Fusion 360 + Holo Lens

[mufadal89]

Hello,

         When will the Integration of CAD with AR/ VR be a reality in the future. When will the Holo lens integration with Fusion be a reality .

Thanks

[garin · Accepted solution]

I'm guessing this question comes from the announcement we made a little over a year ago with our "Proof of Concept" project with Microsoft around the Hololens. At the time we were starting to look at the technology and what we might be able to do with it. You can check out the our blog post and the YouTube video around our Proof of Concept.  

http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/future-of-design-with-microsoft-hololens-and-fusion...

Since then, we have a group looking at all things Augmented/Virtual Reality to see what we can do in the future. One thing we quickly realized is that we don't want to develop something for each Autodesk Product (Fusion 360, Inventor, Revit, Maya...) separately. To allow us to scale our AR/VR integration across products we will be using Stingray (our gaming/experience engine) allowing users the ability to bring CAD data into Stingray. This will allow users to quickly open CAD data into an environment built easily viewing and interacting with the 3D data. They are making great progress at bringing Fusion 360 models into Stingray (including joints). This is still under development but we are making great progress in this area. 

We also have a partner (ENTiTi) that has an app on the app store that allows you to bring your Fusion 360 models into their engine to view through AR/VR. 

More to come as we progress on this project.

[bryan_moosman]

Hello,

Sorry, I just have to chime in here - I highly disagree with this approach.

I think we know that the future of CAD will be in VR / AR devices.  What we don't need is simply another viewer - I'm sure most companies will have some solution or another that will let them view their models in the HoloLens.  It's fairly trivial to convert the file to another type and display it.

I love fusion 360 and it really is my CAD program of choice right now.  That being said, I'll probably end up going with whichever company (of the big 3 - CATIA, NX, Solidworks) offers an INTEGRATED CAD solution.  The potential of the HoloLens in a real development environment is massive. The largest barrier at this point is a native modeling solution.  As CATIA/Solidworks was on the original list of partners and we haven't heard anything from them, I'd suspect they're way out front at this point.

Not to say that this couldn't be accomplished in Fusion 360 with an excellent API connection - I just don't see the architecture working out in any kind of streamlined way.  Having had some experience with a few CAD APIs, I think this would produce a limited solution at best.

Are there any plans for Fusion 360 to ensure an integrated CAD solution - or is it just another viewer at this point?

Thanks,

Bryan

[chr.schiffer]

I agree fully with you, there are plenty of VR / AR viewers, what is needed is to be able to interact directly with the model inside Fusion as well as all other 3D cad products. Obviously the first company / product to provide this, will become marked lead for years to come.

[Anonymous]

couldn't agree more