Design & Engineering


  • Autodesk Inventor 2025 What’s New

    This year marks a monumental milestone for 25 years of Autodesk Inventor, a quarter of a century of designing and making your best products. This release brings over 142 enhancements, each carefully crafted to improve user experience, enhance functionality, and streamline design processes.  We’ve also tackled over 1330 bug fixes, demonstrating our commitment to reliability and…


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    Up and Running with Inventor Nastran: Top Tips and Workflows

    Check out this Top Rated session on Inventor Nastrans by Wasim Younis. Class materials from Autodesk University are available free.


  • Autodesk Inventor: Finish Feature

    Inventor 2024 brings a revolutionary feature to the table – the Finish feature, streamlines the process of documenting design appearance and manufacturing methods. The ‘What’s New, Now, & Next’ Webinar prompted a few questions about this feature, so we’ve published this blog post to address them. This tool allows designers to integrate elements such as…


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    How to reduce risk of failure on a new injection moulding project

    Navigating the complex world of new product introduction can feel like a tightrope walk. As a simulation engineer, I’ve witnessed the chaos firsthand when projects go awry. A seamless process—from designing a product to launching it—should be the goal. However, unexpected hiccups often disrupt this flow, leading to delays and rising costs. In this post,…


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    The Decision Center: Your Compass to Design Innovation

    In the competitive landscape of electronic device design, making informed decisions is crucial. Autodesk CFD, with its Decision Center feature, empowers engineers to optimize designs by simulating various configurations. Despite its powerful capabilities, many users remain unaware of the Decision Center’s potential to reveal design trends. This guide explores how leveraging the Decision Center can…


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    Resolving Visual Defects

    Dive into the fascinating world of Autodesk CFD and discover the power of Local Mean Age (LMA)! This innovative tool reveals the hidden dynamics of fluid flow, providing crucial insights into how fluids behave in your designs. By understanding LMA, you can optimize performance, identify stagnation zones, and enhance overall efficiency like never before. Get…


  • Autodesk CFD: LMA – “Under the hood” (what’s really happening in the software)

    Local Mean Age, known as LMA, can show the amount of time the working fluid spends throughout the model – it can show which regions are stagnant and which are free-flowing. Learn how we've applied this to Autodesk CFD's simulation solvers in the 2019 Update 1 release, and how you can achieve more reliable results…


  • Use Autodesk Fusion to Simplify Models for Autodesk CFD

    In this video, we'll demonstrate how Autodesk CFD users can use Fusion 360 Ultimate's Simulation Simplify workspace to prepare models for analyses. This can cut down on solve time and mesh density, making for faster solves!


  • Stop Validating and Start Innovating

    Validate your best design concepts after you've explored and decided on the most innovative approach. Novel concept, isn't it?


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    Methods to Model Natural Convection in CFD

    Natural convection is probably something that you will have to consider for any CFD analysis you run, but which setup is right for you? Let's take a look!


  • Modeling Hospital Operating Room Air Quality in Autodesk CFD

    Surgical infections due to airborne bacteria are an area of concern for doctors, hospitals, and patients. Autodesk CFD can be used to help reduce infections and improve overall air quality.


  • Moldflow Communicator streamlines collaboration between designers, engineers and molders

    Efficiently working to produce high quality parts at low costs and in short cycles requires effectively communicating between all the groups involved. Learn how Moldflow Communicator helps to solve this problem for designers, engineers and molders.