In this case study, we'll take you through the process, technology stack, and workflow we developed to automate the design management process. Discover the rationale behind choosing the technology stack and the challenges we faced in establishing the new workflow. We'll cover the benefits we achieved by implementing it on our projects where we successfully tracked thousands of deliverables across multiple revisions and stages. Join us to get a glimpse of the architecture of the solution which describes how Autodesk Platform Services was used along with Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI to achieve the desired results.

We have scoured our support cases and made a list of the most common mistakes made while creating services. In this class, we will teach you how to avoid these mistakes and build great fabrication services. This session features Fabrication CADmep and Fabrication CAMduct.

We work for Flying Buttress, an IT services firm solely focused on the AED (Architecture/Engineering/Design) space. Our clients range from 50 to 600 seats. We've been doing this for twelve years now and are happy to share our knowledge on: Deployments, Licensing, Budgeting, Specs, Best Practices, Cloud, VDI, Hybrid Work, Virtualization, Etc. There will be no sales pitch, no spin or bias. This is focused on IT Operations support, not Design Tech.

When switching to Revit software using MEP Fabrication Parts, one of the first hurdles you need to cross is understanding how to get services and service templates configured in MEP Fabrication Parts. Many companies are making the transition to MEP Fabrication Parts from AutoCAD and Revit system family routing workflows. Knowing how to navigate the services in MEP Fabrication Parts is key. You will be surprised by how little customization is required to get a basic service to function correctly in Revit. Many of the settings that Fabrication CADmep software and Fabrication ESTmep software require are not necessarily required when using these services in Revit. We will cover how to deal with issues of connectivity and routing while in Revit and what changes to the database will improve routing and product selection.

When switching to Revit MEP Fabrication Parts, one of the first hurdles you need to cross is understanding how to get services and service templates configured in Fabrication software. Knowing how to navigate the services in Fabrication is key. You’ll be surprised by what little customization is required to get a basic service to function correctly in Revit software. Many of the settings that Fabrication CADmep software and Fabrication ESTmep software require are not necessarily required when using these services in Revit. We’ll cover how to deal with issues of connectivity and routing while in Revit and what changes to the database will improve routing and product selection. At the end of the class, you’ll be able to take full advantage of the design-to-fabrication feature in Revit to convert engineers’ design models and reduce coordination time needed to fabricate.

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.

In this presentation, we’ll cover some of the tips and tricks for successful model derivative service translations. We’ll cover how to handle assemblies and advanced translation submissions, as well as tricks for certain file formats (for example, with the 3ds Max format, did you know you can use the archive format to include textures?). We’ll end the presentation with a discussion about the future of model derivative services and how it fits into the future of Forge.

How does Building Information Modeling (BIM) help architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms extend the services they provide to their clients? This class will look at how Jacobs used BIM on the £350M+ London Blackfriars station project that spans the Thames River in Central London. You will learn about the innovative additional services that they were able to provide to their client Network Rail, constructor Balfour Beatty, and stakeholders and see examples of services that are simply impossible with traditional 2D workflows. The class aims to show how your firm can extend the range of services that it can provide to clients by using BIM. The class will also look at how BIM was used to keep an overground station open with trains passing through during its construction period (nine phases of interim stations) while the London Underground district and circle lines continued to operate under the site. The class will demonstrate how real-time BIM viewing, using Autodesk® Navisworks® software, and planning brought benefits to many stakeholders who had never worked on a BIM-enabled project before.

Everything you need to know about BIM and firestop within a large project. How to design, coordinate and maintain firestop locations. This case study will showcase Hilti’s BIM Services at the PennFIRST Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. We partnered with the customer to improve their workflows and allow the installation process to match the BIM model. Before this, the customer had no way of tracking the product usage and productivity until the end of the project. With such a large IPD project, the customer wanted a new approach to their processes. We have provided services that include modeling the firestop locations based on the UL System matrix, uploading the model to BIM360 Glue, annotating the locations by floor and producing shop drawings. Attendees will gain the knowledge of a growing standard of care in the construction industry.

Unlock the transformative power of data centricity in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry at Autodesk University! In this session, we'll explore how Autodesk Platform Services and Autodesk Construction Cloud can support your organization's journey toward data centricity. Discover how to capitalize on advanced data management, visualization, and collaboration tools to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows, and drive project success. Through real-world case studies and practical demonstrations, we'll guide you on the path to becoming a data-centered AEC firm. Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionize your approach to data and gain a competitive edge in the industry.

Revit software’s External Services framework enables developers to tailor the behavior of built-in Revit software features to the level that was not possible with conventional external command-based add-ins. External Services have been used as a base to support customized MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) calculations, access externally stored data, replace built-in export/import filters, and many other features in Revit software. As Revit software continues to grow there are new external services introduced with every major release, which gives developers new opportunities to provide their solutions on top of the Revit core functionality. Unfortunately, this feature has not been well adapted by the external public yet, quite possibly due to the lack of comprehensive documentation—which is exactly the gap this class will attempt to fill. We’ll explain the framework’s main ideas and clearly illustrate the most anticipated uses. We will also present a hands-on coding approach as an example of a simple MEP friction calculator.

Web Applications and Cloud Services are highly distributed and loosely coupled. They have dependencies on both internal and external services, and are released on different frequencies and schedules. The distributed nature and variety of the Cloud ecosystem makes it so that teams have to think about testing differently. This presentation will cover tips and tricks to enhance your development lifecycle to release changes faster, with higher confidence; how to build a CI/CD pipeline; how to package and deploy your code; when and where to introduce testing in the process; and what testing should be done.

Review the process of managing users on the Autodesk Account portal, and understanding how to manage their web entitlements and services.

Last year we brought you “Tips, Tricks, and the Future for Forge Model Derivative Services.” We’re bringing even more goodies to this year’s presentation. We will include more details around the Revit flag to generate rooms and spaces for viewing. We will cover how you can use the model derivative data to do model version comparison. Finally, again we will preview some of the coming features in Model Derivative Service, including the improved SVF2 Forge Viewer format.

Cloud computing is impacting design and manufacturing. In this class we will survey the state of the art in cloud implementation patterns for both discrete manufacturing and process industries. Find out how technologies like Machine Learning (ML), big data, and Generative Design are shaping how products are brought to market and sold. Learn how you can drive innovation in every stage of manufacturing: Product Design, Production Design, Production, and Operations. You will walk away with an understanding of how you can use AWS Services and Autodesk products together to accelerate innovation, time to market, and develop new business models.

The fast-growing network around unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as the availability of cloud-based processing and analysis services, enables the emergence of a category of new workflows that disrupt the conventional surveying methods. By flying a UAV around a house or a building to capture aerial images, and by processing such images to produce meaningful 2D orthographic views and 3D data using Autodesk, Inc., photo-to-3D service, we have developed a complete solution that delivers the necessary reports in a fraction of the time and cost usually necessary to get such reports. Insurance adjusters are now being offered a completely new, automated solution that avoids using ladders to climb on roofs to measure or visually inspect them following a claim. Come and check out how this solution works, and how the same workflow can be applied to many other use cases and industries.

Building and infrastructure design and engineering fees have continued to constrict even as projects become more complex with stricter delivery requirements. Several design and engineering firms are in the process of remaking parts of their company to create a new way to deliver projects: Design Value-as-a-service. This panel of (4) executives from ENR Top 15 design firms will discuss how they are leveraging standard/repeatable workflows, big data, and human and artificial intelligence through process automations to create a new delivery paradigm that will revolutionize the engineering and design industry. A lot of discovery work is being done on internal processes, data authoring, data processing, automation, and market analysis to determine how this may drive high quality project throughput at scale. Come see the future of the industry as it begins.

Engineering firms big and small can extend their services into structural detailing by working closely with the fabricators and builders to connect design into construction. This presentation will discuss how a US-based structural BIM consultancy offers structural detailing services to their clients using BIM-based workflows. Attendees can expect to learn about why these services are offered, and what best practices should be followed to successfully implement BIM-based technologies for generating fabrication deliverables. Both Structural steel, precast concrete, and cast-in-place concrete detailing will be covered.

With Revit software and Advance Steel software, structural engineers have tools available to enable them to take their designs past construction documents and into fabrication and construction. Construction schedules are faster, integrated project delivery is more common, and the Who, How, and When of structural shops drawings and fabrication models are changing. This presentation will show how US-based structural engineers who already create their design models and drawings with Revit software can use this same software to create shops drawings from their fabrication models for rebar, precast, and structural steel, and also create concrete lift drawings. Attendees will learn why these services are offered, how engineers can offer them, and best practices to follow to offer Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based structural shop drawings. This session features Revit Structure and Advance Steel. AIA Approved

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).