Join us to unlock the power of AI in AutoCAD Toolsets, revolutionizing CAD by enhancing efficiency, precision, and innovation. Autodesk's AI empowers users to automate tasks, streamline workflows, and augment design intelligence. Features such as intelligent object recognition and predictive analytics accelerate the design process, reduce errors, and foster creative exploration. These tools not only automate dimensioning and optimize material usage but also can help preventing design issues, significantly speeding up the design cycle from concept to completion. AI-driven analysis tools evaluate performance, simulate real-world scenarios, and facilitate data-driven decisions for optimal outcomes. Enhanced interoperability with other Autodesk products and third-party applications promotes seamless collaboration among multidisciplinary teams, marking a transformative step for intelligent CAD design.

Why should you be using dynamic blocks? Quite simply, dynamic blocks can greatly reduce the number of blocks in your library, improving your efficiency. While it does take a little more time up front to create a dynamic block, the time saved on the back end makes it well worth the effort! Even better news: If you’re a proficient user of AutoCAD software, you should have no problem converting those boring static blocks into shiny new dynamic blocks.

Explore a practical journey with Autodesk Forma through an immersive hands-on training session. This 90-minute interactive technical workshop will immerse you in the world of CAD drawings within Autodesk Forma. You'll master the "closed-loop" system, seamlessly adding and receiving markups through the cloud. Discover advanced integration techniques, including incorporating markups as traces into your AutoCAD drawings. From fundamental concepts to advanced features, this session equips you with critical skills to optimize your CAD workflow, enhance communication, and accelerate project success within the Autodesk Forma ecosystem.

Learn how to bring your AutoCAD .NET Framework applications to work with AutoCAD 2025 and newer by refactoring them for .NET 8. This class will walk through key refactoring strategies, framework updates, and compatibility considerations to modernize your projects.

Join us for an insightful session designed to introduce and then dive deep into Vault Connector, showcasing its features, functionality, and how it bridges the gap between engineering and enterprise systems. We will start from the overall context of Vault PLM and its value proposition while touching topic of Items & BOMs that will feed into the detailed exploration of Vault Connector. We will wrap up with general Q & A session towards to end. 

AutoCAD и AutoCAD Electrical – инструменты для работы с проектом как с информационной моделью. Обсуждение приложений Autodesk для создания электротехнических/электроэнергетических проектов. Разработка и использование базы УГО и каталожных данных. Способы создания схем. Инструменты редактирования. Пространство проекта в AutoCAD и AutoCAD Electrical. Информационная модель проекта. Сравнение возможностей на примере реального проекта.

Ensuring accuracy in a large set of construction documents can be complicated. Spelling errors, missed annotation, and multiple users on a project can still waste a project's budget time when they don't need to. Automating the keynote creating and editing process can help eliminate these time wasters, saving considerable time and money for some of our most basic needs. This lesson will cover a feature in AutoCAD software that will use an Excel file as one source of truth for keynotes on construction documents. We'll create a table that will be dynamically populated with keynotes as they are used in a drawing, allowing for concise tables that, along with the Excel file, can be updated together to match for the duration of project design. Any engineering discipline using AutoCAD will be able to use this workflow.

This session will show you how to use Autodesk products for the complete electromechanical design workflow of a maker project. You'll learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 software for the structural and mechanical design, AutoCAD Electrical software for the electrical design, and Inventor software to combine the two into a full electromechanical workflow and wiring harness design.

This real-life case study will explore the transformative power of integrating Autodesk's software systems: AutoCAD Electrical, Inventor Cable and Harness, Vault Professional, and Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Extension. Through live examples, we'll showcase productivity, accuracy, and operational efficiency gains across multiple platforms. Join Alstom and Autodesk's senior consultant as they share first-hand challenges with manual processes and discuss how this solution drives transformative change. This integrated approach minimizes errors, enhances collaboration, and improves project efficiency, avoiding costly delays and rework. Learn benefits and best practices for automating connected 2D to 3D Cable and Harness design within a common data environment and MBOM/EBOM synchronization, emphasizing the importance of a connected workflow throughout a project lifecycle.

Are you using AutoCAD software or some other program to represent your electrical controls designs? The problem is that they are individual drawings with text and lines but no intelligence. It is up to you to make sure the drawings are accurate, and there's no way to get information from them. Attend this session to learn why AutoCAD Electrical software is a better solution for documenting electrical controls. Even without fully implementing AutoCAD Electrical, you can save 25% more time than when using standard AutoCAD. Additionally, you'll be able to run audits to verify your design, and extract information from the drawings like BOMs and wire reports.

As our world becomes increasingly digital, interoperability is becoming more and more important. In many industries, including health care, manufacturing, and construction, interoperability is seen as a key factor in improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing innovation. It is also important for the development of new technologies and innovations and for enabling different systems to work together. Interoperability can help foster collaboration and accelerate the pace of technological progress. That said, two powerful products—AutoCAD toolsets and Inventor software—make one powerful pair that will maximize the capabilities of your CAD software with 2D and 3D workflows that work together. This class will show you how to use AutoCAD toolsets with Inventor to design faster, get more from your models, and save time on manual tasks that enable us to work together seamlessly.

Learn how to use AutoCAD software Sheet Set Manager to manage and automate your page layouts and callouts. There is no longer any need to manually manage border information, page numbers, section/detail callouts, or other repetitive information. This class will explain Sheet Set Manager from setup to implementation, knowledge that will greatly increase your project efficiency and accuracy.

In many companies, the mechanical and electrical design are combined, creating a single mechatronic design process. Do your mechanical designs include electrical wires, harnesses, and components? When completing your electrical designs, would you like to use tools especially designed for creating electrical drawings? Autodesk® Inventor® software is the design tool of choice for the physical components, while AutoCAD® Electrical software is best to use for the electrical components. Using three basic guidelines, you can create a seamless interface between the two. We will explain these guidelines and how they work. During the class, we will use AutoCAD Electrical to create a circuit representing a wire harness and export the data into Inventor. In Inventor, we will create wires and cables and export the data into AutoCAD Electrical.

Would you like to take hours, or even days, out of your typical schematic design process on every new project? Maximize the power of AutoCAD Electrical software in your organization by implementing a streamlined workflow using selected standard tools. In this class, we show you how to use the intelligence of a completed AutoCAD Electrical project and some subtle, yet powerful tools integral to AutoCAD Electrical, to take a new project from 0 to 90% complete in a matter of minutes. By using the power of several project-wide editing tools, we transform a completed project into a unique new project where you can cruise through the mundane changes and direct your focus to what is substantially different.

AutoCAD Electrical software provides many tools to configure the software specifically to the design environment and workflows of your company. Do you have specific folders and paths for your custom files? (Hint: You should!) We’ll show you where to set these for everyone on your design team. We cover the WD.ENV, WD_M.dwg, WD_PNLM.dwg, DEFAULT.WDT, and many other reference files. Tired off making the same old picks and clicks to start your drawings or save custom files? Join us to enter the brave new world of enhance productivity.

Do you work collaboratively or independently in AutoCAD Electrical software? If you have more than one user at your company creating drawings with AutoCAD Electrical, this class helps you understand all the ways you can reference common, shared files effectively. The class covers how to install, configure, and organize those files so that drawings easily follow established standards and appear consistent from project to project and user to user. The class digs into some key ways AutoCAD Electrical promotes standardization and shows you an effective way to implement AutoCAD Electrical that allows users to work productively and consistently from a common set of files.

Have you ever wanted to utilize the 3D power of Inventor software with the intelligence of AutoCAD Electrical software for substation protection and control panel layouts? Tracing connections from the panel in the control house to the cable tray and then out to the equipment in the yard can be a very tedious process when you don’t have really good visualization tools. With AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software integration, users now have the ability to produce the panel layout in the substation control house in 3D.

This class will be all about programmable logic controls (PLCs), including standalone, fixed, and parametric styles of PLCs. This extravaganza of popular PLC properties will include discussion of the different types of PLCs available in AutoCAD Electrical software, the building of custom PLCs, some tips and hints, and, if we have time, customization of the Spreadsheet to PLC file.

So you have hundreds, and maybe thousands, of standard AutoCAD software drawings that represent your electrical designs, and you are uncertain about moving to AutoCAD Electrical software because you think you will have to redraw all your electrical designs. Well, guess what? You don’t have to. AutoCAD Electrical software ships with conversion tools that enable you to convert the standard AutoCAD entities into smart AutoCAD Electrical content. This class will show you how to use enough of the conversion tools to get you on the right circuit and energize those individual drawings into a project that recognizes all of the drawings that represent your product.

Modern electrical design is becoming more modular every day. Instead of individual wires attaching to individual screw terminals, pre-made harnesses are used to provide connections between components. Take this class to learn about the cable and harness tools in AutoCAD Electrical. We cover how to manipulate the tools to provide intelligent reports for rack systems, console interfaces, and other non 'standard' requirements.