Developing a strategy for tackling computational design can be quite the challenge. At BuroHappold Engineering, we strongly believe that every engineer has a contribution to make to computational design—not just the few with a deep understanding of coding. We’ve developed a global strategy based on this concept, and would like to share the outcomes and challenges that we faced along the way. During this session, we’ll review how we teach Dynamo to our engineers, via our robust Dynamo training program. We’ll also review ways to ingrain computational design in a company culture through hackathons and mentoring. Finally, we’ll review ways to organize scripts, and look at how to implement them in project work.

We’ve all heard it before: "You can’t automate drawings with iLogic." Well, we’re here to tell you that you can! In this instructional demonstration, you’ll learn the basic techniques of developing the logic required to automate 2D drawings with iLogic and the Inventor API. From creating views, to adding dimensions and balloons, to working with sketched symbols and parts lists, this demo will shed light on how to develop your drawing automation, as well as what to avoid, thus ensuring a robust and stable automation project.

Take control of your project like never before! ProjectExplorer brings a whole new level of design to your projects. This session will take you through a live project and the benefits you'll gain by implementing ProjectExplorer. Even on the simplest of projects you will see a huge time and cost savings by being able to review and modify your design as well as utilize automated reports that will help you further understand your design at every step of the game. Get ready to start exploring like never before.

Do you want to take your AutoCAD Electrical implementation to the next level? Then this session is perfect for you. In this session, you’ll learn from two of the industries best AutoCAD Electrical consultants. Discover how to implement for your company, and cover the next level, including topics such as SQL Catalog. Learn about the environment file, project settings, and drawing settings.

How do you train your staff? How do you even know what to train? Do you test or retrain to ensure retention? Traditionally, training occurs in silos (based on discipline, function, or office location), often isn’t captured for future use (often through email or 1-on-1 conversation), and relies heavily on expert-level “gurus” as gatekeepers of knowledge. Design practice has evolved to keep pace with technology, mobile and geographically diverse employees, and the increasing speed of project schedules. To increase efficiency, organizations must pursue a culture of continual training, knowledge sharing, and skills assessment to break down the silos. This session will discuss ideas for Lifecycle User Training and methods to develop a knowledge-sharing culture that expects skills assessment. We will explore ideas on developing resources where corporate knowledge is retained, searchable, accessible, and inherently social.

AutoCAD Electrical software is full of automation tools, from automated wire numbering to full API. In this session, we’ll learn about a range of tools designed to automate and increase productivity. Learn about some of the great automation tools that can drastically help your organization increase productivity, standardization, and consistency. We’ll cover Automatic Reports, Title Block Update, various import and export utilities, and Circuit Builder.

Our firm has grown from 15 to 22 offices in less than 7 years. Of those offices, 19 are in the United States, but the other 3 are Canada, Mexico, and Panama. Working in collaboration with all these offices has presented its challenges with regard to software licensing, data exchange, model sharing, and many others aspects. This class aims to share some of the obstacles, hits and misses, and approaches our firm has encountered and applied. We will discuss network and Internet issues, hardware solutions, cloud solutions, and some unique approaches.

Do you use AutoCAD software or any other AutoCAD-based product, and draw in 2D? Do you use another 3D product such as SketchUp or Rhino to draw your 3D objects outside of AutoCAD? If you’re interested in using 3D objects in your workflow but think it’s too complicated, don’t be afraid of the 3D dimension in AutoCAD. In this class, everyone can learn the basics of creating 3D objects with AutoCAD. We’ll show you how to use the tools in AutoCAD to make 3D objects that you can then use in AutoCAD or other Autodesk products.

Come and discover what the Inventor Product Development Team is working on for future releases of Inventor software and related offerings to help you in the future of making things. This session will feature Inventor Professional software.

Are you an experienced AutoCAD user? Do you want to get even better and faster with the software? Have you looked at other sessions about coding or customizing AutoCAD and thought they seemed too complicated? This session is for you! Learn how to do simple automation tasks to save time and increase productivity. Even though we’ll use LISP, this is not a coding class. If you can type some commands at the Command Line, we’ll use that knowledge to help you build some simple automated routines. For example, what if you could just type in 4 and you’re automatically offsetting 4”, or type in ZZ and you zoom to extents and then back out 10%? You’ll learn many, many more of these simple tools and how you can set them all up in one or two text files to take with you for the rest of your AutoCAD career.

As iLogic turns 10, and as more companies embrace Inventor Automation, there are many perspectives as to the best way to write iLogic code. Take it from someone who has worked with large enterprise engineering departments and small specialty fabrication houses: Everyone wants some level of automation. In this class, you’ll learn how to write your iLogic code using industry best practices. You’ll also walk away with knowledge of the fundamentals for success when developing your iLogic rules. Do you want to become better at using the Inventor API in your code? Do you want to know how to avoid the same mistakes as others who use iLogic? If you love iLogic the way we do and want to join the automation revolution, this is definitely the class for you.

Whether new to Inventor software or a seasoned pro, you’ll learn something from this fast-paced course that will highlight 60 Inventor tips in 60 minutes. We’ll showcase some of the less-obvious commands or features and their locations within the Inventor environment. Along the way we’ll look at how some of the tips work and how they might help you in your daily designing. So buckle up—we’ve got a lot to cover and only 60 minutes to get it done.

What an exciting time for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry as the benefits of BIM (Building Information Modeling) will soon be experienced by engineers in the same way they’re enjoyed by architects. This course will look at Autodesk’s approach to “Collaboration for Infrastructure” by applying the same BIM process to civil engineering projects. The function of modeling in 3D is nothing new for civil engineering professionals; the difference is that we can now dynamically connect the data and workflows with other disciplines using BIM 360 software. In this class, we’ll explore how to access BIM 360 for Civil 3D software, whether utilizing the web-based interface or Autodesk Desktop Connector. We’ll also showcase the use of BIM 360 for design collaboration by translating a surface from Civil 3D into Revit software. Then you’ll take a look at how to take your markups to the next level within the BIM 360 environment and learn how to access and write Civil 3D data to BIM 360 directly from within the Civil 3D software.

Are you responsible for all things electrical in your galaxy? If so, this class is for you. We'll cover all aspects of guarding your AutoCAD Electrical implementation. We'll cover symbol and database management, environment configuration, templates, standards, and best practices. We'll also discuss planning out an implementation and upgrades.

Make more-confident purchasing and management decisions with the new admin feature in Autodesk Account—product usage reporting. By seeing your team’s usage data, you can more efficiently complete your daily tasks, like assigning your users to products they use most frequently. You can more easily help your team work productively by ensuring they’re all on the same product version, and you can strategize future business decisions to make more-influential investments by seeing a usage trend chart. Get a demo from the Autodesk expert and ask questions about how you can be more productive with usage data.

Inventor software is a high-end, mission-critical application that businesses depend on to generate designs and bills of materials, and produce drawings that keep the doors open and the lights on. Reliability, efficiency, and productivity are key, yet most engineers and IT support staff are uninformed and oblivious to the needs of the tool, resulting in the purchase of hardware unfit for the task. Simply throwing money at the most expensive options on that workstation configurator won't translate into more performance in 3D CAD; in fact, it can have quite the exact opposite effect. So in this class, we'll clarify exactly what Inventor needs from a workstation, and how to purchase right and smart using real-world, large-assembly manufacturing data sets for benchmark testing. We'll also clarify a few hardware myths and confusions along the way, helping you to understand exactly what to buy to power your business as efficiently as possible.

See a demonstration of how the Connector for ArcGIS can save time migrating geographic information system (GIS) data from an Esri ArcGIS Portal into InfraWorks software and Civil 3D software for use in infrastructure workflows. See how the GIS data can be modified and published back to an ArcGIS Portal, and learn how to export this data to an external GIS database. Join Autodesk Expert Elite member John Mayo and Autodesk Product Manager Ramesh Sridharan as they show how this new technology can save time working with GIS data in Autodesk products.

Have you experienced any of these issues with AutoCAD products: slow opening of drawings, crashing, pausing within AutoCAD, and slow plotting? Clients, subconsultants, and approving agencies often have DWG™ files that get corrupted. This can cause loss of work and missed deadlines. Drawing corruption can range from small, annoying issues to being unable to open or print files. This corruption can affect your files and spread across your projects rapidly. In this session, we’ll explore methodologies and workflows to prevent files from getting corrupted due to internal and external factors. We’ll review eight things that cause drawing slowness, and we’ll show how to repair the drawings.

AnyCAD lets you associatively update designs from any CAD tool, letting you connect design across disciplines and teams. This class will cover how AnyCAD can automatically update toolpaths, increasing the productivity in your company or shop. Even in-house design teams can often span multiple products and use many design formats. Instead of creating 2D drawings and putting your CAM programmers back at square one, or forcing them to use a CAD-specific CAM product, use AnyCAD to connect your CAD—including SOLIDWORKS, Siemens NX, PTC Creo, IGES, and STEP—to your favorite CAM tool. If you get various parts from contractors or customers, and you don’t want to purchase a costly license of their design software when small changes are needed during the manufacturing process, AnyCAD can bring the designs into Inventor software or Fusion 360 software, while maintaining associativity to the original design. This class will show you how to unlock the connectivity and flexibility of AnyCAD and apply it to your manufacturing process.

Make manual site coordination a thing of the past. In this class, you’ll learn how to transfer information between Revit software and Civil 3D software consistently and accurately. Using the Shared Reference Point tool, we’ll walk through the setup so that your Revit model comes in accurately into Civil 3D. If you’re looking to send information the other way, BIM 360 software and the Desktop Connector are your friends. By the end of this class, you’ll understand why these tools work the way they do, and know how to send information back and forth between Revit and Civil 3D.