The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection offers tools and workflows, enabling multidisciplinary collaboration from ideas to manufactured products. This class will demonstrate use cases showing how Vault Professional software captures all relevant data to share the right information to all people involved at the right time. Follow best practices and practical use cases. Discuss challenges encountered in daily work of engineering and requirements of downstream processes of procurement, manufacturing planning, and machining. Watch live demonstrations using built-in capabilities, and learn how automation options of Inventor software and Vault Professional may eliminate repetitive and tedious tasks. Additional class materials are going to share all samples, configurations, and automation snippets used and shown during the class.

This session will focus on the know-how of the implementation and use of Vault software in an architecture, engineering, and construction company for civil engineering projects. The speaker will share experiences on the steps leading to the successful implementation of Vault software across the entire company. He will specify the key levels of the implementation and use of Vault software, and the gains at each level. He will provide actual examples of how programming can expand the possibilities of different levels, making the work even more efficient. The session will include a discussion of the actual benefits of Vault software (project plus Vault equals X% rise in efficiency and quality, which in turn leads to money savings). The speaker will present return-on-investment analysis results. This session features Vault Professional and AutoCAD.

You don’t always have control over the software you use, the hardware you get, the drafting and design standards, or the workflow processes in your company; and reducing labor hours sometimes means reducing profit. Sometimes the workflow process, which you have no control over, is causing the very issue you’re meant to fix or work around. In this course, you’ll learn strategies for automation and how to protect your intellectual property so all the code you write belongs to you. Among those strategies for automation, we’ll go over the implementation and maintenance of CAD standards in a nonabrasive manner that your team will easily embrace. We’ll go over how to turn your ideas for improvements into a KPI (key performance indicator)-driven plan for increasing quality, accuracy, and speed while providing increased value-add to all stakeholders. We’ll discuss mentoring and sponsoring. In conclusion, we’ll discuss throttling the pace of expectations.

The class will explore all the major commands and options the Inventor software Nesting Utility add-in has to offer, including the following: Nesting entire assemblies or individual Inventor sheet metal parts, extrusions, and sketches; nesting on multiple rectangular sheets of same or varying dimensions or on roll material; optimizing nest efficiency (filler parts, tweak nesting parameters); reading in DXF (drawing exchange format) files and use layer mappings to guide the fabrication process; exploring associativity scenarios between 3D model and the generated nests; exporting nest as DXF or 3D model; generating NC toolpath using Inventor HSM CAM workflows; and exploring nest reports and costing.

This class will cover the optimization and configuration of Vault software for electric and gas utility design data management. We will examine workflow and lifecycle configuration methodologies, how best to capture and define your workflow processes, and how to turn those definitions into optimized automated workflows in Vault software. We will also focus on some industry best practices and the unique challenges faced by utility companies in the management of their data and processes. We will look at how Vault software can, when optimally configured, be a tremendous asset in streamlining utility data management practices and can help drive standards, procedures, and processes across a utility company, with examples from utility industry-specific projects.

Upgrading your replicated Vault software environment to a new release of Vault software shouldn't be an intimidating endeavor. Building an understanding of what actually happens when clicking the install button is crucial to having confidence in your upgrade plan. This class will cover existing and newly supported methods for upgrading your replicated Vault software installation, and you will leave armed with the knowledge of what is actually happening in the background with SQL so that you can proceed with confidence.

In the wake of the second digital turn in architecture (Carpo, 2017), this talk questions the opinion of Gershenfeld (2012) that ‘’a new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication.’’ It questions the widespread use of digital fabrication from industry and investigates the impacts on architecture and society. It's not a pure architecture lecture but multidisciplinary research which tackles the 3D printing industry as we know it today. Specific examples from digital software such as processing would be given in order to demonstrate how the new tools give computational power to architects and produce a new architecture. The lecture debates the above phrase through different approaches towards digital materiality, the use of digital tools in fabrication, the goal of mass customization-collaboration and the relation of design with making. Moreover, It searches the origins and the development of the idea of digital fabrication from antiquity to 21st century. Specific examples are presented towards the prospects of digital fabrication regarding its opening to the society, its further development of embodied technology, and the overcoming of temporal limitations of cost, speed, and quality. Finally, it concludes with useful findings and questions for further research in the field.

All join around and mingle fine, open up SketchBook® Designer software and start your design. More join in and dance in line, move to AutoCAD® P&ID software, it is design time. All come around and move to AutoCAD® Plant 3D software, let's get our model into the groove. Oh, back up and grab equipment, it's on to Inventor® software to get some detail. Do-Si-Do around your Revit® Structure software, or AutoCAD® Structural Detailing will detail your structure. Pull it all together now and watch out for collisions, Navisworks® Manage software will find 'em for you. Now it's time to make it pretty—sales and marketing, your turn to play. Showcase® software for pictures, or 3ds Max® software for motion pictures.

This class will explain how Canam Group integrated Advance Steel detailing software in order to detail steel beams in light gage stud walls in the firm's multiresidential projects. You'll learn how to create light gage stud walls and header beams with MWF software developed by StrucSoft Solutions, a Revit add-in. You will see how MWF can create and detail light gage stud walls efficiently. We'll cover how we import/export header beams from Revit software to Advance Steel software. You will learn how to detail the connections of the wall header beams, with user connections in Advance Steel, and how to add stiffeners, bent plates, and nelson studs. You will learn how to use the verification tools available in Advance Steel. We'll highlight the benefits of using these 2 compatible software systems to prepare the drawings for shop. We'll cover how to prepare the documents for fabrication, like computer numerical control (CNC), DXF for plates, bolt list, single parts, and cut list for studs. And, finally, you will learn how to produce the erection drawings using Revit.

This class will explain how Canam Group integrated Advance Steel detailing software in order to detail steel beams in light gage stud walls in the firm's multiresidential projects. You'll learn how to create light gage stud walls and header beams with MWF software developed by StrucSoft Solutions, a Revit add-in. You will see how MWF can create and detail light gage stud walls efficiently. We'll cover how we import/export header beams from Revit software to Advance Steel software. You will learn how to detail the connections of the wall header beams, with user connections in Advance Steel, and how to add stiffeners, bent plates, and nelson studs. You will learn how to use the verification tools available in Advance Steel. We'll highlight the benefits of using these 2 compatible software systems to prepare the drawings for shop. We'll cover how to prepare the documents for fabrication, like computer numerical control (CNC), DXF for plates, bolt list, single parts, and cut list for studs. And, finally, you will learn how to produce the erection drawings using Revit.

Instead of sending your model plans out to a shop, why not make them yourself? This hands-on lab gives attendees of all levels familiarity with a suite of Autodesk® software designed to empower the DIY revolution and greatly simplify personal fabrication. Attendees are guided through 3 projects to prepare for 3D printing, computer numerical control (CNC) routing, and laser cutting. Whether you are an architect or an artist, you will leave with a keen understanding of why you would choose 1 fabrication method over another and how to use machines to make your designs real. Machine tools will be present in the lab.

Prefabrication can lead to reduced project schedules, greater productivity, and better on-site safety records. Structural Precast for Revit 2018 software supports multiple stages of the precast workflow. The purpose of this class is to reveal the design workflow for precast elements (walls and slabs) using advanced tools that automate the process of generating precast assemblies, shop drawings, and computer numerical control (CNC) files.

This class will focus on how to use Inventor software to create realistic rendered images and videos. A good rendering is as much about details in the model geometry as it is with the rendering setup. First we will look at some tips to prepare a model so it will be a good candidate for a high-quality rendering. Then the class will run through the tools available in Inventor software and the improvements made to help create a rendering without leaving the Inventor software environment. After a quick look at the realistic view tool and its options, the class will enter the Inventor software Studio environment to set up and create an improved rendering. Once a single image has been, mastered the class will turn to video by animating moving parts and other environment settings.

This class is designed for existing users of the Fusion 360 3D CAD platform who are looking to take advantage of the CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) capabilities. Topics covered will include prototyping and production strategies, better use of 2-D operations, better use of 3-D operations, the workholding of best practices, and 3+2 and indexing strategies. This session features Fusion 360.

How do designers' and engineers' models have an impact on machining and manufacturing? This class explores topics that need consideration throughout the design and engineering phase of each new project, including feature selection and issues surrounding modeling with parts versus assemblies.

SOFiSTiK Reinforcement Detailing 2014 significantly accelerates the creation of 2D reinforcement sheets out of 3D models in Autodesk Revit. The product consists of software and a set of families, which can easily be modified to meet local or company standards. Creation of bar lists, bending schedules and cut lists for wire meshes is included as well.

This class will present a new software platform that facilitates information sharing between structural designers and steel material suppliers. The platform provides engineers with current information on material cost and availability in the context of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) in order to facilitate more-informed decisions early in the design process, which can significantly reduce cost and procurement time. In turn, material suppliers benefit from the project information shared by designers to better-forecast demand. We will present the platform architecture (developed collaboratively by Autodesk, Inc.; SteelCentral; and Stanford University) in the context of 2 industry case studies. Representatives from SSOE Group and Gerdau will describe their experiences using the platform from both a designer’s and a supplier’s perspective. Finally, we will engage the audience to discuss the potential of this technology to disrupt traditional workflows and promote innovation. This session features Revit Structure, Fusion 360, and Robot Structural Analysis. AIA Approved

Fusion 360 3D CAD/CAM software has opened up a world of possibilities to engineers, machinists, and makers. It is no longer necessary to spend serious money to get into an integrated CAD/CAM package with equally serious capabilities. But this is a double-edged sword, and it's had the effect of inserting into the manufacturing sector people who have little to no experience in machining, quality control, or customer relations. This course seeks to provide a comprehensive list of tips, tricks, and advice in the areas of computer numerical control (CNC) machining, quality control, customer relations, and personal/business integrity. While a lot of the content is "software agnostic," Fusion 360 will be used to its full extent as often as is possible.

Today, there are more than 16 billion active wireless-connected devices, and that number will more than double and exceed 40 billion by 2020, according to ABI Research. With more and more smart things surrounding us in smart homes, offices, streets, and cities, can our 2D and 3D design also become smarter and connected? Can our design data become a smart living thing that connects to the physical world, monitors and interacts with the surrounding environment, and helps deliver performance visibility toward predictive maintenance and reduced downtime? The answer is yes! In this class we will explore new ways of building “smart connected” design and demonstrate how you can connect your design with physical microcontrollers and communicate with sensors in real time. We will also show you how to turn your design into an interaction-on-demand system that enables anyone to interact with any device at any time, all with the power of Autodesk 360 web service and Internet of Things (IoT).

In this session, we’ll talk about how Autodesk products like Alias software, VRED software, PowerMill, and PowerInspect can empower automotive design studios with technology to push the boundaries of creativity and collaborate radically with the goal of making better products, faster.