Autodesk Inventor Presentation environment has been redesigned in Inventor 2017. The new timeline based workflows and snapshot views allow you to easily control exploded views, assemble animations and viewports so you can get the exact views you need for your technical documentation. This class will also cover best practices to speedup the workflow.

Fusion 360 software is a powerful CAD software system, and one of its most powerful capabilities is the Autodesk Rendering environment. This class will cover how to achieve impressive, photo-realistic renderings. Topics will include everything from basic layout and composition to best practices for using materials, lighting, and environment effects. While this class will focus on examples of product design within Fusion 360 software’s rendering environment, the ideas described can be applied to any rendering situation and any rendering program. Compelling renderings are a key tool for successful storytelling of designs and concepts to a wide audience. This class will help you achieve rendering awesomeness.

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.

This intermediate class will discuss the new physical based materials [we call �Prism',] found in the cloud-rendering service and Fusion 360. We will discuss this new initiative and then take a peek into some future looking initiatives. The class will also discuss the basic material types available, how they are used and why they help achieve photorealistic design visualizations. The attendees will understand the requirements of texture creation/preparation and what makes a �good material'. They will also learn how to fully take advantage of the material models and rendering tools in the Fusion 360 app and in the Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform.

The Fusion 360 Drawings Team has implemented a lot of new and exciting functionality this year. This class aims to provide an overview of current capabilities: multisheet sheet metal, faster dimensioning, and smart templates, as well as a sneak peek into what the Fusion 360 Drawings Team is working on. We will cover this through a series of demonstrations that create shop drawings ready for manufacture. After attending, users will be able to apply what they've seen to get more from their Fusion 360 software.

Everyone is experiencing the skills gap change to some degree. With the increasing breadth of this issue looming over manufacturing, automating processes have become paramount to every business. Many CAD/CAM products offer solutions that come close; however, they leave people feeling daunted, which causes more of a setback, rather than a solution. In this class, we’ll demonstrate how the new generation of cloud and advanced manufacturing solutions will help close the gap. The goal is to communicate how Fusion 360 and PowerMill can improve the efficiency of subtractively manufacturing your parts, increasing productivity, and complementing your existing workflows.

Fusion 360 3D CAD/CAM software offers several modeling environments for different types of modeling, from technical details to organic surfaces. This class will explore methods for modeling complex shapes in a simple, efficient, and direct workflow by taking advantage of T-Splines geometry. This approach is useful for concept development in product design, where designers and engineers can take advantage of CAD software to explore potential shapes for attractive and dynamic consumer products.

Let your customers unleash their inner rock star. Engineer to order has been done, but what about design to order? Learn how to create flexible complex designs driven from customer inputs. Increase efficiencies and margins using the sculpting tools in the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app and the automation capabilities of Inventor software. We use our startup, Orphanage Guitars, as a case study to illustrate how our customers are able to design their own custom carved-top electric guitars to their specifications in a matter of minutes. We let you behind the curtain, show our process, and discuss the pros and cons of alternative mass customization methods.

Fusion 360 software offers powerful tools for creating models and renderings with great attention to detail. This class will focus on 2 key elements that are critical in product design. The first one is T-Splines modeling, which enables the creation of complex forms in a quick way while maintaining high-quality surfaces. People often comment that using T-Splines for organic shapes cuts down modeling time from hours to minutes. This method also enables designers and engineers to easily explore forms without distractions from complicated workflows. The second key element of this class will focus on rendering, a critical tool for visualizing design intent and “selling” designs to broader audiences. Fusion 360 software offers a powerful and simple platform for photorealistic rendering, eliminating the use of a separate software package. This session features Fusion 360.

Drawings in Fusion 360 software has implemented a lot of new and exciting functionality this year. This class aims to introduce the newer capabilities—such as title blocks and templates, component versus body distinction, and multiasset documentation—to those who need more than the out-of-the-box solution. We will cover this through a series of demonstrations using real-world title blocks and templates, dimensions, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) to create shop drawings ready for manufacture. With this, users will be able to apply what they’ve seen to get more out of their drawings in Fusion 360 software, and create drawings that are thorough, accurate, and tailored to their needs. This session features Fusion 360.

Many services such as Facebook, GitHub, and Google have already deployed OAuth 2.0 servers. The OAuth 2.0 spec leaves many decisions up to the implementer. Instead of describing the possible decisions that need to be made to successfully implement OAuth 2.0, this lecture will explain most of the appropriate decisions to make for most implementations. This lecture is an attempt to explain OAuth 2.0 in a simplified format to help developers and service providers implement the protocol. Attendees will also discover how they can use other people's OAuth servers instead of implementing their own.

Tune in as we show how it's possible to integrate Fusion 360, Fusion Team, and Forge to create a simple product catalog for your customers.

Embrace a transformative era in manufacturing as new technologies redefine boundaries, boost productivity, and foster transparency. Join us at the Design and Manufacturing Keynote to discover how AI and automation bridge skills gaps, facilitate seamless collaboration, and break departmental barriers. Autodesk leaders will unveil cutting-edge updates to Fusion Industry Cloud and the latest breakthroughs in our portfolio. Be part of the celebration as we acknowledge our customers' strides in tackling real-time challenges and pioneering innovation in Design and Manufacturing. Let's shape the future of Design and Make together!

This industrial case study will cover a recent design-and-make collaboration between Autodesk and Impression Technologies (ITL), an industry-leading, automotive, hot-forming solutions provider. Together we’ll present a comparison of several mold designs across a range of design approaches and manufacturing technologies. We’ll demonstrate how optimizing design for additive manufacturing can be maximized to achieve more-efficient production times and material usage, improved part quality, and reduced part cost and energy consumption. During the project, experts from Autodesk and ITL collaborated via Autodesk CFD software and the Autodesk Fusion 360 platform. We used simulation and several design methodologies, including conformal cooling and the application of lattice structures via the Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design extension. The project culminated in the tooling production using Autodesk’s Birmingham Technology Centre metal additive manufacturing systems, and testing and validation at ITL’s research facility.

This presentation will introduce the making of the concept car project ETRAXX, and show all of the project’s steps. We’ll go from concept modeling in virtual reality (VR) to SubD modeling in Alias software, including many different technologies and new features used. We’ll go from Alias concept creation to detailing in Autodesk Fusion 360, and from the first VR reviews to GPU ray tracing for final rendering.

The Fusion Data API unifies the way you can access data stored on Autodesk Forge, model hierarchy information, and properties of Autodesk Fusion 360 models. This API is based on GraphQL, an industry-standard technology that makes it easy to discover the properties and relationship information that the Fusion Data API provides.

Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software can facilitate the dream of an online and integrated world for process management. This tool provides many industry-standard processes already loaded into the system, but one size does not always fit all. Whether young or established, capture your processes quickly. Many get star-struck by Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage, only to get caught up in how customizable it can be—which can lead to trying to get every detail right. This approach tends to impair. The best approach is to weave together the principles of starting simply, using the out-of-the-box processes, avoiding perfectionism, and putting user adoption first. This will manifest in a faster return on investment. Do not get left with an imperfect perfected process with nothing to show for your hard work. Lean toward being agile, building simply on the system foundations with the user always at the forefront of your plans. Ultimately, user adoption leads to happy directors and CEOs who haven’t wasted their money—and we all want that.

While manufacturing departments come in all shapes and sizes, business owners and production managers will all face similar challenges, such as keeping up with design changes, needing to automate computer numerical control (CNC) machine usage, and improving part quality—all while addressing potential skills gaps in their workforces. This class will look at these challenges in detail, and then use an example manufacturing department to illustrate how they can be addressed with a series of scenarios where Autodesk Fusion 360 software can be used to provide possible solutions.

Many components in manufacturing or woodworking (just to name two industries) start their production journey as flat materials. This makes an easy-to-handle workflow for mass production very important, especially when you’re running a job shop. Attend this training to take a closer look at the full workflow, starting with designing or importing parts, moving to creating a nesting layout of all components, and closing with the computer numerical control (CNC) production.

Keeping your production floor productive is more important than ever before. After all, a computer numerical control (CNC) machine or worker sitting idle costs your business money. Prodsmart already helps manufacturers and fabricators to schedule, track, and trace their production and quality processes in real time. But what if you want to go further? In this live demonstration, you'll learn how you can maximize Autodesk Fusion 360 software, Fusion Team, and Prodsmart to further improve your production efficiency.