Join us as we take a deep dive into the world of Revit families (RFAs) and Autodesk Fabrication ITM content. We will explore the pros and cons of each approach, and discuss why we believe it's time to look beyond these traditional methods. Instead, we will showcase a new type of Revit content that we've developed using the power of the Revit API. This new content has allowed us to create an innovative Hanger Placement tool for the Revit MEP construction industry. During this session, you'll learn about the benefits of this new approach to Revit content creation and how it can help you create custom parametric geometry that you can use in various ways. We will also demonstrate how our Hanger Placement tool works, and discuss its impact on your projects.

This presentation will focus on using the integration between Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, Power Automate, and Power BI software to effectively manage projects and family creation. Using Power Automate, project management tasks in Autodesk Construction Cloud are automated, reducing team members' workloads. Power BI is then used to analyze data collected from Autodesk Construction Cloud, providing real-time insights into project progress and performance for swift decision making. Additionally, in family creation, collaboration with domestic equipment manufacturers facilitates semiautomated creation of families with manufacturer specifications. Integration with Inventor software streamlines the creation of equipment parts like support steel, further enhancing the efficiency of the family creation process. Finally, the created families are managed in a database within Power BI, contributing to improved project productivity.

Today's structural engineers struggle to consider the holistic constructability of a structure; including how their steel framing decisions impact connection design complexity, erectability, and material availability. Their lack of influence is exacerbated when structural engineers delegate connection design to the fabricator, since design changes in the preconstruction stage are challenging to implement. The impact of this leads to RFIs and change orders that result in cost overruns, excess carbon, and schedule drift. This session will cover how WSP, a leading engineering firm and innovator in the steel industry, delivers early connected steel models to overcome these challenges. By incorporating connection design early in the project timeline, WSP delivers highly detailed 3D models to ensure greater cost and schedule certainty.

Discover the power of Autodesk Platform Services and artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize prefabrication processes. In this session, we'll explore core industry challenges, including time-consuming tasks, repetitive actions, errors, lack of standardization, and the sharing of information about increasingly complex models with people in the shop. Witness firsthand how Autodesk Platform Services—armed with reusable assemblies, customizable rules, and a machine-learning modeling assistant—propels you toward a new era of efficiency and consistency. Furthermore, experience captivating web-based viewers that foster dynamic collaboration, as you learn how to unleash fabrication models with enhanced visualization and precision. See how these elements form a seamless and transformative process for optimizing fabrication workflows. This talk will offer a fresh perspective on driving innovation in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) fabrication industry, leading to improved project outcomes.

Dive into computational fluid dynamics. In this session, you'll learn how to make complex fluid studies simple using Autodesk CFD software. Explore the step-by-step process to setting up the simple and complex analysis using Autodesk CFD. See how to set up your unique studies, manage your materials, and understand how and when to use boundary and initial conditions and advanced solve tools. Dive into complex setups, including electronics cooling, steady state versus transient studies, and fluid mixing.

This class will discuss the uses of Revit families, data, scheduling, and the Revit API to push Revit content to the prefabrication factory floor. We'll discuss what goes into the families, how we condition the families for prefabrication-specific content, and how we pull that content out with custom tools to send to the factory floor. We'll cover the main issues of communication between the design team and the prefabrication team, how we've solved these issues, what we output for the team, and how they use it to create the preconstruction packages.

Structural connections play a crucial role in preserving the overall stability and strength of a building. We recognize the significance of integrating these connections effectively during the design phase in Revit software, and acknowledge the challenges that often arise. In this class, we'll delve deeper into the intricate aspects of incorporating structural connections, and we'll provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the connections panel within Revit and a proficient skill set for using it. You'll gain the expertise necessary to forge a solid bond with the connections panel, which will help you enhance the quality of your design models. We'll equip you with the knowledge and techniques required to seamlessly integrate connections into your designs, transforming you into a proficient champion in this essential aspect of the design process.

In 2019, this course received the Top Hands-On Lab for the event—and the last few years have dramatically changed how we all work and learn. The good news is that Autodesk products continue to evolve, and it's time to revisit this technical instruction course to make sure you're getting the most with your Revit MEP tools. We'll begin with an overview of energy modeling improvements and how electrical and HVAC analytical tools improve this workflow. Next, we'll examine HVAC and electrical system tips and new features to improve your engineering modeling results. You'll learn ways to manage your MEP connectors for consistent system results, and we'll close with updates on creating your schematic designs efficiently in Revit. The handouts will also include a ton of relevant data and samples beyond the class. Make sure you sign up early for this course, as it fills up quickly every time—and come have a blast with us!

This case study class will focus on a Haskell-designed custom Revit tool that optimizes steel design workflows. You'll learn how the tool simplifies selection by checking whether suitable members are available in stock. We'll discuss the development process and implementation of the add-in, and we'll explore its benefits, including reduced material costs and improved project timelines. We'll present real-world case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool. The class is ideal for architects, engineers, construction managers, and building information modeling (BIM) specialists involved in steel design workflows.

We all want to shut the door on 2020 and move on quickly, but we cannot learn without reflection. Through the dark cloud of the pandemic arose the bright lights of creativity and innovation that we are using to navigate a path forward. Virtually pull up a chair and join us as we recount the good, the bad, and everything in between. Learn about construction's critical role in the economy, the innovative field hospitals, alternative manufacturing, and the surprising digitization that happened. The host and panelists will review the stories that arose during the pandemic for a retrospective of lessons learned, and illustrate ways construction as an industry can move forward, stronger.

This class will cover how to create concrete lift drawings in Revit software. We'll cover the people who need to be engaged, the processes from developing an estimate to providing field-layout data, and the final product of quality lift drawings that add value for the entire project team. You will learn how the concrete Revit model can become the hub for the whole concrete team and second-tier subs, and also you'll learn how to greatly enhance communication with the design team and the general contractor. This class will discuss the technical aspects of creating and maintaining a construction-level concrete model, including families, parts, and the use of pour sequence parameters. We'll demonstrate what information is important to concrete field crews, and how to effectively communicate that through Revit software-based lift drawings. You will also learn how to use geometry in Revit to create point data, and then how to use that point data downstream in the layout process.

Advance Steel software can be used for a diverse range of structural-steel modeling and fabrication projects. When it comes to large projects, the right approach is essential for project health and management, on-time documentation delivery, and later use of the project. In this class we will examine different methods of working on large projects in Advance Steel. We will start with what makes a project “large” and when special considerations would be needed. Then you will learn how to approach the 3D modeling phase based on project characteristics and available resources in your company. We will discuss using xrefs, split models, and multi-user methods, with their characteristics and challenges. Further on, we’ll discuss the detailing phase and generation of the full documentation for fabrication. The class will include performance comments based on experiences with previous projects, as well as best practices and recommendations for working with large projects.

This lab is designed to give you a feel for the ease of use of Advance Steel software, the structural steel package that’s got the industry talking. You’ll create a structural model from scratch and then insert automated connections between structural sections. You’ll also learn how to insert more-complex structural elements, such as stairs. You’ll then generate fabrication drawings of the structural model you’ve created. Finally, you’ll generate bills of materials (BOMs) and cutting files, such as DXFs and NCs, from your structural model.

This class will demonstrate a complete project collaboration workflow for structural steel, starting with Revit software and pulling it all together in BIM 360 software for reviews, issue management, coordination, and model sharing. We'll start by creating a detailed model with Revit, import it into Advance Steel software, and use dedicated tools in Advance Steel to create all deliverables for fabrication and erection on-site. We'll then publish, share, and review the detailed models and associated documentation via BIM 360 software.

Join us for a CIO Town Hall deep-dive panel session on the impacts of our current lock-down on our businesses and how IT organizations can act quickly to support their teams to work from home. Our 3 “cloud-expert” IT executives share their stories on how they moved their desktops, apps and data to the cloud and have been supporting thousands of remote workers. A few of the topics examined: • Andy Knauf – the business & tech challenges in deploying cloud desktops & workstations on 3 regions of Azure, and what he’s learned in the last 6 months • Israel Sumano – what it took to move the whole west coast team to the cloud in one move, and how they’ve increased productivity and reduced cost • Brian Nordmann – working from home has proven to be more successful than he could have ever imagined, completely changing their approach to staffing

To maintain a competitive advantage, more and more structural engineers are trying to find ways to capitalize on their BIM (Building Information Modeling) data for steel detailing and fabrication. This class will explore how Advance Steel software is proving to be the missing link that lets structural engineers capitalize on their Revit Structure design models for steel detailing and fabrication. You will learn how to create automated steel connections on structural members imported from Revit software. You will then learn how to create the automated fabrication and erection drawings and NC files. This class will also show how the bidirectional sync between Revit and Advance Steel lets you bring any Revit changes into Advance Steel or validate Advance Steel models in Revit software.

This session will present the new National Institute of Steel Detailers (NISD) curriculum for the Certificate of Detailing in Building Information Modeling (CD-BIM). This progressive new curriculum is free online and was done in a collaborative partnership with Autodesk, Inc. It highlights the foundational elements of BIM and additionally covers key topics such as model element Level of Development (LOD) in conjunction with the 2015 BIMForum’s LOD Specification. The course will show the fundamentals of creating and implementing good modeling practices as well as quality control and checking. It will also include the creation of shop drawings, details, erection drawings, and other fundamental elements of steel fabrication, such as advanced bills of materials. The curriculum is geared toward high school students and secondary education, and it introduces individuals to the structural steel industry, creating the next generation of steel detailers as well as structural engineers and steel fabricators.

CAD software requirements are drastically changing from the traditional use of desktop-based software usually consumed by the design department. Demand for cloud-based CAD web apps (also consumed by non-technical executives) is increasing. In the class, we will see how the Forge platform and various cloud infra providers can be utilized together to create modern-day vertical CAD configurators as per the specific need of each organization. Based on stats and test cases, we will demonstrate how a serverless CAD configurator can scale up massively to address the peak-hour needs of industry while staying low on budget. We will explain how Forge services can help us to bootstrap our applications and reduce the development time to as few as just three months, and bring down the development cost substantial.

In the design world, it's not uncommon that key project data is stored in application silos and requires a great deal of manual coordination. Autodesk has taken the first steps for architecture, engineering, and construction projects to make data available to multiple applications at once-by introducing a connected workflow that shares data from schematic diagrams with a Revit project. The Revit P&ID Modeler breaks silos down by letting the user begin with P&ID schematics in AutoCAD Plant 3D software to create intelligent, data-rich diagrams. The schematic data is hosted in the A360 cloud-computing platform cloud and is referenced by Revit project models. The 3D model consisting of elements such as piping, equipment, and accessories is then developed using information defined in the schematic, such as pipe size, pipe type, valve type, and equipment IDs. As the model is developed and the schematic iterated, the user receives feedback to help ensure consistency and that design intent is maintained. Join us to see the next evolution of Autodesk design tools.

The country’s leading mechanical contractors were some of the earliest adopters of Building Information Modeling (BIM) due to the vast potential for off-site prefabrication. Nearly ten years after its first BIM project, J.C. Cannistraro is sharing some lessons learned from modeling, fabricating, and building some of the most high-profile hospital and biotech projects in the Northeast. Using primarily Autodesk® Navisworks® and Autodesk® Fabrication software, we will explain how we use collaborative thinking, Lean methodology, and BIM tools throughout the preconstruction and construction phases to maximize the efficiency of delivery and installation on every project.