Berkeley Group has been constructing residential properties in the UK for more than 40 years using traditional approaches. Berkeley Modular is a startup that will deliver off-site manufactured housing products, but at levels of productivity normally associated with other sectors such as automotive. This off-site manufactured housing product is intended to be safe, high performing, high quality, and comfortable where actual performance matches designed intent. The class will chart the development of a new factory build and cover lessons learned, including planning of the layout, specifying the flexible manufacturing system and development of productive workflow, and the development of a technology platform that supports the concept of mass customization and uses conversion velocity. The digitally enabled agile manufacturing platform includes BIM 360 software as the CDE, as well as a suite of integrated manufacturing systems based on Vault software, Inventor software, coBuilder Collaborate, Oracle Fusion, and Siemens MES.

Did you know Fusion 360 software is included with Product Design Suite? Have you wanted to start using Fusion 360 software and didn't know exactly where to start? This class is for you! We will go over the unique value Fusion 360 software brings to Product Design Suite, and some tips on how you can start using it today. Fusion 360 software enhances your product design workflow and collaboration, and it reduces the overhead of managing data and learning new tools. We'll explore different ways to do exactly that! This session features Fusion 360, AutoCAD, and Inventor Professional.

The US Sailing Team is looking to regain its position atop the sailing world rankings in the 2020 Olympic Games. Autodesk’s vision for the Future of Making Things directly aligns with the Team’s strategy for winning gold. We require a streamlined workflow to design, simulate, and manufacture advanced composite components to achieve novel mechanical properties, decrease weight, and improve overall vessel performance—all within the tight dictates of Olympic competition rules. Join us in this course to understand how innovation is achieved among Olympic sailing competitors and how we are capitalizing on Autodesk’s diverse and connected portfolio to become Olympic medal winners.

Learn how the new Fusion 360 Production software can take your job shop digital. This class is a beginner level. You will learn how to get real-time production visibility; how to schedule work; and how to track, plan, and monitor the job shop floor with Fusion 360 Production via a web browser and your mobile device.

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed really are extremely promising technologies, but their adoption is limited by the availability of content on these platforms.

In this class, we will bring data from different sources (Revit, Fusion, Sketchup, etc.) into the Hololens to be viewed.

Content coming from CAD applications is usually too heavy to be viewed on the Hololens. We will start with defining the key metrics to track for a smooth Hololens experience, set ourselves some specific targets for content and hardware limitations, explore different options, tools and workflows for optimizing content and setup some basic interactions in Stingray (3ds Max Interactive).

Because of the limited availability of the Hololens, this will be an Instructional demo, but we invite you to bring your own Hololens to follow along.

This class will showcase examples of combining emergent technology with Autodesk, Inc.’s, suite of products to create innovative workflows within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Learn how we’re moving away from just design and document, and moving toward a series of workflows that empower ideas, enable optimization, and create stakeholder engagement through digital and tactile experiences. See examples, such as how to go from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) data capture through to an analytical model for simulations using ReCap software, ReMake software, SimTools software, and Autodesk CFD software (formerly known as Simulation CFD software). Learn about developing virtual reality / augmented reality simulations using 3ds Max software and Stingray game engine. And discover using Fusion 360 software and 3D printing as mediums for crossing technical knowledge barriers. All this and more without writing a single line of code—thanks to the seamless workflows across the Autodesk products! This session features Autodesk ReMake and SimStudio. AIA Approved

Virtual Reality is the hot new thing and everyone is rushing to find where it fits in their business and how to leverage it. The reality of virtual reality is if you're already designing in 3D your half way there. In this session we will cover several methods to move data from practically any 3D design system into Virtual Reality. Using Stingray (3ds Max Interactive) and a VR headset such as an Oculus or HTC Vive see your designs in a whole new light.

This class will walk you through how to prepare and deploy your Inventor/Fusion 360 3D models into a bespoke application for the HTC Vive and the Microsoft HoloLens. Creating interactions on the Vive and the HoloLens is more like video-game development than engineering, and that can be a tough barrier to cross for those who don't have a computer science background. You will leave this class with a basic understanding of how to create and deploy what is essentially a really boring video game that lets you walk around your Inventor/Fusion 360 3D models as if they were really there. We'll also cover how to optimize your designs in 3ds Max software for maximum performance, and we'll cover some of the limitations of the hardware. If you've ever wanted to see a full-scale 3D rendering of your designs that you can walk around and mark up, then this is the class for you.

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In this class, Alias software expert and small business owner Michal Jelinek discusses how he used Alias as a critical tool for developing prototypes of a personal tracked vehicle. Michal shows how he used SketchBook® Pro software to create initial concepts, Inventor® Fusion software to design mechanical parts, and then Alias for the aesthetic surfaces and for prototyping.

Skyscrapers, subways, airplanes, and automobiles-our world is full of marvelous inventions that humanity has designed and built. So what is the one tool that's enabled us to create these wonders? The greatest tool we've ever invented was the tool! Our creativity has only ever been limited by the tools at our disposal; and with the development of virtual reality and mixed reality, we've taken a significant evolutionary step in how we can design. Bridgestone Corporation is currently researching the utilization of mixed-reality technology for design, operations, maintenance, training, and sales. This class will cover our current findings and how to use the technology in process manufacturing. As an Innovation Specialist at Bridgestone, Brent Jackson is spearheading this research and development.This class will also recap how he rose to this position, which all began by watching the Autodesk University 2015 keynote live stream where he learned about the Stingray gaming engine and realized its potential.

The Simulation workspace in Fusion 360 software has been evolving at a rapid pace. In this hands-on lab, you’ll get experience setting up and solving all of the study types in Fusion 360. If you’re new to Fusion 360, this will be a great opportunity to see all that the Simulation workspace has to offer. If you are new to Simulation, this will be a great opportunity for you to see how easy it is to start improving your designs.

You may not have a creative bone in your body, nor some great repressed talent. It doesn't matter; this can't stop you from orchestrating the most incredible feats of creativity and innovation. Now, more than ever, everyone needs to be that much more resourceful and able to combine great engineering with creative finesse to market distinctive and appealing products. Whether it's regarding aesthetics, user experience, functionality, or even branding, everyone needs a piece of this. This session is presented by someone who has lived off of the fruits of other people's creative labor. He will teach you his techniques and the tools he uses to produce awesome.

To obtain better simulation results, a systematic and powerful mesh is key. While some finite element analysis (FEA) software products have advanced meshing tools to help obtain a superior analytical model, applying these tools can be complicated. Using the guidelines and tricks taught in this session upfront, during your CAD modeling for simulation with Autodesk software, you can develop a better mesh more efficiently and obtain accurate and precise results. This class will explain first how to recognize mesh qualities, then how to use CAD modeling techniques to obtain a refined mesh more efficiently, saving time and money in your analysis efforts.

Project Sugarhill is a technical preview of virtual reality (VR) conceptual design tools enabling artists and designers to start their creative process directly in 3D. Using simple curve and surface tools, designers can explore form and shape while being fully immersed alongside their design. This introductory class will demonstrate how to use the VR controllers for creation and manipulation of geometry, and how the various creation tools work. Other topics will include how planar and radial symmetry speed up the creative process, how reference images and geometry can be imported to help with the creation of designs, and how to change the color of geometry. Lastly, you will learn how to move geometry from Project Sugarhill to Alias AutoStudio and other 3D software packages.

In this exciting demo, we will connect Dynamo Studio to Inventor Professional associatively to automate the creation of a complex skeleton structure that we can use in Inventor Frame Generator to form it to a fully functional frame. Here we will learn how to use the optimized Boolean operation tools to generate production-ready parts to be used in an assembly. Using this workflow, we can capitalize on a product design workflow to achieve a structural design result.

In order to streamline design-to-manufacturing workflows, there is a dire need to simulate anything. The Fusion 360 and Ansys relationship is getting stronger and deeper, which means more power to the users. With Fusion Simulation software, you can do a variety of analyses like linear and e-cooling. With Ansys Simulation you can simulate virtually any analysis type. Generative design outcomes can be validated with advanced analyses such as transient, nonlinear, fatigue, and random vibration, to name a few, in Ansys. This technology will enable users to do design in Fusion 360 and simulation in Ansys. Fusion Simulation setups can be packaged into neutral files and pushed to Ansys Mechanical and Discovery on the same or a different computer enabling designer-designer and designer-analyst workflows.

Learn how to increase efficiency in your development process by implementing Vault software and Fusion Lifecycle software. In this class, you will hear about the journey Reynaers Aluminium took to move from its old product data management (PDM) system to a fully integrated solution: CAD, PDM, PLM (product lifecycle management), and enterprise resource planning (ERP). You will learn about the how and why behind our architecture and the lessons learned during implementation. Get insight into the place PDM and PLM have in our organization today, how they are connected with other core databases, and what our further digitalization road map looks like. Also discover how Fusion Lifecycle offers article lifecycle management as well as full project management by streamlining our NPI (new product introduction) flow. All project phases are implemented into Fusion Lifecyle, including a customized project management tab to enable real project planning. Integrating Fusion Lifecycle with Vault creates one common platform, resulting in an efficient way of collaboration as well as a single source of truth across the company.

The Fusion 360 platform is an extremely powerful tool for design and manufacturing, and with the inclusion of an easily accessible API, it can become even more powerful to automate user workflows. This class is NOT an introduction to the API. Rather, this class will focus on a number of powerful techniques the presenters have developed throughout the years to significantly enhance developer workflows and increase what you may think is possible with the Fusion 360 Client API. The class will focus on a number of specific problems and use cases commonly encountered when building automations and application integrations. Come learn how to do things you may never have thought possible.

This industry talk will begin by describing where we were back in 2017, how we came to find out about Fusion 360 software, and the decision-making process we went through when converting to using Fusion 360. In 2017, our students were stuck to a desk in our “CAD suite” using a competitor product, “collaborating” with USB sticks, and finding creative ways to get around the limitations with “locked down” educational software. The talk will present some case studies detailing the impact Fusion 360 has had on certain workflows and teaching methodologies, as well as some fundamental details of how we deployed the software successfully and are now able to teach more than 300 novice engineers a year how to use the software. During each year that we have subsequently used Fusion 360, we have been able to refine our approach to teaching and using the software on a daily basis, and during the talk we will share some of the best practices and teaching materials we have created.