Go beyond writing simple scripts in Fusion 360 software and learn how to create powerful interactive custom commands. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to Fusion 360 software’s programming interface, and then dig deeper into Fusion 360 software’s programming interface to cover the details of creating add-ins and commands. We'll look at taking an existing script and converting it to a command within an add-in. The command will use a custom dialog to get various types of inputs from the user and provide an interactive preview of the results. Finally, it will create the result as a single operation so it can be undone by an undo operation. This session features Fusion 360.

This class will focus on the fundamentals of Fusion 360 CAM software for both new and current users, by understanding workflows in the CAM workspace through job setups creation, stock definition, and work coordinate systems alignment. We will demonstrate how simple and easy it is to use Fusion 360 CAM by applying 2D toolpath operations with geometry selections that drive them and learning how geometry-based toolpaths can be applied using 3D operations. Class attendees will learn how to verify toolpaths with full stock simulation, create setup sheets, and postprocess G-code for their machines. These foundational concepts will help new users understand the benefits of truly integrated CAD/CAM using Fusion 360 to seamlessly update all toolpaths when CAD revision or design changes are required. This class will help you learn how to make anything with Fusion 360.

This class will look at the Fusion 360 application's APIs (application programming interfaces) and how you can use these APIs to extend the Fusion 360 app functionality. We will also discuss how you can use the APIs as part of your automation or integration processes.

Designing and manufacturing the prototype of a fixed-wing drone that can fly stably requires complicated computing, design modeling, and manufacturing processes. These are very difficult, especially for the new students in the aerospace arena. However, Fusion 360 software can help make the workflow simple. Fusion 360 has greatly improved the efficiency and flexibility of drone structure design. Using the models exported by Fusion 360, students can produce the drone prototype through 3D printing, and then assemble the whole aircraft in a very short time. In this class, you’ll see the workflow from design to manufacturing and the flight-test scenarios. Find out how Fusion 360 makes it so simple and fast, and helps young students realize their flying dream.

Horizontal machining centers (HMCs) have many advantages, and some disadvantages, over their counterpart. Many struggle with efficiently programming or getting started programming HMCs. This Fusion 360 instructional class will advise different workflows on setting up and programming an HMC. We'll demonstrate tips and tricks to make programming and machining times quicker and more efficient. We'll showcase several example posts and operation property modifications you can utilize to make the programmer’s and operator’s jobs much easier. With these methods and a bit of machining knowledge, you'll have more confidence in programming and optimizing the efficiency of your HMC.

This class is designed for existing users of the Fusion 360 3D CAD platform who are looking to take advantage of the CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) capabilities. Topics covered will include prototyping and production strategies, better use of 2-D operations, better use of 3-D operations, the workholding of best practices, and 3+2 and indexing strategies. This session features Fusion 360.

Inspired by the integrated product-development capabilities in Fusion 360 software, this class will walk through the advantages of using the multidisciplinary workspaces (ECAD, modeling, CAM) of the product-innovation platform. You will learn how to save time and money while avoiding frustration by rapidly exploring iterations of a design to optimize a printed circuit board (PCB) and mechanical components for an electromechanical assembly. To fully encompass the design process, we will use ECAD and EAGLE to address basic PCB design principles. We will then use the PCB design to create a parametric electromechanical assembly in Fusion 360, after which, we will use the CAM workspace to develop machining operations for the mechanical components. Finally, we will make a design change to the base PCB component, and we will update the assembly model and CAM operations to illustrate the efficiency and interdisciplinary communication benefits of integrated product development in Fusion 360.

This session will look at the PLM journey that Spirax Sarco has undertaken. Spirax Sarco, a 100-year-old company with nearly 40 overseas operations and a global manufacturing network, embarked on its Fusion Lifecycle PLM journey in early 2016. Over the last year this journey has presented many challenges but also many more opportunities than first considered. The learnings from the rollout approach, stakeholder management, and early adoption techniques will be shared. We will share the positive learnings that we will take forward on our journey, but also highlight the pitfalls. Focus areas will include large-scale organisational change, launching a global quality solution, global engineering change, and the launch of a group technical support hub to serve Spirax's 1,300 sales engineers in the field. This class is ideal for any company just commencing a large-scale deployment.

Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are cornerstones of any solid manufacturing process. Whereas QA looks to the future to ensure product requirements and goals will be met, QC focuses on the past and present of the process to ensure the goals have been achieved. Autodesk Fusion 360 software and Prodsmart provide data integrity to the quality management process through inspection methods, QC reports, and feedback reporting in a connected environment to enhance collaboration and audit tracking.

What is measured can be improved. See how we use Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage for quality management operations to predict future performance and improve strategic decision making.

This class will focus on Fusion 360 CAM fundamentals for both new and current users by investigating workflows in the CAM workspace. Demonstrating how simple it is to use Fusion 360 CAM, we’ll apply turning and 2D milling operations with geometry selections that drive them, and learn how geometry-based toolpaths can be applied using 3D milling strategies. Attendees will learn how to verify toolpaths with full stock simulation, create setup sheets, and post process G-code for their machines. These foundational concepts will help new users understand the benefits of truly integrated CAD/CAM using Fusion 360 to seamlessly update all toolpaths when CAD revision or design changes are required. This class will help you learn how to make anything with Fusion 360.

Autodesk Fusion 360 software is a fantastic and affordable tool to add to our dusty workshops! In this talk, we'll do a deep dive into many examples of people productively applying Fusion 360 to common and uncommon production problems in furniture and millwork, with lots of tips and tricks for all levels of Fusion 360 users. Whether coming from AutoCAD, an AutoCAD plug-in, or Inventor, you'll discover the advantages and limitations of using Fusion 360 for production woodworking. We'll also get into the fantastic CAM and manufacturing toolsets that are built right into Fusion 360 that will greatly accelerate your production, whether you're CNC-empowered or not!

In this session, we'll focus on the road map of features and functionality of all the previously released workspaces, those imminently due for release, and those further along in the pipeline. We will feature some cherry-picked in-product demonstrations of the functionality of all the workspaces, while still imparting the vast breadth of capabilities Autodesk Fusion 360 has already acquired and the depth of potential awaiting you in the near future.

Fusion 360 software now offers a simple workflow for programming industrial robot arms. Anyone familiar with post-processing machine code from Fusion 360 can now create robot code in the same way. During this lab, users will use the manufacturing space from Fusion 360 to generate robot native code that can drive industrial robot arms. First, we will show a generic robot workflow within Fusion 360 that will post with the ABB post processor. Then, we will cover exporting code into a virtual robot simulator, ABB RobotStudio, for validation. We’ll then pivot to recordings at Autodesk Technology Centers, explaining calibration of various coordinate systems localizing the robot arm and robot operation for milling applications. We’ll introduce other applications that participants can use with this workflow, such as welding and additive. Finally, we will share various case studies from Autodesk Technology Center residents and customers utilizing Fusion 360 for industrial robots.

In this class, you will learn how to best identify parts for redesign. You will receive a few examples and then see in Fusion 360 software how to redesign the parts keeping design-for-manufacturing (DFM) rules for metal additive manufacturing (AM) in mind. The goal is to redesign the parts using simple operations in Fusion 360 to see that you don't need an organic topology optimized part to get an economical use case. You’ll learn the limits of metal AM and when it is definitely not smart to use this technology.

Go beyond the basics of Fusion 360 software and obtain the skills to effectively and rapidly alter design manufacturing of a single product from concept to creation. Learn how a small business utilizes the concept of parametric design to drive CAM objectives that easily modify changes based on individual customer requirements (size, simulation data, generative design, and shape optimization). This class will assist Fusion 360 users who want to increase design workflow knowledge within T-Spline structures for streamlined design-to-product development. Learn advanced design and techniques, including simulation and additive/subtractive mold making for production. Our demonstration will follow the creation of a bicycle part (TBD) that was custom-built yet dynamically designed to fit a multitude of individual riders. Our focus is within 3 Fusion 360 environments: sculpting for industrial design; parametric modeling for mold construction, fittings and inserts, and precision geometry; and CAM for computer numerical control (CNC) operation.

This class is centered on the documentation component of Fusion 360 software application, Fusion Drawings. Learn about the user interface, commands, and functionality that the drawings offer. Gain a clear understanding of some key concepts regarding how the drawing relates to the 3D model to achieve easy customization and minimized workflows. Learn how to create and edit production-quality drawings in Fusion 360 software, rapidly.

This class will be an overview of how managing production within the Autodesk manufacturing ecosystem lets seamless workflows and real-time insight into production status. We will demonstrate a workflow- starting in design within Autodesk CAD Solutions, moving to programming with Autodesk CAM Solutions, demonstrating production tracking and quality assurance in Fusion 360 Production, and showing how production data can be fed back into design and programming to increase overall production speed and efficiency. These clear communication channels can dramatically reduce the amount of overhead that job shops need to manage by presenting the right information to the right people at the right time. This is the benefit of operating within the Autodesk network.