Category: Product Design & Engineering
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Intent-Driven Design in Autodesk Fusion: What It Is and How It Changes Your Modeling Workflow
Learn how intent-driven design in Fusion uses constraints, parameters, feature history, and assembly relationships to create models that are easier to modify, reuse, and scale as product requirements evolve. Most CAD workflows begin with geometry. Designers sketch profiles, create features, apply dimensions, and move on. The challenge often comes later, when requirements change and someone…
Product Design & Engineering
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Stop Clicking Every Edge: Automate Fillet Selection with Autodesk Assistant in Fusion
Learn how Autodesk Assistant helps automate fillet selection in Autodesk Fusion by recognizing repetitive geometry patterns, reducing manual work, improving accuracy, and keeping design timelines clean. Stop clicking every edge: Automate fillet selection with Autodesk Assistant Whether you’re designing injection-molded parts, lattice structures, housings, or complex mechanical components, selecting dozens or hundreds of similar edges…
Product Design & Engineering
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From 3D Model to Manufacturing Drawing: Automate Documentation with Autodesk Assistant
Learn how Autodesk Assistant in Fusion helps automate drawing creation, view placement, and dimensioning, reducing documentation time and helping teams create professional technical drawings faster. For many engineers and product designers, generating manufacturing drawings is one of the most time-consuming parts of the workflow. Selecting templates, configuring standards, placing views, and adding dimensions can take…
Product Design & Engineering
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How AI Is Reshaping the Journey from Sketch to Product With Vizcom and Autodesk Fusion
Explore how the Vizcom and Autodesk Fusion integration helps product teams move from AI-powered concept exploration to engineering and manufacturing while preserving design intent and reducing workflow friction. Ideas rarely start in CAD. For as long as digital product development has existed, there has been a gap between early creative exploration and the engineering tools…
Product Design & Engineering
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Autodesk Fusion 3D Design Capabilities: A Complete Guide to Parametric, Direct, Surface, Freeform, and Mesh Modeling
Discover the 3D modeling tools in Fusion, including parametric, direct, surface, freeform, and mesh modeling. Learn when to use each approach and how Fusion supports professional product development from concept through manufacturing. When evaluating professional CAD software, one question comes up repeatedly: What types of 3D modeling does it support? The answer matters because different…
Product Design & Engineering
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Design for Manufacturability in Fusion: From CAD Geometry to Production-Ready Parts
Learn how Fusion supports design for manufacturability by connecting CAD and manufacturing workflows, helping teams optimize machining, reduce cycle times, and move from design to production faster. Designing a great part is only half the challenge. The real test comes when that part reaches the shop floor. A design that looks perfect on screen can…
Manufacturing
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How Designers Are Using AI to Explore More Ideas Faster
Discover how designers are using AI to explore more concepts, accelerate product development, and bring better products to market faster. Learn how Autodesk Fusion helps teams innovate with AI-powered workflows. Product designers have never struggled with ideas. They’ve always struggled with time. Every project begins with possibilities. One sketch becomes five. Five concepts become twenty…
Product Design & Engineering
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Will AI Reduce the Need for Highly Specialized CAD Skills?
AI won’t replace CAD expertise, but it will redefine it. Learn how Autodesk Fusion uses AI to automate low‑value work and elevate design decision‑making. AI isn’t making CAD expertise obsolete. It’s finally putting it to better use. For years, highly skilled designers and engineers have spent a disproportionate amount of time on work that, while…
Product Design & Engineering
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Choosing Rapid Prototyping Software Isn’t About Features, It’s About Flow
Choosing rapid prototyping software isn’t about features, it’s about workflow. Learn how to evaluate tools based on speed, simulation, collaboration, and manufacturing to iterate faster and reduce rework. Most teams don’t struggle with ideas. They struggle with turning those ideas into something testable. That’s where rapid prototyping comes in. And increasingly, the difference between a…
Product Design & Engineering
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Thermal Simulations in Autodesk Fusion: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to run thermal simulations in Autodesk Fusion—from materials and loads to mesh, results, and reports. Thermal analysis is essential for validating design decisions when components will operate under specific temperature conditions. Whether you’re designing cooling fins, evaluating insulation performance, or ensuring materials can withstand operational heat, Autodesk Fusion’s simulation workspace provides the tools…
Product Design & Engineering
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Mastering Mesh Conversion in Autodesk Fusion: Unlocking the Power of Face Groups
Learn how generate face groups in Fusion improves mesh‑to‑solid conversion, eliminating compute failed errors and messy surface results. Converting mesh bodies to solid bodies in Autodesk Fusion can be tricky sometimes. You follow the workflow, click convert, and either get a “compute failed” error or end up with a random patchwork of surfaces, instead of…
Product Design & Engineering
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Here’s How to Set Up Your Fusion Hub
Creating your Fusion Hub is the first step after purchasing Autodesk Fusion. Here's everything you need to know about the process.
Getting Started
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Start Your Fusion Designs Right with Intent-Driven Design
Learn how intent-driven design in Fusion helps you choose part, assembly, or hybrid workflows to start designs with clarity and avoid rework. If you’ve ever lost time fixing model structure instead of actually designing, you’ve felt the pain. Bodies vs. components. The wrong component active. Assemblies spiraling out of control. Intent-driven design in Fusion is…
Tutorials
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Why Cloud CAD Is Replacing Traditional Design Workflows
Discover how cloud CAD eliminates version conflicts, hardware limits, and data silos to accelerate product development with Autodesk Fusion. Traditional CAD workflows slow product development because they rely on rigid, file‑based structures and localized hardware. In desktop‑bound environments, CAD data lives on individual machines or internal servers, making real‑time collaboration difficult and increasing the risk…
Product Design & Engineering
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What AI‑Assisted Rendering in Fusion Means for Modern Design Workflows
Learn how AI‑assisted rendering in Fusion brings visualization into the flow of design, using natural language, embedded AI, and scalable cloud platforms to accelerate iteration. AI rendering is beginning to change how designers visualize and iterate on concepts, removing friction between idea, model, and presentation. AI‑assisted rendering in Fusion that lets users generate visual renderings…
Product Design & Engineering