Maximize design performance with simulation

Achieve optimized design, performance, and manufacturability of 3D designs using the Autodesk Fusion Simulation Extension.

What is the Autodesk Fusion Simulation Extension?

The Autodesk Fusion Simulation Extension empowers your team to analyze part performance, manufacturability, and generative design capabilities. Generative design outcomes can help you discover weight reduction and performance enhancements. Combine this with simulation study types like structural, thermal, and explicit simulations, as well as injection molding to gain a comprehensive understanding of how your 3D design will perform under real-life conditions before manufacturing.

Why subscribe to the Autodesk Fusion Simulation Extension?

Shorten your product development time

Automate performance and reduce design costs with generative design. Minimize physical prototypes with digital prototypes using simulation tools. 

Improve your product's reliability

Access advanced simulation study types to validate real-world design performance through side-by-side design comparisons. 

Expand your design possibilities

Use manufacturing process-aware artificial intelligence to quickly expand design options well beyond human imagination.

Key capabilities in the Autodesk Fusion Simulation Extension

Nonlinear Static Stress

Simulate large deformation, motion, contact, and load change behaviors on nonlinear materials.

Structural Buckling

Develop and refine designs to prevent structural failure with insights like the critical buckling multiplier.

Event Simulation

Predict how time-dependent forces influence 3D design performance. 

Modal Frequencies

Inspect the effects of natural, free vibration on your part or assembly to help you fine-tune your design.

Injection Molding

Learn how part design influences part manufacturability and part quality for plastic injection molded parts.

Electronics Cooling

Identify risk of electronic component and part failure due to overheating on your printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies.

Generative Design

Explore multiple outcomes that meet your design specifications while reducing weight and improving performance.

Thermal Simulation

Trace heat transfer and temperature-induced stresses with thermal steady state and thermal stress simulations.