Autodesk Fusion Webinar CTA<\/title>\n <style>\n \/* Webinar CTA Container *\/\n .fusion-webinar-cta {\n background-color: #000000; \/* Black background *\/\n padding: 20px;\n display: flex;\n align-items: center;\n justify-content: space-between;\n border-radius: 8px;\n box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);\n max-width: 700px;\n margin: 20px auto;\n font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\n color: white;\n flex-wrap: wrap;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-text {\n flex: 1;\n padding-right: 15px;\n min-width: 250px;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-title {\n font-size: 18px;\n font-weight: bold;\n margin-bottom: 5px;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-description {\n font-size: 14px;\n margin-bottom: 10px;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-date-time {\n font-size: 12px;\n opacity: 0.8;\n }\n\n \/* Button Styling *\/\n .fusion-webinar-cta-button {\n background-color: #FFFF00; \/* Bright yellow *\/\n color: #000; \/* Black text for contrast *\/\n font-size: 14px;\n font-weight: bold;\n padding: 10px 20px;\n text-decoration: none;\n border-radius: 5px;\n transition: background 0.3s ease;\n white-space: nowrap;\n display: inline-block;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-button:hover {\n background-color: #e6e600; \/* Slightly darker yellow on hover *\/\n }\n\n \/* Responsive *\/\n @media (max-width: 600px) {\n .fusion-webinar-cta {\n flex-direction: column;\n text-align: center;\n padding: 15px;\n }\n .fusion-webinar-cta-text {\n padding-right: 0;\n margin-bottom: 10px;\n }\n .fusion-webinar-cta-button {\n width: 100%;\n text-align: center;\n }\n }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta\">\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-text\">\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-title\">How Fusion is Transforming Data Management<\/div>\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-description\">Join our live AMA to see how Fusion\u2019s latest data tools make collaboration easier, changes faster, and design smarter.<\/div>\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-date-time\">\n \ud83d\udcc5 <strong>Wednesday, July 9, 2025<\/strong> | \ud83d\udd5b <strong>12:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM ET | 9:00 AM \u2013 10:00 AM PDT<\/strong>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/autode.sk\/43J1Gnh\" class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-button\">Register Now<\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n\n<p>CAD and PLM software vendors have positioned traditional tools as enablers for agile, but in most cases haven\u2019t lived up to the promise. The CAD world largely remains tied to applications originally built decades ago to compete against paper. These tools were designed to create models within the constraints of limited processing and network speeds of the time. They typically optimized for local resources and proprietary file formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1466\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional cad vs. modern cad\" class=\"wp-image-76148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpg 1466w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-513x294.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-579x330.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1466px) 100vw, 1466px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Traditional CAD tools were built to go toe to toe with a completely different competitor \u2013 the drafting board.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As powerful as these tools were, the world has changed dramatically since their creation. Teams are increasingly distributed and developing more complex products. Traditional tools have become too heavy for supporting the kind of highly collaborative and multi-discipline work they do. These limitations are amplified when bringing a product to market, from design to manufacturing. Design teams often realize too late that they didn’t consider manufacturability in the design phase. This oversight leads to product quality issues, increased costs, or re-work that could have been avoided through better early collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional CAD software can be well matched with the needs of large enterprises that have decades of legacy data in closed CAD file formats and systems. However, modern companies looking to move quickly and drive innovation are looking for a different approach. Not only are traditional tools costly to run, but they also impose limits that complicate collaboration. Studies have estimated over 8 hours are spent per week on average by engineers trying to find models, rebuilding others that couldn\u2019t be found, dealing with version mismatches, and sharing their work with others. Over 20% of an engineer\u2019s time can be lost to tasks that could be drastically reduced with a more modern collaboration capability.<sup data-fn=\"0b7038d1-b394-4f77-a4ed-db1c352d8152\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#0b7038d1-b394-4f77-a4ed-db1c352d8152\" id=\"0b7038d1-b394-4f77-a4ed-db1c352d8152-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> It’s surprising this persists in today’s hyper-connected world, but there’s never been a better time for change.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"unlocking-agility-with-fusion-datanbsp\"><strong>Unlocking agility with Fusion data<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dotcom-aem.efddotcom.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/overview?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription\">Fusion\u2019s<\/a> primary mission is to eliminate barriers between design and make, enabling teams to bring better products to market faster. Enabling early and parallel collaboration allows the manufacturing team to begin early planning. It also provides the design team with critical feedback on manufacturability before the design is complete. The convergence of design and manufacturing requires a fundamentally different approach to data creation and usage across the platform. We’ve made key choices in Fusion’s data architecture to overcome the limits of traditional CAD.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"crossdomain-capabilitynbsp\"><strong><em>Cross-domain capability<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13.jpg\" alt=\"Fusion brings together design, simulation, and manufacturing capabilities to make multidiscipline collaboration easy.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-76153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13-768x307.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fusion brings together design, simulation, and manufacturing capabilities to make multidiscipline collaboration easy.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We built Fusion with evolving product development workflows in mind to seamlessly connect design, manufacturing, and analysis. Unlike standalone CAD applications which are typically centered on only one part of your design team\u2019s problem, Fusion offers an end to end connected experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you work in Fusion, your task may require capabilities from any number of different domains. Fusion helps by offering these capabilities using the right representation and solver for the design and manufacturing work you call for. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/surface-modeling-overview\/?msockid=2b729b48590a6406216c8f2358936589\">Surface<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/learn\/ondemand\/curated\/part-modeling-fusion-360\">solid<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/learn\/ondemand\/curated\/mesh-modeling-with-fusion-360\">mesh<\/a>, 2D, and 3D modeling capabilities are brought together within the experience. When your product requires complex organic surfaces, Fusion offers integrated advanced surface capabilities. When you\u2019re working on mechanical assemblies, our solid modeling kernel powers both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/rebates\/welcome?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.autodesk.com%2flearn%2fondemand%2fcurated%2fdirect-modeling-with-fusion&murl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.jdoqocy.com%2fclick-100357191-10282382%3furl%3dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.autodesk.com%252flearn%252fondemand%252fcurated%252fdirect-modeling-with-fusion%26afsrc%3d1%26SID%3d&id=autodesk&name=autodesk&ra=7%&hash=2e8480c0b4606cc7ee0bd6ef315098e9e0b8d4238736a6bd415b8551e1868b9f&network=CJ\">direct<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/parametric-modeling-in-fusion-360-tutorial\/?msockid=2b729b48590a6406216c8f2358936589\">parametric<\/a> design with options for configurations with rule driven design features. PCB schematics are represented directly within 3D enclosures and housings, enabling unified electromechanical design. This integrated multi-capability approach extends across the lifecycle. Within Fusion we also leverage specialized CAM kernels to power capabilities for milling, turning, cutting, and additive operations. The result is a tool that enables teams to more fully represent their product in one experience, where engineers and manufacturing specialists can easily access a wide array of capabilities throughout the development cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"unified-data-modelnbsp\"><strong><em>Unified data model<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-1024x549.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-1536x824.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Autodesk Platform brings together industry cloud solutions on a shared data model, providing connections with other CAD apps, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Pty services, and other capabilities.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Product development and manufacturing is a team sport. To enable many users and services to act on data in a secure and coordinated way, Fusion employs a flexible data model that reshapes how data flows across the platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike traditional systems that lock data in rigid, file-based structures, behind the scenes Fusion’s data architecture represents complex products in discrete, manageable components. This approach efficiently and flexibly organizes design, manufacturing, simulation, lifecycle, and other data into an information graph. The data structures are not bound to hierarchy or inheritance. Components are defined by the entities they contain. This allows aspects of the model to be modified independently with fewer fixed dependencies. For example, an engineer in Los Angeles can update the geometry of a component in an assembly while a manufacturing specialist in Shanghai can start working on toolpaths without data conflicts or locking issues. This is a fundamental shift away from traditional file-based paradigms. Teams are free to collaborate seamlessly across disciplines, locations, and devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This data model runs on a distributed hybrid architecture to further expand flexibility. It uses processing \u2018at the edge\u2019 plus an array of scalable cloud services for compute and collaboration. Interactive modeling work utilizes local computing power. Meanwhile, AI automation, simulations, and multi-user collaboration scale to cloud workers for large-scale computing and data exchange orchestration.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"open-and-extensible-apinbsp\"><strong><em>Open and extensible API<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Fusion API enables data to be shared between users, across devices, and with machine tools.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-76178\" style=\"width:322px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-2.jpg 712w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Fusion API enables data to be shared between users, across devices, and with machine tools. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png 676w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A graph-based structure simplifies data access, with an intuitive structure aligned with the product.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An advanced data model can\u2019t deliver its full potential if it puts the data in a silo. From the beginning, we’ve made Fusion more open and extensible as a platform. This approach makes it easier to create apps and connections with other tools. On the cloud side, we opted for a graph-based API to organize data efficiently. This architecture enables precise and targeted read\/write access to the exact data needed, exactly when it’s needed. A quality engineer can access specific properties without wading through unrelated geometry data. A purchasing manager can extract material specifications directly from the design without requiring CAD expertise. A manufacturing engineer can integrate toolpath strategies with the original design intent. This query-driven approach enhances performance and enables intuitive access to API capabilities across Fusion. It simplifies building custom apps and facilitates seamless data flow within Fusion and exchange with third-party systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These choices in kernels, data model, and API have enabled Fusion to dramatically simplify collaboration across the product development lifecycle, and across broad teams. Fusion has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to its flexibility and ease of use for mechanical and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/solutions\/pcb-design-software\">PCB design<\/a>. It also boasts powerful subtractive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/solutions\/additive-manufacturing\">additive manufacturing<\/a> and simulation capabilities. It offers teams a simplified solution for collaboration with built in access control, automated check in\/check out, and approval flows. And Fusion can be wherever they need it to be, with clients on Windows, Mac, web browser, iOS, and Android and options for offline access. Over 2M users run Fusion today, owing to the power and agility it brings as a cloud-enabled platform for product development and manufacturing. <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"whats-next-for-fusion-datanbsp\"><strong>What\u2019s next For Fusion data<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-1024x409.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-768x306.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-1536x613.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fusion includes a broad array of capabilities. To help teams use them throughout the development lifecycle, we are strengthening PDM, PLM, and automation.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Fusion already has a lot of data capability built in, we\u2019re continuing to expand it to address the needs of ever larger and more distributed product development teams. Our current work boils down to three main areas (1) data management, (2) lifecycle management, and (3) intelligent automation and insights. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"modern-data-managementnbsp\"><strong><em>Modern data management<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Product development teams need a flexible system of record. It should simplify collaboration as they bring products to life. Fusion has long delivered an easy to use yet powerful experience for individuals. However, it is increasingly used by larger teams seeking more administrative control. These teams require expanded properties to represent their complete product. Additionally, they need improved search tools to find what they need, when they need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-4.jpg\" alt=\"Additional roles, group management, and permissioning options are being made available to Fusion users\u00a0\n\" class=\"wp-image-76188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-4.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-4-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Additional roles, group management, and access controls are becoming available in Fusion<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To address these needs, projects will gain new roles, group management, and access controls. Product development teams can store models in folders, setting permissions for different groups of stakeholders at various levels. Models can be re-used across projects via direct reference, or stored in a read-only folder where copies can be made as needed. Managing data in the cloud allows teams to move models between folders on the fly without breaking relationships within CAD assemblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teams will be able to represent their products more fully with expanded properties and an updated history of changes. Manufacturing, costing, supply chain, project management, and other metadata will be included by default. There will also be options to customize and add additional data via the API. When working with these new properties, you are directly interacting with the data in real time, with a continuous history of changes logged. This means the experience is similar to other modern web-based spreadsheet apps. People across the team will be able to read and edit these property values concurrently, from clients on the desktop and web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_20-43-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76430\" style=\"width:286px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_20-43-08.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_20-43-08-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Additional properties represent more of the product being designed, and are concurrently editable in desktop and web<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Property data is written directly to the cloud data model, where it\u2019s part of a continuous history of change.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This property information will also be surfaced in the Bill of Materials (BOM) and contribute to a more complete representation of the product. To date, Fusion\u2019s BOM has represented the CAD structure, capturing internal and external components, their quantities, and their release states. It\u2019s also fully automated and easily shareable via a link, viewable in a browser, and exportable to CSV and Excel. However, to get the full benefits of a cloud based BOM, we know it needs to go beyond representing the design model alone. That\u2019s why we plan to expand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/introducing-bill-of-materials-bom-autodesk-fusion\/?msockid=2b729b48590a6406216c8f2358936589\">Fusion\u2019s BOM<\/a> to include additional project and physical properties, flat views, and restructuring options including handling phantom components and non-CAD items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8.jpg\" alt=\"Autodesk Fusion BOM\" class=\"wp-image-76208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Fusion BOM is expanding with additional property data, starting with metadata and then physical properties.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-9.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-9-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The BOM will enable a more complete representation of the product, including items not designed in CAD, excluding reference models, and allowing rollups and flat views.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It will incorporate live editing capabilities. Those involved in bringing the product to market can work directly from the BOM, reviewing contents and contributing to it. The experience will be modern and fully concurrent, available in the desktop client and in a web browser with no translation needed. The aim is to enable your entire team to work from a live representation of the full product. This avoids the pitfalls of dealing with separate BOMs spread across CAD, PLM, and other tools, where teams struggle to coordinate changes. By having everyone working on the exact same data and making it available everywhere, Fusion aims to dramatically simplify how they collaborate on product development from concept to production.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"integrated-plmnbsp\"><em>Integrated PLM<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Agile teams need flexibility when it comes to their approval processes. They also follow specific methods for tracking quality issues and managing changes. This is why we’re building PLM into Fusion in an integrated, more adaptable way than traditional \u2018old iron\u2019 PLM tools that have a lot of power but are difficult to adapt to changing needs over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-1536x866.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fusion Manage Extension simplifies release and change management capabilities today. We plan to add new options for configuring additional reviews, approvals, and change processes to more easily adapt Fusion to meet unique needs within each company.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/in\/products\/fusion-360\/manage-extension?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription\">Fusion Manage Extension<\/a> gives users simplified release and change management. Running on the same underlying tech as our full PLM product, Fusion Manage Extension is a lightweight revision control tool that requires no initial setup and is available from directly within the Fusion experience. The ease of setup is great, but we also know that companies also have PLM needs that evolve over time. We\u2019ve seen the benefits a fully configurable workflow engine can offer to larger companies that need a modern PLM to be adaptable without heavy customization or consulting involvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fusion Manage Extension will begin offering configurable release coordination and change management that’s centered on Fusion design and manufacturing. This will allow teams to easily automate and log work across their teams, helping them not only build repeatable processes, but also optimize the flows themselves over time as they become more agile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine, for example, that you’re a small product development company with a team of five. As you start out with a small team, you set up a release process to easily approve and track revisions. As the company grows you bring in more people and are expanding your product line, securing ISO compliance, tracking system requirements, and logging quality issues discovered in the field. Fusion Manage Extension will allow you to add approvers, insert workflow steps, and orchestrate checks, approvals, and tracking of changes throughout the product lifecycle\u2014from early conceptual design all the way through delivery and servicing. We\u2019ll do this through an integrated experience that makes it easy to begin taking advantage of cloud-native PLM from within Fusion, without the high cost and expense of traditional PLM systems. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"intelligent-automation-and-insightsnbsp\"><em>Intelligent automation and insights<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"AI\" class=\"wp-image-76223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Autodesk AI is technology that analyzes project data to offer predictive insights, automates tedious and repetitive tasks, and augments creative exploration and problem-solving.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can automate a wide variety of analyses and tasks within Fusion and through its open and extensible APIs. Fusion’s generative design capabilities automatically explore a broad range of design alternatives considering a blend of performance and manufacturability constraints. Automated drawings and AI-driven sketch constraints can dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort spent on common tasks. And for more specific needs, Fusion has a powerful API that allows you to take automation further. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 400 apps are on our <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.autodesk.com\/FUSION\/en\/Home\/Index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fusion app store<\/a>, providing a wide collection of scripts, add-ins, and other applications that automate common design and manufacturing tasks. Our cloud platform offers access to both the <a href=\"https:\/\/aps.autodesk.com\/design-automation-apis\">Design Automation for Fusion<\/a> for cloud side compute, as well as Fusion data via our <a href=\"https:\/\/aps.autodesk.com\/manufacturing-data-model-api\">data model API<\/a>. These make it possible to quickly set up projects, read and process Fusion data, read data into other systems, and write data back to the Fusion model all entirely via the web without the need for a desktop client. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fusion\u2019s open and extensible <a href=\"https:\/\/aps.autodesk.com\/manufacturing-data-model-api\">data APIs<\/a> will open the door to more possibilities in the future. The graph-based structure of this API is ideal for agentic AI experiences. It creates opportunities for natural language inputs to enhance search and task automation. We also recognize manufacturers use multiple systems for process coordination. As a result, we plan to expand the API with BOM and property data for integration with other IT\/OT metadata. This unlocks more potential to create a comprehensive view across the value chain through digital twins and other assets such as those powered by Autodesk Tandem Connect. We’re building Fusion data APIs not only to automate work within Fusion but also to harvest more actionable insights that can help businesses improve their performance.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accessing-the-new-data-capabilitiesnbsp\"><strong>Accessing the new data capabilities<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We look forward to delivering these new capabilities over time, on the cloud platform and across the Fusion clients. New and existing users will see the functionality emerging in the Fusion experience as follows. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-fusion-users\"><em>New Fusion users<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re new to Fusion, you\u2019ll soon see many of these capabilities show up automatically as you begin working in a new hub. The expanded access controls are enabled from the start. You’ll see the same for new properties, concurrent editing, and BOM capabilities in the future. To get up to speed on new capabilities, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.autodesk.com\/view\/fusion360\/ENU\/?guid=TC-COLLAB-EDIT\">check out the help documentation<\/a>. They are designed to cover the most essential functionality as quickly as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"existing-fusion-users\"><em>Existing Fusion users<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve been using Fusion for a while, you\u2019ll see these expanded capabilities through Fusion updates. In particular, the new properties, BOM, and concurrent editing capabilities will be grouped into an update called \u201ccollaborative editing\u201d we plan to deliver in a phased rollout. The best way to access these is to wait for a notification that collaborative editing is ready for your hub. This is the recommended option, as it provides the best overall experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can\u2019t wait, the next best option is to <a href=\"https:\/\/feedback.autodesk.com\/key\/fusioncollaborativeedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">try it as a Fusion Insider <\/a>– this is a fantastic way to stay plugged in on other capabilities coming in future updates. Alternatively, if you are a subscriber, you can request a secondary sandbox hub <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/appReb9y2bBfQnMHp\/pag1ap0SqS2qqEjSn\/form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"looking-forwardnbsp\"><strong>Looking forward<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Traditional tools have served companies well for decades, but they’re not built for quickly evolving collaboration needs in today’s world. 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A look at how the Fusion data platform is being built for collaboration across design and manufacturing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/h2>\n
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Disclaimer: Safe harbor statement<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
The promise of agile versus reality <\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
Unlocking agility with Fusion data <\/a>\n\n\n
\n\n
\n Cross-domain capability <\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
Unified data model <\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
Open and extensible API <\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What\u2019s next For Fusion data <\/a>\n\n\n
\n\n
\n Modern data management <\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
Integrated PLM <\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
Intelligent automation and insights <\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Accessing the new data capabilities <\/a>\n\n\n
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\n New Fusion users<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
Existing Fusion users<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Looking forward <\/a>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n
Disclaimer: Safe harbor statement<\/h2>\n\n\n
Roadmaps are plans, not promises or guarantees. We\u2019re as excited as you to see new functionality make it into the products, but the development, releases, and timing of any features or functionality remains at our sole discretion. These roadmap updates should not be used to make purchasing decisions.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n
The promise of agile versus reality<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n
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Product companies are increasingly looking for agile practices to improve their competitive edge. Agile promises reduced time-to-market, faster adaptation to customer needs, and continuous improvements that optimize performance in a dynamic environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Autodesk Fusion Webinar CTA<\/title>\n <style>\n \/* Webinar CTA Container \/\n .fusion-webinar-cta {\n background-color: #000000; \/ Black background \/\n padding: 20px;\n display: flex;\n align-items: center;\n justify-content: space-between;\n border-radius: 8px;\n box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);\n max-width: 700px;\n margin: 20px auto;\n font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\n color: white;\n flex-wrap: wrap;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-text {\n flex: 1;\n padding-right: 15px;\n min-width: 250px;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-title {\n font-size: 18px;\n font-weight: bold;\n margin-bottom: 5px;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-description {\n font-size: 14px;\n margin-bottom: 10px;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-date-time {\n font-size: 12px;\n opacity: 0.8;\n }\n\n \/ Button Styling \/\n .fusion-webinar-cta-button {\n background-color: #FFFF00; \/ Bright yellow \/\n color: #000; \/ Black text for contrast \/\n font-size: 14px;\n font-weight: bold;\n padding: 10px 20px;\n text-decoration: none;\n border-radius: 5px;\n transition: background 0.3s ease;\n white-space: nowrap;\n display: inline-block;\n }\n\n .fusion-webinar-cta-button:hover {\n background-color: #e6e600; \/ Slightly darker yellow on hover \/\n }\n\n \/ Responsive *\/\n @media (max-width: 600px) {\n .fusion-webinar-cta {\n flex-direction: column;\n text-align: center;\n padding: 15px;\n }\n .fusion-webinar-cta-text {\n padding-right: 0;\n margin-bottom: 10px;\n }\n .fusion-webinar-cta-button {\n width: 100%;\n text-align: center;\n }\n }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta\">\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-text\">\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-title\">How Fusion is Transforming Data Management<\/div>\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-description\">Join our live AMA to see how Fusion\u2019s latest data tools make collaboration easier, changes faster, and design smarter.<\/div>\n <div class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-date-time\">\n \ud83d\udcc5 <strong>Wednesday, July 9, 2025<\/strong> | \ud83d\udd5b <strong>12:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM ET | 9:00 AM \u2013 10:00 AM PDT<\/strong>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/autode.sk\/43J1Gnh\" class=\"fusion-webinar-cta-button\">Register Now<\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n\n<p>CAD and PLM software vendors have positioned traditional tools as enablers for agile, but in most cases haven\u2019t lived up to the promise. The CAD world largely remains tied to applications originally built decades ago to compete against paper. These tools were designed to create models within the constraints of limited processing and network speeds of the time. They typically optimized for local resources and proprietary file formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1466\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional cad vs. modern cad\" class=\"wp-image-76148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpg 1466w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-513x294.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-579x330.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1466px) 100vw, 1466px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Traditional CAD tools were built to go toe to toe with a completely different competitor \u2013 the drafting board.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As powerful as these tools were, the world has changed dramatically since their creation. Teams are increasingly distributed and developing more complex products. Traditional tools have become too heavy for supporting the kind of highly collaborative and multi-discipline work they do. These limitations are amplified when bringing a product to market, from design to manufacturing. Design teams often realize too late that they didn’t consider manufacturability in the design phase. This oversight leads to product quality issues, increased costs, or re-work that could have been avoided through better early collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional CAD software can be well matched with the needs of large enterprises that have decades of legacy data in closed CAD file formats and systems. However, modern companies looking to move quickly and drive innovation are looking for a different approach. Not only are traditional tools costly to run, but they also impose limits that complicate collaboration. Studies have estimated over 8 hours are spent per week on average by engineers trying to find models, rebuilding others that couldn\u2019t be found, dealing with version mismatches, and sharing their work with others. Over 20% of an engineer\u2019s time can be lost to tasks that could be drastically reduced with a more modern collaboration capability.<sup data-fn=\"0b7038d1-b394-4f77-a4ed-db1c352d8152\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#0b7038d1-b394-4f77-a4ed-db1c352d8152\" id=\"0b7038d1-b394-4f77-a4ed-db1c352d8152-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> It’s surprising this persists in today’s hyper-connected world, but there’s never been a better time for change.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"unlocking-agility-with-fusion-datanbsp\"><strong>Unlocking agility with Fusion data<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dotcom-aem.efddotcom.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/overview?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription\">Fusion\u2019s<\/a> primary mission is to eliminate barriers between design and make, enabling teams to bring better products to market faster. Enabling early and parallel collaboration allows the manufacturing team to begin early planning. It also provides the design team with critical feedback on manufacturability before the design is complete. The convergence of design and manufacturing requires a fundamentally different approach to data creation and usage across the platform. We’ve made key choices in Fusion’s data architecture to overcome the limits of traditional CAD.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"crossdomain-capabilitynbsp\"><strong><em>Cross-domain capability<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13.jpg\" alt=\"Fusion brings together design, simulation, and manufacturing capabilities to make multidiscipline collaboration easy.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-76153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13-768x307.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fusion brings together design, simulation, and manufacturing capabilities to make multidiscipline collaboration easy.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We built Fusion with evolving product development workflows in mind to seamlessly connect design, manufacturing, and analysis. Unlike standalone CAD applications which are typically centered on only one part of your design team\u2019s problem, Fusion offers an end to end connected experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you work in Fusion, your task may require capabilities from any number of different domains. Fusion helps by offering these capabilities using the right representation and solver for the design and manufacturing work you call for. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/surface-modeling-overview\/?msockid=2b729b48590a6406216c8f2358936589\">Surface<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/learn\/ondemand\/curated\/part-modeling-fusion-360\">solid<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/learn\/ondemand\/curated\/mesh-modeling-with-fusion-360\">mesh<\/a>, 2D, and 3D modeling capabilities are brought together within the experience. When your product requires complex organic surfaces, Fusion offers integrated advanced surface capabilities. When you\u2019re working on mechanical assemblies, our solid modeling kernel powers both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/rebates\/welcome?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.autodesk.com%2flearn%2fondemand%2fcurated%2fdirect-modeling-with-fusion&murl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.jdoqocy.com%2fclick-100357191-10282382%3furl%3dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.autodesk.com%252flearn%252fondemand%252fcurated%252fdirect-modeling-with-fusion%26afsrc%3d1%26SID%3d&id=autodesk&name=autodesk&ra=7%&hash=2e8480c0b4606cc7ee0bd6ef315098e9e0b8d4238736a6bd415b8551e1868b9f&network=CJ\">direct<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/parametric-modeling-in-fusion-360-tutorial\/?msockid=2b729b48590a6406216c8f2358936589\">parametric<\/a> design with options for configurations with rule driven design features. PCB schematics are represented directly within 3D enclosures and housings, enabling unified electromechanical design. This integrated multi-capability approach extends across the lifecycle. Within Fusion we also leverage specialized CAM kernels to power capabilities for milling, turning, cutting, and additive operations. The result is a tool that enables teams to more fully represent their product in one experience, where engineers and manufacturing specialists can easily access a wide array of capabilities throughout the development cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"unified-data-modelnbsp\"><strong><em>Unified data model<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-1024x549.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_21-48-05-1536x824.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Autodesk Platform brings together industry cloud solutions on a shared data model, providing connections with other CAD apps, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Pty services, and other capabilities.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Product development and manufacturing is a team sport. To enable many users and services to act on data in a secure and coordinated way, Fusion employs a flexible data model that reshapes how data flows across the platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike traditional systems that lock data in rigid, file-based structures, behind the scenes Fusion’s data architecture represents complex products in discrete, manageable components. This approach efficiently and flexibly organizes design, manufacturing, simulation, lifecycle, and other data into an information graph. The data structures are not bound to hierarchy or inheritance. Components are defined by the entities they contain. This allows aspects of the model to be modified independently with fewer fixed dependencies. For example, an engineer in Los Angeles can update the geometry of a component in an assembly while a manufacturing specialist in Shanghai can start working on toolpaths without data conflicts or locking issues. This is a fundamental shift away from traditional file-based paradigms. Teams are free to collaborate seamlessly across disciplines, locations, and devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This data model runs on a distributed hybrid architecture to further expand flexibility. It uses processing \u2018at the edge\u2019 plus an array of scalable cloud services for compute and collaboration. Interactive modeling work utilizes local computing power. Meanwhile, AI automation, simulations, and multi-user collaboration scale to cloud workers for large-scale computing and data exchange orchestration.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"open-and-extensible-apinbsp\"><strong><em>Open and extensible API<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Fusion API enables data to be shared between users, across devices, and with machine tools.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-76178\" style=\"width:322px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-2.jpg 712w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Fusion API enables data to be shared between users, across devices, and with machine tools. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png 676w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A graph-based structure simplifies data access, with an intuitive structure aligned with the product.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An advanced data model can\u2019t deliver its full potential if it puts the data in a silo. From the beginning, we’ve made Fusion more open and extensible as a platform. This approach makes it easier to create apps and connections with other tools. On the cloud side, we opted for a graph-based API to organize data efficiently. This architecture enables precise and targeted read\/write access to the exact data needed, exactly when it’s needed. A quality engineer can access specific properties without wading through unrelated geometry data. A purchasing manager can extract material specifications directly from the design without requiring CAD expertise. A manufacturing engineer can integrate toolpath strategies with the original design intent. This query-driven approach enhances performance and enables intuitive access to API capabilities across Fusion. It simplifies building custom apps and facilitates seamless data flow within Fusion and exchange with third-party systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These choices in kernels, data model, and API have enabled Fusion to dramatically simplify collaboration across the product development lifecycle, and across broad teams. Fusion has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to its flexibility and ease of use for mechanical and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/solutions\/pcb-design-software\">PCB design<\/a>. It also boasts powerful subtractive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/solutions\/additive-manufacturing\">additive manufacturing<\/a> and simulation capabilities. It offers teams a simplified solution for collaboration with built in access control, automated check in\/check out, and approval flows. And Fusion can be wherever they need it to be, with clients on Windows, Mac, web browser, iOS, and Android and options for offline access. Over 2M users run Fusion today, owing to the power and agility it brings as a cloud-enabled platform for product development and manufacturing. <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"whats-next-for-fusion-datanbsp\"><strong>What\u2019s next For Fusion data<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-1024x409.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-768x306.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12_10-51-05-1536x613.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fusion includes a broad array of capabilities. To help teams use them throughout the development lifecycle, we are strengthening PDM, PLM, and automation.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Fusion already has a lot of data capability built in, we\u2019re continuing to expand it to address the needs of ever larger and more distributed product development teams. Our current work boils down to three main areas (1) data management, (2) lifecycle management, and (3) intelligent automation and insights. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"modern-data-managementnbsp\"><strong><em>Modern data management<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Product development teams need a flexible system of record. It should simplify collaboration as they bring products to life. Fusion has long delivered an easy to use yet powerful experience for individuals. However, it is increasingly used by larger teams seeking more administrative control. These teams require expanded properties to represent their complete product. Additionally, they need improved search tools to find what they need, when they need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-4.jpg\" alt=\"Additional roles, group management, and permissioning options are being made available to Fusion users\u00a0\n\" class=\"wp-image-76188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-4.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-4-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Additional roles, group management, and access controls are becoming available in Fusion<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To address these needs, projects will gain new roles, group management, and access controls. Product development teams can store models in folders, setting permissions for different groups of stakeholders at various levels. Models can be re-used across projects via direct reference, or stored in a read-only folder where copies can be made as needed. Managing data in the cloud allows teams to move models between folders on the fly without breaking relationships within CAD assemblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teams will be able to represent their products more fully with expanded properties and an updated history of changes. Manufacturing, costing, supply chain, project management, and other metadata will be included by default. There will also be options to customize and add additional data via the API. When working with these new properties, you are directly interacting with the data in real time, with a continuous history of changes logged. This means the experience is similar to other modern web-based spreadsheet apps. People across the team will be able to read and edit these property values concurrently, from clients on the desktop and web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_20-43-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76430\" style=\"width:286px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_20-43-08.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-11_20-43-08-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Additional properties represent more of the product being designed, and are concurrently editable in desktop and web<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_17-15-46-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Property data is written directly to the cloud data model, where it\u2019s part of a continuous history of change.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This property information will also be surfaced in the Bill of Materials (BOM) and contribute to a more complete representation of the product. To date, Fusion\u2019s BOM has represented the CAD structure, capturing internal and external components, their quantities, and their release states. It\u2019s also fully automated and easily shareable via a link, viewable in a browser, and exportable to CSV and Excel. However, to get the full benefits of a cloud based BOM, we know it needs to go beyond representing the design model alone. That\u2019s why we plan to expand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/introducing-bill-of-materials-bom-autodesk-fusion\/?msockid=2b729b48590a6406216c8f2358936589\">Fusion\u2019s BOM<\/a> to include additional project and physical properties, flat views, and restructuring options including handling phantom components and non-CAD items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8.jpg\" alt=\"Autodesk Fusion BOM\" class=\"wp-image-76208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-8-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Fusion BOM is expanding with additional property data, starting with metadata and then physical properties.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-9.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-9-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The BOM will enable a more complete representation of the product, including items not designed in CAD, excluding reference models, and allowing rollups and flat views.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It will incorporate live editing capabilities. Those involved in bringing the product to market can work directly from the BOM, reviewing contents and contributing to it. The experience will be modern and fully concurrent, available in the desktop client and in a web browser with no translation needed. The aim is to enable your entire team to work from a live representation of the full product. This avoids the pitfalls of dealing with separate BOMs spread across CAD, PLM, and other tools, where teams struggle to coordinate changes. By having everyone working on the exact same data and making it available everywhere, Fusion aims to dramatically simplify how they collaborate on product development from concept to production.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"integrated-plmnbsp\"><em>Integrated PLM<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Agile teams need flexibility when it comes to their approval processes. They also follow specific methods for tracking quality issues and managing changes. This is why we’re building PLM into Fusion in an integrated, more adaptable way than traditional \u2018old iron\u2019 PLM tools that have a lot of power but are difficult to adapt to changing needs over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fusion-Manage-Extension-1-1536x866.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fusion Manage Extension simplifies release and change management capabilities today. We plan to add new options for configuring additional reviews, approvals, and change processes to more easily adapt Fusion to meet unique needs within each company.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/in\/products\/fusion-360\/manage-extension?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription\">Fusion Manage Extension<\/a> gives users simplified release and change management. Running on the same underlying tech as our full PLM product, Fusion Manage Extension is a lightweight revision control tool that requires no initial setup and is available from directly within the Fusion experience. The ease of setup is great, but we also know that companies also have PLM needs that evolve over time. We\u2019ve seen the benefits a fully configurable workflow engine can offer to larger companies that need a modern PLM to be adaptable without heavy customization or consulting involvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fusion Manage Extension will begin offering configurable release coordination and change management that’s centered on Fusion design and manufacturing. This will allow teams to easily automate and log work across their teams, helping them not only build repeatable processes, but also optimize the flows themselves over time as they become more agile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine, for example, that you’re a small product development company with a team of five. As you start out with a small team, you set up a release process to easily approve and track revisions. As the company grows you bring in more people and are expanding your product line, securing ISO compliance, tracking system requirements, and logging quality issues discovered in the field. Fusion Manage Extension will allow you to add approvers, insert workflow steps, and orchestrate checks, approvals, and tracking of changes throughout the product lifecycle\u2014from early conceptual design all the way through delivery and servicing. We\u2019ll do this through an integrated experience that makes it easy to begin taking advantage of cloud-native PLM from within Fusion, without the high cost and expense of traditional PLM systems. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"intelligent-automation-and-insightsnbsp\"><em>Intelligent automation and insights<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"AI\" class=\"wp-image-76223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-2.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Autodesk AI is technology that analyzes project data to offer predictive insights, automates tedious and repetitive tasks, and augments creative exploration and problem-solving.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can automate a wide variety of analyses and tasks within Fusion and through its open and extensible APIs. Fusion’s generative design capabilities automatically explore a broad range of design alternatives considering a blend of performance and manufacturability constraints. Automated drawings and AI-driven sketch constraints can dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort spent on common tasks. And for more specific needs, Fusion has a powerful API that allows you to take automation further. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 400 apps are on our <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.autodesk.com\/FUSION\/en\/Home\/Index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fusion app store<\/a>, providing a wide collection of scripts, add-ins, and other applications that automate common design and manufacturing tasks. Our cloud platform offers access to both the <a href=\"https:\/\/aps.autodesk.com\/design-automation-apis\">Design Automation for Fusion<\/a> for cloud side compute, as well as Fusion data via our <a href=\"https:\/\/aps.autodesk.com\/manufacturing-data-model-api\">data model API<\/a>. These make it possible to quickly set up projects, read and process Fusion data, read data into other systems, and write data back to the Fusion model all entirely via the web without the need for a desktop client. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fusion\u2019s open and extensible <a href=\"https:\/\/aps.autodesk.com\/manufacturing-data-model-api\">data APIs<\/a> will open the door to more possibilities in the future. The graph-based structure of this API is ideal for agentic AI experiences. It creates opportunities for natural language inputs to enhance search and task automation. We also recognize manufacturers use multiple systems for process coordination. As a result, we plan to expand the API with BOM and property data for integration with other IT\/OT metadata. This unlocks more potential to create a comprehensive view across the value chain through digital twins and other assets such as those powered by Autodesk Tandem Connect. We’re building Fusion data APIs not only to automate work within Fusion but also to harvest more actionable insights that can help businesses improve their performance.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accessing-the-new-data-capabilitiesnbsp\"><strong>Accessing the new data capabilities<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We look forward to delivering these new capabilities over time, on the cloud platform and across the Fusion clients. New and existing users will see the functionality emerging in the Fusion experience as follows. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-fusion-users\"><em>New Fusion users<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re new to Fusion, you\u2019ll soon see many of these capabilities show up automatically as you begin working in a new hub. The expanded access controls are enabled from the start. You’ll see the same for new properties, concurrent editing, and BOM capabilities in the future. To get up to speed on new capabilities, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.autodesk.com\/view\/fusion360\/ENU\/?guid=TC-COLLAB-EDIT\">check out the help documentation<\/a>. They are designed to cover the most essential functionality as quickly as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"existing-fusion-users\"><em>Existing Fusion users<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve been using Fusion for a while, you\u2019ll see these expanded capabilities through Fusion updates. In particular, the new properties, BOM, and concurrent editing capabilities will be grouped into an update called \u201ccollaborative editing\u201d we plan to deliver in a phased rollout. The best way to access these is to wait for a notification that collaborative editing is ready for your hub. This is the recommended option, as it provides the best overall experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can\u2019t wait, the next best option is to <a href=\"https:\/\/feedback.autodesk.com\/key\/fusioncollaborativeedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">try it as a Fusion Insider <\/a>– this is a fantastic way to stay plugged in on other capabilities coming in future updates. Alternatively, if you are a subscriber, you can request a secondary sandbox hub <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/appReb9y2bBfQnMHp\/pag1ap0SqS2qqEjSn\/form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"looking-forwardnbsp\"><strong>Looking forward<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Traditional tools have served companies well for decades, but they’re not built for quickly evolving collaboration needs in today’s world. 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