Are you building apps on the Forge platform today? Are you using Forge as part of your digital transformation strategy, or helping your customers transform their businesses? Do you want to learn more about what the Forge team has been working on throughout the past year? We’ll discuss new design automation engines, including Revit software, Inventor software, and 3ds Max software; new BIM 360 APIs, including BIM 360 Cost Management and BIM 360 Model Coordination (clash detection); the order of magnitude increase in size and performance of models you can view; and more. Join us to learn about what's new with Forge APIs and what's coming in the next generation of the Forge platform. Get the insights you need to confidently create your application development plans.

Surveyors, engineers, and governments all collect significant amounts of spatial data and supporting documentation such as design drawings and metadata. When undertaking new projects, it is important to have easy access to all the supporting information, especially in the context of geographic location. While you can store documents and their associated properties using document management systems such as Vault software or BIM 360 Docs software, those systems do not directly enable integration with a geographic information system (GIS). By accessing the Vault and/or Forge API along with Esri’s JavaScript and REST APIs, you can directly integrate GIS data to provide better, more versatile access to this data.

Many may think that one should separate Navisworks software and BIM 360 Model Coordination on a project by choosing one or the other for clash modeling. This could not be further from the truth. This class will highlight case studies of recent Tetra Tech projects that have resulted in a greater than 50% drop in average time spent at the end of projects for disciplines resolving clashes by using BIM 360 Model Coordination and Navisworks. Attendees will learn how to easily start working within BIM 360 Model Coordination, which will enable an earlier start to clash coordination in the project’s design cycle before running a more comprehensive clash analysis using Navisworks. This class will also provide tips, tricks, and innovative processes for working on projects in BIM 360 to easily set up the BIM 360 Model Coordination service, and we’ll cover the new features added in 2021 for bringing these results into Navisworks.

Structural engineers manage design changes and updates on a daily basis. Coordinating models and drawings while maintaining quality is always a challenge—not to mention working remotely or from home. The DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle is an effective approach to managing change during design and construction processes. Linking Revit models with structural analysis tools is one of the biggest benefits and challenges structural engineering teams still encounter. In this class, we will look at best practices for keeping structural models and workflows DRY, including linking models between Revit, Robot Structural Analysis software, and Advance Steel software; managing, coordinating, and sharing models using BIM 360 software; and reviewing construction and fabrication drawings for quality control with BIM 360. Incorporating some of these approaches into your workflows will help you keep up with the pace of change.

This session will cover the story of how McCarthy collaborated across regions to develop and refine formwork models for long-span parking-structure projects using Cunningham Beam System.

BIM and terrestrial laser scanning have been well received within construction for the unparalleled accuracy delivered during the planning and development process. For VDC and BIM managers, the ability to accurately plan projects to scale, time and budget is just one of many benefits. Having the ability to compare the scanned as-built to BIM models doesn’t only prove its worth in the initial planning stages of a build, but also in quality assurance throughout a project’s lifespan. Cintoo has embedded its unique point cloud-to-mesh technology into Cintoo Cloud, a platform connected to BIM 360, to allow this QA/QC workflow. Learn from current Cintoo Cloud and BIM 360 users who has been successfully using this collaborative workflow on various jobs recently for a more efficient project coordination. Learn how Cintoo Cloud can also provide access to laser scan data in mesh or point cloud format to team members at home or at the office for efficient Scan & BIM modeling or clash detection.

While companies try to adapt BIM 360 software to their projects and integrate with their existing workflow, one of the challenges is setting up projects in scale. While using a product’s web user interface may be enough for a few projects, tasks involved in setting up projects—such as adding users and building a standard folder structure with appropriate user permissions—can easily become time-consuming, tedious, error-prone manual labor. In this class, we will show you a tool that helps you set up projects in bulk by importing from CSV files. The tool consists of a collection of commands that you can run in combination. The features include: creating projects, populating users and company, setting up services, adding users to projects, and creating folders with user permissions. The tool is a desktop application written in .NET using Forge APIs. For those who wish to further customize the tool to integrate with their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, we will share the source code and explain implementation detail.

BIM 360 Cost Management software was introduced last year with capabilities that support budgets, contracts, and change orders. Since then, functionality has been added for main/prime contract setup, payment applications, RFI-PCO creation, invoices, supplier/owner access, and more. Join the product manager to discover how to execute these workflows in BIM 360 software, as well as learn about the new capabilities in the module to support additional cost management capabilities.

Autodesk Research has been exploring the intersection of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and Internet of Things (IoT) for the last decade. Project Dasher (http://dasher360.com) integrates sensor data with model data from Autodesk's Forge platform to contextualize IoT data in 3D. This session will look at what is happening with Dasher, but also will talk in detail about the Forge capabilities that Dasher has used—which are available to all Forge developers—to build a digital twin integrating real-world performance data.

Barton Malow, ranked by ENR in 2019 as one of the 50 largest U.S. contractors, is a general contractor and construction management firm that has been in continuous operation for almost a century. Safety is fundamental to Barton Malow’s mission. Testifying to that commitment, it proudly displays a logo that proclaims: “Build it Safe—No Exceptions.” With an impressive safety record superior to the industry average, Barton Malow continues to maintain an ongoing commitment to safety improvement. In this case-study-format class, you'll hear from Barton Malow's leadership about how they applied BIM 360 software as well as Autodesk partner Smartvid.io to implement a safety program, and how it was adapted for COVID-19. We will show specific examples of AI for computer vision (e.g., social distancing detection), BIM 360 dashboards, and more, including statistical benchmarks for COVID-19 responses across the country.

Are you curious how a 96-year-old company innovates? Today, the amount of new technology available can be overwhelming to organizations—from point solutions that solve one problem to platforms that require strategy around deployment. Barton Malow faced many of those challenges when overhauling software solutions. In this session, we will walk through the journey that Barton Malow took to modernize and transform business development through project operations. We'll lay out the techniques that the firm used to scale deployment of tools like BIM 360 software, BuildingConnected, and Assemble software. We will also cover how to cultivate a "super user" base to scale within an enterprise for success. In this class we’ll uncover best practices deployed to transform enterprise tools, including capitalizing on Microsoft Teams and learning management systems, and we’ll discuss metrics that are lighthouses informing Barton Malow how to scale Construction Cloud.

Chasing specific business applications to solve a unique challenge used to be the answer to one problem, except as the technology stack grows, so does the disjointedness. This problem introduces more data and workflow challenges to be solved. As the construction technology landscape continues to evolve, one solution will not be the answer to today’s complex file sharing and storage challenges. Join Newforma and Corgan Associates to learn how the construction technology space is progressing towards more unity and the benefits of working in a connected environment. Discover how Newforma’s integration with Autodesk BIM 360 further streamlines collaboration to provide increased flexibility to view, search, and manage project files to improve project delivery.

Forge Certified Systems Integrators have deployed many Forge solutions for a variety of customers in both AEC & Manufacturing. In this panel, Ron Locklin, the Director of Strategy for Autodesk Cloud Platforms, will moderate a panel of Systems Integrator partners* to talk about successes and challenges they have encountered when building for Forge. These Forge veterans will share their experience and address head on what worked and what they learned (the "good, bad and ugly").

*Partners include: AMCBridge, CAD & Co, CCTech, D3, ImagineIT, and Prototech

Joint AU/Forge DevCon class.

BIM 360 Cost Management was introduced earlier this year with capabilities to support budgets, contracts and change orders. Join ACS product managers to discover how to execute these workflows in BIM 360, as well as learn about the new capabilities in the module to support additional cost management capabilities.

This class overviews basic setups, installation, and use of A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service, and will examine how it has been used, advantages and disadvantages, things to consider for remote access and telecommuting, and how to push content to A360 cloud-based collaboration service. We will also touch on topics for organizational structures and project management in conjunction with A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service and A360. This session features Collaboration for Revit and BIM 360 Glue.

This class will dig into Revit software with tips and tricks from the low-hanging fruit (symbols, text, and standards) and things to consider (metric, Imperial or soft metric, geographies, and so on). We'll look at using note block content for abbreviation lists and schedules, processing diagrams using custom families, and keynoting. We'll cover assemblies codes, what view templates are and how to use them effectively for consistency from templates forward, sample practices for view naming and browser management in anticipation of exports, and ways of managing work sets in local and linked files to help speed up your system by simply organizing data. We'll also look at how work sets track through links, schema for management, best practices on file sizes, and how to push those limits and possibly a few Dynamo Scripts to assist in management and setups of projects.

As with many software as a service (SaaS) providers, Autodesk offers products that support cloud-based collaboration and enable application deliverables right to your desktop or mobile device. As customers, we need to understand what these tools can do for us and how to apply them to our corporate needs. What does Autodesk® PLM 360 cloud-based data management look like to our company? Will BIM 360™ Field or BIM 360™ Glue® cloud-based software help us to better manage site or subcontractor products and deliverables? How can we capitalize on Fusion 360™ software for project-based collaboration between manufacturers and construction teams to solve real-world problems? What about mobile apps, such as Autodesk® FormIt™ for site-based problem description and resolution for project managers? What does it really look like to be able to access any of my work from anywhere: at my desk, in the boardroom, or what have you? Join us for a panel discussion on these powerful new technologies.

This class overviews basic setups, installation, and use of A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service, and will examine how it has been used, advantages and disadvantages, things to consider for remote access and telecommuting, and how to push content to A360 cloud-based collaboration service. We will also touch on topics for organizational structures and project management in conjunction with A360 Collaboration for Revit cloud service and A360. This session features Collaboration for Revit and BIM 360 Glue. AIA Approved

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.

BIM isn’t enough for successful Builders anymore. BIM’s siloed methods don’t encourage the communication and collaboration needed among Owners, Designers, Builders and Trade Partners. There is a paradigm shift happening in the AEC industry where BIM is being replaced by Virtual Design & Construction. VDC’s macro focus supports the collaborative effort needed to meet shrinking timelines on increasingly more difficult projects. No project team will succeed without integrating the people, processes, and technology available to the AEC industry. We are in a golden age of technology and individual knowledge. Alex Belkofer from McCarthy will share their experience of BIM & VDC from design through construction of the St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station. He will discuss their workflows, the collaborative BIM Execution Plan the team developed, and how the team collaborated to overcome the challenges of constructing a 120,000 sq. ft. modern aquarium in a 125-year-old national historic landmark.