This class shows you how to use Civil View traffic import tools in 3ds Max Design software to bring in traffic simulation data from PTV Vissim. We examine how to prepare your data in VISSIM, how to bring that data into 3ds Max Design using Civil View, and how to handle conflicts such as overpasses. We then talk about various ways to use this data once it is set up, including how to export from 3ds Max Design to another 3D package such as Maya® software. You also learn how to replace the imported data with actual vehicles from the Civil View Vehicle library and how to use your own car library.

Description: A hands-on overview on how to create stunning interactive product design and architecture visualization with Unity. The session will start with the import of data from AutoCAD and Revit, use Image Based Lighting, real time Global Illumination and physically based shaders to convert this to a realistic environment. The presentation will also cover how to optimize the powerful features in Unity to push your content on mobile devices.

What you know about VR today is a just a taste of what's coming. Join this session to learn about the NVIDIA Holodeck, Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality, and HP Z VR Backpack PC. We will review the latest VR R&D developments and discuss our shared vision for the future of VR in design and design review. Presented by Sean Young (HP), Jeff Hansen (Microsoft), and Andrew Rink (NVIDIA).

Alstom uses VRED Professional software to produce high-quality imagery for project communication, as well as real-time-experiences production for design reviews and communication movies, enabling a single-visualization digital mockup. Meanwhile, Alstom also needs to make sure its designs reach a broader population that includes external teams and individuals, and from this perspective, the communication production workflow is provided by Stingray game engine. This talk will describe the collaboration between Alstom and Autodesk, Inc., to build a VRED data workflow that capitalizes on Stingray game engine as an output source for their designs, consequently extending the reach of their project communication capabilities. This session features VRED Professional and Autodesk Stingray.

Autodesk manufacturing customers have a wide range of options for creating rendered images of their designs. This class will give an overview of product and capabilities available to PDMC customers and users within the manufacturing design space, and why and where you would use each one to best effect.

This class offers an in-depth look at how to use VRED software as a platform with diverse output types serving a wide range of needs from one source. We’ll show best practices for assembling and preparing one master file, including geometrical data, materials, animation, and interactive elements from various CAD and DCC applications (for example, Fusion 360 software, Maya software, and Revit software). We’ll also show how this holistic data set can be used for virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR); for real-time, physical, accurate ray tracing streamed to mobile devices; or to create rendered animations and still images. This class will focus on automotive, but also deal with data and workflows from different industries and disciplines.

While architecture and engineering professionals should always focus on making the best design for the project, workflows designed to produce plans and intelligent models are often missing vital steps for the visualization at the end of the cycle. These steps are easy to add to your workflow once you know what they are. Learn how to speed up the visualization process with small adjustments to your AutoCAD® or Revit® software workflow and with 3D modeling standards that can be checked for and corrected with tools built into 3ds Max Design software. For visualization professionals, we look at how to create or select 3D models of environmental elements that slip easily into your pipeline without adding extra correction work or long render times. We also look at the vocabulary and tools that you can use to communicate with designers about your workflow needs.

In today's rapidly changing technology environment, digital design no longer means just CAD. It's also BIM, IT, analysis/design, and visualization...with a little bit of training, accounting, R&D, and diplomacy thrown in for good measure. One structural engineering firm has decided to recognize this growing overlap of disciplines with a role created specifically to address it: Digital Design Manager. Join Kate for a discussion of what digital design management (DDM) means to Robert Silman Associates, and how having this position in the company has improved communication, collaboration, and adoption of new technologies. A followup roundtable session, CM2155-R Digital Design Management: A Roundtable Discussion offers the opportunity to continue the conversation.

Come and see how the new virtual technologies influence the Porsche design process. We'll cover the choice of using virtual decision making instead of physical prototypes; the challenges and Autodesk solutions to simulate and visualize new user experiences in new-car projects; common technology process approaches-from CAD (Alias software) to visual simulation to Class A; and the use of new visual simulation approaches to take real decisions day by day (measured materials, light design, car user experience, driving performance, press usage, exhibition, and marketing support). We'll also cover using OGL and GI Raytracing in the process with a single virtual data model; and using new immersive tools to improve and speed up the design process (like head-mounted displays, virtual reality, augmented reality, and virtual sketching and modeling).

In this class will cover our way of achieving something that was dreamed of by visualization experts for years—physical accurate rendering in real time. The class will address the technical background, our path toward this goal, what was needed to achieve it, and application areas for this powerful technology and why it is so important for the automotive and other industries. VRED software is the product this class will be all about.

Autodesk VRED 3D visualisation software supports design exploration, communication, virtual prototyping, photography, and sales configurator solutions. The software enables users to quickly transform digital design data into compelling, high-fidelity images, animations, and real-time presentations, which can be consumed on desktop or through full-scale presentation environments or web/mobile displays. It's useful for efficiently exploring and validating digital designs for informed decision making and the creation of compelling design imagery for enterprise-wide presentations, alongside marketing communications. This instructional demo introduces VRED software to new users within automotive, industrial/product design, engineering, visualisation, and digital marketing. Starting from the initial data import, we will guide you through the process of achieving a detailed design review and configurator for presentations. Along the way, we will discuss materials, camera, lights, shadows, configuring variants, and more.

Virtual Reality has always been restricted by the need for large investments of time and money. That restricts its appeal and adoption. With the influx of more capable and lower-cost HMDs that are continually evolving along with hardware, we can now unleash VR into the hands of a wider audience. Automotive designers, modellers, interior designers, engineers, manufacturers, and others can make better decisions and immerse themselves in an instant. It can be added as a verification to reduce the number of physical models while also making them more relevant and accurate.

This class gives an in-depth look into “how to setup” a virtual light booth as a VRED standard environment that reflects the behavior of the real world. The attendees will also learn about the VRED render pipeline, spectral raytracing, different techniques to measure and visualize light and gives a best practice to push the rendering close at possible to the real image. This class targets everyone who wants to compare and proof virtual materials with their real world examples under similar conditions.

In this presentation, car designer Ning Ding will show best practices in automotive design through fast concept modeling, sketching, rendering, and animation workflows. Drawing on the full power available in Alias AutoStudio, Ning will share how designers and digital sculptors can work together during this process to bring a design to life. Ning will share live demo vignettes to show how designers can sketch and even directly create concept model by Alias, Speedform and Maya, visualize and render the 3D model in VRED and even create animations and cool scenes in Maya. Ning will also share insights into the current state of the automotive design market in China, where he has both practiced as a professional designer as well as his current job as a subject matter expert working for Autodesk. This session features Alias AutoStudio and Alias Concept.

This presentation will show the creation of a concept seat, from using Autodesk® Alias® Speedform for creating the design and shape, to Autodesk® Alias® software for detailing like the stitching and other complex details, and finally Autodesk® VRED™ software for creating high-end renderings.

The presentation will show a seamless workflow from start to finish, and will give tips and trick about the latest features of each software that is used.

Don't get left behind. This class will peek into future technologies that will change the way you work. Join us as we share innovative new HP and NVIDIA products and technologies that span Virtual Reality (VR), 3D Printing, and 3D Scanning. In addition to our view of tomorrow, we will help you enhance Autodesk workflows today with new graphics technologies and Workstation-class hardware, and Tips & Tricks for performance optimization. You will leave this class inspired by our vision of the future, and armed with the knowledge and tools you need to work more productively today.

The presentation will show a live demonstration of the workflows used for creating an animation in 3ds Max software and in Maya software, including how to prepare them and export the data in order to import them into VRED software for doing a real-time visualization. The live demonstration will show examples of classic keyframe animations, cloth-like vertex animation, and character animation from 3ds Max software and Maya software to VRED software.

This class covers how to use storyboarding and previsualization tools to help convey ideas before final rendering. We show you some successful and not-so-successful examples.

In this class the attendees will see the workflow used for taking results from Autodesk, Inc.'s, simulation products to its Media & Entertainment products (Showcase software, 3ds Max software, and VRED software) for high-end visualization, rendering, and video production.