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Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2018
Wireless Electronics for Non-Electrical Engineers: Hands-On Workshop
Looking for an easy way to add wireless communications to a project? Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee? Wireless electronics is considered by many to be a dark art, even electrical engineers! However, today’s modular hardware and simplified software resources has made it possible for even nonelectrical engineers to successfully add wireless communications to their designs. This course is for mechanical engineers, industrial designers, architects, and software engineers looking to control objects wirelessly or gather data from devices or systems remotely. Spend time with us learning to add Wi-Fi to your next project! Using Eagle, we will build a small sensor-based system that posts data to the cloud and responds to commands from your browser. Some familiarity with embedded software platforms, including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or similar will be helpful but is not required. Familiarity with breadboarding concepts will also be helpful.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
How Do You Know if Your Mechanical Design Is Optimal for Your Electrical System
Today, much of the mechanical design has been completed before electrical design has barely started, practically eliminating any possibility of effective mechanical-electrical co-design. We propose an integrated MCAD-ECAD flow, harnessing generative AI to make mechanical electrical co-design a reality—to achieve optimal design and reduce turnaround time, design churn, and cost. We'll show how integration between Autodesk Fusion software and OrCAD X combined with Cadence's generative-AI printed circuit board (PCB) design solution, can transform mechanical-electrical co-design. The flow helps users achieve two seemingly contradictory goals: shift-left for mechanical and electrical engineers and shift-right for layout designers. In hours, mechanical/electrical engineers can get information like fully placed boards and thermal profiles early in design cycle, while PCB designers can start their work when the design is stable. This flow can help users reduce design cost and turnaround time, and create much more optimal designs.
20p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
AI Agents for Electrical Design: Driving Revit with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
At the top of this session, I'll give an AI agent a real electrical design task: review the electrical system in a Revit model, determine what's circuited, identify what needs power, and circuit those loads. Along the way it will hit the questions an engineer actually has to answer. Do we add another panel, or work with what's there? How do we split the loads across panels? While the agent works in the background, we'll look at how MCP connects AI to Revit, what tools an electrical engineer might give an agent, and where the engineer needs to stay in control. You'll leave knowing what AI agents can and can't reliably do in Revit today, and how to start experimenting yourself. Whether the agent succeeds, stalls, or takes a wrong turn, you'll see exactly where the line falls.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018
The Next-Level BIM Electrical: Embedded Analysis Using Revit API
For a while, MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) disciplines in general, and electrical in particular, have been somewhat behind architecture and structure disciplines when it comes to utilizing BIM (Building Information Modeling) capabilities; hence, electrical engineers usually used BIM software as a drafting tool while keeping the same old calculation sheets and process. The purpose of this class is to give a detailed approach on how electrical analysis and workflow can be embedded successfully in BIM software, to motivate MEP and electrical engineers to take the design process to the next levels—not just by the integration between analysis software, but by preparing a full workflow. The lecture will describe embedding electrical analysis using Revit software, Revit API, and simple database; following electrical design tasks such as feeder sizing and protection sizing; explaining how Revit is used as the main tool and central platform for the electrical design process; and also making the electrical and MEP engineers think of the next level.
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2026
Electrical Analytical Systems and Loads
Electrical engineers are often forced to make major design decisions early, with limited information and rapidly changing project conditions. In this hands-on lab, you will use Revit Electrical Analytical Systems tools to create connected, data-rich workflows for schematic and early design. You'll define analytical area loads and analytical equipment loads, create analytical equipment, and connect and evaluate loading scenarios to make better design decisions with minimal model information for better project outcomes. Using these tools early in your design process can give you better understanding of current loading scenarios and help you plan for future expansions with minimal effort.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
Pesky Electrical Settings That Drive You Crazy
Revit® MEP software for electrical engineering is all about coordination. Yes, it does modeling in 3D, but the biggest benefit for electrical is not that it can model 3D lights. Rather, it is that it produces a coordinated model with the insurance that everything is circuited and documented correctly. Setting up Revit MEP for Electrical can be painful. There are many pesky settings and things that just do not work the way you want them to work. Come and join me as we discuss the major items that I have discovered that keep electrical engineers up at night trying to configure Revit MEP to work the way they want it to. We tackle problems such as editing panel schedules, changing graphics of nested families, working with homeruns, working with hosted fixtures, and working with load classifications. Don't let Revit MEP get the best of you. Learn how to fix these pesky settings before they drive you crazy!
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017
Pesky Electrical Settings in Revit 2018
Revit MEP software for electrical engineering is all about coordination. Yes, it does modeling in 3D; but the biggest benefit for electrical is not that it can model 3D lights. Rather, it's that it produces a coordinated model with the assurance that everything is circuited and documented correctly. Setting up Revit MEP for electrical can be painful. There are many pesky settings and things that just do not work the way you want them to work. Come to this class to discuss the major items that keep electrical engineers up at night trying to configure Revit MEP to work the way they want it to. We'll tackle problems such as editing panel schedules, changing graphics of nested families, creating circuit paths, developing powerful electrical schedules, working with hosted fixtures, and working with load classifications. Don't let Revit MEP get the best of you. Learn how to fix these pesky settings before they drive you crazy.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Enhanced Electrical Design Workflows
Improving electrical design workflows is critical for electrical engineers and designers to increase efficiencies, focus on sustainability, and deliver for their clients. April Kane—an electrical designer/BIM consultant for Spectrum Engineers —has a mission to improve her team's electrical workflows. She has partnered with the Advanced Electrical Design for Revit team as an early adopter of the new Revit extension. This presentation will focus on a case study starting with the considerations and assessments the firm took before reworking its electrical design workflows. We'll show an example of a project using the new enhanced workflows.
11p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017
Take the Load Off Your Electrical (Engineer)
Revit families were created to communicate with each other; we can push or gather data via their connectors, which lets us create some very powerful families and schedules. Using this data, we can coordinate across disciplines and decrease errors and design time. Mechanical can input values and provide electrical with the necessary information to properly design their systems with minimum effort. Parameters can be viewed as discreet bits of information you plug in to your equipment to populate your schedule-an arduous, tedious task. But if you look at how all those bits of data can affect all the other bits of data, and you can get them talking to each other, you'll have a useful design tool. Since engineering is chock-full of formulas, we'll look at how we can use these formulas to drive our parameters and streamline the design process. We'll look at how mechanical elements push data upstream to help calculate electrical loads.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Supercharge Your Electrical Predesign with Electrical Analytical Tools
Electrical analysis tools in Revit software allow engineers and designers to predict, calculate, and balance electrical loads in early design stages. By estimating anticipated electrical loads before the development of an architectural model, it's possible to more accurately rightsize electrical systems earlier in designs and create more-sustainable buildings. These powerful tools are still new and relatively unknown, so many designers and engineers are unaware of the early-stage design capabilities available. Learn how to use electrical analysis tools, including defining custom area-based load types, creating and modifying area-based loads and equipment loads, and calculating electrical loads in buildings in the earliest stages of design.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Radically Transform Your Revit Electrical Modeling with AI-Powered Solutions
Are you an electrical engineer or contractor looking to grow or accelerate your VDC practice with AI and aren't sure where to start? Join us as we show you how you can do just that using an AI-powered design tool from Augmenta to supercharge your Revit modeling workflow. In this interactive session, you will learn the ropes of using the Augmenta Construction Platform's automated electrical modeling capability to amplify your VDC capabilities and walk through the entire process of developing design solutions automatically A to Z. Utilizing the Revit model data, we'll develop and analyze multiple designs in parallel, opening up a world of opportunities for trade-off exploration and data-driven decision making upstream in the design process. We will cover what is needed to get started, and dive into the ways AI will transform your Revit Modeling process. We believe that design activities will shift from output focused to outcome oriented. Are you ready to join the movement?
11p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018
Who Said Revit Can't Be Used at Project Start for Electrical Design? We Didn’t!
This class will discuss and present ways to more effectively use Revit software for early electrical design by utilizing existing Revit features to perform total electrical load calculation and equipment sizing. At the beginning of the project, no electrical fixtures or devices are placed in the model. How can an electrical designer estimate the energy consumption and power demand in Revit, even though the full electrical detailed installation isn't modelized? Smart simple families, zoning tools, Dynamo, and panel schedule will be involved in an easy workflow to apply a power-demand estimation method based on power-load density by power-demand profiles. We will then present how electrical designers and engineers can move the model from schematic design to detailed design by adapting the method with more-detailed information when appropriate.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Design and Manage Electrical Installation in Revit
In this class we will present how to define your electrical design in Revit software. We will explore the advantages of using a Building Information Modeling (BIM) model for an electrical installation, and address electrical families and connectors, electrical systems, light calculation, and documentation.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
BIMelec, the BIM Electrical Process
In this class we will present the process of integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) in order to manage the electrical design of a building project—what we call, “BIMelec.” We will present how different companies benefit from integrating the BIMelec process into their electrical design, and we’ll explain the workflow that enabled the realization of several electrical building projects.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019
Revit MEP—Electrical Design in 3D: Make Your Clients Happy
This class will illustrate how MEP electrical designers and engineers can utilize Revit to provide clients with more-accurate 3D representations of electrical elements without dramatically increasing design time. In an industry still heavily reliant on 2D deliverables for construction, it may be easy for electrical designers or engineers to produce traditional construction documents without exact 3D element placement. Revit electrical design is a drag-and-drop process in which exact 3D element placement may be missed (or ignored)—leading to coordination issues and client frustration, since some elements can’t be used for client elevations, sections, renderings, or virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. This session will demonstrate content manipulation of Revit electrical fixtures and lighting families using parameters, filters, schedules, and tags for improved 3D representation.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014
Everything Electrical for Revit MEP
The title of this class speaks for itself. You will learn everything you need to know about Revit MEP software, focusing entirely on the electrical side. Topics will include managing your project template; creating 2D annotation symbols and electrical families; creating more efficient diagrams; using filters for your electrical systems; and laying out fixtures. We'll also look at devices and equipment, circuiting, and scheduling. We will cover techniques for achieving better coordination between disciplines (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) and making the most out of Revit MEP software, and we will discuss some best practices. We will also share with you an actual project that implemented items discussed during this lecture.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Ways To More Effectively Utilize Revit For Electrical Design

This class will discuss and present ways to more effectively utilize Revit software for electrical design by better utilizing the data already in the model to perform calculations and checks. Rather than spending days working on the energy code calculation counting the fixtures and space square footages, imagine if you could print out a Revit software schedule with all the information needed to fill out COMCheck in a matter of minutes. Revit software can also be used to help the senior engineers and the QA/QC Teams quickly to check the electrical backbone of a building for things like over- and under-loading of electrical panels/transformers, as well as branch circuit loading to check breaker size, wire size, and load classification with all the information exactly as it is currently modeled. A series of schedules can also compare the current mechanical/plumbing schedules with the current electrical design load to ensure they match. You can use filters to check for uncircuited items as a quick back check.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2016
Ways to More Effectively Use Revit for Electrical Design
This class will discuss and present ways to more effectively utilize Revit software for electrical design by better utilizing the data already in the model to perform calculations and checks. Rather than spending days working on the energy code calculation counting the fixtures and space square footages, imagine if you could print out a Revit software schedule with all the information needed to fill out COMCheck in a matter of minutes. We can also use Revit software to help the senior engineers and the QA/QC Teams quickly to check the electrical backbone of a building for things like overloading and underloading of electrical panels/transformers, as well as branch circuit loading to check breaker size, wire size, and load classification with all the information exactly as it is currently modeled. A series of schedules can also compare the current mechanical/plumbing schedules with the current electrical design load to better ensure they match. You can use filters to check for uncircuited items as a quick back check. This session features Revit and Revit MEP.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018
Workflows for AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor Interoperability

This class will provide an overview of best practices and tips for smooth interoperability between AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software. We will demonstrate the best practices for integrating the toolsets built in to each package and capitalizing on the current workflows. The class will involve demonstrations in both Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015
Taking BIM to the Limits for Structural Engineers and Technicians
Through our embedment in a team of 700-plus structural and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) engineers and technicians in our London office, within a worldwide company pool of over 10 times that, we have digested the core components of what a Structural Team needs to know to push the Building Information Modeling (BIM) boundaries to the next level, from embedding data to linking analysis and design models; from quantification to sustainability dashboards; from 3D rebar to Advance Steel software implementation; from Revit software templates to enhanced Revit software content; and from IFC output to model reviewing and verification. And with interoperability at the heart of it all. Arup Group Limited is one of the world's premier engineering design consultancies with over 12,000 staff in 90 countries worldwide, and this class will demonstrate our structural workflows across the globe. We will share what we’ve learned on our BIM journey, and how it is benefitting our daily creative process.
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