Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

Dynamo is capable of much more than patterning. In this class, we will cover the broad variety of possible applications for Dynamo and Dynamo Player, including NURBS, subdivision, and construction element generation tools, as well as tools to modify such geometry types. We will also provide insight into how to use Dynamo to exchange data live between VRED virtual reality (VR) and Alias software. Dynamo Player can help you create highly customized tools and increase the efficiency of the way you handle daily routine tasks in all kinds of different areas. Since the introduction of Dynamo Player in Alias 2021.2 software, each Alias release has come with a variety of new Dynamo and Dynamo Player tools. We’ll also share examples of how to use Dynamo and the Dynamo Player to create your own tools inside Alias.

Transportation engineers work every day to keep cities and people connected. But how do we keep transportation engineers connected so they can help successfully deliver projects? This class will focus on providing a workflow for hosting multidisciplinary transportation projects in BIM 360 software. We will start with project setup, including cleaning inherited files, folder structure, and drawing and model creation. We'll discuss the steps teams need to take to collaborate through effective data shortcut management, markups, issues, and model coordination. We'll examine collaboration techniques between roadway, utility, and structural designers working in Civil 3D software and architects working in Revit software. In addition, we will show how LIDAR data can be used using Navisworks software to complete the 3D model. Finally, we’ll summarize best practice tips and tricks that can aid design teams in the efficient management of projects. We'll use examples from a successful BIM 360 transportation project located in Toronto.

This class will cover the ins and outs of setting up your fabrication database as it relates to manufacturing, costing, and drafting. Cutting liner? Where are the two places you can control your cutbacks? Do you want stiffener offsets global, or per connector? Would you rather set up effective diameters for every size, or simply utilize the diameter adjust built into round connectors? The software itself has grown over the years, and newer features have been added controlling certain things, but not everything has been removed. Come and join the session to learn the best way to tie everything together!

Stephen Silver was hired by Warner Brothers Television Animation as a character designer and has been working in the animation industry for the past 15 years. He designed hit shows such as Disney's Kim Possible, Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom, and many more. In this class, he will talk about how he launched his career in character designs for animated TV series and share his experiences and view of the industry. Stephen will also discuss the importance of practice, persistence, patience, passion, and concentration. After this class, you will be able to understand how drawing communicates, what steps you should take in order to succeed in the work you do, identify industry standards for artists in the entertainment industry, and discover how to find your true passion.

This is an introductory class into the advanced topic of finite element analysis (FEA). This class will be application-oriented rather than theory oriented, and it is intended for those of us who can gain design value from some basic FEA techniques without having to have a PhD in mathematics. The goal is to bring the accessibility of advanced Digital Prototyping tools to the casual user. Each year the "expert systems" software development brings practical accessibility to more and more users. You should jump in here and start learning these tools—now is the time. You can leave your calculator at home.

Fusion 360 software is not like other CAD tools when it comes to positioning components in an assembly. There are no mates here. Fusion 360 has a different model for putting components together. It uses Joints to both position components and describe their motion. This class will help you to make sense of Joints in Fusion 360. Starting with the foundational concepts of assembly, degrees of freedom, positioning, and motion, we will progress into the deeper topics of flexible subassemblies, the behavior of grounded components, and so on. We will describe the various joint types that can be used in your model, and scenarios where they are applicable. We will attempt to demystify assembly modeling in Fusion 360. Virtually sit down (or stand up—it's up to you!) with two Fusion 360 modeling experts and senior members of the Fusion 360 development team. The topics and workflows we will discuss come directly from Fusion 360 customers just like you.

This class is an introductory course for Fabrication ESTmep software. It will cover the most important concepts and common commands necessary to use Fabrication ESTmep software at a fundamental level. The objective of this session is to introduce the essential functionality of Fabrication ESTmep software so a new user can generate accurate cost estimates from imported models and traced drawings. We will cover navigating through Fabrication ESTmep software, basic reporting, and understanding pricing, as well as best practices. This session features Fabrication ESTmep.

This talk will focus on a case study using a common Fabrication database in Revit software for engineering through a design-build project. With an effort to vertically align engineering, estimating, virtual design and construction (VDC), and manufacturing on a common platform, it was important to use the same common database. It was necessary to determine the hurdles involved in adapting engineering workflows to use Fabrication Parts and how we were able to resolve them. Learn how to determine when it’s best to use Revit families, and when it’s best to convert families to items. This class is not meant to be a definitive explanation of the right methods, but a look at how it has been accomplished.

Taking architectural models into simulation software is becoming a hot topic in the industry as companies are starting to include simulation in their BIM efforts. This class will describe the different tools involved in going from a full Revit model to Autodesk CFD results, optimizing both transition and setup. The workflow will be based on real examples from the industry, stressing the importance of following best practices to reduce project time and costs. The class can be taken as documentation and a great set of tips and tricks to take models from Revit software to Autodesk CFD software for future AEC projects.

Autodesk Inventor iLogic is the cornerstone for design automation. With the Inventor 2019 release, component management has become easy. The new iLogic design rules allow you to use instructions that will build the assembly from the bottom up. This eliminates the need to create a master assembly with all the possible options. With the old workflow, the design rules would suppress components to generate the final result. Now we can start with an empty assembly and build the required design depending on the options and parameters. This offers much more flexibility in generating design configurations. This class will start with the Inventor iLogic basics, to finish with an example of component management. A basic understanding of Inventor parametric design is required.

Why model as-built conditions when you can work directly with a high-resolution point cloud? In this very hands-on class we will stake out the foundations for a new addition to our Autodesk University (AU) classroom using a remarkably easy, cloud-enabled workflow. First, participants will import a point cloud of our AU classroom into Navisworks Manage software. We will then use Point Layout software to place points on a number of modeled objects that we intend to stake out as part of a small classroom renovation. The model will be shared with the field using BIM 360 Glue cloud service. Finally, we will connect the BIM 360 Layout iPad application to a robotic total station to enable field users to stake out and verify the exact position of the points. All of this will happen using a contextual model of our surroundings.

The Millennium Falcon really is a heap of junk. Well, it was when Han bought it from Lando; it took a lot of work to refurbish it so that it could do the Kessel run so quickly. Using point clouds, Point Layout software, BIM 360 Field software, and BIM 360 Glue software, Han and Chewie managed to get the restoration turned around in less time than anyone had turned around a rust-bucket spaceship before—and to a higher quality with all the documentation and testing recorded for reference whenever the hyperdrive didn't kick in. This class will echo the workflows in real life from renovation to moving and from the end of construction to handover into facilities management. This will be a tongue-in-cheek class with much of the humor of the 2012 Autodesk University class, Building the Death Star the Autodesk Way.