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- Fusion 360 makes things better by integrating massive amounts of functionality that does exactly what you asked it to do.
- There's going to be a lot more of connectedness in taking the 3D models from Inventor and Fusion and overlaying them on an actual product that the end user is using.
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- Convergence of design and manufacturing is taking steps out of the process and getting us closer to a workable model.
- We're able to integrate point clouds into our model in Inventor.
- Generative design will help make the stress testing and all of the testing that we have to do on the back end shorter.
- [INAUDIBLE] manufacturing has the ability to actually solve some problems.
- You can really test and revise and see things physically in your hand much faster.
- A physics driven solution, if you will, to the problem at hand.
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PRESENTER: Please welcome to the stage, Vice President Industry Strategy and Marketing, Greg Fallon.
GREG FALLON: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the 2019 Autodesk University Design and Manufacturing session. Thanks to all of you for attending and thanks to the folks online. We've got loads of exciting things to share with you today, and a few special guests who will be joining me onstage shortly.
Yesterday, as we kicked off AU, Andrew Anagnost, the CEO of Autodesk, shared with you our view of the future of automation. Where some see a future that is scary, where automation kills jobs, we at Autodesk see the opportunity for a future that is bright. Where human strength and ingenuity are augmented, where we make better use of energy and materials. A future that offers better health and resilience, better work and prosperity.
In our industry, automation holds great promise to make us more effective at our jobs, to make us better engineers, better designers. Automation will help us meet the daunting challenges we face as a global society. It will help us design and make the products that will help a growing global population thrive while we save our planet. There's a lot to get excited about in this new future of making. New production methods like 3D printing, connected machines, robotics, and new materials.
To realize this promise, manufacturers are investing heavily in computing and software. This year, our sector will spend over $580 billion on IT. And this investment is delivering amazing returns. Like the innovative wheels on the coolest VW bus ever. I am trying so hard to steal that bus.
Not all of us work for companies that have factories that look like this. For many of you in the audience, your factories aren't populated with banks of 3D mental printers or dancing robots. For most of us, the factories that we know look a lot more like this. And with the disconnected software solutions that are commonly used to develop and produce products, our workflows look like this. People, data, and tools are disconnected. Collaboration means sharing files through emails, spreadsheets, thumb drives, and even Post-It notes. It's messy and it's complicated.
The result of this complicated mess is waste. Wasted material and energy, wasted inventory. Up to 70% of spare parts never leave the shelf, and it results in wasted time. Your time. Roughly one third of an engineer's time is spent on tasks like recreating data, recording data in different places, searching for versions, and communicating changes. How many of you have wasted hours or days working on a model only to find out that you have to start over?
Today's gap is between what can be and what is. We have an opportunity to do better. As designers and engineers, we have an obligation to do better.
Finding the opportunity for better starts with two words. What if? What if you can make better products using less material? What if you knew your design would work as soon as you came up with the idea? What if you could make trade-offs between cost, manufacturing time, and material all at the same time? What if you didn't have to search through thousands of emails to find the latest version? What if you could work concurrently with your team on a design? What if you could work concurrently with your customers?
What if? It's the question that drives us here at Autodesk. What if we can make your lives better? Better starts here. Better starts with making connections, with breaking down silos, bringing design and manufacturing closer together. It starts with your data at the center, making it easy to connect and share it with every stakeholder at every stage of the process. Connecting workflows, design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, simulation, and manufacturing. So that your entire team can collaborate seamlessly, connecting engineering directly to manufacturing.
Generative design gives us the ability to do just that, delivering valid options to choose from, confident your results will be viable for production. Bridging the gap between designers in the studio and machinists on the shop floor. Reducing waste and rework. Connecting everyone in your factory and your factory to your supply chain. Giving you actionable insights that you can use to get your products to market faster. This is the convergence of design and manufacturing. It is the future of making.
At Autodesk we're passionate about helping you take advantage of the opportunity for better. We want to help you connect your workflows, automate your processes, and network with your entire supply chain. It all starts by making connections, connecting data between applications, connecting data to processes, and connecting processes together. Connecting people, collaborators and stakeholders in engineering, manufacturing, and business management inside your company and beyond.
Once these connections are made, it's about automating them. Simplifying your processes by using machines to do the heavy lifting and repetitive work. Generative design is one example using infinite compute power to create and validate geometry for a given set of materials, operating conditions, and manufacturing processes. But automation extends way beyond generative design. Things like automating tool path creation, like automating production setup.
But if we only connect Autodesk solutions together, we'll have failed you. If we want to realize the opportunity for better, we need to help you connect to your entire network of solution providers, customers, and suppliers. What if all the software that you used worked together regardless of who made it?
It's no longer about what if, it's about what is. Using the Autodesk Forge platform, we're making it possible to easily connect multiple data sources and solutions, and we're establishing a network of partners. With this platform, we're unlocking the potential of teams to connect, automate, and network inside their companies and beyond.
This past summer we announced a partnership with aPriori, the industry leader in product cost management. This partnership connects aPriori's costing solution to Fusion 360's generative design capabilities, giving users cost insights at the start of the design process rather than discovering cost issues late when it's extremely expensive and time consuming to make changes. You'll hear more about this shortly from my colleague Steve Hooper.
Yesterday, we announced an exciting new addition to our network of partners, ANSYS. This partnership leverages the Forge platform to allow interoperability between ANSYS mechanical and Fusion 360. To drive revolutionary design and engineering agility for you. To tell you more about how ANSYS and Autodesk are coming together to help our customers, it's my great pleasure to welcome to the stage Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost and ANSYS CEO Ajei Gopal.
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Hey, Ajei, so great to see you. Welcome.
AJEI GAPOL: It's a pleasure.
GREG FALLON: Andrew, thank you.
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Thank you.
AJEI GAPOL: Andrew.
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Ajei, welcome.
AJEI GAPOL: Thank you for inviting me.
GREG FALLON: So Ajei, why don't you tell the audience a little bit about ANSYS and what you do.
AJEI GAPOL: Of course. Well, for those of you who don't know, ANSYS is the global leader in engineering simulation. We, essentially, help companies around the world design and develop the most amazing products, from computer chips to rocket ships and, frankly, everything in between. Using our software, our customers can create, they can test their products completely in their computers. Our software will tell them how their products will perform and behave without the need for physical prototypes. This means that they can drive innovation to market faster and they can save cost.
GREG FALLON: So a lot's changed at ANSYS over the last couple of years since you've taken the helm. Tell us a little bit about what you're most excited about.
AJEI GAPOL: Well, Greg, I'm really proud of the fact that we've built the market leading portfolio for simulation, bar none. From structural analysis to fluid dynamics to materials intelligence to optics, through a process of both organic development as well as acquisitions, we've built the industry's leading multiphysics portfolio. And as a result, we're helping some of our customers solve some of the most challenging problems they're dealing with. Like, autonomy, for example, or electrification. Like IoT, like 5G.
So let me make it concrete. Let's take an example, electrification. So we talked about the bus, and Andrew you had the bus on stage yesterday, the Volkswagen bus. Well, we're working with Volkswagen to build next generation electric cars. Now, this is a complex engineering challenge that involves structural dynamics, battery design, aerodynamics, a whole bunch of multiphysics challenges. And using ANSYS simulation, we helped Volkswagen build a supercar that allowed them to just crush the Pikes Peak course record by over 16 seconds, which is, of course, an eternity in car racing.
GREG FALLON: Wow. That is super cool. Simulations been around now for, I think, almost 50 years, and in that time, we've seen the industry grow into the largest engineering software segment. Andrew, you started your career in simulation. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your perspective of the simulation--
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Yes.
GREG FALLON: --and where--
ANDREW ANAGNOST: I am a simulation guy in my core. It used to be that Autodesk was run by a bunch of graphics guys and ladies. Mostly guys. And everything looked like a graphics problem. Now I'm a simulation guy and, well, frankly, everything looks like a simulation problem to me. That's not far from the truth.
We've been talking to you about enabling you to do things better to be able to respond to this inevitability of more with less negative impact. You can't do better design you cannot make better decisions if you do not know how something is going to perform in the real world, how it's going to actually respond physically to the forces, to the thermal effects, to the way it's used. If you can't understand that, you can't make better.
So simulation is key to understanding what better design is. And one of the things I'm super excited about our partnership and working together with you is we're going to bring more and more powerful simulation into the hands of people so that they can make even better choices. And that, that's the future. Everything's a simulation problem.
GREG FALLON: Excellent. Well, on that note, why don't you tell us a little bit about the connection between generative design and simulation.
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Well, you see, that's a perfect example. Generative design requires simulation to work. Generative design is a process of growing geometry or providing options to geometry based on how you constrain that geometry. What are the forces that you're applying to it? What are the space requirements? What are the volumetric needs? What are the manufacturing constraints? What do you actually want it to do?
And generative design creates the geometry that responds to those various constraints. Simulation is critical to that because as we grow the geometry-- which it's kind of the way the algorithm works-- we actually simulate it in each generation, and we know that when it's finally done it's actually going to perform exactly the way you want it to and you expect it to. You have to have simulation to do that.
GREG FALLON: So those of you that know me know that I'm also a simulation guy. I started my career in simulation. I've had the luck of spending time in both companies and I can't tell you how thrilled I am about this partnership. Ajei, what gets you excited about the partnership?
AJEI GAPOL: Well, I think it's all about being able to deliver amazing products. Companies today, and all of us struggle-- we're trying to make sure that the processes that we operate allow us to deliver the highest quality and the most innovative products. Product development is about connecting the art of design to the science of analysis. And the way you can speed things up, the way you can do more with less, is to short circuit that design process and to change the way that designers and analysts work together.
And through our partnership, by linking our industry leading products together, we will achieve this. We'll enable our customers to be able to build these seamless workflows that will allow them to develop these next generation products faster and more efficiently than ever before.
GREG FALLON: Andrew, how about you?
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Well, first off, I'm really excited about just the commercial potential of bringing the power that your portfolio has directly to all our customers. If you're not familiar with everything ANSYS does, I mean, they've acquired a portfolio that can actually help us understand entire systems and how they perform in various different ways. Getting that kind of capability to all of you is really important and really exciting.
But as you know, I'm also really passionate about exposing the next generation of engineers to new ways of thinking and new ways of designing, and I spend a lot of time in educational institutions. I go to lots of different schools and lots of different places and what do I see every time I go there? I see Autodesk, mostly Fusion 360, I see a product I will not mention, and I see ANSYS. And that's what's there. And that means together, if we start helping engineers and students and designers understand what the potential is of designing and simulating together in real time all the time, we're going to change the way the next generation does things. And that-- that's motivating, too. The today is incredibly motivating, the tomorrow is equally exciting.
AJEI GAPOL: And Andrew, we share your passion and your commitment to the academic ecosystem. Cornell University teaches a massive online class, and this is a free class that's available for anyone who wants to take it, in simulation. And they take advantage of ANSYS technology, they use ANSYS and they show you-- it's almost a how to guide of how to solve some of the most challenging problems you're likely to run into with simulation. And I think over 150 students have taken this-- signed up for this class. I think there have been over 4 million views on YouTube. So it's an amazing piece of work. And I think you can see it out on the show floor as well.
GREG FALLON: Yeah. Thanks. So Rajesh and his team are out on the show floor. For those of you who are here in person, please take a minute and go visit those guys. It's completely inspiring.
ANDREW ANAGNOST: I saw the video your team put together as well and I was like-- when the video was sent to me I said, wow, the ANSYS is guy is OK with this? It sounds like they're really talking about Autodesk in a a really exciting way. Well, the ANSYS guys made it. And I was like, wow. OK.
This is awesome. What the Cornell group is doing there and the way the professors talk about your solutions and our solutions, I was like, this is incredible. This is the kind of enthusiasm we want people to have.
AJEI GAPOL: Right.
GREG FALLON: Yeah. It's amazing. So Ajei, I talked earlier about the idea of creating this open ecosystem. Now, as someone who's spent your entire career in the software industry-- you're a computer scientist-- can you tell us a little bit more about what that means and why it's important?
AJEI GAPOL: Sure. I mean, the software industry has so many examples of where an open ecosystem, where vendors participate through open interfaces, work together. An open ecosystem unlocks innovation and it, frankly, benefits customers. And closed ecosystems, they often just collapse under their own weight. That's what ANSYS believes. We believe that we can compete in the marketplace with our best of breed technology, that we can bring that to the industry, and that our customers will benefit, the industry will benefit in this open environment. And I know, Andrew, that Autodesk feels exactly the same way.
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Absolutely.
GREG FALLON: Now, Andrew, open ecosystems are different today than they were just a few years ago. We've been making major investments in the cloud. You want to talk a little bit about what role the cloud plays in ecosystems?
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Yeah. I think a lot of you know, Autodesk has been exploring the cloud and developing on the cloud probably longer than any of the other vendors in our space. We're very serious about what the cloud can do and how the cloud can change design. And one of the things that the cloud is really, really good at is connecting data. Connecting data from different disciplines, from different parts of the workflow, from different ways of looking at a particular problem. Better does start with data.
And what we're able to do with our cloud platforms in our cloud ecosystems is allow seamless flow of data from the design view of the problem to the simulation view of the problem and back again. We can solve things in the cloud that just remove a whole ton of problems from your desktop. We've put him out in the cloud, we move the data flow, and we make your job a lot easier. That's the power of the cloud and that's how we're going to bring all these ecosystems together.
GREG FALLON: Now, Ajei, you guys have been making some investments in the cloud as well. Do you want to tell us a little bit about that?
AJEI GAPOL: Sure. So as you know, our technologies have historically worked both on premises in customer data centers and, of course, now they all work in the cloud. And our technology being in the cloud, frankly, makes it easier, Andrew, for us to be able to partner with Autodesk because given our collective investments in the cloud, in the data flow in the cloud, I'm excited as to how our customers will be able to link our technologies together and create these next generation workflows that we've been talking about to help them bring innovation to market faster.
GREG FALLON: Great. Well, thank you both so very much. This year, the Autodesk University theme is Better Starts Here. This partnership is going to transform the way we work together together and make the world better together. So thank you so much.
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Thank you.
AJEI GAPOL: Thank you, Greg.
ANDREW ANAGNOST: Thank you, Ajei.
AJEI GAPOL: Thank you, Andrew. Thanks.
GREG FALLON: Thanks, Andrew.
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So we've just talked about our vision for the future of making. To tell you more about the technology that we're delivering to you today-- I'll give these guys a chance to-- please welcome to the stage John den Hartog.
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Hey, John. Thanks so much.
JOHN DEN HARTOG: Hi, everybody. Here at AU I'm constantly reminded of just how cool your work is. That's because you make the things that we see every day. It could be an escalator you rode this week in Vegas, a machine you saw out on a construction site, a sign you noticed at the airport, or the train you took to get here. The people in this room and those watching online, we make the things that make the world work. And as engineers, we take the most pride in making them better.
Think about the people you're close with. Here's my own crew. I'm sure you can picture your own. What do they know about your work? What might make them proud? What would they tell others about what you do?
I got a chance to work on some pretty cool things in my early days as an engineer. But now at Autodesk, I get to help make the tools that make that stuff possible, and make those tools better for you. We're looking to the future and mapping where we need to go in the products to help you explore those what ifs. And we're pushing ahead in new ways, helping you connect, automate, and network across your team and beyond.
Now I'll zoom in on a few key parts of what we call our product design and manufacturing collection. Starting with AutoCAD, the most powerful 2D design tool on the planet. Millions of people design in 2D every day and they need to do it everywhere so we're expanding on a CAD with new partnerships and experiences that span desktop, web, and mobile platforms. And of course, we have Inventor for professional grade 3D design. It's what many of you use every day. From the beginning, we focused Inventor on powerful engineering capabilities and enabling automation in some of the most complex applications out there.
And then Fusion 360. This is where you'll see the manufacturing game forever changing. It can help you look at manufacturing trade-offs early in the development cycle and now has advanced additive and subtracted cam that you won't find anywhere else. We've been connecting them so you can use the best of each when and where it makes the most sense for you. 2D AutoCAD drawings can drive 3D models in Inventor. 3D Inventor data can be parametrically changed inside of AutoCAD. Inventor associatively connects with Fusion and vise versa. So it's 2D and 3D, desktop and cloud, design and manufacturing. We want you to be able to use them together to your advantage.
Let's take a deeper dive into Inventor. This year we're celebrating inventors 20th anniversary.
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It's evolved tremendously over the years, but the common thread has always been about innovation. If you're in our feedback community you may have seen us using the codename Ada for our current development work. That's in honor of Ada Lovelace. A long time ago, she asked what it would mean if machines could do more than just solve math problems. She imagined a new approach to programming that led to modern day computer science and enabled us to solve much bigger problems in a flexible way. She was the first computer programmer and a fantastic Inventor. And I'd like to share some things that we're up to in the product to carry forward that spirit of innovation.
Let's start with investments that we've made in the connected experience. One of the best things about working on Inventor is working with you. Sometimes we meet online, sometimes at events like AU, sometimes at our offices, and sometimes at yours. And we love how you always tell us what you think and exploring the what ifs together. The connections we've made are shaping every Inventor release. You wanted tolerance and manufacturing information in the 3D model so model based definition is now deeply integrated and available to everyone.
We heard you wanted to handle more complexity so we added things like solid sweep that enable you to design things that do that. You're using sheet metal in new ways where more complicated shapes need to be flattened into patterns, so we delivered the ability to flatten and nest anything. And frame design is still one of the biggest needs out there so we integrated end caps, new selection tools, and automatic naming to get you to a completed design faster. We delivered all that and hundreds of other things the past few years guided by your input.
But it isn't just the new features that are evolving. We're modernizing the entire experience, including things you use all the time. This is the hole command. The old one is on the left, the new one on the right. We explored hundreds of ideas with you to get there. So it has presets for settings that you use all the time. It has sketching built in so you can place holes on the fly. And it's faster. Testing shows that click counts and hole creation times are down more than 30%.
And you can see why with the eye tracking data. The new command on the right is streamlined. You flow from top to bottom with less distraction. So the new look is not just about the pixels on the screen. The changes are there to make you faster. You'll see updates like this throughout Inventor, whether it's the improvements we just saw or fresh new dark theme that looks fantastic and feels right at home alongside your other favorite apps.
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Or a flexible panel that lets you search through properties in your assemblies in real time. Or the ability to branch out multiple windows across your screens, kind of like you can in a web browser, to get the most out of your workspace. Inventor is evolving to make you faster and you'll see it adapting to the way you work along with our other products.
And it goes deeper than that. Under the hood, we're modernizing the code to help the software itself run faster, too. That's because you're putting more and more and your models. More manufacturing details, more supplied parts. It's not unusual to see an Inventor model with over a million components. Sometimes we see more than two million.
So we've been supercharging the graphics engine which now dynamically adjusts resolution as you work. Kind of like the behavior you see in Google Maps. There's now smarter drawing updates, multicore translation, and fluid 3D sectioning and visibility controls. It's all there to help you handle these massive models. So in addition to what you see on the screen, you'll feel the underlying code getting faster and faster.
Now, in many companies automation is providing huge returns on just a handful of product lines. But imagine, what if you could apply it to your whole portfolio? What if you could design and make any product anywhere? We see a lot of you asking these questions and now there are new options to help you unleash the power of Inventor automation on the cloud.
Forge is the platform where we're making the best of Autodesk technology available for you to build on and combine in new ways. So Inventor is now there, along with many other services, to help you automate at scale. So take the automations that you've built on the desktop and then reimagine what they could do for you in the cloud with tremendous compute power and connections that extend upstream and downstream.
You can take an Inventor model, with all the parametrics, the manufacturing information, and the intelligence that you've built in and then deploy it in a totally customized experience. Modify the design, extract build material, generate drawings, and exchange data with your ERP and CRM systems. You can now extend and scale your Inventor automation in the cloud on any device anywhere in the world.
The connections and automation we've been talking about are also leading to something bigger. We know that strong networks drive dramatic business growth. So we're also investing in capabilities that will help you network, both within your team and with your customers.
Now, many of you design products that go into buildings. Some make custom equipment that's tailored for each project, and in these cases, you want your customers to think of you as an integral part of their supplier network.
So let's imagine a large building project. Everyone involved wants partners they can trust, and they don't want things getting lost in translation. That's a project delay and a cost penalty that they would have to pay. But what if an architect or general contractor could choose a custom fabricator that could design directly on the building model rather than a copy? What if they could iterate on the design together while always staying in sync?
We're working on a way to directly reference building information models inside Inventor. Revit BIM projects can be referenced in without translation and narrowed down to exactly what you need with the right context so you can do your detailed design work directly on the building.
Now, our architect in this example could be using Revit in a different company. Maybe she's even on a different continent. And we all know that at some point, a change will have to be made. But with BIM 360, we see that when that happens, the change can be reflected everywhere. The building updates in Inventor, that custom canopy also updates, the simulations update, the manufacturing drawings and tool paths update, all staying in sync through this strong network.
We see network opportunities between companies and we see them between departments. Your designers need to stay in lockstep, purchasing needs quotes, the shop floor needs to build the right thing, and quality helps ensure it's built right. Data process and people have to be tightly connected, which is why we've also been working on connecting Vault and Fusion Lifecycle.
Vault is product data management for Autodesk design. It's deeply embedded in our design tools and understands that data better than any other tool out there. Vault even has Inventor and AutoCAD technology inside so it can manage references, extract, build material, and run automations. Fusion Lifecycle, that's our PLM solution. We made it lightweight and flexible because it needs to go beyond your design department, reaching a broad network of quality people, salespeople, and others. They're not all in the design department, but they need access to that bill of material and other critical data to drive the whole process. We're connecting them so you get the best of both with a single source of truth throughout the lifecycle of your product. Vault organizes and controls the design data and Fusion Lifecycle extends beyond design to drive efficiency upstream and downstream. All connected.
So, stepping back to the question, what if. What if you could connect automate and network in new ways to change how you do business? Well, hopefully, you've seen a few things prompting new ideas about how you might design better. So I encourage you to ask those what ifs. And to help you consider what else might be possible, we have some updates to share in manufacturing as well with Fusion 360, because with these tools together you have the power to make anything. And with that, I'd like to welcome Steve Hooper.
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STEVE HOOPER: Great. Thanks, John. Awesome job. That was amazing. So good afternoon, everyone. It is great to be back at Autodesk University with you again. It is the best time of year because it's the time we get to spend with awesome customers like you.
You've seen some amazing customer examples from Airbus, Claudius Peters, and Greenhack. The work they do is on an unprecedented scale. Next, I want to transition to another great example of a phenomenal customer.
Let me introduce you to Festool, manufacturer of tools for the toughest demands. They stand for quality and are, as they say, the Lamborghini of the power tool world. They've recently chosen to work with Fusion 360 so I'm lucky enough to be able to represent their work with you here today. As you can see, their products are beautiful examples of form and function. They're the envy of every construction site worker.
It's an incredible achievement when you consider that Festool is celebrating its 90th anniversary and it's still a family run business. This is Barbara Austel. She's the granddaughter of Festool's original founder, Gottlieb Stoll, and Festool's leader today. Headquartered in Wendlingen, where there R&D operations are based, her company manufactures with a global network of over 3,000 employees.
Like us, her employees have a passion for the products that they build. They use their tools as much as their customers, and it shows. Because their customers are some of the most loyal fans that I've ever met. For example, I haven't yet met a Fusion customer who has a tattoo. But we are in Vegas so there's still an opportunity for those of you tonight that would like to get one done. There may even be a free subscription in it for you.
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Now, that's because Festool's a customer company. And it's not just their physical products that reflect that. When you buy a Festool product, you pay a premium price but you get a premium experience.
Take a step back for a moment and think of everything that's involved in delivering that experience. The process starts with conceptual ideation. Someone has to build and test these ideas before they move to 3D. Because their products are smart and connected, they also demand electronic design and validation before heading into production. And that production spans a global supply network involving electronics, machining, additive manufacturing, and injection molding. And we often forget what's most important at the center of this process, the people who have to coordinate their activities across geographies and time zones.
So that's why we built Fusion 360 and include in the collection because to move from a waterfall process to agile connected product development, their organization demands something new. The collection's not a single CAD tool or FEA product. It's not a Cam package or a PLM solution. It isn't one of those things. It's all those things.
So how does that change what Festool can accomplish and how they can compete more effectively? Festool are so committed to their customers they'll guarantee a replacement if a product is stolen. The problem is, the products like the miter saw that you see behind me, are so desirable they're often the target of theft, and that's costing Festool money. This is where technology can enable a customer focused business model because Festool intend to add biometric security in the form of a thumbprint scanner to that device.
So how can we help them with this? Well, it starts by putting data at the center of that process. This allows us to achieve three core objectives. First, we can connect the tools necessary to build a unified product definition so that everyone is contributing to the same source of data. Secondly, it allows us to automate that process with generative design so users can explore thousands of manufacturable concepts. And finally, we can network this data with the supply chain. It's the future of making and I want to share some exciting progress with you.
Let's start by talking about what we've done to connect this process. One thing all smart products have in common is that they all include electronics. The problem is, no one's ever built a single electromechanical design platform until now. Today, I'm excited to announce a completely integrated electronic experience within Fusion 360. And it doesn't just stop at design. Our philosophy for Fusion 360 is to connect design and manufacturing. Today, I'm going to show you how we've done that, not just with mechanical design, but now also with electronics.
In this example, we'll start with an industrial design for the miter saw. Fusion provides full support for free form surfacing with T splice. This allows users to blend industrial designs and detail engineering. That engineering geometry can be referenced in a completely integrated electronics workspace. We'll start with an existing schematic for a similar sensor, but we'll use the new space envelope to lay out the components. Fusion's new electronics workspace also provides access to automated routing to connect those board components together.
And because all of this is defined in a single cloud based data model, any changes made to the board are automatically reflected in 3D. Now, that's critical because that allows us to converge the worlds of design and manufacturing. Because each of the boards traces are a physical piece of geometry, we can use this data to drive tool pathing and that allows us to meld prototypes of the PCB for testing without ever having to leave the Fusion environment.
But it doesn't stop there. We've also included thermal simulation as an integrated part of the workflow. This allows us to specify heat syncs on the board, like the two chips that you see, and define a study to look at thermal convection across the board's surface. And then we can push that setup to the cloud for on demand simulation. The user can interact with the results directly in the context of the design. And as you can see, there's a problem with the chips being too close together. They're overheating.
Now, normally, that change would create huge coordination problems between multiple products. But in Fusion, we can simply return to the mechanical workspace, change the board's housing, and because the electronics are based on the same data model, we can enable multi monitor support and watch each chip move on the layout simultaneously reflected in the 3D model. This even includes the board traces that are automatically recalculated. Now, that's important because it means all our data, including manufacturing instructions, are constantly up to date. A change made anywhere is truly reflected everywhere.
I want to pause for a moment because this is truly revolutionary. This is the first integrated solution for smart product development that has ever existed.
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I'm glad you like it. I don't know what I would have done if you didn't. And while we're on the subject of manufacturing, let me share with you what we've been up to since we met last year. Now, we've taken technologies behind PowerMill, FeatureCAM, and Netfabb and integrated them into Fusion 360. This means Fusion 360 now provides a single platform for integrated hybrid manufacturing.
With Fusion you have access to a full suite of subtractive capabilities. Let's start by taking a look at turning. Now, we've introduced can cycle support for profile roughing operations and we've added adaptive turning to ensure consistent tool engagement no matter what the geometry. In addition, we've improved our four access strategies to include rotary support for mill turn machines, and of course, we can evaluate all our work with integrated stock simulation.
In addition, we've added support for 2 and 1/2 to 5 axis milling with powerful capabilities, like adaptive clearing. We've also introduced the Delcam machining kernel and it's enabled us to add brand new machining strategies, like steep and shallow, that can machine all faces on a part with a single strategy while maintaining exceptionally high levels of surface finish in a full multiaxis environment, including collision avoidance. On top of that, we've introduced automations like hole drilling from FeatureCAM that support feature recognition across the model to improve your productivity. And of course, validation is just as important as programming. Here in the simulation environment, you can see roughing operations in blue, where green shows finishing cycles.
Finally, we've added probing from PowerInspect to support surface inspection, allowing you to close the loop on your manufacturing operations. We're bringing all elements of manufacturing together on the Fusion 360 platform.
And that takes me to hybrid manufacture. Now, Fusion 360 isn't just a CAM tool. It includes full additive capabilities that start with design. So I am super excited to preview a new volumetric kernel that can handle massively complex geometry previously impossible to compute. It can even interact with the lattices it produces to blend to a solid that we'll need to machine later.
We can also do things like take the output of stress analysis and use it as a function to drive the thickness of the lattice structure so there's more material where stress is higher and less where it's lower. All of this is combined with traditional modeling tools so we can support the additive manufacturing process in ways previously unimaginable. And because Fusion 360 is manufacturing workspace is hybrid, we can select an appropriate additive printer, position the product on the print bed, develop support structures, and even start to simulate the metal centering process so we can predict any shrinkage or wall pitch that might occur as part of that process.
And of course, there is no such thing as additive manufacture without subtractive finishing. So you can use all of the milling and turning tools I showed you earlier to finish machine your part.
As you can see, Fusion's evolved to become a true product development platform. But having connected these technologies, it's what you can accomplish through automation where things start to get really interesting. Because when you have a single platform that is aware of manufacturing constraints, combined with an ability to automate the production of geometry, you can start to embrace the full power of generative design.
Now, last year we unveiled the work we were doing in generative design on 2 and 1/2 axis manufacturing constraints. I'll come back to that in a moment. But first, I want to introduce a new partnership with aPriori. As Greg explained, aPriori are a provider of cloud-based DFM technology that can accurately predict manufacturing costs. They've joined our manufacturing platform and I am really excited to announce their integration into our generative design pipeline.
Let's start by taking a look at the base on the miter saw. As it's portable, we want to make it as strong and as light to carry as possible. So we begin this process by defining the areas of geometry we want to preserve, shown in green. Next, we define the loading conditions, the part we'll operate under, as well as the supports it will be fixed by. We then specify the objective we want the part, or design, to achieve, either a factor of safety or a maximum deflection.
This is only half of the picture. We also need to specify the constraints of the manufacturing process. As you can see, what we discussed last year is now available in production. We can constrain everything from 2 and 1/2 axis through to 5 axis milling and die casting. Finally, we can define a range of materials before sending the generative design problem to the cloud where thousands of potential solutions are generated in the same period of time it would take a human to produce just one.
And we've also improved this process by employing machine learning to group similar strains of results together. But that's not all. Now thanks to the partnership with aPriori, we can help informed choice with predicted cost of manufacture based on their cloud service. We can compare, contrast the results, and once we've narrowed down the selection, we can pass it back to the design work spaces editable geometry.
Unlike any other solution on the market, this gives us fully editable parametric results from our generative study. We can even edit sketch geometry so that the designer and the machine can work together to define the ideal solution. And of course, it's fully machineable using our 2 and 1/2 axis milling strategies that we showed you earlier. We can even compensate for tool wear as part of the machining process. As you can see, it's now becoming very hard to distinguish the machine design from the human design. This is the future of making.
But our partnerships don't stop there. As Greg, Andrew, and Ajei discussed, ANSYS and Autodesk are partnering to build better workflows. The generative design study we just produced was structurally validated and optimized for manufacture, but it didn't take into account infrequent vibration and the fatigue that that can induce over months and years of use on a construction site. And that's where ANSYS Mechanical and a direct integration from Fusion come in.
So let's start with the generative base plate we just created. The integration with ANSYS allows us to directly exchange the materials, constraints, loading conditions, and geometry with ANSYS Mechanical. Once imported, we can leverage the full spectrum of ANSYS solvers to look at a variational loading and vibration problem over a period of time. So the graph that you see depicts loading over weeks of infrequent usage and highlights how this can cause critical fatigue on elements of the design.
This partnership allows ANSYS open access to the Fusion data model. It's a platform integration between market leading vendors that creates extremely high value for everyone in this room.
And that brings me to networking. None of us work alone or in isolation. In the same way you want technology like Fusion 360, Inventor, aPriori, and ANSYS to work together seamlessly, you want to bring people together regardless of their organizational boundaries. And that's why a single centralized cloud data model that can describe your entire product definition, including the manufacturing processes, becomes an invaluable asset.
Networking is Fusion's strongest attribute, but it's about to get a whole lot better. Let me share with you what we're working on to deliver a new concurrent experience. What you're seeing is access to the complete product definition, including functional performance characteristics, manufacturing instructions, and any other related data. It can also be extended by partners like aPriori to include things like costing information.
But it's how people interact with this data that really matters. So let me introduce you to my colleague, Bryce. Now, Bryce is working on the sheet metal aspects of our design, but he now needs to collaborate with our manufacturing colleague whose based in the UK. Bryce can accomplish this by inviting her to the project and explaining what he needs with the use of a red line markup that's stored as part of the cloud data model that everyone on this project has access to.
So now let me introduce you to Marty. She's based in Birmingham in the UK. You can see her screen on the right of the display with Bryce's on the left. She can access Bryce's comments and respond to his request. As you can see, her avatar on the side screen let's Bryce know she's active in the manufacturing workspace while she can see he's still working in design. She can now use Fusion's nesting tools to lay out the sheet metal components he's produced and built the manufacturing instructions.
As she's doing so, she can see Bryce has now moved to the simulation workspace, which may indicate he's about to make a design change. Bryce can see that the part will fail under its loading conditions. So he makes a change to include some new flanges. But because both of them are working concurrently on the same cloud data model, Marty can consume Bryce's changes, updating her nest and manufacturing instructions. Again, as I said earlier, a change made anywhere is reflected everywhere, and that now even includes nestive manufacturing instructions. With Fusion 360, data management is built in. It just works.
So today, I have three calls to action for you. For Connect, if you like what you've seen, I've got good news for you. You all have access to it via your collection as an Autodesk subscriber. Activate your entitlement and start to explore electronics and advanced hybrid manufacturing as a complement to what you're doing with Inventor and AutoCAD.
For automation I've got more good news. We're granting every subscriber free unlimited use of generative design until the end of this year. So explore what you can do with generative design in your organization.
Finally, explore the potential for networking. You've just seen how powerful collaboration is. Let me illustrate it to you one last time. Everyone in this room is part of our value chain, and I've just invited you all to take a look at our newest power tool. You should have just received a notification via the AU app to explore that design with me. So when we're finished in this session, take a look and let us know what you think via the red line.
Over the past 20 minutes, I've shown you integrated electronics, schematics, PCB manufacturing, thermal analysis, five axis milling, turning, volumetric latticing. I've shown you additive print simulation, laser centering, generative design, casting integration to answers. I've shown you a cloud based concurrent engineering system and nesting. And all that has been added in the last year. Just imagine where we'll be this time next year. To find out, I'll look forward to seeing you all back here at Autodesk University 2020. Thank you very much.
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