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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.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2016

Connecting Autodesk to the Internet of Things

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

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Advanced Data Visualization Using the Forge Viewer

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.

New Orleans 2022

Sharing ReCap Projects on Autodesk's Cloud Platforms

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.

New Orleans 2022

How to Optimize Project, Design, and Risk Management with Autodesk Forge

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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Breaking Barriers: Using Data Exchange to Connect Native Revit and Tekla Data

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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Smarter buildings, stronger outcomes: How BIM and Digital Prototypings transform facility operations

Facility managers, owners, and operators in industries like higher education, healthcare, and government often struggle with siloed workflows, fragmented asset data, and inefficient maintenance processes. This session showcases how Eptura and Autodesk’s connected solutions bridge design and operations, creating a unified digital thread for smarter decision-making. Attendees will see live demonstrations of Eptura’s dynamic workflows with Autodesk Tandem and how the BIM Viewer provides a complete asset picture. Through real-world examples—optimizing campus space, predictive hospital maintenance, and enhancing government asset visibility—we’ll demonstrate how Digital Prototypings improve efficiency, Sustainable Design, and collaboration. Walk away with actionable strategies to leverage BIM and Digital Prototyping technology for measurable impact.

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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Introducing the Autodesk Tandem API: Building Your First Digital Twin

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.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Visualizing Your Product Design with Autodesk Technology

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.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017

Different Tools to Implement Your WebVR Application

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.

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