Is the Autodesk Assistant just another useless AI chatbot? That’s what I thought... until Autodesk gave it direct access to Fusion's core API. Now, it’s no longer just answering basic questions. It can literally execute commands, fix geometry, and write backend scripts directly inside your active file. In this video, we look at 7 time-saving use cases that completely changed how I use Autodesk Fusion, turning this AI chatbot into an actual CAD co-pilot. Whether you are trying to find a missing constraint in a sketch, clean up a massive assembly browser tree, or bypass the limitations of the free Personal Use license, this new prompt-to-API workflow is a game-changer. Mentioned in This Video Fusion Text Command Used: Sketch.ShowUnderconstrained Related video: https://youtu.be/matqB8nGzQI TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Is Autodesk Assistant actually useful? 0:25 — The Lay Flat Hack (Free License Arrange Alternative) 0:57 — How to Mass Fillet Sharp Edges in Seconds 1:55 — Auto-Generating Bills of Materials & Exporting CSVs 2:40 — Creating Parametric Sketches with Complex Math 3:26 — The Hidden Text Command for Underconstrained Sketches 4:10 — Cleaning Up Massive Browser Trees & Renaming Bodies 5:09 — Splitting & Exporting Imported STL/Mesh Files 5:53 — Is this the future of CAD?
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A big help for me, love new updates. Makes me look a bit more "intermediate" now instead of beginner. Although I do understand that everyone should learn the long way before the short way
I want to make a cad model of leg exoskeleton on fusion 360 can you help me
We don’t need or want AI in design. When will they figure this out?
AI is garbage in garbage out, also like others pointed out it's free now but in the future probably costs tokens and if it resends the whole instructionset each time you refine it will be a very very expensive design file at the end. I rather learn myself and think for myself although sometimes AI is usefull if you exactly know what you want.
Jeśli będziemy urzywać tego narzędzia to po jakimś czasie Fusion nakarmi się naszymi pomysłami i będzie na nas zarabiać...
It's a tool that is good enough to do your dirty works. I like stuff like sketch hiding because you don't want to waste time finding sketches here and there.
I've had great and terrible experiences with it. The worst was when I asked it to do finger joints, and it did them the way I would have in my first couple of months using Fusion.
🔥🔥🔥Excellent breakdown of practical tricks for free license users.
I used the assistant to help parameterize the circumference of a belt. It gave me all the formulae necessary, and turned out quite well. I don't like using the asst to do/draw/create things for me but rather to help me understand how to do it so that I can do it. thanks for the video!
a great idea, i want it to go as far as generating drawing elements to mimic an imported mesh exactly , that would be incredibly helpful , 3d scan to parametric drawing in one command for 2027 please
No thanks. It's free now until they charge you for the tokens. It's about getting us hooked on it so they can make it worse and charge more.
i think il pass. we dont need a middleman to draw cad its often faster to manually doing what i need than to type what i need then keep going back and forth with a chatbot until i reach my result
"A.I." is just "Atrophied Intelligence", "Actually Idiotic", "Artificial Idiocy", "Advanced Incompetence". Take your pick; It's all brain-rot. The folks who keep wanting to shoehorn it into everything they can get their grubby fingers on are slop guzzling LLM-ings.
I guess that's only for subscribers... at least it does not work for me
BTW, Chat and Claude are great at creating prompts that work for Fusion AI, just encase one isn't very good at prompts. I imagine that Grok and Gemini are good for this too.
Interesting. I would only use AI to speed up operations that I clearly understand in manual/human mode and use often. Verification can be important.
All you need to understand about this is that it will do what you ask it to do… sort of… close, but not quite… and then you’ll clarify or reframe your question and try again. Again, it will be close, but not quite. Repeat that process over and over until you realize that whenever it answers you, that answer costs you money, in the form of tokens or credits, whether it is correct or not. If you had a business where customers are willing to pay over and over and over for “sort of correct but not actually” answers to questions and requests, in how much of a rush would you be to give an actually correct and useful answer? How about if your company has a board of directors and shareholders? A fool and his AI tokens are easily parted…
This looks very interesting. Thanks.
AFAIK the AI behind it is Claude. As it is still a technical preview, I assume that is the reason why it still is free. You can also use Claude desktop and connect it via MCP to Fusion. You would not believe how many token it consumes for easy construction tasks. So if the feature is billed in the future, most of the private users will probably not use it, as it would be to expensive.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing the tips. I asked Autodesk Assistant to design a 100mm deck cleat for a sailing boat. It tried really hard but ultimately gave up. Early days, great promise.