As infrastructure projects become increasingly complex, the adoption of BIM for bridge design and construction has become essential. This session will provide a deep dive into our organization’s BIM journey, showcasing how we transitioned from traditional design workflows to an integrated digital approach. We’ll discuss the challenges we faced, the solutions we implemented, and the innovations we developed to optimize collaboration, accuracy, and efficiency in bridge modeling. Demonstrating the evolution of our methodology, we’ll highlight our progression from manual modeling to parametric workflows using Civil 3D, Revit, and Dynamo—and ultimately to advanced modeling with Revit, including in-house developed add-ins, Dynamo, and SOFiSTiK Bridge and Infrastructure Modeler. You’ll gain valuable insights into best practices, software interoperability, and the future of BIM on infrastructure projects.

Go from plan and design through construction to operations using the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Forma Design Collaboration software. This class will walk through a theoretical project touching on several software systems within the AEC Collection, including Civil 3D, InfraWorks, Navisworks, and Revit software. The project will demonstrate the tools, features, and new enhancements within Autodesk Forma. In this session, we will touch on each project phase and how the tools in the AEC Collection and Autodesk Forma can help improve project communication, design reviews, and final delivery.

Luxembourg railway owner began its digital transformation journey in 2017, improving quality and efficiency for construction projects through cloud-based project delivery. There are many main subjects for asset management, including maintenance building, earthworks platform, permanent way, overhead lines, signaling, and telecommunications. One specific aspect to the country is to have external project design offices and many subcontractors, using multidisciplinary design management based on Autodesk technologies, including Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, InfraWorks, and Forma Design Collaborationducts. The geographical aspect is taken into consideration through connected building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS). During this class, you will discover why a common data environment platform and products ecosystem save time and information for the delivery plan, and support supply chains, and how process owner mandates can be imposed on local markets, and what solutions are found to develop a business model dedicated to railway infrastructure.

In the environmental industry, there is an ongoing need for analyzing and visualizing subsurface data such as soil and groundwater contamination in correlation with above-ground features to optimize the remediation design and thereby reduce the cost. An idea for a conceptual site model by integrating 3D contaminant plume with the InfraWorks tool has now been achieved to provide comprehensive understanding of a contaminated site. Also, the historical above-ground elements (roads, buildings, and tanks) were digitized using Civil 3D software and recreated using objects available within InfraWorks software. The integrated model was later published in BIM 360 software. A fly-through animated video was also developed in InfraWorks. With the help of Autodesk tools and environment, an idea has now become a reality as this is a powerful way to help client user experiences where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time: clients can literally “see underground” on their sites.

In this session, we will teach you the best practices for exchanging data between Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, Inventor software, and Revit software. We will get into the differences of the software interactions when using FBX or IMX or Autodesk; the differences between creating Inventor Parts (single body versus multibody) versus Assemblies (with skeleton modeling and iLogic) and their advantages and disadvantages; and how this translates to Revit for detailing and what you need to watch out for in Revit.

In the early stage of a project, collecting and organizing baseline data is essential and key to a successful result. Satellite, aerial, or UAV-based geospatial data—such as imagery and digital elevation model (DEM)—could be one of the most critical foundations of your initial design decision. But it’s not always straightforward if you aren’t familiar with the geographic information system (GIS) industry and community. In this class, we will cover how easy and simple it is to import various GIS data into your design environment using Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software to begin with. Then we will delve into how it can be done with vanilla AutoCAD LT software. We will share several practical and also some experimental techniques to make various GIS data to AutoCAD-readable format. We will also cover some GIS concepts, basic terminology, and how to use widely used open-source toolsets such as GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library), online resources where you can find and download free data, and related tips and tricks.

Have you struggled with, “what do I do now that I have a point cloud?” It is a common question in the infrastructure industry. There’s an abundance of software that will assist in the post processing of point clouds into a working/usable format. If you have the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, you have all you need. Using a "real-world infrastructure project," this class will walk you through the step-by-step process of post processing drone-collected photogrammetric data. Using products available within your AEC Collection (ReCap Photo software, ReCap Pro software, InfraWorks software, and Civil 3D software) surveyors and designers will be able to generate a working existing-condition drawing.

The use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) in an engineering consultancy company is very much a question of predicting field problems in order to anticipate resolutions and thereby avoid rework, delays, and possible negative impacts for the client. Using BIM, as well as Autodesk tools, has enabled us to reach this level of maturity of delivering value to the end customer in order to ensure that some studies and concepts can be virtualized and stressed in advance, causing the least possible impact on the constructions. The objective of using BIM in a consultative engineering company is certainly given by the role of manager; therefore, we have as main characteristics of use the thought of monitoring and managing the enterprise, using the models for validations and changes in scope, planning assistance, attack plan analyzes, earth-moving analyzes, and so on.

Our planet is facing the biggest challenges seen in humanity’s lifetime: The environment at risk and being destroyed by humans, the acceleration of city growth, and the population acceleration in the megacities of tomorrow. The building industry consumes a large part of our natural resources. There's a big demand for houses and infrastructures to welcome these future populations, and buildings are generating a large portion of the carbon footprint on our planet. How can we overcome all these challenges and make a better world for our children and our children's children? Digital and BIM (Building Information Modeling) is certainly one of the best ways to bring some concrete and very pragmatic answers. In this class, you'll see how Autodesk's BIM and digital software are helping shape the beautiful world of tomorrow. Through very concrete examples and solutions, you'll see that sustainability is not a dream anymore.

FormIt Pro software is Autodesk's premier architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) 3D modeling and analysis environment for conceptual and computational design workflows. Take advantage of FormIt Pro in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to expand and diversify your services while designing with sustainability in mind. This class will show workflows that involve FormIt Pro and other products in the AEC Collection. Start your FormIt Pro model by assigning a location and importing a BIM context from InfraWorks software for 3D terrain, buildings, and roadways. Explore design options quickly and efficiently in FormIt Pro by integrating Dynamo graphs while controlling the graph through FormIt Pro software’s simple interface. Quantify and present design options by importing a FormIt Pro massing model into Revit software to quickly document space-planning and feasibility studies. Present real-time visualizations to clients by importing a more detailed FormIt Pro model into Revit for a walk-through, and continue to detail and document the design in Revit.

3D models help us to create better-quality products, but also help us to visualize our designs in various ways: 3D images, videos, games, 360 panoramas, virtual tours, augmented reality, virtual reality, and so on. All these are digital and are able to reach a big audience. Sometimes we need to step out of this digital world and go back to the basics! Brick Reality is a partly 3D printed and partly Lego build of a 3D road design. This class will show you how an InfraWorks model was made and turned into visualizations and a 3D-printed/Lego model.

Learn how you can use InfraWorks software to create base traffic models by importing surfaces, roads, and real traffic data, and defining traffic turning movements. Once the base model is completed, you can use InfraWorks Traffic Simulation to create construction proposals to understand how the level of service is impacted once lanes are shut down, and how an alternate intersection is created to simulate proper vehicle movements at the merging point.

There are powerful ways to improve your architecture, construction, and engineering workflows with 3D visualization. Discover how high-resolution aerial content, 3D, and AI from Nearmap can be used to solve specific and common challenges for Autodesk users to improve the quality of AEC designs and proposals. You’ll learn 5 ways to elevate your projects through terrain data, high-resolution imagery, textured mesh, point cloud, and building footprints derived from AI. We’ll cover the ins and outs of pulling Nearmap content into InfraWorks and various tools to make your proposal stand out. Set yourself up for success with proper integration between Nearmap, InfraWorks, and Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS, create common workflows and get relevant data in all the right places - for basemaps, digital twins, contours and topography, terrain themes, flood simulations, immersive conceptual design, and 3D visualization.

In this session, we'll showcase how to use drawing standardization, Autodesk proprietary formats, and publicly available information to quickly create dynamic near-real-time models of our sites in InfraWorks software. This process can often take hours to carefully insert each bit of information and set a style to carry out and get the desired look. However, by using drawing standards and InfraWorks rule sets, we can generate a site model in a fraction of the time—making this ideal for discussion with stakeholders and the public.

Creating custom bridge parts ready for modeling transportation projects in InfraWorks software can be challenging for the uninitiated. This class will provide the chance to learn how to create these parts using both the Revit and Inventor methodologies from scratch in a hands-on environment. We will look at the benefits of each method and how each can be incorporated into a transportation project and progressed through the workflow from modeling in InfraWorks to the documentation phase in Revit. These techniques will be worked through in the context of bridge engineering, but they will also be applicable to tunneling.

In this technical session, we'll go through the entire corridor workflow using the new corridor interface. Here we'll look at creating a corridor with multiple baselines (alignments and feature lines). We'll also add corridor transitions to the model and review best practices. We'll also incorporate several custom subassemblies into the model. This will be an in-depth look at ways these new tools can improve our corridor model.

See how you can use more of the products that you already own in Infrastructure Design Suite software. View how Building Information Modeling (BIM) can help you to extract additional value from your completed work.

Learn how high-resolution imagery products like True Ortho imagery, 3D textured mesh, 3D point clouds, and DSM/DTM can set the stage for designing the built environment, provide site-wide content at any scale, and help jumpstart any project. AI and machine learning help identify and extract raster and vector features that give context to the design. These AI features can include building footprints, impervious surfaces, vegetation levels, infrastructure locations, pavement markings, and more. These powerful datasets can be used as the source data for your design or can be further leveraged to create additional content like linear feature extraction, surfaces, contours, and 2D/3D project visualizations.

This topic was nominated as the focal topic for Autodesk CEO's investor relations AEC Q1 earnings call on May 28th. The pandemic has accelerated the use of technology in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. As we all settle into the "new normal,” there has been significant technological change. We can no longer create the same traditional design teams and expect to deliver on all of the coming infrastructure work. We must rethink how we build our teams to support all of our clients' needs. As we look to capitalize on immersive collaboration platforms, such as The Wild, we are adding entirely new skill sets and resources to our design teams, including immersive media specialists, digital delivery experts, trainers, and adoption strategists. This is enabling rapid growth to our business and changing the way we deliver our infrastructure projects. As a result, we're developing novel adoption strategies to ensure long-term success for our clients in this new digital reality.

This session begins with participants embarking on a concise yet enlightening journey through the evolution of CAD, culminating in the present day. The discussion will cover the advantages and challenges faced by today's designers and engineers before exploring Autodesks' end-to-end solutions which have been developed to help balance time and resources, and mitigate the chaos, by providing a logical and structured approach to specific design and engineering workflows such as Renovation & Adaptive Reuse, Embodied & Operational Carbon Management, and Site Feasibility Studies etc.