Samsung Electronics plans to leverage Autodesk's cutting‐edge technologies to digitalize the construction process for semiconductor manufacturing facilities. While we have strong expertise in semiconductor production, the construction of semiconductor factories involves a vast array of specialized fields—such as architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical systems—that are difficult to integrate and manage effectively. To overcome this challenge, we aim to introduce a data-driven construction digital solution by incorporating Autodesk technologies, including BIM, Digital Workplace, Generative Design, and Explainable AI (XAI).

As we focus on digital transformation in finding ways to automate repetitive tasks, this class is perfect for Civil 3D and AutoCAD users who would like to experience and learn how to maximize their use of Dynamo for Civil 3D. In this hands-on lab, we'll provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to create basic Dynamo routines. We'll start with the fundamental nodes and then proceed with understanding how to reuse and manipulate the Dynamo scripts. You'll learn how you can further enhance your skills by using the Dynamo primer samples as a starting point. This session is for beginners and is intended to inspire people who want to innovate a new workflow.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative design (GD) are transforming the architecture, engineering, and construction industry toward a more efficient design process. But is the built environment in danger of losing social and equity values as a result? The powerful combination of GD and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has the potential to assist architects in improving building functionality and sustainability, enhancing value for architects, developers, and residents. However, ethical and social sustainability values may be overlooked if the metrics of the GD and GAI are not instructed to identify and prioritize them. This class will combine findings from a multidisciplinary research project from Carnegie Mellon University, and real-life architectural projects by HED. Learn how to prioritize important equity and social sustainability values in human-in-the-loop AI powered design frameworks, making ethical and socio-sustainable design decisions measurable and transparent to all stakeholders, for a more equitable and resilient built environment.

Architects today face a complex challenge: accurately estimating carbon footprints while exploring a wider and wider variety of forms. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to effectively integrate Autodesk Forma software's carbon analysis tools with Rhino software's modeling capabilities, presenting a novel workflow that allows the evaluation of multiple designs simultaneously. Understand best practices for organizing data in Rhino. Learn methods to quickly incorporate insights from Autodesk Forma back into Rhino for ongoing design iteration. Discover strategies you can use to dramatically reduce the time spent on evaluating carbon impacts, achieving vast efficiency improvements, while maximizing design quality and minimizing environmental impact.

A cross-industry technology fusion! We used Autodesk Generative Design software to create an adaptive connector bracket for robot-operated 3D scans of ancient structures. ReCap software and Dynamo helped us study traditional construction methods and enrich our restoration efforts. This report covers our process in Autodesk Fusion 360 software, including entering design parameters and extracting constraints from the historical site. It explains how we turned the bracket's requirements into criteria for rapid iteration and selection, quickly finding the best solution. It also explains how ReCap processed robot-collected point cloud data to investigate architectural principles and features of ancient buildings in Southern China. Finally, it describes how Dynamo converted these insights into automated building information modeling (BIM) scripting, bridging historical knowledge with modern technology for efficient restoration practices.

Discover the power of AI in design optimization with this innovative AU class. Learn how to use large language models (LLMs) and Autodesk Forma software, a custom extension, to efficiently compare and evaluate multiple design options for a specific site. Gain insights into how AI can analyze various design aspects—such as functionality, aesthetics, and environmental factors—to determine the most suitable option. Throughout the class, you'll explore real-world case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of using LLMs and Forma in design decision making. Acquire practical skills in using the Forma extension to streamline your design workflow and make data-driven decisions. By the end of this class, you'll have the knowledge and tools to harness the potential of AI in design comparison and optimization. Elevate your design process, save time, and create outstanding results that meet and exceed client expectations.

Building information modeling (BIM) platforms and design software have opposite strengths. To get the best from each, it's beneficial to have them working in combination and complementing each other throughout the whole design phase. Doing so will also help bring BIM culture closer to designers, breaking the entrenched silos between the disciplines. Embracing designers in BIM allows for earlier implementation in the project and delays design freeze, as every iteration is captured in the federated model. This workflow proposes a fully integrated approach to the use of Rhino software and Revit software, describing the interoperability requirements of these platforms at the different stages of a project. Interoperability is a big challenge—we will review how an agile methodology can let you incorporate emerging technologies, and how this technology affects the design process.

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is transitioning from traditional desktop applications to a decentralized cloud model, where project data is stored in databases, not bulky files. Leading this shift, Autodesk offers a comprehensive suite of APIs and services, unlocking new ways to connect workflows with data. This class, aimed at intermediate-level users, dives into Dynamo software's connectors and the new AEC Data Model API, facilitating seamless integration of cloud-based functionalities. We start with an overview of the AEC Data Model nodes and GraphQL nodes, enabling navigation to Autodesk hubs, projects, and data sources. Attendees will learn how to connect Dynamo graphs with cloud data and efficiently unpack and filter data using a variety of nodes. The class will conclude with examples showcasing cross-trade workflows. Takeaways will include understanding the capabilities of Dynamo and Autodesk Platform Services, and inspiring new data-driven methods for future projects.

This session will detail how to use Revit software and building information modeling (BIM) for complete load calculation with the help of API development, from power outlets to lighting fixtures and up to the main switchboard. In an underground railway station project, a total load of approximately 4,000 amps has been successfully calculated for the electrical system design. We understand there are difficulties to simultaneously use BIM for electrical engineering, 3D modeling, and 2D drawings in a single model. This case study will demonstrate it can be successfully achieved with great efficiency. We'll explore: 1. How to make smart families that are efficient and easy to use for calculation and 3D and 2D representation. 2. How to connect the circuits and pass the load upstream for the whole system, including UPS and duty-standby situations. 3. How to calculate electrical load from other disciplines, such as HVAC and Comms. 4. How to calculate electrical load from other models, e.g., electrical load from tunnel models to station model.

This session will explore how language learning models (LLMs) can be integrated with Autodesk Platform Services APIs for optimization of hyperparameters like structural design, reduction of material usage, and embodied carbon. We'll demonstrate this using Autodesk Platform Services to extract building information modeling (BIM) data from Revit models to train LLMs, generating intelligent-design suggestions. The optimized designs are later visualized in Autodesk Platform Services Autodesk Viewer, clearly identifying improvements. Using sample Revit models, we'll showcase how this approach has led to substantial reductions in material consumption and carbon emissions, such as a 25% reduction in steel usage and a 30% decrease in embodied carbon. Discover how using AI and Autodesk Platform Services can create more-sustainable, more-efficient, and more-innovative structural designs, driving the industry toward a greener future.

Did you want some fun and exciting—and unconventional—Revit and Dynamo tips? Then attend this class! We'll cover some "off the wall" Revit tips, such as quick dimensioning from any location in your Revit model to any other location. Also, this class will cover some lesser-known Dynamo tips that'll get your Revit workflow really moving. How about crazy tips for family modeling? This class will have that too! Sit back and enjoy the ride, and even if you're a Revit and Dynamo expert, you'll learn something new.

In today's dynamic architecture, engineering, and construction industry, projects are scaling up in size and complexity. Delivering projects under tight deadlines without compromising quality is the ultimate challenge, and the demand for efficiency and optimum solutions has never been greater. This session will explore the transformative power of optimization in Autodesk products, showcasing how they're instrumental in achieving maximum outcomes. Through a series of practical examples using Revit software, Autodesk Forma software, Autodesk Tandem software, and custom API-based solutions, participants will uncover invaluable insights into the power of optimization at every stage—from design through construction to operations. Join this session to explore the forefront of optimization—where innovation meets efficiency and projects are not just completed but elevated to their fullest potential.

How do you seamlessly transition from a simple digital mass to the completion of complex intertwined geometry on-site? Join me in experiencing the transformative power of digitalization in construction, as we navigate the lifecycle of a $3 billion commercial precinct skyscraper. Through Revit software and supporting platforms, witness the orchestration of design, fabrication, and installation from concept to completion. From a seasoned architect's 20-year immersion in building information modeling (BIM) software, we'll explore the risks and pitfalls in planning for 5D BIM projects, and we'll look at contractual and operational challenges among various stakeholders throughout each stage of the project. We'll unveil the engineering intricacies of this megaproject, dissecting challenges of multiple volumetric titles over a freeway and rail corridor, and a twisting prefabricated steel roof. With insights into best practices and lessons learned, see how digitalization achieves precision and efficiency, shaping the future of construction.

In this talk, we will dive deeply into how ongoing technological strides are revolutionizing building services engineering and enabling new event-driven design workflows. We will explore innovative automation tools, including visual programming and SaaS platforms, that are not only enhancing the efficiency and precision of MEP designs, but are also promoting a more integrative and dynamic approach to engineering challenges by capturing engineering knowledge, as well as the data that drives it. This presentation will also emphasize the transformative potential of fileless data architecture through the power of federated GraphQL APIs, Neo4j graph databases, and Autodesk Forma software. These advanced technologies facilitate a seamless, real-time flow of information, adapting dynamically to changes and ensuring that every component within a project is consistently synchronized with a single source of design information.

Teaching Tectonism to AI"" is an exploration that focusses on the convergence of AI and tectonism. Tectonism, as a leading subsidiary style of parametricism, poses a unique challenge for current text-to-image AI tools due to their limited comprehension of structural dependencies in architectural representations. The presentation will showcase the potential of merging structural topology generation tools with Generative Artificial Intelligence across various architectural typologies and how this is integrated into early stage ideations at Zaha Hadid Architects.

This class will cover how the Autodesk AEC Collection for Infrastructure can be used for detailed bridge design using InfraWorks, Inventor, and Revit. Leverage Inventor assembly of structural elements into subcomponents for design detailing in Revit, components tagging for cost estimation and carbon calculator for sustainability purposes. We will apply InfraWorks advanced features on an actual project that results in Rapid Engineering Modeling (REM) for bridges.

Revit 2023 software has completely overhauled the analytical modeling workflow. Now the physical and analytical models have the freedom to act independently. The analytical model elements must be created separately from the physical structure; however, you can still "link" them together. This ultimately gives better control over the analytical model and what it is allowed to represent. These changes are drastic, but don't worry. We're here to help explain how it all works, and have you give it a try in this hands-on lab. You don't need to be a structural engineer or a Revit structural modeler, because we'll show you how you could use the Revit analytical elements to help in the creation of physical walls, physical beams, and many other fun creations. In this lab, we'll also show you how to create your own workflows using Dynamo to customize the automation of the creation of the analytical elements.

In this session, we’ll discuss how design for additive manufacture (DFAM) can influence the performance of additively manufactured parts. This session will focus primarily on laser powder-bed fusion, but concepts can be transferable to other additive techniques. We’ll explore lattices, hollow geometries, and thin walls as common features in lightweight designs, including the challenges that these can pose in design, post processing, and actual performance. Autodesk Research is currently undertaking research to characterize how as-built features perform (mechanically) compared to idealized conditions—generic bulk-material values found in literature. This will enable better representation of these features at the design stage to facilitate more accurate simulation and optimization. Attendees will leave more familiar with DFAM, considerations during the design process, and the impacts these have on overall part performance.

Specialized applications for structure, analysis, detailing, and more are now included when you subscribe to the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. How is the new, unified AEC Collection changing how you work? In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn about the seamless Revit software, Robot Structural Analysis software, Advance Steel software, and Dynamo software. You’ll learn how to link a Revit structural model to Robot Structural Analysis for structural steel code check and optimization. You’ll also learn how to control all models using Dynamo and Autodesk Generative Design software. This class will also cover how to set up and use BIM 360 Design software for sharing Revit, Robot Structural Analysis, and Advance Steel models, and to curate, coordinate, and manage deliverables throughout the project lifecycle. When design project teams have the right information at the right time, work happens faster.

Human bone is a unique material that grows based on the mechanical loading applied to it. This can cause problems for astronauts, as the loading through their bones is reduced and conditions such as osteoporosis can set in. Surgical implants, which are often used to stabilize bone fragments following a fracture, can inadvertently create similar problems, by reducing the force transferred through the bone itself. This can permanently reduce bone mass and increase the risk of future fracture. This class will discuss the ongoing research into this problem, and will demonstrate how researchers are using generative design in Fusion 360 software to explore new designs for these implants that better aid the natural bone-recovery process.