ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Together, let's make a better future
Together, let's make a better future
You need advanced manufacturing software that lets you make anything. Whatever you make and however you want to make it — Autodesk has the solution.
Advanced manufacturing software that delivers
Advanced manufacturing software that delivers
With 40 years of serving diverse markets with CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB software solutions – Autodesk Fusion is a fully extensible cloud solution that covers all your manufacturing needs from quick design iterations to validation with simulation, all the way to manufacturing on your shop or factory floors.
With 40 years of serving diverse markets with CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB software solutions – Autodesk Fusion is a fully extensible cloud solution that covers all your manufacturing needs from quick design iterations to validation with simulation, all the way to manufacturing on your shop or factory floors.
Key trends in design and manufacturing
76%
Believe future growth will depend on digital tools
71%
Plan to make technology investments over the next three years
30%
Report that their company is “more digitally mature”
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Advanced manufacturing leads to extraordinary outcomes
Maximize profitability
Maximize profitability
Increase your manufacturing throughput through automation, collaboration, and interoperability to reduce non-value-add processes.
Autodesk provides manufacturing software that helps optimize your manufacturing processes to increase productivity while reducing material costs, engineering costs, and fixed overhead costs.
"We use Autodesk Fusion to automate production and improve quality, meaning we can ship better quality products to our customers faster."
Phil Law, Pembree Ltd
Increase your manufacturing throughput through automation, collaboration, and interoperability to reduce non-value-add processes.
Autodesk provides manufacturing software that helps optimize your manufacturing processes to increase productivity while reducing material costs, engineering costs, and fixed overhead costs.
"We use Autodesk Fusion to automate production and improve quality, meaning we can ship better quality products to our customers faster."
Phil Law, Pembree Ltd
See Autodesk Fusion in action
Customers all over the world use Autodesk Fusion to connect with their teams, grow their businesses, and continue to make anything.
Customers all over the world use Autodesk Fusion to connect with their teams, grow their businesses, and continue to make anything.
Airbus
Airbus
Aerospace giant uses generative design and additive manufacturing to create large airplane cabin parts using 95% less material.
Aerospace giant uses generative design and additive manufacturing to create large airplane cabin parts using 95% less material.
Conturo Prototyping
Conturo Prototyping
Specialist prototyping shop uses integrated design and manufacturing software to automate machining and shorten project delivery times.
Specialist prototyping shop uses integrated design and manufacturing software to automate machining and shorten project delivery times.
Pembree
Pembree
Mountain bike component manufacturer uses advanced 5-axis CNC machining to produce quality parts that don't cost the Earth.
Mountain bike component manufacturer uses advanced 5-axis CNC machining to produce quality parts that don't cost the Earth.
Precise Tooling
Precise Tooling
Mold manufacturer streamlines the production of molds, tools, dies, and electrodes with automated and integrated CAD/CAM software.
Mold manufacturer streamlines the production of molds, tools, dies, and electrodes with automated and integrated CAD/CAM software.
Ganas Manufacturing
Ganas Manufacturing
Furniture maker uses cloud-based collaboration and automated nesting to improve consistency and reduce scrap rates to 5%.
Furniture maker uses cloud-based collaboration and automated nesting to improve consistency and reduce scrap rates to 5%.
Coral Maker
Coral Maker
Global team partners to scale coral reef restoration, giving marine life a new place to call home for generations to come.
Global team partners to scale coral reef restoration, giving marine life a new place to call home for generations to come.
CAD, CAM, CAE, PCB and more, all in a single platform
CAD, CAM, CAE, PCB and more, all in a single platform
Autodesk Fusion connects your entire manufacturing process by integrating CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB into a single solution allowing you to design and make anything.
Autodesk Fusion connects your entire manufacturing process by integrating CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB into a single solution allowing you to design and make anything.
Choose Autodesk Fusion for integrated design and manufacturing
Autodesk Fusion
Fusion Manufacturing Extension
Fusion Simulation Extension
Technical partnerships deliver extra value
We've teamed up with leading hardware, software, and tooling companies to leverage partner technologies. Learn more about Autodesk partnerships.
Your manufacturing innovation partner
Your manufacturing innovation partner
With ongoing pressures to make parts today and meet your customers’ deadlines, we recognize it’s difficult to test, learn, and implement new manufacturing processes.
Our global network of technology centers help you expand your R&D capabilities to drive manufacturing innovation, using Autodesk advanced manufacturing software to push the limits of the latest hardware available today.
With ongoing pressures to make parts today and meet your customers’ deadlines, we recognize it’s difficult to test, learn, and implement new manufacturing processes.
Our global network of technology centers help you expand your R&D capabilities to drive manufacturing innovation, using Autodesk advanced manufacturing software to push the limits of the latest hardware available today.
Solutions for every manufacturing engineer
Modeling for manufacture
Powerful modeling tools simplify the preparation of 3D models, jigs, fixtures, electrodes, and more in readiness for manufacture.
Powerful modeling tools simplify the preparation of 3D models, jigs, fixtures, electrodes, and more in readiness for manufacture.
CNC machining
Automate the creation of high-quality 2.5D, 3-, 4-, and 5-axis machine code with professional-grade tools to make better use of your CNC machines.
Automate the creation of high-quality 2.5D, 3-, 4-, and 5-axis machine code with professional-grade tools to make better use of your CNC machines.
Sheet-based fabrication
Create optimized and associative multi-sheet layouts for metal and non-sheet metal components for laser, waterjet, plasma, or CNC routing.
Create optimized and associative multi-sheet layouts for metal and non-sheet metal components for laser, waterjet, plasma, or CNC routing.
Additive and hybrid manufacture
Streamline the preparation, programming, and production of parts with 3D printing using a variety of materials and manufacturing processes.
Streamline the preparation, programming, and production of parts with 3D printing using a variety of materials and manufacturing processes.
Swiss machining
Access specialist programming and simulation tools to produce small, accurate parts using synchronous cutting on Swiss and multi-axis lathes.
Access specialist programming and simulation tools to produce small, accurate parts using synchronous cutting on Swiss and multi-axis lathes.
Industrial robots
Flexible, easy-to-use tools for the offline programming of robots help you optimize robotic paths for manufacturing cells and systems.
Flexible, easy-to-use tools for the offline programming of robots help you optimize robotic paths for manufacturing cells and systems.
Shop-floor management
Optimize your shop-floor production with real-time insights to help schedule and manage your teams, machines, and materials.
Optimize your shop-floor production with real-time insights to help schedule and manage your teams, machines, and materials.
Metrology
Improve the quality and consistency of your manufacturing facility using offline programming tools to drive inspection hardware and processes.
Improve the quality and consistency of your manufacturing facility using offline programming tools to drive inspection hardware and processes.
Seamless collaboration
Connect your teams and suppliers to the data and insights needed to make business-critical decisions faster and shorten delivery times.
Connect your teams and suppliers to the data and insights needed to make business-critical decisions faster and shorten delivery times.
Let's talk about you
Let's talk about you
Connecting design and manufacturing workflows is what we do best. Call 1-855-612-9998 Monday to Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (PST) or click the button below and we'll get back to you.
Connecting design and manufacturing workflows is what we do best. Call 1-855-612-9998 Monday to Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (PST) or click the button below and we'll get back to you.
FAQ: Autodesk advanced manufacturing software
Autodesk Fusion provides all the essential tools you need for 2D, 3+2, CAM, and 3D printing, as well as cloud collaboration tools. For more advanced CNC machining, Autodesk Fusion subscribers can upgrade to include the Autodesk Fusion Machining Extension. This extension unlocks additional, advanced capabilities to make better use of 3-axis and multi-axis CNC machinery, including automated programming, multi-axis milling, and more.
Autodesk provides a range of manufacturing software products. The best option will vary based on your specific needs. In the vast majority of cases, Autodesk Fusion. It offers the tools you need for 2D and 3D CAD (design), 2.5D to 5-axis CAM (manufacturing), as well as additive manufacturing (3D printing), metrology (inspection), simulation (CAE), and much more.
For the most complicated applications, Autodesk provides a suite of specialist products that can be used alongside Autodesk Fusion to access more advanced tools. These products include:
PowerMill CAM for advanced 3- to 5-axis machining
FeatureCAM CAM for turning, turn-mill, and Swiss machining
PowerInspect to connect with a range of inspection and metrology devices
PowerShape modeling for manufacture tools for mold, tool, and die
Netfabb preparing, slicing, and simulating additive manufacturing
Fusion Operations production management, tracking, scheduling, and reporting
CAMpleteNC-code post-processing and G-code simulation
Moldflow injection and compression molding plastic simulation
Autodesk Fusion is the fastest-growing CAD/CAM software available today. As a professional-grade software tool, Autodesk Fusion offers powerful programming tools for 2D, 2.5D, 3-, 4-, and 5-axis milling on a growing range of CNC machine types and NC controllers. What makes Autodesk Fusion different is how it puts your data at the center of everything you do, allowing your team and your stakeholders to work together seamlessly.
Get an in-depth look at the advanced CAM capabilities in Autodesk Fusion here.
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