May 2025 Product Update – What’s New

Annaka Ketterer May 19, 2025

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Spring is here and so is a brand-new Fusion update packed with exciting features and enhancements that are sure to elevate design, electronics, and manufacturing workflows.

v.2602.1.25 – June 8, 2025

Design:

v.2602.1.14 – May 27, 2025

Usability

Design

Electronics

v.2602.0.71 – May 19, 2025

Backwards Compatibility Notice: This version includes changes that are not backward compatible with previous versions. To ensure smooth data sharing and collaboration, please update to the latest build.

Table of Contents

Highlights

Whether you’re pushing the boundaries of creativity or optimizing precision in your projects, these new tools are here to elevate your experience. Here are some of the standout highlights from this update:

Usability:

Design:

Electronics

Manufacturing

Usability

New Graphics Options Presets

Fusion has introduced three fantastic new presets to make it easier for you to tailor your experience: ‘Custom,’ ‘Performance,’ and ‘Quality.’ You can access these from both the canvas toolbar and the Preferences dialog, where all graphics-related settings are now neatly consolidated.

Learn more about preferences.

Performance Improvements

New “Compatibility & Troubleshooting” Preference Section

We’re excited to announce a new addition to your User Preferences: the “Compatibility & Troubleshooting” section. This section is designed to help Fusion perform better on different hardware setups and network conditions, and it’s a great resource for diagnosing any issues you might encounter.

Some of the options in this section were relocated from other places in Preferences while others appear for the first time.

The existing preference moved into this section are:

New Annotate Logs

Annotate the Fusion log with custom text to make that area of the logs easier to find. Do this when noticing something interesting with Fusion that you wish to investigate.

Select Help -> Support and Diagnostics -> Annotate Log File to open the Annotate Log File dialog.

Additional Improvements

Shift+<digit> Now Assignable as a Hotkey

Good news, Shift+<digit> is now available to be set as a hotkey on all US keyboards. All digits 0 – 9 are assignable with Shift as hotkeys, just like they are with Alt, Ctrl, Meta.

Want to learn more about keyboard shortcuts within Fusion? Check out our keyboard shortcut guide for an in-depth look at all the shortcuts available in Fusion.

Trackpad Panning Performance Improvement

Good news! Panning with the trackpad just got a lot smoother. You’ll notice an improvement in responsiveness, making your navigation more fluid and enjoyable.

Undo/Redo Tooltip Automatically Refresh

The Undo/Redo tooltips now refresh automatically every time you click. You’ll instantly see which command will be undone or redone next. No more hovering away and back to see the updated tooltip—it’s now all right there for you.

“Copy” button on Warning dialog copies more text

The ‘Copy’ button on the Warning dialog now captures more text. Previously, it only copied the first and second level text, missing out on deeper details. Now, you can easily copy and paste all the important information with just one click!

UI Themes Preview Enhancements

Earlier, we released a preview that allowed you to test different UI themes before the feature goes live. Recognizing the importance of a visually coherent interface, especially for dark mode users, we’ve made several improvements to enhance compatibility and visibility. Here are the key fixes in this update:

Data Management

Hometab as Default Startup Experience

Discover the Home tab! The Home tab is a central location from which you can view and access your data, and it’s available to all new users and Single-user storage hub users who has gone through Personal Hub Retirement process.

By default, the Home tab is the starting point when you launch Fusion, giving you quick access to your projects and files right from the get-go. If you prefer a different startup experience, don’t worry—you can easily toggle the Home tab off in your Preferences.

Design

AutoConstrain Enhancements

We’ve added a new ‘AutoConstrain from Datum’ tool to enhance your workflow. Now, you can pre-select your datum, making AutoConstrain processes faster and more precise. You can find this feature under Automate group in the Sketch contextual environment.

To make ‘AutoConstrain from Datum’ more intuitive, we’ve included a datum point indicator (glyph) to clearly show the datum point used for generating results.

Additionally, preview tiles have been improved to display the number of constraints and dimensional constraints added to your sketch. For added convenience, AutoConstrain has been disabled when your sketch is already fully constrained.

Learn more about AutoConstrain.

Rounded Offset Now Available in Surface Offset

We’re excited to bring you more flexibility with our enhanced Surface Offset tool. Similar to the shell tool, you can now choose between two offset types. Use the original sharp offset or choose the new rounded offset option which provides you with more flexibility and precision in your designs.

Learn more about Surface Offset.

Improvements for Smoother Curves

We improved the way we utilize underlying curves to help improve the smoothness of the splines/curves. You will notice several benefits, including improved quality of splines generated from offsetting and projecting, and increased trust in the offset curve outcomes, helping eliminate the need to re-model curves. The smoothness of these splines/curves can be verified with curvature combs.

Inspect Measure Tool Now Shows Half-Angle of Conical Faces

You asked and we delivered! This update we’ve added a fantastic new feature to the Inspect Measure tool. You can now select conical faces, such as the top face of a countersink hole, and see the taper angle (half-angle) displayed both in the measure form and directly on the canvas.

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Learn more about the Measure tool.

Air Fryer Dataset added to Design Samples

We have added a new dataset to the design samples. The air fryer dataset contains many workflows from fusion including assemblies, electronics, drawings and CAM. It enables customers to open the dataset to learn best practices from to implement in their own workflows.

Fastener Libraries Expansion

Apart from the continuous improvements to existing families, we’ve made the following enhancements:

Configure On The Fly (command expansion)

In the November release of Fusion, we added a Configure tab to some of the most-used modeling commands, to make it easier to configure aspects as you model without interrupting your design flow.

As we did in the January and March releases, here in May we continue to expand the list of commands supported in this workflow to include more Solid Modeling, Sheet Metal, and Assembly tools.

As you create or edit a configurable feature:

Each aspect you checked is added as a column in the Configuration Table, and you can continue modeling without the need to switch contexts.

You can find the new contextual Configure tab in the following command dialogs:

Solid:

Sheet Metal:

Assemble:

Stay tuned as we support additional commands in future releases. Which commands do you want us to support next?

Assembly Improvements

New Assembly Relationships Nodes Grouping in Browser

We’ve streamlined your workflow by grouping various assembly relationship nodes, like joints and tangent relationships, into one convenient folder named “Relationships” in the browser. This makes keeping track of your assembly relationships a breeze.

Expanded Geometric Types for Simple Joint Origins

We’ve broadened the range of geometries that simple joint origins can be applied to, giving you more choices and flexibility. You can now use simple joint origins on spherical, cylindrical, toroidal, and B-spline faces.

Learn more about Joint Origins.

Edit in Place Enhancements

Document Units are Now Modifiable During Edit in Place

Within the browser option for Document Settings “Units” is now enabled in Edit in Place mode. This allows you to adjust the active units without having to explicitly open the file in question.

Thread Document Settings Now Available in Edit in Place

You are now able to toggle between modeled and cosmetic threads from the document settings browser node whilst in edit in place mode.

Electronics

Create In Place, Create External PCB Document in Assembly Context

A new ‘Create In Place’ feature for PCB is here, revolutionizing the way you design PCBs within a design context. This innovative feature offers you a streamlined workflow path to author PCB data using familiar Fusion skills, mirroring the process of creating any other mechanical component. With ‘Create In Place,’ you can manage a single source for the board outline, ensuring data consistency without circular dependencies. 

Now you create a PCB like you would any other mechanical component allowing you to stay within the assembly. Mechanical driven constraint data is now respected and the reference geometry concept has been introduced to 3D PCB. This enhancement provides a more Fusion-centric approach, streamlining your PCB design experience while maintaining the integrity of your assembly contexts.

Electronics Drawings support for Reference Designators in PCB and Layer Stack table.

Previously, when documenting Electronics within Fusion Drawings you had to copy and paste screenshots of Electronics documentation, which often resulted in outdated and cumbersome data management. With this enhancement we are changing the documentation process by integrating Fusion Electronics documentation workflows directly into the drawings workspace, creating a unified and purpose-built environment.

Fusion Electronics now supports PCB Drawing creation where ‘Reference Designators’ are properly shown for almost all views in Fusion Drawings, including Base Views, Isometric Views, Detailed Views, and Breakout Views. Additionally, you can now generate appropriate ‘Layer Stack’ information in Fusion Electronics drawings, helping you enable efficient energy distribution, minimize interference, and support high-speed signals.

Learn more about Electronics Drawings.

New Native Teardrop Support

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of native capability to support teardrops in Fusion Electronics, driven by Design Rules. Before this release, teardrops had to be created using ULPs and were not native design assets. This meant you had to manually avoid creating design rules and manufacturing errors and were forced to resolve these issues manually.

Using our Design Rules architecture introduced last year, we now have design rule constraint-driven Teardrop generation. Teardrops can now be automatically generated and will always adhere to design and manufacturing rules. You can turn teardrops Off or On as needed through the Inspector or Properties, giving you full control over their application. We now support teardrops for Via, PTH, SMD Pad, and Trace-to-Trace (Taper) connections, enhancing the robustness of your designs.

Sketch Point Selection for Creating PCB holes

The Hole feature command in 3D-PCB workspace now supports ‘Sketch Point’ selection as an input to create holes on the 3DPCB board. We allow regular Sketch point as well as Derived Sketch point as input to the hole feature command. It will help user to precisely place the holes without worrying about the placement of holes without adding reference dimensions. It will also auto update the hole location is the ref sketch points changes its position within its original sketch or derived sketch.

New Flip Command and Updated Mirror Command

The 2D PCB and Footprint Editor now features a new Flip command. Furthermore, the Mirror command has been upgraded to ensure mirroring occurs only on the same layer, providing more effective design control

New Library Manager Tabs

The Library Manager is now organized into three tabs to distinguish between different library types – hub libraries, public libraries, and private libraries. The different tabs have different search capabilities that make sense for each kind of library.

Enhanced Error Messaging for DRC Violations in Push Violator’s Mode

We improved the error messaging system to provide more detailed and helpful information when users encounter Design Rule Check (DRC) errors in Push Violator’s mode. By integrating relevant DRC details into the error messages, users can quickly identify and understand the cause of the error, facilitating faster and more effective troubleshooting.

Additional Enhancements

Manufacturing

Tool Selection Enhancements

You are now able to select a document tool directly from the toolpath you are creating. You can also skip right to editing the tool from within the toolpath itself, no longer needing to navigate to the Tool Library or thru the right-click menu.

New Save Custom Cutting Presets Directly from Toolpath

Prior to the May update, any manual deviation from a Cutting Preset would result in a tag of “Custom” being applied to the Preset, and future reuse of this “Custom” preset was not possible. With this update, if you modify a Preset, any modified values are now highlighted in bold and a right click on the three-dot menu (next to Presets) allows for creation of a new preset.

Currently, it’s just going to append a digit to the end of the modified Preset (Aluminum Roughing 1, for example). After the creation of this preset, you can then reuse this new preset in any other toolpath that this tool was selected for.

Geometry Selection Chaining: Disabling Compressed Storage

Geometry selection chaining functionality allows you to pick groups of individual curve segments to program toolpaths

In an attempt to improve performance with complex chain selections we changed the internal storage mechanism for chain selections in the September 2024 release. The resulting ‘chain compression’ should allow faster performance with chain selections containing very large numbers of elements. Unfortunately we have had some reports of chain selections becoming lost in some circumstances when the model is changed and investigation has shown that this new ‘chain compression’ storage mechanism is a major factor. As a result we have removed the new ‘chain compression’ storage mechanism and reverted back to the original behavior.

You should not notice any differences as a result of this change. In case you do find any problems- for example if you are regularly working with very large chain selections and notice reduced performance- we have added the ability to restore the ‘chain compression’ behavior used from September 2024 to March 2025. You can enable this using the Optional Features under the Preferences menu- ‘Enable compression of chains’.

Turning

New Diameter Programming Option for Displaying X-Coordinates

We are excited to introduce an improved experience when programming turning toolpaths by giving you the ability to view the toolpath data directly in diameter values without the need for mental conversions from radial values.

Additive Manufacturing

Improvements to 3D Additive Arrange

When it comes to the process of packing parts, also known as 3D nesting, you might be unsure of which option to use. Luckily for you, we’ve done some testing and found the True Shape packing method to perform the best. We have therefore set True Shape to be the default option for machines that use 3D arranging.

For more information on this, please read this handy blog here: 3D Nesting with Autodesk Fusion.

Improvement to Additive Arrange Dialog

We improved the layout of the arrange dialogs by moving the spacing options to a new tab named “Spacing”.

It’s not all about aesthetics here, we have also increased the intelligence of the dialog to pull the values for the “Frame Width” and “Ceiling Clearance” from the in the Additive machine definition. This means that the values in the arrange dialog are more machine specific, allowing for the arrangement to be automatically tailored towards your machine and hence additive process. Previously, this was only the case for the “Platform Clearance” value.

Note, you are still able to edit these values in the arrange dialog itself and have the ability to reset to the default values in the machine.

Learn how to arrange components for additive manufacturing.

Improved Move Command in Additive Manufacturing

We have made further improvements to the move command. For point-to-point moves, you are now able to select a point on a mesh body’s bounding box, hence aiding in manual part placement.

Learn how to move or rotate a component in a build volume.

Post Processor and Machine Simulation

Looking for the latest post processors and machines updates? This May we released a ton of new updates and improvements to many of the open-source Post Processors and Machines we offer for free. Within this release you will find improvements to post processors including Generic Post Processors, Milling Post Processors, and Turning Post Processors. We also added new machines to our Machine Library, updated our Workholding library, and improved functionality around the Autodesk CAM Post Processor engine.     

Learn what’s new for Post Processors and Machine Simulation this May. 

Missed the April update? Learn what’s new for Post Processors and Machine Simulation from this past April.  

Fixes

Regular updates and fixes are crucial to ensuring a smooth and efficient user experience. Addressing bugs and improving functionality helps eliminate frustrations, enhances productivity, and maintains the reliability of the software.

Forum Reported Fixes:

Your feedback matters to us, and we’re dedicated to improving your experience with every update. You’ve shared your thoughts, and we’ve listened and acted. Within each workspace our teams are constantly working to make your experience within Fusion as smooth as possible. If you haven’t already, now is a great chance to check out what forum reported issues we have addressed in the May update.

Check out what we fixed in Design.
Discover what we fixed in Manufacturing.

Recent Fixes:

We’ve listened to your feedback and made several important improvements to enhance your experience with Fusion. Here’s what we’ve fixed and improved:

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