User assistance reference

Aside from standard application help, Fusion includes these in-product guidance features:

Autodesk Assistant

Autodesk Assistant provides an AI-guided self-service, including an option to contact support, for getting answers to product questions. Using Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI, Autodesk Assistant provides summary information or step-by-step guidance when it is confident that the content is relevant to your question. With each generative response, the Autodesk Assistant indicates the content resources used to generate the answer.

You can ask for help using Fusion or for troubleshooting issues without leaving Fusion. Depending on the type of account you have, you can find solutions to product questions, engage in a chat with one of our product support agents, request a callback, or create a support case.

Open Autodesk Assistant

  1. Go to the bottom-right corner of your product and click the icon to open Autodesk Assistant.

    autodesk assistant icon

    Or from the Help menu, select Autodesk Assistant.

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    The Autodesk Assistant dialog appears.

  2. Enter a question.

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  3. Autodesk Assistant answers the question. Click Sources for links to the information Autodesk Assistant used to generate the answer.

Connect with a support agent

If the suggested resources offered by Autodesk Assistant don't answer your question, depending on your subscription, you have a few options:

contact support agent

Your feedback is important

Share your experience with Autodesk Assistant.

give feedback

The Guide

The Guide provides useful information that helps you as you work. To open the Guide click Help > Open Guide. The Guide opens to the right of the canvas.

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Important: Currently, this feature is only available to a portion of our customers. We appreciate your patience as we work to make it available to everyone. The Guide and Learning Panel can't be displayed at the same time.

Insights

Personalized insights appear in the Guide to support you as you work. Insight content is designed to be informative and actionable and intended to optimize your experience.

The information is personalized because as you work in Fusion, we collect anonymous information about your usage and data. We use that data to determine which Insights you see.

Insight types:

What data is collected?

We map basic profile data, such as your location and industry, and specific interaction data to your user ID to help ensure we send only information relevant to you and the way you use our products.

Some examples of the data we collect might include:

How is the data used?

We collect usage data based on when you start Fusion along with your interactions within the product. We might, in some instances, associate the data with your Autodesk Account.

We might need to process usage data to deliver certain services or features you've requested, provide support, improve product security, ensure product stability, or identify non-valid use of our products and services.

Additionally, information about how you use Autodesk products and services helps us support and improve them. These are a few examples of how we use the usage data we collect:

We might also use aggregated usage statistics (which do not identify you) for our internal operational purposes; for example, to calculate monthly active users per product or country.

Data being collected is continuously explored to develop more powerful and useful insights. You can read more about data collection and privacy in the Autodesk Trust Center.

Learning Panel

Important: The Learning Panel is not available on the Help menu when viewing the Home tab. If the Learning Panel is not available when viewing a design, modify your Preferences. To enable the Learning Panel, in the Preferences dialog, under Data Collection And Use, select the Learning Panel checkbox, and click OK.

When viewing a design, the Learning Panel provides details in the product about most workspace tabs and tools. This can reduce the time you need to spend searching for answers. By default, navigating and using tools changes the Learning Panel content interactively. (To pause this dynamic behavior, at the top of the Learning Panel, turn off Interactive mode.)

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Accessible from the Application bar Help menu, click Show Learning Panel. Three tabs display: Get Started, Guidance, and My Learning.

Tip: On the top toolbar, while viewing a tool's tooltip, press Ctrl+/ (Windows) or Cmd+/ (macOS) to open the Learning Panel to show information about that specific tool.