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Fusion 360 allows to amplify the functionality with extensions, allowing you and your team to innovate, create higher quality parts, and control your manufacturing and design processes (Machining Extension, Generative Design, Additive Build and Nesting & Fabrication).
Fusion 360 extensions:
Fusion 360 extensions:
Manufacturing Extension
Fusion 360 – Machining Extension provides advanced manufacturing functionality. Get access to more 3- and 5-axis strategies, toolpath optimization, and process automation.
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Additive Build
Fusion 360 – Additive Build Extension allows you to 3D print high value metal parts. Automatically orient parts, create high quality finishing operations, and generate fully associative support structures.
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Generative Design
Fusion 360 – Generative Design Extension allows you to quickly explore high-performing design iterations. Reduce weight, improve product performance, and consolidate parts.
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Nesting & Fabrication
Fusion 360 – Nesting & Fabrication Extension unlocks advanced capabilities to create optimized and associative multi-sheet layouts for sheet metal and non-sheet metal parts.
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Fusion 360 functions:
Fusion 360 functions:
3D Design & Modeling
Sketching – create and edit sketches with sketch constraints, dimensions, and a powerful suite of sketch tools.
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Direct Modeling – edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features
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Surface modeling – create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing, pathcing or designing geometry.
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Parametric Modeling – create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep, etc., that update with design changes.
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Mesh Modeling – edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.
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Freeform Modeling – create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and edit them with intuitive push-pull gestures.
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Rendering – create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging local or cloud rendring.
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PCB Design Integration – synchronize bi-directional changes from your electronics designs seamlessly with Autodesk EAGLE interoperability.
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Sheet Metal – design sheet metal parts components, document flat patterns using 2D drawings and DXFs, and manufacturing your design with cutting strategies for water jet, laser and plasma machines.
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Assemblies – assemble designs with a traditional bottom-up, middle-out, or top-down approach and analyze assembly motion.
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Manufacturing
2.5 & 3-axis Milling – quickly set up jobs and generate toolpaths to machine quality parts while reducing wear on your tools with fully integrated CAM, including 2.5 and 3-axis operations.
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3+2 Milling (5-axis Positional) – leverage your shop’s multi-axis capabilities with straightforward positional 5-axis programming that will significantly reduce machine setup time between operations.
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4-axis Milling – create indexed or wrapped toolpaths using the rotary axis of your machine for complex geometry.
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5-axis Simultaneous Milling – mill complex geometry, avoid collisions, and reduce tool lengths for superior surface finished with simultaneous full 5-axis operations.
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Setup Probing – leverage in-machine touch probes to shift work offsets and simplify your setup process.
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Turning – program 2d turned parts and verify your turning toolpaths with stock simulation to identify errors or collisions with the model, stock, tools, and workholding.
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Mill-Turning – combine milling and turning operations to create more complex parts without switching machines.
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Water Jet, Laser Cutter, Plasma Cutter – generate toolpaths from solid model features, including flattened sheet metal components, to operate water jet, laser, and plasma cutters.
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Free Post Processsor Library – post full NC programs in seconds with a post from our extensive library of free, open source, and fully editable post processors.
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Electronics
Schematic Capture – bring your spark of an idea to life with a complete set of schematic editing tools.
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PCB Layout – connect your ideas together in a complete design with complete PCB layout tools.
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PCB Manufacturing (CAM) – generate gerbers, drill files, and assembly files with a click of a button.
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Design for Manufacturing/DRC – stay true to your manufacturing requirements with customizable design rules.
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MCAD-ECAD Unification – ensure your PCB fits the first time, every time with the only genuinely unified MCAD to ECAD software.
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Component Library Management – stay focused on your design instead of creating parts with ready to use PCB library content and component wizards.
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SPICE Simulation – ensure accuracy and get your schematics right the first time with fully functional SPICE simulation.
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Electronics Cooling – remove excess heat within the enclosure, so you do not damage the internal components.
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Data management and collaboration
Administrative Tools – assign permissions and grant righs to stakeholders inside or outside of your organization with a collection of advanced administrative tools.
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User Management – include internal and external stakeholders in your development process. Manage how users interact with data through project administration.
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File Export – export a variety of industry standard file formats making for easier shareability and external colleboration. Including STEP, DWG, DXF, OBJ, STL, IGES and more.
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Version Control – reduce design cycle errors and workflow inefficiencies. Track every change and prevent conflicts with automated, built-in version management.
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Cloud Storage – access your data anywhere and everywhere, on any device. Continue working when not connected to the internet using offline mode.
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AnyCAD – eliminate the need for translation. Use models and data from any tool directly in your Fusion 360 design.
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Commenting & Redlining – capture and share feedback from any device, directly on the design using comments, redlines, and markups.
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Team Participant – 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.
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Additivie manufacturing
Fused Filament Fabrication – additively manufacture parts using FFF with a seamless approach from design to print preparation. Reduce 3D printing time and save material costs with infill pattern options and automatic part orientation. Simulate slices prior to printing FFF builds across a range of additive manufacturing machines.
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Associative Programming – your toolpaths update with every design change through our fully integrated manufacturing tools, making it quick and easy to machine prototypes.
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Metal Additive Manufacturing – Additively manufacture metal parts using powder bed fusion to reduce material wastage and cost. Select 3D print parameters, automatically orient parts, and generate fully associative support structures.
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Generative Design
Manufacturing Methods & Constraints – identify your design requirements, constraints, materials, and manufacturing options to generate manufacturing-ready designs.
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Machine Learning & AI – review cloud-generated design outcomes based on visual similarities, plots, and filters powered by machine learning..
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Native, Editiable Results – avoid lengthy, manual import-export processes. Choose your outcome and start editing in your modeling environment immediately.
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Cloud Solve – simultaneously solve for various design outcomes, freeing up your time to focus on other tasks.
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Costing – Make the right decisions early in the design process by striking the right balance between performance and cost. Estimate your manufacturing cost, powered by aPriori, for each of the generated design outcomes, based upon production volume requirements.
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Simulation
Cloud Simulation – using cloud credits (click here to more information), setup and analyze multiple tests quickly while eliminating the need for expensive hardware.
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Study Breadth – test for up to eight different failure criterion, including nonlinear, event, and more.
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Simplify – cut solve time or explore design changes specific to the simulation workspace.
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Compare Results – easily visualize the benefits of design changes across 4 different iterations in a single, synchronized view.
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Static Stress – determine displacements, stresses, and other effects resulting from static loads on parts or assemblies.
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Modal Frequency – avoid destructive vibration by understanding the natural frequencies of your systems.
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Thermal & Thermal Stress – understand thermal distributions and how they interact with physical forces.
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Buckling – predict unexpected failure modes for slender members under compression using simulation.
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Non-linear Stress – analyze permanent deformations and nonlinear materials of your design.
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Event Simulation – ensure your design will withstand various impact scenarios.
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Shape Optimization – identify unnecessary regions in your design for light-weighting, utilizing integrated simulation.
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Documentation
2D Manufacturing Drawings – document manufacturing specifications using integrated, associative drawings for parts and assemblies.
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Rendering – create photo-realistic images of your model, leveraging lcoal or cloud rendering.
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Animation – communicate your designs with 3D exploded views and animations to show design assembly.
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