• Define project objectives – Identify your goals, constraints, material and manufacturing options to setup your design study.
• Generate and explore designs – Simultaneously generate multiple process and performance-aware design options in the cloud.
• Optimise designs and materials – Evaluate data for each design option to make decisions based on the various tradeoffs that are most critical to your needs.
• Export CAD-ready files – Choose a generative design outcome to export using cloud credits, and import the CAD-ready geometries into Fusion 360.

Advanced Simulation

• Advanced analysis tools – Use bolt connectors, multiple load cases, and rigid elements in simulation tests or simplify designs by cloning, removing faces, and replacing with primitives.
• Buckling – Predict unexpected failure modes for slender members under compression using cloud simulation.
• Nonlinear stress – Analyse permanent deformations and nonlinear materials using cloud simulation.
• Event simulation – Ensure your design will withstand impact using cloud simulation.
• Shape optimisation – Identify unnecessary regions in your design for light weighting using cloud simulation.

Advanced Manufacturing

• Probing – Leverage on machine probes to locate work offsets.
• 3+2 machining (5-axis positional) – Reduce the setups required for your job by positioning the stock in different directions through a combination of A, B, or C axis motions.
• 4-axis machining – Rotate the part using the A axis of your machine to create toolpaths for 4 axis indexing or wrap toolpaths.
• 5-axis simultaneous machining – Set up 5-axis operations with tilting, swarf, and multi-axis contour.

Design

• Sketching – Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints and dimensions. Turn sketches into 3D objects.
• Parametric modelling – Create history-based features (i.e. extrude, revolve, loft, sweep) that update with design changes.
• Sheet metal – Design sheet metal components using sheet metal rules. Document and manufacture flat patterns using 2D drawings and cutting strategies.
• Freeform modelling – Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-Splines, and increase the density of T-Spline faces.
• Direct modelling – Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats.
• Mesh modelling – Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models (i.e. STL, OBJ files).
• Surface modelling – Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching, or designing geometry.
• Assemblies – Design assemblies with a traditional bottom-up or top-down approach and analyse assembly motion.
• PCB design integration – Design the PCB object directly in Fusion 360. Synchronise bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.

Documentation 

• 2D manufacturing drawings – Document manufacturing specifications using integrated, associative drawings for parts and assemblies.
• Animations – Communicate your designs with 3D exploded views and animations to show design assembly.
• Renderings – Create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging local or cloud computing.

Data Management & Collaboration

• Version management – View or promote previous versions with automatic or manual version control.
• Fusion Team – Get project and user-level administration for multi-user environments.
• Commenting & redlining – Capture and markup decisions made in the design process directly on the design.
• Public or private design sharing – Share data with internal or external stakeholders using safe and secure public links.

Accessibility 

• Mac OSx & Windows – Fusion 360 is natively written for both Mac and PC. Use your preferred OS or both, at no extra cost.
• Browser data access – Interact in the design process using your web browser.
• Mobile viewing & management – Manage your design and project data from anywhere, on any mobile device, using iOS or Android.

Simulation  

• Cloud simulation – Setup and analyse multiple tests in the cloud using the cloud credits that come with your subscription.
• Static stress & modal frequencies – Analyse your design under different conditions using various materials, loads and constraints.
• Thermal & thermal stress – Understand thermal distributions and how they interact with physical forces.

Manufacturing

• 3D printing utility – Slice, build supports, and generate toolpaths for a variety of 3D printers.
• Turning – Program CNC lathe machines with traditional toolpaths (i.e. facing, roughing, grooving, drilling, etc.)
• Water jet, laser cutter, plasma cutter – Easily create efficient multi-axis toolpaths with advanced collision control for complex 3D designs.
• 2.5 & 3-Axis Machining – With HSM CAM included, quickly generate toolpaths, reduce machine wear, and create quality parts.

Machining Extension

Using cloud credits, amplify the power of Fusion 360 with advanced manufacturing technologies. Improve your speed with automation, while gaining more control of your machine and processes. Learn more