In this class, you will learn how to improve your design process, increase your creative freedom, and reach your deadlines faster with Autodesk® Alias®, Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro, Autodesk® Maya®, and Autodesk® Mudbox® software. We will go through the entire process of creating a new product, from the conceptual level up through surfacing and prototyping. All class data will be available for download.

As the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry continues to rely on its current design process, technology allows for the exploration of possibilities that may differ from the current workflow. The AEC industry has been using the same methodology for decades—since long before we even had computers. This discussion poses the question: Shouldn’t we look at a holistic change of that methodology, taking into consideration future technological advances? This session will offer a forum to discuss various hypothetical possibilities regarding the architectural design process and its interaction with technology, hoping to objectively look at areas that can be improved. During this roundtable, we’ll share and discuss experiences, successes, failures, and “wish lists,” and have an open discussion so we can all learn from each other. Every company has its own way to proceed in the design process, but even with the vast number of possible design solutions for buildings, shouldn’t the process be one that can maximize technology to its advantage?

Unlock your business potential! Discover emerging building-industry trends, scope generative-design projects, and target solutions in a 90-minute scenario-based think tank with industry peers. Last year, we introduced the idea of outcome-based design in the Autodesk University course, “The Business Value of Computational and Generative Design for Executives.” This year, we are pushing further to develop actionable plans for implementation by design technologists and computational and generative designers. Attendees will form teams to discover opportunities for automation, rationalization, and optimization with design challenges that push the limits on design requirements and process innovation. A panel of reviewers from Autodesk will award one team with the Future is a Design Challenge Award for Excellence in Strategy Development.

Building information modeling (BIM) platforms and design software have opposite strengths. To get the best from each, it's beneficial to have them working in combination and complementing each other throughout the whole design phase. Doing so will also help bring BIM culture closer to designers, breaking the entrenched silos between the disciplines. Embracing designers in BIM allows for earlier implementation in the project and delays design freeze, as every iteration is captured in the federated model. This workflow proposes a fully integrated approach to the use of Rhino software and Revit software, describing the interoperability requirements of these platforms at the different stages of a project. Interoperability is a big challenge—we will review how an agile methodology can let you incorporate emerging technologies, and how this technology affects the design process.

Discover how Rivian is transforming its automotive design process using extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) with VRED software from Autodesk. This session will delve into Rivian’s innovative approach to using XR for immersive, interactive design reviews. By using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Workstation Edition GPUs, XR is enhancing collaboration, accelerating iteration, and ultimately driving superior vehicle design. We'll explore how Rivian is achieving unprecedented visual fidelity with VR SLI enabled by PCIe Gen 5 and democratizing XR across the design and business team by incorporating AI-driven interaction, including AI-powered voice activation. This all results in faster decision making and reduced physical prototyping.

Revit®-based software is recognized as a building design tool for architectural, structural, plumbing and HVAC. At Whitman, Requardt & Associates, our water and wastewater engineers and designers saw the benefits others were experiencing by using Revit and decided to take Revit to the next level—for use designing large-diameter pipe used in water and wastewater process plants. With only AutoCAD® software 2D experience, the switch to Revit identified changes that were needed within our design process and workflow. These changes ultimately led to a better coordinated design for our clients, and Revit is now the tool of choice for many water and wastewater projects. In this class, I demonstrate how engineers and designers in the water and wastewater disciplines at Whitman, Requardt & Associates made use of Revit for more than plumbing.

3D printing adds an incredibly powerful tool to the design process. As the industry moves beyond 3D-printed Yoda heads and Pokémon, we unlock even more-dramatic efficiencies and advantages for developers. In this talk, we'll look at how pairing parametric modeling with 3D printing enables users to iterate faster than ever before and build fully functional prototypes. Lastly, we'll explore how 3D printing's "slicer" software is quietly one of the biggest drivers of the technology.

Using our Autodesk suite to reshape our design process and owning our IP has enabled sustainable scaling and the delivery of large pipelines of work for central government using off-site construction methods. This success has led to a 300% increase in our manufacturing capacity in the last three years, while maintaining client satisfaction with the quality of our design and project delivery. We'll explain how this has been achieved through repeatable and continuously improved designs, supported by Autodesk Build and Autodesk Docs software. In the second half of this talk, the focus will shift toward the potential of Autodesk Informed Design software and how it can facilitate a platform design through the development of subassemblies, ultimately supporting off-site construction by maximizing productivity and improving quality through increased industrialization.

The class will guide attendees to understand the principles and aim of the Conceptual Design Process developed for White Architects, and the benefits that Autodesk technology and services can bring.

White Architects needed to identify design intent in conceptual architecture stages, including energy efficiency. They wanted to use Autodesk applications to efficiently identify the design intent and, at the same time, to be able to re-use the digital models in later design processes.

Autodesk has worked with them to define the best processes and tools to achieve their objectives, defining a consistent framework that allows White architects to use the framework as a fluid and flexible tool for facing this early stage design and to use the digital models downstream to accomplish with more advanced phases of the project lifecycle.

The traditional approach to vehicle design in industry departs from a defined technical package and research about vehicle users, brand character, and aesthetics. This process has responded to stable vehicle configurations for decades, enabling creative design to focus significantly on visual and tactile aesthetics. But future megatrends are disrupting this outlook. This new state of the art widens the influence of design, requires new types of creatives, and demands new, more effective creative design workflows. The Transportation Design program at the University of Cincinnati has tackled these challenges by creating the Future Mobility Center, a vision of future-vehicle creative design spaces, with virtual reality applications from early creative development to final design validation, in tandem with rapid physical validation. This Autodesk University class will describe how the space was developed, and will provide examples of projects that have come out of it.

Come and see how the new virtual technologies influence the Porsche design process. We'll cover the choice of using virtual decision making instead of physical prototypes; the challenges and Autodesk solutions to simulate and visualize new user experiences in new-car projects; common technology process approaches-from CAD (Alias software) to visual simulation to Class A; and the use of new visual simulation approaches to take real decisions day by day (measured materials, light design, car user experience, driving performance, press usage, exhibition, and marketing support). We'll also cover using OGL and GI Raytracing in the process with a single virtual data model; and using new immersive tools to improve and speed up the design process (like head-mounted displays, virtual reality, augmented reality, and virtual sketching and modeling).

User-centered interface design increasingly gains importance in modern mobility design to provide sophisticated experiences for the customer. Looking at advanced display technologies and the growing possibilities for human-machine interaction, Porsche wants to ensure a driver-centered and fully interactive product experience. Therefore, it is more important than ever to enable both designers and board members as well to get a highly realistic and fully immersive experience of their products in the early stages of the design process. Not only to integrate advanced technologies like augmented reality (AR) seamlessly into the design concept, but also to be able to explore which technologies can enhance the driver experience in which way. This class will give you an inside view into how Porsche is using VRED software to collaborate with other departments and provide new possibilities for UX/user-interface experiences in the early design process.

This session will be an introduction to a sustainable workflow initiative that uses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce lead times from the design phase to construction by up to 60%. Building upon the success of A-SPEC (the existing automated restroom design cloud service) initially introduced during AU 2021, we proudly introduce "A-SPEC Plus,” our newest generation of design process that uses the latest AI algorithms. The inclusion of advanced AI in this upgrade allows for the creation of restroom layouts/plans that prioritize user comfort and spacious designs. In addition to the plan proposals created based on the new design logic, A-SPEC Plus significantly reduces lead time from design to construction with very little input by using the capabilities of Autodesk Construction Cloud and Autodesk Platform Services. Potential applications of this technology extend far beyond restroom design. It also offers a scalable automated design solution for various building spaces and interior designs.

In this session, we'll showcase how a web application, built on top of Autodesk Platform Services and our local database, can optimize the design process, improve CO2e footprint assessment, and enhance collaboration among clients and stakeholders. Using this web application enables clients to efficiently simulate design modifications, making well-informed decisions that effectively minimize both the cost and time associated with CO2e emissions. This ultimately leads to a more streamlined and sustainable design process. For a deeper dive into what we'll cover, please see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZKyYvjcyFC8EzgOVGxoBgPp2xWKs_bfO/view

Revit software is recognized as a building design tool for architectural, structural, plumbing, and HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning). At Whitman, Requardt & Associates, LLP (WR&A), the Water Wastewater discipline saw the benefits that others were experiencing using Revit software and decided to take Revit software to the next level for use with large diameter pipe used in process plants. With only AutoCAD software 2D experience, the switch to Revit software identified changes needed within the design process and workflow. These changes ultimately led to a better-coordinated design for clients, and Revit software is now the tool of choice for many Water Wastewater projects. This session will demonstrate how WR&A's Water Wastewater disciplines utilized Revit software for more than plumbing.

As a leading engineering firm, VHB aspires to be at the forefront of innovation and technology. We achieve this goal by using Autodesk Construction Cloud, a cloud-based storage solution, to improve our design process. Autodesk Construction Cloud is not just a tool for construction services, Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro software in Autodesk Construction Cloud can be used to boost Civil 3D and Revit performance by reducing open times, preventing crashes, and maintaining data quality. As the design process grows more complex, it requires continuous collaboration with clients, subconsultants, and stakeholders. Autodesk Construction Cloud allows essential parties to access, collaborate, and integrate seamlessly throughout the design process, ultimately enhancing outcomes for our clients. The connected workflow creates a more efficient design process, elevating our projects, especially those with integrated services. Collaboration is vital in our dynamic industry, and this session will illustrate how your design teams can use Autodesk Construction Cloud throughout the entire design process to increase efficiencies.

Autodesk Navisworks software isn't just for contractors. Architects are seeing the value of using Navisworks during design as a coordination tool. Get a firsthand look from an architect and Building Information Modeling (BIM) service provider on how to use Navisworks for phasing studies and learn the value of using Navisworks early in the design process for owners and architects. We will show a case study from Florida on how local governments used the design model for tenant phasing, and site logistics in design. We will describe how architects use clash detection for design coordination, discuss what not to model, and explain the difference between what is modeled in design versus construction for coordination. We will give best practices and tips and tricks on how to make Navisworks work for you.

In this class, a CIO of a leading ship-building company from India shall be jointly presenting with a partner a case study of their custom implementation of Vault software as a business process automation platform to synchronize their design and business workflows to their Enterprise Business systems—Infor ERP. The class will explore how various departments of a ship-manufacturing organization works around the design data that flows between various users and integrates critical items and BOM with their ERP system and automates several business workflows customized on Vault interface. The presenter will explain how they could save close to 20% of their design-to-manufacturing cycle time by streamlining Vault product data management (PDM) software to remove redundant work on ERP while enabling a collaborative and automated business environment. This class will explore the extent to which Vault can be customized beyond its basic features, and throw light on integration of BOM and related data to ERP or other applications.

Traditionally CAD and CAE have mostly been used for documenting designs and providing feedback on how they perform in operation. Improved tools, expanded computing power, and new manufacturing technology are now opening up new possibilities for computational design and engineering, where CAD and CAE are used to actually generate part geometry directly. These tools help engineers explore an array of design strategies and create lighter, stronger, or more-efficient parts by driving the design with functional goals, not just a handful of dimensions on a sketch. This course will provide some context for optimization tools as they exist today and introduce several new tools aimed at this goal-driven design concept.

Come and learn about our research, learning, and hurdles when working with generative design and artificial intelligence as they apply to the automotive design process.