• What CAD Software Should I Choose? A Practical Buyer’s Guide for Product Designers in 2026

    Choosing CAD software in 2026? Compare cloud vs. desktop CAD, evaluate options for startups, product design, and manufacturing, and learn when Autodesk Fusion may be the right fit. Quick answer: The best CAD software depends on what you’re designing, how your team collaborates, and whether your workflow extends beyond design into engineering, simulation, manufacturing, or…

    Thought Leadership

  • An Evolving Fusion User Experience: A Message to Our Community 

    Fusion is evolving into a more connected, intuitive experience. Learn how improvements to navigation, data access, AI assistance, responsive workspaces, and Home will help you work faster across every Fusion workflow. Why the Fusion experience is evolving If you’ve been using Fusion for a while, you’ve probably felt it. Fusion is evolving rapidly, but moving between workflows, workspace, and different parts of the…

    News

  • Vermland Brings Danish Cabinetry and Furniture Design to Projects Around the World with Autodesk Fusion

    Vermland creates high-end, modular kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, shelving, and furniture for clients around the world. Eight team members use Autodesk Fusion to connect design, technical development, and manufacturing while managing more than a thousand parts and an extensive library of modules in a shared cloud-based system. With precision modeling, integrated CAD and CAM, and…

    Case Studies

  • Why Another CNC Machine Won’t Solve Your Capacity Problem

    Increase manufacturing capacity without adding machines or headcount. Learn how connected workflows and Autodesk Fusion help manufacturers eliminate bottlenecks and scale efficiently. If you walk through almost any growing machine shop or contract manufacturing facility, you’ll hear the same conversation: “We’re booked solid. We need another machine.” Sometimes that’s true. But more often, the real…

    Manufacturing

  • The Moment Legacy CAD Starts Slowing You Down

    Struggling with slow, disconnected CAD workflows? Discover why teams are switching from legacy tools to integrated platforms like Fusion for faster iteration, lower cost, and seamless collaboration. There’s a point most engineering teams reach where the limitations of their software stack become impossible to ignore. It usually isn’t because a feature is missing. It isn’t…

    Thought Leadership

  • The Hidden Cost of Disconnected Manufacturing Workflows

    Struggling with revisions, programming bottlenecks, and disconnected software? Discover how connected manufacturing workflows help increase productivity and deliver parts faster. For many manufacturers, the biggest threat to productivity isn’t on the shop floor. It’s in the office. It’s the programmer waiting for an updated CAD model. The engineer emailing design revisions. The operator asking whether…

    Manufacturing

  • Cabinet Design Software: From Custom Cabinet Concepts to Manufacturing-Ready Designs

    Discover how cabinet designers and manufacturers use Autodesk Fusion to design custom cabinets, manage revisions, create realistic visualizations, and prepare production-ready designs for CNC manufacturing. Whether you’re designing custom kitchen cabinets, built-in storage, office furniture, or commercial millwork, success depends on more than creating a beautiful design. Every cabinet must ultimately be manufactured accurately, efficiently,…

    Fusion

  • Why EAGLE Users Should Make the Move to Autodesk Fusion

    EAGLE users can move to Fusion for familiar PCB workflows, native BOM and design rules, ECAD-MCAD integration, 3D PCB design, and easier migration of existing designs. For many electronics designers, EAGLE has been a familiar workspace, a trusted tool, and the place where countless schematic and PCB designs have taken shape. You know the commands,…

    Electronics Engineering

  • Understanding Compute Options for Mirror and Pattern in Autodesk Fusion

    Avoid broken mirror and pattern results in Fusion by learning when to use Optimized, Identical, or Adjust compute options for accurate outcomes. When working with mirror and pattern features in Fusion, you’ve likely encountered a frustrating scenario: you select the default “Optimized” compute option, the preview shows exactly what you want, but when you click…

    Tutorials

  • Standardization: The Secret to Consistent Growth in Manufacturing

    Growth is easier when every employee follows proven processes. Learn how standardization in manufacturing improves quality, productivity, and scalability. As a business grows, complexity tends to grow with it. More jobs. More customers. More machines. More employees. That’s when many manufacturers discover a hidden problem: everyone has their own way of working. One programmer has…

    Manufacturing

  • How Small Manufacturers Can Use CAE Software Without a Simulation Engineer

    Learn how small manufacturers can use Autodesk Fusion simulation tools to validate designs, reduce prototypes, and improve products without a CAE specialist. Small manufacturing businesses face the same engineering challenges as large enterprises: designing reliable products, reducing costly prototypes, improving quality, and accelerating time to market. The difference is that most small teams don’t have…

    Mechanical Engineering

  • Albert Schütz GmbH Sharpens Precision Manufacturing with Autodesk Fusion

    Albert Schütz GmbH is using Autodesk Fusion to bring CAD and CAM together in one platform, replacing separate tools. Fusion’s out-of-the-box post-processors, simple setup, and integrated workflows have helped the company save time, connect more easily to machines, and even design a custom centerless grinding machine for high-volume optical components. With Fusion and the Manufacturing…

    Case Studies

  • A Guide to Autodesk Assistant in Fusion

    Learn how Autodesk Assistant in Fusion uses AI and natural language prompts to automate tasks, create add-ins, generate drawings, and streamline design and manufacturing workflows. Autodesk Assistant is transforming how designers and engineers work in Fusion by bringing AI capabilities directly into your workflow. This intelligent tool understands plain language commands and can handle everything…

    Tutorials

  • 5 Key Features in the July 2026 Autodesk Fusion Update That Help Teams Work Faster

    Explore the top highlights in the July 2026 Fusion update, including on-demand configurations, CAM enhancements, component reuse, and Altium import. The July 2026 Autodesk Fusion update is focused on a simple goal: helping product development teams spend less time managing complexity and more time delivering products. This release introduces new capabilities across design, manufacturing, electronics,…

    What's New

  • How AI in Manufacturing Improves Design, Decisions, and Delivery

    Learn how AI is shaping real-world product design and manufacturing. See how Autodesk Fusion uses AI to improve decision-making, reduce iteration cycles, and help engineering teams work faster and more consistently. AI in manufacturing is embedded in how products get designed, tested, and built today. It isn’t about replacing engineers or automating creativity. It’s about…

    Fusion