• 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.