Shannon McGarry
Elevate your design and manufacturing processes with Autodesk Fusion
FusionNews highlights the key things that happened over the past week in the Fusion 360 Community and news from the industry. New posts every Friday.
From the Fusion Team
TIP – Walking on Clouds – moving data from Inventor into Fusion 360 via Autodesk 360
Here are great step-by-step instructions on how to transfer data from Inventor 2015 into Fusion 360 via Autodesk 360.
TIP – Fusion 360 Modeling Best Practices
Check out these best practices to keep things quick and tidy when working with complex models.
TIP – How to manually clear the upload dialog in Fusion 360
Learn how to clear the upload dialog if you want to remove any “stalled” uploads.
DESIGN CHALLENGE – Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge
Design a sustainable product using Fusion 360 for your chance to win up to 4K USD! Entries must be submitted by March 15th, 2015.
COMPETITION – The AlphaLab Gear National Hardware Cup
Have a startup idea? Pitch it to the panel of expert judges at your local techshop for your chance to win 50K!
CAST YOUR VOTE – Autodesk 2014 Inventor of the Year
It’s time again for the Autodesk Manufacturing community to select the 2014 Inventor of the Year from among the
dozen companies featured as 2014 monthly Autodesk Inventing the FuturPreviewe honorees. Voting has kicked off here. Please take a few minutes to vote and let us know who you think should receive this award! Voting closes March 13 at 5 p.m.You can view more details on the honorees in Autodesk’s In the Fold blog here.
Events
ONLINE EVENT – Fusion 360 Live Classroom: The Basics
Join us on March 10th at 1:00pm PST to learn how to get started with Fusion 360.
LIVE EVENT – Hardware Workshop – Boston
Are you a hardware startup going from an idea to successfully shipping your first product? If so, be sure to register for this 2 day workshop on February 26th and 27th.
ONLINE EVENT – Fusion 360 API Webinar
Join us on March 25th at 9:00am PST to hear more about the programming capabilities of Fusion, including the new Add-In functionality that is coming.
RECORDED WEBINAR – Interactive Rendering: A New Way to Visualize Your Designs in Fusion 360
If you were unable to attend our Interactive Rendering webinar a few weeks ago, be sure to check out this live recording to see how to bring your designs to life using Fusion.
Gallery Spotlight
We love to see what users are designing with Fusion360! Share your designs with the Fusion community on the Gallery.
Coffee Mashin by Vlad Kindysov Toy Car by Devis Bandiera Guitar by Marvin De Luna
News from around the manufacturing innovation space
6 ways people are using aerial drones for good
Aerial robots are now flying beyond conflict zones. Learn more about how they are being used for good.
Turn your phone into a computer mouse with Remote Mouse
Remote Mouse lets you use your iPhone, Android or Windows Phone as a touchpad to control your onscreen cursor.
Microsoft Launches HoloLens To Take On The Oculus Rift
Check out this virtual reality-style headset that projects digital images on the reality world.
How big companies can innovate
Here from these leaders as to why there’s no reason big players can’t develop the next big thing.
The New Industrial Revolution: can Manufacturing learn a Lesson from Farm-to-Table?
The way we interpret “industrial” is going to change dramatically
Your Ideas from the Fusion IdeaStation
We take your suggestions very seriously so please share your ideas and vote for new features / enhancements to help us share future product updates.
We received 18 new ideas this week! Here are a few of them. Be sure to check them all out and vote for those you would like to see implemented. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!
Add in thickness measurement to help in 3D printing and manufacturing
Request to have a tool that allows you to see places where the thickness is less than a specified measurement.
Request to have the ability to export STEP files in the same units you are working in.
Request for the new Match Vertex to have an optional History/Parametric option
Tell us about yourself
Have a story to share? We would love to hear more about you and how you’re using Fusion 360! Shoot me an email at shannon.mcgarry@autodesk.com