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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.

New Orleans 2022
Infrastructure Project Delivery with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Autodesk Forma
This course will outline the steps to take your infrastructure project from planning into design, on to construction, and finally to operations. The Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection connected with Autodesk Forma will empower designers, owners, and stakeholders to communicate seamlessly during the entire duration of the project. Key elements include Civil 3D-to-Revit workflows, InfraWorks simulations, bridge workflows, clash detection analysis, and collaboration and model coordination in Autodesk Forma. With Autodesk Forma, we’ll demonstrate how contractors can have access to live design documents and files.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
How Do You Get Architects to Care About Data?
Architects aren’t exactly known for loving data. But what happens when bad data costs you money—and reputation? In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of A-lab’s shift to becoming a data-forward studio that clients see as partners, not just consultants. Through a strategic collaboration with start-up AnkerDB and established industry systems like Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Platform Services, Revit software, and Microsoft Power BI, A-lab transformed its Project Delivery workflows, building a connected data ecosystem beyond BIM, to support real-time collaboration, transparency, and carbon-conscious design. We’ll share our “proof of concept” of BIM for lifecycle analysis—linking design and environmental data with benchmarks like BREEAM and the EU taxonomy. With live dashboards and automated workflows, this method boosts client trust, cuts CO2 budgets, and reshapes internal attitudes toward data. Perfect for anyone building the case for data-driven workflows in a skeptical environment.
55p
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
Efficient Digital Operating Model—Technology Is Not an Absolute Value
A small business from Finland recognized wasteful practices in real estate lifecycle's workflows and decided to tackle that waste by developing an efficient, digital operating model around Forma software and its integrations. It was essential to discard many old practices as obsolete and unsuitable for digital workflow. Technology wasn’t considered to hold any value itself; it was simply an enabler and facilitator. Our approach differs from the giants of our industry. We optimize with smaller projects, then move on to bigger ones. The strength of the model is its scalability. As a company that does construction project management, we affect the industry as a whole—owners, designers, contractors. Explore the traditional methods we wanted to discard and the key factors we wanted to master. Discover how we expanded scope, from efficiency factors to utilizing lean principles and dialectic models. This class will bring you everything we’ve learned so far and examine what comes next.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Connecting the Dots with Point Clouds, the AEC Collection, BIM 360, and Forma
Point clouds are more than just dots in space. They represent existing walls, doors, pipes, ground surfaces and so much more. They represent millions and millions of individual pieces of information. And because of this, their file size can be enormous and often difficult to work with. But it doesn't have to be that way. This class will demonstrate ways that you can take advantage of the new scan-to-mesh and publish features in ReCap Pro to share, view, comment, and collaborate on your point clouds. We'll also look at ways you can utilize point clouds in an efficient and effective manner by extracting only the relevant information for your design.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Scaling Forma in an Enterprise
Are you curious how a 96-year-old company innovates? Today, the amount of new technology available can be overwhelming to organizations—from point solutions that solve one problem to platforms that require strategy around deployment. Barton Malow faced many of those challenges when overhauling software solutions. In this session, we will walk through the journey that Barton Malow took to modernize and transform business development through project operations. We'll lay out the techniques that the firm used to scale deployment of tools like BIM 360 software, BuildingConnected, and Assemble software. We will also cover how to cultivate a "super user" base to scale within an enterprise for success. In this class we’ll uncover best practices deployed to transform enterprise tools, including capitalizing on Microsoft Teams and learning management systems, and we’ll discuss metrics that are lighthouses informing Barton Malow how to scale Forma.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Enhanced Efficiency and Quality to Engineer Factories and Process Plants
This class will showcase groundbreaking advancements in the engineering process and project execution achieved through the seamless integration of Autodesk tools. Discover how our innovative approach utilizes Autodesk Inventor and Vault for factories and process plants, empowering users to select and automatically convert Inventor models into Navisworks for seamless integration into Forma (B360) projects. Additionally, we will demonstrate efficient Brownfield project capturing using Autodesk Platform Services (shared Views, B360) and the CINTOO platform, enabling us to create high-quality 3D planning by integrating precise laser scans into our designs. We will also explore the powerful simplifying and streamlining complex steel structure modeling to be used in Inventor.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Ditch the Server – All in project management with Forma
Come learn how Civil Engineering firm WSB moved nearly 400 users and over 400 projects from the network to Forma in one year and ditched the server. We'll cover lessons learned along the way and improving file management techniques. How to manage Desktop Connector and Civil 3D and techniques to reduce file management errors and circular references. Learn how to utilize file naming templates to optimize company file management standards. Dive into the user management system and how to optimize managing users, permissions and project templates. Leveraging Bridge to establish connections across projects and clients utilizing Forma. We will finish the course with bringing the entire team together, whether they use a CAD platform or not. Learn how to use the review tools, markups and create issues and leverage quality management tools that keep the team communicating and connected. Are you ready to ditch the server and make the move to the cloud?
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Optimizing AEC Workflows with Autodesk Forma and Workato Automation, Integration, & Customizations
This session will explore Autodesk Forma, and Workato’s Autodesk Forma Connect integration, enhancing project efficiency and accuracy through Automation, Integration, & Customization. Using a real-world example from Sener’s metro line extension project in Canada, custom Workato recipes streamline file sharing and deliverable management. Automation, Integration, & Customizations include batch file renaming, transferring files across complex folder structures based on metadata, and integrating SharePoint with Autodesk Forma. These innovations improve collaboration between Sener and its customer, leading to smoother workflows, time and cost savings, and better control over project data. The session will showcase Automation, Integration, & Customizations simplifying project management processes by automatically renaming and organizing files using custom attributes and internal review and bridge workflows. Autodesk Forma Connect (Workato) tools reduce manual effort and minimize errors. Notably, the savings in this project are estimated to exceed 5,000 hours per year.
43p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Revit 2026 and Beyond: What’s New, Improved, and Unexpected
Revit 2026.0, 2026.1, 2026.2 and 2026.3 introduce significant enhancements aimed at boosting productivity and streamlining BIM workflows in the AEC industry. Key highlights include accelerated graphics for smoother navigation, expanded site and topography tools, and the new ReCap Pro plugin for seamless integration of reality capture data. User-driven improvements—such as more flexible compound structures and refined annotation tools—reflect direct feedback from the Revit Ideas page, ensuring the release addresses real project needs. This session offers an in-depth look at the top features, including live demonstrations of integration with Dynamo, Autodesk Forma, and Data Exchange to optimize design and documentation. Attendees will see practical applications across architecture, MEP, and structural disciplines, gaining actionable insights to leverage Revit 2026’s latest advancements for more efficient, collaborative, and future-ready project delivery.
67p
78p
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to ArcGIS GeoBIM and the Forma

Get on the road to cloud-cloud integration between geographic information system (GIS) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) with ArcGIS GeoBIM and Forma software. This instructional demo will showcase customer examples of the benefits gained from the fusion of geography and BIM data for project portfolio management, collaboration, and construction project insights informed by geography. By following best practices for geolocating intelligent models, AutoCAD software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Revit software, users can help ensure effective integration of these models in GIS. This reduces the cost of integration by ensuring upfront data quality. To facilitate this, ArcGIS GeoBIM provides analytics to identify documents with geolocation errors. Managing and visualization issues during the design, construction, and handover of BIM projects is crucial for financial and operational performance. We will show how the integration of GIS and BIM with project and issue performance dashboards significantly improves insights into these critical aspects of project management.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Autodesk Tools Customization Aids BIM Implementation in Sanitation Company
Brazil has undergone significant legislative changes in recent years and has the bold, yet necessary, goal to universalize water and sewage services by 2033. That challenge has driven building information modeling (BIM) implementation in sanitation companies, which encouraged the Brazilian company SANEAGO to use and customize Forma Data Management and the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection tools for its context. Similar to other sanitation concessionaires, SANEAGO currently deals with large project volume, developed by several different design companies, for the 226 municipalities it operates. This makes document management, standardization, collaboration, project analysis, and project design quite challenging. In this talk, we'll discuss the CAD-BIM transition, covering not only software usage, but also company diagnosis, policies, and project standards establishment, which involves changes in the design processes and in the organizational culture as a whole, in order to raise BIM maturity within the company and its entire ecosystem.
Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024
Cloud Coordination Model with Changes Awareness in Revit
Unleash the power of Revit software's Coordination Model Changes! Say goodbye to the tedium of manually tracking overlapping elements across disciplines, and welcome a sleek, cloud-based solution. This innovative tool instantly identifies modifications, additions, or deletions right in your Revit canvas/views. Experience effortless change detection with intuitive highlighting, clear object hierarchies, and filters tailored to your interests. Embrace the future of project management where your focus remains where it should be—on your design, not on tracking changes.
Panel / Nashville 2025
Common Data Club: AEC Tools on Forma Data Management
Autodesk software empowers intelligent and connected design collaboration across teams and platforms, enhancing design efficiency and streamlining project management. Discover how you and your team can unlock this transformative experience by integrating the capabilities of Forma Data Management—a cloud-based Management and common data environment—with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) tools: AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Revit software. A panel discussion will tackle the industry’s pressing challenges around collaboration and information exchange, showcasing the advantages of adopting cloud-based workflows. By enabling information sharing among project partners, the Autodesk ecosystem becomes even more valuable for users. Join us to see how Forma Data Management can break down the information barriers and get you on the path toward the Autodesk Forma industry cloud for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Revit users.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Workflows Between BuildingConnected and Autodesk Forma
This class aims to help professionals in the construction industry optimize their preconstruction workflows using BuildingConnected and Autodesk Forma. You'll learn how to maximize the capabilities of BuildingConnected's bid procurement features in conjunction with Autodesk Forma document management capabilities to streamline your bid management process, along with the seamless transfer of data from bidding to project management. Additionally, you'll learn about automating workflows.
5p
New Orleans 2022
Giant Steps: Advances in Seamless BIM, CAD, and GIS Integration
Learn from the product managers how the Autodesk and Esri partnership is advancing design and geographic information system (GIS) collaboration that benefits the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner/operators industry. The intersection of building information modeling (BIM), CAD, and GIS provides incredible insights to enhance project delivery at every level. The functionality between Autodesk and Esri desktops, and collaborative web applications like ArcGIS GeoBIM, are improving workflows and transparency for project teams. The improvements in direct support for RVT, DWG™, and IFC in ArcGIS Pro, and support for hosted GIS feature service in Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Map 3D software, and AutoCAD software help bring together design and GIS data. The direct cloud connection between Autodesk Forma and ArcGIS Online/Enterprise offers exponential benefits to help manage the project content for stakeholders. The ability to publish Autodesk data directly to ArcGIS Online/Enterprise for use in shared web and field applications expands the value of the data far beyond the design professionals.
New Orleans 2022
Accelerating Industrialized Construction Through Configurators for pDfMA
In 2017, the U.K. government funded an analysis of the various costs associated with a typical construction project, and identified that for every pound spent, just more than 51% results in residual asset value for the client. The Construction Innovation Hub (CIH) was subsequently established with the vision to cause change and demonstrate better solutions to deliver the U.K. government £35 billion pipeline. The chosen strategy was to develop, prototype, and test platform solutions (pDFMA), with a common “kit of parts.” This would demonstrate the delivery of better outcomes for social infrastructure. Integral to the strategy was the use of a new digital toolchain to unlock the approach. Grimshaw Architects, Buro Happold engineers, and Mace Construction were commissioned to develop a new suite of configurators to enable the "kit of parts” approach during procurement and delivery.
New Orleans 2022
Microsoft Power BI to Maximize BIM and GIS Integration
Building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) integration has become an essential part of large-scale projects. While a massive amount of information is produced during the project lifecycle, it’s sometimes hard to use it because it’s trapped inside the BIM and GIS software. This becomes an obstacle for non-users of BIM and GIS—especially on decision-maker levels and from project management perspectives. Using business intelligence software, Microsoft Power BI, and the support of other software like Autodesk Forge and VCAD, Power BI will be able to present intelligent models and GIS layers in an interactive way connected with all types of trackers. In this session, the speaker will present how they created an information center that acts as the single source of truth for their projects using the interactive connection between Power BI, BIM 360 software, ArcGIS, and trackers in Microsoft Excel to give all team members access to up-to-date information.
New Orleans 2022
Improving Efficiencies by Using Autodesk Assemble Data with Autodesk Forma Connect
IMC Construction is one of the largest contractors in the Philadelphia region, and a full-service construction management firm that takes pride in providing an innovative and collaborative approach to project delivery for clients. IMC is using Autodesk Assemble software to condition and append data to their models, enhancing the models to be ready for review at any moment. IMC then uses Autodesk Forma Connect to take advantage of the firm’s enhanced models and data throughout the project lifecycle. With the power of this integration, IMC can track cost drivers to stay in line with its planned budget, as well as collect and compare historical data to identify design inefficiencies, and track productivity on site. By maximizing the power of Autodesk Assemble to condition and enhance models—and the power of Autodesk Forma Connect to link data across the project lifecycle—IMC has improved the efficiency of this workflow by more than 90%, simultaneously increasing their competitive advantage and the quality of the projects they deliver.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
Workflows to develop, manage & integrate Infrastructure BIM Projects
The year is 2021, and BIM is steadily becoming the norm in the industry. While Building projects have welcomed BIM, there still is a lot to explore when it comes to Infrastructure projects in India, especially in the case of higher levels of details (LOD) model requirements. In this talk, we will look at some case studies from large Indian construction projects where Autodesk tools were successfully utilized for taking BIM to a new level, with construction and fabrication workflows in mind. Additionally, aspects of modern, cloud-based project management using tools from Autodesk Forma shall be discussed and how the data within the models can be connected to other applications by leveraging the power of Autodesk Forge platform will be covered.
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