Have you ever poured your heart into a design, only to discover later it's impractical to build? Architects are constantly challenged by the manufacturability of products during design. The ability to assess this early is a critical need for architecture teams. To maintain details, design teams often resort to copying elements from past projects leading to outdated solutions. By the time designers and manufacturers connect, the design is largely set, leaving limited options. What if you could design with the certainty that your vision can become a reality, seamlessly integrating into the world of industrialized construction? Autodesk Informed Design for Revit software is a solution that brings manufacturing information to the beginning of the design process. In this session, we'll learn how architects can use informed design to collaborate with subcontractors to share manufacturing model data. We'll discuss how this workflow can improve project certainty and prevent reworks.

More than 80% of Autodesk customers have said they're prioritizing climate action as a top UN Sustainability Goal. However, they're facing practical obstacles, such as navigating the maze of data collection to the hurdles of interoperability and nuanced analysis. Join this panel discussion with sustainability tech partners Oris, EHDD, One Click LCA, and SimaPro as they discuss how technology enables customers to achieve sustainable outcomes even amid these challenges. By showcasing real-world examples and sharing insights, they'll illustrate how innovative solutions can pave the way for transformative change, even in the face of daunting data obstacles. Join us as we discuss the evolving landscape where sustainability and technology converge. Discover the emerging trends and innovations that promise to reshape the way we approach sustainability in architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing. Together, we'll navigate the complexities, uncover opportunities, and catalyze a data-driven shift toward a greener tomorrow.

There is a global need to improve how we design and manage our water resources and facilities. The industry is learning new ways to meet their digital delivery goals by leveraging Autodesk tools to be the foundation for these types of projects. In this session, we will discuss project types (including dams, wastewater and water treatment and distribution facilities) and how to create a higher quality set of deliverables to create a true smart water network. We will also review how owners and clients can benefit for their projects and began to initiate new processes and workflows to take advantage of the content. Learn how to take your projects to new next level and improve outcomes with Revit and other Autodesk tools to meet your digital twin objectives.

Pierlite (business of Signify, formerly Philips Lighting) had a vision to supply project quantities of bespoke lighting products, designed by customers in real time and manufactured within a week. To deliver this unique value proposition to the market, Pierlite partnered with Tentech to design a new business model. This collaboration involved the implementation of Minute Configurator, a configuration interface and engine used to integrate product data, purchasing, planning, and production. Minute Configurator used parameterized models and a generation engine to let users customize lighting solutions, displaying a live 3D render and providing instant technical data. Production was streamlined with automated ordering and optimization of manufacturing processes, delivering a reduction in human resource. Configuration can revolutionize a broad range of product development processes, delivering speed, customization, and a new user experience.

Managing external rules presents challenges, including where to store them. For instance, is a network location secure enough? The speaker has faced this conundrum firsthand, and will demonstrate how Inventor software, iLogic, Vault software, and coding expertise enable a transition to a secure Vault environment. By using Vault software's advantages—such as revision control, lifecycle states, and permission management—we ensure safer, more organized external rule storage. Furthermore, we'll explore methods for keeping rules up to date and best practices for managing changes in a collaborative, multi-developer environment. With the right tools and knowledge, we maximize Inventor and Vault.

Hear the story of how Cascadia Structural Timber Solutions went from being a small hand fabrication and truss manufacturer to a fast-growing glulam fabricator, looking to lead the way in new mass timber buildings using Informed Design in Inventor software. The mass timber industry is on the rise, and with it comes unique challenges on the jobsite. As many projects move to a hybrid of steel and wood, we need to be able to provide products that can be easily used and understood early in the design process. With Informed Design we can predefine structural members—from columns to beams to preassembled trusses—that can be added at the beginning of the design process. We can provide flexibility for our customers by giving them specific parameters they can change while still allowing the design to be easy to manufacture. With our push to implement lean manufacturing principles, these designs allow us to scale our business and increase profitability while providing a great experience for our customers.

Explore groundbreaking ways to interact with your CAD data using AI. In this session, coolOrange CEO Marco Mirandola will dive into how integrating Azure AI search capabilities and Azure OpenAI language models with Vault software can transform data management. Discover how natural language queries can simplify searches for specific components, and see how Azure Cognitive Services can analyze and classify CAD data, offering insights into data structure and design trends. This session will feature live prototypes, encouraging attendees to envision new AI-enhanced workflows.

Join us as we unveil EcoDesigner, a groundbreaking web app powered by SimaPro, the leading lifecycle analysis (LCA) solution. As we transition toward integrated sustainability focused on value creation, EcoDesigner stands at the forefront, enabling designers and nondesigners to access and collaborate on environmental assessments, amplifying the positive impact of their designs. By seamlessly extracting essential product data from Autodesk Fusion and Inventor software, EcoDesigner facilitates LCA calculations from any location and at any time. Discover how this tool can help you understand the carbon footprints of your designs and pinpoint areas for improvement, guiding you toward more-sustainable options. Learn how to identify hotspots for improvement and make informed eco-design decisions. This session will open new avenues in sustainable design, offering insights and practical tools to enrich your projects. Witness firsthand how EcoDesigner is revolutionizing sustainability in design.

You've seen how iLogic automation can tame tedious and error-prone tasks and make you and your fellow Inventor users more efficient. Now it's time to explore some of the often-overlooked tips, tricks, and tools that can assist you as an Inventor automation developer. Are you still using message boxes to debug? Would you like to learn a better way? Would you like to better understand how to navigate Inventor software's API? Would you like to present your iLogic rules as buttons on the ribbon menu? Join me and other Inventor automation-focused users like you to explore these productivity-enhancing tips and tricks.

We'll explore the challenges and strategic solutions associated with our company's shift from SolidWorks software to Inventor software, as well as our simultaneous implementation of Vault software. This transition involved overcoming substantial technical and operational hurdles. We'll provide insights into the specific issues we faced during the integration process, such as legacy data compatibility, custom property migration, and user adoption. And then we'll share how we addressed these issues in order to achieve the company's goal of 10% year-on-year growth.

Increasing need for data and AI is creating unprecedented demand for data-center capacity, while social and regulatory pressure demands reduced energy and water consumption. Serial hyperscale, co- location, and "edge" clients are driving innovation in design and industrialization, using digital libraries of configurable, scalable solutions for repeatable, standardized designs that can be amended to suit local codes and site constraints. Benefits include that solutions capture and optimize for a wide range of stakeholder needs. In addition, creating rules-based relationships allows design automation, and site-specific designs are created in hours. The approach facilitates supply chain input—using standard products reduces lead times and alleviates pressure on suppliers. Individual elements can be refined "offline" and reintroduced when ready—critical for bringing in new technology for cooling and decarbonization without total redesign. Automotive does this well, leading to continual improvement, not constant reinvention.

This hands-on lab will introduce engineers and designers to the world of using CAM to program computer numerical control (CNC) machines and its connection to the design process. Through a series of guided exercises in Autodesk Fusion CAM, you'll gain practical experience in setting up stock material and coordinate systems, choosing tools, defining machining operations (including machining boundaries), simulating the toolpaths, and generating G-code for a CNC milling machine. This session will equip you to better communicate with CAM programmers and optimize your designs for manufacturability.

Join this session as Dan shares the development road map and product strategy for Inventor Professional software. The presentation will cover recent and planned functionality that will add value to your everyday workflow needs. We encourage you to engage with Dan and members of the Inventor Engineering team with questions and feedback during and after the session.

Join us for a hands-on lab session at AU, where we aim to break down obstacles within the manufacturing and construction industry. Our focus will be on reducing rework in product and design decisions, resulting in more-efficient production processes. In this class, we'll explore how Autodesk's Informed Design tools can help minimize errors and enhance processes. We'll emphasize promoting cohesive work between design and supply chain teams. You will put these tools to the test in product design, building design, and manufacturing output. We'll also welcome your feedback on usability and efficacy. By participating, you'll gain insights into new workflows and uncover possible processes that use Autodesk's Informed Design software. Our objective is to ascertain what you, the user, find valuable, and how we can help eliminate industry silos.

Road infrastructure consists of many simple elements—road signs, traffic barriers, traffic lights, and so on. Creating and placing them separately in large infrastructure projects can be very labor intensive. In this technical presentation, we’ll demonstrate how to automate the creation of an intelligent model for road infrastructure using Dynamo scripts and universal Revit families. This class will teach you how to organize a geographic information system (GIS) system of a traffic management plan in Civil 3D software and effectively transfer it to an InfraWorks model. Learn how to set up an effective link between a 2D plan and the consolidated intelligent model in accordance with the information embedded in the vector objects. We’ll also cover the creation of parametric barriers in Inventor software for InfraWorks, and how to apply parametric barriers for component roads in InfraWorks. See a demonstration of the Dynamo script that places barriers on the appropriate position in the consolidated model in accordance with the attributes of the barrier’s points from the 2D plan.

At Autodesk, we strive to break down the silos within the industry and reduce the rework required from design to manufacture, and vice versa. By achieving this, we aim to reduce defects and improve efficiencies while promoting collaborative work between design and the supply chain. We invite you to participate in a hands-on lab class where you can test out Autodesk Manufacturing Informed Design toolset across product design, building design and then output to manufacturing and provide feedback on its usability and effectiveness. Through this experience, you'll gain insight into new workflows and identify potential new processes that leverage MID. Our goal is to validate what is valuable to you as a user and help break down industry silos.

Autodesk Inventor is a powerful platform that you can adapt to suit your workflow. But, no one ever teaches you how! In this practical hands-on lab, we will learn how drawing borders, title blocks, and tables are created and formatted and can be saved into a template drawing file. Learn how you can reduce busywork, increase the professional presentation of your drawings and standardize your drawings to your regional, industry, or company CAD standard.

This session will highlight key innovations from the smallest efficiencies to large workflows that are being delivered and our strategies for the future. Join us to learn about all of the new tools inside Inventor that will delight you daily and unlock new design methodologies that help you innovate. The Inventor Product Management team along with our development organization will be there to wow you with product, take your feedback and answer your questions.

Additive manufacturing (AM), better known as 3D printing, is disrupting the manufacturing industry. Its capabilities and build processes make additive technologies ideal for applications such as light-weighting and component consolidation. In order to fully capitalize on the awesome power of AM, an understanding of the technology and its limitations is crucial. However, this is not a natural skill for most designers and engineers. Since AM is so new and different from traditional manufacturing, it comes with a completely different set of design considerations. When properly understood and applied, design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) can vastly improve printing times and it results in higher-quality parts. This class will focus on general design practices that apply to all types of AM, including metal (SLM) and polymer materials. Lab dataset is available at https://autode.sk/3pCQ0xQ

Design Automation for Inventor software generally enables the desktop APIs to be used in the cloud—similar to how they would work on the desktop, but without the need of any installed software or dependent licenses. An additional, easily overlooked advantage of Design Automation for Inventor is its capability to run iLogic scripts in the cloud. These scripts being embedded in the CAD file itself can be programmed to auto execute under certain conditions. This class will address taking advantage of this capability to combine the Forge Design Automation API with iLogic to create a configurator by modifying an input Inventor file (IPT) in the cloud, according to the inputs provided by the user on an easy-to-use user interface. The results can be viewed immediately on a web browser using the Forge Viewer API, and are available for download in multiple formats such as IPT, IDW, and PDF. This web application sample uses the latest web technologies and is OS independent and mobile-device friendly.