Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and edit them with intuitive push-pull gestures.
Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.
Create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep, etc., that update with design changes.
Design components, document flat patterns using 2D drawings & DXFs, & manufacture with cutting strategies for water jet, laser & plasma machines.
Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features
Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions, and a powerful suite of sketch tools.
Synchronize bi-directional changes from your electronics designs with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.
Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching or designing geometry.
Create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging local or cloud rendering.
Assemble designs with a traditional bottom-up, middle-out, or top-down approach, and analyze assembly motion.
Fusion 360 makes it easy to program CNC machines. Use simplified controls for high-efficiency roughing, adaptive clearing, and tool orientation. Design for 2D up to 5-axis milling. Simplify probing, turning, mill-turning, and profiling operations with a powerful post engine.
Quickly set up jobs and create 2D and 2.5D toolpaths to drive CNC routers, mills, water jet cutters, laser cutters, and more. Integrated CAD simplifies design revisions, reduces programming times and helps avoid mistakes.
Access a range of powerful 3-axis machining strategies to rapidly create high-quality NC code to rough and finish your 3D parts. Intuitive workflows make it simple to program individual features or entire parts.
Unleash your shop’s multi-axis capabilities with 3+1 and 3+2 (positional) machining. Machine parts with fewer setups, using shorter, more rigid cutting tools, for improved part accuracy and faster cycle times.
Use specialized 4- and 5-axis toolpaths to achieve superior surface finish. Additional tool axis controls and automatic collision avoidance help you achieve safe, smooth and predictable machine motion.
Program 2D turned parts using a suite of dedicated turning strategies. Verify your turning toolpaths with stock simulation to identify errors or collisions with the model, stock, tools, and workholding.
Combine milling and turning operations together to generate NC code that can help you produce more complex parts using multi-tasking hardware capable of supporting both styles of machining.
Use spindle mounted touch probes to monitor and control your CNC machining. Save time and money by measuring stock material, updating work offsets, monitoring quality, automating part setup, and more.
Purchase access to the Machining Extension to unlock additional capabilities in Fusion 360. Gain access to automated 3+2 machining, 4- and 5-axis simultaneous machining, toolpath modifications, surface inspection, part alignment, and more.
Bring your designs to life with automation. Use schematic design, PCB layout, and routing capabilities built into Fusion 360.
Save valuable design time with a complete set of schematic tools. Get access to thousands of components. Interconnect circuits and create custom attribute assignments.
The PCB editor lets you connect your ideas together in the shortest time possible. Even the layout of dense boards is possible with a complete set of PCB layout tools.
Generate gerbers, drill files, and assembly files with a click of a button.
Stay true to your manufacturing requirements with customizable design rules.
Ensure your PCB fits the first time, every time with the only genuinely unified MCAD to ECAD software.
Stay focused on your design instead of creating parts with ready to use PCB library content and component wizards.
Ensure accuracy and get your schematics right the first time with fully functional SPICE simulation.
Remove excess heat within the enclosure, so you do not damage the internal components.
Data management is the center of your unified development process. Gain more control by leveraging managed user permissions, version control, and cloud storage.
Assign permissions and grant rights to stakeholders inside or outside of your organization with a collection of advanced administrative tools.
Include internal and external stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users interact with data through project administration.
Export a variety of industry-standard file formats making it easier to share and collaborate. File types include STEP, DWG, DXF, OBJ, STL, IGES, and more.
Reduce design cycle errors and workflow inefficiencies. Track every change and prevent conflicts with automated, built-in version management.
Access your data anywhere and everywhere, on any device. Continue working when not connected to the internet using offline mode.
Eliminate the need for translation. Use models and data from any tool directly in your Fusion 360 design.
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.
Remove silos from your design process and utilize a collaboration environment regardless of your role. Connect your teams and external stakeholders, communicate in real-time and centralize project activity.
Connect teams across various departments and locations, both internally and externally, using a single platform.
Include internal and external stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users interact with data through project administration.
Capture and share feedback from any device, directly on the design using comments, redlines, and markups.
Access your data anywhere and everywhere, on any device. Continue working when not connected to the internet using offline mode.
Share links to preview in a web browser, so any third parties can interact with a 3D model, even if they don’t have access to a modeling program.
Quickly create physical prototypes to validate prior to manufacturing and build 3D printed parts using additive manufacturing in Fusion 360. Connect to a library of 3D printing machines including Ultimaker, EOS, and Renishaw.
Manufacture parts using FFF in a seamless approach from design to print preparation. Reduce 3D printing time. Save material costs with infill pattern options and automatic part orientation. Simulate slices across a range of additive manufacturing machines before printing.
Use additive manufacturing to fabricate metal parts with powder bed fusion. Reduce material wastage and cost. Select 3D print parameters, automate part orientation and generate fully associative support structures.
Your toolpaths update with every design change through our fully integrated manufacturing tools, making it quick and easy to machine prototypes.
Explore multiple manufacturing-ready outcomes that meet your design specifications while reducing weight, improving performance, and consolidating parts through generative design.
Identify your design requirements, constraints, materials, and manufacturing options to generate manufacturing-ready designs.
Review cloud-generated design outcomes based on visual similarities, plots, and filters powered by machine learning.
Avoid lengthy, manual import-export processes. Choose your outcome and start editing in your modeling environment immediately.
Simultaneously solve for various design outcomes, freeing up your time to focus on other tasks.
Make the right decisions balancing performance & cost early in the design process. Estimate production volume requirements impact on manufacturing cost.
Test your designs to ensure they will survive real world conditions. Simulate your products digitally, reducing the cost of prototyping by using fully-validated solvers.
Using cloud simulation in Fusion 360 eliminates the need for expensive hardware. Set up multiple studies to gain insights on finite element analysis through exploration.
Static simulations introduce the benefits of finite element analysis. Determine the effects of static loads on individual parts or assemblies. They are simple to set up and run.
Cut solve time or explore design changes specific to the simulation workspace.
The compare workspace makes it easy to see the benefits of design changes in a single view. Compare up to four iterations side by side.
Test for eight different failure criteria, including nonlinear, event, and more.
Avoid the consequences of unwanted resonance. Use finite element analysis and modal frequency simulations to improve designs. Modal frequency simulation is one of eight different simulations available with Fusion 360.
Thermal analysis in Fusion 360 is crucial. Determine temperature distributions and heat flow of your designs. Use conduction, convection, and radiation to improve thermal management with design changes.
Remove unnecessary bulk from an existing design. Optimize for light weighting or to maximize stiffness. Using 3D mesh outputs as a guide, you’ll be able to advance design refinements.
Analyze permanent deformations and nonlinear materials of your design.
Test your designs with several impact scenarios. Add time dependencies, inertial effects, velocities, accelerations, damping, and mass to your calculations.
Predict unexpected failure modes for slender members under compression using simulation.
Document your designs in Fusion 360 with 2D drawings, renderings, and multi-step animations. Include dimensions, notes, tolerances, and custom properties.
Turn your 2D designs into detailed parts and assembly drawings. Document manufacturing specifications with drawing templates and stored annotation preferences.
Start marketing before a first prototype. To capture design details drag and drop realistic appearances from an extensive database. Adjust the focal length, exposure and depth of field to create focus.
Use Fusion 360's animation workspace to create videos that show your design assemblies. Auto explode an assembly or, for more precision, change camera views in manual mode. Export to MP4 to share with stakeholders.
Get even more from your Fusion 360 subscription. Access our most advanced design and manufacturing technology with Fusion 360 extensions. Flexible cost-effective options help you access the tools your business needs today.
Unlock additional capabilities that build on the CAM programming tools in Fusion 360. Gain access to 4- and 5-axis simultaneous machining, toolpath modifications, surface inspection, part alignment, and more.
The Nesting & Fabrication Extension brings integrated, automated, and associative nesting to Fusion 360. Save prep time when using with existing assemblies with part filtering. Get access to a library of free and customizable post-processors to get the code to your machine.
Improve product performance with the Simulation Extension. Better products with an assortment of simulation capabilities. Check for structural, thermal, explicit, and injection molding manufacturability. Revise simulation models & studies to compare changes without exporting.
With the Fusion 360 Generative Design Extension, discover unlimited ideas. Explore and optimize designs for specific materials and manufacturing techniques with cloud computing.
The Fusion 360 Product Design Extension is a set of advanced 3D design and modeling tools. Enable an automated approach to creating complex product designs. Improve product performance using intelligent feature settings. Apply guidance as you prepare for manufacturing.
The Fusion 360 Signal Integrity Extension, powered by Ansys, is a cost option that unlocks additional PCB/electronics capabilities inside Fusion 360, allowing you to run electromagnetic analysis on critical signals within your PCB.
Simplify engineering workflows with the Fusion 360 Manage Extension. Enable change orders, release management, automated part numbering, and bill of materials management.
Manufacture metal parts using powder bed fusion to reduce material wastage and cost. Select 3D print parameters, orient parts, and generate fully associative support structures. Create subtractive finishing operations within Fusion 360 for high quality surface finishes.
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