How digital workflows are providing AEC designers the opportunity and flexibility to deliver increasing complex projects. This session will include: Deliver projects with products from within the Autodeskﾨ Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Collection. Increasing the use of surround design tools that offer efficiencies. Using and maintaining model data within an accessible eco-system from desktop, cloud and other devices. Improving insights to deliver better design solutions on projects. Allow more time to focus on the design and end product.

The Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection represents a powerful BIM package for building, civil infrastructure, and construction projects. In this session we will demonstrate how these tools work together to tackle several common workflows associated with land development projects. When it comes to design, collaboration and construction, the AEC Industry Collection represents the ultimate “secret weapon” you can deploy on all of your projects! During this session Powerpoint will be kept to a minimum so we can spend our time working live in the applications!

FormIt Pro software is Autodesk's premier architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) 3D modeling and analysis environment for conceptual and computational design workflows. Take advantage of FormIt Pro in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to expand and diversify your services while designing with sustainability in mind. This class will show workflows that involve FormIt Pro and other products in the AEC Collection. Start your FormIt Pro model by assigning a location and importing a BIM context from InfraWorks software for 3D terrain, buildings, and roadways. Explore design options quickly and efficiently in FormIt Pro by integrating Dynamo graphs while controlling the graph through FormIt Pro software’s simple interface. Quantify and present design options by importing a FormIt Pro massing model into Revit software to quickly document space-planning and feasibility studies. Present real-time visualizations to clients by importing a more detailed FormIt Pro model into Revit for a walk-through, and continue to detail and document the design in Revit.

This course will focus on the workflow and best practices for capturing aerial photography, processing the images in ReCap Photo software and ReCap Pro software, and utilizing the output in Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection applications such as InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, and Revit software.

Go from plan and design through construction to operations using the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro software. This class will walk through a theoretical project touching on several software systems within the AEC Collection, including Civil 3D, InfraWorks, Navisworks, and Revit software. The project will demonstrate the tools, features, and new enhancements within Autodesk Construction Cloud. In this session, we will touch on each project phase and how the tools in the AEC Collection and Autodesk Construction Cloud can help improve project communication, design reviews, and final delivery.

Expand your understanding of Autodesk’s Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection for urban subway design. Learn how to use customized content in both AutoCAD Civil 3D software and Revit software to streamline coordination between design teams of architects, MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) specialists, and civil engineers. This dynamic presentation will teach you how to push the boundaries of the design software into the areas of expanded functionality through simple customization of common content tailored to support urban subway design projects. This session will feature AutoCAD Civil 3D, Navisworks Manage software, and Revit.

Autodesk’s Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection provides an extraordinary range of capabilities and tools that, when integrated, create incredible insights and make easy work of complex design and project problems. This class will explore the potential and power of digital construction and project management with the AEC Collection. In this class, we will dive into the complex installation of several large tanks in a highly confined facility, utilizing drone technology and reality capture with different software integrations. Some of the software this class will explore is AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Vehicle Tracking, ReCap software, ReCap Photo software, Navisworks software, InfraWorks software, and more. With the integration of all these programs, the project was able to succeed as planned, utilizing found vehicle and building clearances as well as logistical confirmation of the project's ability to succeed. This class will demonstrate the effectiveness of the AEC Collection as well as the virtual design and construction (VDC) methodology.

This course will outline the steps to take your infrastructure project from planning into design, on to construction, and finally to operations. The Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection connected with Autodesk Construction Cloud will empower designers, owners, and stakeholders to communicate seamlessly during the entire duration of the project. Key elements include Civil 3D-to-Revit workflows, InfraWorks simulations, bridge workflows, clash detection analysis, and collaboration and model coordination in Autodesk Construction Cloud. With Autodesk Construction Cloud, we’ll demonstrate how contractors can have access to live design documents and files.

FormIt Pro software is Autodesk's premier architecture, engineering, and construction 3D modeling and analysis environment for conceptual and computational design workflows. Take advantage of FormIt Pro in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to expand and diversify your services while designing with sustainability in mind. This class will address the value that FormIt software brings to early stage design. We’ll talk about the simplicity of getting started, the direct connection to Revit software with less rework, the unique combination of Dynamo computation and direct manipulation, the ability to maximize location and weather data for sustainable analysis, and more. We will review how FormIt Pro complements other products in the AEC Collection, including Revit, InfraWorks software, Dynamo, and the Insight Energy Analysis tool. We will cover a brief history of FormIt and the product principles that we use to prioritize new work and future directions. Finally, we’ll address the future of the product and where we’ll be investing, and lay out a road map for achieving the future vision.

This session will look at replacing 3D CAD with AutoCAD Plant 3D software because an owner wants P&ID intelligence and automatic orthos. We’ll show how it is broke and how to fix it. T-O Engineers will discuss Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection implementation for AutoCAD P&ID software, AutoCAD Plant 3D software, Navisworks software, and Civil 3D software.

This class will focus on how to make the most of tools you probably already have access to in Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Autodesk Construction Cloud to start processing, analyzing, and maximizing drone photogrammetry data to improve your construction processes. Once at scale, many companies will likely opt for a partner product designed especially for this entire workflow. But it's crucial to get buy-in before making this investment. At BL Harbert International, we found that the best way to accomplish this is by providing concrete examples throughout the company of useful applications on our own projects. To achieve that, we've used several tools already at our disposal in AEC Collection and Autodesk Construction Cloud. This class will step through a workflow of processing imagery in ReCap Photo, then analyzing in either AutoCAD software or Civil 3D software, and finally sharing with stakeholders and making annotations in BIM 360 software or Autodesk Build software.

In this new digital era, "the Era of Connection," building professionals are facing a lot of challenges to digitize their processes for designing and delivering buildings. In this class, you'll get a full overview on how the products of the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection can be used in the most efficient and integrated way for structural engineers to meet this urge for full-process digitization. You will learn which workflows can be set up with Revit software, Advance Steel software, Robot Structural Analysis software, Dynamo, BIM 360 Design software, and BIM 360 Docs software to streamline the process from design to fabrication for steel and concrete structures. You will also learn about how the products within the AEC Collection are mapped with BIM project lifecycle phases and industry persona.

This class is the next level up from the “Structural Design to Fabrication: Revit and Advance Steel—Buddies for Life” class at Autodesk University 2020. Once you have designed, simulated, and generated the fabrication drawings, the next step is making them available to the field teams. On top of that, tracking the changes and ensuring the site teams have access to the latest documentation is one of the main challenges. This class will focus on the various office-to-field workflows you can use to share the latest and greatest structural BIM (Building Information Modeling) data and fabrication drawings with the extended teams in the field. You will learn about the Autodesk Docs workflows that come in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection that you can use to share and compare different versions of structural BIM data and fabrication drawings for effective decision-making processes in the field. This class will also cover the process of creating and managing issues related to structural field workflows.

This session will cover a case study of BIM (Building Information Modeling) implementation for a complex urban project designed as a smart city. The 126-hectare project is called Garonne Eiffel, and sits in a large development area in Bordeaux, France. The heart of Garonne Eiffel is the Belvedere subdistrict, a 12-hectare (30 acre) area. BIM has been implemented on the Belvedere project, which is the first key step for a future smart city. We will present the project with its specific challenges (urban density, collaboration, technical complexity). We will discuss the BIM strategy applied, including good and not so good aspects. We will describe the workflows created with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to show how InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Navisworks software are key tools to urban design. We’ll show how we used InfraWorks to assemble Civil 3D modelization for the Belvedere project: buildings, roads, trees, and street equipment. And, we’ll show how Dynamo helped us improve our productivity.

Seasoned Autodesk users may have routines and processes that have served them well in the past. This class will provide a modern perspective of legacy workflows that still are crucial parts of day-to-day civil/survey consulting processes, proposals, and workflows. Take advantage of the tools provided with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, and relearn previous workflows that may have changed in recent releases of Civil 3D software, AutoCAD Map 3D software, ReCap software, and other tools.

Autodesk strives to enhance its comprehensive products, empowering professionals from various fields with vast toolsets to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable future. Despite significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), keeping pace with innovation remains a challenge, especially when addressing sustainability complexities throughout design, construction, and operations. Hence, we present a framework using Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Innovyze products to help engineers and sustainability professionals identify sustainable solutions for civil infrastructure. Our solution democratizes sustainable design, construction, and operations through a live, collaborative platform solution, linking Envision Sustainability Guidelines and Principles with industry best practices and workflows. It aims to document practices, providing guidance across multiple dimensions of sustainability throughout the entire civil infrastructure project lifecycle.

Have you struggled with, “what do I do now that I have a point cloud?” It is a common question in the infrastructure industry. There’s an abundance of software that will assist in the post processing of point clouds into a working/usable format. If you have the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, you have all you need. Using a "real-world infrastructure project," this class will walk you through the step-by-step process of post processing drone-collected photogrammetric data. Using products available within your AEC Collection (ReCap Photo software, ReCap Pro software, InfraWorks software, and Civil 3D software) surveyors and designers will be able to generate a working existing-condition drawing.

Brazil has undergone significant legislative changes in recent years and has the bold, yet necessary, goal to universalize water and sewage services by 2033. That challenge has driven building information modeling (BIM) implementation in sanitation companies, which encouraged the Brazilian company SANEAGO to use and customize Autodesk Docs and the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection tools for its context. Similar to other sanitation concessionaires, SANEAGO currently deals with large project volume, developed by several different design companies, for the 226 municipalities it operates. This makes document management, standardization, collaboration, project analysis, and project design quite challenging. In this talk, we'll discuss the CAD-BIM transition, covering not only software usage, but also company diagnosis, policies, and project standards establishment, which involves changes in the design processes and in the organizational culture as a whole, in order to raise BIM maturity within the company and its entire ecosystem.

Currently, Autodesk offers two 3D coordination and clash detection tools in its Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. Deciding between Model Coordination and Navisworks software can be a challenge. Have you wondered how large multinationals like AECOM are making that decision? In this industry talk, AECOM will share some of our ideas and workflows on how best to use Model Coordination and Navisworks on your vertical infrastructure projects.