The goal of this presentation is to help Revit users who are looking to use code to improve their workflows. Revit API might sound impossible to learn, but it's not that complicated if you follow the right road map. The speaker has created hundreds of Revit add-ins, made about 100 video tutorials on Revit API, and taught hundreds if not thousands of people how to do the same. And this presentation will show you where you should start and which basics you should focus on. This will be a great brief introduction to Revit API basics, and will demonstrate how to apply it to create a custom Revit add-in.

The manufacturing industry finds itself at a pivotal juncture. Accounting for 20% of global carbon emissions and 54% of the world's energy usage, the sector also confronts mounting regulatory pressures, consumer demands, and volatile energy prices. All manufacturers increasingly need a sustainability strategy. However, for many companies the path toward truly sustainable manufacturing remains complex and challenging. What tangible actions and innovative tools, technologies, and processes can manufacturers use from cradle to grave to drastically reduce their environmental impacts, while simultaneously improving productivity and profitability? Join key industry players, including Xometry and Gravity, to learn how manufacturers can drive measurable sustainability gains while boosting competitiveness. Our panelists will highlight innovative technologies, including Autodesk MSI, that manufacturers can adopt to drive emissions and cost reductions.

Let's face it, emissions from the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry are too high and one of the key issues is there are no agreed-upon processes for measuring embodied carbon. Join this panel discussion to hear a deep dive into how a group of companies conducted a proof of concept (POC) to address this complexity. Under the auspices of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Autodesk and six AEC leading companies—AECOM, Arcadis, Arup, Foster + Partners, Ramboll, and SOM—spent more than six months on this POC. The cohort of building information modeling (BIM) and sustainability experts from the various firms investigated the processes behind translating BIM data into material quantities to measure embodied carbon (EC). The goal: Identify best practices toward establishing industry-wide guidelines for EC analysis to create actionable benchmarks. Join this fascinating technical discussion into how we aligned, agreed on assumptions, and drew conclusions. Hear how these POC insights might help decarbonize the industry from our contributors: Paul Astle (Ramboll), Javier Sanchez Hernandez (AECOM), Laura Gomez Hernandez (AECOM), Caoimhe Loftus (Arcadis), Ian Lumsden (Arup), Blerina Celniku (Foster and Partners), Monica Lucas (Ramboll), Eric Stimmel (SOM), and Mirko Farnetani (SOM).

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. Innovation unlocks new possibilities—and also requires new skills. Whether in construction, architecture, manufacturing, or entertainment, learn how we can educate, train, and retrain the ever-evolving workforce of today and tomorrow and support a culture of constant learning. Explore how we can create more resilient businesses, more dynamic and responsive industries, and a workforce that can adapt to constant change.

Explore Artelia Denmark's innovative journey using Autodesk Forma software to win a new project amid stiff competition. Learn how the firm used Forma software's sustainability analysis capabilities to create multiple iterations of its project design, testing variations for optimal sunlight, daylight, and noise conditions. Artelia's client had a keen interest in exploring several architectural possibilities before settling on the final design. With Forma, the firm was able to meet this need, demonstrating its commitment to sustainable, outcome-based design. This case study shows not only Artelia's innovative approach to design, but also how the right tools can provide the flexibility to test, analyze, and optimize designs to meet client expectations and gain a competitive edge.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. From mainframes to desktops, networked devices to cloud-based platforms, the ways we access compute processing and storage unlock new possibilities for industry. Explore how companies from across the Design and Make industries are putting the Autodesk platform to work to analyze data in new ways, automate mundane tasks, and augment human abilities, helping us make our jobs more fulfilling and our industries more effective and responsible.

Using open source tools and open formats, CIMIC is federating their largest 3D architectural models, directly from ACC and into the Unity game engine. They show record loading times and record rendering speeds with the largest of federated scenes, while keeping ACC versioning, filtering and coloring, of single elements. This case study compares different pipelines that were explored before choosing the final result. Topics include ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity, IFC, I3S, OBJ, USD, FBX, 3D-Tiles and glTF. Learn how you can integrate ACC 3D models into your own game engine using APS, open source tools and open formats.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. From better hospitals to healthier neighborhoods, learn how we can put people first in the design process and evaluate potential buildings and infrastructure according to experiential metrics. It's all about making spatial, social, and emotional data indicators part of the design methodology and elevating the user experience while improving environmental impact.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. AI has gone from science fiction to key industry tool in just a few years, and new possibilities emerge every month. From generatively designed cars to autonomous buildings to push-button VFX that can be used by any filmmaker, explore how AI technologies are unlocking new design and make processes and outcomes, redefining collaboration, augmenting creativity, and enabling professionals to work with data in powerful new ways.

AI is transforming every company. An organization's technology stack needs to be flexible enough to respond to all the business demands for AI—now and in the future. For Autodesk users, the same systems that run your design technology today will be the main tool to access AI features both in the cloud and on your local machine. That combination of local and centralized AI features is important to understand as we implement the next generation of technology. In this panel, leaders from Dell Technologies, Intel, and NVIDIA will discuss the role of AI at the edge and how to build a strategy that works for the road ahead.

About USD$2 trillion—that's the amount of money the architecture, engineering, and construction industry has lost due to bad data. Bad data is data that's inaccurate, inaccessible, and incomplete. In the industries Autodesk serves, data is a critical lifeline for project decisions and automations. But all too frequently, that data is not easily accessible, or, even worse, the available data is simply bad. Across the globe, the ability to use data in an insightful manner is no longer a "nice to have"—it has become a primary source of competitive advantage. Furthermore, with the acceleration of AI, the need for data is increasing exponentially. Those who use their data to make informed decisions and gain performance insights will ultimately emerge as leaders in their industries. Meet the leaders behind the industry data models to learn more about how Autodesk will help solve top customer problems.

In this talk, we will explore the integration of AWS Bedrock with Autodesk Platform Services to create custom chatbots capable of answering complex analytical questions about your design data. Attendees will learn how to harness the power of advanced machine learning models and cloud services to provide real-time, insightful responses to design queries, streamlining the engineering and design workflow. The session will cover practical implementation steps, key benefits, and use cases, demonstrating how these intelligent chatbots can revolutionize design analysis and collaboration.

It all began with a simple Dynamo script displaying a popup window to users with some useful information about the document. As the script development advanced, we transitioned to a Revit macro. The tool grew and even more features were added to assist users in managing their model's quality. Eventually, our team reached a point where the macro wasn't practical enough. That's when we created an installable C# add-in, turning the former model health check into a comprehensive wizard with an Autosolve function. Now, many common errors are automatically resolved when Revit starts or syncs, leaving only more complex issues for users to review. Dedicated windows within the tool have been designed to help users evaluate logical errors, such as area analysis. The wizards toolkit is complemented by a robust automatic classification function. This course guides you through our development journey, unveiling the wizard button's magical potential and the insights gained along the way.

In this session, we'll use an interactive design-thinking approach to tackle this problem: How do you elevate both your tech staff and your tech stack to drive productivity and profitability across a digitally transformed project lifecycle? We'll consider the "What If" scenarios: What if we flip and elevate our perspective? What if, in addition to considering information as knowledge, knowledge is considered information and this big data is compiled, managed, and analyzed as an IT tool? What if we consider knowledge management as a productivity enhancement tool that integrates with any existing learning technology and acts as a catalyst to elevate technology adoption? What if we adopt AI power to augment human input and get faster at developing custom workflow training to develop industry skills and solve real-world challenges? We will identify insights into team engagement and productivity with a direct relationship to competitiveness, project planning, profitability, and ROI.

Join us as we have a candid and in-depth discussion about how Clayco, Inc., transitioned to the Autodesk Construction Cloud software Autodesk Build from BIM 360 and PlanGrid. This session will cover in detail the specific areas of our Autodesk Build implementation, including how we redefined account admin standards on roles and companies, how projects were onboarded to the new platform, and how Clayco, Inc., took a measured approach to its rollout of Autodesk Build modules. We will provide extensive lessons learned from our adoption, and tips on how we track the effectiveness of our Build rollout. In general, attendees will develop a deeper understanding of how a large design builder develops a framework to carefully scale up its adoption of Autodesk Build throughout its enterprise. This includes having direct and open feedback channels with key internal stakeholders, being transparent with Autodesk product managers on where improvement is specifically needed, and iteratively refining training content over time.

It's never been more important or possible to break the barriers between the office and the field. Project controls and field management are becoming two ends of the same process. Join this interactive roadmap workshop where our product development team will walk through the future of Autodesk Build covering Project Management, Cost Management, and Field Collaboration, including upcoming features in GCPay and Payapps.

The life of a model begins in design, or even in early concept stages, but it extends throughout the project lifecycle. It takes on new shape and functions. It's enriched as it progresses from one team to the next. And it acts as a living representation of the project long after handover. Join us as we discuss ways to break traditional silos between teams and use Autodesk's design and construction solutions to author, prepare, and use models. This interactive workshop presented by our product development team will focus on what's to come in ACC and beyond.

Imagine having to secure more contracts and provide superior service for all clients. Where would you begin? This was the task handed to the team at Jones Engineering Fire Protection, and it's been their focus for the past two years. They have initiated a bold digital strategy aimed at evolving their business, and they've identified five key areas that could be innovated through digital transformation. During this class, discover how Autodesk Construction Cloud has been a game changer in merging disparate workflows and data into a unified platform. Our expert presenter will recount the bumps hit along this road and the victories achieved, highlighting the gains in design team productivity and enhanced teamwork among engineers and on-site teams, and how they're influencing upstream workflows to general contractors. This results in a win-win-win situation: a win for Jones, a win for the general contractor, and a win for the client. Don't miss this opportunity to peek into a leading subcontractor's digital makeover and pick up insights to mirror in your business.

Construction companies want to keep their project team in their operations tools and their accounting team in enterprise resource planning (ERP) with a tech solution that automatically synchronizes both systems, eliminating the tedious and error-prone work of double data entry. However, integrating these systems hasn't been easy and could take weeks to months. That changed with Agave's platform approach. Agave built its own customizable, turnkey solution that allows construction companies to connect their systems in less than an hour and turn on automatic sync workflows right away. Join a panel of construction companies (Satterfield & Pontikes, Brinkman, Hamel, and more) to discuss their ERP sync journeys, and see how you can make job costing always accurate and up to date at your company.

Whether you're a seasoned Autodesk user looking to streamline your workflow or a newcomer eager to harness the power of Desktop Connector, join us for an in-depth exploration of Desktop Connector and its role in revolutionizing data accessibility and workflow integration through the lens of PARIC Corp. This comprehensive course will dive into the intricacies of Desktop Connector, offering practical insights and hands-on experience to empower you with the skills needed to streamline your processes and maximize efficiency.