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FUSION 360 FEATURES
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Design
Overview
Sketching
Freeform Modelling
Surface Modelling
Parametric Modelling
Mesh Modelling
Direct Modelling
PCB Design Integration
Overview
Conceptualise your various design interations in a single platform. The unified environment combines multiple modelling methods, giving you the flexibility to create high-quality products.
Sketching
Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions and a powerful suite of sketch tools. Control complex splines and curves with a robust analysis toolset.
As an industrial designer, this allows me to get the results that I seek... from sketch to a model ready for 3D printing.
- Ujwal IK
Freeform Modelling
Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and increase the density of T-spline faces.
It would have taken an entire day, maybe 2, but with T-spline modelling, I was able to do it in minutes.
- Jason Pohl Senior Designer, Orange County Choppers
Surface Modelling
Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching or designing geometry.
It’s like a digital version of clay, except when you’re pushing it around, it doesn’t leave thumbprints.
- Jason Pohl Senior Designer, Orange County Choppers
Parametric Modelling
Create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep etc., that update with design changes.
It really frees you up and you stop being timid. You just do it, because it’s all being captured at the moment.
- Gareth Conner Creative Conners
Mesh Modelling
Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.
The best thing about Fusion 360 is you can integrate different modelling styles.
- Matt Johnson Industrial Designer, Coalesse
Direct Modelling
Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features.
Creating 3D objects from 2D sketches is very easy. The modify tools in Fusion 360 make it possible to change your models.
- Carson Bruess
PCB Design Integration
Synchronise bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.
I like the integration between Fusion 360 and EAGLE. It's the main reason I decided on EAGLE.
- Senior Electrical Engineer
3D Modelling
Overview
Sketching
Parametric Modelling
Direct Modelling
Freeform Modelling
Surface Modelling
Sheet Metal
Mesh Modelling
Assemblies
PCB Design Integration
Overview
Engineer products with a comprehensive set of modelling tools. Ensure form, fit and function of your products with various analysis methods.
Sketching
Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions and a powerful suite of sketch tools.
What used to take days, now is done in hours.
- Jim McWherter Brand Motion
Parametric Modelling
Create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep etc., that update with design changes.
With the eight-hour process for me to do in another tool, I can hop into Fusion 360 and have something in two hours the first time.
- Christian Welch Swissomation
Direct Modelling
Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features.
I love creating models with Fusion 360, it is very easy to sculpt, shape and scale. Other programmes make it very square and not exactly what I want.
- Kate Jovanovic
Freeform Modelling
Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and edit them with intuitive push-pull gestures.
Fusion 360 allows me to resolve the form in 3D & create renderings 50% faster than existing tools.
- Deborah Laun Brownlie Design
Surface Modelling
Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching or designing geometry.
In Fusion 360, within 20 minutes I had both contact points for the truck. In another tool, I would have budgeted 3-4 hours.
- Ed Eaton Dimonte Group
Sheet Metal
Design sheet metal parts components, document flat patterns using 2D drawings and DXFs and manufacture your design with cutting strategies for water jet, laser and plasma machines.
We could finally use a CAD programme that didn't need hours of preparation before starting to design. You just sit and start creating.
- Luciana Montivero
Mesh Modelling
Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.
My favourite features are user experience and speed. Design something and then build it in a day, whereas previously it might have taken a week.
- Adam Ellison Co-founder, Modbot
Assemblies
Assemble designs with a traditional bottom-up, middle-out or top-down approach and analyse assembly motion.
You can just start modelling your ideas... large assemblies can be animated well.
- Consumer Goods Product Designer
PCB Design Integration
Synchronise bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.
I like the integration between Fusion 360 and EAGLE. It's the main reason I decided on EAGLE.
- Senior Electrical Engineer
Electronics
Overview
Schematic Capture
PCB Layout
PCB Manufacturing (CAM)
Design For Manufacturability / DRC
MCAD – ECAD Unification
Component Library Management
SPICE Simulation
Electronics Cooling
Overview
Bring your designs to life by adding electronic intelligence using the Schematic design, PCB Layout and routing capabilities integrated in Fusion 360.
Schematic Capture
Bring your spark of an idea to life with a complete set of schematic editing tools.
PCB Layout
Connect your ideas together in a complete design with complete PCB layout tools.
PCB Manufacturing (CAM)
Generate gerbers, drill files and assembly files with a click of a button.
Design For Manufacturability / DRC
Stay true to your manufacturing requirements with customisable design rules.
MCAD – ECAD Unification
Ensure your PCDB fits the first time, every time, with the only genuinely unified MCAD to ECAD software.
Component Library Management
Stay focused on your design instead of creating parts with ready-to-use PCB library content and component wizards.
SPICE Simulation
Ensure accuracy and get your schematics right the first time with fully functional SPICE simulation
Electronics Cooling
Remove excess heat within the enclosure, so you do not damage the internal components.
Data Management
Overview
Administrative Tools
User Management
File Export
Version Control
Cloud Storage
AnyCAD
Team Participant
Overview
Data management is the centre of your unified development process. Gain more control by leveraging managed user permissions, version control and cloud storage.
Administrative Tools
Assign permissions and grant rights to stakeholders inside or outside of your organisation with a collection of advanced administration tools.
User Management
Include internal and external stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users interact with data through project administration.
We always found it challeging when we tried to share files, that is why are standardising on Fusion 360.
- John Hamilton Design Studio Director, Coalesse
File Export
Export a variety of industry standard file formats making for easier shareability and external collaboration. Including STEP, DWG, DXF, OBJ, STL, IGES and more.
Version Control
Reduce design cycle errors and workflow inefficiencies. Track every change and prevent conflicts with automated, built-in version management.
The ability to work at home at night when the kids are asleep is second to none. You have all the files available at a mouse click.
- Johan Sandflo Founder, SandFlo Golf Co.
Cloud Storage
Access your data anywhere and everywhere, on any device. Continue working when not connected to the Internet using off-line mode.
It’s a pretty amazing testament to Fusion 360 that we’ve done this entire design & manufacturing process from different cities.
- SweetSence
AnyCAD
Eliminate the need for translation. Use models and data from any tool directly in your Fusion 360 design.
I’m able to seamlessly import a tonne of file formats. Creating tool paths is Fusion 360 is easily 50% faster than Visual Mill.
- Ryan Boyd The Wise Company
Team Participant
All data management features are included with every Fusion 360 subscription or can be purchased separately. Add users to your environment for data management and collaboration purposes only.
Collaboration
Overview
User Management
Global Share
Commenting & Redlining
Unlimited Access
Public/Private Design Sharing
Team Participant
Overview
Remove the silos from your traditional design process and utilise a modern collaboration environment regardless of your role. Connect your teams and external stakeholders, communicate in real-time and centralise project activity.
User Management
Include internal and external stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users interact with data through project administration.
I love the collaboration tools readily available right out of the box, allowing you to share and critique quickly and easily.
- Vittorio Cascianelli Designer, G2 Crowd
Global Share
Connect teams across various departments and locations, both internally and externally, using a single platform.
As a team, we are able to collaboratively use the cloud to review the current design & discuss even when not physically in the same location.
- Annika Klüpfel Breeze
Commenting & Redlining
Capture and share feedback from any device, directly on the design using comments, redlines and mark-ups.
We can share projects real easy in real time with customers and partners.
- Manufacturing Shop
Unlimited Access
Access your data anywhere and everywhere, on any device. Continue working when not connected to the Internet using off-line mode.
I love that this software is cloud-based. You can access your work and your teams work anywhere!
- Kate Jovanovic G2 Crowd
Public/Private Design Sharing
Shared links preview in a web browser, so any third parties can interact with a 3D model, even if they don't have access to a modelling programme.
Previously, I had to install eDrawings, then you can’t install or read it... send an .exe... email blocks it. With Fusion 360, just send the link.
- Christian Welch Swissomation
Team Participant
All data management features are included with every Fusion 360 subscription or can be purchased separately. Add users to your environment for data management and collaboration purposes only.
Rapid Prototyping/Make
Overview
What is 3D Printing? | 3D Printing Technology | Autodesk
CAM
Rendering
Overview
Quickly create your prototypes to validate your design prior to manufacturing. Reduce the impact of design changes, so you can produce your final product faster.
What is 3D Printing? | 3D Printing Technology | Autodesk
Build supports, preview slices and generate toolpaths for a variety of 3D printers and then send designs directly to your favourite 3D print utility.
Within 10 minutes, we see something in 3D and then send it to the 3D printer.
- Ian Redern Fabric
CAM
Your toolpaths update with every design change through our fully integrated manufacturing tools, making it quick and easy to machine prototypes.
This has allowed me to reduce the production time by nearly 80%.
- Consumer Product Company
Rendering
Create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging local or cloud rendering.
It’s so easy to render, the team was able to create 15 variations of colour and material in 15 minutes, not 120 minutes it would have taken before.
- Mike Kowalski Brownlie Design
Generative Design
Overview
Manufacturing Methods & Constraints
Machine Learning & AI
Export CAD-ready Files
Cloud Solve
Overview
Explore multiple manufacturing-ready outcomes that meet your design specifications while reducing weight, improving performance and consolidating parts.
Manufacturing Methods & Constraints
Identify your design requirements, constraints, materials and manufacturing options to generate manufacturing-ready designs.
Additive manufacturing and generative design are helping improve product performance for our customers, optimising strength, weight and cost.
- Steven Szymeczek Co-Founder, Penumbra
Machine Learning & AI
Review cloud-generated design outcomes based on visual similarities, plots, and filters powered by machine learning
Generative design is so unique. It allows us to explore many different design options we wouldn't have been able to with traditional methods.
- Kevin Quinn Director, General Motors
Export CAD-ready Files
Choose a generative design outcome to export and import the CAD-ready geometries into Fusion 360. The results can be edited with T-spline tools for any fine adjustments or aestheic requirements.
Things like generative design allow us to implement, execute and manufacture in a completely different fashion than we're thinking today.
- Frank DeSantis VP, Black & Decker
Cloud Solve
Simultaneously solve for various design outcomes, freeing up your time to focus on other tasks.
We don’t have to spend months & years guessing & simulating what we think the right solution is, we look at a whole range of solutions, telling us if our idea is feasible right from the beginning.
- Matt Otto R & D Engineer, Crown Equipment
Simulation
Overview
Cloud Simulation
Study Breadth
Simplify
Compare Results
Static Stress
Modal Frequency
Thermal & Thermal Stress
Buckling
Non-linear Stress
Event Simulation
Shape Optimisation
Overview
Test your designs to ensure that they will survive real world conditions. Simulate your products digitally, reducing the cost of prototyping by using fully-validated solvers.
Cloud Simulation
Using cloud credits, set up and analyse multiple tests quickly while eliminating the need for expensive hardware.
I can offload the renderings and simulations to the cloud instead of tying up my machine for 3-4 hours and have it back in 10 minutes.
- Christian Welch Swissomation
Study Breadth
Test for up to eight different failure criterion, including non-linear, event and more.
Freeform modelling T-splines, parametric modelling,...[and] rendering (cloud-based), CAM and simulation, all in one product.
- Bonne Wilce
Simplify
Cut solve time or explore design changes specific to the simulation workspace.
Fusion 360 is superior in terms of its low price & the possibility of using it for the entire workflow, from modelling to analysis to rendering.
- Tatsuhiko Sekiya Photosynth
Compare Results
Easily visualise the benefits of design changes across 4 different iterations in a single, synchronised view.
We had all different kind of software packages, at the moment everything is integrated into the same software and it’s so easy to use.
- Timon Alferink Engineer, KMP Motorsport Products
Static Stress
Determine displacements, stresses and other effects resulting from static loads on parts or assemblies.
I also love the versatility of being able to model and stress test all in the same platform. Perfection!
- Chris Johnson Customer Success Representative
Modal Frequency
Avoid destructive vibration by understanding the natural frequencies of your systems.
We require scalable, flexible, cost-effective tools, focused on innovation and value, rather than squeezing max revenue from dated software.
- Mechanical Engineer Small Engineering Firm
Thermal & Thermal Stress
Understand thermal distributions and how they interact with physical forces.
It's amazing how CAD programmes just keep getting harder to use. Except for this one.
- Luciana Montivero
Buckling
Predict unexpected failure modes for slender members under compression using simulation.
I also love the versatility of being able to model and stress test all in the same platform. Perfection!
- Chris Johnson Customer Success Representative
Non-linear Stress
Analyse permanent deformations and non-linear materials of your design.
With Fusion 360, we can quickly flip between modelling, rendering and FEA.
- Adam Ellison Co-founder, Modbot
Event Simulation
Ensure your design will withstand various impact scenarios.
I fell in love with how easy it is to use.
- Johan Sandflo Founder, SandFlo Golf Co.
Shape Optimisation
Identify unnecessary regions in your design for light-weighting, utilising integrated simulation.
Documentation
Overview
2D Manufacturing Drawings
Rendering
Animation
Overview
Communicate your designs to internal or external stakeholders with 2D manufacturing drawings, renderings and animations.
2D Manufacturing Drawings
Document manufacturing specifications using integrated, associative drawings for parts and assemblies.
Fusion 360 has helped us to get concepts designed quicker and with more iterations. What used to take days now is done in hours.
- Jim McWherter Brand Motion
Rendering
Create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging local or cloud rendering.
It allows me to resolve the form in 3D and create renderings for presentations 50% faster than existing tools.
- Deborah Laun Brownlie Design
Animation
Communicate your designs with 3D exploded views and animations to show design assembly.
A prototype can be designed, animated and shaded, all within the course of a few hours, rather than tens of hours.
- Christopher Acevedo G2Crowd
Manufacturing
Overview
2.5 & 3-axis Milling
3+2 Milling (5-axis Positional)
4-axis Milling
5-axis Simultaneous Milling
Set Up Probing
Turning
Mill-Turning
Water Jet, Laser Cutter, Plasma Cutter
Free Post Processor Library
Overview
From high-efficiency roughing with Adaptive Clearing to simplified control of multi-axis machines with Tool Orientation, Fusion 360 makes it easy to program your CNC machine, fast. Manufacture with 2.5, 3, 4 and 5-axis milling, probing, turning, mill-turning and profiling operations paired with a powerful post engine all included with professional design tools.
2.5 & 3-axis Milling
Quickly set up jobs and generate toolpaths to machine quality parts while reducing wear on your tools with fully integrated CAM, including 2.5 and 3-axis operations.
The quality of parts coming off our machines has improved due to more efficient programming strategies, as well as the integrated CAD environment.
- Jonathan Bancroft G2 Crowd
3+2 Milling (5-axis Positional)
Leverage your shop's multi-axis capabilities with straightforward positional 5-axis programming that will significantly reduce machine set up time between operations.
With our other programme, it would take an hour to calculate toolpaths. With Fusion 360, just a couple of minutes.
- Jeff Hooper Backhand Bikes
4-axis Milling
Create indexed or wrapped toolpaths using the rotary axis of your machine for complex geometry.
I needed the ability to cut past the base of the part to avoid tool changes. This has allowed me to reduce the production time by nearly 80%.
- Dave Killalea
5-axis Simultaneous Milling
Mill complex geometry, avoid collisions and reduce tool lengths for superior surface finished with simultaneous full 5-axis operations.
I can have something from design stage to off the machine in one hour.
- Phil Butterworth MJK Performance
Set Up Probing
Leverage in-machine touch probes to shift work offsets and simplify your set up process.
Fusion 360 is our CAM workhorse. It has be able to do everything we have needed so far.
- Administrator Machine Shop
Turning
Programme 2D turned parts and verify your turning toolpaths with stock simulation to identify errors or collisions with the model, stock, tools and workholding.
Fusion 360 is our CAM workhorse. It has be able to do everything we have needed so far.
- Administrator Machine Shop
Mill-Turning
Combine milling and turning operations to create more complex parts without switching machines.
Fusion 360 has reduced our time to market by about 60%.
- KMP Motorsports
Water Jet, Laser Cutter, Plasma Cutter
Generate toolpaths from solid model features, including flattened sheet metal components, to operate water jet, laser and plasma cutters.
Full-featured CAM and CAD reduced time to make products by over 20%.
- Sean Miksys Great Lakes Machining
Free Post Processor Library
Post full NC programmes in seconds with a post from our extensive library of free, open source and fully editable post processors.
On our very first project, we saved over $14,000 by reducing cycle time by 9 minutes with no additional tool wear.
- Daniel Colbert Colbert Manufacturing
Manufacturing Extension
Overview
On-Machine Verification
Toolpath Optimisation
Programming Automation
Metal Additive
Overview
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.
On-Machine Verification
Streamline your verification process with surface inspection and probe geometry. Free up time for more reliable unattended machining.
Toolpath Optimisation
Improve surface finish and machine safely with a single toolpath for steep and shallow regions. Avoid dwell marks, remove cusps and extend tool life.
Programming Automation
Simplify and speed up drilling by automatically recognising holes, selecting tools and ordering operations efficiently for faster cycles.
Metal Additive
Select print parameters, automatically orient parts and generate support structures and toolpaths with additive manufacturing.
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