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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Supercharge Your AutoCAD® MEP 2013
It's back—and it is time to keep moving your AutoCAD MEP software to places you have never been before. This fast-paced class will cover powerful new features of AutoCAD MEP 2013 and move into maximizing your project and drawing templates. We will present an overview of new content features and cover working with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)-exported models. Come to the class so you can take a breath, get ahead of the competition, walk away with the latest version of my template—and stay supercharged!
Panel / Virtual 2021
How Strategic Workforce Management Completes More Work with Fewer Resources

With only 80% of the 1 million construction workers that lost their jobs at the start of lockdown returning to work in construction, contractors are feeling the effect of the labor shortage now more than ever. Whether it’s improving the information sharing or focusing on data-driven decision making, many contractors are asking “How can we do more work with less resources?”. Our conversation will cover: - Building stronger project teams using insights into your workforce - Tracking project data to improve bidding and project management - How to avoid cost overruns by managing resources effectively - Moving from segregated information silos to centralized real-time trusted data

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
More Money, Less Problems: The Next Episode on How SSOE Uses Autodesk Forma Build
Notorious B.I.G. once said, "Mo' money, mo' problems.” While that does ring true for some construction projects, we've found that using the Autodesk Forma Forma Build suite of tools has resulted in fewer hours spent doing non-value-added tasks, which allows us to focus on solving the real problems. This technical instruction will cover how SSOE Group has deployed the RFI, Submittals, AutoSpec, Meeting Minutes, and Schedule modules to minimize risk on our projects and streamline fragmented activities. If you're a project manager (PM), assistant PM, engineer, architect, designer, or business owner, you won't want to miss this deep dive. We'll also cover how to use the reports module on generating automated reminders and executive and owner summaries so team members can focus on their main jobs. The processes we will showcase have been vetted on projects ranging from outpatient surgery centers to school renovations to semiconductor and battery factories.
2p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
A Platform for Success: Streamlining the Design Process and Increasing Industrialization Through Platform Design
Using our Autodesk suite to reshape our design process and owning our IP has enabled sustainable scaling and the delivery of large pipelines of work for central government using off-site construction methods. This success has led to a 300% increase in our manufacturing capacity in the last three years, while maintaining client satisfaction with the quality of our design and project delivery. We'll explain how this has been achieved through repeatable and continuously improved designs, supported by Forma Build and Forma Data Management software. In the second half of this talk, the focus will shift toward the potential of Autodesk Informed Design software and how it can facilitate a platform design through the development of subassemblies, ultimately supporting off-site construction by maximizing productivity and improving quality through increased industrialization.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
Taking Ownership of Construction for Capital Project Owners
For far too long, capital project owners handed off construction work to contractors and simply got out of the way. They left it to contractors to complete the jobs and hand over the buildings. "Out of sight, out of mind," has been the mantra for many capital project owners. This is no longer acceptable. Capital project owners are taking back construction. And they're using high-tech software, mobile devices, and cloud collaboration to do it. By embedding more in the construction phase, capital project owners are no longer at the whim of their contractors. They're taking ownership! This means full visibility into projects, continuous communication with project teams, rich insights informing decisions, and data standards from design through operations. By taking ownership, operations begin quickly and smoothly, increasing speed to market and revenue. Owners are taking ownership. Today.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
BIM Challenges and Benefits at a Japanese IPD Practice for a Complex 1,000,000-Square-Foot Hospital Project
This class describes several Building Information Modeling (BIM) challenges that Nikken Sekkei, the largest Japanese design firm, and Takenaka Corporation, one of the top five contractor, design-build companies, faced during their collaboration on a 1,000,000-square-foot BIM hospital project. The class covers three major challenges in the BIM implementation and adoption process between the two companies: how to incorporate the new concept of hospital design with a BIM approach that supports design coordination of the "shell and core" of the hospital plan to reduce RFIs; how to manage all of the designers and drafters who are beginning Autodesk® Revit® software users (no BIM champions) to produce construction documents from design development phase; and how to manage design review communications with the client using visualization technology. The class will cover each of the solutions and their benefits as profitable outputs using Autodesk Revit, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, and Autodesk® Navisworks® software.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Optimizing the Design Development Stage Using Autodesk® Revit® Architecture
The design development stage of a building design is an important time for refining the building design for meeting requirements, but it is also the time when good communication with the client is crucial for getting their approval. In this class, we will demonstrate ways of using Autodesk Revit software to make sure that you are fulfilling the design criteria through verifying space usage per the program, addressing room occupancy, and visually coordinating fire-rated walls and doors. We will also show how to communicate the design to the client through room data sheets, 3D plans per floor, floor plan shadowing, color schemes, and other methods.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Bringing Buildings to Market with Autodesk® Fabrication Software
In this class, Hill will discuss the process of using Autodesk Fabrication software to design, prefabricate, and build mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems; and cover the value of using the estimating module to instantaneously evaluate actual costs and the delta costs of jobsite changes. Hill & Samsung C&T will then discuss the impact Autodesk Fabrication has on changing the traditional bid/build process into a more collaborative and integrated processes. Samsung C&T will then discuss their experience with implementing Autodesk Fabrication Software in the Asia market place, where BIM is now finding its tipping point to enter into the mainstream.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
From Preliminary Design Through Fabrication with Autodesk® Building Design Suite and Autodesk® 360
This class is designed for CAD managers, structural engineers, and designers who struggle with finding out the best workflow in their company for designing building structures from preliminary phase to fabrication. Find out how the leading products in the Forma Building Design Suite fit into your current company workflow and design process. Learn how to use Autodesk® Revit® software as your main CAD platform and how to integrate and simulate your model with Autodesk® Robot® Structural Analysis software, using advanced techniques for analytical models. See how Revit can add more value in making fabrication drawings. This class will also emphasize the importance of Autodesk 360 applications and services in your design process: save time with preliminary analysis of your model and visualize and share your intelligent models using the cloud. We will wrap up by presenting i-Theses® applications: extensions for Revit and integration of an intelligent model into i-Theses® FloorOffice to make fabrication drawings of precast floors.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Autodesk Consulting Add-on Utilities: COBie Toolkit and BIM Coordinator Tool
In this class, we will discuss recent Autodesk Consulting projects with a focus on two new utilities that we are using to help customers. First, we will present the functionality of the COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) Toolkit for Autodesk® Revit® software. COBie is a United States-originated data standard for exchange of building systems information between designers, construction firms, and building owners. The format for delivering construction handover data is a predefined spreadsheet file with specific worksheets, many of which can be populated directly from a Revit intelligent model. The standard has recently been adopted by the United Kingdom and tested on pilot projects using the evolving Revit COBie Toolkit. Next, we will discuss BIM Coordinator. This technology preview, available from Autodesk Labs, assists project team members with building and site grids in Revit and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software to effectively organize the project data in shared or related coordinates. This utility is essential for spatial collaboration across disciplines.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Architectural Renderings That Inspire Your Clients
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 Autodesk® Revit® software user or a production professional who wants a new angle on your projects, this class will immerse you in the creative and technical architectural visualization possibilities available in Autodesk® Design Suite. By learning basic principles of architectural photography and the qualities of great interior and exterior images, you will gain a fresh perspective for producing renderings that will delight and inspire your clients.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Architectural Visualization Workflow with Autodesk® Building Design Suite 2013
You know how to render, but sometimes you don’t get the results you want. Are you missing that final touch? How helpful would it be if you could change materials and lighting of your rendering without rendering it again? This class will walk you through the process of visualizing architecture inside Forma Building Design Suite 2013—a process that includes linking and opening Autodesk® Revit® and AutoCAD® software models into Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software, generating renderings and render elements inside 3ds Max Design and combining these render elements into 3ds Max Composite 2013 software so you can have full control of your rendering post-production phase. Learn tips and tricks to reduce the rendering time and get the best results.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2013: On Steroids!
Back and updated for the 2013 release, we are going to help you take your AutoCAD Revit MEP software to the next level. In this intermediate class you will learn how to get piping accessories (such as valves) to look the way you want for single-line and double-line piping. We will also look at how to define electrical panel schedules to match what the code reviewers want. For HVAC designers, we will explain how to create some nifty custom fittings. Finally, there are the fast tips for all users—everyday tasks made easy for your Revit MEP projects. If you've ever been to one of these classes, be prepared! This one's going to be as informative as it is fun!
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Automating Forma Project Management and Streamlining the Creation and Management of Families
This presentation will focus on using the integration between Autodesk Forma, Revit, Power Automate, and Power BI software to effectively manage projects and family creation. Using Power Automate, project management tasks in Autodesk Forma are automated, reducing team members' workloads. Power BI is then used to analyze data collected from Autodesk Forma, providing real-time insights into project progress and performance for swift decision making. Additionally, in family creation, collaboration with domestic equipment manufacturers facilitates semiautomated creation of families with manufacturer specifications. Integration with Inventor software streamlines the creation of equipment parts like support steel, further enhancing the efficiency of the family creation process. Finally, the created families are managed in a database within Power BI, contributing to improved project productivity.
31p
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Leveraging data through Forma Connect and Forge
This masterclass will cover how to link PlanGrid with next-generation BIM 360 Docs software by utilizing the power of data collection through BIM 360 workflows and PlanGrid field reports. The speaker will be able to demonstrate the added benefit of being able to maximize data for trend analysis via Microsoft Power Bi and automatic modeling by integrating the output with Dynamo software. We will cover basic principles of PlanGrid and usability for the average user, alongside best practices, work-arounds, shortcuts, limitations, and benefits. We will explore an array of case studies, giving live project application examples and how they’ve integrated with external tools, such as What3Words.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020
Automate and Connect Workflows Using Autodesk’s Integrations Ecosystem
At Autodesk, we build solutions that include everything from 3D design, to preconstruction, through build, and into project handover. Customers often use Forma in tandem with advanced construction software and hardware, as well as with everyday software tools such as Microsoft Office 365, Smartsheet, cloud-storage solutions, and data-analytics tools such as Microsoft Power BI. Automating the workflows and data passed through these disparate systems helps keep everyone working with the latest and greatest information, eliminating errors due to siloed data and making collaboration easier on a construction jobsite. This talk will focus on using Autodesk APIs and our integration platform-as-a-service—Forma Connect—to build custom workflows and to connect various technologies together to build a tech stack custom tailored to your needs.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Autodesk Forma for Structural Engineering: Let's All Work Better Together
Unleash the power of Autodesk Forma to revolutionize your structural engineering and design workflows. The architecture, engineering, and construction industry bears a $280 billion annual cost due to ineffective project data and communication. In this session, you will learn to master design changes and manage the intricacies of your designs through diverse design-review workflows in Forma Data Management software. Discover how to avoid expensive rework by finding model clashes using Autodesk BIM Collaborate software. Witness how Forma Takeoff software enhances the quality of your design through an effective model conditioning process. Explore Forma Build software to learn how to proficiently manage risk and quality during the construction phase, easily handling RFIs, submittals, photos, and site observations. Join us and step into a future of seamless design and construction management for structural engineering.
Roundtable / Las Vegas 2016
How to Be a Recognized Building Ops Implementation Partner
Forma Building Ops Implementation Partner Recognition Program recognizes service providers who have proven success with helping customers establish effective asset and maintenance programs with Building Ops software. The goal of the Building Ops Implementation Partner Recognition Program is to assist customers in identifying a partner that will help them meet their operational goals. This session features Building Ops.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Supersize Me: Worksets with Links, Object Protection, Families Versus Groups Versus Links

This Supersize Me class focuses on delivering large or mammoth projects with Autodesk® Revit® software. We will focus on three topics that can make or break a large Revit project. 
First, we will show you how worksets and links together unlock the gates of a large Revit project, and how these two areas represent one of the fundamental pieces of having a successful large Revit project. Next, on any Revit project, when something gets deleted by accident, it can be painful. On a large project it can cause days or weeks worth of rework. We will show you how to protect Revit objects from being moved, deleted, or modified. Finally, we will take a hard look at families versus groups versus links. Unfortunately they have similar characteristics and often get used in place of each other. We will talk about each tool and discuss why and how they work, when to use them, and when not to use them. You will gain an understanding of why each tool can be both destructive or constructive to any Revit project.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2015
Fully Collaborative BIM to FM Workflow with Building Design Suite and BIM 360 Solutions
The roundtable discussion is designed to bring to the table like-minded individuals who have a desire to share their experiences toward achieving a fully collaborative Building Information Modeling (BIM) to facilities management (FM) workflow using Building Design Suite software and BIM 360 Cloud software Solutions. The primary intent is to explore well-documented, coordinated, and collaborative workflows using Revit software and Navisworks software with BIM 360 Field software, BIM 360 Glue software, and BIM 360 Plan software. The roundtable is set to review present and future project-based solutions and BIM workflows toward a highly efficient project delivery. We will address the key benefits of collaborative BIM and look to exchange a set of practical hints and tips to assist the roundtable group in gaining crucial insight into the BIM process using Autodesk, Inc., cloud technology. The concluding part of this roundtable will cover potential hurdles encountered in the process and possible solutions that will contribute toward delivering a successful project.
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