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.

This class will focus on sharing workflows for integration of Revit software models into preconstruction and construction phases of self-perform work. This class will explain how to model for effective takeoff and shop drawings. We will also discuss communication foundations for training and for sharing the model throughout the project life span, and we’ll provide lessons learned/best practices for these workflows. This session features Revit and AutoCAD. AIA Approved

Modern substation control systems use many intelligent devices that often have multiple communications paths to be managed. Do your protection and control engineers design this or do you have a dedicated telecom team? What software is used for that design? How are your workflows coordinated? Join us and discuss these and more topics related to the use of telecommunications circuits within (and between) electrical substations.

If you've been wondering how to put together a dream team to connect your electrical and mechanical designs and have those connections properly maintained with data management, then this is the class for you. Not only will you learn the electro-mechanical workflow between AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software, but you will also learn how that workflow ties into Vault software.

Review the process of managing users on the Autodesk Account portal, and understanding how to manage their web entitlements and services.

During this class, the attendees will get firsthand experience using Hilti’s new anchor design software: PROFIS Engineering. The instructors will walk the attendees through all the new features and benefits of the software and then demonstrate illustrative design examples. New features include some of the most common applications in structural engineering today: concrete over metal deck module, a masonry module, load engine, base plate analysis, exports to Revit software via BIM and CAD libraries and to Advance Steel software.

To maintain competitive advantage, more and more structural engineers are trying to find a way to capitalize on their Building Information Modeling (BIM) data for steel detailing and fabrication. This class will explore how Advance Steel detailing software is proving to be the missing link that lets structural engineers capitalize on their Revit Structure models for steel detailing and fabrication. You will also learn how to use Connection Vault in Advance Steel to create automated steel connections on structural members imported from Revit software. You will then learn how to create the automated fabrication and erection drawings and NC files. This class will also show how the bidirectional sync between Revit and Advance Steel lets you bring any Revit changes into Advance Steel software or validate Advance Steel models in Revit software.

AutoCAD DWG™ files are widely used in many industries today, and Forge Platform provides REST APIs to unlock the data inside them, or to create new ones. This class will show you how to securely connect Forge Platform to various data-storage services where your DWG files reside. We will demonstrate how to access a database while processing a DWG file, a critical piece for many customers who have embed database keys in their DWG files. This session features Forge and AutoCAD. AIA Approved

Want to learn more about how The Future of Making (or Building) Things can help your AEC or general design practice. Amy Bunszel will take the broad concepts described in the day 1 keynote presentation and contextualize them for your industry. Learn about disruptions you should be looking for and how you can capitalize on them.

How do you tell a story with a rendering? How can a 3D model be transformed into a work of art? Is it the illumination, the camera settings, the props, or the composition that brings a project to life and transforms it from a flat image into an inspiring representation of your architectural project? Whether you are a new AutoCAD® or Revit® software user or a production professional who is looking for a new angle on your projects, this class immerses you in the creative and technical architectural visualization possibilities that are available in Building Design Suite. By learning basic principles of architectural photography and the qualities of great interior and exterior images, you can gain a fresh perspective for producing renderings that will delight and inspire your clients.

In this class participants will learn how to maximize the use of AutoCAD Map 3D software source drawings in a multiuser CAD environment. We will talk about supplying the DWG� geographic information system (GIS) CAD format for users' business needs. We will also cover the process of building source drawings from Oracle Spatial sources, and we'll discuss the distribution of source drawings across a WAN DFS system. Finally, we will cover source drawings and the mobile CAD user.

Cities are growing faster than ever. As a result, urban population growth is dramatically outpacing access to basic services, and municipalities must develop efficient sanitation and waste management solutions. Sanergy has developed an innovative way of efficiently converting sanitation and organic waste into animal feed, using insect-rearing technology. Globally, no industry has previously existed for conversion of waste to animal feed, thus, new processes needed to be designed and integrated with solutions identified in other industries. It required high levels of critical design thinking and innovative process engineering to test and validate the underpinning biology assumptions, and to develop an end-to-end approach that was capable of processing 300 tons of waste per day. The class will take you through the journey to build the first factory of its kind in Africa, covering specifically how Autodesk software (AutoCAD software and Fusion 360 software) helped to solve key engineering and environmental problems.

This class will cover the struggles our CAD/BIM department faced in managing Autodesk products, and how we used batch files to streamline the process. We'll explore batch files that update, configure, and manage AutoCAD software, Revit software, and Dynamo software. Topics include distributing the Revit.ini, resetting the AutoCAD profile, distributing Dynamo to the masses, and much more. By the end of the class, attendees will learn how to create, execute, and apply batch files to everyday CAD/BIM management tasks.

Cloud-based Revit software and AutoCAD software collaboration can mean many things to many people. For some people it means running these applications completely in the cloud. For others, it means running the applications in offices and using the cloud to share the files. Then there’s the ability to have both of these models together. This session will show how users running Revit software or AutoCAD software in the cloud can collaborate on the same Revit models or CAD files at the same time with users in the office. Users in both locations have the same fast performance with sync with central, element borrowing, and Worksharing Monitor with no change in workflow. This session will show a demonstration of users in an office environment collaborating with users in a partner office environment where the applications are running in the cloud.

To maintain a competitive advantage, more and more structural engineers are trying to find a way to capitalize on their Building Information Modeling (BIM) data for steel detailing and fabrication. This class will focus on showing how Advance Steel detailing software is proving to be the missing link that enables structural engineers to capitalize on their Revit Structure software models for steel detailing and fabrication. You will also learn how to use Connection Vault in Advance Steel to create automated steel connections on the structural members imported from Revit software. You will then learn how to create the automated fabrication and erection drawings and NC files. This class will also show how the bidirectional Sync between Revit and Advance Steel enables you to bring any Revit changes into Advance Steel software or validate Advance Steel models in Revit software. This session features Advance Steel, Navisworks Manage, and Revit Structure. AIA Approved

Knowing how to write AutoCAD software add-ins enables us to create new AutoCAD software commands that automate routine tasks, perform complex calculations, or integrate multiple systems to help us be more productive, more precise, and more effective. The use of Microsoft's free community edition of Visual Studio, together with the information presented in this class, will help anyone begin creating AutoCAD software add-ins with C# programming language immediately. This session features AutoCAD. AIA Approved

Have you ever had that user who modified a plotter setting and saved that setting globally for all—and now all of your users can’t plot correctly? This can happen with any customized file you deploy to a network shared location. In this class, we will learn how to take your global settings and customizations and deploy them locally to your users’ computers. We will discuss how to create a hidden network share to act as a master folder to house all of your custom settings. We will review using login scripts so each time a user logs on to their computer, a local copy of the master folder is synchronized per the master folder contents. From there, we will path our AutoCAD software options to our local folder locations and create a master profile for AutoCAD products. Finally, we will review how easy it can be to reset your CAD profile to your original deployed state. If you have users who like to change settings and then ask you why things aren’t working, this class is for you.

Learn how to best adopt Autodesk's Point Layout plug-in for Revit software, AutoCAD software, and BIM 360 software. Hear about a general contractor's lessons learned from using the software and difficulties that arise out in the field-from working with civil engineer's files to working with several different robotic total stations on one site. Attendees will learn how to create a proper workflow using naming and numbering standards set forth by the field, and how to ensure a streamlined approach for importing and exporting points to their robotic total stations. We'll explore how to work with real-world coordinates as well as create our own, and we'll look at the best way to track the coordinate system across a project's lifecycle. We'll also learn how to approach difficult projects that encompass large sites, and how to maintain vertical control on high-rise projects.

Join a roundtable discussion on the challenges and solutions for managing CAD standards. Engage in a discussion on how we are, how we could, and how we should be managing block libraries, line styles, and templates—both internally and between organizations. We will delve into technologies currently on offer, from AutoCAD software standard functionalities to Vault software, Buzzsaw software, Network shares, and third-party technology, and we’ll explore the options around custom development. This session features AutoCAD and Vault Professional.

This class will address the challenges many businesses face when deciding to make the transition from a traditional 2D AutoCAD software environment to a 3D modeling platform, such as Inventor software or Revit software. We will examine the factors that go into making decisions regarding when to begin and planning on how to make a smooth transition that minimizes disruptions in business activity, while maximizing the productivity advantages 3D modeling and documentation provide. We will also review some of the difficulties (specifically related to personnel) that await transitioning companies. The presentation will bring real-world insight from the presenter’s experience in a 2D/3D implementation of Inventor software in an electric utility manufacturing and supply company. The class will conclude with a question and answer session.