Digital twins offer operational insight, yet their value is often unrealized when data remains disconnected from daily operational workflows. Asset models exist, but maintenance decisions, cost analysis, and ticket creation still happen in separate systems, limiting adoption and measurable ROI. This session will explore how integrating Autodesk Tandem with maintenance operations transforms digital twins into practical decision-making tools. We'll show how you can calculate maintenance ROI by correlating maintenance costs, downtime, and potential fault costs using AI, and how these insights accelerate maintenance ticket creation and support predictive, data-driven strategies.

Curious about how to link your schematics in AutoCAD Electrical software to your models in Inventor software? Get an understanding of the functionality that links these two programs together. This session will cover the key elements you'll need to know to bridge your design between AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor.

Unwanted vibration can lead to equipment failure, structural fatigue, and costly downtime. In this technical deep dive, we'll walk through a practical modal and frequency-response workflow in Inventor Nastran software using a fully generic vibrating‑machine model. You'll learn how to identify natural frequencies, interpret resonance behavior, tune stiffness, shift critical modes, and validate safe operating ranges. This session will deliver a repeatable, production-ready simulation workflow for engineers working with vibrating systems across mining, manufacturing, and machinery design.

Join this session as Dan Szymanski shares the development roadmap and product strategy for Inventor Professional software. Dan will cover recent and planned functionality that will add value to everyday workflow needs. We encourage you to engage the Inventor product team members with questions and feedback during and after the session.

Change a few parameters and watch your Inventor model reconfigure itself! Configuration is the dream! However, applying configurations to some models can be migraine-inducing. Let's start with assemblies built for configuration. In this hands-on lab, you'll experience assemblies prepared for configuration from the beginning. Through guided exercises, you'll explore model-building best practices for configuration with Inventor iLogic. You'll experience driving top-down design changes, adding and removing components, and learning how to incorporate Model States and iLogic. You'll leave with an understanding of model configuration best practices, including checklists and guidance to apply to your own configuration projects.

If you have any queries regarding the functionality and operation of Vault software, or if you would like to learn more about a specific feature, this session will offer an excellent opportunity to engage with the Vault team. The team comprises both the engineering and the product management teams, and they will provide candid and insightful responses to any inquiries you may have about Vault.

Sit down with the Inventor product team and discuss your most-pressing issues, concerns, and questions about Inventor. Many Inventor team members will be available to answer your questions. What are the best practices for maximizing your Inventor use? How are Inventor projects prioritized and chosen for each release? Where is Inventor going in the near future? AI, Model States, Drawings, Sheet Metal, Autodesk Fusion versus Inventor all your favorite topics will be open for discussion.

University College London at Here East, a new manufacturing center in east London opened in 2018, hosts a new master’s degree in design for manufacture uniquely within a school of architecture. Equipped with industrial robots, computer numerical control (CNC) milling and turning machines for fabrication and structural frames, large-scale metrology, and climate chambers for testing, UCL at Here East strives to cultivate an environment with students at the interface between a design studio and the point of industrial production. How might the well-established methods for manufacturing in automotive and aerospace be used in construction? This session will present an educator’s approach of “model-make-measure,” showing how the course connects students with the properties of materials used to construct buildings and the fabrication processes these materials undergo existing as nominal digital design intent. Examples will show how this approach has suggested novel design outcomes and ways of working, offering skills transferrable to the construction industry.

International TechneGroup (ITI) is expert in CAD data interoperability, and the firm has partnered with Autodesk in order to help CAD users convert CAD data into Inventor software through an automated and accurate process. Specific market trends drive companies to change their CAD systems to Inventor software. Design teams may have invested years of effort and large amounts of resources into these legacy CAD designs; therefore, changing CAD systems and migrating valuable CAD data can be a painful process. Stakeholders’ biggest concerns when moving CAD data to Inventor include preserving intellectual properties, such as design intelligence, parametrics, and features. Join us to learn about the drivers and technology behind CAD conversion with GoToINVENTOR, a partnership between ITI and Autodesk. As well as explaining the technology behind automated CAD conversion, we will introduce you to GoToINVENTOR and show you how we can support your CAD conversion project in a fully automated process.

Often times, we hear from users that they don't really understand how to get started with Generative Design in Fusion 360. Questions like these regularly come up: What types of problems is it good for? What knowledge do I need to get started? How do I get access? How much will it cost? We would like to take this opportunity to help set up a strong foundation for how best to get started with Generative Design in Fusion 360. We will provide answers to these questions and many more during this session. You should expect to leave this session with a clear understanding of how to put Generative Design into action on your first project.

In order to streamline design-to-manufacturing workflows, there is a dire need to simulate anything. The Fusion 360 and Ansys relationship is getting stronger and deeper, which means more power to the users. With Fusion Simulation software, you can do a variety of analyses like linear and e-cooling. With Ansys Simulation you can simulate virtually any analysis type. Generative design outcomes can be validated with advanced analyses such as transient, nonlinear, fatigue, and random vibration, to name a few, in Ansys. This technology will enable users to do design in Fusion 360 and simulation in Ansys. Fusion Simulation setups can be packaged into neutral files and pushed to Ansys Mechanical and Discovery on the same or a different computer enabling designer-designer and designer-analyst workflows.

Client relationships are the very foundation on which great businesses are built and maintained. While major corporations like HP and Lockheed have famous brands and hundreds of account managers who specialize in dealing with clients, small businesses have to take a much more direct approach. Whether you are the owner of a sole proprietorship, the head of a growing firm, or a project manager working in a small company, communicating with your client is the most important skill you can develop. Join us in a discussion to bring out the common, everyday difficulties that your peers face. Learn how to build solid relationships and create open communication with your client. Also, learn how to repair client relationships that may have gone awry. Whatever your title, role, or goal, this discussion can help you relate to your clients and open the communication that is necessary to transform clients into advocates.

With so many different software products installed with Factory Design Suite, it is hard for a user to know where to start. This class demonstrates the entire workflow of Factory Design Suite. We cover how to use Autodesk® 360 cloud service to quickly get 2D layout data from a sales engineer at a client site and return a completed 3D layout that is in sync with the 2D layout. We cover, in detail, new Revit®-based software interoperability that enables data to be transferred to Inventor® software for completion of factory layouts from concept to finish.

Autodesk added more iLogic snippets in the latest version of Inventor software to make drawing automation easier. This class will teach you how to prepare 3D models to easily automate the creation of drawings. Learn how to use the new iLogic snippets to automate different annotations such as dimensions, leaders, balloons, and more. In addition, you will discover when you should go beyond drawing automation capabilities with iLogic, and start using the Inventor API in this process. Finally, you will identify the right approach to automate your Inventor drawings.

If you are working with AutoCAD Mechanical software and want to know the precision tools for increasing efficiency and productivity through custom bill of materials and parts lists, then you will benefit from this class. In this interactive session, we will look at the things that make you think smartly with AutoCAD Mechanical software’s Bill of Materials. Avoid any challenges to procure and manage your lead time. Join us to see the intuitive tool that can help to build an effective CAD environment. This session features AutoCAD Mechanical and AutoCAD.

Save time. Increase efficiency. Save money. Although AutoCAD software, especially AutoCAD Mechanical software, ships with over half a million standard parts and features, a specific item you require may not exist. For example, GOST steel shapes and piping parts. There are other cases where you need a variation of an existing standard part. For example, a steel shape with a hole in a specific place. In all such scenarios, AutoCAD Mechanical software provides the ability to build your own content and store it in custom content libraries, which you can share across different teams and co-workers. The class aims to show you how to use the Content Manager in AutoCAD Mechanical software to build custom content.

Are you working with AutoCAD software but wish you had more tools designed specifically for manufacturing? Are you using the Autodesk® Product Design Suite but wonder what this included thing called AutoCAD® Mechanical is for? Ever wished you could take experienced AutoCAD users and use their skills to detail your Inventor® software 3D models? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the class for you. In this fast-paced, rapid-fire class, we look at the things that make AutoCAD Mechanical software special. We explore why you should be using it for your mechanical and manufacturing design and detailing, including examining the built-in calculators, component library, detailing and annotation tools, defining structure, and the other nuts and bolts contained within.

More and more companies are moving to a configure-to-order approach, making their products modular and configurable. Where in the past each customer order was designed separately, with a product configurator, every order is compiled from existing modules. The automated output of the configured product (quote, visuals, Bill of Materials) can be used in the downstream processes. This means a significant reduction in the turnaround time for lengthy processes such as quoting, planning, and engineering. The Forge platform offers with the Design Automation API for Inventor software a technology to build a web-based configurator, automating BOM, pricing, and 3D-visualization delivery. Besides that, Fusion Lifecycle software offers the perfect platform for managing the business-wide workflows, like the management of downstream engineering, sales, and change processes. In this class, we will show you an example of how to build and combine these technologies to get an integrated process.

Fusion Simulation software offers a rich set of analysis types to simulate real-world problems. Whether it’s simple static stress, optimizing a shape to reduce weight, or simulating a bird hitting an airplane, it’s all there. One of the biggest challenges is setting up the simulation properly so the results are reasonable. Interpretation of results to selecting the best alternative for manufacturing is another challenge. While demystifying simulation with tips and tricks from community forums, we will also highlight the pitfalls one needs to avoid. Collaboration and knowledge sharing are key to mastering simulation tools.

This class will look at how Alias software and VRED software enable the design and visualization of heavy machinery and equipment.