Advanced Manufacturing

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Just today I wrapped up a series of Hands-On Test Drives for SOLIDWORKS users interested in using Fusion 360 to expand their capablilities. I wanted to show how SWx files behave in Fusion and what you are able to do with them once they are there.…

Last week I was at the annual Autodesk training in Denver, CO. We get to do a lot of hands-on review of what’s new in the latest releases of software as well as get reinforcement on the latest strategies and stuff, you know, like Jedi training for…

Early last week I was working in Fusion 360 and I ended up totally confused about my data storage options. So what did I do? ...

I could have tried chasing down articles on the Web and piecing together the truths and half-truths out there hoping to…

Earlier last year it seems I was always referring people to the Fusion 360 Roadmap. How cool is it that the Fusion 360 team not only took user feedback seriously, but also had a public plan of their features and improvements! However, the months…

I was doing some complex surfacing (modeling the Fusion 360logo, of course) when I broke some law of mathematics with the operation I asked Fusion 360 to compute. Now, I’m not saying it wouldn’t have started responding again if I had enough patience…