Discover the revolutionary innovations in AutoCAD Plant 3D 2027 software that will transform the way you work in process plant design. Experience the new isometric sheet collection, where you'll get an entire line number in a single isometric drawing. Streamline your work with improved AutoCAD P&ID Modeler, including the completion rate and status. Take advantage of P&ID enhancements such as the ability to substitute several components in one single step using the Property Palette. And learn more about several additional new features in AutoCAD Plant 3D 2027. This session will give you practical insights into how you can use these innovations to make your daily tasks more efficient and successfully complete your projects.

What breaks when a 10-person engineering team becomes a 70-person manufacturing organization? This session will explore M2X's real-world journey scaling with Inventor, Vault, AutoCAD Plant 3D, and Autodesk Fusion Manage software. Learn how the team transitioned from ad hoc design workflows to structured data management and a connected PDM/PLM strategy. We'll cover how to time tool adoption, avoid common scaling missteps, and enable cross-functional collaboration between engineering and production. You'll gain practical frameworks to structure product data, build a digital thread, and support rapid growth while improving quality, reducing rework, and maintaining control across the product lifecycle.

In this hands-on lab, you'll experience a connected digital factory workflow by executing it in real time. Starting with a 2D factory layout in AutoCAD using Factory Design Utilities, you'll convert it into a 3D model in Inventor with a single click and bring it into FlexSim for simulation. The lab will also demonstrate how design changes are synchronized across AutoCAD, Inventor, and FlexSim, ensuring a connected workflow and reducing manual rework. You'll gain practical skills to move from layout to simulation in minutes.

Digital twins are moving from concept to reality, but success looks different for every organization. This session will bring owners, operators, technologists, and consultants together to discuss moving from digital models to operational twins. Panelists will highlight different types of digital twins, from simulation-based twins like FlexSim to operational and asset-based twins like Autodesk Tandem, enabling connected asset data and certainty from design through operations. The discussion will compare platform ecosystems, use cases, and scaling strategies across the asset lifecycle. You can expect examples, lessons learned, and open dialogue on what works and what doesn't, while connecting with peers shaping the future of digital twins.

Navigating the imminent growth in the renewable energy market presents challenges around skills and project data quality. Autodesk tools enable customers to overcome these challenges by investing in upskilling and ensuring high-quality data for their projects. AutoCAD files are critical in this, providing the precision needed, especially with the shift toward 3D designs for energy yield modeling. Well-optimized and structured preconstruction stage designs in AutoCAD can make or break a potential project's funding and eventual construction, thus driving customer value. This panel will explore how Autodesk software can empower customers to unlock the renewable energy sector's potential, overcome bottlenecks, and mitigate risks. By addressing these challenges, users can contribute significantly to achieving the ambitious Net Zero emissions targets and combat climate change, driving positive outcomes for their businesses and the world.

The new AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024 software has many new features. Some are obvious, others are a bit hidden, but still very important, improving your daily work. Do you want to get information about these new features? Come to this session!

Every project starts with assumptions but misalignment with reality leads to costly rework. What if decisions were grounded in real-world conditions from day one? This session will present a practical AECO workflow from field to design, showing how reality capture combined with ReCap, Revit, AutoCAD, and Autodesk Forma becomes a true decision engine. Discover how point clouds and 360-degree imagery enable early validation, risk identification, and trusted data integration into design environments. With FARO Sphere XG, Qbitec, and FARO As-Built, learn how to accelerate modeling, improve coordination, and reduce uncertainty empowering teams to shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive, confident project delivery.

Industrial piping projects routinely run into difficulties validating model design against P&ID schematics. Missing tags and incorrect descriptions wreak havoc on schedules as designers work to transition from drawing-focused design to data-centered design. Engineering managers and project managers need clarity in design quality. Learn how estimating design points as part of your AutoCAD Plant 3D modeling gives you and your project management team better insight into project progress, identifying critical paths, and helps your projects stay on time and on budget.

This is an open panel discussion about all AutoCAD Plant 3D topics. Ask us—we will answer.

Connecting Microsoft Power Bi to AutoCAD Plant 3D software enables your organization to apply business intelligence to your design models. Learn how to raise the visibility of the design process by giving project managers, engineers, and other teams access to your model data without interrupting the design process. Power BI can help answer questions like: What's the project progress in modeling? How many lines still need isometrics? Did all my equipment get modeled yet? Is my line list complete? These are common questions to ask, but they can require so much work to get an answer that the design process has to stop. With Power Bi, your reporting and project status information can be pulled in parallel with your design efforts. By being able to bring the status information to a weekly stand-up meeting, your team can focus on discussing solutions instead of discovering problems.

Flushing large-diameter transmission water mains is a critical yet complex step in maintaining water quality. This session will highlight how InfoWater Pro was used to plan the flushing of more than six miles of 36-inch pipe by modeling hydraulic conditions, reversing flow direction, and optimizing valve and tank operations. You’ll learn about modeling guided decision making to increase flow rates for scouring while avoiding disruptions to customer service. Through a focused case study, this session will illustrate how to integrate hydraulic modeling and operational strategy to support effective large-main flushing.

Thames Water and Stantec in the United Kingdom have developed an innovative methodology to build a long-term investment plan for London’s clean-water network, serving 8 million customers. This work defines how the future London water network should look like using hydraulic modeling and an optimization framework to identify the best value investment options. It handled extensive data from various sources. A strategic network model (InfoWorks WS Pro software) was prepared, incorporating current and future (25 years) supply-and-demand scenarios to identify needs. Optimatics Optimizer tested numerous solution combinations, calculating cost and hydraulic performance to develop the best value plan. This optimization process required the combined effort of Optimizer processing power, hydraulic modeler input, and stakeholder engagement to select and refine investment plans of interest. The session will provide an overview of the approach we took, and present the results and lessons from the above project.

See the different options considered and the evaluation processes used to narrow down to the right solution. We’ll discuss the trial and error, the meeting and workshop strategies, and other topics considered before arriving at the decision to use the Assets module in Autodesk Construction Cloud for a work order tracking tool.

Every organization collects data—but what happens when 80% of that data goes unused? This session will be Part 2 of showing how the integration of Vault software with Power BI can turn that dormant data into a leadership tool that supports smarter business cases and executive decision making. Using a real-world example from the utility sector, we’ll walk through how connecting the design process with Vault, using Vault Data APIs, and visualizing with Power BI can uncover valuable insights and drive tangible operational improvements. We'll also dive into the Vault engineering change order (ECO) process, illustrating how this integration delivers measurable impact for both internal teams and external stakeholders. If you're looking to empower leadership with clear, data-driven narratives and justify technology investment with confidence, this session is your blueprint that demonstrates what you can deliver after taking this class.

Keeping operations running has never been more critical. Maintenance and operations leaders must maximize asset performance, reduce downtime, control costs, and do more with leaner teams - all while keeping production moving. Join leaders from MaintainX, now an Autodesk company, to explore how leading manufacturers are rethinking maintenance as a driver of operational performance and a competitive differentiator. Drawing on insights from thousands of customers, this session will share how data from frontline workers, real-time machine connectivity, and artificial intelligence (AI) help frontline teams improve asset reliability, increase productivity, and make faster, more informed decisions. You'll learn how digital maintenance platforms help teams reduce unplanned downtime, standardize work, and turn operational data into actionable insights. This session will also cover what's next for intelligent maintenance and asset management - and why manufacturers are making this a priority today.

See how AutoCAD software and Forma Data Management (formerly Autodesk Docs) work together so your team can collaborate without confusion. This hands-on session will walk you through Share sending view or edit links so others can open drawings in the browser or in AutoCAD on the web and Trace adding markups on a syncing overlay and bringing them into the main drawing. You'll try multi-user markups so several people can add feedback to the same design from web and desktop, and see how to use checkout to reserve entities for edit, submit for review, then merge approved checkout back into the drawing. Whether you work in AutoCAD desktop, on the web, or with Forma Data Management, you'll leave with a clear workflow to share, review, and manage drawings as a team.

By 2027, every manufacturer selling into the European market will be required to provide a Digital Product Passport (DPP) and most are not ready. This session will show how Autodesk Fusion Manage software can close that gap, while also solving a longer-standing problem: disconnected data between process plant design and PLM. You'll see how equipment data from AutoCAD Plant 3D projects on Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) can automatically populate Fusion Manage BOMs eliminating manual handoffs between plant design and PLM. And you'll see how that same structure can generate EU-compliant DPPs on demand, without duplicate data entry connecting project context from Autodesk Forma with product lifecycle data where it belongs. Both extensions are built on Autodesk Platform Services APIs and demonstrated live.

In this class, you will learn how to create and customize a sample AutoCAD P&ID software project. We will show you how to customize a title block to include company information, modify AutoCAD P&ID to use your own layering system, and create company blocks for your project. The class will cover how class structure affects symbol creation and how dynamic block tools work with AutoCAD P&ID. You will also learn how to work with project fields and find out where project settings are stored.

Step into the future of design with our class on using point clouds to create segmented meshes, transforming them into powerful design elements that can be extracted using only the data you need. Leave behind the tedious method of 2D planning, and begin using more-immersive and clear 3D factory images, taking all the guesswork out of layout design. Imagine scanning facility backgrounds and production equipment without existing models, and effortlessly converting those scans into usable layout and design elements. Welcome to the world of ReCap 2026 software—where your scans become fully used assets. This revolutionary tool enables you to transform large point clouds into local segmented meshes, extracting only the design elements you need. With ReCap 2026 as your guide, you'll learn to how to conduct quick design reviews capturing existing conditions, create factory layouts, or transform your meshes in layout assets. Use these meshes to get quick clash-able results on your layout proposals.

This session will cover advanced techniques our BIM team uses to create customized Revit families, addressing the challenge of needing highly specific, data-rich components. You’ll learn how we use adaptive model families to ensure 2D visualization can be manipulated without affecting the 3D model, which is crucial for accurate documentation and coordination. We'll also demonstrate how these families store critical data (like location) for streamlined scheduling and legend creation. Additionally, the session will detail how we use planting templates to develop scalable families for ERP (emergency response plan) maps. This allows for easy adjustment of component size and visibility, a key factor in delivering clear and understandable security information to clients.