Today clients expect to be "wowed." This means that you as a designer need to find ways to do more with your work and help your audience or clients better understand your designs and intentions. Generating compelling, interactive 3D in presentations is a way to really engage and help clients and stakeholders visualize spaces and designs, and in turn help you win more work. We'll use real-life project examples to show you how to effectively integrate a workflow that takes advantage of your existing Autodesk® Revit or AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software models to create an interactive walkthrough that is as easy and smooth to navigate as a modern video game and can be used for client, real estate, or town board presentations. We will discuss some of the challenges that designers may encounter when getting started, but how ultimately, anyone can take advantage of technology to produce professional presentations that can help build more business. Learn about available options for gaming engines to get the most value from your project intelligent models.

This class is for users who want to get more out of pressure pipe network design using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 software. We will cover general tips and tricks for increased productivity and present a step-by-step walkthrough of creating pressure network parts using tools included in Civil 3D, but that you might not know about.

This lecture will consist of a walkthrough of the door frame barcoding process and the integration with BIM 360 Field Issue & Equipment Tracking. We will take the class through a step-by-step process of Project Understanding & Setup, BIM 360 Field Information Inputting and Setup (2 options), On-site tagging and finally Issue and Equipment tracking using BIM 360 Field and the Barcodes. The class would conclude with a Lessons Learned segment.

Verifying that a building meets project requirements - room sizing, adjacencies, equipment, performance - is still largely manual. This session presents a pipeline automating design requirements verification on BIM models. Rule-based engines extract properties, compare them to the project brief, and flag deviations. AI agents augment this pipeline - not replacing verification, but assisting decision-making: interpreting ambiguous requirements and suggesting resolution paths. Attendees see a live walkthrough: model ingestion, rule matching, deviation reporting, and AI-assisted decision support. We share lessons learned at Egis, including data quality pitfalls and balancing automation with human judgment.

Australia's biggest Telco has implemented a huge Autodesk® Infrastructure Map Server solution. It is huge not so much in the number of users, but around the quantities and complexities of their data. Join me for a walkthrough of this journey from design to implementation as we discuss many of the issues that we faced and explain how we resolved them. We cover some key decisions about architecture, data, user interface, customizations, and much more. Finally, we look at how some cool features offered by Google® have been integrated into the AIMS solution. This high-level presentation is appropriate for anyone who is interested.

Are you considering or have you already been awarded a large scanning project, but are unsure how to complete it within schedule? This class provides instruction for significantly improving the workflow for conducting large scanning projects. We discuss the firsthand experiences of a 2-person team that used ReCap Pro software to collect and register 1,800 color scans from a 250,000-square-foot NASA wind tunnel facility in just 14 days (one-quarter of the estimated time). We provide a full project walkthrough from planning to data delivery. Topics covered include motivations for the project, descriptions of tools used to complete the project, and an overview of the in-field workflows employed by the 2-person team. The lessons and insights provided during this class will save you time and money and prove invaluable for your next scanning project.

Energy analysis has typically been a complex and time-consuming endeavor. At its foundation lies an Energy Analytical Model (EAM) and while advances in BIM have made significant gains in collaboration and productivity, EAM creation is still largely a skilled manual effort and subject to wide variability in BIM and energy analysis practices. A new feature in Revit 2014 Energy Analysis software that uses architectural building elements now greatly simplifies and standardizes EAM creation and subsequent analysis. This class provides background on what an EAM actually is, current industry practices and standards, and a comprehensive walkthrough of numerous worked examples directly in Revit 2014 to highlight how this new feature actually translates different architectural building elements and configurations into a high quality EAM, all without having to add, rebuild, or do any other bespoke model preparation, thereby helping you to deliver higher performing buildings more cost effectively and with greater confidence.

This class will provide a walkthrough of application development using the Autodesk Forge and Amazon Web Services. We will discuss developer tools and the steps required to go from the inception of an idea to an application running in production. We will discuss scaling, DevOps, security, and user management. (Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

During this session, we’ll walk you through the workflows that stakeholders in the Australian MEP construction sector are using. Taking a standardized industry approach enables multiple stakeholders to collaborate in a simplified workflow. With the introduction of fabrication in Revit software, the Australian market has identified the benefits of adopting industry standards that we’ll explain during this session. Identifying the challenges presented with this approach, we’ll demonstrate how these have been overcome and what challenges still remain. Come with us on this journey, where you’ll learn how all project stakeholders can benefit from adopting standards and reducing conflicts.

Design review sessions are an essential part of product development for everything from automotive to architecture to manufacturing. It is essential to bring together stakeholders and experts from all disciplines—including design, engineering, and manufacturing—early in the design process. Visualizing prototype designs in VRED software in real time has been invaluable in discovering potential issues and delivering better products on a faster cycle. We have developed a set of design review tools implemented in Python inside of VRED to enable work sessions to be more effective and create a documentation trail for concrete decision making without resorting to as much physical prototype construction. Using ray tracing, VRED can enable reliable review of design details, especially glass, mirrors, and metals. Real-time remote collaboration enables participation from far-flung departments around the world without requiring travel. This session will explore case studies and demonstrate these capabilities.

Fabrication Data Manager is the new cloud-based offering that enables database management in the cloud. Built on the Autodesk Platform Services platform (formerly Forge), the new UI facilitates intuitive visual management for collaboration and consumption in both Revit software and Fabrication authoring products.

Vault software is the best tool for managing your CAD data, particularly for those involved in the design and engineering process. Once a design is completed, people outside the design team—clients, fabricators, manufacturers, and installers—will need to see your drawings. This class will show you how to use BIM 360 Docs software as your published documents portal, and how to get your approved drawings from Vault Professional software to BIM 360 Docs—where external consumers can access it through the BIM 360 Docs web portal or a mobile device. We’ll walk through configuring Vault Project Sync to publish files to BIM 360 Docs, as well as configuring BIM 360 Docs to ensure that only the right people get access to the files. We’ll also discuss the markup capabilities in BIM 360 Docs, and how to get the design team to see those markups.

Whether you're part of a distributed team or an individual, the cloud offers many benefits: Access to your apps and data from anywhere on any device, unlimited hardware scalability, the ability to collaborate with anyone and best of all pay only for what you use. Join us for this session to learn how Frame helps engineers and architects unlock the power of the cloud to boost collaboration and productivity for Revit, AutoCAD, Inventor and any other Windows application.

As mobile technology comes of age on the construction site, the use of iPads and BIM 360 Docs software can now replace the paper plans of the past. The transition to this new environment can be smooth and seamless, or it can be hindered by multiple false starts. This class will provide a live demonstration of the complete process of implementing a BIM 360 Docs project for a sample fire-protection construction project. The lessons taught in this class will have obvious application beyond the fire protection trade, but limiting the live demonstrations to a specific trade provides clarity and enables the presentation to pay some attention to the often-overlooked fire sprinkler industry. We expect the live-demonstration approach of this presentation to provide a great opportunity to understand the capabilities and value of BIM 360 Docs software to anyone involved in the process, including owner/managers, IT personnel, designers, and installers. This session features BIM 360 Docs, AutoCAD, and Revit. AIA Approved

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.

Follow a user's journey through the customization of their experience within BIM 360 Insight and Project Home software. This will be followed by a technical walk-through, led by a software engineer, in how to integrate third-party data and cards into our dashboard system.

This class will walk you through how to prepare and deploy your Inventor software and Fusion 360 software 3D models into bespoke applications for the HTC Vive and the Microsoft HoloLens. Creating and deploying interactions on the HTC Vive and the HoloLens is more like game development than engineering, and that can be a tough barrier to cross for those who don't have a computer science background. You will leave this class with an understanding of how to create and deploy interactive environments that let you walk around your Inventor and Fusion 360 3D models as if they were really there. We'll also cover how to optimize your designs in 3ds Max software for maximum performance, and we'll cover some of the limitations of the hardware. If you've ever wanted to see a full-scale 3D rendering of your designs that you can walk around in and mark up, then this is the class for you!

In this workshop, we will review the path and journey from Microsoft .NET to the Forge platform, and the tools and techniques that were used in the development of ProjectReady, our product that integrates SharePoint with BIM 360 software. At the conclusion of this, attendees will learn the integration between C# programming language and Forge, the similarities and differences, and they’ll learn about the SharePoint API. Attendees should have a technical background and a basic knowledge of C#.

In this class, we’ll introduce you to connected workflows between AutoCAD software and Autodesk Construction Cloud. You’ll see a detailed walk-through on reference drawings and their relationships within Autodesk Docs. Learn how users can maximize the full potential of Desktop Connector to validate reference files, maintain associativity, and establish versioning of drawing files in Autodesk Docs. Then, we’ll introduce the integration of the file-locking feature into AutoCAD and see its benefits while sharing drawings through projects in Autodesk Construction Cloud. We’ll share some best practices in terms of handling drawing file operations within AutoCAD for cloud-based storage. Finally, we’ll wrap up with some key tools that will enable you to collaborate efficiently and increase productivity through Autodesk Cloud Services.

Join the Inventor team for a walk through the new UI modernization and productivity efforts. You'll also have an opportunity to provide feedback and influence the future direction of Inventor.