How Autodesk is expanding AI across Design and Manufacturing

Autodesk Assistant

Designed to understand your workflows, Autodesk Assistant brings industry specific context to help execute tasks and orchestrate actions across your 3D models, not just answer questions. And now, Assistant is live across products in our Design and Manufacturing portfolio:

• In Fusion, Assistant has prompt to API capabilities allowing AI access to almost all Fusion functionality, streamlined onboarding, and a redesigned, context-aware experience.
• In Inventor, Assistant has the ability to perform complex tasks or gather information from your designs without writing a single line of code.
• In Moldflow, Assistant streamlines the simulation process by providing immediate, in-context assistance, guiding users through result interpretation and troubleshooting.
• In Vault, Assistant helps you find information faster, learn features in context, and complete everyday data management tasks using natural language.

Model Context Protocols (MCPs)

For customers that may want more customizable AI-enabled workflows outside the Fusion application, we have two public MCPs. These give developers and technical teams the option to extend Autodesk tools to fit their needs in their own environment.

• Autodesk Fusion MCP enables action. It allows customers to extend Fusion with an AI-powered MCP that connects their tools, automates routine work, and supports how their teams design, engineer, and build.
• Autodesk Fusion Data MCP enables understanding. It brings Fusion design data into the modern AI workflow by searching, understanding, and managing designs with context.

In practice, teams can use these MCPs to connect Fusion to their internal systems, automate multi-step engineering workflows, or query and reuse design data across projects, all powered by AI agents tailored to how they already work.

Autodesk supports customers across the full spectrum of AI adoption, from out-of-the-box assistance to tailored solutions, bringing everyone along as the industry evolves. That's why we're focused on offering a range of options that meet customers where they are. Together, the Autodesk Assistant and Fusion MCPs open the door to a new class of AI-driven workflows inside and beyond Fusion - all with a goal of helping manufacturers increase productivity and grow their businesses.