Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

Hear how AECOM used model coordination for a fast-track airport project in Qatar that involved more than 40 buildings, hundreds of project team members from numerous AECOM offices, and thousands of clash reports. BIM 360 Model Coordination software moves clash detection efforts beyond the BIM experts, letting all team members review and access up-to-date model-coordination information. In this session, you’ll learn how Model Coordination with BIM 360 can automatically clash project models and share coordination issues with the project team. Any team member can use BIM 360 Model Coordination without the need for Revit software, Navisworks software, or other specialized software. BIM 360 manages Model Coordination issues, removing the need to distribute clash reports or manage Navisworks exports from your BIM software.

This is an effective, structured management system based on the National CAD Standard (NCS) Uniform Drawing System (UDS). This management system emphasizes for Revit software and overlaps AutoCAD software, managing anything from simple distributed model setups (each discipline in a file) to fully integrated (all-in-one) models on A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service. It is commonly part of the organizational section of a Building Information Modeling (BIM) execution plan. This approach limits added parameters to the Revit software models, and it compartmentalizes liability to each discipline in a way that minimizes confusion and enables each discipline to more directly and fully manage their own content. This session features Revit and A360. AIA Approved

Today’s product design and manufacturing (D&M) environment is hindered by disconnected experiences, technology, and data — especially when collaborating across departments and firms. With the push to drive innovation and shorten time-to-market, many customers want to move away from the disconnected, waterfall operating models of today to a future that supports more concurrent, integrated, and automated workflows — one supported by a robust cloud data platform. As Fusion 360 moves towards this connected future, come learn how the team is leveraging and contributing to Forge Data to enable anyone along the D&M pipeline to collaborate on the data they need, from anywhere, at the same time, with the appropriate level of control. Explore how you might easily plug in your apps and services to a platform that connects information and people across design and manufacturing workflows.

Contemporary rail projects are vastly complex due to an intersection of several key factors. The deliverables and support that agencies and contractors ask for are scaling with new technology. These technologies are relatively new to the rail design space, and there are currently no precedents for implementing them. On two similar rail projects, tailored workflows and custom automation tools were developed in order to deliver the required standard documentation, visualization, clash detection, and asset management deliverables. The synergy between automation, connected BIM, and creative project workflow were essential to the execution of these projects. In this session, we’ll examine the project needs, collaboration between BIM 360 software and ProjectWise, and automation with the Subassembly Composer, Dynamo, Forge, and LISP.

This class overviews basic setups, installation, and use of A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service, and will examine how it has been used, advantages and disadvantages, things to consider for remote access and telecommuting, and how to push content to A360 cloud-based collaboration service. We will also touch on topics for organizational structures and project management in conjunction with A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service and A360. This session features Collaboration for Revit and BIM 360 Glue.

How much do you know about cloud workstations? Have you tried virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for your remote BIM users? If you’re familiar with VDI or have tried it, you know the performance isn’t great for power users and the complexity of maintaining VDI is unsustainable for IT. With cloud workstations, all that has changed. A panel of technology visionaries includes AEC experts Andy Knauf, CIO of design/build firm Mead & Hunt and Israel Sumano, Senior Director of Infrastructure Services at MEP firm Southland Industries. Joining them is cloud computing expert Harry Labana, Chief Customer Officer for Workspot. They’ll share the collective wisdom they’ve accrued through deep, hands-on experience with virtualization technologies and how cloud workstations are transforming the AEC industry. Join us to learn more about how industry-leading AEC firms are using cloud workstations to deliver outstanding performance, strengthen IT security, and simplify joint venture projects.

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.

BIM 360 Cost Management was introduced earlier this year with capabilities to support budgets, contracts and change orders. Join ACS product managers to discover how to execute these workflows in BIM 360, as well as learn about the new capabilities in the module to support additional cost management capabilities.

CannonDesign implemented virtualization and realized significant benefits, including collaboration, reduced costs, and ease of management. Find out how you can leverage these best practices to roll out high performance virtual workstations to meet the graphics-intensive needs of your design software. During this session, we’ll review: • How to benchmark and size your environment • Network topology best practices • Hardware and software recommendations • User types and profiles • How to set up your POC • Optimizing for AEC

This class overviews basic setups, installation, and use of A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service, and will examine how it has been used, advantages and disadvantages, things to consider for remote access and telecommuting, and how to push content to A360 cloud-based collaboration service. We will also touch on topics for organizational structures and project management in conjunction with A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service and A360. This session features Collaboration for Revit and BIM 360 Glue. AIA Approved

This panel is back with a new list of topics to discuss. Learn from the experiences of this panel of diverse CAD managers who are widely respected as leaders in their field. Hear their unique perspectives and solutions to challenges faced by CAD managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. Topics include understanding CAD standards, keeping up with rapidly changing technology, managing users, communicating with management and other nontechnical people, budgeting, and much more. There will also be time for questions and answers when you can ask these experts the questions you’ve always wanted answered. Bring your questions and get answers from 4 CAD managers who have been there and done that.

Ask your programming questions to our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our software development teams. If you’re writing solutions that are based on these technologies or you’re just about to start and want to know more, then this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with and your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

As with many software as a service (SaaS) providers, Autodesk offers products that support cloud-based collaboration and enable application deliverables right to your desktop or mobile device. As customers, we need to understand what these tools can do for us and how to apply them to our corporate needs. What does Autodesk® PLM 360 cloud-based data management look like to our company? Will BIM 360™ Field or BIM 360™ Glue® cloud-based software help us to better manage site or subcontractor products and deliverables? How can we capitalize on Fusion 360™ software for project-based collaboration between manufacturers and construction teams to solve real-world problems? What about mobile apps, such as Autodesk® FormIt™ for site-based problem description and resolution for project managers? What does it really look like to be able to access any of my work from anywhere: at my desk, in the boardroom, or what have you? Join us for a panel discussion on these powerful new technologies.

Companies that offer an inclusive environment to a diverse mix of employees benefit by getting a competitive advantage. It’s not only the right thing to do; it’s also imperative to attracting and retaining talent, delivering results, and staying ahead of the game. Based on Harvard Business Review research, companies with 2D diversity out innovate and outperform competitors. Employees at these firms are 45% more likely to report that their company's market share grew over the previous year, and 70% more likely to report that their company captured a new market. Join us for a compelling conversation among influential industry leaders who will share different dimensions of diversity and inclusion. They’ll offer real-world solutions for fostering a leadership that believes in building psychological safety. You will walk away with key learnings that can have a positive impact on your business and improve employee and customer engagement.

In this session, we'll go over the details of how to keep and maintain civil site plans in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, export those to Revit software and Collaboration for Revit cloud service, and incorporate both in InfraWorks software for sharing and presenting.

Voorbij Prefab is a highly automated concrete factory in the Netherlands that produces wall elements for housing. At Voorbij Prefab, the clients’ Revit models are directly used to generate data for the robots. This class will show the complete workflow. It starts with managing the clients to get uniform models, then combining the Revit models, and using Dynamo to add all the concrete detailing. Using IDAT software, based on AutoCAD software, reinforcement is added and files are created to feed the robots. Finally, BIM 360 Field software is used in combination with QR codes to scan and view the precast elements on the building site. Not only will we explain this workflow, we’ll do it from start to finish during this one-hour class—and an element by choice will be produced live in the factory in Amsterdam! At the end of this class, we’ll take a look into the future regarding how the Structural Precast Extension in combination with IDAT tools can be used to produce even more efficiently with Revit software.

This talk will focus on recent work on how to build immersive experiences with support for collaboration.We will focus on three aspects of collaboration:A) Capture of human (e)motion B) visualization of captured data C) network distribution of data.We will illustrate these aspects using prototypes that we constructed over the past year.And we will demonstrate how these prototypes led to various pilot projects and how they utilize Autodesk Forge. (Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

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.

See how Shotgun is providing a visual project management solution to the automotive design studios, allowing our customers to manage their everyday design data, foster open communication with their teams, and leverage workflow efficiencies and automation to improve the overall design process.