Using examples from recent student work at San Jose State University, this session will present a case study on how the introduction of CAD earlier in design workflow benefitted students with little or no design abilities. It will explore how students were able to ramp up quickly and remove the barriers to entry for learning the industrial design process. Incorporating Fusion 360 in the industrial design curriculum at San Jose State University was pivotal in expanding product development workflows in other emerging technologies that improved students' industrial design development success. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and 3D printing make it possible to maintain continuity in design development and evaluation conversations, while also reducing environmental impact through more sustainable, iterative practice

In this course, the Evangelist Team will share how Fusion 360 software and Autodesk Generative Design tools in Fusion 360 can be used as part of a design exploration strategy for industrial designers, expediting the process from conceptual development to product development, helping to make decisions on the design strategy and aesthetic directions of a product.

After graduating from their respective university courses, BAC founders Neill and Ian Briggs set up their own design/engineering consultancy, with Neill leading engineering activities and Ian heading up the design elements. The company was commissioned to work on major automotive projects with the likes of Porsche, Mercedes, Smart, AMG, Maybach, Ford and Bentley, but they also gained valuable experience with smaller brands, too. Over time, Ian and Neill would identify a gap in the market that they believed simply had to be filled – a single-seater, road-legal vehicle that focuses purely on the person behind the wheel and is totally uncompromised. Ian, Design Director for BAC, will walk users through the automotive design workflows and share his experiences on how software from Autodesk and workstation technology from HP, AMD, and NVIDIA, contributes to the Briggs brother's ability to turn their vision into reality.

Since 80% of carbon is already locked into a product by the decisions made at the design phase, making good design and manufacturing choices is key to producing products with lower carbon impact. However, today, designers and engineers lack the data and tools to inform their design and manufacturing decisions, all while new and upcoming regulations are forcing designers and manufacturers to produce their products in more-sustainable ways. To tackle this issue, this talk will introduce Autodesk's new Manufacturing Sustainability Insights tool. Created in partnership with Gravity Climate, this interactive manufacturing-impact exploration tool for Autodesk Fusion 360 will provide users with valuable insights into the carbon emissions associated with producing their designs via various manufacturing methods, enabling users to make better informed decisions that support sustainable manufacturing practices, resulting in better products for the planet.

More than six years ago, Soumil Goyal was first introduced to Autodesk products, and it sparked a passion for engineering, design, and manufacturing. Goyal is now a high school senior and has learned to use many Autodesk products, including TinkerCAD, Fusion 360, Inventor, and AutoCAD. In this session, Goyal will share a unique perspective as a young and enthusiastic learner and how we need to teach for the future of engineering. This modern engineering student's perspective will provide an insightful outlook into the best ways to continue advancing education to build the next engineers. Goyal will also share the best ways to teach engineering in the new technology revolutions, how Autodesk products can boost engineering, and why businesses and organizations should invest more in engineering education.

Generative Design technology in Autodesk Fusion 360 software is becoming a household name for those who want to achieve better engineering outcomes in less time. In this session, you'll get a look at how Generative Design technology in Fusion 360 has matured in 2023, and we'll take a deep dive into how these improvements will help enable your success in the future. In addition to our technology discussion, we will also review examples where Generative Design technology has played a role in helping customers achieve new levels of success.

King's College London relaunched it's Engineering department in 2019 with the aim of attracting students and staff to tackle new societal and technological challenges and change the world through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education. In this talk I will describe our journey towards a ‘create-first' programme pedagogy flipping the traditional Blooms triangle to deliver a horizontally and vertically integrated curriculum with design and make at the heart. We will reflect on the emerging benefits of scaffolding project-based learning with design and simulation and highlight the improved design, sustainability, and systems thinking skills seen in our students. Our deep-dive will focus on a first-year integrated design course where students work in teams to design, make, and operate a remote-control ship to collect floating waste in a water tank. Our project-based approach exposes students to a range of manufacturing methods. We have created a series of short workshops for 2D cutting, 3D printing, and three-axis milling and we will demonstrate how instructors can use the Fusion 360 API to automate the modelling of engineering components. In this project-based learning module 200+ students use Fusion 360 (and connections with Simulink and Arduino) to develop high fidelity digital twins of a design, build, and test project, while retaining the open-ended nature of design projects and maintaining a common digital thread throughout the experience.

3D Printing is a topic that everybody has heard of and has a general idea about. While 3D printing is around for years, the actual workflow, the processes and applications are known only by the experts. This talk is about the technology of Additive Manufacturing and how it is integrated into Fusion 360 and Netfabb for those who are new to this topic. We give a broad overview over the topics by picking examples of solutions, features, workflows, and machine integration. Covering 26 topics for each letter in the alphabet, keep the talk light and easy as speaker and co-speaker engage in a dialogue - the ABC of 3D Printing!

Event Simulation in Autodesk Fusion 360 is a powerful analysis tool that is intended to help you solve problems with complex contact, large motion and deformation, and nonlinear material. It can help confirm the acceptability of the model by including all the nonlinear effects that may be encountered during actual use: nonlinear large displacement, rubber-like material, nonlinear elasticity or plasticity, and contact. When it comes to practical use of simulation, users need to think about the assumptions and limitations of Event Simulation. This session will cover when not to use Event Simulation and then show how to use it correctly without failures and how to interpret the simulation outcomes.

Automated Modeling is a new tool in the Design Workspace that automates the process of exploring and creating new design concepts based on simple definitions of what to connect and what to avoid. Imagine simplifying your work-holding methods so that, within minutes, you're presented with several design alternatives of various shapes, styles, and complexity to use moving forward. Automated Modeling in Autodesk Fusion 360 is going to change the way you approach and explore new ideas for clever work-holding of complex parts for computer numerical control (CNC) machining.

If you want to produce mechanical drawings that are intelligent and easy to manage, this class is for you. You'll learn how to reuse intelligent mechanical objects across multiple drawings, and how to build and export a component database that integrates with your ERP system. Insert an automatic parts list with an exact count, and watch as the Bill of Materials (BOM) updates itself intelligently with new or modified mechanical components. In addition, you'll discover how to annotate more-accurate and consistent designs by accessing standardized symbols that automatically update when design changes are made. Want to insert standard-based title blocks with different scale factors? No problem. You'll also learn how to create and update designs by defining foreground and background objects, as well as how to automatically generate hidden lines with specific layer management. You'll acquire valuable skills to create mechanical designs with ease and efficiency, saving you countless hours.

Generative design is used as an optimization technique to achieve a reasonable trade-off between weight and reliability for the control arm plate of a double wishbone suspension assembly of a Formula Student race car. Generative design is applied in order to develop a low-weight design alternative to a standard control-arm-plate design. In addition to an optimal material distribution, the generative design methodology provides several design outcomes for different materials and fabrication techniques. Based on the generative design recommendation, the print was developed with Ti-6Al-4V using SLM 280 2.0, which deposits layers of 60 ?m thickness, by employing a bidirectional powder recoating technology. The entire printing process is conducted in an inert atmosphere, filled with argon gas, with two 400 W IPG fiber lasers that scan the layers at a build rate of 113 cubic cm/hr. And the support removal is conducted using wire cutting.

The class will show you an automotive interior design workflow. It will show how fast you can get to a physical prototype of an interior part. The workflow starts with quick concept modeling using Alias software. After that, we hand out the model to Autodesk Fusion 360 software for additional steps like physical model making and manufacturing cost evaluation. This early phase concept workflow can massively speed up your decision-making process for interior parts.

Custom classic car and hot rod builds often require many custom parts that are bespoke to the vehicle. In this session, we'll use several custom components created for the Iron Maven vehicle—built by Girl Gang Garage and featured at SEMA and in MotorTrend—to demonstrate workflows for designing and fabricating the components from the ground up. The workflow demonstrations will focus on cosmetic and mechanical components, with an example of a 3D-scanning-to-freeform-modeling workflow for cosmetic components and a measurement-and-fit-check-to-parametric-modeling workflow for mechanical components (and mechanical features). Finally, examples of finishing 3D-printed parts with production-quality finishes will show workflows for fabrication.

Full-color 3D printing experts from Mimaki will be leading a session detailing how their customers are using full-color 3D prints in their workflows around the globe. Utilizing Autodesk software, Mimaki users are pushing the limits of additive manufacturing in architecture and construction, design and engineering, and arts and entertainment to create models, mockups and products in a variety of fields. In this session, you'll learn about what sets the Mimaki 3DUJ series apart from other industrial level 3D printers and how they are being used today to change the way businesses create. You'll also learn how to go from on-screen 3D visual models in a verity of Autodesk software to physical, full color models and products with ease.

SimaPro, a sustainability partner, and ProtoTech, a technical consultant and reseller, are building a POC web app to demo at AU 2023, showing a web-based sustainability analysis workflow of an Autodesk Fusion 360 design. SimaPro requires mass, weight, and material to perform the sustainability analysis. Mass and weight are mass properties, meaning the company needs to extract and store mass properties for components in PIM so that SimaPro can access this data to perform its analysis in a web-based environment outside of Fremont. Currently, physical properties are extracted only inside the Fusion 360 canvas. PPE is a scalable solution that enables users to extract physical properties on-demand outside the Fusion 360 canvas using GraphQL APIs. Physical properties extraction trigger is also integrated with Fusion 360 workflows like on-milestone creation, as well as view physical properties in Fusion Team.

Have you ever thought about flow path optimization? Do you have great ideas that could change the world, but no fluid mechanics knowledge, time, or expensive CFD tools? All you need is Generative Fluids in Autodesk Fusion 360 software! We'll present a set of case studies in this session. The first ones will explain the basic aspects of flow path optimization. We'll discuss pressure drop, its reasons, and minimalization solutions in an easy-to-understand way. Then, we'll discuss more-complex designs in order to show how to use Fusion 360 capabilities and change inner flow paths into outer shells that are fully manufacturable parts. And we'll bring a few of our 3D-printed designs so you'll have a chance to handle them! By the very end, you'll understand the full potential of Generative Fluids optimization possibilities. This is the beginning of your flow optimization journey!

The demand for medical devices is rapidly growing with a forecast of global annual sales to reach nearly US$800 billion by 2030. But a one-size-fits-all approach in surgery often results in major complications such as infection, delayed or incomplete healing, and revision surgeries that contribute to diminishing clinical outcomes. A new approach with design thinking is now necessary to help solve these challenges. Researchers at University of Birmingham, Autodesk, Manufacturing Technology Centre (UK), and the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust have developed a novel design framework to create personalized knee implants from a CT scan using generative design for treating arthritis. This class will showcase how generative design can be implemented in an all-encompassing digital workflow to explore customized devices and make a positive impact to improve patient outcomes. The team will also discuss the fabrication of functional prototypes using cutting-edge manufacturing, post-processing, and validation techniques.

Fusion connects product development from ideation through shop floor fulfillment integrating a broad array of both design & manufacturing solutions. Fusion connects shared data across your processes and tools to help designers, machinists & business leaders make better decisions and improve profitability and sustainability. Meet the partners that help make that happen from hot startups to established industry leaders. Autodesk's ever-evolving partner ecosystem delivers modern solutions, allowing Fusion customers to leverage the latest advancements in sustainable design, toolpath automation, data management, and automated manufacturing. Join this session to hear from some of our key partners and explore how together we are accelerating innovation in manufacturing.

Evolved Structures, a technology based on generative design and digital manufacturing, has the potential to revolutionize spaceflight system components. This presentation explores "prompt engineering" for guiding generative design artificial intelligence (AI) using textual and geometric information to create parts that meet functional, structural, and manufacturing requirements. By integrating essential design elements, engineers can maximize AI-driven optimization for innovative, high-performance spaceflight systems that are cost-effective and efficient to produce. The presentation will also showcase examples of fabricated hardware developed using this approach, which are slated for integration in future NASA missions.