The Content Center is an invaluable Inventor tool primarily used to store standard components and drive design accelerators, such as Frame Generator, Tube and Pipe, and Bolted Connections. Due to the Content Center database structure, there are several advantages for product design and data manipulation. One advantage is to replace large iPart tables with Content Center families. Simply publishing these large families to a custom Content Center Library will greatly reduce the amount of time required to place and modify these components versus placing them via the iPart table. We’ll also explore customization techniques offered in the Family table, but particularly via the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet linking. Editing Family tables within Excel unleashes all the power the spreadsheet tools have to offer, simplifying data coordination. Finally, we’ll use iLogic to extend the data within the Family table to solve the vexing problem of automatically establishing part numbers for Tube and Pipe Conduit parts.

When the COVID-19 outbreak began, makers across the globe came together to help fill the shortfall in supply chains and provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline workers by harnessing the power of a localized collective factory of 3D printers. At Warwick University we also sprang into action to help fight the virus. Large-scale additive manufacturing (LSAM) is a technology similar to that used in hobbyist desktop 3D printers. However, it generally has much bigger build platforms, larger nozzle diameters, and higher volumetric flow rates. This means it can be used as a rapid-response bridge manufacturing from 3D printing to injection molding. Using Fusion 360 software’s parameter tables, the speaker was able to generate a design that could be easily changed based on the printer setup, and be optimized for the faster printing times. In just three design iterations we went from 10 minutes to just 3.5 minutes.

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is one of the most predominantly used additive manufacturing (AM) technologies today, producing functional metallic parts in several industries such as aerospace, medical, and automotive. As an emerging and complex technology, the manufacturing design guidelines and rules of LPBF along with its impact on sustainability are not well understood. This session builds off design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) principles as they apply to specific process parameters and machine dynamics defined in LPBF. These include recoater blade interference, support structure, and part distortion. This session also provides insight into the impact of AM on sustainability, as well as highlighting key design considerations to improving the implications on sustainability. With these considerations in mind, the session will explore how a user can implement design variables into their workflow using Autodesk Netfabb and its Simulation Utility.

This class shows how after you create an electrical design in AutoCAD® Utility Design software, you also need to create a single-line circuit design using dynamic blocks and linetypes to provide visual connectivity for utility crews to use while installing the equipment associated with the design. A single-line drawing provides the best detail in the energizing/installation process at the equipment level and shows connectivity all the way back to the substation. When an overhead pole is designed with TV/telephone/primary/secondary, you can create the service risers attached to the pole using riser details and dynamically place them in the model space design. These features save time by enabling crews to know in which quadrant the customer or crews are to install the risers.

Do you find yourself behind on design projects? Do you want to better familiarize yourself with AutoCAD software to improve your efficiency? In this class, we’ll discuss how to manipulate settings and options to improve speed. We’ll discuss how to set up drawings using Xrefs and utilizing paper space and model space. We’ll also look at how layer commands and object display settings can reduce clutter in your drawings to make it easier to manipulate drawing components. This class will help you become more familiar with some of the options in AutoCAD, and help you take that next step in your career using the many tools AutoCAD has to offer.

This class will explore the design process, the collaboration, and the data flows of a cloud-based instrumentation and electrical design project. The class will also review the advantages of cloud-based technology for this purpose, and we will provide hands-on interaction with a cloud project, so bring your Internet-ready laptop to the class. We will also cover the design and data flows between a synchronized AutoCAD P&ID software project and a cloud instrumentation and electrical project, and we will review the integration with AutoCAD software products required at the client end of the cloud-based project. The class will also have an overall focus of creating, modifying, and generating instrumentation and electrical deliverables such as loop diagrams, junction-box wiring diagrams, hookups, datasheets, and reports.

We'll explore the challenges and strategic solutions associated with our company's shift from SolidWorks software to Inventor software, as well as our simultaneous implementation of Vault software. This transition involved overcoming substantial technical and operational hurdles. We'll provide insights into the specific issues we faced during the integration process, such as legacy data compatibility, custom property migration, and user adoption. And then we'll share how we addressed these issues in order to achieve the company's goal of 10% year-on-year growth.

This case study will explore the first-ever commercial drone operations permitted within the rim of the Grand Canyon, and how the imagery captured was used to inform a critical water infrastructure project. Grand Canyon National Park, in Northern Arizona, is considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world. It encompasses an impressive 278 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands and averages more than 10 miles wide. To support work to modernize the Grand Canyon Water System—which serves thousands of residents and millions of annual visitors—we used drones, surveying, and LiDAR technology to acquire high-resolution orthomosaic images and point clouds. In this digital transformation success story, we also employed Autodesk tools such as AutoCAD Civil, ReCap, Revit, and other Autodesk products.

Most extended reality (XR) applications rely on handheld controllers or hand-tracking technology to interact with virtual content. Interactions such as "pointing," "selecting," or "touching" objects in virtual reality (VR) are typical use cases. Sometimes these input methods can be cumbersome for inexperienced VR users to work with, leading to frustration, extended training/setup time, or missed opportunities. Learn how the VRED API—along with its integrated web server and Varjo Marker tracking—can be used to enable intuitive methods of input by using your smartphone as the input device.

Join us for a hands-on lab session at AU, where we aim to break down obstacles within the manufacturing and construction industry. Our focus will be on reducing rework in product and design decisions, resulting in more-efficient production processes. In this class, we'll explore how Autodesk's Informed Design tools can help minimize errors and enhance processes. We'll emphasize promoting cohesive work between design and supply chain teams. You will put these tools to the test in product design, building design, and manufacturing output. We'll also welcome your feedback on usability and efficacy. By participating, you'll gain insights into new workflows and uncover possible processes that use Autodesk's Informed Design software. Our objective is to ascertain what you, the user, find valuable, and how we can help eliminate industry silos.

Before attending this class, we recommend visiting and participating in the Autodesk Factory Experience on the exhibition floor. Prototyping while developing a new product design is critical to ensure delivery of higher-quality parts to market. This step in the product design cycle is, however, typically time-consuming and costly through iterating and purchasing/making individual parts. This is why many product designers have already turned primarily to digital prototyping rather than physical prototyping, so they can ensure on-time product delivery that doesn't break the bank. This class will focus on how you can utilize Fusion 360 and its extensions for digital prototyping, focusing on an Autodesk Factory assembly product. Consumer electronics is a fast-moving segment, where time and collaboration is critical to be ahead of the competition. We'll demonstrate how to effectively experiment with product design alternatives, collaborate with key project stakeholders, test layouts for PCB, simulate structural and manufacturing aspects, and render final product previews, all within Fusion 360.

Sustainable manufacturing is rapidly becoming imperative for the success of our business and products. Despite supply-line shortages, increased material and energy costs, environmental impact, and consumer expectations, we see a resistance to change and innovation around sustainability within the larger manufacturing industry. This roundtable will discuss technologies and processes that leading manufacturers and innovators are using for sustainable design and manufacturing, and how to promote and incentivize them within a company and on a global scale. We will share the outcomes of this discussion with you to help you overcome these barriers upon returning to your organization.

In this session, you'll see how you can maximize innovative VRED, Alias, and Shotgun workflows and tools for your industrial design processes and workflows. Realize the power of the connected solution and see how the software can help you streamline workflows and improve efficiencies. Understand how you can take best practices from automotive design and apply them to the industrial design process.

Do you want to understand how your portfolio of projects are performing hosted on BIM 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud? Would you like to maximum the value of your Autodesk analytics investment? This case study will cover a data product design developed by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and Autodesk Consulting. We will give an overview of Disney's business requirements, KPIs, and metrics. We will list technical aspects of the data ELT (extracting, loading, and transforming) from Autodesk Data Connector. An area of focus will be the data engineering processes required to produce meaningful consolidated tables, where data from the Data Connector is sliced and diced to target customers' KPIs. The final products include an account users' management tool and three health-scoring systems, which are used to compare projects' health scores based on customized metrics. The products transform raw data into actionable insights that inform tactical business decisions. The scores generated equip Disney with detailed intelligence about the state of business.

Since 80% of carbon is already locked into a product by the decisions made at the design phase, making good design and manufacturing choices is key to producing products with lower carbon impact. However, today, designers and engineers lack the data and tools to inform their design and manufacturing decisions, all while new and upcoming regulations are forcing designers and manufacturers to produce their products in more-sustainable ways. To tackle this issue, this talk will introduce Autodesk's new Manufacturing Sustainability Insights tool. Created in partnership with Gravity Climate, this interactive manufacturing-impact exploration tool for Autodesk Fusion 360 will provide users with valuable insights into the carbon emissions associated with producing their designs via various manufacturing methods, enabling users to make better informed decisions that support sustainable manufacturing practices, resulting in better products for the planet.

Wahoo Fitness chose Upchain cloud PDM/PLM solution to speed up their time to production. This session will cover the decision making process for selecting Upchain, challenges and solutions for go-live implementation, working closely with the Upchain (Autodesk) team to adjust,t weak, and improve workflows and processes for efficient integration of the hardware engineering team. We will also cover how the system was expanded to benefit the wider product management, quality, and non technical teams for ensuring everyone can access the required information.

Autodesk plays a major role in the digital transformation throughout several industries. With the combination of our Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, multidisciplinary project contributors can better collaborate to plan, design, validate, build, and operate buildings and factories. Integrated factory modeling combines building information modeling (BIM) and digital factory layout planning to generate a digital representation of production facilities and equipment. You can also use the final data in the operational phase as a digital twin, with insights and simulations of sensors for cost reduction and enhanced sustainability of all facilities. Experience the exchange of an intelligent model with mechanical engineering content and the digital factory. Do you understand the possibilities and advantages when exchanging data throughout the different solutions? Use Autodesk's different platforms Autodesk Construction Cloud and Autodesk Manufacturing Informed Design, and learn about the advantages of our possibilities for digital twins.

Join us for an in-depth session focused on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) project. The ELT is a revolutionary ground-based telescope with a 39-metre primary mirror and will be the largest telescope in the world – the World's Biggest Eye on the Sky. This will revolutionize our understanding of the universe, and we are delighted that Gerd Jakob, Head of the Mechanical Engineering department, is sharing his valuable insights with us. We will focus on people, processes and data by understanding the roles and contributions of the diverse team involved in the ELT project. We will give you an overview of the (technical) processes and methods used in the ELT project, as well as the innovative solutions and technologies used to overcome project hurdles. In addition, we will discuss the role of data in the planning, construction and operation of the ELT. There will also be an opportunity for you to ask questions.

Times have changed, and the next generation of project owners has arrived. Modern owners demand more than just on-time and under-budget delivery; they seek innovative technology on their sites, like drones and advanced digital tools. These tech-savvy owners prefer a hands-on approach, requiring sophisticated delivery and handover methods. At Burns & McDonnell, we've embraced these challenges, leading to successful projects across various sectors. Our session will share insights from these experiences, and provide strategies to manage innovative demands effectively without compromising margins. Join us to enhance your confidence for your next modern project engagement.

Unleash your architectural designs' potential with Autodesk Fusion software. This course will explore the powerful features of Fusion , with a key focus on detailing work. Through hands-on exercises and real-world examples, learn how to create precise architectural components and optimize your workflow. This course is perfect for Fusion beginners or those looking to refine their skills. Join us to take your design process to the next level.