I have been using AutoDesk Fusion for a couple of months now and I am very pleased with the software. Probably its best feature is the AI help window. Rather than spending hours browsing through help documents or web pages, you just ask it a question in plain english, making sure to use the correct terminology and it will walk you through the process and even anticipate your next question.

I began with a simple assembly, the indexer. I want to see if I could duplicate the look and feel of our current parts manuals. What is amazing is that I can create the assembly and from that create an exploded view and I can toggle back and forth between the views. It automatically creates a bill of materials and balloons to each part with the correct quantities. I can see that when I become proficient, creating parts manuals will be much quicker. There is one minor downside. A few years ago, we switched the labels of the parts from item number to part number and you folks seemed to like it better. Fusion can not do that automatically. There are plusses and minuses to each method and a small price to pay for increased precision and speed. The above is the video I created showing the explosion of the indexer. Mike is pretty pumped about that potential. Drop me a line and tell me what you think.