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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019
Leveraging Generative Design technology to enhance product design for manufacturing
Generative design is a hot topic, but existing manufacturing methods like casting and injection molding seem to be hiding behind the curtains. This presentation will focus less so on additive manufacturing and more so on mass manufacturing methods currently being used industry wide. By leveraging existing generative design technology with casting and injection molding best practices, we can re-shape how current product design for manufacturing workflows can be achieved. By demonstrating the capabilities of new generative design technology, this talk will expose the new feature enhancements showcasing a realistic approach to the manufacturing and product design world which can be implemented into product design and manufacturing workflows today.
New Orleans 2022
Electromechanical Product Design Reimagined
During Autodesk University 2021, we shared a developed workflow for how designers can bring data together through designing the part, the PCB (printed circuit board), and even how to manufacture the plastic components. With the complexity of electronic part designs, there are often various aspects that we need to consider in order for the part to both work and perform as expected. In this class, we’ll demonstrate how the Autodesk Fusion 360 workflow has matured to incorporate mechanical engineering aspects to smooth this product design workflow. We’ll use a sample product, the Autodesk University Digital Badge, to demo how to integrate mechanical design requirements and simulation into the product design process.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Configurations Unleashed: Revolutionizing Consumer Product Design
Join us for a dynamic Autodesk University session focusing on the strategic role of configurations in consumer product design through Autodesk Fusion 360. We'll discuss how to use this powerful feature to create highly customizable, efficient, and innovative products that appeal to diverse consumer needs. The session will highlight practical examples and best practices, equipping you with the knowledge to integrate configurations effectively in your design process to enhance product performance and market appeal.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Advanced Product Design and Engineering in Autodesk Fusion: Techniques to Design Better Products, Faster
Autodesk Fusion software is one of the most powerful design and engineering tools available on the market. It allows industrial designers and mechanical engineers to design, analyze, and manufacture their ideas. Thankfully, there are plenty of learning resources to help people new to CAD—or just new to Fusion. However, it can be difficult to find more advanced content that shows how to get from an intermediate level all the way to an expert level—how to design and engineer the best products possible and do so more quickly and easily. In this technical session, you'll learn the most effective techniques to take your product design and engineering skills to the next level and beyond. If you're interested in becoming a Fusion design and engineering expert, this class is for you!
49p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
Unleashing the Power of Fusion 360 in Product Design
This class demonstrates the use of Fusion 360 software as a service throughout various stages of product design, while taking advantage of the software's intuitive approach and versatile modeling modes. The class combines quick demos and project examples in areas such as consumer products, sports equipment, and packaging. Attendees discover how Fusion 360 makes it easy to turn early concepts into final designs as part of the Autodesk® Product Design Suite. The class also highlights the exciting opportunities that Fusion 360 provides for cloud-based collaboration, thanks to the Autodesk® 360 cloud services hub.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014
Addressing Sustainability in Product Design and Engineering
"Sustainability" means many different things to different manufacturers. In some cases designers and engineers strive to make a product perform with greater energy efficiency. In other cases they focus on making the product easy to recycle at the end of its life or they design out restricted substances with advanced material selections. Regardless of the focus, the design and detailed-engineering phases hold many opportunities to decrease the environmental impact of a product. During this hour attendees will learn about current trends in sustainable product design and compliance, and we'll explore which are relevant to their products or product lines. Attendees will also learn how to easily apply Autodesk, Inc., tools at key points in design and engineering workflows to aid in the exploration of more sustainable design alternatives.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015
An Introduction to Fusion 360 for Product Design Suite Subscribers
Fusion 360 software is available at no cost to all Product Design Suite 2015 software subscribers. The goal of this class is to explain what Fusion 360 software is, what is new, what is coming, and also to share how subscribers of Product Design Suite 2015 can take advantage of the software’s functionality. Fusion 360 software is a cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tool for product development that enables product teams and stakeholders to work together within an integrated design, engineering, and fabrication experience across platforms and devices. In this new way of working, users have the context to understand all aspects of a project and to collaborate with anyone and everyone, at any time. With Fusion 360 software, gone are the days of traditional data management and fragmented ways of working together on design projects.
New Orleans 2022
Creating the Autodesk University Factory Name Badge with the New Product Design Extension
Have you attended our Autodesk University Factory Live Experience? Want to learn how we created some of the parts using Autodesk Fusion 360 software’s newest extension? In this session, the team that helped design the casing for the Autodesk University name badges will walk through how the NEW Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can automate your design for plastic injection molding by defining your manufacturing up front, automating repetitive modeling tasks, creating manufacturing-specific features, and checking for manufacturing defects through simulation. These tools can increase your speed of development, improve your relationship with suppliers, and reduce your time to market. Come see how Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can help you with your next plastic injection molding design!
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Idea to Assembly: Reimagining Product Design with Generative AI
There is no single way to design a new product. The design principles needed to manufacture a coffee maker will be different from those needed for an electric vehicle. So, why can’t today’s software tools adapt to meet designers' needs? Generative AI may offer a path forward to enabling product designers to adopt agile and adaptive design workflows and support the design of complex assemblies. In this interactive session, we’ll take an in-depth look at an early-stage software prototype for AI-assisted assembly design, developed by Autodesk Research. Participants will gain insights into how the researchers used large language models (LLMs), multimodal data, and system modeling to design products from 1D to 3D. Join us if you’re a product designer, software engineer, or UX designer interested in advancing your understanding of assembly design and learning how this new innovative technology can shape the future of Design and Make industries.
4p
25p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014
Design Workflow's with Autodesk's Product Design Suite
Innovative design and production practices are rapidly changing everything we touch on a day to day basis, as well as how these things are created. Autodesk's Product Design Suite gives design teams the tools they need to push the boundaries of existing design processes. This session (segment?) will follow the use of several Product Design Suite design and visualization tools in a typical product design workflow, and will highlight the strengths of Intel's hardware solutions throughout that process.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
From Art to Part—Plastic Part Design with Product Design Suite
Do you need to take a concept and make it a reality? Does that reality include injection-molded parts? Do you need to get your design reviewed and approved quickly? If the answer to even 2 out of 3 of these questions is "yes," you should attend this class. We will also look at answers to these questions, and at an even more important question: How can we make changes on an overall assembly's shape while still developing individual piece details? To do this we will explore workflows within Product Design Suite software and add a dash of Simulation DFM software for good measure.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
The Suite Life: Autodesk® Product Design Suite Workflows for Machine Design
In this class, we will take you on a tour of Autodesk® Product Design Suite 2013. We will show you what you can do with this flexible set of tools that are specialized in 3D mechanical design, simulation, tooling, electrical design, visualization, documentation, and collaboration. Using the design suite tools, you can evaluate and optimize machines while exchanging information with others throughout the design workflow. You will learn what you can accomplish by combining the Digital Prototyping capabilities of Autodesk® Inventor® software with enhanced design, visualization, and cloud services tools to reduce development costs and get machine designs to your clients faster and with less rework.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
The Future of Product Design with Inventor Professional
Join this session as we share the development road map and product strategy for Inventor Professional software, including some elements of the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. The presentation will cover recent and planned functionality that will add value to your everyday workflow needs. We encourage you to engage with Dan and members of the Inventor engineering team with questions and feedback during and after the session.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
A Practical Guide for Generative Design in Product and Industrial Design

Generative design is a powerful tool that requires technical knowledge that doesn’t necessarily align with how designers work. This class will explore four key strategies for integrating generative design into product and industrial design: 1) Understanding best practices for setting up a generative design study, and determining how much modeling work is needed prior to running the study. 2) Obtaining outcomes that align with the design’s original vision. It’s common to see designers grow frustrated as they run several studies that create shapes that are unusable as actual components of a product. 3) Understanding in practical terms details related to forces, constraints, and other technical information that is not commonly used in product design, and that might affect the effectiveness of the generative outcomes. 4) Understanding how to best merge generative design geometry with other components that have been modeled directly in Fusion 360 software.

Keynote / Las Vegas 2019
Product Design and Manufacturing Keynote
Manufacturers are under more pressure than ever to deliver better products faster, at lower cost, and with less waste. Join us to explore future manufacturing trends and technology that can help you succeed in this rapidly changing era of digital transformation. Better product design and manufacturing start here
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Product Design-Make-Use: Integrating Sensor Data and Digital Workplace Technology
Digital Workplaces, powered by real-time data, AI, and IoT, are poised to revolutionize product design and manufacturing workflows within the design-make-use lifecycle. By enabling data-driven, predictive processes, Digital Workplaces transform how products are conceived, iterated, and validated. What if IoT sensor data embedded in a product can detect stresses during its operation, which can be derived to automatically redesign a stronger and more efficient iteration? What if IoT sensor data embedded in a 3D printer can detect defects on a layer-by-layer basis to make real-time, in-situ adjustments to prevent manufacturing failures and scrap? Questions like these are not only being asked but explored and tested at Autodesk Research. Through a performance-aided design approach, we are harnessing sensor data to drive real-time optimizations, using a flying vehicle as a cutting-edge testbed to redefine the future of design and manufacturing.
46p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Product Design-Make-Use: Integrating Sensor Data and Digital Prototyping Technology
Digital Prototypings, powered by real-time data, AI, and IoT, are poised to revolutionize product design and manufacturing workflows within the design-make-use lifecycle. By enabling data-driven, predictive processes, Digital Prototypings transform how products are conceived, iterated, and validated. What if IoT sensor data embedded in a product can detect stresses during its operation, which can be derived to automatically redesign a stronger and more efficient iteration? What if IoT sensor data embedded in a 3D printer can detect defects on a layer-by-layer basis to make real-time, in-situ adjustments to prevent manufacturing failures and scrap? Questions like these are not only being asked but explored and tested at Autodesk Research. Through a performance-aided design approach, we are harnessing sensor data to drive real-time optimizations, using a flying vehicle as a cutting-edge testbed to redefine the future of design and manufacturing.
46p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019
Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing and Vault Professional—Optimize Multidisciplinary Workflows
The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection offers tools and workflows, enabling multidisciplinary collaboration from ideas to manufactured products. This class will demonstrate use cases showing how Vault Professional software captures all relevant data to share the right information to all people involved at the right time. Follow best practices and practical use cases. Discuss challenges encountered in daily work of engineering and requirements of downstream processes of procurement, manufacturing planning, and machining. Watch live demonstrations using built-in capabilities, and learn how automation options of Inventor software and Vault Professional may eliminate repetitive and tedious tasks. Additional class materials are going to share all samples, configurations, and automation snippets used and shown during the class.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016
Future-Proofing Products with Fusion 360
In the era of smart, connected, customizable products, the objects we buy should get better over time. How might we design for this? Google's mobile phone Project Ara is one example of a product designed to be modular, customized, and upgraded. Enabling products to change and last is among the best ways to make them more sustainable. Learn how to apply these principles to design future-proof products in Fusion 360 software. Discover how designing for modularity and upgradability dovetails with making products easier to disassemble and repair. Celebrated Fusion 360 software designer Paul Sohi (Denise Schindler prosthetic leg) and sustainable-design maven Dawn Danby (Sustainability Workshop) join forces to bring you this high-energy session. This session features Fusion 360.
New Orleans 2022
An Introduction to Alias for Product (Industrial) Design
This session will be an introduction to the world of Alias product design, concept modeling, and detailed surface modeling. We’ll look at how automation can speed up the design process—allowing faster and more informed design making, as well creating shareable and reusable IP across the design pipeline. Experience-based decision making is becoming more important, and we’ll look at trends and offer insights into how this can help industrial and product designers gather customers insights. Disparate tools need cross-team and cross-function collaboration, making the designers of tomorrow even more efficient. Making decisions faster (with confidence) across teams and geographies is key. We believe that the future of design will start with the customer, and how we ensure that connection works (as well as enterprise-wide integration) in a seamless manner.
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