Effective model coordination is key to the success of major water treatment plant projects. It promotes design harmony and team synergy across various disciplines. This session will explore the complexities of synchronizing intricate intelligent models. Discover powerful methods and workflows for integrating intelligent models with tools like Revit, Civil 3D, Navisworks, and Autodesk Tandem software. We'll cover actionable tactics to refine coordination via Autodesk Construction Cloud, report generation, and sharing. Learn about clash detection and issue resolution in Revit and Navisworks using practical examples, enhancing your coordination skills with Autodesk Construction Cloud. Additionally, we'll examine the role AI and automation plays in the streamlining of these processes.

The architecture, engineering, and construction industry has a long history of using 3D tools for design and planning. Such tools are built for handling large quantities of data, but tend to focus more on physical accuracy than visual fidelity. While new tools are emerging to visualize projects in high-quality 3D before they're built, they're typically solutions that can't easily be extended to work with all the new technologies driving innovation in the video game industry. In this session, we'll cover techniques we've developed for rendering large architectural and infrastructure environments in real time. We'll discuss the challenge of importing these models into the Unity gaming engine, as well as the opportunities it affords in terms of improving fidelity, adding interactivity, and building for multiple platforms, including virtual reality (VR). We'll also discuss practical applications for these techniques, such as multi-user review sessions, public feedback gathering, and interactive training building.

Saudi Arabia is undertaking a monumental task: constructing the world's largest coral reef nursery in the Red Sea to preserve and reproduce coral reefs for future generations amidst rising temperatures. Egis, as the Project Management Consultant for this endeavor, has harnessed the Autodesk environment to establish a seamless workflow from Revit to ACC to Tandem, facilitating the creation of a digital twin for the project. Tandem serves as the singular source of truth for this initiative, consolidating documentation and models from ACC, along with real-time data from IoT devices to monitor conditions conducive to coral growth in vitro. Furthermore, Tandem integrates with the Building Management System, enabling not only visualization but also actionable insights to ensure the success of this vital conservation effort. This project exemplifies how Tandem can be integrated into sustainable initiatives, ensuring the preservation of vital ecosystems for future generations.

This session will explore how Autodesk Workshop XR is transforming project coordination, making early issue detection and resolution the new normal. With a seamless Autodesk Construction Cloud integration, we'll discover how to harness the power of Workshop XR to enhance workflow efficiency, bridge communication gaps, and minimize costly reworks and materials waste. We'll show what it's like to walk through a model in virtual reality (VR) at human scale, and review its associated building information modeling (BIM) data—while helping to accelerate team alignment during the design phase.

Mechanical designers face challenges in a project's early stages. They need precise answers with limited information while navigating numerous changes. Revit software offers comprehensive tools for effective massing and systems analysis. This interactive lab will enhance Revit proficiency, focusing on agile workflows for shell and core geometry aligned with EnergyPlus requirements. Attendees will learn to create massing models using the Revit drafting tools, and incorporate details like curtain walls and windows. They'll explore the systems analysis UI, integrate EnergyPlus for insights, and navigate analytical energy model data. This course will teach mechanical designers and engineers how to use Revit effectively in schematic design phases. Attendees will learn to adapt to digital transformation, address stakeholder inquiries, and collaborate effectively. By the end of the course, participants will bridge the gap between early project uncertainty and efficient design strategies.

This session will delve deep into BIG's workflow with D5 Render, discovering how BIG harnesses this AI-powered tool to enhance architectural design processes. You will also gain exclusive insights into AI integration and visualization trends from Jens Majdal Kaarsholm, director of design technology at BIG. Come to learn firsthand how these advancements drive design progress, streamline workflows, and ignite fresh creative possibilities. Whether you're an experienced industry professional or an enthusiastic newcomer, this session promises to deliver invaluable insights into powerful architectural methodologies at the forefront of innovation.

AI tech may get all the attention, but there isn't an AI solution for the critical workflows that architects need to tell the stories of their projects. Designers want visualizations that simultaneously capture a building's aesthetic complexity and the hard data points of energy efficiency, occupant movement, and traffic flow. AI isn't delivering, and Chaos is stepping up. Come see the latest tools for Revit users to conduct energy analysis, with results that can be generated and understood by everyone contributing to your Revit project. Then see how to easily assemble visualizations from across teams and creation tools into real-time explorations, with animations features that go far beyond what design tools are made to support. Learn how quickly you can bring design options to life with stunning ray-traced rendering, dynamic crowds of digital humans, and realistic vehicles traffic. Chaos will show how all of this is possible today for the casual users while meeting the demands of specialists.

In this comprehensive session, Chuck Lounsberry, Jon Matalucci, and AJ Lightheart will share their extensive experiences with integrating extended reality (XR) into workflow processes. This session will highlight more than a decade of discoveries, achievements, and challenges, providing attendees with a road map of the landscape of XR application in various business settings.

Discover the essentials of design visualization in our AU class. Learn how to effectively use 3ds Max software for modeling, Arnold for rendering, and Moxion for collaborative workflows. Gain practical skills to create visually striking designs efficiently and accurately.

Storytelling has been present within architecture as long as the domain itself has existed. Initially, it was done with hand representations of volumes and narratives told over the sheets of paper. As the technology progresses, new ways of telling stories emerge: Renderings became easier and cheaper, causing their function to evolve. Industry saw a shift from only using them for end results (artifacts) to real-time renderings focused on driving communication and decision making. Now, with the democratization of AI, we are facing new possibilities: Visualization for ideation, but also for even faster creation of realistic outputs. This opens the doors for more-effective, data-driven storytelling throughout the design stages. In this live demonstration of the Veras extension within Autodesk Forma and Revit software, we'll show you how to easily create stunning visualizations and convert them to create compelling, data-driven storyboards throughout design stages using Autodesk Forma.

Join this session to learn how a web-based configurator built with Autodesk Platform Services can help to improve sales. With an easy-to-use web tool, we'll see how nontechnical users can design interior floor plans and produce high-quality rendering. From enhancing traditional path-tracer renderings to offering new WebGL optioneering workflows, let's explore what new AI rendering techniques can do in a fraction of the required traditional time and cost.

The kids are all grown up! The gamer generation has entered the workforce and they are not afraid to push technology to the limits for fast, high-quality results. In this class, you will see how the Autodesk Media and Entertainment collection can take AEC storytelling, visualization and simulation to the next level. Additionally, we will explore game engine workflows to create immersive experiences that help projects get to a finished state faster. Join us!

This session will explore how you can integrate D5's AI-powered tools as a core component of your design workflow, essentially becoming the go-to companion alongside your modeling software. Through the introduction of D5 Lightmode (a DCC add-on that seamlessly takes your designs into AI for an effortless generation of refined architect-friendly reference images) alongside D5 Livesync (the live link plug-ins that synchronize changes with D5 in real time from modeling software like Revit and 3ds Max) and finally D5 Render (a real-time renderer with the best balance between efficiency and quality), you can take advantage of this AI-powered workflow to slash the grind in design, collaboration, and learning. We'll cover nifty tips and tricks to supercharge your workflow, helping you crank up the speed of delivery while focusing on what matters the most: innovating and refining your designs.

With the compound collection "Procedural Polygon Generator 2.0" for Bifrost, users can autogenerate buildings and all kinds of architectural detail. The goal is to build a construction history that works on various polygon inputs, and creates complex buildings without any further user input. This solution is used in the video-game industry and the film/TV industry for automated generation of environments, as well as for concept design and visualization in architecture.

This session will draw upon insights from SSOE Group's Caterpillar Pharaoh Industrial Facility Project, which uses the Autodesk Forma cloud-based platform to spearhead our digital transformation and revolutionize proposal production. With Autodesk Forma, we attained swift design iteration and insightful data analysis, allowing us to evaluate design variations in seconds. Our innovative approach significantly contributes to improved sustainability outcomes. In a desert location, we reduced temperatures by up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit with strategic design interventions. Moreover, we significatively minimized heat stress over facades, creating a more sustainable, pleasant, and comfortable design. Join us as we reshape the future of industrial engineering and architecture, harnessing architectural approaches to improve sustainability and drive innovation—all while committed to building a sustainable tomorrow.

The integration of Autodesk Forma software, Revit software, and InfraWorks software provides a powerful suite of tools for urban-scale design planning and analysis. The bidirectional workflows between Forma and Revit enable seamless transitions from conceptual design and analysis to detailed modeling. Simultaneously, the integration with InfraWorks allows these designs to be incorporated into a broader environmental context, including infrastructure engineering. This synergy empowers architects, planners, and civil engineers to optimize early design phases, ensuring innovative and feasible projects. By using each software's strengths, professionals can swiftly create study models that are easily updated and shared across teams. Furthermore, the ability to compare different options within Forma and InfraWorks ensures continuous improvement and efficiency in the design process. This collaborative ecosystem not only streamlines workflows, but it also enhances the quality of urban design and infrastructure projects.

Finding it tough to uncover the elements you want to see in Revit software? So much time is spent finding elements in your views that it can affect your ability to get work done. Through examples of common visibility problems, we can uncover the typical problems in a given view. This course will take you through the Revit Graphics hierarchy to explain the ways you can find and uncover elements throughout your model in a systematic way. Learn ways to uncover visibility issues in your model and change the behavior of the model editors and consultants for best-practice results. Understand how work sets, filters, line styles, view templates, links, and computer hardware like graphics cards can all make a difference in adjusting your model appearance. You will walk away from this course with the knowledge of how to adjust your views to see what you want with the minimal amount of troubleshooting required to save time, effort, and sanity.

Join us on an interesting journey through time! For 10 years, Royal HaskoningDHV has used InfraWorks software to transform projects into vivid models. Multidisciplinary projects—bridges, viaducts, (bored) tunnels, and more! Our journey also recaps rural projects, where the underground infrastructure is made visible (pipe networks and utilities). With InfraWorks, we didn't just build structures; we built bridges with our clients and stakeholders. 3D Insights united the entire project team. And early error detection saved construction costs! Some projects have already risen from the ground. Now, we're putting them to the ultimate test. The InfraWorks model stands as our mirror to reflect the blueprint with the build design. Don't miss this class where innovation meets infrastructure!

In today's digital age, extracting Revit model data and visualizing it effectively is paramount to successful project delivery. Woods Bagot is a global firm with 17 offices. In the last month, there were 450+ active Revit users accessing 34,000+ unique Revit files and producing 126+ million data points. This session will explore the intricacies of extracting and using Revit model data, ensuring its relevancy, and using various tools for data collection. We'll explore innovative approaches to data visualization, highlighting the importance of clear, concise, and effective presentations. Join us to discover how to harness the power of data to enhance architectural designs and communicate ideas across borders.

In this session, we'll showcase how to use drawing standardization, Autodesk proprietary formats, and publicly available information to quickly create dynamic near-real-time models of our sites in InfraWorks software. This process can often take hours to carefully insert each bit of information and set a style to carry out and get the desired look. However, by using drawing standards and InfraWorks rule sets, we can generate a site model in a fraction of the time—making this ideal for discussion with stakeholders and the public.