Fusion features

A 3D design and modelling platform - Use a comprehensive set of modelling and analysis tools to engineer the form, fit, and function of your products.

Sketching - Develop sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions and a powerful suite of sketch tools.

Direct modelling - Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without being concerned about time-based features.

Surface modelling - Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, patching or designing geometry.

Parametric modelling - Create history-based features that update with design changes, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep, etc.

Mesh modelling - Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.

Freeform modelling - Develop complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and edit them with intuitive push-pull gestures.

Rendering - Render photo-realistic images of your model with local or cloud storage.

PCB design integration - Synchronise bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.

Sheet metal - Design sheet metal part components. Document flat patterns using 2D drawings and DXFs. Manufacture your designs with cutting strategies for water jet, laser, and plasma machines.

Assemblies - Assemble designs with a traditional bottom-up, middle-out, or top-down approach and analyse assembly motion.

Design to manufacture - Programme CNC machines with easy-to-learn toolpaths specifically made for 2D geometry and up to 5-axis machining. Utilise simplified controls for high-efficiency roughing, adaptive clearing and tool orientation.

2D and 2.5D machining - Quickly set up jobs and produce 2D and 2.5D toolpaths to drive CNC routers, mills, water jet cutters, laser cutters and more. Use integrated CAD to simplify design revisions, reduce programming times and help decrease mistakes.

3-axis machining - Unlock a range of powerful 3-axis machining strategies to quickly create high-quality NC code to rough and finish your 3D parts. Intuitive workflows streamline the programming of individual features or entire parts. Some of these capabilities require an additional Fusion Machining Extension subscription.

Multi-axis positional machining - Activate 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 cycle speed. Some of these capabilities require an additional Fusion Machining Extension subscription.

4 and 5-axis simultaneous milling - Use specialised 4- and 5-axis toolpaths. Additional tool axis controls and automatic collision avoidance help you achieve safe, smooth, predictable machine motion and a superior surface finish. Access to this functionality requires an additional Fusion Machining Extension subscription.

Turning - Use a suite of dedicated turning strategies to programme 2D turned parts. Validate your turning toolpaths with stock simulation to diagnose errors or collisions with the model, stock, tools and work holding.

Turn-mill - Combine milling and turning operations to produce NC code that can help you create more complex parts, using multi-tasking hardware capable of supporting both styles of machining.

Setup probing and part inspection - 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. Some of these capabilities require an additional Fusion Machining Extension subscription.

Fusion Machining Extension - Purchase access to the Machining Extension to unlock additional capabilities in Fusion. Access automated 3+2 machining, 4- and 5-axis simultaneous machining, toolpath modifications, surface inspection, part alignment and more.

Automation - Use schematic design, PCB layout, and routing capabilities to bring designs to life.

Schematic capture - A complete set of schematic tools will save valuable design time. Access thousands of components, interconnect circuits and create custom attribute assignments.

PCB layout - Connect your ideas together in the shortest time possible. A complete set of PCB layout tools makes it possible to layout even the most dense boards.

PCB manufacturing (CAM) - Generate gerbers, drill files and assembly files with a click of a button.

Design for manufacturing/DRC - Maintain your manufacturing requirements with customisable design rules.

MCAD-ECAD unification - Ensure your PCB always fits with the only genuinely unified MCAD to ECAD software.

Component library management - Concentrate on your design rather than creating parts with ready-to-use PCB library content and component wizards.

SPICE simulation - Maintain accuracy and ensure your schematics are right the first time with fully-functional SPICE simulation.

Electronics cooling - Remove excess heat within the enclosure so as not to damage internal components.

Unified development process - Improve control by leveraging managed user permissions, version control and cloud storage.

Administrative tools - Employ advanced administrative tools to assign permissions and grant rights to internal and external stakeholders.

User management - Include all stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users within or outside your organisation interact with data.

File export - Export a variety of industry-standard file formats, including STEP, DWG, DXF, OBJ, STL and IGES, making it easier to share and collaborate.

Version control - Avoid design cycle errors and inefficient workflows. Track all changes and prevent conflicts with automated, built-in version management.

Cloud storage - Access your data anywhere and everywhere, on any device. Continue working without an internet connection using offline mode.

AnyCAD - Eliminate translation demands using models and data from any tool directly in your Fusion design.

Fusion Team Participant - Add users to your environment for data management and collaboration purposes only with a Fusion Team Participant license.

Connect teams and stakeholders - Communicate in real-time and centralise project activity. Prevent silos from dividing your traditional design process and utilise a modern collaboration environment regardless of your role.

User management - Include all stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users within or outside your organisation interact with data.

Global share - Use a single platform to connect internal and external teams across different departments and locations.

Commenting and redlining - Capture and share feedback from any device, directly on the design using comments, redlines and markups.

Unlimited access - Access your data anywhere and everywhere, on any device. Continue working even without internet using offline mode.

Public/private design sharing - Share previews to facilitate reviews on a browser without access to 3D modelling software. Continue working without internet using offline mode.

Fusion Team Participant - Add users to your environment for data management and collaboration purposes only with a Fusion Team Participant license.

3D printing - Generate physical prototypes and parts to assess and validate designs before manufacturing. Access a library of 3D printing machines, including Ultimaker, EOS, and Renishaw.

Fused filament fabrication - Manufacture parts using FFF, moving seamlessly from design to print preparation. Reduce 3D printing time and save material costs with infill pattern options and automatic part orientation. Simulate slices across a range of additive manufacturing machines before printing.

Associative programming - Easily machine prototypes with fully integrated manufacturing tools that update with every design change.

Metal additive manufacturing - 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.

Investigate multiple manufacturing-ready outcomes - Develop options that meet your design specifications while reducing weight, improving performance and consolidating parts through generative design.

Manufacturing methods and constraints - Define your design requirements, constraints, materials and manufacturing options to generate manufacturing-ready designs.

Machine learning and AI - Review cloud-generated design outcomes based on visual similarities, plots and filters powered by machine learning.

Native, editable results - Prevent lengthy, manual import-export processes. Select your outcome and start editing in your modelling environment instantly.

Cloud solve - Simultaneously solve for various design outcomes, releasing time to focus on other tasks.

Costing - Make informed decisions balancing performance and cost early in the design process. Assess production volume requirement's impact on manufacturing cost based on generated design outcomes.

Evaluate your designs - Ensure your design will succeed under real world conditions. Generate digital simulations to reduce prototyping costs by using fully-validated solvers.

Cloud simulation - Eliminate the need for expensive hardware. Set up multiple studies to gain insights on finite element analysis through exploration.

Study breadth - Test for multiple different failure criteria, including nonlinear, event and more.

Simplify - Reduce solve time or investigate design changes specific to the simulation workspace.

Compare workspace - See the benefits of design changes in a single view by comparing up to four different iterations, side by side.

Static stress - Use simple static simulations to understand the benefits of finite element analysis. Determine the effects of static loads on individual parts or assemblies.

Modal frequency - Prevent unwanted resonance. Improve designs with finite element analysis and modal frequency simulation - one of eight different simulations available with Fusion.

Thermal and thermal stress - Determine your designs' temperature distributions and heat flow. Use conduction, convection, and radiation to improve thermal management with design changes.

Buckling - Use simulation to predict unexpected failure modes for slender members under compression.

Non-linear stress - Analyse permanent deformations and nonlinear materials of your design.

Event simulation - Add time dependencies, inertial effects, velocities, accelerations, damping, and mass to your calculations, testing your designs using several impact scenarios.

Shape optimisation - Remove unnecessary bulk from an existing design. Optimise for light weighting or to maximise stiffness. Advance design refinements using 3D mesh outputs as a guide.

Document your designs - Document your designs with 2D drawings, renderings and multi-step animations. Include dimensions, notes, tolerances and custom properties.

2D manufacturing drawings - Transform your 2D designs into detailed parts and assembly drawings. Document manufacturing specifications with drawing templates and stored annotation preferences.

Rendering - Incorporate photorealistic renders into marketing collateral before a first prototype is even made. Drag and drop realistic appearances from an extensive database to communicate design details. Adjust the focal length, exposure and depth of field to style renders and highlight product features.

Animation - Use the animation workspace to create videos that present your design assemblies. Auto-explode an assembly or, for more precision, change camera views in manual mode. Export to MP4 to share with stakeholders.