What's New in Autodesk® CFD 2026

New and removed features:

• Introduced the Autodesk CFD FBX Exporter 6.0 plug-in to export results to Autodesk visualization products.
• Removed the QT scripting language that was used to automate model setup.

Improvements and fixes:

• Resolved an issue with selecting the surfaces and volumes on the canvas.
• Improved the overall responsiveness of the user interface.
• Resolved an issue with licenses that was occurring in the License Manager.
• Resolved an issue with the installation step flagged as a security concern in some IT environments.
• Resolved an interoperability issue with PTC Creo where the Autodesk CFD plugin's DLL was locked.
• Resolved an issue with boundary conditions moving to other surfaces when re-opening a model exported from Autodesk Fusion.
• Improved stability when resetting external volume dimensions using the Geometry Tools.
• Improved stability when refining the mesh.
• Resolved an issue when changing density in the Material Editor while using a comma as a decimal separator.
• Resolved an issue with solving on the cloud a model generated using the Surface Wrap option.
• Improved the consistency of job statuses in the Status bar, Solver Manager, and the SCM web console.
• Resolved an issue where logs were not displayed in the SCM web console.
• Resolved an issue causing the heat exchanger model to not produce the expected outlet temperature.
• Improved stability when using the Massed Particle Traces option.
• Resolved an issue with generating an empty bounce data table from traces.
• Resolved an issue with result tooltips not showing proper values when solving on the cloud.
• Resolved an issue causing legends to not display fully on the canvas.
• Resolved an issue with changing the language in the CFDConfig tool.
• Improved the translations of error messages.
• Resolved an issue causing the result tooltips to disappear when changing the language.