3D Print Quoting Plugin facilitates product development.

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Streamlining processes, SmartQuote fully integrates with Autodesk Fusion 360 for synthesizing design, prototyping, and production stages of product development. This online collaboration and CAD/CAM software, through SmartQuote plugin, facilitates quoting and ordering of 3D printed parts. Within Fusion 360, users can automatically convert their files, upload them through SmartQuote, and receive quotes within minutes. Users can also produce multi-material assemblies and complex projects.



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Fathom Launches 3D Print Quoting Plugin for Autodesk Fusion 360



Oakland, California—FATHOM, a leading advanced manufacturer with expertise in 3D printing, today announced the launch of a new partnership with Autodesk. FATHOM's SmartQuote platform now fully integrates with Autodesk Fusion 360, synthesizing the design, prototyping, and production stages of product development.



"A favorite of designers, engineers, students, established firms, and startups, Fusion 360 represents the highest level of online collaboration and CAD/CAM software," said Rich Stump, FATHOM's co-founder and principal. "We're excited to provide easy access to 3D printing for the entire Fusion 360 community."



Through the SmartQuote plugin, users are able to easily quote and order 3D printed parts from FATHOM.



"Fusion 360 is a central component of Autodesk's product innovation platform, enabling makers and manufacturers to deliver on the future of making things," added Stephen Hooper, Autodesk's senior director for manufacturing industry strategy. "The integration with FATHOM's SmartQuote gives engineers a powerful addition to Fusion 360 that helps bring their innovative ideas into the real world."



Within Fusion 360, users can automatically convert their files, upload them through SmartQuote, and receive quotes within minutes. A wide range of materials, including high-performance FDM thermoplastics and PolyJet digital materials, are available to Fusion 360 users through the SmartQuote plugin.



"Users can even produce multi-material assemblies and other highly complex projects," said Carlo Quiñonez, FATHOM's director of research. "Previously, assemblies required manual quoting—the plugin will streamline the development process and enable designers and engineers to go from digital concepts to physical parts more quickly and efficiently than ever before."



ABOUT FATHOM

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FATHOM is driven by advanced technologies that enhance and accelerate product development processes. The FATHOM team helps designers and engineers create parts impossible to produce through traditional manufacturing, while innovatively compressing industry standard lead-times to bring products to market faster and more efficiently. FATHOM's unique blend of additive technologies and materials with legacy manufacturing methods helps companies put satellites into orbit, electric cars on freeways, and a variety of devices into people's hands and homes.

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