Composite materials are an advanced family of materials that have been in development for decades and continue to gain usage in the aerospace, marine, automotive, and sporting goods industries. While composites enjoy benefits such as high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios, they are considerably more complicated than most metals and plastics. This class provides an introduction to composite materials and is intended for users with a little background or no background on composites. Attendees learn what a composite material is and the advantages/disadvantages of composites, as well as an overview of design, analysis, and manufacturing methods for composites. Finally, Autodesk® products with composites functionality are briefly discussed.

This intermediate class will discuss the new physical based materials [we call �Prism',] found in the cloud-rendering service and Fusion 360. We will discuss this new initiative and then take a peek into some future looking initiatives. The class will also discuss the basic material types available, how they are used and why they help achieve photorealistic design visualizations. The attendees will understand the requirements of texture creation/preparation and what makes a �good material'. They will also learn how to fully take advantage of the material models and rendering tools in the Fusion 360 app and in the Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform.

Attendees of this workshop will learn how to manipulate and create custom materials for their next photorealistic rendering. The presenter will highlight how material maps (such as bump, self-illumination, and cutouts) can give mental ray renderings added definition and appeal. Attendees will learn how to import images to create custom materials, and learn best practices for material image preparation—as well as how to scale and tile material maps. Attendees will gain insight into the various techniques used to apply materials, including surface painting and family properties. This session features Revit Architecture. AIA Approved

This class touches on various topics around materials and finishes that are defined for high-quality visualizations and renderings. You learn tips and techniques to define materials in 3ds Max® software by using accurate acquisition techniques while dealing with color calibration issues. Also, we demonstrate the use of procedural textures to introduce subtle, but important variations that bring images to life. Learn how to make wood look like wood, paint look like paint, and so on. No more cartoon looks!

This class will touch on various topics regarding materials and finishes that are defined for high-quality visualizations and renderings. You will learn tips and techniques to define materials in Autodesk, Inc., software systems by using accurate acquisition techniques while dealing with color calibration issues. Also, we will demonstrate the use of procedural textures to introduce subtle but important variations that bring images to life. Learn how to make wood look like wood, paint look like paint, and so on.

A material is simply an image stretched over an object to make it appear as if the object is made out of various materials such as wood, marble, brick, metal, plastic, glass, and so on. AutoCAD 2015 software provides a materials library that you can attach to the objects. Once you have applied the material, you will learn how to adjust how the material is mapped to the object. Using visual styles, you can immediately see the effects of the materials, or you can see the full effects by rendering the scene. This class will explore the methods that help you to create new materials that you can add into your scene.

No matter how good the modeled geometry in 3ds Max® software is, without the application of good materials, the final rendered images and animations look subpar. Throughout the development of 3ds Max and prior to the 2011 release, the only way to manage materials was through the Compact Material Editor. This relatively small interface could be very cumbersome when trying to understand how a material needs to be developed. The introduction of the Slate Material Editor made a larger dialog for materials and associated maps available, implementing a very intuitive node-based graphic display process that can create hierarchical wired material trees. Using 3ds Max and 3ds Max® Design software, you can learn the principles of node-based material creation, its flexibility, and ease of use.

This class will touch on various topics around materials and finishes that are defined for high-quality visualizations and renderings. You will learn tips and techniques to define materials in Autodesk® 3ds Max® softwareby using accurate acquisition techniques while dealing with color calibration issues. Also, we will demonstrate the use of procedural textures to introduce subtle, but important variations that bring images to life. Learn how to make wood look like wood, paint look like paint, and so on. No more cartoon looks!

Learn to procedurally create any kind of physically based rendering (PBR) material with Substance Designer. This will enable you to create physically based materials that not only look believable, but also materials that tile perfectly when rendered. In this class you'll learn how to create some basic materials, and how to translate them into the major rendering applications including: mental ray rendering machine, NVIDIA’s Iray rendering engine, Chaos Group's V-Ray rendering engine, and A360 cloud-based collaboration service. We will also touch on creating material definition language (MDL) materials by using Iray directly inside Substance Designer. With Substance Designer at the center of your material pipeline, you’ll be able to create materials that will look relatively the same across any rendering engine you end up using for visualization. They will even translate into the major gaming engines, such as Stingray game engine, Unreal, and Unity. The industry use case for Substance Designer is unlimited. Anyone doing product design, automotive, architecture, film, and gaming can benefit from adding Substance Designer to his or her pipeline. This session features 3ds Max and A360. AIA Approved

If you have tried to use Autodesk Revit software to produce finish plans or interior elevations, you may have found it challenging to develop an acceptable workflow. Many approaches are often employed; using materials, split face, and paint or simply using text notes and symbols. Each of these approaches has its benefits and its limitations. However, without one consistently reliable approach, the project team can suffer. Developments in recent releases of Revit offer a compelling alternative. Revit 2012 introduced parts and 2013 has overhauled materials. While neither of these feature enhancements was specifically designed for designating finishes, you can nonetheless build a very compelling workflow with parts and materials being the central component of the workflow. In this class, we will look at parts, understand their features, and couple them with the new materials functionality to make a very compelling workflow for designating and documenting finishes in your architectural and interiors projects.

This class will demonstrate how to use the Inventor Nastran 2020 software as a tool for analyzing different polymeric materials models. We’ll demonstrate how you can get results with high confidence using in-house material data. We’ll demonstrate the great advantage of having Inventor Nastran 2020 at hand during Inventor design work. Focusing on daily applications using rubber O-rings (and other applications using plastic components with large deformations), we’ll show which nonlinear material model can be used to demonstrate deformations and stresses in the components. The presentation will also show how to transform your own mechanical material testing into useful nonlinear material model input. This presentation will show cases from the hydraulic, offshore, and mechanical design industries. We will cover Inventor Professional software and Inventor Nastran 2020. David E. Weinberg will be co-speaker in this class.

There is no question that technology is growing at an unimaginable pace. With the addition of Revit 2019 software’s Physically Accurate Materials comes the opportunity to push our renderings to the next level. This class is designed to take attendees on a deep dive of what physically based rendering (PBR) is, and how to use the enhanced materials to achieve a photorealistic render. We’ll cover how to create each of the different textures that are needed to develop a physically accurate material and where to apply them inside Revit. When our model is textured, we’ll look at Revit software’s cloud rendering service, and how it can utilize the PBR materials to enhance our renderings.

Accuracy of injection molding simulation is influenced by many factors such as modeling of part geometry, mesh type and density, mathematical solution, and process settings. The focus of this class is the influence of material data on simulation precision and accuracy. This class outlines the background behind the development of Autodesk world-leading material-testing laboratories, the importance of material data to accurate simulations and, through sensitivity studies, the influence of uncertainties in material properties on simulation results.

Learn about total appearance capture technology—the future of rendering of physical materials such as automotive effect paints, textured materials, and other unique surfaces. We will provide an overview of measurement, communication, and visualization of material surface appearance and compatibility with VRED 2016 software. Discover how new technology enables measurement and communication of all visual characteristics of material appearance accurately and immediately via unmatched photorealistic rendering. Learn about what characteristics make up appearance and the use of reflectance functions that describe the ways in which light interacts with the surface of a material. Designers, 3D artists, material specifiers, and marketers may now visualize their designs with unmatched realism, using digital information measured from real materials. Learn how this process can shorten product lifecycles and accelerate delivery of new designs.

This class will introduce users to the Slate Material Editor in 3ds Max software. Some longtime users are still using the CME (Compact Material Editor), and many new users may find it confusing or overwhelming. This class will break down the parts and functionality of the node-based editor window, and offer many timesaving tips and tricks for creating stunning materials for 3D.

Clients and stakeholders increasingly expect compelling and realistic imagery. Thankfully, the tools to achieve these results are getting easier to use. Come to this session to learn how to capitalize on Revit software’s advanced materials and new realistic mode, and Enscape’s real-time rendering engine to develop stunning still images, lively on-screen presentations, and immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. This session will cover topics ranging from creating custom materials to managing shared libraries and more.

Have you ever searched the standard Autodesk Material and Appearance libraries and wondered why the color you need doesn't exist? That's because you haven't created it yet! This class explains the difference between a Material override and an Appearance override and describes how you use them in your Inventor software model. We look at how to create just the right color for your needs and examine how changing the Visual Style setting can change how that color will display. Finally, we look at creating your own custom Inventor Material and Appearance libraries and discuss how you can share them with your colleagues.

Different composite materials have been in used for many years in the automotive industry to create components that have unique characteristics, such as being strong and light. The trend in using composite materials is accelerating to meet lightweighting requirements to meet the next generation of fuel economy standards. An interesting lightweighting application combines the use of continuous fiber composite material with injection molding. The continuous fiber composite material forms a lightweight shell, while the necessary support structure can be created by overmolding it with a fiber-filled plastic. This so-called hybrid technique can create extremely lightweight strong parts that can be manufactured in large volumes. Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow® plastic injection molding simulation software can help with the design and engineering efforts for this process.

The ability to use the Revit API to modify visual appearances of materials was among the top customer requests for years. This new API has been finally implemented. This class will present the new Materials API, coding workflows, and usage of multiple schemas for the visualization properties of materials in Revit software.

Plastics, composites, and other advanced materials are replacing metal across multiple industries. The main benefit provided by replacing metallic designs with advanced material designs is the ability to make a product lighter. Advanced materials add challenges to the design process for parts, assemblies, and structures that use these materials. The material behavior is often non-linear, anisotropic, and influenced by how products are manufactured. Helius PFA software provides powerful capabilities for simulating these beneficial but complex materials within a mechanical design. The Helius PFA software suite includes Advanced Material Exchange software for mapping manufacturing data from Moldflow Insight to structural simulation. Join Autodesk, Inc., to learn about the newest features, use cases, best practices for using Helius PFA software, and on the future of advanced material simulation at Autodesk.