We have packed this 60-minute class with 30 different tips on Factory Design Suite. Do not miss this class—there will be many gems that will impact your daily routine and your usage of Factory Design Suite. This session features Factory Design Utilities.

Thanks to the collaboration between Autodesk and Esri, more and more valuable geographic information system (GIS) information is available to users of Autodesk applications via ArcGIS Online and customer ArcGIS Portals. Users can access information that includes both public and organizational roads, highways, detailed elevation, and other raster data, street furniture, tree locations, and pipelines. In this session, we will look at the workflow that will let you capitalize on the GIS data available from ArcGIS and create a model within InfraWorks software. Using a real-world example with the City of Vancouver, we will show you what is featured and included in the libraries from ArcGIS, how to publish your own GIS data to ArcGIS Online, how to import that data into InfraWorks, and how to manage the data and views within the InfraWorks model. We will also discuss how this benefits the city, and how they’re actively using their models in their own workflows and processes.

InfraWorks software brings back the enthusiasm for design we once had as children (or at least when we were new to engineering). In this class, we'll put the FUN back into FUNdamentals as we explore how to use InfraWorks for preliminary planning, detailed design, and visualization. Starting with the existing conditions, you'll learn how to create a 3D model of a project site. Next you'll learn how to add buildings, roads, vegetation, and other design details to help others better visualize the finished project in the context of its surroundings. Along the way, you'll learn tips and tricks on how to make things look just the way you want while meeting design parameters.

Generative design is the process of defining high-level goals and constraints and using the power of computation to automatically explore a wide design space and identify the best design options. While generative design applied for manufacturing is gaining more and more attention, its use for architectural space planning has been fairly explored. The layout for this year's Autodesk University exhibit hall was designed through the application of generative design, letting the main stakeholders discover a novel and high-performing design strategy. The class is an overview of the process behind the design of the exhibit hall, with technical and theoretical in-depth overviews of the generative design steps- generating the design space through a bespoke geometry system; evaluating each design through design goals; and evolving generations of designs through evolutionary computation. This session will feature Dynamo software, O2 (a custom optimization software), and Explorer-a web-based design space navigation tool.

This class will present attendees with a solid understanding from several customer experiences with Field Asset Management software and include a discussion on best practices. In collaboration with a number of customers in the utilities (electric, water, communications, and gas), wewe will discuss field asset issues and solutions for utilities including field inspections and data collection; image and content capture for ReCap 360 software models directly from the field; and integration and synchronization with enterprise databases, including geographic information system (GIS). For the panel we will have at least 2 customers attending and 1 or more available remotely by webcam to discuss important issues in 3 broad categories: training and human factors for field workers; best practices for InfraWorks 360 Field Asset software; and IT requirements, including integration standards and security.

For a number of years, the cloud has been a topic of acute interest for collaborative working and storage. But over the past 2 years, it's become much more than that. Now a mature, integrated system, the cloud presents a viable option for businesses that need additional compute capacity. At this moment in time the cloud, facilitated by a new integration tool from Escape Technology, offers an alternative to CAPEX spend for short-term projects or requirements. Whether you're rendering a building fly-through or the latest Hollywood blockbuster, there are always points in the project lifecycle that get tight on time. This is where burst capacity comes in. In the past the only option was to purchase or rent additional machines and licenses, but the cloud gives us a new facility. Spinning up virtual workstations, storage, and even render can give studios the extra resources they need without having to worry about purchase prices, space, cooling, and power. In this talk, delegates will learn about how the cloud has developed as a practical concept and is now being leveraged by major production companies and architects around the world. Lee Danskin, CTO at Escape Technology, will explore how cloud workflows can be used to augment - or entirely replace - an existing one. He will investigate the future of cloud working, including so-called ?born in the cloud? studios, and discuss the complexities of adding cloud burst capacity to an existing pipeline.

Industrial robots are primarily known from the automotive industry's production lines. The goal of this class is to present robots instead as multifunctional and flexible interfaces between the digital and the physical world that can be used for anything from innovative, large-scale fabrication to immersive virtual reality (VR) simulators. This extension beyond the robots' initial scope is enabled by new software developments that facilitate a seamless workflow from design to machine through Dynamo software and KUKA|prc. Utilizing parametric design tools lets us use robots for mass customization and small lot sizes, rather than mass fabrication. The class will provide an overview on how to utilize industrial robots through Dynamo and Fusion 360 software, and present realized projects by both small to medium-size enterprises as well as international corporations. We'll also look into the future toward new developments that build upon the geometric capabilities of the Forge cloud and couple it with serverless computation and integration with IoT platforms.

If you haven't really seen Bridge Design for InfraWorks 360 software at work, then you need to attend this class. This program magically creates engineering-sensible bridges in your InfraWorks 360 software models. Not only is it amazingly cool, it is also amazingly practical and useful in the way that it provides a representation of a bridge (complete with structural members such as a deck, girders, bearings, abutments, piers, foundations, and piles) along with real numbers to assess its cost. In this class you'll learn how to create these bridges, understand what you're seeing, assess cost, and even tweak the design. You'll be surprised at what you can do, and after class you'll be chomping at the bit to get back to work to apply what you've learned.

This industry talk deep dive will explain how Dane Architectural streamlined their workflow with Revit to Inventor and back again. When the world of Architects and Manufactures come together it's important that the company has the correct tools to do the job. Dane Architectural have been utilising the Autodesk platform of software, Revit and Inventor for many years and have a small army of CAD-based users. Graitec were surprised to hear how it was taking Dane Architectural design team over 30 days per project to create the Manufacturing models in metal work. This was impacting the company greatly, and we were then asked to find a solution. This didn't take us long, utilising the tools Dane already owned. Working closely with both the Architects and Manufacturers we managed to streamline to design process from an astonishing 30 days down to an unbelievable 3 hours. Throughout the industry talk we will discuss the workflow and how this streamline affected Dane's ability to win more projects. We will also show workflows up to the BIM collaborative model sharing with Architects. "The Revit and Inventor consultancy provided us with a significant improvement in our workflow which took a project of work from an average of 30 days to 3 hours." Paul Snaith Project Draughtsman Dane Architectural

Verkís Consulting Engineers has gained various benefits from using BIM 360 Glue software. Before taking on BIM 360 Glue, coordination and clash detection of models was a time-consuming process that delayed project delivery. Project managers had less overview over the design process in BIM (Building Information Modeling) projects, and involving stakeholders in the BIM process was often unsuccessful. With BIM 360 Glue, Verkís has streamlined coordination and clash-detection processes involving designers in the cloud environment, shortening coordination meetings and delivering better-coordinated models in less time. Project managers have better overview and are more involved in the design authoring and coordination process. The use of BIM 360 Glue and virtual reality (VR) for design review has opened a new market sector for Verkís. In this class, we will present different benefits of using BIM 360 Glue with different design projects. Verkís is an Icelandic engineering firm that provides services in building, energy, industry, and infrastructure sectors.

This session will cover a case study of BIM (Building Information Modeling) implementation for a complex urban project designed as a smart city. The 126-hectare project is called Garonne Eiffel, and sits in a large development area in Bordeaux, France. The heart of Garonne Eiffel is the Belvedere subdistrict, a 12-hectare (30 acre) area. BIM has been implemented on the Belvedere project, which is the first key step for a future smart city. We will present the project with its specific challenges (urban density, collaboration, technical complexity). We will discuss the BIM strategy applied, including good and not so good aspects. We will describe the workflows created with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to show how InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Navisworks software are key tools to urban design. We’ll show how we used InfraWorks to assemble Civil 3D modelization for the Belvedere project: buildings, roads, trees, and street equipment. And, we’ll show how Dynamo helped us improve our productivity.

Much of the early work around generative design at Autodesk was focused on manufactured products. Increasingly, though, it is being applied to design problems in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). Autodesk Research—mainly through its New York-based architectural studio, The Living—is exploring how one can use generative design to solve a variety of problems in the AEC space. Recent examples include Project Discover, where survey data from Autodesk's Toronto-based employees was used to help choose the layout for our new office in the MaRS Discovery District. Generative design was also used in the design of the Autodesk University 2017 exhibit hall. During this session we'll take a look at the tools available from Autodesk to apply generative design in the AEC industry. And we'll show how to get started with generative design by driving Dynamo with Refinery, Autodesk's new optimization engine.

Disrupt Disability is a social enterprise that aims to build a community of wheelchair users, designers, and makers who can create wheels that people want to wear. The reason for disrupting the worldwide market of 65 million people who need a wheelchair is that 8 out of 10 of them do not have access to one, either because of a prohibitive price tag or the customisation often needed to suit the user's environment and physical needs. Rachael Wallach is the founder of Disrupt Disability and is a wheelchair user herself. Rachael's vision is to leverage the opportunities now possible using the newest digital design, collaboration and digital manufacturing methods to give users choice and control over the form and function of their wheelchairs. These latest tools and methods have the ability to satisfy the needs of customised, market-of-one solutions, and therefore present an exciting enabler for the wheelchair market where traditional design and production methods are not delivering suitable solutions and products. Fusion 360 has been a cornerstone of the project so far. When Rachael got the opportunity to study at Stanford University shortly after the start of the project her sudden relocation did not affect progress as Fusion 360's collaboration tools, the ability to easily share designs and carry out live review sessions came to the fore. The modular approach to provide customised solutions is framed around the use of a common, structural core module. Development of this core module is central to the structural integrity of the wheelchairs that will be developed from it, so the Simulation environment in Fusion 360 was pivotal to ensuring that this module was fit for purpose before committing to the first prototypes. When it came to designing a seat module where the form of the seat was to be much more closely fitting to the individual the Sculpt environment enabled the generation of the complex surfaces required. The principle of a seat that follows the form of the user is one of the ways of achieving the vision of wearing our wheels as well as ensuring people see the person in the wheelchair, and not the wheelchair itself.

A week after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, Norwegian architects Snøhetta were announced as the winners of the competition to design the new Le Monde headquarters in the French capital. The winning proposal aligned with the wish of both the client and the French society to counter the terrorist attack with transparency and openness-a wish recently reinforced by the election of Emmanuel Macron as the country's new president. In this presentation, Håvard Vasshaug will show you how the Snøhetta design team used Dynamo software and Revit software to create a glass façade that will communicate transparency in a monumental way-by automating the combination of multiple layers of variations in materials, orientation, placement, size, transparency, and reflectivity, while containing both complexity and cost. The project will be a landmark in Paris. Learn how Dynamo was used at the center of the design.

This class will demonstrate how to explore the Dynamo API through Visual Studio and C#. Learn how to navigate the core libraries, understanding the difference between methods and properties within classes, and how to build simple commands. Much like the Revit API, understanding the application of the Dynamo API can open up further opportunities for future development. Finally, learn about some of the potential use cases of its application and see some real world examples of this.

In this class, we will cover how to accelerate the transition to connected BIM (Building Information Modeling) for infrastructure with improved efficiency and project approvals through an end-to end design approach using InfraWorks software as the aggregator and design data visualizer. We will walk through one of our road projects and demonstrate the data collection solution we’re using in our data flow solution. Our techniques and workflow include high-end existing modeling conditions, road design representations in InfraWorks combined with built-in road and bridge design tools, ArcGIS Data collection and presentation in InfraWorks, Ramboll Risk Management data representation in InfraWorks, BIM 360 as collaboration tool for InfraWorks, InfraWorks data flow for 3ds Max software or Forge in the future, advanced visualization—virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR)—and more. We will expose attendees to leading practices using InfraWorks for data visualization and aggregation, and they will get inspired about how to improve design efficiency and reduce risk on the projects.

Learn how to design drainage network with InfraWorks and how to go forward in design using Civil 3D and Storm and Sanitary Analysis to perform hydraulic simulation.

Today’s AEC industry is accelerating innovation in some areas and lagging behind in others. There’s an opportunity to do better, and it starts here. Join Autodesk leaders, customers, and partners as they share examples of groundbreaking projects that enable rapid industry innovation across design and construction for buildings and infrastructure.

This course details some commonly used workflows that will help the typical AutoCAD Civil 3D software user adopt InfraWorks 360 software for daily uses. You will impress your project managers, partners, and clients with these easy-to-implement workflows that demonstrate the power of InfraWorks 360 software combined with the dynamic AutoCAD Civil 3D software design model. InfraWorks 360 software is a great starting point for civil engineers who are looking to visualize and analyze not only detailed design, but also conceptual proposals—all in the same environment. From geographic information system (GIS) data management to Trimble's SketchUp modeling program, this course is a great introduction for CAD designers looking to expand their skill sets beyond 2D documentation.

You've seen lots of preliminary design with InfraWorks 360. This session will focus on presentation techniques to make your site plan look its best. We'd explore Civil 3D, Revit, and other data sources and how to make the most of each, along with some great options for sharing your brilliance. 

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