The traditional method of building walls using studs is labor and time intensive, and results in a fundamentally flawed product, with a substantial percentage of the wall being thermally and acoustically bridged. BamCore has developed a wood-bamboo hybrid panel that is structural and load bearing. It enables the firm to build walls from panels that are prefabbed to customer specifications. It eliminates 80-90% of the internal framing, along with the thermal and acoustic bridges that framing creates in traditional walls. It also reduces the need for hard-to-find job-site labor. This class will cover the design steps we use, CAD-CAM workflows, the marking of MEP locations, and our job-site app, providing a comprehensive view of our industrialized construction processes. We will also talk about the tremendous sustainability of the BamCore system, which comes both from the use of incredibly fast-growing timber bamboo and also the dramatically improved thermal envelopes that our walls provide.

From quoting a workpiece, thru programming in CAM and operating on a CNC machine tool, to finished workpiece

This session will present the many changes we've made to our Vault and Inventor systems in order to accommodate the different requirements of a product-based design and manufacturing environment as opposed to a project-based one. Making this change has seen a reduction in the engineering support the manufacturing team requires, which in turn allows the engineering team to come up with new ideas for more products. Increased reuse of assemblies and reconfiguration of systems have led to new opportunities for sales while building on the established experience base. The ways in which we have moved to simplify procedures, reuse models, manage our data, and track OEM use are definitely scalable both up and down, therefore allowing everyone to take advantage of the changes we've made. This was a long process for us, and we'd like to share our experience and potentially help you prevent some of the headaches we encountered along the way.

Discover how Automatic Systems, Inc.—a frontrunner in the automotive and industrial machinery sectors—has transformed its operations with the power of data and process management strategies using product lifecycle management (PLM). This presentation will take you through the company's transformative journey, highlighting how it's moved from time-consuming manual tasks and disconnected business systems to an integrated ecosystem with connected data management, PLM, and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Learn how the company has achieved greater efficiencies by ensuring up-to-date data and visibility across departments. Through the company's experiences, you'll gain key insights and considerations for your own digital transformation journey. Learn how your business can emulate Automatic Systems' success, using connected data and processes to drive innovation and efficiency. This session is part of the PLM Summit, a dedicated learning pathway and networking experience on Tuesday, October 15. To see all related sessions select the "PLM Summit" track filter. To request attendance at the private luncheon and reception, please email plmsummitau@autodesk.com.

You've seen how iLogic automation can tame tedious and error-prone tasks and make you and your fellow Inventor users more efficient. Now it's time to explore some of the often-overlooked tips, tricks, and tools that can assist you as an Inventor automation developer. Are you still using message boxes to debug? Would you like to learn a better way? Would you like to better understand how to navigate Inventor software's API? Would you like to present your iLogic rules as buttons on the ribbon menu? Join me and other Inventor automation-focused users like you to explore these productivity-enhancing tips and tricks.

Substance support in VRED software lets you use Substance Source—and especially the Substance Source automotive selection within VRED—saving a tremendous amount of time and using very high-quality texturing (up to 8K). And the Substance Source automotive selection consists of more than 700 materials dedicated to automotive design, including car paints, wood, carbon fiber, and more. Bringing a full car model’s exterior and interior to life and making it look great in no time has never been easier. This class will give an overview of Adobe’s Substance Source library, which was created with industrial designers and color and trim designers in mind.

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.

Prefabrication and automation in offsite construction requires building models to be rich in data. The generation of construction drawings, creation of a bill of materials and the application of fabricated information is required in the model. In wood construction for example, it requires modeling of accurate processing (precutting) and assembly of prefabricated items including tooling (e.g. nailing and milling operations). All this, including derived data in the form of CNC files, shop drawings, etc., needs to be accessible by all stakeholders - the builders, prefabricators and project managers. By combining Autodesk products and APIs, hsbcad has developed improved workflows to create and modify rich model content. Revit content is able to enrich cloud based BIM that drives CNC equipment and improves on site processes. This leads to increased efficiency and cost control for the complete construction process.Joint AU/Forge DevCon class

This class provides not only the techniques but the actual working methods and workflows that are used by the top performers in the woodworking and fabrication industry. Software and processes exist that, when working properly together, can perform the tedious steps in a fraction of the time. This class focuses on the how-to, and provides actual workflows that are not out-of-the-box. Learn about unique construction procedures that use the latest versions of AutoCAD® software, Revit®-based software, Inventor® software, and computer-aided manufacturing tools (CAM). Through demonstration and lecture, the class presents methods for the wood trades—tasks that usually take days for architects, designers, engineers, fabricators, and model makers to complete can be cut down to hours. Also using the latest tools in solid-assembly modeling and woodworking-specific feature-recognition technology, we demonstrate how to get from a completely assembled 3D model to machine-ready, nested, NC code with almost no user intervention (controlling machinery).

Airport design necessitates collaboration between numerous teams with a wide range of skill sets generally coming from various locations. This requires well-established strategies and methodical use of tools and technologies for a successful delivery of a large-scale project. This session will present strategies for utilizing cloud collaboration tools such as Collaboration for Revit, BIM 360 Team and Fusion Team (formerly A360 Team), BIM 360 Glue software, and BIM 360 Docs software in order to help teams communicate and collaborate effectively in delivering a complex project. We will showcase San Francisco's $2.4 billion International Airport project as an example of utilizing these strategies to enable effective collaboration between more than 200 architects, engineers, and builders from Woods Bagot, HKS Architects, Gensler, and numerous core trades and consultants on this design-build project. This session will present Building Information Modeling (BIM) strategies for cloud collaboration and data management on airport projects.

The Revit ecosystem provides powerful capabilities for structural engineering design which go far beyond the basics of drawing production and coordination. This case study will examine the journey of one structural engineering firm to push the limits of how a structural team uses Revit during daily design work. Gabbart and Woods Studio is a structural engineering firm based in Reno, Nevada, specializing in a variety of building types across all major structural materials. The purpose of this project was to pilot and evaluate a new Revit-centered approach for creating and managing structural engineering calculations and construction document production. This session will take you through the entire implementation process, including background and motivation for pursuing new approaches, the practical workflows and software tools that the team used, real-world design projects where new approaches were tested, and key lessons learned from the project.

In today's digital age, extracting Revit model data and visualizing it effectively is paramount to successful project delivery. Woods Bagot is a global firm with 17 offices. In the last month, there were 450+ active Revit users accessing 34,000+ unique Revit files and producing 126+ million data points. This session will explore the intricacies of extracting and using Revit model data, ensuring its relevancy, and using various tools for data collection. We'll explore innovative approaches to data visualization, highlighting the importance of clear, concise, and effective presentations. Join us to discover how to harness the power of data to enhance architectural designs and communicate ideas across borders.

Hear the story of how Cascadia Structural Timber Solutions went from being a small hand fabrication and truss manufacturer to a fast-growing glulam fabricator, looking to lead the way in new mass timber buildings using Informed Design in Inventor software. The mass timber industry is on the rise, and with it comes unique challenges on the jobsite. As many projects move to a hybrid of steel and wood, we need to be able to provide products that can be easily used and understood early in the design process. With Informed Design we can predefine structural members—from columns to beams to preassembled trusses—that can be added at the beginning of the design process. We can provide flexibility for our customers by giving them specific parameters they can change while still allowing the design to be easy to manufacture. With our push to implement lean manufacturing principles, these designs allow us to scale our business and increase profitability while providing a great experience for our customers.

This class will present both techniques and actual working methods and workflows used by end-user companies utilizing Inventor software with customized toolsets. The creation of architectural content, furniture, cabinetry, millwork, doors, windows, trade show booths, stairs, store fixtures, and interiors for boats, planes, and tour buses are just a few of the industries utilizing the software today. This class will emphasize actual construction procedures using the latest version of Inventor software and several core development tools. The presentation of multiple approaches to shortening cycle time to manufacturing is the key in increasing accuracy as well as time to manufacturing. One-button CNC can be a reality. If 25% or more of your design is utilizing wood products, this class will assist you by presenting automated alternatives. The end goal is that designers have more time for creativity, enabling them to work more efficiently and accurately.

This class provides not only the techniques but also the actual working methods and workflows that are used by the top performers in the woodworking and fabrication industry. When software and processes work together properly, they can perform the tedious steps in a fraction of the time. This class will focus on 2 main areas in the average workday of a designer engineer. The first area is design for approval. The second area is design for manufacturing. We will concentrate on the how-to and look at actual workflows that are not out of the box. Learn about unique construction procedures that use the latest versions of AutoCAD software, Revit software, Inventor software, and computer-aided manufacturing tools. Through demonstration and lecture the class will present methods for the wood trades that will cut down to hours tasks that usually take days for architects, designers, engineers, fabricators, and model makers to complete.

A material is simply an image stretched over an object to make it appear as if the object is made out of various materials such as wood, marble, brick, metal, plastic, glass, and so on. AutoCAD 2015 software provides a materials library that you can attach to the objects. Once you have applied the material, you will learn how to adjust how the material is mapped to the object. Using visual styles, you can immediately see the effects of the materials, or you can see the full effects by rendering the scene. This class will explore the methods that help you to create new materials that you can add into your scene.

Managing both the product lifecycle and the manufacturing execution system is crucial for businesses looking to streamline their operations and improve overall efficiency. Fusion Manage and Fusion Operations, two powerful tools from Autodesk, allow businesses to do just that. In this session, we will explore how integrating Fusion Manage (a product lifecycle management tool) and Fusion Operations (a manufacturing execution system) can provide a unified view of the product lifecycle and manufacturing processes. We will delve into how the integration of these two platforms can facilitate seamless data exchange, enhance real-time visibility, and improve decision-making. We will explore meaningful connections between these systems such as BOM and operations management and machine lifecycle management.

Bryden Wood is an industry leader in design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), and the firm's creative tech team specializes in design automation. Bryden Wood partnered with National Highways (UK) to develop Rapid Engineering Model (REM), which automates highway designs in less than 24 hours! This revolutionary approach to road design created genuine sector-wide digital transformation. We combine analysis and risk profiling of site constraints with rules-based placement of infrastructure along the highways network, embedding rigorous design performance standards around road safety, while assessing constructability to minimize operational disruption. REM generates data-driven insights to enable evidence-based decision making, as well as resulting in a 100% auto-generated 3D intelligent model of the highway. In this session, we'll take a drive through the REM digital workflow, the strategic benefits that it provides, and what we've learned from deploying this approach to linear infrastructure design.

Underutilization stems from a variety of reasons, ranging from simply being uninformed or unaware, to misapplication while attempting to maximize existing cutting tools. The biggest area for improvement is the optimization of cutting tools, which can be done by paying closer attention to the various other manufacturing technologies at hand. Machine tool capabilities, materials being machined, and other manufacturing technologies—such as CAM programming abilities, high-pressure coolant capability, fixturing, small spindles (such as driven tools), and the like—should all be considered and used. No matter the reason, even the smallest of companies now have tools and technology at their disposal to assist in making better cutting tool choices while considering the manufacturing technologies. A lot has changed recently in the world of manufacturing, and cutting tool production is no different.

This class touches on various topics around materials and finishes that are defined for high-quality visualizations and renderings. You learn tips and techniques to define materials in 3ds Max® software by using accurate acquisition techniques while dealing with color calibration issues. Also, we demonstrate the use of procedural textures to introduce subtle, but important variations that bring images to life. Learn how to make wood look like wood, paint look like paint, and so on. No more cartoon looks!