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.

There are numerous advantages for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Design (AECD) field when seeking a dedicated cloud infrastructure. Purpose-built clouds empower firms with tailored solutions that prioritize security, compliance, performance, and flexibility to support unique application requirements. When working in these demanding applications (Enscape, Lumion, Twin Motion, etc.) the industry requires any BIM or rendering tasks in a cloud environment to provide an unparalleled virtual experience and specialized support available for the most demanding applications found in the AECD landscape. Experts from Henderson Engineering, Advance2000 and ATG will present their own experiences on migrating, working in a private cloud environment and how enhanced performance is achieved through a high-powered virtual workstation optimized for maximum productivity.

As a new player in the electric vehicle market, Rivian Automotive needs to move fast. In addition to building a new product line of electrics trucks, SUVs and delivery vans they need to build the facilities infrastructure to support. This includes an array of new office space TIs, service centers, factory additions, charging and new retail spaces. To accomplish this goal Rivian used the ACC platform to collaborate with all design and construction partners and internal stakeholders. By running all projects on one common data platform it provides our project teams with an invaluable data set as an owner and operator, creating new opportunities to optimize project delivery. Attendees will learn about how Rivian Facilities utilized Autodesk Platforms Services to build a suite of custom integrations and tools that provide project teams actionable insights and automations that enable better collaboration with internal and external design and construction partners. These tools answer questions like – when was the last project meeting, to where the most recent construction documents are. Automating answers to questions save time and improve quality when you have 100's of projects all running in parallel. Join us as we share what worked and what didn't.

Generative design is an innovative AI-powered design technology that enables designers and engineers to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and stay competitive by exploring design possibilities beyond their imagination. However, there is a common misconception that it only creates organic "bird bone” type structures that have no business in the real world, let alone in traditional manufacturing and its machinery. In reality, generative design can optimize structures for many common manufacturing methods. In this class, we'll demonstrate how Autodesk Fusion 360 software's Generative Design technology is used in real-world use cases via cost-effective 2-axis and 2.5-axis manufacturing methods. The session will cover the significant impact of constraints within a generative design setup, and we'll cover pain points in the manufacturing process using real-world examples. If you're interested in generative design for traditional manufacturing, this class is for you!

Have you ever thought about flow path optimization? Do you have great ideas that could change the world, but no fluid mechanics knowledge, time, or expensive CFD tools? All you need is Generative Fluids in Autodesk Fusion 360 software! We'll present a set of case studies in this session. The first ones will explain the basic aspects of flow path optimization. We'll discuss pressure drop, its reasons, and minimalization solutions in an easy-to-understand way. Then, we'll discuss more-complex designs in order to show how to use Fusion 360 capabilities and change inner flow paths into outer shells that are fully manufacturable parts. And we'll bring a few of our 3D-printed designs so you'll have a chance to handle them! By the very end, you'll understand the full potential of Generative Fluids optimization possibilities. This is the beginning of your flow optimization journey!

Are you planning on implementing Factory Design Utilities at your company? Maybe you're in the process of implementing Factory Design Utilities, or you've tried to implement Factory Design Utilities and had some issues. There are a lot of variables to consider—such as how many employees will need access, shared content, content creation, templates, cloud data management, and so on—and it can be overwhelming. In this roundtable class, you can discuss the details with other companies that have implemented Factory Design Utilities, and you'll get best practices from companies that have implemented it successfully.

The Fusion Data API allows us to exchange data with other applications such as ERP systems and the like. This class will show you how to use low-code/no-code technologies to achieve this, where the limitations are, and when it is appropriate to use it. Low-code/no-code solutions sound promising, and they are, as they let us solve classic data-exchange challenges. Let's see how far we can go with this technology using Microsoft Power Automate or similar platforms.

Maintaining high levels of data security while ensuring optimal performance can be a challenging task for us. In early 2022, we decided to move one of our Vault Professional servers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and it proved to be a successful transition. As a result, we plan to migrate the rest of our Vault Professional servers to AWS in 2023. During this session, we will explore how we use AWS to enable global access to our Vault Professional environment, streamline design workflows, and provide relevant data to the appropriate individuals in a timely manner.

Are you using AutoCAD software or some other program to represent your electrical controls designs? The problem is that they are individual drawings with text and lines but no intelligence. It is up to you to make sure the drawings are accurate, and there's no way to get information from them. Attend this session to learn why AutoCAD Electrical software is a better solution for documenting electrical controls. Even without fully implementing AutoCAD Electrical, you can save 25% more time than when using standard AutoCAD. Additionally, you'll be able to run audits to verify your design, and extract information from the drawings like BOMs and wire reports.

Founded in 1972, ASI has a long history of meeting client needs in an increasingly competitive space. To help maintain and even enhance its competitive advantage, the firm decided to replace the paper-heavy process between engineering and manufacturing with a technology solution.

Hear from the Fusion Product team the vision for data and business process management for companies who are building their products and services with Fusion Industry Cloud. This session will cover key highlights of what's possible today and where we are going in the future with PDM and PLM with the Manufacturing Data Model (MFGDM) at its center powering the workflows and providing connectivity to the extended ecosystem. Products covered, Fusion 360, Manage Extension, Fusion Manage, Prodsmart.

This is your chance to have a direct dialog with a panel of Vault product managers and engineering managers. This session will focus on the strategy and vision that drives Vault Professional software. The hosted panel will give you some insight into the "why” and "what” of the functionality that makes it into Vault. You'll hear responses from the panel, as well as get the chance to ask Vault product managers direct questions.

Using Autodesk Fusion 360 software, we embraced a digital thread from design to production (or, as they say in sales, "from curiosity to cash"). Our new processes revolve around Fusion 360 and deliver improvements in process reliability and predictability. Just as importantly, this change let us create a new cloud-based digital customer experience. In this session, we'll look at how we applied Fusion 360 to create our new computer numerical control (CNC) manufacturing processes, and examine how we created the necessary Fusion 360 add-ins. Then we'll show how we took the further step of integrating Fusion 360, and our Fusion 360 add-in (created with the Fusion 360 API), with our cloud-based internal and customer-facing IT system. For our customers, the result is a new cloud-based customer experience that enables orders, reorders, and customization more easily than ever before. See how we went from standardizing on Fusion 360 to making it the core of our digital business transformation.

This session's speaker loves technical drawings. Bold outlines, crisp details, precise lettering—he loves it all. But is technical drawing dead? It's said that we live in the age of the paperless office—can this be true? This class was so popular at AU2022 that we ran it twice, and we still had to turn people away! Let's continue the discussion. In this activity-based roundtable, we'll ask the big questions about the future of technical drawing. How did we develop the technical drawing? Why? What have we learned that we should keep? What place do technical drawings hold in the world of digital prototyping and building information modeling (BIM) projects? How will we communicate design intent in the future? How many people got caught out when we moved from hand drawing to CAD? Will we be next? Maybe technical drawings aren't yet dead, but how must design collaboration and communication adapt to meet our future needs? Join us to review technical drawings past and present, and prepare yourself for the future

The bill of materials (BOM) is at the heart of any manufacturing company, but each department (design, purchasing, production) and each system (PDM, ERP, MES, PLM) has its own view, understanding, and expectation of what the BOM should look like. Data is usually transferred manually from one system to another, which is time consuming and error prone. This session will explain where the BOM is created, how it moves between teams, how and why it is transformed, and what tool should do what to support this transition. We'll use practical examples to show how a BOM starts in Inventor and Vault software and moves between the above systems, and how these systems can be integrated with each other.

Last year we presented the Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage "App Store.” This year, we'll quickly review how it works, and then we'll introduce a few of the new apps that have been added since. If you've been a customer for some time, you may be particularly interested in new capabilities that are now included in our default tenants. These new apps are available to old customers through the App Store! In particular, we've added capabilities for managing product concepts/ideas and requirements so collaboration and approvals can begin before designs ever start, minimizing product development risks and costs. As always, you can implement apps easily and at no additional software costs, so you can increase the value of your systems without onerous upgrades. And there will be more apps to come!

Coster Group is a multinational provider of spray packaging solutions and aerosol-filling equipment. The company is family owned and was founded in 1963 in Italy, and it currently employs 1,000+ employees. It addresses all segments of the market with a complete range of aerosol valves and actuators, spray pumps, dispensers, and anodizing solutions, and has a global production network spread. The Group decided to invest in Autodesk product lifecycle management (PLM) software in order to optimize its product development processes. The firm adopted a step-by-step development, by transitioning the CAD in the first phase, then the product data management (PDM) system, and then finally implementing Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage. Coster Machines Division managing director will help us understand how to successfully manage such an initiative!

Do you want to know how it's possible that the von Mises stress is twice as big as the yield point value and the model doesn't fail? Do you want to learn how to quickly prepare a simulation without errors? And, most importantly, do you want to learn how to correctly evaluate the results? This is the session just for you. FEA simulation software has been on the market for years, offering advanced analysis capabilities. However, knowledge from engineering practice is still lacking. These days, time moves faster than our traditional engineering workflow. Times have changed and now there is no time for trying. It's necessary to prepare a model with good mesh quality and results convergence in the first iteration. We will present good practices as well as tips and tricks for the simulation workflow. We'll look at complex and real industry examples in Autodesk Fusion 360 software and Inventor Nastran software.

This session will focus on supplier qualification in Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software. Supplier qualification is a critical aspect of supply chain management that involves evaluating potential suppliers based on certain criteria, such as quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. In this session, we will discuss the importance of supplier qualification, the key criteria for supplier selection, and how to manage supplier qualification in Fusion 360 Manage. Additionally, we will explore the benefits of using a supplier qualification process and how it can help companies make informed decisions and mitigate supply chain risks.