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Join us for Our June Autodesk Community Conversations

We have some great live events and opportunities to ask your questions to experts in our Autodesk Community Conversations. Autodesk Community Conversations are virtual meetups featuring expert speakers from across Autodesk Community. Sessions range from deep dives, tips and tricks, and live demonstrations on Autodesk products to roundtables on industry insights, emerging trends, and career stories. Sessions take place on Zoom and are recorded for YouTube. All experience levels, from beginner to expert, are welcome. Browse upcoming events on our... Read more →

Many Live Events in April

Community Conversations are virtual meetups featuring expert speakers from across Autodesk Community. Sessions range from deep dives, tips and tricks, and live demonstrations on products such as AutoCAD, Revit, Dynamo, and Fusion 360, to roundtables on industry insights, emerging trends, career stories, and more. All experience levels, from beginner to expert, are welcome. The month of April has many events whether you are looking for AEC or Design & Manufacturing expert live conversations you will find something in our Autodesk... Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversations for April 2022

Our Autodesk Community Conversation schedule for April is up. Join us for some Revit Hints and Hacks with Donnia, Dynamo with Sol & Jacob, Civil3D & InfraWorks collaboration tips with Tony, Fusion 360 with Phil, or some AEC Ask Me Anything AEC Roadmap events. And much more! Register for free: http://autode.sk/CommunityConvos Read more →

2022 Autodesk Design & Manufacturing Showreel

Autodesk Design & Manufacturing customers push the boundaries of change and transform industry processes and procedures in exciting and inspiring ways. Our annual Product Design & Manufacturing showcase highlights their incredible work: https://autode.sk/3L80KOJ . Read more →

March 2022 Autodesk Community Conversations

Join experts from Autodesk Community in our virtual meetups to delve into product features, discover innovative workflows, learn tools and techniques, and make connections. See all sessions Dynamo Office Hours: Getting Civil with Dynamo Thursday 03 March 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET (1 hour) Presented by Sol Amour and Jacob Small Come join Sol and Jacob as we dive into the Dynamo for Civil 3D connection; exploring how this relationship is a two way street, the differences in... Read more →

Upcoming Autodesk Community Conversations & Two Recordings

Community Conversations are virtual meetups featuring expert speakers from across Autodesk Community. Sessions range from deep dives, tips and tricks, and live demonstrations on products such as AutoCAD, Revit, Dynamo, and Fusion 360, to roundtables on industry insights, emerging trends, and career stories, and more. All experience levels, from beginner to expert, are welcome. Join a session to delve into product features, discover innovative workflows, learn tools and techniques, and make connections in the Community. We are adding more and... Read more →

What Are Your Top 5 Autodesk University 2021 Sessions to Attend?

Looking for some Autodesk University 2021 sessions? We have been asking our Autodesk Community and seeing what sessions they think others in their industry should bookmark and attend at the upcoming Autodesk University 2021. We asked several in different industries what their top 5 were from the list of sessions. Register today, its free to attend! Register now to build your schedule: https://autode.sk/3m6ICvb Check out these 5 session recommendations. More Top 5 Session recommendations coming. Please feel free to list... Read more →

Facebook Live Event on Fusion 360

Join us this for a special Facebook Live event with the super awesome, Portland based Autodesk employee, and bonified Fusion 360 expert Phil Eichmiller! Thursday June 24 5:00pm PST and exclusively on our Fusion360 group: https://bit.ly/2OxXXXp Read more →

Explore Your Fusion 360 Designs Using Augmented Reality

Fusion 360 has now added the ability to export to the standard format USDZ (Universal Scene Description). This will give you the ability on Apple iOS to view the design in the context of your real world space using Augmented Reality “AR”, Mixed Realty “MR” or Extended Reality “XR”. So imagine you design a sculpture or a lamp and want to see how it might look in your office or studio space or want a client to be able to... Read more →

Let's Talk Design & Manufacturing - Join the June Autodesk Community Conversations

Community Conversations are live, virtual events designed to allow you to gain expertise, connect with leaders and grow your community network. Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversations - Computational Geometry- Geometry Modifications in Dynamo with Sol Amour and Jacob Small Thursday, May 6, 2021

Continuing our excellent series on how to use and understand Dynamo from two Dynamo experts that answer your questions live as well as show you fundamental and powerful concepts. Join Jacob Small and Sol Amour as we take a journey through Dynamo’s geometry modification nodes; learn how to best leverage these modifications, explore how you can derive interesting and new geometry from intersections, and touch upon some best practices to get your Dynamo geometry singing. This series is part of... Read more →

20+ Fusion 360 Additive Manufacturing Tutorials

An article by Paul Sohi where he has compiled many links to 360 Additive Manufacturing tutorials. “You probably noticed some tasty new Fusion 360 additive manufacturing capabilities, from the FFF space and slicers to the metal additive manufacturing capabilities and even Additive Simulation! In the midst of all these new updates, we thought now would be an appropriate time to revisit the many incredible additive manufacturing for Fusion 360 classes taught at Autodesk University. Below is a master list of... Read more →

Fusion 360 March 2021 Product Update – Lots o’ Goodness

This months Fusion 360 Update (V.2.0.9849) from Keqing Song is filled with rich goodness that many users of Fusion 360 will find something valuable and productive. I really like that the new nesting is now a released part of the as part of the Nesting & Fabrication Extension after graduating from the preview. Read about all the updates. March 2021 Product Update – What’s New Read more →

Getting Tipsy with Fusion 360 at Autodesk University 2020

Want to learn how to use Fusion 360 better and more efficiently all while having some fun? This will be a informative and fun class with my friend down under teaching some great tips with Fusion 360. Scott is a master with Fusion 360. The Engineers Guide to Drinks is near and dear to my heart, and I love what Scott has done to utilize the historical guide in his class and interpreted in Fusion 360. CP468677 Getting Tipsy with... Read more →

Customer Success Hub – Learn Valuable Autodesk Product Skills for Free

Visit our newly redesigned Customer Success Hub, which includes free connected learning content to get you started on new learning paths: bit.ly/33wteis Read more →

Fusion 360 Extended Access Program

Autodesk has recently announced a special program for Fusion 360 in the Extended Access Program which gives free commercial access to Fusion 360 until June 30, 2020. Find out more on the free Extended Access Program: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/extended-access-program Read more →

Learn How to Create Electrical Schematics in Fusion 360

There is a free webinar next week that will teach you how to harness (pun intended) the new ECAD feature in Fusion 360. My first schematic with Fusion 360 The building block of every successful circuit board is it's schematic. The Schematic editor is engineered to save design time by providing access to thousands of components. In this webinar you will learn how to design your first schematic. February 11, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register Now Read more →

Track and Compare Your Fusion 360 Use

Have you ever wanted to measure your use and proficiency of Fusion 360 and compare your knowledge to known roles to help identify areas for you or your users that you can improve and learn? There is an app named Command Map in the Autodesk App Store that provides this visually for you. As designers and engineers, we are always learning and needing growth an improving our use of tools and more optimally to document our design ideas digitally. Command... Read more →

Generative Design – 2019 in Review

Its a new year, and another exciting year of the impact of generative design with our customers using Fusion 360. Here is a great article by Mike Smell reviewing the past year of 2019 and providing some context for the future. Generative Design: A Year in Review and A Fresh Start Read more →

Electronics Design Now Included in Fusion 360

This is huge news for those in the design and manufacturing world as you can now do your industrial and mechanical design but with this months update you get professional electronics design. This makes Fusion 360 an end to end design tool for designing and manufacturing products. Read more →

The Autodesk Group Network – Find Your Group

There are currently 70+ groups around the World and growing of thousands of Autodesk product and technology users just like you. Go have a look and find your group or enter your existing group (add a group) to the growing list. Local groups are an invaluable resource and network as I remember running the Portland Autodesk Users Group years and years ago and many awesome local people looking to share ways of using the software and back then it was... Read more →

Fusion 360 Roadmap and More

Autodesk’s Fusion 360 has turned 6 years old and I remember when it was a little conceptual baby incubating in the former Autodesk Labs for people to download and provide their feedback. It has come a long ways in the past 6 years and become a real product and thousands of daily users and amazing products that have been designed by customers using it. If you are interested in where Fusion 360 is going in the future, here is the... Read more →

Bringing the Outside In

At Autodesk, we are always listening to customers and opportunities to improve based on the feedback. One opportunity for bring the outside signals in where we bring people from outside of Autodesk into Autodesk for a limited time as a Visiting Fellow. We have done this successfully for several years in my team within the Office of the CTO and now named Strategic Foresight. The Autodesk Visiting Fellows Program recruits senior-level, industry-shaping talent to help light the future path of... Read more →

Project Egress Build Thursday July 18th at the National Air and Space Museum

I hope you are either planning to attend at the National Air and Space Museum or watch the live stream of the #ProjectEgress build with Adam Savage. Read more here https://airandspace.si.edu/events/project-egress-build and https://www.tested.com/science/space/880604-announcing-project-egress-project-national-air-and-space-museum/ This event should be live streamed tomorrow by the Smithsonian and/or Tested.com. Jen Schachter and Andrew Barth worked into the evening to get as prepared as they can get for this complicated build of many parts some 3D printed, some machined, and some sourced. Autodesk’s employees Jonathan... Read more →

Project Egress 3D Model

The Apollo 11 Command Module CM-107 Columbia Egress hatch in Autodesk Fusion 360. They will assemble a replica made from machined and 3D printed parts next week at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with Adam Savage. Anyone can now download the Fusion 360 model. http://3d.si.edu/apollo11cmhatch. Using high resolution 3D scans of the hatch captured inside the National Air and Space Museum by Autodesk and the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office, engineering student Andrew Barth was able to reverse engineer and... Read more →