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.

As iLogic turns 10, and as more companies embrace Inventor Automation, there are many perspectives as to the best way to write iLogic code. Take it from someone who has worked with large enterprise engineering departments and small specialty fabrication houses: Everyone wants some level of automation. In this class, you’ll learn how to write your iLogic code using industry best practices. You’ll also walk away with knowledge of the fundamentals for success when developing your iLogic rules. Do you want to become better at using the Inventor API in your code? Do you want to know how to avoid the same mistakes as others who use iLogic? If you love iLogic the way we do and want to join the automation revolution, this is definitely the class for you.

Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) are taking the world by storm. Over the past three years, we’ve seen a huge interest in VR. But with current VR, technology teams have spent way too much time preparing their projects, and they require a heavy workstation to render VR experiences. In this talk, we’ll show how to automate common data preparation tasks using BIM 360 software and the Forge Design Automation API. We’ll share how to turn intelligent models into immersive experiences and how to make these experiences available on thin-client endpoints for VR headsets. Learn how to maximize productivity by using modern Autodesk, network, cloud-rendering, and streaming technologies. This lets engineers get a deeper understanding of the design, and makes for better-informed decisions in less time—at the push of a button.

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.

We’ll take a look at common CAM programming workflows to analyze the repetitive steps within each. We’ll then walk through the steps to create a template that minimizes those repetitive steps to drastically reduce overall programming time. We’ll also take a look at the tools available to speed up iterations, with both native and imported CAD data. If you’re interested in efficient use of Fusion 360 software in a rapid prototyping manufacturing environment, this class is for you.

The iLogic component of Inventor® software is a very powerful tool for helping users automate segments of their design process. This hands-on lab looks at the ability of iLogic to copy and replace components and error checking. In this class, you create iLogic Rules that turn an Inventor model into a configurator by performing the Save Copy As function on parts and assemblies. The class also explores the ability of iLogic to perform error checks on designs and show different ways to communicate these errors to the user.

Commercial buildings are on the verge of the biggest transformation in history. Internet of Things (IoT) is making connected buildings a reality, and adoption is on the rise across architecture, engineering, building technology, real estate, and construction industries. The use of IoT data for building modeling offers tremendous opportunity to optimize the design, construction, retrofit, and operations of buildings. But just having access to data doesn’t unlock actionable insights. Vladi Shunturov, founder and president of Lucid, will explain how we can harness the power of Building IoT for teams across any number of disciplines, from energy management to finance, operations, tenant communications, and more. He'll explain how to turn what were once reactive processes into proactive opportunities, and share proven best practices and use cases to arm attendees with information they need to turn disparate data from connected buildings into strategic assets. This session features Building Ops. AIA Approved

A renowned 3D design application like Inventor software has its limitations based upon user knowledge and aptitude. When you incorporate design automation to compliment workflows, product quality and consistency improves exponentially. In this instructional demo, you will learn how to streamline your design processes by capturing design intent and developing design automation. You will come to understand the 4 aspects of developing and implementing an automation plan. You will also learn how to avoid common pitfalls in planning automation, increase your time to roll out your plan, and ultimately achieve success with your plan.

The world of manufacturing and production technology is constantly changing. The uprising of the maker movement has seen many people gaining access to an array of machinery and technology on a scale never before seen and opening many doors that were previously locked solid, encouraging many ideas to become reality that have previously been unachievable. Micromanufacturing is the transformation of dreams and ideas into reality through the use of low-cost, minimalistic production technology and equipment in home-style businesses across the globe. In this class, we’ll cover the evolution of micromanufacturing, the ability it has to transform small ideas into viable products for a fraction of the cost of traditional manufacture, and some real-world applications for micromanufacturing in an innovative, small-scale production environment.

In this class we will cover the process of how our office went from having engineering and planning completely separated to merging the two departments into a shared workflow. It will cover a variety of lessons learned throughout this process. How we were able to utilize the power of filters and families to make our Revit Fabrication drawings look like a standard engineering drawing set. How we had to go back and completely rework our standard Revit templates and families. The class will really focus on how some upfront hassle and frustration of a few individuals has turned into a team that can still create engineering documents at the same pace but now these drawings are bring true value to our planning and preconstruction departments. Finally, we are streamlining our coordination process so when it comes time to start clash detection and shop drawings we are weeks if not months ahead of the team.

If you are a designer in the architecture industry, you are probably familiar with Google SketchUp™. However, that software can only take you so far, and you really need images that will sell to your clients. This class can help you transition into using 3ds Max software. The class shows you how to set up your 3D files for importing into 3ds Max. You learn how to enhance your amateur images and turn them into professional-looking renderings using mental ray® within 3ds Max. We also discuss efficient workflows and processes for 3D rendering.

Generative design is changing the way we design, engineer, and manufacture the products of tomorrow. By capitalizing on cloud technology, hundreds or thousands of higher-performing design options can be generated based on objectives, enabling users to make tradeoffs for different materials, performance, and production options. The benefits of generative design are also not restricted to just the world of additive manufacturing, but can also be capitalized on with subtractive manufacturing, and even as design inspiration for traditional techniques. What you might not be aware of is that generative design technology is now available to any user of the manufacturing collections from Autodesk. This lets you go seamlessly from your CAD workflows within Inventor software, to generating a design in Fusion 360 software, back to having the generated design in the context of your original assembly with Inventor. Join us to learn how to get started with Generative Design in Fusion 360 alongside Inventor.

AnyCAD lets you associatively update designs from any CAD tool, letting you connect design across disciplines and teams. This class will cover how AnyCAD can automatically update toolpaths, increasing the productivity in your company or shop. Even in-house design teams can often span multiple products and use many design formats. Instead of creating 2D drawings and putting your CAM programmers back at square one, or forcing them to use a CAD-specific CAM product, use AnyCAD to connect your CAD—including SOLIDWORKS, Siemens NX, PTC Creo, IGES, and STEP—to your favorite CAM tool. If you get various parts from contractors or customers, and you don’t want to purchase a costly license of their design software when small changes are needed during the manufacturing process, AnyCAD can bring the designs into Inventor software or Fusion 360 software, while maintaining associativity to the original design. This class will show you how to unlock the connectivity and flexibility of AnyCAD and apply it to your manufacturing process.

Learn how to take your design from within Fusion 360 software and apply 2D and 3D toolpaths. This class will open up the door and let you create G-code for your computer numerical control (CNC) machines. Simply start at the beginning, create toolpaths, simulate and verify, post G-code, and see how easy it is to handle design changes.

This class will cover the fundamental concepts of programming in HSMWorks, Inventor HSM, and Fusion 360. Attendees should expect to learn core concepts necessary for programming any part as well as general best practices from seasoned machinists and product experts.

Computational design is the “new black” for design practices, but how can an organization take a specialized skill set and turn it into a core practical capability? Matt Goldsberry and Nathan Miller will present strategies for developing a computational design network in architectural practice that addresses skill-set growth, tool creation, and content management. Using HDR Architecture as a case study, this class will explore tactics for growing this specialized skill set to be a core capability within a design practice. We will discuss computational strategies that have contributed to the ability to win work, create design efficiencies, and improve building performance. This session features Dynamo Studio and Revit. AIA Approved

The emerging IoT space holds enormous potential for positive social, environmental, and financial impact if it is built with the most important node at its center: people. In order for the next wave of innovation around connected devices to happen, people must be able to understand the technology, relate it to their lives, and envision and prototype solutions to real-world problems, even when these problems are relevant only for the few. This, in turn, will only happen when the Internet becomes a material that is accessible to non-engineers and non-experts who can grasp and deploy interactions with the Internet in the physical world as easily as they can with physical materials.

For general contractors and trade contractors alike, estimators play a key role in winning new business. Their primary function is to translate scope in the form of specs and plans to material, labor, and equipment—ultimately creating the estimated project cost and schedule. More and more of the industry is turning to integrating model-based takeoff in their existing estimating workflows. Preconstruction is one of the most important phases in the project lifecycle; due diligence done earlier in the project helps to avoid surprises during construction. Join Dustin DeVan, CEO of BuildingConnected, and Brent Ramos, sales director at Assemble Systems, as they share how they’re working to simplify the process for aggregating and reporting material quantities and streamline preconstruction processes.

Nobody’s perfect. We all acknowledge it, and we are often reminded when problems with our Revit software files come up. Everyone has a list of “low hanging fruit” that they turn to when troubleshooting a project. For example, are things on the right workset? Has another file format been imported and exploded? Are the phases consistent between links? What if we could check these things before the problems arose—like that annual checkup we get at the doctor’s office? We’ve worked to create a fitness check system for all of our discipline models. In this session, we’ll use Microsoft PowerPoint slides and live examples to show Building Information Modeling (BIM) coordinators/managers and modeling leads how to use the tools we’ve developed to track and report the general health of project models. We’ll also explore the ways to share this information with a project team to identify potential problems before they occur, and encourage people to be more proactive when putting together their projects. This session features Revit. AIA Approved

PowerMILL is the industry leading 3, 4 & 5 axis machining solution, learn how to take take solid, surface and traingle models and quickly produce toolpaths to drive multi axis milling machines.