Summer Intern Uses Fusion 360 and Project Dreamcatcher to Imagine, Design, and Create a Cool-Looking Chair

As I blogged yesterday, we had interns work with us over the summer. One intern was Brittany Presten.

Brittany Presten

Brittany is a glutton for punishment. This is her sixth year interning at Autodesk (started in high school) where she has done stints with our Gallery and Bio/Nano teams. Last year she helped us put Fusion 360 through its paces by designing and fabricating a glove that transmits movement commands to a matching glove worn by another person. She is a biomechanical engineering graduate from Stanford and will start graduate school at Stanford in the fall.

This year, Brittany’s assignment was to consider what it would be like to have Project Dreamcatcher functionality integrated into Autodesk Fusion 360.

Recall that:

• Autodesk Fusion 360 is our cloud-based 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool. It has a desktop component that connects the entire product development process in a single cloud-based platform that works on both Mac and PC. It is a…