A weekly recap of the top trends, news, resources, and events about hardware startups, product design, and manufacturing innovators.   

 Ever wanted to select something that is on the back side of your model, without needing to spin your model around, hiding and unhiding bodies over and over? Oh yeah...you can, with Select Other.

I attended the 3rd anual Develop3D live confrence.I captured a few pictures and thoughts from the day.

 The IdeaStation is the best way to have your voice heard to improve Fusion 360.  Read on to learn what it is, how you can drive change and see how other users have helped sculpt the future of the product.

 If you already have KeyShot and Fusion 360, then your rendering jobs just got a whole lot easier and faster. Here are 5 useful tips on how to get beautiful KeyShot renderings from your Fusion 360 designs. 

 Meet Gus Petrikas. By day, bicycle builder and by night, designer and new company owner.  Gus talks about startups, design mentors, biscuits, music and more in our first edition of Behind The Designs.   

Just getting started with Fusion 360? Our FAQ will address the common questions by fellow beginners from file management to 3D printing, custom settings and more.

AMP’D Gear and Monkey Likes Shiny collaborated quickly and inexpensively to design the next-generation, all-terrain prosthetic leg in Autodesk Fusion 360. 

 You may have noticed that area selecting a model from top left to bottom right may behave differently than area selecting a model from bottom right to top left; that's because it IS different. Click through to see how to better use the 3 ways of area selection. 

 Modeling threads on a part is literally as easy as clicking a button in Fusion 360. Here is how do it! 

We love bikes, their functionality, and the freedom to explore on the Fusion 360 team. But most of all we love the design. That’s why we’re supporting The Oregon Manifest Bike Design Project, a contest to design and build the ultimate urban utility bike. Five of the country’s most innovative design firms and bike builders will…

Announcing the third design problem for the FrankenTech Challenge: Fuse a wrist watch and a smartphone. What can you come up with?

In case you haven't noticed, there are a bunch of useful options in Fusion 360 Preferences that can better your Fusion 360 experience. Here are 5 that are good to know. 

Theres more to the move command than you might think. Click through to find out how you can use it as a direct modeling tool that can be more powerful than the press-pull command. 

 What happens when 2 ordinary gadgets are fused together into one extraordinary 3D design? Test your creativity and design skills with this challenge for students (though anyone can partipate). Different project every 2 weeks.