3D Generative AI Foundation Models Released for Autodesk Fusion, Forma

Autodesk is advancing creation of a range of neural AI foundation models focused on design. The first to debut is neural CAD, a category of generative AI models trained to reason about CAD objects and industrial and architectural systems.

The Autodesk approach is intended to revamp the traditional software engines that create CAD geometry or translate between industrial and architectural systems. Neural CAD foundation models provides a way to allow explorative interactions while also lending itself to more connected design and make processes.

At AU 2025, Autodesk announced upcoming commercial availability of this new category of generative AI foundation model technology in Forma and in Fusion.

Back in 2018, Autodesk founded its AI Lab to research creation of a category of AI focused on design, systems, and the physical world. These neural foundation models were designed to complement the existing large language models by introducing capacity to directly reason about CAD geometry, system designs, and the real world, Autodesk reports. The models are trained to reason at a detailed geometry level and at a systems and industrial process level.

These neural CAD foundation models will also, in the future, be available to Autodesk customers to customize by tuning them to the organization’s data and processes. 

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.