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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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
CAD and BIM Manager's Handbook 2013
CAD/BIM management requires a diverse set of management skills. This class provides tips, tricks, technologies, tools, and strategies to better manage your company's CAD/BIM environment. We discuss problem identification, problem solving, user motivation, senior management support, budgeting, training program justification, objection handling and more. As the class progresses, you complete a self-evaluation to help you prioritize your management action items and quantify the savings you can generate via better management practices. This class is product agnostic, so don't worry about what discipline you support as a CAD manager. If you are frustrated by the management aspect of your job, this class gives you the tools to succeed.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2017
Using LOD for Coordination
In this presentation, we'll highlight how using level of development (LOD) status by element helps model authors know how complete their models are. We'll also demonstrate how, at different coordination events in a project, all parties can use LOD to indicate to each other their completion of design in the project by using the LOD score as a trigger for other dependent trades to move forward with their design efforts. For example, a structural engineer can use LOD element status in his or her own structural model to know what parts of the model are still subject to change. When the structural engineer is finished with exterior columns and many of the internal columns, those confirmed elements have a LOD status of 350. However, the steel around the internal elevator shaft area will be at a LOD status of 300 because the elevator equipment hasn't been selected yet. By visualizing the LOD status at a glance, the structural engineers know where the model still needs attention.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017
Design to Fabrication then Fabrication ESTmep: Using the Design Model for Estimating Using Fabrication Parts
Have you started seeing Revit files from architects or engineers at bid time? Do the projects that your CAD department is currently working on have access to the Revit files? Even if this is not the case, but you would like to take advantage of the Revit Design to Fabrication Parts, this is the class for you. In this class, we will review your options on how to use the Revit file design items into Fabrication Parts directly inside of Revit. Once we've converted the Revit design items, we'll learn how to export a .MAJ file out of Revit and open it with Fabrication ESTmep software. Once we've opened the file in Fabrication ESTmep, we'll look at options to review pricing and labor along with running reports and data exports.
London 2018
Revit to Advance Steel Collaboration Method
This session focuses on understanding the collaboration workflow from Revit to Advance Steel and using the Revit add-in for data transfer. This interface creates the SMLX file, but users struggle to understand or have the correct setup installed to allow for this to operate. We'll look behind the interface and understand the process and the mechanism that are being used to create this bi-directional workflow for steel members, steel connections, and other associated elements.
Virtual 2021
Ask Me Anything: Autodesk Tandem Roadmap
Have questions about Autodesk Tandem or the product roadmap? Join the Autodesk Tandem team at Autodesk University and get them answered live.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
2D to 3D: What Not to Do
Transitioning your company from 2D AutoCAD® software to 3D BIM, civil, or mechanical modeling is tough, but you already knew that. In this class, we learn the key factors of 3D work process success by examining common causes of transitional failure. Key topics include user transition, software transition, ideal hardware configurations, IT issues, training, standards, and management support. We use a chronological approach, taking you from required planning and budgeting to testing through implementation and training. Along the way, real-world tips on how to manage resistance to change and management hesitancy are presented in the framework of saving time and money. No matter where you are in your company's 2D to 3D transition, you're sure to pick up a few good ideas on what not to do in this informative class.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2017
Fabrication Parts in Revit: The Transition Continues—2 Years in, Where Are We Now?
In this class, we'll discuss using Fabrication Parts in Revit software from Comfort Systems' point of view. We'll discuss the current state, the struggles the firm has encountered so far, and what it has done with the API to enhance Fabrication Parts in Revit with the 2018 release. You'll also see examples of models created using Fabrication Parts, what we can do with the data from these models, and how Comfort Systems is fabricating from them.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
Life After Revit: How to Stop Being a BIM Manager and Start Being a Leader
As disruptive technologies compress work that used to require the efforts of many into work that now requires fewer staff to accomplish the same tasks and for less money, it's time to start looking outside of the traditional roles in the architectural and design arena. This class teaches you how to take full advantage of your decades of experience in BIM to move into new roles and opportunities you didn't know existed. In the process, you can discover which companies are willing to pay a premium for expertise.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017
Creating Revit Templates for Fabrication Parts in Revit
In this class, we'll cover the creation of Revit templates with focus on using Fabrication Parts in Revit. We'll cover the hows and whys, and, more specifically, focus on managing title blocks, Schedules, Tag Families, Visibility Graphics, and Filters.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017
Fabrication Parts in Revit—30 Tips in 60 Minutes
Learn 30 tips and tricks specifically tailored to Fabrication Parts and workflows in Revit software. No frills or long lectures- just a few product veterans in a tag-team-style, rapid-fire demonstration. This session will be fast paced, so we'll have no time for questions, but we'll gladly follow up with all attendees after Autodesk University to address any questions.
Industry Talk / London 2018
BIM on Large-Scale Projects
So you just won a major new project and your client has told you to go buy a big box of BIM Level 9 with the Collaboration & CDE add-ons. You've booked a meeting room too, so things just got real. Luckily, we've banged our heads against this wall for you, so come hear some of our stories on projects ranging from the new Heathrow expansion to Biomes in China or the Oman desert and others in between. We'll discuss challenges such as mobilisation, the human side of BIM (TM), data workflows and how we tackled them, and more.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018
Connect Assemble to Microsoft Excel & Sage Estimating
Looking for ways to easily incorporate 5D BIM into your existing workflows? Join this session to learn how Assemble can easily connect your quantities from the BIM model to your existing Microsoft Excel estimating templates or your Sage estimating databases.  Streamline your takeoff process and eliminates tedious, time-consuming workflows.
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2017
Revit Schedules vs Fabrication Reports
Now what? You've modeled and coordinated a beautiful project and it's time for documentation. Getting the data out of data rich LOD 400 Fabrication Parts is the key to a successful BIM process. Learn how to build and edit the traditional Revit Schedules while understanding their purpose and limitations. Then we will take it up a notch into Fabrication Reports where the "I" in BIM becomes the most important factor in the success of your projects.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2017
Computational BIM Workshop and Forum - Closing Session
Theater Talk / 2023
A Digital Transformation Journey in Construction
Theater Talk / 2024
State of Design & Make:​ A Conversation on ​AI, Sustainability, ​and Resilience
Theater Talk / 2024
Standardizing BIM Data for Embodied Carbon Analysis
Theater Talk / 2024
The Importance of Human Judgment in AI-Driven Design
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