Makersite announced partnering with Autodesk. The new partnership combines Makersite's environmental impact and cost data with Autodesk Fusion 360's product design data. Sustainability begins at the heart of the product: its design phase.

Still, less than 1% of products have sustainability as a design parameter. Even though the general public's wish for sustainable products grows and emission regulations worldwide are becoming more and more, incorporating sustainability at the design level has been a challenge for most product designers in the past. Makersite's partnership with Autodesk is changing this.

The new Fusion 360 plug-in features: Allows designers to have Makersite instantly calculate the environmental and cost impacts of their design at the push of a button. Gives Fusion 360 users access to over 300 materials, cost, and sustainability insights based on the used structure, materials, and weight. Provides enhanced data sets on over 50 decision criteria such as compliance, risk, health, and safety in real-time.

With this ground-breaking approach, product designers will no longer depend on experts or consultancies to design sustainable products. Instead, enterprise manufacturers will be able to use their own material masters and procurement data to enable teams to work toward sustainability goals led by design. This integration will enable more sustainable and successful designs, eliminate duplicative efforts and decrease time to market.

Autodesk will hold its premier annual conference for product designers and manufacturers, Autodesk University, in New Orleans September 27-29, 2022. Makersite will take the stage with Zoé Bezpalko to present the plug-in to attendees during the conference.