Autodesk Fusion Features

Engineer products with a comprehensive set of modelling tools. Ensure your products' form, fit and function with diverse analysis methods.

Create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions and a powerful suite of sketch tools.

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

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

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

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

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

Create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging local or cloud rendering.

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

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.

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

Autodesk Fusion 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. 

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. Some of these capabilities require a subscription to Autodesk Fusion 360 and the Manufacturing Extension.

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. Some of these capabilities require a subscription to  Autodesk Fusion 360 and the Manufacturing Extension.

Use specialised 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. Access to this functionality requires a subscription to  Autodesk Fusion 360 and the Manufacturing Extension.

Programme 2D turned parts using a suite of dedicated turning strategies. Verify your turning toolpaths with stock simulation. Identify errors or collisions with the model, stock, tools and workholding. 

Produce more complex parts by combining milling and turning operations. Generate NC code for 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. Some of these capabilities require a subscription to  Autodesk Fusion 360 and the Manufacturing Extension.

Purchase access to the Machining Extension to unlock advanced CAM capabilities in Autodesk Fusion, including 4- and 5-axis simultaneous machining, sheet-based nesting and fabrication, and metals-based additive manufacturing.

Bring your designs to life with automation. Use schematic design, PCB layout and routing capabilities built into Autodesk Fusion. 

Save valuable design time with a complete set of schematic tools. Get access to thousands of components. Interconnect circuits and create customised 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 customisable 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 centre 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 organisation 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 Autodesk Fusion design.

All data management features are included with every Autodesk Fusion subscription or can be purchased separately. Add users to your environment for data management and collaboration purposes only.

Remove the silos from your traditional design process and utilise a modern collaboration environment regardless of your role. Connect your teams and external stakeholders, communicate in real time and centralise project activity.

Include internal and external stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users interact with data through project administration.

Connect teams across various departments and locations, both internally and externally, using a single platform.

Capture and share feedback from any device, directly on the design using comments 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 modelling program. 

All data management features are included with every Autodesk Fusion 360 subscription or can be purchased separately. Add users to your environment for data management and collaboration purposes only.

Quickly create physical prototypes to validate prior to manufacturing and build 3D printed parts using additive manufacturing in Autodesk Fusion. 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.

Your toolpaths update with every design change through our fully integrated manufacturing tools, making it quick and easy to machine prototypes.

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.

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 modelling environment immediately.

Simultaneously solve for various design outcomes, freeing up your time to focus on other tasks.

Make the right decisions balancing performance and cost early in the design process. Based on generated design outcomes, estimate production volume requirements impact on manufacturing cost.   

Test your designs to ensure that they will survive real-world conditions. Simulate your products digitally, reducing the cost of prototyping by using fully validated solvers.

Using cloud simulation in Autodesk Fusion 360 eliminates the need for expensive hardware. Set up multiple studies to gain insights on finite element analysis through exploration. 

Test for eight different failure criteria, including non-linear, event and more.

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 different iterations side by side.

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 quick to return results. 

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 Autodesk Fusion 360.

Thermal analysis in Autodesk 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. 

Predict unexpected failure modes for slender members under compression using simulation.

Analyse permanent deformations and non-linear materials of your design.

Test your designs with several impact scenarios. Add time dependencies, inertial effects, velocities, accelerations, damping and mass to your calculations. 

Remove unnecessary bulk from an existing design. Optimise for light weighting or to maximise stiffness. Using 3D mesh outputs as a guide, you will be able to advance design refinements. 

Document your designs in Autodesk Fusion 360 with 2D drawings, renderings and multi-step animations. Include dimensions, notes, tolerances and customised 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 is even made. 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 Autodesk 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 Autodesk Fusion subscription. Access our most advanced design and manufacturing technology with Autodesk Fusion extensions. Flexible cost-effective options help you to access the tools your business needs today. 

Unlock advanced CAM capabilities in Autodesk Fusion, including 4- and 5-axis simultaneous machining, sheet-based nesting and fabrication, and metals-based additive manufacturing.

Improve product performance in Autodesk Fusion with the Simulation Extension. Make better products with an assortment of simulation capabilities. Check for structural, thermal, explicit and injection moulding manufacturability. Revise simulation CAD models and studies to compare design changes without exporting.

The Autodesk Fusion 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 designs for manufacturing.

The Autodesk Fusion Signal Integrity Extension, powered by Ansys, is a cost option that unlocks additional PCB/electronics capabilities inside Autodesk Fusion, allowing you to run electromagnetic analysis on critical signals within your PCB.

Simplify engineering workflows with the Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension. Enable change orders, release management, automated part numbering and bill of materials management.