Many Autodesk products give users the ability to share design data for collaboration with multiple stakeholders. AutoCAD software's Simple Share and Inventor software's Connected Design Share are two examples of similar functionality done differently between products. Wouldn't it be nice if the same functionality and workflows existed across multiple Autodesk products? This session will explore a common way to share your Autodesk designs though the Autodesk Viewer across Autodesk products. You will have the ability to see design concepts and provide your feedback and requirements to the AutoCAD, Inventor, Vault and Autodesk Cloud Platform Product Teams.

Through the development of Dasher 360, Autodesk Research has been pushing the limits of what’s possible in the Forge viewer. In this class we’ll take a look at the latest developments in this tool - which integrates historical sensor (or IoT) data into a 3D context - and see how they might be applied to other Forge viewer use-cases. The topics we'll cover in this session include: * Hosting both the Esri 3D viewer and the Forge viewer in the same site. * Displaying skeleton data created by OpenPose inside the Forge viewer. * Loading and animating rigged robot models via Collada. * Using the MeshLine library to display animated streamlines. Whether you're interested in the direction we're taking with Dasher 360 or curious about how to implement advanced visualization capabilities in your own Forge viewer app, this quick-fire look at our recent research will have something for everyone.

Autodesk Forge is an on-demand web services platform. That means you need to be online to connect to the Autodesk servers to use the various Forge APIs. However, the Autodesk Forge Viewer can work with multiple online, as well as offline sources. There are times where an offline workflow is preferable because of lack of connectivity, security concerns, or performance. In this lecture, we will explore how to optimally use the Forge Viewer in an offline mode, and how to cache and synchronize the data with the server for Mobile and Web applications requiring temporary offline mode capabilities.

Endless possibilities, that’s what we can do with the Forge Viewer. Want to learn the basics? This class will explore how to create custom extensions to interact with the Viewer. To attend this class, make sure to have a running Forge application with the Viewer, or you should have attended either "Upload and View Your Models with Forge" or "Connect to Fusion Team and BIM 360 Data.” Bring your own laptop or use the lab. This class requires basic knowledge of JavaScript.

Autodesk, Inc.'s, Large Model Viewer provides a platform for visualizing engineering assets on any platform. Large Model Viewer’s virtual-reality support enables immersive visualization experiences that were never possible before. This class will explore how we can integrate enterprise data with design data to provide context for assessments and decisions. It will look at how we can further enhance these contextual experiences by virtual and augmented reality. This session features A360 and AutoCAD Plant 3D. AIA Approved

The Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform is all about enabling users to access their data from everywhere, anytime. The ability to view your design in 3d from any computer or device brings a total new experience in sharing information for your friends, colleagues, and collaborators. While we will explore how to use this WEB / Cloud Service API for creating a collaboration tool, and manipulating geometry, and metadata ; we would also get a truly new 3D journey using LeapMotion and either the Oculus Rift or simply the Google Cardboard. Come to the class with your Android phone or iPhone and get a Google Cardboard back home.

Integrations between cloud-based enterprise applications should be instant, automatic, and simple—yet too many processes today still require manual data entry or the uploading or downloading of CSV files. The new Autodesk Forge Data API exposes the granular data you need to seamlessly integrate Autodesk Fusion 360 into your data workflows. Learn how CIDEON, an Autodesk and SAP Platinum Partner, is using Autodesk Forge to simplify connecting Autodesk Fusion 360 data to SAP. In this class, we’ll discuss two integration scenarios and how the Autodesk Forge APIs helped us with them, and we’ll demonstrate and discuss the benefits of two solutions: An Autodesk Forge Data-powered connector that enables fast, efficient, and seamless integration between Autodesk Fusion 360 and SAP, linking Autodesk Fusion 360 components with SAP ERP and transferring bills of materials; and an Autodesk Forge Viewer-powered SAP product configurator that provides an intuitive, visual user experience by interacting with a 3D representation of the underlying configuration.

The Research Team at Autodesk, Inc., has been developing technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) since before people called it that. Project Dasher is a building performance management tool that displays historical and real-time sensor data inside a building model. The Research Team has taken the learning acquired while developing Project Dasher and used it to create technology that addresses the needs of the broader IoT market. This session will look at how IoT APIs (application programming interfaces) from Autodesk Research can be used to display information in websites integrating the viewer from the Forge Platform to inform the design process and even power generative design. This session features Forge and Dynamo Studio. AIA Approved

Today, building design decisions are not informed by what can be made. Construction processes are iterative, manual, slow, and reactive, with high risk and uncertainty. Data and tools are disconnected and don’t allow processes to work at scale. In this session, we'll go over our Manufacturing Informed Design project. We’ll examine how it brings together our portfolio to inform the design process as early as possible, and we’ll look at how the Autodesk Forge API we’re developing for this will enable our customers and partners to extend our solution. The Manufacturing Informed Design API will be a simple way for customers to 1) publish product templates from Inventor software into Autodesk Construction Cloud or Fusion Team, 2) discover those product templates via the API or Revit, and 3) customize and insert variants from a simple API. We’ll also cover how we’re extending the Autodesk Forge Viewer for simple low- or no-code configuration workflows.

Throughout the last decade, Autodesk Research has been developing advanced techniques for data visualization in a 3D environment. One example of this is Dasher 360, a Forge-based application that can display in a 3D context sensor data captured by sensors in buildings (or on infrastructure such as bridges). In recent months, we’ve been working to publish the core components that display this rich 3D data, for instance, to spatially locate sensors in a 3D model and to map large amounts of IoT (Internet of Things) sensor data to the surface of 3D objects via animated heat maps. This session focuses on how Forge developers can integrate these components into their own applications, delivering first-class visualizations of their customers’ data.

Whether you’re scanning an existing site or capturing as-built data near the end of a project, you've put in the work to create a digital twin of your site in ReCap software. Now stakeholders need to review it or perhaps teammates need it to further their design. We'll discuss how to use secure Autodesk platforms like BIM 360, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Autodesk Drive to connect colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to your data. We’ll start with understanding various workflows to get your project up in the cloud. Once there, we'll use collaborative tools in the Autodesk Forge Viewer API to create markups and annotations that can be synced down to the project locally. We'll cover how teammates and partners can consume your data in other products like Revit software, Civil 3D software, and InfraWorks software. Lastly, we'll discuss where the product may be heading, and how that could affect current workflows. Whether you’re a surveyor or a BIM manager tasked with managing point cloud data, you’ll find value in this course.

Would you like to optimize project and design management? In this class, we’ll go through workflows and automated processes that enable us to track deliverables’ development progress and compare with schedule and budget more efficiently and accurately. We’ll work within the ISO 19650 framework and use some of the standards’ metrics in a set of dashboards to provide an overview of the sample project’s development. To analyze the data, it first gets exported from BIM 360 software and Revit files using Autodesk Forge software. All exported data, with schedule and budget, is imported into Microsoft Power BI. For contextualization, we also embed the Autodesk Forge Viewer into Microsoft Power BI, enabling us to dynamically switch between the project’s models and sheets corresponding to the data displayed on the dashboards. This approach to data and project management allows us to improve collaboration, enhance quality of deliverables, and reduce cost and risk. Throughout the course of two years, we predict saving $190,000 in one project alone.

Join us to see how we streamline our engineering processes by seamlessly transferring native data and parts between Revit software and Tekla Structures in real time with Autodesk Data Exchange. You'll learn how data transfer via Data Exchange enables us to incorporate our business rules for component detailing in the engineering phase without data loss. Using Autodesk Construction Cloud and the Autodesk Viewer provides visual feedback for intuitive collaboration. Using Data Exchange, we track and modify the status of parts throughout the project lifecycle. It is critical to develop and maintain streamlined and efficient processes without data losses during transfers between project phases. We'll show real-world examples of how to achieve uninterrupted data flows between the design and engineering phases. Take the first steps toward seamless data integration and status tracking in your organization and harness the full potential of native data exchange.

Digital twins can serve as a shadow representation of your assets—be it a building information modeling (BIM) corpus, CAD models of a facility, the equipment instruction manuals, or the interconnect between the systems. Adding sensors to these shadow representations allows for real-time tracking, evaluation, and prediction of facility and asset performance. In this presentation, we will introduce you to our digital twin platform called Autodesk Tandem and its new API. Following that, we will guide you through the process of developing your first digital twin, using the Autodesk Tandem APIs. By the end of the session, you'll know how to make your own digital twin and integrate the Autodesk Tandem API with your own systems and data. We'll wrap up with examples of more-advanced real-world use-cases that involve IoT sensors and time-series databases.

In this session, we’ll look at different strategies for visualizing your design data with Autodesk technology. Utilizing the Large Model Viewer, Inventor Studio, Fusion 360 software, 3ds Max software, Autodesk Rendering in the cloud, and VRED software, you’ll gain a good understanding of where each of these software systems have their strengths and application within industry, and where they can complement each other.

With all kinds of different VR devices released to the market, the concept of VR/AR/MR is becoming increasingly popular, but it's still an expensive experience. Is there any way to make the VR experience more accessible, and easier for your customers? WebVR provides a good solution. This class will introduceWebVR and show you some cool demos to help you get a quick project started with the technology, There are several frameworks you can start with, and even mix together - we will discuss some of these, including Three.js, the Autodesk Forge Viewer, and ReactVR. The class will show live demos, and the code behind the different examples.

In this class we will talk about the client-side web technologies HTML5, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and the JavaScript API (application programming interface), and we will look at how they are relevant to Autodesk, Inc., technologies such as the Autodesk 3D viewer technology. You will discover how these technologies fit with each other, what they do well, and where they are best avoided. We will also examine examples that use these technologies together with Autodesk technologies, and we will discuss where you should start if you are new to these technologies. Finally, the class will talk about enabling frameworks built on top of the JavaScript API, such as jQuery, Angular, and ThreeJS, which make using these technologies more delightful and powerful.

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.

At AU 2012, Andy Morsell of Autodesk Consulting and John Keith of Independence Power and Light (IPL) in Independence, Missouri, presented a class about migrating a medium-sized municipal electric utility to AutoCAD Map 3D Enterprise Electric while the project was still underway. Here we are 1 year later! This year, we present the completed application, which is in production use. Our roundtable session discusses the challenges we faced when interfacing with other systems and integrating with processes and workflows employed at IPL. We discuss the custom Autodesk® Infrastructure Map Server and Autodesk Consulting Mobile Viewer applications deployed at IPL. Interfaces include a service for receiving updates from their custom information system and interfaces to legacy systems that need to remain functional while they are being replaced. We also discuss MultiSpeak® exports to IPL's Milsoft DisSPatch® outage management system.

This class provides answers to at least the following questions: How many cloud credits do I need for my renderings? What are sun study, panorama, and illumination renderings? What is the alpha channel option for? Why does my background image not show up or why is it displaced? How can I download cloud renderings? Is there an offline viewer for panorama renderings? How can I share my renderings without sending them by email? We address these and other rendering questions.