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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

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.

23p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Breaking Down Silos in

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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings

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.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Process-Based Digital Twin for Industrialized Construction Efficiencies

Industrialized construction is becoming more important than ever, considering current housing shortages and a decline in skilled labor. Optimizing factory processes is thus essential for productivity; however, changes to lines can be both expensive and disruptive. In this presentation we will demonstrate how a process-based digital twin can help to analyze and optimize a factory. First, a factory information model is created using discrete event simulation and virtual reality. This model is then updated using a variety of sensors that can measure baseline performance. Together, the model and sensors produce a digital twin of a factory that serves as a virtual test bed for evaluating the manufacturing process and optimizing factory layout and resource allocation to mitigate any adverse effects. We’ll share preliminary results from an ongoing project to integrate energy efficiency technologies into modular buildings with little or no additional lead time and first cost.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2016

See What You Want to See in Revit 2017

Using View Filters inside of Revit software will enable you to control both the visibility and graphics of the elements included in the filter. Filters can either be created from a conditional format or from a selection set. Once filters are created, knowing how to assign them in View Templates and assign View Templates to views are the keys to creating standardization in your projects. We will discuss both new and old features of View Filters and View Templates that can help you control your graphics and visibility. This session features Revit. AIA Approved

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2015

Behind the Face—Tips and Tricks in AutoCAD Plant 3D

You can more do than you think! The configuration of AutoCAD Plant 3D software will not even done via user interface but also with databases, XML files, and other files. In this hands-on class you’ll learn some tips and tricks for how to configure your project, your spec, and your model to your needs. Sometimes you think that some stuff is not possible—but maybe it is. Learn some interesting insights into AutoCAD Plant 3D software.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

Building Your First IoT Project Business Case

Is your company ready for a connected products solution? Where are you on your connected product journey? Do you have some definition around what the Internet of Things can do for you and your business? Regardless of where you are in your journey, this class is designed to provide you with some real-world examples of what a successful connected-product business looks like, and how you can start to develop a business case for your own implementation. From identifying design improvements, post-sales support, and spares management business, through to advanced system monitoring services and products as a service, we look to identify your potential return on investment and phased approaches to your ultimate goal. This session features SeeControl (now Fusion Connect) and Fusion Connect.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2016

Dynamo for Revit—Exploring the Data Between the Links

We’ve all heard a lot lately about the Dynamo extension and Revit software. We can’t read a blog or go to a conference without someone mentioning this new and exciting tool. We’ve been told it can help us with geometry. We’ve been told it can speed up repetitive tasks. Come see some practical uses of the Dynamo extension and how it can expand the data in your model. Take a look at how we can use it to pass information between linked files, talk to Microsoft Excel, and finally automate those day-to-day tasks. This session features Revit. AIA Approved

Hands-on Lab / Virtual 2020

From Design to Construction: The New Era of Cloud-Connected Data

In the early days of CAD, we made 2D creations of designs. Then came the era of creating models in 3D. Now, the next phase is connected BIM (Building Information Modeling). This era is about building applications and solutions that connect a community of people to a project or product, and to the new means of production. In this era, you can optimize a design not only for how it functions, but for how it is built and interconnects with other systems, as well as in the cloud. This class will showcase how users can utilize the power of the cloud using Revit software and BIM 360 software. It will also showcase how the users can customize the information present in BIM 360 using Forge and how they can make their own customized apps.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2014

Building a Good Foundation with Revit Templates

Templates are the foundation of any project. Revit software offers a number of features that make it important to maintain a solid company or project template, helping to produce high-quality, consistent documents and data. There are many different ways to set up a template and every company has its own twist. In this round-table discussion we will talk about the different viewpoints regarding template construction, and we'll investigate what may work most effectively for you in your environment.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019

Implementing BIM 360 Docs to Support the New ISO 19650 Series of Standards Using BIM

The ISO 19650 series contains the latest industry standards and best practices for the management and collaborative production of information using Building Information Modeling (BIM) applying a shared repository, known as a common data environment (CDE). Enabling technologies are needed to achieve the functional and nonfunctional requirements of a CDE and support the activities within the information management process. To ensure Autodesk customers have the technology they need, Autodesk engaged a leading authority on information management when using BIM and the author of ISO 19650-2 to assess BIM 360 Docs software. The outcomes of the review included product enhancements and a recommended configuration to support the adoption of the ISO 19650 series. This class will cover the outcomes of the review process and provide an introduction to the ISO 19650 family of standards with a road map of future developments.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Heuristic Method of Teaching CGI

A typical approach to teaching computer-generated imagery (CGI) is through lectures and a series of homework, then reviewed by teachers. This approach is highly ineffective, requiring additional educational materials and help from teachers during all practical exercises. The most effective learning method is through in-class training with a teacher’s guidance. Meanwhile, using old teaching methods leads to a longer and steeper learning curve, and to an inability to solve practical problems during everyday work. In this lesson, we will tell you about a new approach to teaching CGI based on the Heuristic teaching model. We will reveal how to build a training system that empowers students to learn from zero all stages of photoreal rendering creation in 23 days. As a result of that training program, students learn to create a room 3D project in six hours.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017

Dynamo Studio Model Information Analysis for Construction Builders

This class will cover basic use of Dynamo software with Revit software for model information analysis when starting from scratch. The workflow that we'll use can help you understand in a practical way how to analyze your model information. Revit models hold a lot of information and a lot of ways to change it. The practice of modifying everything is also the weak point for construction, cost, and management. Fortunately, Dynamo can help us to review the information, check that everything is coherent with the construction needs, and have some filters that can assure model quality. We'll cover basic Dynamo topics, such as selection, extraction, and lists, and we'll link with Microsoft Excel documents, sort, group, extract and insert parameters, and visualize them on the model. And we'll review some Dynamo examples of scripts used for some projects.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Accelerated Clash Coordination and MEP Modeling with Dynamo Player

Clash coordination can be quite exhausting while implementing a BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflow in an established CAD environment where the BIM application only appears prior to construction and none of its benefits are used in the project development. In this class, we’ll learn about coordination methods that can improve the understanding of scopes, workflows, and clash coordination while the project is developing, and how BIM benefits would make a greater impact on the project. We’ll integrate Navisworks Clash Detection methods with Dynamo for clash coordination in early phases by a hierarchical breakdown, and use again the Dynamo Player to remodel or accelerate the clash coordination. Finally, we’ll use Dynamo Player to review engineering functionality for pipes, ducts, and conduit elements so that information is accurate using some custom-made scripts. We’ll review some samples used in some projects, and discover how to extract CAD lines to create Revit MEP elements.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2017

Flexible Families: Learn to Make Your Families Stretch and Flex Like Never Before

Have you ever created a parametric Revit family and wanted to have more control of the shape handles? Have you wanted to see the grip handles in 3D, control their visibility, or even control where they're located within the family? Are you tired of seeing what seems like hundreds of reference planes? This hands-on lab will teach you built-in Revit methods that let your Revit families flex like never before. Multiple, positionable 3D grip handles for sliding doors, grip handles that are formula drivers, and grip handles with visibility are just a couple of the examples we'll cover in this lab. So let's have some fun by giving the infamous reference plane a little bit of a break, and get our hands dirty with awesome stretch methods that have been hiding in the Revit Family Editor all along!

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Empowering a Paradigm Shift: MicroStation to Civil 3D

Moving from a MicroStation to a Civil 3D platform is a shift. We will review the data presented to senior leadership, arming them with information to make the switch. Not all projects are equal; hence, we will discuss the types of projects that are suitable for the change. Equally, teaching data management, BIM principles, and Civil 3D is key to a successful platform migration. We will cover the pedagogical theory and techniques used to empower users with new skills. We will consider key strategies to facilitate this shift across different offices in the United States. Data is central to a Civil 3D project. We will examine the data management tools and techniques used to make the learning curve less steep. This will include types of data that are typically necessary for a design project with Civil 3D. In this talk, we will consider how data was created, managed, and shared in Civil 3D 2019/20. Finally, we will review a few technical and non-technical challenges encountered while making the shift.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018

Representing MEP Systems as Graph Data for Rapid Simulation and Analysis

In this class, we will consider how mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems can be designed from end to end as graph data. We'll see how the graph can connect all parts of the system, including spaces and walls, as well as conventional MEP elements. We'll also go through how the graph can expand to encompass complexity at each stage of the design—from initial conception to design development and, finally, to use. We'll go through an example application of MEP graph data using Revit software, Azure, and the Forge platform. With this application, we’ll see how other algorithms can use graph data for rapid simulation and analysis.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2017

AutoCAD Support Clinic

In this class, a panel of Autodesk experts will share productivity tips and tricks, and answer audience questions about real-time challenges. If you're currently battling a problem at your office, this is the class to attend for expert advice. The class will start with a brief presentation to introduce the support organization, the speakers, and the current customer support options. Before the class, attendees will be able to submit questions online, so that the experts can research and provide dependable answers. There will also be dedicated time for attendees to ask questions that were not submitted beforehand. A computer will be set up in the class with AutoCAD 2018 software for any attendees who need to demonstrate their problems. Panel experts include members of the Technical Support, Quality Assurance, and Licensing Teams.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Facility Management Data: Tracking and Reporting Simplified Using Forge

Traditionally, facility data was managed using paper drawings and post-it notes. The process then evolved to include CAD software like AutoCAD software and static spreadsheets. In today’s world, collaboration over the web has become commonplace. In this class, we will demonstrate how easy is it to publish drawings from multiple disciplines into a single intelligent model making it available for collaboration. Once published, the drawing is then sent to the Forge server where it is converted to a viewable file format. This file is then combined with the live data from the database to create an intelligent resource. Next we will demonstrate how changes made in an AutoCAD drawing can be republished and viewed using the Forge Viewer in faciliCAD Web Manager. Live data enables real-time collaboration. Last, we will show how changes made in the database information show instantly without the need to republish the drawing.

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