Design Extension
Amplify your product design capabilities in Fusion.
Use advanced tools to automate the design of complex plastic features, apply intelligent patterns, and add shape-altering properties to your designs. Receive manufacturing-aware advice to improve product performance and prepare your designs for manufacturing. Empower your design process and turn your ideas into finished products faster.
Start a trial or purchase access to the Fusion Design Extension using the Purchase Manager in Fusion. Learn more about the Fusion Design Extension on the Autodesk website.
Note: The availability to purchase this extension in the Purchase Manager, and the access options available for this extension, depend on the type of Fusion access you have. The Purchase Manager shows the price for monthly and yearly options in your local currency. For daily access, the Purchase Manager displays the number of Flex tokens required. Check the Flex Rate Sheet to see the equivalent cost in your local currency.
What's included
- Configuration Rules: Create logical rules to drive, limit, and automate combinations of values in highly configurable products to ensure you and your team can only create valid, manufacturable configurations across your product line. Configuration Rules uses a low-code visual rules engine that makes it easier and more accessible to author rules than using code syntax.
- Plastic Rules: Assign plastic rules to components to automatically control the properties of plastic features, like physical material and thickness. Create new rules, edit existing rules, or save rules to a library to use them in multiple designs.
- Plastic Design Tools: Use the Boss and Snap Fit tools to create plastic features. Add draft angle, draft pull direction, and fillet radius to Web and Rib features.
- Presets: Create setting presets to quickly reuse common values.
- Geometric Pattern: Create complex patterns with adjustable size and distribution gradients across a selected face.
- Organic Mesh Conversion: Convert organically shaped meshes to solid, surface, or T-Spline bodies.
- Volumetric Lattice: Modify existing solid or closed mesh bodies to create complex volumetric lattices that alter the shape and appearance of a design.
- Design Advice: Identify manufacturability concerns based on industry best practices and company standards, and receive recommendations to improve the manufacturability and performance of your design.
- Find Similar Components: Use AI to find components in your hub that are similar to a component in your active design. Review matches based on geometry, then open, insert, or replace components.
- PMI Authoring: Add product manufacturing information (PMI) to your designs to communicate design intent. Use the PMI in downstream CAM workflows, including automated hole machining and inspection, so teams can apply it directly from the model without re-entering manufacturing requirements.