Want to stay ahead of the curve when designing and marketing your sustainable infrastructure services? Generative design will help you move the needle faster with your customers toward cleaner, safer, more reliable sources of energy. We’ll dive into platforms, concepts, and workflows that will help civil and environmental engineers design faster, optimize outcomes earlier to reduce project costs and schedules, deliver more value to their customers, and ultimately make a greater environmental impact. Discover how to rapidly optioneer and optimize to reduce overall design time and rework, as well as manage the complexity of large data sets associated with solar and wind projects. We’ll cover workflows integrating Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, Dynamo, and Generative Design in Revit software. We’ll familiarize you with geometric concepts for faster graphical and computational power. And we’ll demonstrate how Autodesk Consulting is funneling innovation into practice with various prototypes for sustainable design projects.

Large and complex projects often present large and complex problems that can last a lifetime if not properly managed. One of those problems can be establishing the appropriate geolocation of buildings on a site, or, in Revit-speak, "shared coordinates." As we explore two Bavarian-inspired destination towns that have been years in the making, and are worth billions of dollars in investment, time, and coordination, we’ll analyze how time can cause geographical data to shift and leave a place in space not where you thought it once was. Understand how this impacts existing built work and causes anticipated construction schedules to shift, and see how to reestablish shared coordinates in multiple platforms (Revit software, Civil 3D software, AutoCAD software, Navisworks software) to prevent miscommunications and downtime before it happens. The translation of data from party to party throughout the lifecycle of a project is vital. Join us as we discuss some of the do’s and don’ts developed throughout decades of relationships with these two projects.

AutoCAD uses grips showed with a selected object not only to provide visual hints of the object—such as start/end/center points, or mid/tangent points or vertices—but also, more importantly, to provide shortcuts to various operations against the object, such as stretch, move, rotation, and scale. Other AutoCAD-based applications (Civil 3D software, AutoCAD Architecture software, AutoCAD MEP software, and so on) use custom grips with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) entities extensively. Fortunately, with .NET API, we can add custom grips to an AutoCAD object for our own specialized operation against the selected object. This session will show you a few practical examples of using custom grips.

In the design industry collaboration is always at the forefront of our minds. How can we better coordinate data between multi-disciplinary teams? What is the data normally isolated by Civil 3D could be linked to a Revit site model? With the integration of Civil 3D and Revit, the gates between multi-disciplinary silos, become freer and more open. Gone are the days of having to import Civil backgrounds into you model and “clean” that data up for use, only to have repeat that process when drawings are revised. By linking Civil 3D directly to Revit, you gain the benefits or a “live” link to seamlessly update data. In this session we will gain an understanding of how to link Civil 3D to Revit, analyze the data from Civil 3D to create specific views, incorporate Revit Site models into existing workflows, recognize the collaboration benefits within multi-disciplinary environment, and how to export Revit data back to Civil 3D to form a complete integration loop.

The possibility to make anything can be overwhelming. Sometimes you just need a picture, a plan, or a push in the right direction. If you don’t know where to start in using Dynamo for Civil 3D, but you’re eager to know what can and cannot be easily automated, then this class is for you. In this class, we’ll walk through the specific steps of creating scripts in Dynamo for Civil 3D. These scripts will automate some of the mundane tasks you do in each of your designs. Whether that's placing a legend on multiple sheets, changing text to all upper case, turning on and off layers, adjusting line types of your design based on the type of plan sheet you are creating, or inserting trees at a specific interval along an alignment—Dynamo can do it! At the end of this class, you’ll understand the basics, and you’ll have a few time-saving tools to use within your own projects, and the knowledge of how they were created.

How can we model a civil engineering structure like a digital twin without 3D scanning? If you want to know how to take up the challenge of replicating 62 stations platforms in 4 months, this case study talks about the Marseille subway stations project (In France). Throughout this presentation, we will be demonstrating how to use Civil3D, Subassembly Composer, Dynamo and Excel to reduce the time needed by 4, thereby reducing costs. Firstly, we will show the project and the stakes, then the workflow by way of adaptive profiles and finally we will present the possibilities of developing this idea further. Yes, this Workflow can be compatible with any project. Through this presentation, you can discover a new approach to using Civil 3D now and in the future. This case study can improve skills and offer new possibilities.

Can you imagine what would happen if you could have a complete view of your area right at the moment you really need it? Even before you draw the first line in a blank AutoCAD or Civil 3D drawing at the very beginning of the preliminary design? Many good things, but given that redesigns and reworks are among the most significant threats to the practicability and sustainability of construction projects worldwide, you would avoid bad decisions and design errors that could lead to time wastage, schedule derailing and cost overruns. In this 30-minute class, Dr. Nick Chanakoulas, Civil Engineer and Head of Customer Success at Plex-Earth, introduces the concept of Remote Surveying. Through project cases, you will learn how to apply its holistic approach by integrating aerial and satellite time-based imagery, detailed terrain modeling, 3D drone data, and real-world design validation techniques in Google Earth's environment, as part of your design process. So, where is your next project?