Federal, state, local, and city governments are setting ambitious targets for reducing energy consumption of existing buildings through building retrofits. A challenge has been the scaling of energy analysis across large building portfolios in order to identify and prioritize the buildings and retrofit measures. Prior methods were limited to single buildings, but this session will introduce new capabilities that enable evaluation of entire building portfolios with minimal data inputs required. Results are presented dynamically in the context of a digital model and a custom Forge-based building portfolio management dashboard that serves as an executive summary for users or consumers of the rapid energy modeling (REM) tools, and enables easier communication and understanding of the workflow and results with clients. The session is intended for owners and managers, including the Department of Defense (DoD); federal, state, and local government; airports; higher education; architectural firms; and planning entities.

The industry is moving from mass production to customized solutions, creating a tremendous increase in the demand for custom BIM (Building Information Modeling) software solutions. However, custom solutions are expensive to develop. With Forge, you can build custom BIM configurators with minimum investment and time. We created a custom simulation app for HVAC professionals to produce a sustainable design. The app simulates the performance of design spaces and HVAC systems configuration in the cloud. The class will demonstrate how to use Forge to create a new user-defined office build space. We will elaborate on how the assembly of complex 3D HVAC system configurations can be created. You will see how Revit design automation APIs can construct an accurate intelligent model on the server. Attendees will learn these techniques, as well as how to create vast varieties of online BIM system configurators such as kitchen design, furniture design, infrastructure design, and others.

In this class, we'll use the case study of designing a lab power supply. This is a common tool in electronics and by working through its design, we'll highlight how the electronics workspace, e-cooling simulation, and mechanical modeling can all be capitalized on to simplify and expedite the production of this product. As we go through the case study, we'll clearly demonstrate the benefits of having all of these tools in one application—namely, faster product development with fewer rework cycles.

Learn how to capitalize on Revit data in Fusion 360 software to optimize for Autodesk CFD.

This presentation will focus on simulation techniques used to compare traditional hurling stick material and performance against a composite redesign. We used several Autodesk tools—including Fusion 360 software, Netfabb software, Moldflow, and Autodesk Nastran software—to evaluate and optimize the performance of the composite structure.

In order to streamline design-to-manufacturing workflows, there is a dire need to simulate anything. The Fusion 360 and Ansys relationship is getting stronger and deeper, which means more power to the users. With Fusion Simulation software, you can do a variety of analyses like linear and e-cooling. With Ansys Simulation you can simulate virtually any analysis type. Generative design outcomes can be validated with advanced analyses such as transient, nonlinear, fatigue, and random vibration, to name a few, in Ansys. This technology will enable users to do design in Fusion 360 and simulation in Ansys. Fusion Simulation setups can be packaged into neutral files and pushed to Ansys Mechanical and Discovery on the same or a different computer enabling designer-designer and designer-analyst workflows.

The combination of VRED software and Ansys VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation delivers physics-based engineering-grade light simulation to studio designers. The unique solution empowers the design studio with accurate lighting to enhance photorealistic visualizations, up to the simulation of highly complex optical components such as light guides. Discover VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation to do the following: easily identify lighting-quality issues resulting from the optical engineering process; run Ansys SPEOS-based ray file simulation that is compatible with high-performance computing (HPC) clusters; explore a wider range of design possibilities; and bridge the gap between engineering and design in the long run by creating a consistent shared data stream, ensuring data consistency.

A fully optimized computer case was designed, validated, and manufactured using Fusion 360 integrated workflows. The enclosure serves to showcase various Fusion 360 technologies including Electronics Cooling Simulation, Generative Design, Generative Fluid Design, Additive Manufacturing, and Netfabb integration. Join us and learn how each one of these connected workflows contributes to the overall design and performance of the workstation. Our journey begins with the basic design and layout of the workstation and attempts to address common industry shortfalls. Advanced Fusion 360 technologies enable us to investigate novel designs for the internal case structure and flow-optimized ductwork, and then validate them with powerful, accessible simulation tools.

Additive manufacturing (AM), better known as 3D printing, is disrupting the manufacturing industry. Its capabilities and build processes make additive technologies ideal for applications such as light-weighting and component consolidation. In order to fully capitalize on the awesome power of AM, an understanding of the technology and its limitations is crucial. However, this is not a natural skill for most designers and engineers. Since AM is so new and different from traditional manufacturing, it comes with a completely different set of design considerations. When properly understood and applied, design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) can vastly improve printing times and it results in higher-quality parts. This class will focus on general design practices that apply to all types of AM, including metal (SLM) and polymer materials. Lab dataset is available at https://autode.sk/3pCQ0xQ

Autodesk is famed for having robust and reliable simulation tools. On the other hand, we have Generative Design in Fusion 360 software—the technology that revolutionizes the engineering world and the ways we design things. Autodesk development teams have been working on capitalizing on these proven simulation solvers as well as the latest technologies in a generative design. As a result, a new tech preview feature named Experimental Solvers is enabled in Fusion 360. This means every user of the generative design feature will also see new outcomes with new sophisticated shapes, in addition to the existing traditional solutions. This technology brings new functionalities and delivers forms optimized in a new way, opening doors that have been closed previously. In addition to showing how to use the new technology of Generative Design in Fusion 360, above all, we will present how the new functionalities empower the new applications using real-world examples.

With 3D structural analysis being the norm and with a rapidly growing implementation of bridge asset management systems, the market is poised for an explosive adoption of Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM). However, there is no single black-box information model that incorporates hydraulic and structural analysis, geometric design, and plans production—and much less structural detailing! This class will create a process map for bridge design that identifies data exchanges from conception through construction. It will look at owners' bridge management information needs and what data should flow to the operation and maintenance (O&M) phase. Taking into consideration appropriate Autodesk® tools for bridge design and analysis, such as AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, AutoCAD® Revit® Structure software, and their various extensions and analysis modules, the class will offer best practices for creating a workflow to meet the owner's, contractor's and designer's needs. We won't necessarily have all the answers, but we'll contemplate some thought-provoking questions.

The use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) in an engineering consultancy company is very much a question of predicting field problems in order to anticipate resolutions and thereby avoid rework, delays, and possible negative impacts for the client. Using BIM, as well as Autodesk tools, has enabled us to reach this level of maturity of delivering value to the end customer in order to ensure that some studies and concepts can be virtualized and stressed in advance, causing the least possible impact on the constructions. The objective of using BIM in a consultative engineering company is certainly given by the role of manager; therefore, we have as main characteristics of use the thought of monitoring and managing the enterprise, using the models for validations and changes in scope, planning assistance, attack plan analyzes, earth-moving analyzes, and so on.

Learn the workflow to place embankment around the coastal regions by using InfraWorks software to create a conceptual design. Use Flood Simulation to simulate, visualize, and analyze 2D flood simulations in the model and export from InfraWorks to Civil 3D software for the detailed design, with all the model information. Finally, use IoT to monitor the embankment after construction. This system will enable early detection of disturbing phenomena or events occurring in the flood embankments, thus enabling early response and prevention of crisis.

A compelling visualization is a key element for a successful presentation. Whether for an internal design review or an external customer-facing presentation, good storytelling is essential when working with any kind of complex data. This class will show you how to get more of your Inventor engineering data with the powerful visualization of VRED software. You will experience how easily and quickly you can tell your story with your data with astonishing quality. Learn how to import, reference, manage, and update Inventor data natively in VRED, and choose if you want to create real-time scenes, photorealistic renderings, engineering lighting analysis, virtual reality experiences, portable EXE files, or cloud-based visual content. We are looking forward to showing you a seamless process between Inventor software and VRED, and demonstrating how to sync data, configurations, and transformation.

In this lab, you’ll learn how to create 3D geometry using AutoCAD software’s Solid, Surface, and Mesh tools. You’ll also learn how to create 3D assets for Revit families, as well as for Civil 3D and InfraWorks models, Inventor software, and game engines. You’ll edit the 3D objects using various editing tools, and export the 3D objects to various software. This class is designed to expand your AutoCAD 3D modeling knowledge.

Creating the analytical representation of the structural model in the Revit environment can be seen as the easy part. The ability to constantly check your assumptions while dealing with the analytical representation, ensuring connectivity during creation and editing, to be notified when something has changed—especially when you’re not the structural engineer—is the one that modifies the project. These can be tedious and time consuming. In this class, you'll learn how to have an analytical model that constantly reflects the structural model, and how to automate the process and integrate the structural analysis in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) models.

In this class, we'll look at how you can utilize core features and functionality within Inventor software and apply that within your design tasks. These core topics will focus on Frame Generator, Design Accelerators, iLogic, Stress Analysis, and Tube and Pipe.

This class will cover a broad range of elements that can be introduced by utilizing the power of iLogic within Inventor software. This 60-minute session will cover it all, from introducing the fundamentals to how more-powerful functions can be applied. We will show examples that organizations take advantage of today using this powerful capability. Topics covered will include developing standards-based designs; capturing engineering knowledge; developing recipes from existing assemblies to help build new designs; creating drawings using the latest updates from Inventor; as well as retrieving data from other sources and automating functions within a file such as CAM and FEA.

In this session, attendees will get a look at how Generative Design in Fusion 360 software can help them improve the way they design and make engineering decisions. We will review the development progress we made throughout the year, and highlight why those features were key to improving how users capitalized on Generative Design. We will also look ahead to how we will be investing in improving our workflows, as well as growing our physics support to expand the types of problems that can easily be solved with Generative Design in Fusion 360. Lastly, we will show a sample of some of the successful customer projects that have been executed throughout the year.

Fusion 360 software could be your most powerful tool as a designer, maker, or engineer. Fusion 360 is an all-encompassing piece of software that helps users with processes from start to end, design to manufacture, utilizing CAD, CAM, Simulation, and Rendering to envisage a design. This class will focus on the middle of that process—Simulation for Fusion 360. Simulation lets designers test (simulate) their designs before reaching the manufacturing process. This enables iterative changes without the time and money (and potential waste) that can go into making a product only to find it doesn't meet the standards needed. The Simulation workspace in Fusion 360 can feel a little intimidating at first glance—with so many options to choose from. This class will take you through the steps, showing you which study type of simulation can be used depending on what your aims are. You will leave this class feeling more confident and ready to improve your whole design process!