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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Site Grading with Corridors: Are We There Yet?

Grading parking lots incorporates complex design concepts and creative use of Civil 3D tools. Feature lines have always been the reliable standard, but recent additions to corridors make their inclusion a must. Through a combination of new features and solid workflows, we can now produce a faster, more dynamic process while still maintaining flexibility. We'll begin this class with a story of how Kimley-Horn and Autodesk collaborated to improve site design by improving how curbs are built using corridors. The ability to now create dozens of baselines and regions in a few clicks (along with other recent new features and conditional subassemblies) makes for a much faster workflow. We'll also give guidance on when to use corridors, feature lines, or both. We believe corridors for parking lot grading has finally arrived! Join John Armendariz and Brian Levendowski, along with Tim Yarris, Civil 3D product manager, to learn about these new tools, and how to apply them to your projects.

13p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Beyond the Blueprint: Exploring XR for AEC with the Autodesk Workshop XR Team

Unlock new levels of collaboration and coordination in your architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects with Autodesk Workshop XR software. In this session, you'll learn how data from Construction Cloud can be accessed in real time within a virtual workspace, significantly enhancing your project workflows. Our Workshop XR experts will be on hand to address your questions and demonstrate how virtual environments enable users to walk through Construction Cloud models, ensuring faster identification of spatial issues that often go unnoticed through traditional methods.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

First Look at the All-New Revit Residential Content Pack

The latest Revit release includes a new collection of residential-focused content. In this first-look session, we will explore this new content pack and learn how best to use it in your projects. New content items include both loadable and system families and cover diverse items such as fireplaces, shower doors, and EV vehicle chargers. Leveraging existing window families, a new collection of shutters is now included. If your next project includes a yard or patio, you’ll find items like backyard sheds, firepits and even an Adirondack chair. This session will focus on exploring these new items and showing best practice ways to incorporate them into your next design. Join us to see new stretchable schematic casework items, closet system items and even a selection of exercise equipment.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Revit Family Editor Fundamentals

This session is going to walk through the intricacies of creating a parametric family. Gain an understanding of the proper uses of reference planes and reference lines to create the skeleton of the family. We’ll then get into the creation of different types of solids, along with the tools to make a functioning parametric family.

44p

11p

Panel / San Diego 2024

Breaking Barriers: LGBTQ+ Leaders in Design Technology

The future of design and technology hinges on diversity. A 2022 McKinsey report states that diversity boosts profitability and innovation. LGBTQ+ leaders bring fresh perspectives, but unconscious bias and a lack of role models have historically hindered their contributions. This panel will ignite, fostering inclusive workplaces and showcasing stories of empowerment and innovation. Join us and help build a future where everyone thrives.

14p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

SSEN must expand its transmission infrastructure to meet growth in offshore wind generation by 2030, with an expected project spend of £1 Billion/year. To meet the challenges, a few key individuals, empowered by their leadership team, embraced Autodesk design & collaboration tools to develop new digital ways of working on in-flight pilot projects. With a mantra of "fail fast and fix," the teams delivered quick wins during live projects focusing on efficiency and re-use of data. The result was scalable project solutions for project delivery across the organisation worth in excess of £4 billion. The case study will discuss how a practical people-focused approach took SSEN on a journey from 3D modelling on pilot schemes to delivering multi-billion pounds of infrastructure project work using a detailed set of BIM protocols and a well developed in-house design team. They will share lessons, successes, and tips for quick wins all while delivering the day job.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Innovating with Digital Twins: Strategy and Application in BAM's Construction Projects

In this class, we'll explore the importance of a digital-twin strategy, discuss strategic takeaways, and demonstrate how we used Autodesk Tandem software to realize a digital twin for risk reduction during a construction project. Digital twin technology is a vital solution for BAM and its clients, helping to address societal challenges and accelerate the execution with digital solutions. Recognizing the diversity of our projects, we've developed a digital-twin strategy to unify our vision and approach. This strategy, along with proof of concepts with Tandem, offers a clear understanding of the digital twin for BAM, and details its benefits for BAM and its employees, partners, and clients. This has helped BAM to further enhance its organizational readiness for digital-twin deployment, enhanced understanding of digital-twin technology, and increased market competitiveness. Join us to discover how to strategically incorporate and test digital twins into your operations for a future-ready approach.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Five Advanced Mechanical Analysis Techniques in Revit for Sustainable Space Design

Mechanical modeling in Revit software entails creating graphical information in 2D and 3D. However, the efficacy of mechanical systems lies in comprehensively analyzing the nongraphical information within the model. This session will showcase how to analyze every duct and pipe segment in mechanical systems to meet design constraints. We will demonstrate how to ensure that every part of a mechanical system is logically and physically connected for optimal performance. We'll illustrate system flow and engineering inspections within mechanical intelligent models in Revit. And we'll showcase how to size mechanical equipment to overcome every system pressure standing in the way of best performance. The session will also demonstrate the extraction of information from intelligent models for optimal performance and design improvements.

25p