Digital Workplaces are evolving—from structured asset handover to real-time operational insight and, insightful operations. In this session, the Tandem team will walk through the next phase of their roadmap, highlighting how Tandem is transforming Digital Workplaces into actionable tools for building owners, operators, and project teams. Learn how recent enhancements are enabling Insightful Operations through curated dashboards, KPI tracking, and system integrations—and what’s coming next to support portfolio-wide optimization. Whether you're delivering a Descriptive Twin or planning for predictive analytics, this session will help you stay ahead of where Digital Workplaces are headed.

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

One of the biggest challenges in is getting disciplines to work together, sharing data and information in real time. Whether technical, organizational, or cultural, silos slow progress, create inefficiencies, and keep teams from reaching their full potential. This panel brings together industry leaders who are actively climbing that mountain. Through candid conversation, they’ll share real-world struggles, setbacks, and the steps they’re taking to reach higher ground. Expect honest insights, bold ideas, and practical strategies to break down barriers, improve communication, and build stronger, more connected teams. If you’re navigating the uphill journey of , this session is your chance to pause, gain perspective, and gather the tools needed to keep moving forward together.

This class provides attendees with a deeper understanding of the Vault Professional, all-grown-up, next-generation web client interface. More than simply a coat of paint, the new, completely redesigned (almost unrecognizable) product delivers a much simpler, cleaner, and more powerful interface for users to consume data. The interface includes a number of important performance improvements that address a long list of user enhancement requests. Attendees will leave with a much better idea of how the new web client can be used in their business to streamline the flow of information out of engineering and design departments into other critical business units, as well as the role that Vault Office software can play in a more complete data management solution within their organization.

This wildly successful franchise is back for a third time at Autodesk University. Meet and have an open discussion with a panel of data management avengers from Autodesk, Inc. Be ready to discuss a number of subjects, and bring your questions for us to discuss and advise. This session features Vault Professional, Vault Basic, and Vault Workgroup. AIA Approved

In this presentation we will discuss how to create and store standard parts (devices) into a library and how to build and store standard configurations of those parts into a catalog of controlled circuits. We will also detail various methods for developing a standard workflow, and we'll look at how to hone in on the most effective methodology using AutoCAD Electrical software. We will give consideration to the incorporation of existing (brownfield) projects, and we will demonstrate how to produce various drawing sets once rendering is complete. You will also learn how to extract a bill of materials from AutoCAD Electrical software and convert it into a standard format ready for exportation into a material ordering system. We will place emphasis on a step-by-step presentation approach, and we will allot time for questions and answers so that audiences will find the presentation useful, regardless of experience with AutoCAD Electrical software.

This lecture will cover planned functionality for Autodesk, Inc.’s, data management software and service, including Vault software. This session features Vault Professional.

Tired of clicking through the same paths several times a day just to get to default directories? Do you want to help yourself and others store files in the proper directories? This class is for you. We discuss the WD.ENV and WD_M files used to initiate the AutoCAD Electrical software environment and provide default paths for various commands. We also touch on templates and shared environments.

This class is set up to cover a complete workflow based on Autodesk, Inc., technology, including process planning over 2D to 3D layout, reality capture, and 4D timeline in virtual factory experience.

Do you want to create professional-looking renderings? In this class you will learn how to convert your 3D AutoCAD software models into finished, photorealistic renderings using tools already built into AutoCAD software. You will learn how to use AutoCAD software's lighting, material, and rendering tools to place and control lights; add and adjust materials and textures; and control the surrounding model environment to produce eye-catching images. You will also discover how to take real-world objects and quickly create custom materials, as well as produce reusable models of light fixtures that behave like real-world lights. You'll learn how to capitalize on the Autodesk 360 cloud-based rendering service to create beautiful renderings quickly and easily, and you'll even discover how to produce rendered animations entirely inside AutoCAD software.

Think you have a large-scale project? This class will show how to use Factory Design Suite software to plan, design, and build manufacturing spaces in excess of 1-million square footage. Learn how to set up a project for multiple users to interact with, how to capitalize on laser scan data, how to import/export building information from Revit software, and techniques for achieving required product performance on large data sets.

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.

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a powerful workflow that's often sold as a massive time savings versus a comparable CAD workflow—but many firms jumping into it see an increase in their project time rather than a decrease. There are a lot of CAD practices that, while very efficient in AutoCAD software-based projects, are a terrible idea to maintain in a Revit software-based project. This class will look at some of those common pitfalls, and examine ways to maintain the intent of that workflow and yet harness the "smart" features of BIM. This class is targeted at smaller to mid-size architectural practices that may not necessarily need, or be ready to have, everything smart and optimized in the offices, but are hoping to see some of the time savings and improved accuracy that BIM promises—and doesn't always deliver.

What is Forge? How does it make a customer more successful? And how does it enhance a BIM 360 environment? We’ll talk about what Forge is, and give examples of where Forge has been extremely successful. We will also discuss Forge futures ~ what is coming next?

Are you looking at implementing Factory Design Suite at your company? Maybe you are in the process of implementing Factory Design Suite, or you tried to implement Factory Design Suite and had some issues. With all of the variables to consider like how many employees will need access, will some need to access while traveling, shared content, creating content, templates, drawing/project properties, etc. it can be overwhelming. This class will allow you to see how others have implemented the Factory Design Suite software, and will give best practices from companies using Factory Design Suite who have implemented it successfully.

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

Ever wondered why Inventor software works the way it does? Ever had a question about a specific workflow or piece of functionality? Now's your chance to interact with senior developers of the Inventor product. Ask "why," "how," or "can" about any aspect of Inventor software. Get technical explanations to your questions that may help you find another way to accomplish your task or understand the reasons for the current functionality. Explain your point of view directly to the people who make Inventor work and who implement changes. This will be a frank 2-way discussion about the hows and whys of Inventor workflows and technical details.

Do you struggle getting syntax correct to write your own code? Don’t know where to start or have the time to learn how to code? The Action Recorder tool in AutoCAD software just might become your new best friend. This feature lets the user record, save, and play back custom macros by simply recording a series of actions as they are completed. In this class, we’ll cover how to use the Action Recorder to automate the creation and editing of geometry, as well as streamline a series of actions to one custom command. Creating and customizing commands will help to reduce repetitive steps and tasks to save time and increase productivity. We’ll also discuss sharing these custom commands and processes with other users to save time as well.

Prefabrication and automation in offsite wood construction requires highly detailed building models while maintaining performance. This puts constraints on both the model creation phase, as well as the output phase. The extracted data, as well as the fabrication process automation data needs to be accessible by all stakeholders - the builders, prefabricators and project managers. By combining Autodesk products and APIs, hsbcad has developed vastly improved workflows for its customers and their stakeholders. This class describes the process that hsbcad - as an AutoCAD, and Revit plugin development company - has gone through in order to become a web development company. We will describe the innovation that Autodesk Forge has triggered at hsbcad; and our evolution from using the Forge Viewer with BIM360 integration, to a full featured web application that uses the Design Automation API for Revit to digest Revit models and link them up with existing hsbcad desktop and cloud functionality.