Speed Up Your Automotive Interior Design Workflows with Alias and Autodesk Fusion 360

FLORIAN COENEN: So hello, and welcome to my presentation about the interior design workflow with Alias and Fusion. In this class, I will tell you how you can work furthermore with Alias, with your Alias data, using Fusion workflows, and even if you are in an early stage in your design process. Like in the concept phase, where you would maybe work with SubDs, for example, you can leverage Fusion to speed up your decision making and your design process.

Let me jump into the presentation. But first of all, I want to show you quickly our safe harbor statement. My name is Florian Coenen, and I'm working as a technical marketer at Autodesk. What is a technical marketer doing? One of the most visible things you would recognize is that I'm doing the What's New videos for Alias and for VRED, which you can see, then, on our YouTube site, and maybe you see them on social channels like LinkedIn or whatever.

My background-- my background is industrial and transportation design, where I'm working since more than 20 years, already. Man, time is flying. I can remember that I was starting to work with Alias on the Silicon Graphics Unix machines back in the days. And since more than 10 years, I'm working now at Autodesk, and I'm based in Munich in Germany.

I'm also doing content creation as a technical marketer. So I'm creating data sets, example scenes, demo scenes that partners are using that we are showing to you guys. And if you are interested, you can follow me on LinkedIn, on Instagram, or Behance if you want to. So there, you can see most of the content that I'm creating, basically.

My presentation today will be mostly-- I'm using, mostly, the example of this concept track race car, which I called ETRAXX, that I have designed and built that a while ago. You might have probably seen already some other presentations or some What's New videos where you see this car. I also did a class last year in New Orleans, where I did an introductional presentation about how I was building up that car, what kind of workflows I'm using. So maybe that might be interesting for you.

Here is quickly another shot of the car, another impression. And most of the time, I'm using-- because you see it already on the title-- we're talking here about interior design. So most of the time, I'm using parts of this interior as examples to show you workflows in Fusion and also an Alias.

So here's a quick agenda. First of all, I'm talking about the why and what. And then I'm going also in live demo. So I'm showing you-- I'm demoing as much as possible live in the software. So I'm showing you how to prepare Alias data for Fusion, and then how to prepare the data in Fusion 360 for solid modeling. And then I'm going into some different examples of how to work with the data in Fusion.

Here's the little sub-agenda, then. I'm talking about Fusion solid modeling tools, which I found very quick and easy. I'm not going too much into detail. I just wanted to give you a little overview so that you're getting comfortable, maybe, with the UI in case you haven't seen the UI already and how easy it is to set something up.

Then I'm talking about Plastics-- the Plastic workflow. I'm creating Ribs and Bosses and Clips on a Plastic part. Also, I'm showing you how to do simulation-- simulation of a Plastic mold sim and a Static Stress, for example. Then I'm talking a little bit about additive manufacturing. So I'm preparing stuff for 3D printing. And also a subtractive, preparing the model for clay milling. I'm talking about that. And last but not least, I'm quickly, briefly talking about generative design, which I'm not going too much into detail.

All right, the why. Do we do that workflow? Why does it make sense to do this workflow? Because we can quickly create parts for engineering and quickly assembly and manufacturing options, and especially, even in a very, very early phase of the design-- so concept phase or so, as mentioned, where you're probably working only with SubDs.

So we can also create-- we can create, on a very early phase, a production cost estimation. For example, you're using these concept parts, and then you send them quickly do your engineering around it, and send it to a vendor, for example, to get, in a very early stage, your cost-- how much will that be? Is it too much? Is it in your area where you want to have it?

Then, obviously, we want to go into physical prototyping-- for economic studies, for example. As you can see here, in the interior, that makes perfectly sense, like a steering wheel, like a gear shifter or so, where it really makes sense to touch the parts. How does it feel? Is it too big? Is it too small or so? And we can use there additive and subtractive manufacturing, obviously.

We can also do simulation for getting quicker production and product insights. So how can it be produced? Is it even producible? Stuff like that. And we can also do a part optimization in Fusion. So let's say we try to reduce material-- the amount of material we are using, or the less-- wait. Oh, I see. I have done here a mistake, but that doesn't matter. How heavy is the material? How heavy is the part itself? And all of that stuff leads us to, basically-- this is the big header-- to reduce the time to market, obviously.

Here you see that on a schematic view, if that is a bit helpful for you. So at the iteration phase, we have so-and-so many different concepts. Some concepts, ideas are dying, some not. And with some, you are going into more evaluation. Checking out manufacturability. Then you validate everything until you can go into production. That's the normal way.

And with that, we can give you tools, also, in the early phase, where we are doing even more iterations, where we can play around with more alternatives, for example. And we can also iterate them a bit more. We can also validate them a little bit more. That leads us, then, at the end to speed up our decision-making process, which leads, then, to a shorter time to go to production and shorter time to market.

All right, what are we doing in Fusion in the design process? We can transfer Alias data directly into Fusion and go into the solid-modeling space. We are using advantages of the solid modeling. There's two under subcategories I like very much, also, in the design area.

I'm creating sometimes details for visualization in the concept design phase with solid modeling. Sometimes solid modeling has some advantages. It's sometimes a bit faster for me. When thinking about that, I'm getting very often asked, when is the time to switch from Alias, which is a surface modeler, into solid modeling? And I always say that really, really depends on how-- let's say-- how your skill set is, how advanced you are with one or the other technique. So it's a very unique and individual thing.

Also, obviously, we can create, then, parts for engineering, checking assemblies, and manufacturing concepts. We can engineer the parts, also, in an early concept phase, like Plastic workflows, CAM workflows, all this stuff. We can do physical model making, for example clay milling or 3D printing.

And then, obviously, also very important, we can, in this phase already, directly in Fusion, we can use simulation for validating our parts. We can do a stress test, for example, or we can check how this part can be produced in a mold simulation. And we can use generative design for design optimization.

All right, the example I'm using here today is the steering wheel, which you recognized already, of the ETRAXX car. Obviously, as the steering wheel, it could be a very complex assembly itself. And, also, it needs to be touched. So this example can demonstrate all kinds of workflows because there are so many different parts on it.

OK, first of all, the question is, how do I get from Alias into Fusion? So everything starts, basically, in Alias. In that case, I'm using a SubD model to demonstrate that we can do a very complex workflow even with concept models in a very early design stage.

So, first of all, I'm showing you two topics in Alias. The topics are exporting single unstitched parts and exporting stitched full assemblies. And now, I will start to show you that in Alias live. I hope you can see my screen.

So this here is the steering wheel. This is the assembly or the SubD model. I'm picking quickly the object here. Hang on. Let me quickly delete that. So here we have a SubD model. Oops. I deleted the wrong part, obviously. Hang on. No, it was just on another layer.

So here, as you can see, we are using here SubDs. And I modeled this just as a rough concept. So it's not a too complicated model right now. The question is now how to get into Fusion. And the first thing is, what I wanted to do is-- it's basically pretty simple.

I can just go to Export Active. I'm selecting just the single part. Just in that case here, it could be the outer leather part of that, for example. And here, you see I'm just using a wire file. So we are using just the single wire files. Normally, I would say, when the part is not too complicated, I'm tending normally to save the single parts out as single wire files. And I can explain that to you later on why this makes sense.

But you can also do it the other way around. I believe it really depends on how your workflow is, how your parts are, how difficult it is, how complex it is. I would say in this case, a steering wheel could be extremely complex. Of course, in my case, I only have six or seven parts. That's easy going.

So this is the first thing what I'm doing. I'm doing a File Export, Save Selected, Export Active As. And I'm just exporting here the SubD models-- the single ones-- and uploading them later to Fusion. What we also can do is, we are going into to Surface Edit-- hang on-- Stitch, and we're stitching everything together-- not everything, we're stitching the single object. So in this case, just this part, we are stitching that together. So we don't want to stitch all the objects into one part-- absolutely not.

And then you have a stitched shell like I have done here already. So these are all stitched parts. And you do exactly the same. You saying, Select Object. You're selecting your part. Say Export Active As. And you can do this. And I'll show you the differences with single parts or what you want to do then. Sometimes, as well, you're taking the complete assembly, everything stitched together. So we have 2, 4, 6, 7 different objects now-- or Shells-- which I created in Alias and exported them as wire files.

All right, this is it. Let me jump back quickly to my PowerPoint presentation so we have a little bit of guidance here-- and me as well. So the next thing is, how do I put this stuff-- these files, this data-- into Fusion? How to upload it and how to use the Stitching tool and to create a solid infusion itself. And I'm showing you this, as well, in a live demo.

So let's say you want to bring that into Fusion. And normally, what you see here, this is an untitled file. And you go here to this little data panel icon. And here you see, basically, your structure, your hierarchy, where you are in in your project. You can create a new folder, and you can upload something.

So I'm doing an Upload. You select the file. And here is, basically, for example, the assembly, the complete stitched assembly, or only the frame stitched. I'm not transferring, now, all the data, just some single parts as an example for you.

And then you just double click on it. No? It's hanging a little bit. It's freezing. Okey dokey, it's coming. Oh, hang on. This is Fusion. And here is the Upload window. So you see here, already, my file in it. You can also drag and drop the files into this area. You can also drag and drop or select multiple files. And then you just click on Upload. And then what is it doing? It it's uploading into this folder-- into the current folder-- your stuff. And I have done this already here.

So let's say I'm using for you the Steering Frame unstitched. So this is basically the red part here, which should be, maybe, a sort of a-- let's say it could be a metal frame or so. And I'm double clicking on it to open it up.

And what you see here, so this is the part that is coming in it. It looks like it has all the SubDs, which we have created in Fusion-- in Alias already. And here in the browser, it looks like that. So we have here a complete bunch of single surfaces all the way down. And it's a very long list.

So it's not really structured, which is a little bit of a pity. And I'm telling you, we are aware of that, that we don't have here a hierarchy. But we have nice workflows to get around that. And I'm telling you later on why our workflows are still pretty easygoing.

So what I am doing here now, so this is the complete unstitched SubD model now. I want to leverage Fusion with solid modeling. But this is not a solid. So how do I get onto a solid? So you see here, solid workflow on here is Surface because we are now in the Surface workflows. And I'm selecting, basically, everything in one go. And that's the reason why I'm using-- why I like, especially on unstitched models, why I like to have single files because then I can select just with a Rectangular Selection my object.

And then here, you see the Stitch tool. And it's pretty fast-forward. You can put in here the Tolerance if you want to. In that case, as it's a concept model, I'm not taking care of that so much. I'm pressing OK. And you see here also there, I saw here a little error. And now, bam, I forgot here to model something in SubDs in Alias.

So I need to close that because this is still not-- you see here-- it's now one single body. So that's already much easier now. But it's not a solid. So how do I get to a solid? I'm going to Create. And here, you find the Patch tool. This is already here. In case it's not here, you'll find it here on this list, the Patch tool.

And it's pretty fast-forward. It finds instantly a closed loop. So if I'm hovering over it, it finds this closed loop. Zooming a bit closer to it so that you can see it. And it's done it. Next one, it finds the closed loop here as well. I can do a New Body out of it. And so we have now three bodies.

And I'm just repeating that stuff again. I'm selecting these bodies. I can also select them here on the left side if I want to stitch it. Press OK. And now I have a solid. Perfect. So this is, now I can go into full solid modeling workflow, which is great.

The other option is that you're using-- and I'm showing you this now-- I'm using exactly the same, the steering frame, but the stitched one, which we have stitched already in Alias. And as you can see here on the left side, we have already one object, which is great. So I don't need to stitch here everything.

Obviously, still, I forgot here, somehow, by mistake then, to close here this object. So I'm doing exactly the same. I'm patching that quickly together. That's really just three clicks, which I absolutely love. Selecting these three bodies again. Stitch it. Press OK, done. And we are back onto the solid modeling as well.

And I believe-- let me quickly go back to my presentation. So this is how you prepare them creating solids. And now I'm showing you a bit more deeper what is it doing. So what can we do here? So this is the sub-agenda.

I'm capturing-- I'm talking quickly about capturing design history on. What does that mean? Creating assemblies in Fusion, especially this example is very good because we have different parts which we want to assemble. Then I'm showing you solid modeling, how to create fillets, holes, split bodies. So not too much, but just to give you a little bit of impression.

The next thing is what I find very nice. So you can see that here, also, on the upper-right right side, I can create a plastic housing, like here this housing of this display. And that is pretty fast-forward and pretty easy. And you see already, it looks like it can be produced.

And this is-- just telling you, I'm an industrial designer. I'm not an engineer. I have absolutely not no clue-- not no clue-- but I'm not very good in-- I'm not an engineer. So I'm good in designing. But I find, especially, also these plastic workflows, I can work with that. So I can somehow define already my design as well, so where should be nuts and bolts and all that stuff.

So I can create rips and snaps. I'm talking about simulation-- a mold simulation for example. And I'm talking about manufacturing, how to prepare for additive manufacturing, like 3D printing. This is what I wanted to have. I wanted to print out, in a very early stage, my steering wheel quickly, maybe a preassembled thing, so just one piece to get the rough proportions. Or I want to print out single parts already to check, am I able to assemble it even? Then I'm talking about preparing for clay milling and briefly about generative design.

All right, solid modeling. So now I'm showing you quickly some solid modeling tools and demonstrate you how easy that is. And therefore, I'm going into Fusion again. I believe I have opened up already the other example. This is basically this bracket on the back. I'll quickly show you the complete part again. So here, it basically holds the display housing and the steering wheel together. This could be, let's say, a metal part, if we want to.

So, OK, like I see here, I have here also a body, but it is not a solid because I have here, still, also, open parts. Quickly close them, 1, 2, 3, 4. Press OK. Select all of them. Stitch them. Hit Enter. Done.

And now, for example, I find, now, we can switch. We have now-- you see this also on this icon here. We have now a Solid. This body is a Solid. And therefore, we can switch into this Solid tab here, this Solid workflow. And especially here for Modify, I don't want to create right now something. I can create something. Everything normally starts with a Sketch.

I think you probably know this. I have created already. So not to make it too complicated or too long to shorten the time up, I have created already a Sketch. For creating a Sketch, you need to create sort of a plane where to Sketch on. This can be a geometrical plane or a construction plane.

And the first thing I want to do is to-- let's say I want to visualize it, just for visualization purposes. I want to add a radius onto all that stuff. Here's the Fillet tool. And it recognizes instantly loops or not. So let's say I'm creating here and here and here my fillets. And here, with this arrow, I can simply adjust it a little bit like I want to do. Or I'm going to Numerical. Oh, I'm here in centimeters. No clue why I'm doing a centimeter here. Normally it should be something else.

And press OK. And that's basically it. OK, I could have done this on the other side, but I believe you can imagine. And I'm doing this again here with, let's say-- that here, I'm doing 0.1 millimeter. Press Enter. Done. And I have already a very nice and so on. So you have already a very nice object, which is also cool for visualization because it looks a little bit more realistic.

In VRED, for example, what you guys probably know, in the Design Studio, we can get around it by using a Material option called Rounded Edges. But this also-- this always gives definitely much nicer reflections.

And then I can start to optimize it a little bit more. So let's say, oh, this is a big part. I want to lighten it up. I want to make the weight a little bit lighter. So I'm just going into this Extrude. And as I have already my sketches, I can just simply click on it. Click on that. Click on that, maybe on the other side as well if I want to. There's also an option to Mirror it if you want to.

And then here's this little arrow. And I can extruded a little bit. And some options, I don't want to go into detail with them. I mean it's more self-explaining. You can do one side or symmetrical or two sides if you want to. And then the Distance and the Operation. In that case, I don't want to have Join. I want to just simply like it is. Just cut that. Cut it out. Done.

And then let's say I'm doing here are some other operations with some more fillets. Or maybe with, let's say, I can create a chamfer here right here on the back. Maybe if you to have here a sort of a screw with this conical head. I don't know the name right now.

Yeah, and that is basically it. So you can very quickly create your object. And now it looks already much more detailed or finalized or realistic, and all this within seconds from out of a SubD model. I find that very nice and very surprising that we can-- not really very surprising, the background is. We can use these SubD this because the SubDs are NURBS surfaces, what you know already, obviously. And they were basically translated easily. So that's good. We don't need to have any transfer or non-native format. We can use just our wire file.

And then we are done. Obviously, here under Create, we have a complete list of stuff like Loft and Sweep and Ribs. I'm talking about that later on. And here, so we can Split objects and Combine objects together, Align them, and all that stuff. I heavily recommend to you to use, maybe, a tutorial to get into it. But it's not so complicated, and I find it very straightforward to get into Fusion.

Yo! That is it about the solid modeling workflow. Let me go back into my presentation again. Plastic workflow, this is the next thing I'm showing you, how to create these ribs and snaps and bosses with this Plastic workflow. This is a new, not-so-new tool, but we have done some nice updates to it.

And I'm going directly again into Fusion and show you that. Let me just quickly see if I can-- clicking on Don't Save here to close here some. And I want to go into another layer. Okey dokey. Here's that housing.

This is basically it. And the only thing that I have done right now already-- and you can see this here on this History. And this is good that I'm talking about that. I forgot to talk about that. This is the first thing that I wanted to talk about is, as soon as you are starting to do your modeling, your solid modeling workflows, then you-- OK, maybe I'm doing that here. Then you want to switch to the Capture Design History option.

That is normally default off when I'm importing different CAD files. That has different reasons because we can use also different workflows. Not every workflow is with Capture Design History available. So therefore, in that case, it's off. And we want to have it put on.

And as you can see here now, we are creating here right now a sort of a list. I have done this now by mistake too late. But I can show you on this side, for example, let's say I want to-- I'm creating here again some fillets. And you see this feature now appears here in my-- sort of a timeline, which is very cool because I can switch back. And say, I'm going to here, of course, imagine you have a timeline of 50 features. You can suppress also things or delete them.

So I can simply delete this feature, and it's gone. So it's very, very easy. But keep in mind, don't forget to-- like me right now-- don't forget to capture the design history. That can be very helpful. It's not a critical thing if you forget it, but I strongly recommend that to you.

All right, the first thing, what I have done here, I have prepared already some bits. I have created here-- and this is what I can show you now. I can go back with my history I've created. Let me go even more back. This is my start. This is basically how I have imported and stitched together, more or less-- it's not a solid. Therefore, more or less, I stitched together what whatever I can, that complete housing. And this is also just the SubDs.

So with the next step I want to create a thickness onto it because it has some thickness. And this is basically the tool, the Thicken tool. So this is here already done. And I can hide, then, the original body. And we have already a plastic-- the start of our plastic part.

All right, we want to go now into Plastic modeling. First of all, we are doing a setup, which I have done here already. Let me delete that quickly. Can I even delete that? I am not even sure right now. I believe not. And remove Plastic Rule.

So, OK, I'm assigning a Plastic Rule to it. So this object is treated as a plastic part. And this is done completely automatically. We have here some Plastic Rules, some Presets already, like Nylon, ABS, Nylon, whatever. I'm using just this Default one. And I have to select my component-- this one, bam. Press OK. And I'm now in this Plastic workflow.

What I have prepared already for you guys so that you don't fall asleep, that it's not too boring, I created already some construction planes and also some sketches. I don't want to explain you how to sketch. That is pretty much self-explaining.

I have hidden here also some sketches. Let me put all of them on. And I might, maybe, put off-- you can see, that was the wrong one. I have split already here that body. Let me go back, use the Split. I can also go into that feature, Edit feature. And I have selected the body, and I have selected the Splitting tool. In that case, that Splitting tool is-- let me delete that again. That Splitting tool is a Construction Plane, which I might, maybe, have hidden. Exactly.

This is the right Construction Plane here. And with that being said, I am already-- I have now splitted up my bodies and created here some other sketches, which I show you, then, later on. Maybe, let's hide that again. And I'm hiding the top part of the body so that we can see here into the inner part of the housing.

All right, the first thing I find absolutely amazing for me as a designer, I have absolutely no idea about how to create ribs and all that stuff. But I find it so easy. For example, these boss connections. I'm just opening this boss connection. And I just want to have sketch points.

So I have created a sketch already with some points. You see here these points. I'm doing just one in that case. And what you can see, it gives me already a very nice representation and preview of the boss that I'm using. And here, that's very interactively. I can obviously play around with the dimensions. As you can see, it's so interactively. So it recognizes, really, my complete housing, and does pretty much everything automatically for me. That speeds up your workflow massively. I find that absolutely awesome.

I can also widen this up. And if you want to get really advanced, you have here all the parameters. Everything is here as a parametric model. You can change, basically, every single detail on it.

Even better, I'm showing you now the other body. And the other body is also recognized. So you see, basically, this Boss tool is recognizing the complete plastic part itself. And you see here the other side with the screw on it, I say, so, OK, I want to have the screw, obviously, not on the front because this would be my front where I have the display. I want to have it on the back.

So, OK, I can easily use this arrow, change the direction. Changing the direction, also adjusting it a little bit like this screw. I don't want to have that screw head so much out. I want to have, maybe, the screw just until here. If I want to, I can choose between different screw heads. So there's really a ton of different options.

I definitely don't want to go into detail with that. I just want to give you the impression how easy it is to make these parts. And let's say I want to create another boss. And press OK. And that's basically it already. And you see, I have here already something that looks very realistic and manufacturable already. Very nice.

OK, next one would be, then, I'm creating these ribs for you. A rib, that is always a thing in the housing. So let's say I have here one in the middle, and I want to-- hang on-- to hide the other object again-- the top object so that I can have it a little bit more visible.

And what does it need? Again, it wants to have the pull direction. The pull direction is basically the kind of surface or area where it wants to get pulled. And Pull Direction, I might maybe change the pull direction or flip the direction. And it creates this rib already for me instantly. And as you can see, it creates already the fillet for me. That's absolutely awesome.

I can also do, if I want to, a draft angle onto it. I'm pressing OK. Let's create another one, maybe this here. Also pull direction-- no, hang on. Draft Pull Direction, Select this one. And it has created already instantly the thing. And here, you see it's very interactive. And I can play around with it, obviously. Now it's getting a little bit unrealistic, and obviously, some when it can't create that anymore.

And what I can also do is, let's say, here's the Thickness. I can also put the thickness into. Let's say I'm using the Distance. Distance, Depth is now, let's say 2 millimeters. And it has created something like that for me. Obviously, I believe this doesn't make sense right now like it is, but it just gives you some more options. So definitely it could be, in some circumstances, pretty helpful.

And, yeah, that's it. Obviously, you can see here, I have some other sketches where I want to-- can create some ribs. You can imagine that I can do that now. And I want to show you quickly another tool, the Snap Fit tool. I find that also very awesome to show.

So let me quickly go hide this. So I want to-- the Snap Fit wants to have also a point. And I have created here already a point onto that area. And it creates, already, instantly, this snapper for me. Obviously, it's in the wrong direction.

I can also put here this rotation angle. Let's say it's 90-- oops, I pressed by mistake Enter, so I disabled the tool, or I went out of this tool. But you can see, it has created this snap. Let me go into this tool again. Of course, I wanted to Edit the feature again. And here, I can play a little bit around with it. And it has created, as soon as-- I hope so-- this snap to me. Maybe I need to do it again. Something was missing here. Maybe rotate it a little bit more.

And I see now, I'm not 100% sure. Maybe I have done it by mistake. Hang on. No, it has created this snap, which is pretty awesome. So everything in one go. And within this tool, you can also edit everything, whatever you want to. So like here, the complete geometry of this snap is here in Parameters. So you can go, definitely, very much into customization to make it fit to your needs, basically.

And that is it. And when you're finished with it, I have then, basically, something like this here. Let me close that again, and maybe put here this one off and this little-- what is it called-- it's a sort of a PCB board or so. Where is that? Hang on. This PCB place-- no, this must be the glass here.

And this could be the ready-made part. So I would say this looks already pretty realistic and pretty manufacturable. And you can do this with the-- I find this absolutely stunning that I can do this with the SubDs in a very, very early concept phase.

And then it goes further on. So you can see, OK, can I assemble it? How can I do this? Where do I need to put-- like for example, here-- some additional holes in to screw the housing against this bracket or so? How can I create some buttons like these ones to get some extra additional functionalities to it? So all these buttons are basically done exactly the same like I have cut out the bracket back or so, and I just cutted out some stuff one or the other way around.

So I Copied and Pasted it, two objects. And one is cut out with an inverted functionality. I guess you can imagine how to do that. I don't want to go too much into detail there. But it looks already, from my eye, pretty OK.

And I would say, let's say you or your engineer, in that case, can do now go to the vendor and say, oh, you give me a cost estimation, for example? Or what we can do now, and what I show you then in a second, is how to validate and check if it's manufacturable or not.

Let me quickly go back into the PowerPoint presentation so that we don't lose here anything. Exactly. And this is the mold study. I have done a video for you guys in that case. But I'm trying to show you this live-- steering housing. And this is here my part, where I've run already.

I'm not running a simulation right now. But I'll show you how the studies are because the simulation that we are doing is basically uploaded to the cloud. So we're using cloud computing here. And it could take a while. So therefore, I have done already some studies for you.

I'm closing this one, and I'm going into this first study. Here we have a study. But I'm showing you how to-- so that you get a feeling of how to go into this studying mode.

Let's say we are here. So this is our status. We are here in this design workflow. Especially, we have done here this plastic workflow. And now we want to check and validate, how can this be produced? How can I do a simulation of a injection molding?

Therefore, I'm going into Manufacture-- no, sorry, Simulation. Manufacturing comes later. And then the first thing, when there is no study, the first thing that is popping up is what I'm doing here now manually. New Simulation, this is basically the first thing that you see. And here in this Simulation window, you can choose what whatever I want to simulate. I want to simulate static stress, frequencies, thermal things, thermal stress, injection molding simulation. This is basically what we want to.

And I'm just selecting this area, Create Study. And it created, already, here, this study-- Study 5, now, in this case. And as I can see here, Injection Locations. I have here already an injection location. So this is basically the injection location.

If I'm pressing Edit-- this is this little pen symbol-- another window is popping up. Injection Location, and when I select it, I can also shift that around wherever I want to. And it recognizes my complete mold already, my plastic part already. And I can change, basically, the position of it.

And I can also do-- let's say I want to have multiple injection locations. So I can click on this Plus symbol. Click here, click there. That's obviously very rough. You may want to have it very rough. I don't know. I'm pressing on Cancel because I have done this Study 1 already. And this Study 1 has already-- this is basically the default injection location. I'm clicking on to this one.

And I have done here already some results. And I'm just double clicking on to this Result thing. And now it changes into the simulation. It's fetching the results again. I hope this doesn't take too long. No, it seems to be pretty good. Here, it's still trying to get some more data. Let's wait for it.

And it gives me already some feedback. With these Study settings, your part will be difficult to fill with the time to fill of 1.06 six seconds and may have significant quality problems. Very nice. Obviously, not very nice, but it's good that I see that already. I'm getting a visual feedback already about-- this here is unlikely to fill.

So this red area here-- the outer areas-- is unlikely to fill most probably. And I'm absolutely also not-- I'm not a molding specialist. Maybe a molding specialist can tell you definitely much more. But it gives you already a sense of how this can work. And even me as, I'll say, as a stupid designer, can also go easily and quickly into this direction.

So I can go-- for example, I'm having a look onto these visual defects here. So, also, it gives me a feedback. Two faces on my model will have sync marks, and 38 faces will have weld lines. All right, this is definitely not what I want to. But here in this Display Mode, I have a ton of different visualizations of what is going to happen.

So, for example, front temperature, injection pressure, quality prediction. And everything gives you, basically, a very nice, quick, and easy visual feedback. The one that I definitely want to show you is the fill animation. And here I'm scrubbing, basically, the timeline. And you see by how it would look like in the tooling when the plastic will get injected.

OK, perfect. I'm finishing these results. I can show you, as well, then-- so let's say here this other study has already some more injection locations. Here, I have done six. You see here one, here one. And I've done this as a result as well. I've solved it already.

Oh, I wanted to show you quickly how to get to there. It's fetching it, but it's pretty quick. Let's wait a little second. It shouldn't take too long, like the other one as well. Here we go. And this is also showing you now the injection animation.

And this is quite interesting, now, how it has changed and how the red areas have been obviously changed. So probably this is a thing that my engineer or a team member who is an engineer in this area, a specialist, can tell me how to place, maybe, the injection points a little bit better so that I don't have at the end any issues anymore. And then we know or I have to change my design so that I-- let's say the thickness of the material or so, so that it's better moldable.

And I'm finishing this result. The first thing is, what you do here is, I'm going back to my first-- my Study 5, which I have started already. And this is it. But here are no results already. And this is what I wanted to do now. So I placed, now, my injection point. And now I wanted to calculate it.

And before I'm doing, that I'm doing a Pre-Check. Right mouse button, Pre-Check, and it says to me, "The study setup has all the information required." This is good because then you know, OK, it most likely it can be solved. It can be simulated. And I will get a result out of it.

And then I'm pressing OK. And I'm just clicking on to here and say Solve. I'm getting here this window now. This is the Study 5. And I'm pressing on Solve Study, and that's it. It will push everything uploaded to the cloud, and we do this cloud computing. This will take a while. Therefore, I will definitely not show you that because then we are falling asleep. And then after that, you see, basically, these results like here.

Yeah, and this is the simulation of the mold-- of the injection molding. Quite easy, isn't it? Quite fast-forward and very quickly done. OK, let me jump back to my presentation. Here is the video, just in case I haven't-- we have an error, I placed here a video.

OK, next thing is validation check models. I'm checking in this process. So as you can see, I have here also different parts as well. And I want to do another simulation, like, for example, this bracket that I have designed. This bracket can be-- I want to have a static stress test out of it. Is it stiff enough, for example? Or can I optimize it somewhere? And this is also quite fast-forward and pretty much the same already. I can show you that directly in Fusion.

Let's see if I have steering bracket imported. I'm not really sure right now on which one I have done this. The first thing what you need to do, you are in your design area, and you go to Simulation again. And you want to do a Static Stress Test in that case.

So you create this Study. And what you do here is basically, I want to have somewhere defined areas which are fixed and somewhere areas which I am defining as Objects where load goes in. So let's say I am-- and I can do this here, Constraints, Structural Constraints like this here. You saw it already.

This applies a fixed pinned frictionless geometry. So I want to have that. And I'm selecting this guy here, this guy there-- this is locked now, basically-- this guy here, this guy there. And that's basically it. I'm saying OK. So I have defined already my fixed areas.

I now want to have a structural load onto it. And a structural load, let's say this is the upper area where the steering wheel goes around or where the steering wheel is connected to. I wanted to have, then, this-- let's say-- this complete objects or surfaces here. That takes a little bit.