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Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

From Reality Capture to : Integrating ReCap Meshes for Enhanced Efficiency in Construction Cloud

In today’s fast-paced construction industry, bridging the gap between real-world conditions and digital-project environments is key to achieving accuracy, minimizing errors, and streamlining project delivery. Reality capture technologies, such as laser scanning, allow teams to document site conditions with precision. However, turning that raw data into actionable models and coordinating them across disciplines can be a challenge without the right tools and workflow. This lab will help you to set up a practical workflow that integrates ReCap Pro 2026, Revit, and the module in Construction Cloud to enable efficient scan-to-BIM and processes. It will demonstrate how point cloud data can be used not just for modeling, but also for coordination and clash detection, using mesh representations and cloud collaboration.

39p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Converting Unused Commercial Space into Modern Offices with Revit, Construction Cloud, and Tandem

Renovation projects are on the rise, with digital methods like reality capture, model-based collaboration, and Digital Workplaces proving essential. AFRY Switzerland's “AFRY Bellinzona regional hub” is a prime example. Located in a historic Swiss town of Bellinzona, the 2,000 m² space was transformed from an unused commercial site into flexible, modern offices. Autodesk tools were used throughout: Recap for reality capture, Revit for model authoring, ACC for clash detection and coordination, AR visualisation, site reporting, and a Digital Workplace prototype with Tandem. was a top priority—repurposing the existing space helped meet initial goals, with recycled materials and 90% reused furniture from previous offices.

58p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Reality Capture Unfiltered: How Industry Leaders Are Using AI to Reshape AEC with Digital Workplaces

As AEC leaders race to digitize the built world, three forces are accelerating how projects are delivered - reality capture, artificial intelligence, and . This panel brings together technology leaders like Autodesk and Matterport, alongside industry leaders from Colliers Engineering & Design and DPR Construction, to explore how these technologies are converging to drive measurable impact across design, construction, and operations. You’ll hear how Digital Workplaces are being used to automate site documentation, support goals with accurate asset data, apply AI to flag issues, accelerate decision making, and improve coordination through cloud-based collaboration. Walk away with a clear view of how these companies are helping AEC teams future-proof their workflows and reduce environmental impact with data-driven insights.

Nashville 2025

Hollywood Without the Travel: Building Virtual History with Digital Twins, SCAPEs, and Prop Scans

When Fox Nation’s Revolutionary War docuseries called for A-list performances in historic American locations, GO delivered the future. Instead of flying talent across the country, GO recreated the Boston Tea Party and Mount Vernon as immersive SCAPEs using LiDAR, NeRF, and photogrammetry. In this panel, we’ll break down how GO brought Rob Lowe to a virtual Boston Harbor and Kelsey Grammer to a digital Mount Vernon—without ever leaving LA. From sustainability and cost-savings to creative flexibility, this is a case study in digital twin production, Autodesk integration, and the new blueprint for high-end, low-impact filmmaking.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

The Benefits of Factory Planning: From 2D to 3D and Back Again Using Cloud Solutions

How can existing 2D data be reused, verified against the reality, and combined with 3D data in a holistic factory design or integration? With Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk offers the possibility to realize this not just for buildings and infrastructure models, but also for new and existing factories, whereby the integration of machines and equipment as well as the use of reality data (point clouds) plays an important role. The objective is to increase the quality of plannings and integrations to a very high level to reduce or completely avoid unforeseen costs, delays or planning errors.

32p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Drones, Photogrammetry, 3ds Max—and You!

Have you ever been tasked with creating a 3D model of real-life buildings? Did you find the experience long and frustrating due to the difficulty of taking proper photos using a handheld camera? Technology has advanced to the point that we can use high-quality and relatively inexpensive drones to create 3D models of real-life buildings. These models can then serve as a source to create a low-poly counterpart, including textures. See how to use this time- and money-saving workflow through the use of drone photogrammetry, ReCap Photo software, and 3ds Max software.

23p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

3D Design Reviews On-Demand with VRED and AWS

This session will share details of a project called the VRED Session Management Service (VRED SMS). A prototype built by solutions engineers working together from Autodesk and Amazon Web Services (AWS), VRED SMS demonstrates how VRED 3D visualization software from Autodesk can be deployed and scaled on AWS in an on-demand way. VRED SMS allows applications that can interface a REST API to request a VRED collaboration session. Automated workflows execute to prepare the requisite instances and VRED configuration for a requested VRED scene file. This solution comprises a variety of AWS services, including but not limited to EC2 Image Builder, AWS Step Functions, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon API Gateway. It is also deployed using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). To automate the configuration of Autodesk's VRED software, this solution uses its Python and web APIs. The programmatic and workflow-driven nature of the solution makes it relatively simple to customize.

21p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Digital Transformation Through Drones and LiDAR: Revolutionizing the Grand Canyon National Park Water System Project

This case study will explore the first-ever commercial drone operations permitted within the rim of the Grand Canyon, and how the imagery captured was used to inform a critical water infrastructure project. Grand Canyon National Park, in Northern Arizona, is considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world. It encompasses an impressive 278 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands and averages more than 10 miles wide. To support work to modernize the Grand Canyon Water System—which serves thousands of residents and millions of annual visitors—we used drones, surveying, and LiDAR technology to acquire high-resolution orthomosaic images and point clouds. In this digital transformation success story, we also employed Autodesk tools such as AutoCAD Civil, ReCap, Revit, and other Autodesk products.

46p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Optimizing Codes: Connecting the Dots to Digital Delivery

As roadway construction technology advances, bridging design data to construction requirements becomes critical. Optimizing point codes in digital delivery modeling offers numerous benefits. We'll explore crafting subassemblies to unveil corridor point codes for feature line development and transitions. By employing these subassemblies, we'll demonstrate corridor visualization using point and link code styles for design analysis and surface creation. Additionally, we'll develop tailored code sets for diverse digital delivery needs like IFC, exporting attribute-rich data from corridor codes. Lastly, we'll optimize point code organization for feature lines extraction, aiding survey construction modeling and design verification.

13p

Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024

It's da' BOM: Automating Bill of Material (BOM) and parts list creation in Autodesk Inventor [Lab]

Are you manually compiling your Bill of Materials (BOM) or parts list? STOP! There is a better way! If you are modeling your design in Autodesk Inventor, you have everything you need to automate BOM creation, and this class will show you how. In this class, we will learn how to use the BOM manager to… Make sure that all the data is complete. Sort, order, or show the assembly structure in the BOM manager and parts list. Apply item numbering. Export the BOM/parts list for use in other systems. Join us to learn how you can reduce the time you spend on BOM creation so you can focus on designing and engineering! If you are modeling 3D designs in Autodesk Inventor and aren't taking advantage of Automated BOM creation, this class is for you! Attendees are expected to have basic proficiency in Inventor, including navigating the UI, setting up the current project, opening files, and creating part and assembly models

60p

24p

Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024

Point Cloud in Revit: Bring Reality into Revit Using LiDAR or Photogrammetry and Your Mobile Device

We will cover the workflow used to scan an object with a LiDAR scanner on your mobile device, and introduce it to Revit software using ReCap software. This point cloud will be used as the base of your model. During the session, we will do a live preview of how the process is done, going step by step until we generate a file that we can import and use in Revit.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Indonesia 4.0: BIM Uses Through Megaproject—Indonesia’s New Capital City

Indonesia is moving its capital from Jakarta to a new city. In this session, we'll explore how Indonesia’s Ministry of Public Works and Housing is implementing building information modeling (BIM) in megaproject “Indonesia’s New Capital City,” specifically the highway projects. We'll start by discussing how we developed our own classification system to help the quantification process, including the benefits and challenges of this approach. Next, we'll cover how we integrated all the projects into the common data environment (CDE) and used Autodesk Platform Services to create a dashboard that displays key project metrics and status. We'll also discuss how we maintain BIM implementation through weekly BIM evaluations, including how we address issues and ensure consistency across all projects. Finally, we'll share how we integrated all intelligent models from every project into a single federated model that is updated weekly to show the construction progress.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019

Revit Dynamo and AI for the decontamination of a refinery site

Challenging the deconstruction and decontamination of a former industrial site: the refinery of Dunkerque in France. From a huge data sets of 30 000 old plans and a dynamic scan of a 90Ha area, the low LOD Revit models were made manually but also automatically using IA with image recognition. The representations of the contamination and lithology is modelled with voxels and informed using interpolation scripts with Dynamo directly from georeferenced boreholes stored in excel datasheets. The aim of this BIM model is to create scenariis of depollution depending of what is located underground : pipes, concrete and pollutants.

Middle East 2019

Kuwait International Airport (Terminal 2) - A New Success Story

Building Information Modeling () offers opportunities to improve collaborative work and integration in the AEC industry. It is increasingly adopted in construction projects and specially in Kuwait's projects.This presentation will uncover one of the mega BIM projects in Kuwait "Kuwait International Airport Terminal 2" project. During the presentation, the attendees will see the progress of the project and how " LIMAK Insaat " which is the main contractor literally implemented BIM during the construction phase. The presentation will also show the clash detection procedures followed and what LIMAK Insaat is doing beyond 3D modeling in this magnificent project.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019

How 360-Degree Reality Capture Moves the Needle for a $1.2 Billion Construction Project

Andrew Cameron, project manager with Hensel Phelps, will share his insights from pioneering 360-degree reality capture on his project, the $1.2 billion Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at the San Francisco International Airport, since 2016. He and his team of 16 field engineers have worked closely with HoloBuilder over the last three years to invent and build out many of the workflows and features that are essential on tens of thousands of construction sites around the world today, including 360-degree markups and the JobWalk app itself. He will discuss how to use 360-degree documentation to drive value on a billion-dollar project for the client, stakeholders, and his project team. He will also share his experiences of how to successfully partner with construction technology providers to build the technologies you always wanted. To highlight the team’s successful innovation partnership, he will reveal the latest co-developed solutions to speed up and even automate reality capture on projects.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017

Citywide Reality Capture for Infrastructure Design Using InfraWorks and AutoCAD Civil 3D

Ever wish you could visualize real-world data without leaving the comfort of your own ofﬁce? Sound too wonderful to be true? Well, it isn't. Sending crews into the ﬁeld to measure and collect information about assets is time consuming and costly. But when you have street-level spherical imagery and colorized LIDAR (light detection and ranging) data at hand, you have the freedom to quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively create photorealistic 3D models for planning, design, emergency and disaster management, regulatory compliance, and asset management. We'll explore the collection process and business implications for street-level reality capture and examine 2 alternatives, such as Google Street View and CycloMedia. We'll also discuss practical workﬂows for municipal governments using this data, including design and visualization, with a focus on water asset management and pavement surface markings. Finally, we'll describe how to effectively integrate these data sources with AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software.