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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

Certified BIM Specialist: Road and Highway Solution Exam Prep Class

This class helps you prepare for the Infrastructure Design Suite: Roads and Highways Workflow Certification exam. Learn about specific exam objectives and how to answer exam questions quickly and correctly.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

Let's Hit the Road, Jack: A BIM Workflow for Roads and Highways

This class takes you through an example workflow for a road and highway design project using Infrastructure Design Suite Ultimate 2014 software. We start with InfraWorks™ software for the conceptual and preliminary design phases. InfraWorks 360™ is used to perform vertical optimization of the road design. Then it is moved into AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software for the detailed design and construction documentation phases. Next, we take the design into Navisworks® Manage software to perform clash detections and validate the design components coming from Revit® Structure software and Civil 3D. Finally, the design goes back into InfraWorks and into 3ds Max® Design software to perform visual communication about the design to key stakeholders. Various types of analysis is performed along the way to validate the design and ensure design parameters are being met.

Las Vegas 2014

Certified BIM Specialist: Road and Highway Solution Exam Prep Class

Show your employer and clients that you are proficient in the full line of Autodesk Infrastructure tools needed for your job. Certifying on Autodesk software helps you improve productivity, enhance your credibility, and accelerate your professional development. This class helps you prepare for the Autodesk Certified BIM Specialist: Road and Highway Solution exam. Learn about exam objectives and how to use the software to answer exam questions quickly and correctly as you sit to take your exam.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

A Magic Button for Optimized Roadway Design

Do you spend days or weeks determining a corridor path for your roads and highways projects? Do you spend hours refining your roadway profiles to minimize costs and satisfy sophisticated constraints? Do you spend tons of money on software to help you design your roadways? No more. This class reveals the easy-to-use and cost-saving Corridor Optimization and Profile Optimization features available with Roadway Design for InfraWorks 360 software. We will present the enhancements included in our latest release and explain how to use them to achieve the most effective results for your roads and highways design projects. We'll also teach you tricks for configuring the services to work for mining, roadways, and railway design projects.

Instructional Demo / Middle East 2019

Finally working together, Autodesk Civil 3D and Dynamo

This class will start by explaining what computational design is then introduce Dynamo, its user interface, scripts and some of its useful applications. We will see how it integrates with Autodesk Civil 3D and where we can leverage it the most with examples from roads and highways, rail and land development. Finally, we will share a list of resources where attendees can resort to when they want to learn more about the software and create their own scripts.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018

Get Moving with Autodesk Infrastructure Solutions for Transportation Projects

This session will walk through a typical highway/road design transportation project workflow using the full suite of infrastructure solutions using InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Navisworks software, Revit software, and Structural Bridge Design software. We will look at the following workflows: InfraWorks road layout tools and component roads for preliminary design; cloud services for corridor and profile optimization for Greenfield or Brownfield projects; the creation of bridge structures and evaluating bridge design with line girder analysis; modeling and analyzing of watersheds, culverts, and drainage networks; the moving of preliminary designs from InfraWorks to AutoCAD Civil 3D software for detailed design and documentation; the moving of bridges from InfraWorks to Revit to make a more parametric structural bridge; and the transfer of detailed design elements back to InfraWorks 360 software to visualize and communicate design intent.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2013

Bridge Modeling Approaches

This roundtable session focuses on the Autodesk® solution for design and implementation of typical overpass bridges. We also evaluate approaches for working with tunnels, retaining walls, and other structural elements that are common to road, rail, and highway projects. Attendees can learn how these structures can be initially located by the roadway engineer in the context of the road or rail model, further designed and detailed by the structural engineer, and finally used by the contractor for construction planning. Key to this workflow is the ability for all project participants including civil, structural, contractors, and owners to work in a coordinated way with the goal of reducing production cost, compressing project timeline, mitigating risk and improving the overall quality of the end product. This session has a live walk-through of the process, primarily using a combination of AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, the Civil 3D Bridge Module, and Revit® Structure software.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

Road Design Using Civil View in Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design on the Highway A4 Construction Project

Find out how to use Autodesk 3ds Max Design software with the Civil View plug-in to create better and safer road designs. See some real-world examples of how design visualization is implemented as part of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process during the first preliminary design. Learn not only how to create nice pictures, but also to see the impact of minor design changes to get a safer road design, including alignment characteristics, placement and visibility of road signs, sunlight analysis, reflections on sound screens, and so forth.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

Route Planning Using InfraWorks: A "How To" Class by Autodesk and CDM Smith

This class covers the use of InfraWorks software as a tool for sketching, designing, and evaluating multiple design alternatives using the cloud in the context of transportation route planning. This class shows you how CDM Smith used InfraWorks to plan the realignment and reconstruction of an existing county road project that improves habitat connectivity (reducing the risk of conflicts between vehicles and wildlife) and ties in to a major interchange on Florida's highway system. A second project shows how CDM Smith applied InfraWorks to model a new connector roadway between existing arterials that serve a heavily traveled tourist area in the steep terrain of East Tennessee.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

InfraWorks—Bringing Your Bridge Project to Life: InfraWorks with Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS

This session will walk through a typical bridge-layout transportation project that lets you connect geographic information system (GIS) data in a more seamless manner to your intelligent design model in InfraWorks workflow using InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Structural Bridge Design software.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

Managing Heavy Highway in Real-Time

The United Kingdom Highways Agency (US DOT equivalent) has recently standardized all design work for Major Roads Civil Engineering projects to be completed in Autodesk Civil 3D® Software. This provides a powerful platform for designers and architects to produce complex and detailed design information such as alignments, surfaces, linework, but also raises a question of how the data gets to the project in a seamless and often instant on-demand work flow? How do contractors, engineering surveyors and machines to have access to the design data in a format that they can use instantaneously without out the need for file conversion on the project site. In partnership with Autodesk, Topcon has provided such a solution working inside Civil 3D with a plug and play ribbon that allows all design files required for the project site to be created inside Civil 3D and sent seamlessly to the machine or contractor either through the cloud or using conventional data transfer methods.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Design a Highway in a Day: Using REM, Our "Rapid Engineering Model”

Bryden Wood is an industry leader in design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), and the firm's creative tech team specializes in design automation. Bryden Wood partnered with National Highways (UK) to develop Rapid Engineering Model (REM), which automates highway designs in less than 24 hours! This revolutionary approach to road design created genuine sector-wide digital transformation. We combine analysis and risk profiling of site constraints with rules-based placement of infrastructure along the highways network, embedding rigorous design performance standards around road safety, while assessing constructability to minimize operational disruption. REM generates data-driven insights to enable evidence-based decision making, as well as resulting in a 100% auto-generated 3D intelligent model of the highway. In this session, we'll take a drive through the REM digital workflow, the strategic benefits that it provides, and what we've learned from deploying this approach to linear infrastructure design.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2016

Here Comes the Flood: How to Use BIM for Flood Restoration

In 2000, the Dora River flash flood demolished part of Highway A5 in Northwestern Italy, and there were huge economic and environmental damages. In this session, Ativa Engineering will show the solution that was adopted to ensure road safety. The project includes the erection of the highway’s profile for 10 km, the construction of 3 viaducts, and the adjustment of all overpasses and underpasses to enable the safe flow of the flash flood. In the road infrastructure field the Building Information Modeling (BIM) application is, today, a strong unknown factor due to the complexity of works and their multidisciplinarity. To test the BIM methodology, we’ve changed a “classic design” into a “BIM design,” in order to assess critical situations and potentiality. We’ve realized an engineered and hierarchical process that enables you to create and validate an effective communication structure between the different areas of the project and guarantee the production of smart models. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D and Navisworks Manage. AIA Approved

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

AutoCAD Civil 3D Integration Requirements: BIM Process Optimization for Infrastructure

During this class the participants will learn about the Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes designed and implemented by Egis Group for highways and road design. The class will focus on the standardization of design and collaboration in infrastructure projects using AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Through relevant projects examples (highways, airports), the participants will discover how to deploy a collaborative standardization on the AutoCAD Civil 3D software platform. The participants will also learn how to manage standardization for multidisciplinary applications such as roads, bridges, airports, and so on. In addition they will learn how to manage AutoCAD Civil 3D software to integrate different requirements such as a company’s own production rules, local or international design standards, and customer requirements—such as personalized outputs. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Guardians of the Galaxy: Autodesk Plus Esri: The Beginning

This session will walk through a typical highway/road design transportation project that lets you connect geographic information system (GIS) data in a more seamless manner to your BIM (Building Information Modeling) design model in an InfraWorks workflow using the full suite of infrastructure solutions using InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Structural Bridge Design software. We’ll look at the following workflows: InfraWorks road layout tools and component roads for preliminary design; cloud services for corridor and profile optimization; and the moving of preliminary designs from InfraWorks to AutoCAD Civil 3D software for detailed design and documentation.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Civil 3D to 3ds Max Using Civil View for Compelling Civil Construction Sequences

Importing corridors and roadways from Civil 3D software into 3ds Max software is just the start to making your roadways pop for presentation graphics. Using the components built into Civil View, you can transform a basic corridor model into a realistic-looking intersection or highway that will make your renderings stand out. The course will review Object Placement and Road Marking Style Editors built into 3ds Max Civil View, and the best practices for applying the elements to corridors imported from Civil 3D. This course will show how Skanska uses Civil View in their construction sequences to help their graphics stand above the rest to the owner.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

Case Study: Huntington—Collect, Extract, and Visualize Assets with Mobile Mapping

West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) and Transcend Spatial Solutions completed a pilot project to collect mobile LiDAR (light detection and ranging) for 281 miles of roadway in Huntington, West Virginia. The imagery and LiDAR data were collected in 5 days and processed to point clouds and corresponding video in 40 hours. Features were extracted by bringing the point clouds into InfraWorks software, where the terrain was processed, vertical features were classified, and feature modeling was used to extract features. The extracted features were loaded into a geodatabase and made accessible through WVDOT’s existing straight-line diagramming application called Road Analyzer. Other existing roadway characteristics and Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS)-related attributes are also available through the Road Analyzer interface. This class will outline the project objectives, approach, results, and next steps. We will include a demonstration of the imagery and point cloud viewer, as well as the straight-line diagramming environment. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D. AIA Approved

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018

Using Automation in Civil 3D for Construction Documentation and Exports

Delivering a highway project is becoming time consuming, as we are now required to provide more information. Efficiently providing 3D models with asset tags with rich metadata is the key. In this class, you will learn how to capitalize on automation in your Civil 3D models and add customized asset information tags using Property Sets. Learn efficient workflows for developing corridor models, as well as adopting intelligent tools to improve production of detailed model elements, such as 3D road features. Here's a link to the dataset: https://autode.sk/2QNWVGv (May need to copy/paste)

Panel / Virtual 2021

The Road (and Rail) to BIM Success Begins with GIS

The road to digital transformation in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) requires interoperable, accessible, and accurate streams of information to enable digital twins, smart assets, and smart cities. The complexity of linear infrastructure, the environmental impact, and the sizes of projects require the talents of design and geospatial experts. This session will highlight how Skanksa’s geographic information system (GIS) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) teams successfully integrate Autodesk and Esri solutions, bringing value to all teams and stakeholders. This class will introduce an integrated approach to GIS and BIM for rail and highways, showing how together they improve digital delivery and productivity. Using specific project examples, Skanska’s leaders will explain how streamlining workflows between Revit software, Civil 3D software, and Esri ArcGIS provides a coordinated and enhanced experience to all end users. You will leave this session understanding how maximizing GIS and BIM expands value to all technical and non-technical teams throughout the lifecycle of the infrastructure.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018

Model Building in InfraWorks with ArcGIS

Thanks to the collaboration between Autodesk and Esri, more and more valuable geographic information system (GIS) information is available to users of Autodesk applications via ArcGIS Online and customer ArcGIS Portals. Users can access information that includes both public and organizational roads, highways, detailed elevation, and other raster data, street furniture, tree locations, and pipelines. In this session, we will look at the workflow that will let you capitalize on the GIS data available from ArcGIS and create a model within InfraWorks software. Using a real-world example with the City of Vancouver, we will show you what is featured and included in the libraries from ArcGIS, how to publish your own GIS data to ArcGIS Online, how to import that data into InfraWorks, and how to manage the data and views within the InfraWorks model. We will also discuss how this benefits the city, and how they’re actively using their models in their own workflows and processes.

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