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Curious about the road ahead for Autodesk's product and service offerings for architects? Join Autodesk product and strategy managers for Revit software, Autodesk Forma software, and cloud collaboration to learn about new features and functionality supporting the capabilities and workflows you need to drive more-efficient, more-sustainable, and more-collaborative building design and construction projects. Learn about the strategic insights and decisions driving development directions, and see early demonstrations of features and workflows yet to be released. Peer into the future of the products you use every day and engage with Autodesk to help shape them to better meet your needs and the needs of your company, project teams, and clients.

Key Learnings

  • Learn about Autodesk's strategic development priorities for improving and enhancing software capabilities for architects.
  • Learn how new and prospective features on the AEC product road maps will better support industry workflows and outcomes.
  • Engage with Autodesk product development teams to provide feedback on features in development.

Speakers

  • Avatar for Lauren Poon
    Lauren Poon
    Lauren is a Senior Product Line Manager for Revit focused on Architecture. Before joining Autodesk, she was a Product Manager at Outer Labs, a real estate tech start-up, and worked as a Project Architect and Digital Transformation Lead at architecture firms in Toronto, New York, and London. As a registered architect, Lauren is passionate about technology that empowers architects to design and deliver better places for people. She is based in London.
  • Avatar for Matt Arsenault
    Matt Arsenault
    Matt is a Product Manager within the Revit Core Team focused on Connected Data Workflows, Interoperability and IFC. Prior to joining Autodesk, Matt spent 8 years in the AEC industry spanning roles across Architecture, Computational Design, Construction, and Digital Fabrication. Looking to lessons learned across AEC, Matt drives the importance of data connectivity to enhance collaboration, productivity, and automation.
  • Avatar for Ben Storey
    Ben Storey
    Ex-boat dweller from London, now living (on land!) in Amsterdam. Can still be found most weekends renting sloops and exploring the canals. When not on water, probably doing a mix of script-writing, cooking, writing about film, or DIY-ing.
  • Avatar for Ramesh Sridharan
    Ramesh Sridharan
    Ramesh Sridharan has versatile experience in civil infrastructure, including civil engineering, reality capture point clouds, GIS, image processing, and machine learning-based software development for over two decades. With over 20 years of experience, he has successfully driven programs in research and development, technical sales, partner marketing, product management, and customer analysis. He has experience working with customers to understand and set industry workflows that drive the technology forward. He is an expert in pushing technology to its limits and converting research findings into products that users can apply to real-life problems. He is a pioneer in reality capture point clouds that can handle and extract information from a large number of 3D datasets. Ramesh is one of the product managers for infrastructure products in Autodesk leading Reality solutions and ESRI partnership, to name a few. Ramesh is a post-graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology with a research focus in Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]

SAM OMANS: Let me get it started. Welcome to 9:00 AM. Good morning. Good morning. Yes. Yes. You've just had your coffee in the community zone. Thank you for coming. My name is Sam Omans. I manage our industry strategy for architecture. We've got a great lineup here today. It's a packed one. So in the interest of time, folks are going to introduce themselves as they come up to present.

Here's our agenda. And a housekeeping item is if you could open up your cell phones, get onto this QR code here. We're going to be taking questions later and we're also going to have some polls, and we'd love you to participate that way. We got some folks in the room here, but we have many more folks remotely. So this is for both folks in the room and folks online. So I'll give you a moment to do that.

And while you're doing that, I'm going to talk a little bit about industry trends, and we're going to move through some of the solutions that we want to highlight. So reality capture, our early stage design solutions, our detailed design solutions, and then the ways that you can get involved in engaging us. It could be about five more seconds. This is our safe harbor statement. You've seen it before. Don't make purchase decisions based on what we say here today.

So kicking us off with industry trends. Look, one of the cool things about working at Autodesk is we have teams all over the company that are working on strategic foresight, on projecting the future. And these are the big trends that we think probabilistically are going to make the largest impacts on your businesses in the next three years. So unprecedented demand. Business is running rampant. Work has changed. How we're working today doesn't resemble how we were working even three years ago. Accelerated digitization. It's going faster, and faster, and faster.

And some of the stuff we're going to talk about here today is about preparing you to succeed in this environment. So we like to return to this historical framework as a sort of a benchmark where we are today as a company is delivering and optimizing connected BIM experiences for architects. And where we want to go and what we're working on is getting closer to the outcome-based BIM experiences.

So we're going to be surfacing some of that today, as well as talking to you about how we're optimizing and incrementally delivering more value for your workflows in connected BIM. This is our architecture industry portfolio. So the folks you're going to hear from today are going to talk a little bit about the roadmaps for these various products, both where we are in terms of the next releases and then also what we're working on.

And as we bring together the entire business, some of the stuff we really want to focus on relates to accelerating digital delivery with connected BIM, optimizing design processes and deliverables, and enabling new ways of working. So this is really the strategic guidance that we're using to connect all of these disparate activities together into a unified vision to help deliver more value to you. So I think that is my last slide, and I'm going to hand it over to my colleague Ramesh.

[APPLAUSE]

RAMESH SRIDHARAN: Can you guys hear me OK? Beautiful. All right. I am Ramesh Sridharan. I'm leading our Realty Solutions Team in Autodesk. I think reality capture by itself may not be news to many of you. You guys use it directly or indirectly all the time. What might be news to you-- sorry, what might be news to you is how much of the ReCap Pro, how much of the workflows we put in to make this whole process easier, so that's what we're going to share in the next few minutes.

The first things first. Reality capture data is a large data. People are still handling with the hard drives, moving things around, and stuff. We came up with the solution, why not use ACC Cloud? The project you are seeing here, it's I always say it's close to a million square feet. It's 800,000 square feet. Go with me. A bunch of scans, about 125 to 150 scans, large scans, GBs of data.

Here's another one. We're talking about 515 scans, eight story building, 200, 250 GB of data. What I'm impressing you is you can handle all these things in ACC. You can see this data, view it, share it, measure it anywhere, any time, practically any device. It's all an ACC cloud streams to your browser, not downloading. On top of it, you can use the model collaboration to overlay the mesh from point clouds on top of your Revit model, again, anytime, anywhere. Makes your process, your workflow, the design verification much, much simpler, and it gets better in a few seconds.

These are all already in the cloud, already in the product. You can check it out. Then it comes to a place where the interoperability. A lot of work, so you guys are using new sensors, backpack sensors like a Navis, and other kind of stuff. We all keep on being on top of that technology aspect, so the latest data can flow through seamlessly into ReCap Pro and to Revit to make this whole process.

Here's a backpack data. Anyone using Navis? Perfect. Yeah. So that those data can come in as a structured point cloud. You can use a real views 360 images and all the point cloud capabilities you enjoying with other ones, now you can do with, those data as well. Check it out. It's just released in ReCap 2025.1 that got released a couple of weeks back.

But when I say recap, you're doing a lot of enhancements. We are committed to have a complete workflow for the users like you. It's not about just adding a tool, or a feature, or a streamlined process. It's deriving the fundamental intelligence in the data. Bring it out so that you can have an actionable item in your modeling workflows and use it directly. That's the key aspect here. Not just sharing, not just viewing.

To enable that, we set with this vision of scan to beam, scan to segmented mesh. Imagine you have a large point cloud data. It's a bunch of points, right? Trillions, billions, you call it. How about having some intelligence to classify them as an object, doors, walls, windows, pieces, ceiling, everything, stairs. As a point cloud classifies it, now you can create a segmented mesh of that classified data, so you no longer going to work on a point CloudWorld as an object based segmented mesh world.

Now, you can pick and choose what feature you want, what feature you want to model, what feature you don't want. You can hide it or delete it if you don't want. If it's a noise. So all those things are becoming possible. Converting those billions and trillions of points into a meaningful segmented mesh, you can make some actionable decisions right away. Imagine I told you in the model coordination you guys can overlay. This comes in fantastically there. And of course, when you want to create the BIM model off of it, you can create that too.

Then if you ask me a question, great vision, how long it's going to take to implement it. You are in luck. The beta version is already out last week. In ReCap Pro 2025.2 beta, you can download and check out this complete scan to mesh workflow. For any size point cloud data, we added this local mesh capability, the lot of parameters to choose from if you want to or go with the default one. After some time, it creates a mesh that is directly actionable in ReCap Pro. It's already a segmented mesh. It actually knows some objects already.

On top of it, you can make some custom edits and custom whatever you want with the mesh to fine tune it the way you want for your application and modeling, and that by itself directly available as a segmented mesh for, like I said, the clash detection in Navisworks and other modeling purpose. You can take it right there. For those applications you want to do the BIM model, or the design verification in Revit, this beta comes with the Revit plugin also. Those segmented mesh will be streamed directly into Revit. You can choose which objects you want. You can convert that into Revit families if you like, and continue with your BIM modeling, and finish your job.

Making the large, hard process of handling point cloud with a simple mesh and object editing and identification to your modeling process. That's exactly what we are trying to do in ReCap. This beta is out. Like I said, it's a feedback that autodesk.com. We'll send you the details after the show. And one more thing we wanted to make it easy is the model coordination, the clash detection.

So today, you have to take it to Navisworks to do it. This is something we are working on. Imagine the same workflow, you create a mesh, segmented mesh. You edit the way you want to, publish to ACC, go to Model Coordination. Click Clashes. You see the clashes. Most of the time when I talk to many, there are a lot of familiar faces. Most of the time you want to know that change that's what you're after. Could be during construction, past construction, anything, or the building retrofit workflows. Now, you can do that easily.

This is not in beta. This is coming. This is in development. We'll keep you guys posted. So those are the few things we are actually making from ReCap Pro side. Make your life is much easy as possible from point clouds. Check it out. Then again, these are great workflow for building retrofit renovation factories. A lot of different workflows, but not all the projects starts with the existing conditions, right? There are early designs are required. That's where Arne is going to talk about those aspects. Thank you.

[APPLAUSE]

ARNE BJELLAND: Thank you so much, Ramesh. It's really exciting to see how reality capture really can kick start a project. Is the sound OK? Yeah. Awesome. So my name is Arne Djelland. I'm a Product Manager in Forma, and I'm going to go through some of our ongoing initiatives to improve the design process for the early stage design. But before moving into the details and showing some prototypes, I would also like to just give you an overview of the overall direction that we are heading in Forma.

So already Forma is delivering fantastic value for building projects in the early stage design, but what we are eager to do is to expand the relevancy for the building projects, and moving to the detailed design feels like a natural step to that we should work towards.

In addition, we are eager to explore the opportunity to support more verticals such as transportation. In addition, supporting ACC, supporting Docs. That's feels like a natural step to do in addition to improve the overall integration with traditional desktop products.

OK, so Forma is continuing to deliver functionality which both simplifies and also strengthen high level design decisions and design tooling for overall site design. So we are continuing to improve current functionality. And as you see in this video, we are looking into supporting curved roads. And so we could draw curved roads, you can edit them obviously. And what you also may notice is that the vegetation adapts to that design. So the vegetation is aware of other elements. So changing one element Cascades to changes to other elements. It's just a concept but we are eager to pursue it.

Forma has a suite of awesome design and analysis in the early stage design. And as you probably have seen on the main stage in the keynotes, we have a lot of different types of analysis, such as wind, sun, daylight, noise, and so forth. We have just recently added embodied carbon to this suite of analysis.

And with a few clicks you can select the building. You can add some properties to the building, such as what type of structural system is structured by, what type of facade cladding, what kind of function, and you get immediate feedback on the total carbon footprint for that building. So getting these kind of decision support early on in the design process make you have the right information to improve the overall sustainability goals for your project.

I have already mentioned that we are eager to go to the detailed design phase, and we believe that if we understand the underlying building systems and how they impact each other, we can deliver tailored decision support and also authoring tools. So if you change the construction system, how does that impact, for instance, the facade system?

So in this very rough prototype, you see the traditional format buildings volumetric. We are eager to see how we can go from conceptual modeling to detailed design. Created a really simple building right now and triggering indoor daylight in the floor plan. And you can see how when changing the floor plan, how the window automation is being updated. But of course, you can override the automation by manually position the window in addition to add windows to the facade yourself.

It's a prototype, but it's clearly showing the direction that we are heading in Forma. One of the key value proposition in Forma is that it's so, so easy to create a new project. It's simply writing down the address of your site, and define the overall area you'd like to include in the project, and then you are good to go. The thing that users usually then want to add to the project is the contextual data, such as surrounding buildings, regulations, and so forth.

And then it's great to have Esri. They are making an extensions where you as a user could browse through their data sets and choose the relevant data sets that's available for your site, and then you could add these data sets directly into the project, which then obviously gets available for everyone in the project. It's really nice extensions that's integrated into Forma. It's intuitive and they have a lot of data obviously, and I recommend you checking it out when it's being released. I also recommend you going to the booth and talk to them directly.

We have also other extensions that's coming to Forma. We have FenestraPro, which having a lot of-- giving you a lot of insights for building an envelope, such as suggestions for window to wall ratio and so forth. And I know they are here, and I hope that you may connect to them. Are there anyone from FenestraPro here please?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

ARNE BJELLAND: Awesome. Talk to these guys. They are brilliant. Arch Intelligence is also providing extensions that give you insights in cut and fill. That's important. It drives costs. And in addition Archistar, one of my favorites. They are really and they have really impressive functionality. And with their extensions you can generate a lot of alternatives on the site, both for residential, commercial, and small scale, larger projects. And they can provide a lot of alternatives that you could select from, so recommend everyone to check it out.

OK, so I have shown you some extensions, which really proves that Forma wants to be an open platform. Everyone can create value and every one of you can also create value. You can create your own extensions, obviously, but you could also create a Dynamo script, bring that Dynamo script into Forma. And what's soon to be released with the Dynamo service is that anyone can create that Dynamo script and upload it to the project.

As you see in the video, you drag and drop a Dynamo script to a project. You choose if you want to share it on a project or a hub level, and then that Dynamo script is kind of embedded in that project. And then whoever wants to run that Dynamo script can do that freely without installing Dynamo, without needing to be on a PC, and without any other restrictions.

So anyone can run that Dynamo script, and then that makes it so much easier for-- so that not everyone needs to understand Dynamo, but you may have one or two colleagues that can make them for you. So these Dynamo scripts can obviously create analysis. They can also make automations, and they can now also have take offs directly from Forma.

Last but not least, we have something called Forma Board. It's a white board where you could use as a communication tool. You have a project. You can create storyboards with both images, videos, and so forth. You can make annotation to highlight important and relevant aspects for your project that you would like to share with other stakeholders or with your colleagues.

You can bring in analysis, but you could also bring in 3D models that's available from the Docs. So bringing these models directly to Forma Board, you can access these 3D models directly from Forma Board. You can view the 3D model as well as choosing the desired view you would like to take a closer look to and then make some annotations.

And then when you have found what you were looking for, then you go back to the Forma Board. You could also just look at the 3D model as an embedded view, and access to the various 3D functionality for that specific 3D viewer.

Forma has a lot of analysis. Bringing these analysis directly to the board. Access them by double clicking, gives you an instant access to all the data that's available in Forma. It's a great way to use as a communication tool, as I mentioned, and you could also communicate by adding comments directly in the board and applying tasks. Suggest everyone to test it out. Thank you.

[APPLAUSE]

LAUREEN POON: Thanks, Arne. That Forma board stuff is really cool. I think that'll be exciting for people to check out for sure. Hi, I'm Lauren, I'm a Product Manager for Revit Architecture. I've always really liked what this Architect Michael Braun once said about the architecture design process. He talks about it as this process of going from idea to building.

And what I liked about this is it kind of captures both sides of what you all do around the creative and the science. And it sounds so simple. But like as he talks about in the book, and as I'm sure you all know, it's a really complex, complicated, and time consuming process. But I think it captures like what we're trying to do with Revit Architecture. We want to make it easier for you to go from idea, to building, and ultimately a better world.

So today, we're going to walk through this user journey. And Ramesh and Arne shared like a few steps on the way to that process of ideas and what you can do along the way. And we're going to continue that user journey through detailed design in Revit. We'll start with modeling, coordination, visualization, documentation, and an analysis. We're going to show you some things that are in development, but we're also going to show you some stuff that's recently been released. And when I say recently, I really mean recently.

Earlier this week, some of you might have noticed that on Tuesday we released Revit 2025.3, and there is a ton of exciting stuff in there to share with you. But first, why don't we pick up where Arne left off. So you all saw this on stage yesterday with Amy, but there's a couple of things we really wanted to emphasize today. You heard about Forma's really, really amazing site context capabilities and how that gives you such a big opportunity to leverage these capabilities in Revit to supercharge your process.

The other point we wanted to call out about this video, and demo, and work that we're doing is that we're linking Forma into Revit as a coordination model. Who's using coordination models? A few of you, that's cool. So you might have heard this already, but this is part of our-- the coordination models are a key part of our interoperability strategy and we're continuously building on that functionality. So what that means is as we improve the capabilities for coordination models, it'll improve your workflows from Forma to Revit for a better modeling experience.

So let's spend a minute on modeling. Core modeling tools are what you actually need to bring your ideas to life, to get them out of your head into something tangible, to share with other people. They need to be flexible, efficient, and accurate. They should feel like an extension of your hand. And this is what we've been working on with site design and toposolids.

Some of you might recognize this video and what we're showing here, but we just released the ability to activate a Toposolid. It's very similar to the building pad functionality for topo surface, but you can actually do a lot more with it, like schedule the volume calculations like we just looked at. We have a lot more in development for toposolids. We're enhancing the subdivision tool so that you'll be able to apply a type to a subdivision, and that will also reflect in the volume calculations.

We're looking at the ability to recess a subdivision. And this is thanks to what was a very popular Revit idea not too long ago. And I just wanted to take a second here to say a big thank you, actually, to everybody who contributes Revit Ideas, participates in the discussions there and in other channels. We really value that feedback. And I hope as you can see here, it really does impact our product decision making.

But back to toposolids. So we're introducing a new subcategory for the subdivisions, and that'll give you the ability to curate that information in your model more quickly, filter what you need to see. You'll also be able to control visibility graphics more clearly, so that you can produce your drawings and documentations to look the way you need them to look. We have a lot more on the roadmap.

We heard you on the maximum point threshold and the challenges that brought. We're looking to increase the maximum point threshold for toposolids from 10,000 points to 20,000 points by default, but also give you the ability to set any maximum point threshold in the Revit INI file. We're also looking at increasing the accuracy for link topography from Civil 3D into Revit. So even at the lower point threshold, you'll have a more accurate model.

Our other major area of core model focus has been on walls and other multi-layered elements like floors, ceilings, and roofs. And it's the same story here. We want to make these tools more flexible, efficient, and accurate so you have a higher quality model. For efficiency, we're developing some functionality for you to create walls based on a segment or a room.

We're also introducing more flexibility in how you build, like the actual wall assembly. So the ability to have a wall without a core layer, and the ability to set the layer priority independently from layer function. There are small tweaks, but we actually think they'll have a pretty meaningful impact on your ability to accurately model layers and have that at scale through your model, so that you can avoid 2D workarounds that are hard to manage as the design changes through the process. And will enable you to have a higher quality model for everything else that you need downstream.

Dynamo some super exciting stuff to even boost your productivity, and efficiency, and flexibility more. With the release of some new paneling nodes, you can easily iterate and test your ideas like this facade example you see here. And we're also working on many quality of life improvements. So for example, a new package manager that will automatically select the right package version to eliminate compatibility issues and confusion, which we know is a big pain point.

We're also working on a new profiling extension called Tuneup, which is pretty cool, which will tell you how long a graph takes a run and how long each node takes to execute, so that you can plan your work more efficiently. And this is just one of many quality of life improvements that we think will really help your productivity.

So we've talked a little bit about modeling and creating these higher quality data rich models. Let's talk about actually coordinating those models. So we mentioned our coordination model strategy and continuously building capabilities, let's spend a second on what those new capabilities are. So first, is the ability to assign a color and transparency to your coordination model. And this will be possible for the over 50 different file format types that you can link in as a coordination model today.

We're also working on making it possible to show or hide specific categories or elements from a coordination model. So again, you can curate this set of information that you need to work with. And this is possible for a smaller subset of file types. It'll be possible for RVT, DWG, IFC, and NWC formats.

This isn't model coordination, but it's add and coordination in the curation of your workspace. So we just released a new add in manager, which we think is pretty exciting. It's a centralized place for you to manage loading and unloading of your add ins, and see the impact of startup performance for better management and experience. It can be launched in Revit, or as a standalone experience for the control and deployment of add ins across your organization.

We talked about capabilities, about managing the experience. Let's talk about the modeling experience. You all are spending so much time in our product-- days, weeks, months, years. So it's important what this model looks and feels like. So we're continuing our work on modernizing the Revit graphics engine. It'll be based on USD and Hydra open source standards. It will look to optimize the performance of your hardware like GPU, CPU, and memory. And as you can see here, it'll be a much smoother, faster, higher quality experience.

And we're looking at making this available as a tech preview, as an incremental step along the way as we complete the modernization of the entire graphics system. And when you need to create those full on immersive experiences or visualizations, we of course, have our strategic partnership with Epic Games. We released the ability to substitute Revit content for Twinmotion content for 15 different Revit categories and we're continuing that work, so that you'll be able to substitute all Revit categories for Twinmotion categories.

You all as Revit subscribers have free access to Twinmotion. So we thought it would make sense to spend a minute and just see what's new in Twinmotion today. And a big thanks to the Epic Games team for sharing this demo with us. So in the latest versions of Twinmotion, you'll see there's some improved fabric materials that have translucency and wind sway animations.

There are some improved spacing tools, so it makes it easier to spawn objects like this one that spawns objects around a regular cadence, as well as this area tool where you can spawn objects in a specific area. There are some new randomized UV tiles to reduce the need for repetitive patterns, and there's also a lot of new foliage that also has wind sway animations and the ability to have seasons change, which is pretty cool.

There's 186 new trees, and I think I saw a couple of people from the Twinmotion team here who, again, would be happy I'm sure to speak with all of you after the presentation. Oh, there they are. Yeah. Cool. OK, so we've covered modeling, coordination, visualization. Let's change gears a little bit and talk about another key output from your model, documentation.

Our goal is to automate documentation so that you can shift your focus to higher value creative work. We talked about turning ideas into buildings, and documentation is the step in the process that we've heard pretty consistently from all of you it just feels tedious, repetitive, and mundane, so we're looking to improve that. And when we talk about documentation, it's not just about the initial creation of drawings. It's about maintaining those drawings over the life cycle of the project, which is why we're so focused on also increasing the model quality.

But let's start with drawing setup. So earlier we released sheet collections. This gives you the ability to take sheets and put them into flexible groupings in the model, so that you can better manage your sheet sets. But we're continuing to build on this functionality. We're working on new type parameters for the sheet collection category, so that you can manage and edit information across multiple drawings in a sheet set. This makes it easier to-- or saves you time, for sure, but also makes it easier to keep consistency across your drawing set, which can be a challenge if you're working on hundreds or thousands of drawings.

We've also heard a lot of feedback and challenges related to the scale field and the need for more flexibility here. So we're working on a new type parameter so that you can assign a custom field to the scale that can match your company standards. Alongside this, we're working on the ability to make-- to give you an option whether or not a legend will contribute to the scale on your drawing.

For more efficient laying out of sheets, we're working on a new view position feature that will allow you to place views in the same place on multiple sheets at the same time. Again, saving time in the initial layout, but also more importantly, enabling you to maintain that organization.

So for example, if you needed to move a legend over a set of floor plans, you won't need to go into every drawing and do that individually, you'll be able to do that in a few clicks, because we know that often maintenance is the real challenge in this process. We recently released the ability to recenter room reference lines and to reassign the room tag to that room reference.

We also released an in Canvas spell check for text. Both of these were Revit ideas that came from Revit ideas forum and the Revit architecture forum. Maybe some of you are in the audience today who got involved in those discussions. So again, another big thank you for your contributions and ideas here.

We've talked a lot about what we would call basic or foundational automations. They're simple, repetitive tasks that you just need to do over and over. They're great in small pieces because you can stack them together in ways that work for your workflows. But let's show you some larger automated workflows. We're working on a new feature that will enable you to automatically number any category in Revit according to a set of rules.

You'll be able to define the elements you want to number, put them into groups to number together, so like on a floor plan, and then define a format for the numbering. Right now, the numbering order is based on element creation, but that's still under development. And doors actually have some really interesting additional business logic where they're numbered based on the room that they're in.

I mentioned earlier that our goal is to automate documentation, and that's to be able to enable you to focus on your goal, which is actually to design and deliver amazing buildings. So by automating these repetitive and mundane tasks, we hope that you can focus on the higher value, more creative work. What is that? Well, as you all know, the built environment is responsible for about 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, placing architects like yourselves and your engineering teams and project teams and owners at the forefront of this challenge.

This is a problem that needs creativity and innovation. With NextGen Insight, you can view a total carbon analysis for your project. You can view embodied carbon, operational carbon, and all the other supporting metrics that you need to make trade offs and decisions. Every architect and project team should not only have the ability to understand the project, their project's impact on the world, but also have access to that information easily, early, and often, so that you can work with that information in ways that work with your project timelines.

With NextGen insight, you can create custom dashboards, you can set custom benchmarks, you can define custom metrics, and an all in a really amazing fluid user experience. But we know that just simply reducing the carbon emissions isn't enough. We need to get to net zero by 2030. And I'm sure many of you in this room, your companies have already committed to the AIA 2030 challenge. We're working on functionality to enable you to connect to the AIA design Data Exchange seamlessly, easily, so you can easily report your data and leverage their platform.

We have a lot more in development for insight. It's super exciting. We're working on connecting it to the ACC project model, as well as the ACC data model that Matt is going to come up and tell you a little bit more about today. So yeah, thanks for your time. We hope you're as excited about these improvements as we are.

[APPLAUSE]

MATT ARSENAULT: Hey, everyone. My name is Matt Arsenault. I'm a product manager on the Revit team but focused on data. So data kind of covers a lot of things in Revit. It's interoperability, it's IFC, it's our core geometry engine, and all the work we're doing to put data into the cloud and make it more open and accessible.

So first, before we get into some of our data, let's talk about open BIM and interoperability. We continue to make massive investments in ensuring that you can deliver IFC files the way you need to and utilize the entire open BIM platform, not just IFC, but ECF, bsDD, and IDS as well. So with Revit 2025, we released the IFC category mapping experience. So you may remember those old text files that you had to put together in order to map everything.

We released an experience for you to do category mapping in a simple way, but we're not done. We knew we needed to do properties as well, so we're working on an experience to do property set mapping as well. So now you can see how Revit out of the box maps all of your properties into property sets for IFC, but also allows you the flexibility to turn off or disable which properties get put into those property sets. It also allows you to manage all of your property sets for user defined as well.

And next we also have been working on something for IFC link position. We've all seen so many times that you link in an IFC file and it's just in the wrong place. It's not easy and it should be. So we're enabling the capability for you to now, when you link in, you can select how you want the coordinates to map into Revit. So you can select your IFC origin to share coordinates to internal origin, to project basepoint, or survey point. And all of this in the flexibility to ensure that when you link, it comes directly into the right place.

Now, this is just a first step for us as we start to work on a better and larger coordinate system for Revit and geolocation overall. As well, across the platform, Revit is not just the only place where you're going to be working with your IFC files. And so BCF has been a major part of our strategy, and we've been partnering with the ACC team to bring BCF across the entire platform.

So earlier this year, we released the ability for you to export all of your ACC issues directly into BCF, so you can share these in an open and accessible way. Along with exporting those, we've also recently released the capability for you to import BCF directly into ACC, so now you can import BCF files into issues at any of the modules that you use. So you can see here we're just bringing that file in and it automatically turns those BCF items into issues. So you can see updates all that information right into the ACC environment. And it creates those issues, so now you can use them across model coordination, design collaboration, or write in Docs.

But because issues are connected across multiple products, we also can start to review these so we can see all that information. But now if you use the Revit issues add in, you now can utilize BCF items directly inside of Revit itself. So your issues are synced right into the environment so now you can deal with all of your issues in the authoring environment as well as inside of the web.

And so now let's talk about data. It would be very fitting for us to continue to talk about data. We've heard it a lot this week, and we're really excited about some of the things that we've done. We first started by releasing the ability to access all of your Revit properties from Revit 2024 and Revit 2025 via the AEC Data Model API earlier this year. It's really simple to do. All you have to do is go to your account settings at ACC, if in your admin hub, and you just click a switch, it says enable AEC Data Model capabilities, and that's it.

Every time you upload a model to Docs, or you publish it, or you even automate that publish through design collaboration, we grab all that data and put it into the cloud. It creates an AEC Data Model environment, and we can then use the GraphQL API to query just the information we need. Now, I was a former architect for a number of years, and I can easily pull this information out GraphQL is really easy to use, but what's really fantastic is I can do a query and just say, give me all of the information about my rooms that are on level three, and presto, I have just the properties that I need for those elements.

I don't need to download an entire database of information, or deal with lots of information. And what's even better is we've connected this directly to Power BI. This isn't exporting. This isn't sending files around. This isn't anything. This is just working the way you need to and accessing the data that you want, so you can bring all of this information directly into Power BI. You can create dashboards for your business analytics or even your projects.

And because there's all the information, you can do it for multiple use cases, whether you're doing structural information, you're trying to build different dashboards for sustainability or even dashboards about all of your rooms. And what's amazing is you can use all the Power BI functionality. So you can do conditional formatting, find information that's missing and do model quality control.

And because all of this is connected to the AEC Data Model, and as I mentioned, there's no exporting. All you have to do is hit Refresh in Power BI and everything is updated based off the latest information in the model. We've seen a lot of growth with the AEC Data Model so far. Hundreds of thousands of models have gone through. We've seen millions of calls to our API. But one of the things that we frequently heard is that accessing data more frequently is most important, and properties just weren't enough.

And so I'm really excited to share for the first time, this demo that we're working on is this in development for you to access all of the information inside of your Revit model when you're using Revit cloud work sharing for every time that you sync to Central. So no longer do you need to-- this video doesn't seem to be playing. There we go.

So as you're continuing to work in Revit, you can have access to your information. We don't think that it should be new processes for you to access all of the information that is most critical to you. And we also don't want to create new experiences for you to get your data out. We don't want to interrupt or change the way that you work. We just want you to continue working the way that you always have been.

So let's see, in this case, we're adding some rooms, and some walls, and we're adding different layouts inside of this building. And we start, we add some properties, we add the rooms, and then we'll go split screen. So this is happening live in this demo that here. We synchronize with central. We have our room dashboard that we had built on top of the AEC Data Model. And all we have to do is just wait for Sync to Central to finish.

As soon as this happens, we can go right over to Power BI and we can hit Refresh. Because this is connected to the AEC Data Model, that information and properties are coming right out in my dashboards are updated. So as you're working, you can have the latest information that you want to work with. This is we're really excited about this, and this is really going to change the way that you work with data, and not having to do publishes once a week, once a day to get to the data that you need.

And in addition, you may have heard Amy mentioned that we're launching a private beta to access geometry in the AEC Data Model. So here you can see with the GraphQL API that now we can run queries to get to the geometry inside of your Revit model without even having to open Revit. So you can get all this information that comes back in an open way.

So today, this information comes back in the form of IFC. So you have access to the information and you can take the query and bring it into any tool that uses IFC. And what's great is because it's at the element level. You can get information to say just that wall, or you can get all the geometry for something on level three, you can compile that query and bring it as much information as you need. We're really excited about this, and we hope you kind of-- if you're interested, you can join the private beta.

The other thing that we heard as well is that you want to be able to start to write information into the AEC Data Model, and that's what we're also working on. So we've partnered with the design collaboration team and model coordination and ACC, and we're creating a new experience for you to add custom properties in the web. So now you can go into Model Coordination and connect it to the parameter service, so you can use all the parameter definitions that your company is already leveraging in ACC. You just simply choose what properties you want to add and you apply them to the file.

And now, inside of the project browser in Model Coordination, you can see the custom properties and you can start to define values. And what's fantastic is we've added new types of parameters, including predefined list parameters and date and time. So you can set these values directly into the web, and they get stored right into ACC, and they become accessible in the AEC Data Model.

So now you can start to add properties to Revit models without even having to open Revit. We're really excited about this, and this is also currently in private beta. So as I mentioned, a lot of these features are forthcoming that we're talking about with AEC Data Model, so I'll leave this here for a moment. But if you're interested in joining the private beta for geometry extensibility with custom properties or even sync with central to access this data, you can scan this QR code, which will take you to a form, and you can enroll in these betas today. And with that, I'm going to bring up the rest of the presenters and we're going to do a short Q&A.

SAM OMANS: OK. Thanks, everybody, for the questions. We're going to be as Democratic as possible here. We have a little bit of time left and we have the questions here on Slido. And let's go to some of the upvoted ones here. So I want to start with one for you, Arne. And it's what are the advantages of migrating to Forma Board from a tool like Miro, for example?

ARNE BJELLAND: Good question. One of the benefits is that it's not only a white board where you could add images, but as you saw in the video, you could also access directly 3D models. As well as if you bring in analysis to the board, you could double click on that analysis. So you jump directly into that analysis mode and get even more insights from that. So it's much more interactive than what you have in a Miro, or a Miro board. So cool. Yeah, definitely. It's very cool.

SAM OMANS: Very cool. Another one. So, Lauren, I think you're going to this one. When is Autodesk going to have landscaping tools in Revit? A landscaping tab with planting tools, et cetera. Please so maybe you can just say a little bit more about how we're thinking about landscaping capabilities.

LAUREEN POON: Yeah. I mean, I think you can see over the last few years how much we've invested in site design and how we're continuing to invest in it. We think it's a super important part of the process. Of course, every building starts with a site, so you need tools to be able to model the site. We are building some core functionality into Revit, and we're also, as with everything we do, working with our third party developers and partners to help boost that functionality for specific use cases or specific needs in industry.

In Revit we have the three primary personas architecture, MEP structures. And within each of those, there's also a lot of other specialization. And we just recognize that even though we call it architecture, there's actually a huge diversity of personas that sit under that architecture group. And yeah, what we're trying to do with site design is balance all those needs and deliver you something valuable. So that's been our approach.

SAM OMANS: Great. This is slightly related to I'll ask it as a sort of a follow up. Can the volume extractions for toposolids be phased? And then that goes on to say that this, this is imperative for properly documenting grading and excavation.

LAUREEN POON: Yeah. So yeah, we've heard before the need for better phasing around site design tools, and that's something that we're looking into. If you want to get involved with our development you can also. Yeah, we'd be happy to chat with you. Our product owner for this feature is actually here, Jesse. So after this session, I'm sure she would love to hear from you, and we can talk about it more.

SAM OMANS: So another highly voted question. The same questioner, actually. Can the little blocky trees in Forma be swapped out for something more tree like? Even more tree like than that.

RAMESH SRIDHARAN: Yeah, certainly that would be great, but that's-- but one thing that I would like to mention is that we have an external extensions in Forma, and that can create other types of trees. So I would encourage everyone to test out that extensions. And that's just an example of if someone sees a need in Forma, everyone can create their own capabilities and share them if they would like to. So yeah, that question is noted.

SAM OMANS: Good. Here's one that I think is kind of interesting. And we might actually go to another PM in the audience for this one. But is there a plan to run Revit on arm processors? This is a question we hear a lot. I don't know. Harlan, do you want to stand up and give your two cents on that? Yes.

HARLAN BRUMM: Actually. Yeah, we're really interested in the direction of ARM-based processors and where they're going. Right now, actually you can run Revit on an ARM-based processor with simulation and performance testing, and it is pretty positive. So we're excited about the direction and going to continue to look at how we might support that platform as well as others going forward. So stay tuned for that.

SAM OMANS: Great. Sorry. I'm just trying to be really cognizant of our voting here. So I'm trying to do this in real time. So here's one. The questioner loves the direction of the AEC Data Model and the direction of Forma, but raises a lot of questions around the division of labor and risk. So how is Autodesk working with, for example, the AIA, but maybe kind of other customers, let's say in crafting E201, E202 to make this data vision and executable reality.

So maybe just generalize the question in terms of what standards are we thinking about, what customers are we working with? And how we doing that?

MATT ARSENAULT: Yeah. Everything that we're doing with our data strategy, we are very much working in trying to use existing standards and align to it. We're trying to make sure that everything we do is kind of everything is compliant and it's safe, and we really are kind of safeguarding that data, and it's secure. And when we start to talk about contracts, and other things, and how do collaborators work together? All of this stuff is still data. Our biggest philosophy with it is it's all about having the right permission to the right data.

So all of this is controlled by permissions. It's not-- you can only access the data that's been shared with you, or you can only edit data that's coming across multiple applications, which you have access to edit. So it's really about safeguarding, so that way you can actually own your data and keep that in your control.

SAM OMANS: Great. Great. Can plantings in Forma-- a little bit of a planting and landscape subgenre here today, be included in the analysis tools.

ARNE BJELLAND: Be included in analysis tools. Not sure entirely what kind of analysis tools. Hard question. I'm not sure.

SAM OMANS: So for example acoustical analysis, let's say. I mean a tree screen.

ARNE BJELLAND: Yeah, exactly. And how it impacts, for instance, the heating in surroundings. It's absolutely something we have talked about. And I think also it's fascinating with the questions about the landscaping because that's an area we don't have that many solutions for, and that's why it also makes it interesting for Forma to see how we could bring value there, because our building projects is more than only about the building, it's also the composition of all the other things that's surrounding the building for the site. So that's something we have on-- we have focus on that part.

SAM OMANS: Cool. Yeah, we look forward to that. So there's a set of questions around Civil 3D, which is obviously not something we're talking about here, but we're very much interested in the experience of working across tools. So here's a question that I think maybe could go to either of you. For architects, working in Revit is not easy to transition easily to Civil 3D just for the advanced site modeling tools. How much will the topography tools improve in the future three years? Actually, I thought I was going to read a different question, but let's start with that one, and then we'll go to the second Civil 3D question.

LAUREEN POON: So question, how much it will the topography tools improve in three years? I mean, as you know, we don't really give timelines on things here. But what we can share is that, I mean, as you can see, we're just actively developing it. So I guess what I would suggest is if there is critical functionality that you think we should be working on Revit, that you think should be there, talk to us. Let us know what that is. Help us out on the development and we'll look into it.

SAM OMANS: Cool. All right. So this was the one I intended to read, but that was also a good question. Has any progress been made with Civil 3D files linking into Revit without a 20 mile limit on origin, or has the best practice been created to get around this stipulation?

MATT ARSENAULT: So there hasn't been any specific things done in terms of the 20 mile limit. But we, on our roadmap, we are really talking about trying to find ways to make sure that all of the products, both Autodesk but also third party, are accessible and usable in across the ecosystem, and that's a big part of our data strategy. So looking at how you can improve interoperability with Civil 3D, Forma, all other products are all part of things that are on our future horizon with Revit.

SAM OMANS: Cool. Another one for you, I think. So can some starter Power BI templates be made available when utilizing the ACC data model?

MATT ARSENAULT: Yes, and it already is. So actually when you install-- if you go to the Power BI connector for Data Exchange and AEC Data Model is available on the Autodesk App Store. So when you download that it will come with two things. It's one well obviously the connector itself, but then two, it will have a sample file for you to get started. So you can see if you've never used Power BI, you can just hop right in and see how things are made. And then it also comes with a custom visualization widget, so that way you can load the 3D viewer directly into your dashboards as well, so you can navigate 3D models aligned with all the property data as well.

SAM OMANS: Awesome. So those are the questions we have time to answer right now. There's plenty of more interfacing time in the community event just after this session, so please join us there and continue the conversation. I think you're going to close this out, Matt.

MATT ARSENAULT: Yeah, I am.

SAM OMANS: Let's do it.

MATT ARSENAULT: Awesome. For everyone, as we do have our public roadmap. So I'm going to leave this QR code right here for you to scan. So this will take you to our public roadmap. I'm showing architecture today, but obviously we have them for structure--

OK, we're back. So we have the public roadmaps for architecture structure MEP. You can scroll through and you see what is kind of in progress? What's next? What's later? But one of the best things about the public roadmap is you can click on the cards and you can see more detailed information about it. Also, you can add comments directly inside of the public roadmap or let us like, hey, this isn't really important for us, or yes, please do this now.

I can say that from all the product management team across all of Autodesk, we look at these public roadmaps every single day. We look at your comments, we look at your feedback, and it's a great way for us to engage. So I highly recommend to see what's going on there.

In addition, we also have other ways that you can get involved with the Revit team. I can't say it enough, we love hearing from you. Your feedback is ultimately what drives the product forward in our strategy and our vision. So Revit ID is the Revit preview program. If you're interested in testing some of the features that you saw today, or that's in development with Revit, the Revit preview program is an excellent place to go use that. You can join. It is an open beta. It is free of charge and that allows you to get access into it with your Autodesk account.

We also have ARC, the Autodesk Research Community, where you can engage and join different research sessions that we're doing. And then, of course, there's other methods that you can engage with the team that are a little bit less open in that way, but they are extremely accessible. And you can come talk to us about things like inside the factory or even joining Revit scrum teams in our biweekly sprint demos, so you can see what the teams are working on actively and being involved directly with our development teams.

On the Forma side, we also have many feedback channels for you to engage with the team. You can chat with them directly into the product, you can ask questions in the forums where it's very interactive, or even just share your feedback and take surveys directly inside of the product.

And with that, we are actually going to head over to a community networking session. The product managers that were involved in today's session, along with a few others, are going to be there to engage and answer questions. So you can follow Ben, who's got a big flag backpack. Hopefully, you can't lose them, but you can follow him and we'll meet you there. Thanks, everyone.

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Adobe Analytics
We use Adobe Analytics to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Adobe Analytics Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Web Analytics)
We use Google Analytics (Web Analytics) to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Google Analytics (Web Analytics) Privacy Policy
AdWords
We use AdWords to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by AdWords. Ads are based on both AdWords data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that AdWords has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to AdWords to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. AdWords Privacy Policy
Marketo
We use Marketo to send you more timely and relevant email content. To do this, we collect data about your online behavior and your interaction with the emails we send. Data collected may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, email open rates, links clicked, and others. We may combine this data with data collected from other sources to offer you improved sales or customer service experiences, as well as more relevant content based on advanced analytics processing. Marketo Privacy Policy
Doubleclick
We use Doubleclick to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Doubleclick. Ads are based on both Doubleclick data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Doubleclick has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Doubleclick to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Doubleclick Privacy Policy
HubSpot
We use HubSpot to send you more timely and relevant email content. To do this, we collect data about your online behavior and your interaction with the emails we send. Data collected may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, email open rates, links clicked, and others. HubSpot Privacy Policy
Twitter
We use Twitter to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Twitter. Ads are based on both Twitter data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Twitter has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Twitter to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Twitter Privacy Policy
Facebook
We use Facebook to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Facebook. Ads are based on both Facebook data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Facebook has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Facebook to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Facebook Privacy Policy
LinkedIn
We use LinkedIn to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by LinkedIn. Ads are based on both LinkedIn data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that LinkedIn has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to LinkedIn to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. LinkedIn Privacy Policy
Yahoo! Japan
We use Yahoo! Japan to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Yahoo! Japan. Ads are based on both Yahoo! Japan data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Yahoo! Japan has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Yahoo! Japan to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Yahoo! Japan Privacy Policy
Naver
We use Naver to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Naver. Ads are based on both Naver data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Naver has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Naver to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Naver Privacy Policy
Quantcast
We use Quantcast to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Quantcast. Ads are based on both Quantcast data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Quantcast has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Quantcast to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Quantcast Privacy Policy
Call Tracking
We use Call Tracking to provide customized phone numbers for our campaigns. This gives you faster access to our agents and helps us more accurately evaluate our performance. We may collect data about your behavior on our sites based on the phone number provided. Call Tracking Privacy Policy
Wunderkind
We use Wunderkind to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Wunderkind. Ads are based on both Wunderkind data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Wunderkind has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Wunderkind to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Wunderkind Privacy Policy
ADC Media
We use ADC Media to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by ADC Media. Ads are based on both ADC Media data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that ADC Media has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to ADC Media to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. ADC Media Privacy Policy
AgrantSEM
We use AgrantSEM to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by AgrantSEM. Ads are based on both AgrantSEM data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that AgrantSEM has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to AgrantSEM to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. AgrantSEM Privacy Policy
Bidtellect
We use Bidtellect to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bidtellect. Ads are based on both Bidtellect data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bidtellect has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Bidtellect to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bidtellect Privacy Policy
Bing
We use Bing to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bing. Ads are based on both Bing data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bing has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Bing to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bing Privacy Policy
G2Crowd
We use G2Crowd to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by G2Crowd. Ads are based on both G2Crowd data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that G2Crowd has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to G2Crowd to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. G2Crowd Privacy Policy
NMPI Display
We use NMPI Display to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by NMPI Display. Ads are based on both NMPI Display data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that NMPI Display has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to NMPI Display to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. NMPI Display Privacy Policy
VK
We use VK to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by VK. Ads are based on both VK data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that VK has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to VK to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. VK Privacy Policy
Adobe Target
We use Adobe Target to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Adobe Target Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Advertising)
We use Google Analytics (Advertising) to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Google Analytics (Advertising). Ads are based on both Google Analytics (Advertising) data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Google Analytics (Advertising) has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Google Analytics (Advertising) to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Google Analytics (Advertising) Privacy Policy
Trendkite
We use Trendkite to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Trendkite. Ads are based on both Trendkite data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Trendkite has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Trendkite to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Trendkite Privacy Policy
Hotjar
We use Hotjar to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Hotjar. Ads are based on both Hotjar data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Hotjar has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Hotjar to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Hotjar Privacy Policy
6 Sense
We use 6 Sense to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by 6 Sense. Ads are based on both 6 Sense data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that 6 Sense has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to 6 Sense to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. 6 Sense Privacy Policy
Terminus
We use Terminus to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Terminus. Ads are based on both Terminus data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Terminus has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Terminus to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Terminus Privacy Policy
StackAdapt
We use StackAdapt to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by StackAdapt. Ads are based on both StackAdapt data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that StackAdapt has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to StackAdapt to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. StackAdapt Privacy Policy
The Trade Desk
We use The Trade Desk to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by The Trade Desk. Ads are based on both The Trade Desk data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that The Trade Desk has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to The Trade Desk to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. The Trade Desk Privacy Policy
RollWorks
We use RollWorks to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by RollWorks. Ads are based on both RollWorks data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that RollWorks has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to RollWorks to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. RollWorks Privacy Policy

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