Singapore – Autodesk is expanding its AI capabilities across architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), design and manufacturing, operations, and media and entertainment, with a focus on connecting project information and automating tasks throughout the lifecycle of products and assets.
The company’s approach combines Autodesk AI with its Forma, Fusion and Flow industry clouds. Autodesk said the tools are designed to connect people, data and workflows, helping teams use project context to make decisions and carry out tasks while retaining control over their work.
Project-aware AI and agentic capabilities
Autodesk Assistant, the company’s AI interface for design and make workflows, is available across a range of Autodesk products. It brings AI capabilities into existing tools to help users understand project information, plan work and take action.
Autodesk is also previewing an expanded, agentic version of Assistant. The experience is designed to identify relevant information and capabilities across products, projects and teams based on a user’s intended task, rather than requiring them to select a particular application or AI function.
Where supported, users will be able to incorporate their own agents, tools and trusted partner services into the experience.
AEC: Connecting information across project lifecycles
In architecture, engineering and construction, Autodesk is developing capabilities intended to keep project information and decisions connected throughout the lifecycle, reducing the need for teams to recreate information as work progresses.
Forma is expanding across more stages of the AEC lifecycle, with Civil 3D becoming its newest Connected Client. Across Forma and Revit, Autodesk AI is designed to help teams explore design options, reduce repetitive work and use project information to inform decisions.
The company is also developing AI-powered construction agents to reduce manual review and help teams focus on decisions requiring their attention.
Design and manufacturing: Supporting engineering workflows
Autodesk is adding AI capabilities to Fusion to automate repetitive design and manufacturing tasks. It is also developing an agentic product lifecycle management (PLM) experience intended to connect product data and decisions across teams.
Autodesk Assistant is expanding into Inventor and Vault, bringing AI support into engineers’ existing tools and data environments.
The company said these capabilities are intended to help AI systems work with geometry, engineering intent and product information, rather than relying only on text prompts.
Operations: Linking asset performance with design
Autodesk is seeking to connect operational data with design and engineering workflows, allowing information about how buildings, infrastructure, equipment and other assets perform in practice to inform future work.
The company’s acquisition of MaintainX is intended to help link operational intelligence with action in the field. Autodesk said the combined capabilities could help teams address issues before they cause downtime, make better use of existing assets and feed operational insights back into subsequent design and manufacturing decisions.
Media and entertainment: AI-assisted creative workflows
In media and entertainment, Autodesk is developing AI tools to support professional creative work while allowing artists to retain control over creative decisions.
Flow Studio includes capabilities for creating and assembling characters and AI-generated environments, which artists can then direct and refine in an editable 3D environment.
In Maya, AI-assisted tools such as MotionMaker are designed to reduce repetitive animation tasks while keeping artists in control of the final performance.
Autodesk said its broader AI strategy is focused on helping individuals and organisations increase their capacity to create and deliver work by connecting project intelligence with the tools and workflows used across industries.
