The Summit will focus on customer-driven discussions, from the evolution of project-delivery best practices to customer-driven technology presentations. The discussion will focus on emerging technology and workflow/process change that is empowering connected Building Information Modeling (BIM) in transportation. We'll be focusing on transportation and having in-depth conversations on addressing key issues in transportation and direction that technology should go to support complex, cross-disciplinary projects. New this year we'll focus on the construction needs of the transportation segment. Networking opportunities during hosted break and pre-reception.

In this class, you’ll learn how to approach creation challenges in a procedural manner. We’ll use the creation of a roller coaster ride to see how fast you can iterate when procedural tools are built to help model complex systems such as roller coaster models. We’ll also see how to create virtual reality (VR) experiences from the roller coasters that we’ll create. We’ll see how fast we can experience, change, and experience again the rides, enabling for quick in-context turnarounds at the design level. We’ll use 3ds Max software’s creation graph to create procedural models and animations, then we’ll use Stingray game engine to build the VR experience. And since experience is key in VR, we’ll study some tricks to enhance the environment with various types of animated assets. This session features 3ds Max and Autodesk Stingray. AIA Approved

The media and entertainment industry is faced with increased demand for high-quality visual effects—and shrinking production schedules and budget. Studios need to provide graphics applications for employees and freelancers from any location, foster collaboration, and minimize IT and real estate costs, while ensuring that IP is secure. To provide a native workstation-like experience for artists, companies are looking toward virtual desktop infrastructure powered by NVIDIA virtual GPU technology and Teradici cloud-access software. Learn how two leading visual effects and animation studios are meeting the demands of artists performing computer animation and modeling on Maya software from anywhere, while maintaining a high-quality user experience. See how you can use the latest NVIDIA RTX technology that lets Arnold boost performance for interactive rendering as compared to rendering with CPU only, along with the added security of Teradici PCoIP protocol.

In this round-table discussion we will briefly give an overview of the Autodesk, Inc., engagement in the various industry consortia and the existing interfaces for the process plant industry and the oil and gas industry. We would like to learn which interfaces and data formats you're using when you exchange PIDs, line lists, bills of materials, 3D piping, steel, and equipment models with all the associated data. Which interface are you using to receive data from FEED (front end engineering design) and to hand over to stress calculation, project management, and procurement system? Which standards are useful, which have obstacles? What can Autodesk and other software vendors do to enable a better collaboration? Which industry activities and standards should we support? Come and let us know.

You may not have a creative bone in your body, nor some great repressed talent. It doesn't matter; this can't stop you from orchestrating the most incredible feats of creativity and innovation. Now, more than ever, everyone needs to be that much more resourceful and able to combine great engineering with creative finesse to market distinctive and appealing products. Whether it's regarding aesthetics, user experience, functionality, or even branding, everyone needs a piece of this. This session is presented by someone who has lived off of the fruits of other people's creative labor. He will teach you his techniques and the tools he uses to produce awesome.

This class is designed to present the next level of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and big data for owner’s lifecycle operations. The presentation will introduce a truly cloud-based, 24x7 hosted, collaboration web service born from best practices in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry and focused on the owner’s lifecycle operations at an enterprise-level. The class will foster an understanding of the next generation of globally accessible, concurrent "big BIM data" and collaboratively flexible and infinitely scalable metadata schemas. The class will showcase past and present projects where this cloud-based collaboration has been used to illustrate how communication and problem-solving on complex projects can be improved for project responsiveness, quality control, access to the most up-to-date data, and overall project cost and schedule.

Internal CAD tribes and user groups are crucial to ensuring your company is able to get the most use from your CAD software. This class will cover practices and technology enablers that will help you and your co-workers to get the most out of your CAD investments. Further, having a knowledge-capture and knowledge-sharing culture is critical to maximizing the technology for all skill levels.

Does your manufacturing team consistently know where your design should have welds placed in your weldments? Does your product get welded differently each time? Does your welder have issues interpreting your weld symbols? Why not add welds into your models to alleviate these issues? If you have Inventor software, you have the ability to add welds into your assemblies. Get all the tips and tricks from Unverferth Manufacturing and learn how the firm has added welds into its Inventor models to show exactly where the weld beads should be placed by manufacturing. No more guessing and incorrect interpretation when it comes to welding parts together. Communicate design intent more precisely with the manufacturing team using fewer words and Inventor software’s weldment environment.

You don’t always have control over the software you use, the hardware you get, the drafting and design standards, or the workflow processes in your company; and reducing labor hours sometimes means reducing profit. Sometimes the workflow process, which you have no control over, is causing the very issue you’re meant to fix or work around. In this course, you’ll learn strategies for automation and how to protect your intellectual property so all the code you write belongs to you. Among those strategies for automation, we’ll go over the implementation and maintenance of CAD standards in a nonabrasive manner that your team will easily embrace. We’ll go over how to turn your ideas for improvements into a KPI (key performance indicator)-driven plan for increasing quality, accuracy, and speed while providing increased value-add to all stakeholders. We’ll discuss mentoring and sponsoring. In conclusion, we’ll discuss throttling the pace of expectations.

Composite materials and particularly carbon fiber are some of the hottest materials in the manufacturing world today. Renowned for their high strength-to-weight ratio, carbon fiber parts are becoming more popular in traditional fields such as automotive and construction. Carbon fiber parts are created using additive-manufacturing processes and advanced techniques. Due to their high cost, efficiency is crucial to these kinds of parts. Autodesk, Inc., has created a manufacturing suite for the design, simulation, and manufacturing of composites materials such as carbon fiber. This platform will cover all of the production strategies that are currently in the market, including hand layup, fiber placement, and tape laying. This is an introductory course to the entire platform. Also included is the end-to-end composite manufacturing process. This session features TruPlan.

You’re in a small shop of 10 people, or you’re working in a company with hundreds of users who break into teams to deliver a project. What you share in common is the need to effectively collaborate and manage the data. You’ve had a look at Data Management and it looks like it will solve some significant business needs, but you don’t know how to present it to your manager, or who to ask for more information. Join us in this class where we’ll talk about use cases for Data Management, from small customer needs to those solving the needs of the enterprise. We’ll talk about Data Management for those who have needs in manufacturing to those who may want to use it to help them manage civil or architectural data. We’ll also discuss ways you can go back to your office, understand and assess your requirements, choose the appropriate product, and have an understanding of what software, hardware and training requirements will be necessary to present a business case to your manager.

Meraas Holding—a real estate developer/owner in Dubai, United Arab Emirates—partnered with Autodesk Consulting to build an Enterprise Project Dashboard. The Solution provides a graphical user interface showing up-to-date project key performance indicators (KPIs). The views automate data gathering from Vault software for collaboration and data management, BIM 360 Glue software for design review, BIM 360 Field software for field management, Navisworks software for 4D and 5D, Oracle’s Primavera P6 software for project performance, and Oracle software for commercial management.

The tasks of plotting and publishing drawings occur every day as firms send information to a client or generate prints for review. The AutoCAD® .NET API allows you to create viewports, configure layouts with the desired page setup settings, and then plot or publish the layout using the desired device and settings. Creating custom programs that automate the process of setting up and plotting a layout can save time and ensure that plots are created consistently. You should have an understanding of the AutoCAD .NET API when taking this class.

This class will explore an assortment of hardware infrastructure technology choices that are available to users of Autodesk design and creation suites, providing a process to select the optimal configurations to help maximize user experience, productivity, and ultimately return on investment.

Collaboration. Security. Integration. Just to name some critical success factors / business goals for driving changes. We want to highlight in this class the approach we took in implementing Vault in a multi-site environment and integrated in the SAP environment. What are the challenges? What are the benefits? How to set and manage the expectation of several stakeholders? What are the lessons learned? Which kind of improvements need to be addressed first? All the questions to show how you can manage complex implementation projects, ensuring that the defined business goals are met by delivering the right system using the right methodology. We will use a real customer project to showcase our experience.

As a group, we’ll share ideas, workflows, and techniques to help make for a smoother transition to Revit software so that others may benefit from our successes and failures. You may have heard that the only way to switch to using Revit is to just dive right in and take the plunge. Well, maybe there are options beyond this “sink or swim” approach. Can you afford to retrain your entire staff at once? Do you know who should or should not learn Revit? We’ll share with one another how switching to Revit has affected our practices, workflows, staffing, and efficiency. We’ll discuss our biggest successes and failures. We want to hear about any unique ideas or workflows that you’ve discovered to help make for a successful transition to Revit. The goal is to have our more-experienced Revit users share their personal experiences, knowledge, and advice with those who are considering, or have not yet made, the switch to Revit, or who are having problems integrating Revit into their firms.

Enterprise data requirements are not new to us, but the solutions and solutions opportunities are. How do we manage datasets across organizations and an entire enterprise? How do we manage compliance, backup and disaster recovery? How do we choose technologies that potentially solve these problems and how do we bring standardization to this rapidly evolving space? What do enterprise security concerns or requirements look like, not just in terms of localized file/record access, but from an enterprise perspective with issues like Corporate Intellectual Property, Government IP restrictions, departmental restrictions and how do we manage compliance? The EDM landscape is rapidly evolving, especially with the flexibility offered by the cloud. In this roundtable, we will consider current challenges in the light of new (or yet to exist) technologies. This class promises to be highly collaborative and challenging, so bring your ideas and voice because we definitely need to meet.

Data shortcuts provide a flexible, object-level, project management tool without the administrative overhead. Data shortcuts are managed in Toolspace on the Prospector tab in a structure that is similar to Vault software. However, data shortcuts do not provide the editing controls, protection, and data security that Vault software does. Do you know what Vault software is? Do you know what Vault software is really for? Do you know why you should use it? Do you have challenges managing data while working in project teams? Are you part of a civil/survey firm with multisites? Do you need to collaborate your civil projects with external partners? Have you ever registered for a 30-day free trial of Buzzsaw software? Come and join us as we give you “A Piece of Cake” of how to install and implement Vault software and Buzzsaw software for civil/survey firms with multisites.

Autodesk Vault software is an often-overlooked tool that can provide remarkable benefits for the infrastructure design community. This class will explain exactly what document management software truly is and how it can benefit the civil design firm, and cover the steps for creating your own Autodesk Vault software environment. From the initial decision to implement document management, and all the way through development and final production rollout, we will review how Maser Consulting P.A. came to use Autodesk Vault Collaboration AEC in all 14 of its regional offices as well as the benefits gained from doing so.

This class will show you how we have developed new processes in our company through the use of Inventor software and Vault software. We will explain how Vault software features such as lifecycles and categories are being used to control design to manufacturing workflow and operations. We will then cover the integration of the software in a globalized environment, the implementation of site-specific processes, and the system monitoring required to avoid complication with several errors we have encountered. The final point will show how, thanks to use of custom API, we provide design information to our manufacturing department. This includes how we initially planned to use Vault vanilla or thin client, and how we had to develop customized tools aimed for the manufacturing department to access design documents.