How to access Generative Design as a Product Design & Manufacturing Collection subscriber

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Aug 14, 2020

As a subscriber to Product Design & Manufacturing Collection or Enterprise Business Agreement (EBA), you can use the Generative Design extension in Fusion 360. Fusion 360 is available within the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection and EBA.


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How to assign users for Fusion 360 from the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

Generative Design is an extension that is included as a service with Fusion 360. To get started with Generative Design, an individual subscription of Fusion 360 must be assigned to everyone using Generative Design within Fusion 360.

Unlike other products within the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection - each individual user for Fusion 360 needs their own Autodesk Account, and their account includes a subscription to Fusion 360.

Note: Multi-user licenses are not an available option for licensing Fusion 360.

 

Assigning a seat of Fusion 360 in New User Management

To complete the following steps, the Primary Administrator/Secondary Admin of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection contract must assign a seat of Fusion 360 to each user for Fusion 360.

  1. Visit your Autodesk Account management page
  2. Select By User from the User Management Tab on the left
  3. Note: Each individual Fusion 360 user needs their own seat and services assigned. If this user is not yet a part of your team - select Invite User and invite them through their email address. If they do not have an Autodesk Account, they need to create one using the same email address.
  4. Enter the end user's first and last name and email address.

    Note: To add multiple users, click Switch to multiple invites.

  5. Click Send Invite. The user's status displays as pending until they accept the invitation. They will not have access to any products or services until you assign them.

Once the invite is sent, in the By User tab in User Management, the Status of the user will be set to Active (instead of Pending). To assign the products and services:

  1. Click the “View Details” button when hovering over the user in the By User tab
  2. In this view, you can see all Products and Services assigned to the end user. To assign the Fusion 360 and Generative Design services, services select Assign on the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection and select Assign All.

  3. **Assigning these flex access services provide the user the ability to consume cloud credits from their contract, if applicable.

 

Assigning a subscription of Fusion 360 in Classic User Management

To gain access to Fusion 360 the Contract Manager/Primary Administrator of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection contract needs to perform the following actions.

For multi-user licenses on a contract of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, or those on an Enterprise Business Agreement (token flex) - to assign a license of Fusion 360 in order to use Generative Design, the Contract Manager must follow the steps below:

  1. Visit your Autodesk Account management page
  2. Select Classic User Management from the User Management Tab on the left

  3. Note: If the Classic User Management tab does not appear, navigate to the section above on Assigning a Seat of Fusion 360 in the New User Management.

  4. In the User Management tab, if the user does not exist add them as a user by selecting the Add button. This includes adding their First and Last Name, and their email address. An Autodesk Account has to be created for this user, if one does not exist yet.

  5. Once the user is added, select Edit Access next to their name, to assign Fusion 360 and other services.

  6. For Fusion 360 the following services and products have to be checked:

    **Assigning these flex access services provide the user the ability to consume cloud credits from their contract, if applicable.

 

How to download and install Fusion 360

Once the products and services for Fusion 360 and Generative Design have been assigned to the end user - Fusion 360 then needs to be downloaded and installed. Fusion 360 needs to be installed on every machine that will be using Fusion 360 and installs per user on the computer.

  1. Navigate to the Autodesk Account management page, and sign in as the user who was assigned Fusion 360 from the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
  2. Select Products and Services on the left
    1. Note: It can take up to 30 minutes after assigning the Fusion 360 product to show up in the Products and Services tab.
  3. Next to Fusion 360 select Download Now

  4. Run the downloaded installer

Fusion 360 is a cloud-based application and requires access to certain Internet servers to function. For more information on the ports and web domains that are required for access, review the articles below:

 

How to access and use Generative Design from Fusion 360

Once Fusion 360 is installed, Generative Design can now be used! To access Generative Design once Fusion 360 is opened, select the “Design” workspace drop-down from the ribbon and change to the Generative Design Workspace.

 Follow the tutorials below to learn and understand how to use Generative Design.

 

Generative Design Extension

Don’t miss taking advantage of the free 7-day trial of Generative Design! To access this, when within Fusion 360, select the Extension Manager in the upper right corner of Fusion 360. Once selected, you can view all purchasing options including a 7-Day Trial.

When the 7-day trial is completed - Generative Design usage can be purchased with a flexible per-transaction option using cloud credits. To learn more about using Generative Design with cloud credits here.

Generative Design access can also be purchased to include unlimited solves and unlimited outcome designs. This allows you unlimited outcomes without needing to spend cloud credits for each transaction. These can be purchased after completing your 7-day free trial of Generative Design with this link.


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