This class will focus on the effective use of Custom Objects in Vault Professional data management software to replace spreadsheet-based tracking systems. In addition, you will become familiar with other opportunities to put Custom Objects to work in your environment.

The ability to customize has always set AutoCAD-based technology apart from other drafting and design software. But most people either don't know how or are intimidated by unleashing the power of simple customization. This class explains why customization plays a major role in achieving greater productivity and improved quality, ultimately raising you and your company to a higher level of success. We’ll introduce you to the basics of all the possible ways you can customize AutoCAD-based software, and show you how to take advantage of previously existing customized apps and tools. You’ll leave this class with a better understanding of what's possible, and you’ll have greater confidence to take advantage of this unique and powerful feature of the AutoCAD family of products.

The ability to tailor the menu system in AutoCAD® software to automate commands or to create a personal workspace has always been the product's forte. Back in the day, we could easily modify the menu system with a text editor. Things change. The AutoCAD Custom User Interface File (CUIX) is a tad more complex and can be daunting to even a seasoned AutoCAD veteran. In this class, you learn how to add commands to AutoCAD, creating new tabs and panels for your workspace. You learn to add a custom partial menu to the main customization file and how to incorporate the enterprise CUIX.

Have you ever thought, “Wow, I'd like to use Vault Professional software to manage that”? Vault software is great at managing files and items, but what about other things like project information, task lists, and whatever else you can dream up. Well, with Custom Objects now you can. This exciting class will teach you how to get started with Custom Objects. You’ll learn about creating custom objects, custom object security, categories, and maybe even a little UI modification.

Maya is a popular 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects software in the media and entertainment industry. It provides a powerful API that lets users customize and extend Maya software’s functionalities in order to create efficient workflows and become even more productive. This class is an introduction to Maya customization for customers who would like to create automation and/or improve efficiency when using the product. Some programming experience will be helpful. You will learn about the benefits of customizing Maya and gain the confidence to create your first plug-in using the Python API. Note that you can easily reproduce all concepts in the C++ environment as well.

Customization is a key feature in AutoCAD software that makes it different from any other CAD tool on the market. Configuring user interface, modifying the files within AutoCAD software can greatly improve productivity when using AutoCAD software. By customizing AutoCAD software, a user can streamline different product workflows and enable creation of new ones that can improve the company works. The workflows might range from importing styles and layers into AutoCAD software to extracting information from AutoCAD software into a database. If you created blocks in AutoCAD software, chances are that you have already understood some of the customization features in AutoCAD software. However, we will cover some intermediate and advanced customization techniques in AutoCAD software that can greatly impact your productivity and enable you as a power AutoCAD software user in customization space. When you start your next project, chances are that you will tend to customize AutoCAD software and enhance your design or drafting workflow.

Learn how to start building custom bridge components using both Inventor software and Revit software for use in InfraWorks software. We’ll briefly examine the InfraWorks-centered bridge workflow and identify where custom components can be beneficial. We’ll work up two specific examples using both of the available methods and covering the benefits of each. Then we’ll use those newly created components in InfraWorks and see how they can be manipulated to a final state within the bridge itself ready for the workflow to continue.

In this class, you will learn to create custom content for both Autodesk® P&ID and Autodesk Plant 3D software. We will focus on using tools such as legacy AutoCAD® data, previously created AutoCAD 3D solids, and Autodesk® Inventor® to create the content. You will learn to create and modify custom symbols. We will also show you how to create and maintain project templates that contain custom content as well as how to copy custom content from one project to another.

In the era of 2D CAD, many firms invested in custom tools and development staff to write and maintain them. A firm's overall experience varied in terms of the success of this investment and just about everyone has a story to tell about being burned from spending money developing custom tools. However a number of market forces are coming into play that continue to drive the need to customize the Revit® software platform, and the question is, Do you rely entirely on third-party software or go back down the road of customization? This class explores the benefits of investing in the development of custom tools for your firm, and shows how Revit is really different this time for those who have a horror story to tell. This class looks at the tools Stantec has developed in the last year and the return on investment we have already seen. We also examine our overall strategy and approach to development.

At its core, AutoCAD software is a platform that you can extend to automate workflows to manage projects and streamline design processes. While there are many benefits to extending AutoCAD, managing the resulting custom files and settings can be challenging. AutoCAD provides a variety of tools to help you develop various custom files and settings, but much is left up to you regarding how you should manage files and settings and eventually migrate them to a newer release. This session will introduce you to some of the tools and best practices that you can use to simplify documenting, managing, and migrating your custom files and settings.

Analysts working with Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow® software must not only run quality simulations, but also interpret the results and present them clearly. This class is about looking beyond the default plots and customizing the results to improve result clarity for yourself and your audience. Time permitting, you will have a chance to show and discuss your favorite custom plots.

Have you ever found yourself wondering if there’s a more efficient way to work? Maybe you downloaded an AutoLISP or VBA program to improve your productivity, only to discover that it doesn't work quite like you’d hoped. Many of the daily interactions you perform with AutoCAD software can be customized or automated. Using customization, you can tailor the product to the way you work. And automation enables you to streamline design workflows. This class will provide you with a basic, high-level introduction to features and programming languages you can use to customize and automate workflows in AutoCAD, along with resources for getting started.

Do you know what Data Standard is and want to learn from the experts how to configure and customize it? Then subscribe for this class. We will cover how to quickly customize the user interface, create functions to influence the behavior, extend Vault software with additional menu items, and capitalize on Data Standard with Vault software Custom Objects.

This class will demonstrate effective practices for creating, sharing, and maintaining custom Dynamo extension nodes. The class will use Python scripting and DesignScript programming language to customize the Dynamo extension, and we'll explore effective practices for curating reusable nodes for sharing through the package manager. Finally, the class will showcase custom Dynamo extension packages, authored by the presenter, and walk through how these packages are used and maintained for the user community.

The graphical column schedule (GCS) in Revit® Structure may be a system family that cannot be edited in the Family Editor, but this does not mean that it cannot be customized. This class discusses how the graphical column schedule can be customized to suit your needs. We demonstrate how to create parameters within the column families so that information, such as base plate sizes and detail information, shows up dynamically in information boxes within the GCS. We also cover how to create custom column tags. The main focus of the class is to show how to schedule steel columns; however, the fundamentals of this class can also be applied to concrete, concrete masonry units (CMU), or even timber columns.

Creating custom bridge parts ready for modeling transportation projects in InfraWorks software can be challenging for the uninitiated. This class will provide the chance to learn how to create these parts using both the Revit and Inventor methodologies from scratch in a hands-on environment. We will look at the benefits of each method and how each can be incorporated into a transportation project and progressed through the workflow from modeling in InfraWorks to the documentation phase in Revit. These techniques will be worked through in the context of bridge engineering, but they will also be applicable to tunneling.

Everyone approaches AutoCAD software differently, so in this hands-on lab we cover several approaches to customizing and launching commands. After creating a workspace, we will create a custom panel on the ribbon to hold your favorite commands, and we'll also see how to add the same commands to the Quick Access toolbar. As some of you know, I'm a Tool Palette junkie, so we'll see how a button on the Tool Palette may result in a better approach. For the keyboarders, we'll create a 1-line lisp, and we'll edit the ACAD.PGP file for aliases. But what about those rollover tips and the content of Quick Properties? We'll also check those out. In addition to some quality time in the Customize User Interface, we will also present tips along the way, all of which I hope will result in a more efficient and productive daily AutoCAD experience.

In this class you will learn some useful steps to customize content to use in your AutoCAD P&ID software projects. We will lead you through accessing the project setup and understanding what you can edit. We will particularly focus on accessing engineering items. This will involve creating custom equipment, inline assets, instrumentation, and lines. In addition you will learn how to create unique tagging and custom off-page connectors.

AutoCAD uses grips showed with a selected object not only to provide visual hints of the object—such as start/end/center points, or mid/tangent points or vertices—but also, more importantly, to provide shortcuts to various operations against the object, such as stretch, move, rotation, and scale. Other AutoCAD-based applications (Civil 3D software, AutoCAD Architecture software, AutoCAD MEP software, and so on) use custom grips with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) entities extensively. Fortunately, with .NET API, we can add custom grips to an AutoCAD object for our own specialized operation against the selected object. This session will show you a few practical examples of using custom grips.

AutoCAD software can be extended in a number of ways, but many users are unsure of where or how to get started. In this lab, you learn to create custom desktop icons, modify the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar, create and modify command aliases that can be used to start commands, record and play back action macros, and define tools and tool palettes to reduce repetitive drawing tasks. This lab gives you a solid foundation in customizing AutoCAD so you can be more productive when you return to your office.