What is Autodesk Assistant?
- Autodesk Assistant in Fusion
- Autodesk Assistant in Vault
- Looking ahead: Autodesk Assistant as an AI design and manufacturing partner
What is Autodesk Assistant?
Autodesk Assistant represents the next major step in Autodesk’s AI evolution—a conversational, generative AI experience designed to work naturally within the tools you use every day. Its goal is to remove friction, simplify common tasks, and help you make faster, more informed decisions. Think of it as an intuitive entry point into AI capabilities that enhance and accelerate your design process.
This article showcases a selection of exploratory features and concepts that are currently in development. It is not a product specification, and release timing is still subject to change. As such, the examples here should not be used to guide purchasing decisions. Instead, consider this a snapshot of the exciting capabilities previewed at AU2025 and a look at where we’re heading.
With that in mind, here are a few of the ways Autodesk Assistant is being designed to make everyday workflows more efficient for product designers and engineers.
Autodesk Assistant in Fusion
Onboarding new users
Set up projects for collaboration with Autodesk Assistant! It makes working in Fusion faster and easier by using conversational language to create projects, organize folders, and invite people or groups—all in one step. The Assistant confirms changes before applying them and serves as an optional alternative to traditional user and group management tools. Whether you’re familiar with Fusion’s permissions or just getting started, it guides you every step of the way.
Neural CAD
Autodesk Assistant will intake a text prompt like “create a contemporary air fryer” into native, editable 3D geometry within the Fusion canvas. This moves beyond static mesh generation into truly modifiable design data. Removing the blank-screen barrier helps teams explore early-stage concepts faster, spark creativity, and jumpstart iterations with usable geometry ready for further refinement.
Text to command
Text to Command through Autodesk Fusion will bring natural-language interaction directly into everyday CAD modeling. Instead of hunting for tools or repeating common operations, users will be able to describe what they want to do—“split this body with my construction plane,” “extrude this face by 1 inch,” or “add a 0.5 mm chamfer to all edges”—and Assistant will carry out the corresponding Fusion commands. It will also take on more tedious tasks, such as hiding the smallest bodies in an assembly, highlighting faces above a certain surface area, or applying the same fillet to matching edges.
Users will also be able to save multi-step sequences as reusable prompts and apply them across future designs. Something along the lines of “fillet all edges, extrude the largest face by 3mm, then split the body in half along the XY Plane. By offloading repetitive actions and routine geometry edits to natural language, Assistant will help users stay in the flow and focus more on design intent than on navigating tools.
Microsoft AI media generation
Through Autodesk’s collaboration with Microsoft, Autodesk Assistant will open an entirely new way for teams to communicate and present their ideas. You’ll be able to render designs, gather project data, and generate Microsoft PowerPoint presentations with simple natural-language prompts. When these capabilities arrive, they’ll cut down the time spent formatting slides or assembling visuals—letting teams focus on insight and storytelling while Assistant handles the production work.
Manufacturing advisor
In manufacturing, Autodesk Assistant is designed to act as a conversational guide inside Fusion—helping CAM programmers and machinists get more out of the tools they already use. At launch, it will focus on answering Fusion-specific questions about manufacturing workflows and performing common tasks on request (such as “make me a milling setup”) so users can move from model to NC programming with fewer clicks and less hunting through menus.
Over time, Autodesk Assistant is expected to deepen its role in Fusion’s manufacturing experience, making it easier to discover capabilities, apply best-practice templates, and keep programming steps aligned with evolving design intent. The vision is a more connected, efficient workflow where AI reduces friction in everyday tasks, so experts can focus on decisions that drive quality, precision, and throughput.
Autodesk Assistant in Vault
Make changes and update drawings
Inside Vault, Autodesk Assistant will extend its conversational intelligence to transform how teams access and manage their data. You’ll be able to ask for things like “show me the latest released valve assembly” or “update drawings for revision C,” and Assistant will translate those prompts into accurate searches and automated actions. When these capabilities arrive, they’ll make advanced workflows far more accessible, allowing even new Vault users to operate like power users and helping organizations unlock more value from their Vault investment.
Looking ahead: Autodesk Assistant as an AI design and manufacturing partner
Autodesk Assistant is a key part of a broader vision for Autodesk AI—a connected ecosystem that spans products like Revit, AutoCAD, Maya, Fusion, and Vault. Together, these AI-powered capabilities are designed to help people and machines work side by side, amplifying creativity, accelerating decisions, and helping improve efficiency in workflows across every stage of design and make.
This is not about replacing expertise—it’s about expanding it. Autodesk Assistant represents a future where AI acts as a true creative and technical partner, helping customers turn ideas into outcomes faster, smarter, and with more confidence than ever before.
This article includes forward-looking statements about our products and strategies. These statements reflect our views based on information currently available and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Any references to planned or future product development are not guarantees of future availability and should not be relied upon for purchasing decisions. They represent our current plans and may change.