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By RJ in Fusion 360, Posted June 15, 2017

Autodesk Fusion 360 - The Quote Edition

I was at a Fusion 360 Workshop with Autodesk in Dallas a few weeks ago.  We got some great hands-on experience and got to work directly with some of the Fusion Success Team also.  Thanks Thom for the workshop and Shayne, Marty, Michael for your great insights into how Fusion 360 thinks!   As I was jotting notes down on my surface, I kept hearing these great lines.  Some of them made me chuckle a little, some of them made me think about Fusion 360 in a little different light.  I scribbled them down with my standard quote glyph so I could remember them fo…

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By RJ in Fusion 360, Posted June 7, 2017

Autodesk Fusion 360 - Update Live! (May 30, 2017)

Guess what, another new Fusion 360 Update hit last week!  As usual, I’m not going to cover every detail which you can get in [Autodesk Fusion 360 Update blog here].  I'm just going to focus on a few of my favorite updates. Buy Fusion 360 Add Fusion 360 to your cart to subscribe now FCA out of beta!  That’s right, FCA!  Wait, you don’t know what that means?  Actually, I wouldn’t have known either from the acronym, but you probably already know what it does.  FCA is Fully Constrained Analysis.  This is what makes your sketched geometry change colors t…

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By Kevin Schlack in Fusion 360, Posted May 16, 2017

The Next “MCAD” Revolution

My passion has always been around computer-aided design (CAD) for the manufacturing industry.  It may be an old acronym, but I still like to call it MCAD.  To be honest, the last 5 or so years, things have gotten a bit stale.  Sure, desktop 3D parametric solid-modeling has been advancing consistently with better performance and new bells & whistles, but it’s still a technology that’s been around for years… eek, decades. Let’s face it; we’re due for some disruption in the MCAD industry!  That thought leads to something I’m really excited about…  The next…

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By RJ in Fusion 360, Posted May 11, 2017

Autodesk Fusion 360 Goes Sheet Metal (beta)

I got access to the Fusion 360 Sheet Metal beta recently.  If you don’t already know, yes, Fusion 360 will be getting sheet metal!  It has, after all, been one of the number one requested features on the IdeaStation.  As usual for many new features in Fusion 360, the tools start out in a limited beta phase.  You can request access to beta programs if you want to help with testing and development during that phase, and once invited to the beta your new stuff automatically becomes available as soon as you log in to Fusion 360.  Yes, on any machine, nothing…

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By Eric Schubert in Fusion 360, Posted May 3, 2017

Use Fusion 360's Shape Optimization for Strong, Lightweight Parts

Weight.  It’s always a consideration.  How heavy is my product?  How will that affect shipping costs?  Can I reduce the amount of material that I’m using?  Can we design better blanks for faster machining?  These questions constitute just a small number that pop up during the design of various products.  These issues have traditionally been handled through physical prototypes and educated guesses.  But, what if you could address the issue of weight savings ahead of time, early on in the design phase of a project? Checking out Autodesk’s newest product,…

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