The Web world has changed. Now that all the most popular web browsers support WebGL, 3D on the web is a reality. With this Lab, Full Stack web developers who also are 3D enthusiasts  will be able to create interactive web application and also get a head start to VR apps. The Forge Model Derivative API and zero-client Viewer allow developers to create interactive websites for all kinds of different markets where 3D CAD interaction could be added, and also full access to the metadata becomes available. This is a workshop on how to set up a Node.js server and client-side JS code to display and interact with any filename extension 3D model (CAD) using Forge - View and Data API. I will guide attendees through the entire process of building a simple application, including writing a node.js server, use of npm, hosting the web application and interacting with the 3D model by running different viewer JS extensions. This session features Forge.

Developing a strategy for tackling computational design can be quite the challenge. At BuroHappold Engineering, we strongly believe that every engineer has a contribution to make to computational design—not just the few with a deep understanding of coding. We’ve developed a global strategy based on this concept, and would like to share the outcomes and challenges that we faced along the way. During this session, we’ll review how we teach Dynamo to our engineers, via our robust Dynamo training program. We’ll also review ways to ingrain computational design in a company culture through hackathons and mentoring. Finally, we’ll review ways to organize scripts, and look at how to implement them in project work.

How do you train your staff? How do you even know what to train? Do you test or retrain to ensure retention? Traditionally, training occurs in silos (based on discipline, function, or office location), often isn’t captured for future use (often through email or 1-on-1 conversation), and relies heavily on expert-level “gurus” as gatekeepers of knowledge. Design practice has evolved to keep pace with technology, mobile and geographically diverse employees, and the increasing speed of project schedules. To increase efficiency, organizations must pursue a culture of continual training, knowledge sharing, and skills assessment to break down the silos. This session will discuss ideas for Lifecycle User Training and methods to develop a knowledge-sharing culture that expects skills assessment. We will explore ideas on developing resources where corporate knowledge is retained, searchable, accessible, and inherently social.

The architecture, engineering, and construction industry is undergoing an evolution, and industry and mainstream media are looking to fill their pages with rich content—stories about innovative people, projects, and products. You see many of your competitors earning meaningful coverage for their successes, but what about you? This inaugural media-training class will help customers and partners tell their stories and understand the competitive media landscape.

Are you responsible for training your CAD users but feel overwhelmed by the task? Are you stymied by the problems associated with enforcing CAD standards? Does your management expect you to make your users more productive? In this class, we cover some strategies for combining standards development and enforcement with an in-house training program to solve all 3 problems at once while keeping your budget under control. We start by building your company training program via efficiency analysis, move into creating effective training materials, and then we give you some ideas for becoming a better instructor. Next, we talk about turning your training program into your standards program by using your own written and video files to build a virtual resource library. If you're responsible for creating a standards or training program, you can't afford to miss this class.

This session will provide multiple tips on ReCap indexing, editing, collaboration, and project management workflow from an experienced ReCap developer's point of view. You will learn how to make the best use of ReCap to improve work efficiency on reality captured projects. Also, the ReCap development team will be happy to answer questions about and provide insights into the ReCap features.

In this class, you’ll learn how Autodesk uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power the Forge platform, and how you can use the same services for your own Forge applications. You’ll get hands-on experience showing you how easy it is to get started with Forge using our quick-start guide. We’ll start with a quick overview of the Forge platform and introduction to AWS. After that, we’ll dive deep into the specific steps and configurations used for both a Node.js application and a .NET application. We’ll discuss the architectures, microservices, development environments, and application deployment options, and help you identify the best practices for running a production Forge application on AWS. This class is best for attendees with some software development experience, and everyone must bring their own laptops. At the end of the class, you’ll have built and deployed a demo application to AWS using Forge.

Ask your programming questions to our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our Forge Platform development teams. If you are writing solutions that are based on these technologies or you are just about to start and want to know more, then this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with and your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn. This session features Forge and A360.

This class will help you kick start and accelerate your development on the Forge platform by demonstrating best practice workflows and tips & tricks for managing REST API calls and consuming JSON data. Examples will include uses of the Model Derivative API, Data Management API (including accessing data in BIM 360 Docs), Authentication API and Design Automation API. Prior knowledge in Web and Cloud development is recommended.  

Building Information Modeling (BIM) can mean different things to different people, and that makes it difficult to benchmark any BIM project against any other. Taking inspiration from lean production principles, Arup has developed a discipline agnostic tool that seeks to measure just how much a project has used BIM and how successful this has been. We call it the 'BIM Dipstick.' This session will detail why we chose to develop the tool; how it is actually used within the business; and how the data from it is used to focus our research, training, and software investment. We originally created the tool itself in our London office, but it is now in the process of being rolled out more widely as part of Arup's global BIM strategy. We would like to take this opportunity to share our experience of using it to date, both the good and the bad, and we hope to give you a version to take away for yourselves.

BDP has moved from a practice with workflows solidly grounded in 2d to becoming the first BIM Level 2 business globally. As part of this transition it was recognized that the change required could only be achieved through ensuring staff had appropriate skills to successfully deliver technological change across the business. The class will describe the strategic decisions made by BDP and the influences on the direction the business took. It will further outline the structure put in place to support BIM adoption, the skills gaps identified and how these were addressed. A review will also be presented of the challenges encountered at each stage, from pilot project through to the current position with over 70% of technical staff regularly using BIM Software across some 620+ projects. Issues encountered at various project stages will be highlighted with solutions to overcome these also described. BDP's forward looking strategy will also be discussed with staff sit at it's heart.

The rapid pace of technological developments and the emergence of disruptive technologies such as cloud and mobile computing mean that the opportunities in capitalizing on such advancements have never been greater. However, successfully implementing technology in your business is not just about purchasing software and getting some training. The biggest benefits come to those who step back and reevaluate how they do business, as well as take a strategic approach to changing management. This class will look at the art of business process re-engineering and change management.

This class will be full of "nuggets*" of wisdom from seasoned professionals. We will show users how to use conditional sub-assemblies to minimize the number of regions and assemblies used in corridor design. Add additional value and design information to your model by targeting 2D lines from xref layers. This class will demonstrate a workflow for corridor modeling and sheet production and maximizes the model while keeping all aspects of production in mind.

We will use QTO manager to assign pay items and get quantity take offs on 2D linework that historically is not counted

*Nuggets are those little golden things in a training session that users did not know about, or tools they did not know existed or how to use them.

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Keeping employees educated and up to date on the latest technologies is a full-time endeavor. This discussion will enable its participants to gather and discuss both the hiccups and the successes in their attempts to educate their audiences. We will use the success story from the curriculum that I've developed and implemented at Thornton Tomasetti, a structural engineering firm that employs over 800 people.

The class will encompass innovation in digital design practice, and showcase leadership evolved and implemented on large-scale iconoclastic projects across the United States. The class will show case studies of structuring an environment of collaboration and creating "enablers" across a firm with specialized digital skills, practice, research and development, training, education and community outreach, and innovation. Architecture and engineering design is evolving and becoming more sophisticated, demanding the best design in the least time. Autodesk Generative Design software with visual programming helps us achieve the best design solution, and also gives us more adaptability to changes and flexibility to be open to better ideas as we move forward, automating regular and repetitive tasks. To summarize: If your firm wants to learn to save time and money on projects and achieve the best design solutions using Dynamo scripts and other latest innovations, please attend this class.

Learn how to use Python in Dynamo to enable more editing options than ever before. Python is one of the fastest-growing scripting languages and can be used for daily tasks in your own projects. Dynamo can let you directly input Python code into your scripts to do things regular nodes can’t. This course will lead you through how to plan, edit, and execute your own scripts with Python for Dynamo. Learn about the essentials of setting up your own Python script, and edit geometry, sort data lists, write content to Revit software, and much more. With Python, you can unleash the potential in your projects so come and see what’s possible.

This session is based on our experience at KPF of pushing BIM implementation on the next level. Steady progress was re-invigorated by increasing client demands and industry expectations, but to make the most of that we had to take the time to review all of our processes and documentation to ensure that we could both meet expectations and also push our work in new and exciting directions. Some of the areas we will focus on include re-evaluating your BIM Implementation Strategy; how far have you come, how far do you still need to go; is your documentation fit for purpose; what makes an effective BEP template; how to approach BIM with your clients; what to do when there is no EIR, and how to respond to one when there is; boosting your training processes; what we did to evaluate and re-focus our training efforts; considering the skills required of your firm's employees, do you have an adequate support system in place; adding extra deliverables to your process; responding to the rise in demand for IFC and COBie; how to effectively introduce new tools (e.g., Dynamo/Enscape) to your workflows; are your QA/QC processes up to the job of evaluating increasingly complex models and datasets, or do you still use 'red pen' markups.

This presentation will focus on how the UA is developing skilled labor by BIM integration into their training to meet the needs of the plumbing, mechanical and fire protection contractors. We will show how we have taken a scan to BIM project and developed additional uses in training including plan reading, safety training, point layout, virtual design and scan to BIM. We will also discuss our recruitment efforts to expand our membership to meet the needs of the construction industry utilizing the latest technology and creating multiple career paths for our members. The UA is excited to bring this presentation to Autodesk University to show how our partnership with Autodesk and many others has expanded our training and uplifted our members and created career paths that are changing the construction industry.

Many new product development projects involve small (or large!) assemblies that are going to be designed from start to finish. Many facing this task go about it on a piece-by-piece basis—modeling one component from scratch, opening a new file, modeling another component from scratch, switching back and forth between the two to ensure that mating interfaces are dimensioned accordingly, trying to reference numbers from one file to the next, and writing down parameters to reference at a glance. This class will cover how to cleanly organize an assembly built from scratch entirely in one file. Learn how to organize a model tree with labels and use best practices when modeling parts, and how to utilize named dimensions and parameters to make on-the-go changes a breeze. Discover how to utilize adaptive modeling to enable making one change that can flow through all the mating parts in an assembly, and how to do so without making your model fail or explode. And learn how to simultaneously set up a component for simulation.

Understanding railings in Revit software is difficult to begin with, but creating custom handrails is an additional challenge. Often the various railing components available, and the traditional methods to combine the components into a railing, are not adequate for the creation of desired handrails. For this reason, creating work-arounds, or hacks, is necessary to achieve the desired look. In this session, we will discuss some options regarding how to customize handrails and how they are created. This session will share several nontraditional procedures that you can use in projects to create customized handrails—be sure to be ready to share your hacks too! This session isn’t going to show handrails as trains, canopies, or anything else. It will show how to use the tools we have to make them meet our requirements. In the prerequisite session to this one, “Rationalizing Revit Railings,” we will discuss all the intricate facets and nested components that compose railings. This session features Revit. AIA Approved