AutoCAD uses grips showed with a selected object not only to provide visual hints of the object—such as start/end/center points, or mid/tangent points or vertices—but also, more importantly, to provide shortcuts to various operations against the object, such as stretch, move, rotation, and scale. Other AutoCAD-based applications (Civil 3D software, AutoCAD Architecture software, AutoCAD MEP software, and so on) use custom grips with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) entities extensively. Fortunately, with .NET API, we can add custom grips to an AutoCAD object for our own specialized operation against the selected object. This session will show you a few practical examples of using custom grips.

Do you like new challenges? Do you like exploring where no one has gone before? Are you tired of the same old customization techniques? This is the class for you. Expand your horizons and learn to develop in Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft .NET. Most of us know how to customize in LISP, so as a way to ease into .NET, this class will focus on developing .NET functions that are exposed to LISP. Even if you are a LISP programmer who has been scared to make the jump—come on in, the water's fine. The topics covered in this class are also covered in the new forum called AUGI Bridging the Gap, so you will have a place to hang out afterward and craft your skills.

This class will demonstrate effective practices for creating, sharing, and maintaining custom Dynamo extension nodes. The class will use Python scripting and DesignScript programming language to customize the Dynamo extension, and we'll explore effective practices for curating reusable nodes for sharing through the package manager. Finally, the class will showcase custom Dynamo extension packages, authored by the presenter, and walk through how these packages are used and maintained for the user community.

Join Jesce Walz of Perkins&Will and Phil Northcott of Building Transparency for a sneak preview of tallyCAT, an initiative of Autodesk, Building Transparency, Perkins&Will, and C-Change Labs. tallyCAT builds on the successful Tally tool (developed by KieranTimberlake). tallyCAT helps Revit users get accurate material takeoffs, highlights high-carbon materials, and provides third-party verified data about climate impacts and impact reduction opportunities. tallyCAT links the Revit model live to the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3), and helps design practices to build and manage libraries of carbon-efficient materials and assemblies. tallyCAT allows teams to track and reduce carbon with live feedback throughout the delivery process, promoting transparency, clean industry, and innovation.

This is the #1 geek-out event for Autodesk, Inc., API programmers. Our panel of hardcore ObjectARX API and AutoCAD .NET API experts from the AutoCAD Development Team is ready to answer your programming questions. If you're writing plug-ins for AutoCAD software, this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs you work with, as well as your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

This instructional demonstration is an introduction for AutoCAD.NET API software developers to learn how to extend the managed ObjectARX libraries to use hidden functionality. Although the standard AutoCAD .NET managed libraries provide extensive support, there is some functionality that is not wrapped into the managed libraries. In this instructional demonstration we will discuss ways to find that hidden functionality in AutoCAD software files and ObjectARX libraries. The instructional demonstration will then show how to make that functionality available to managed .NET applications. The instructional demonstration will provide sample code that you can modify and use in your applications.

This class will demonstrate how to explore the Dynamo API through Visual Studio and C#. Learn how to navigate the core libraries, understanding the difference between methods and properties within classes, and how to build simple commands. Much like the Revit API, understanding the application of the Dynamo API can open up further opportunities for future development. Finally, learn about some of the potential use cases of its application and see some real world examples of this.

The Model Derivative API is not just meant for translating files to a viewing file format (the 'SVF' file ) and loading the model for viewing. In this class, we will provide you with deeper understanding of the Model Derivative API, it's feature set and capabilities. We will cover the range of file formats that are available for translation; how to extract metadata from a model; and how geometry can be extracted from model data for developing a variety of custom Forge applications. This will be followed by demonstrating a use case developed by one of our Forge customers. The class will show side by side samples of C# and Node.js.

This class will guide you through the new, exciting, cloud-based API for InfraWorks 360 software. We will cover how to get started and extract data from the model, how to generate report from the extracted information, and how to integrate with other providers—all by reading InfraWorks 360 software models using the REST API. Previous programming knowledge is required (Microsoft C# and Microsoft .NET), and knowledge of REST and the JavaScript API is recommended.

The future of designing and making buildings is at a tipping point, and a significant paradigm shift is not far away. Net zero is acting as the catalyst for radical change, and change—enabled by the shift toward off-site manufacturing and the availability of a raft of digital technologies and tools—is happening rapidly. This talk will look at the work of WSP's digital innovation team, and consider how to adopt designing for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) approaches where economies of scale align with configurators to drive product-orientated workflows and new customer experiences. Within this workflow, kits of parts and catalogues become crucial to the success of repeatable content, while enabling individual projects to create their own identities within circular economy approaches where longevity and replacement of larger subassemblies become commonplace. The case studies we present will underline all of these aspects.

In this class you learn how to effectively use some of the strongest AutoCAD® tools, such as AutoLISP® routines, scripts, and .NET, to rid yourself of repetitive tasks. This class also covers effective ways to automate and enforce almost all of your company's standards by showing you how to use automation tools in AutoCAD menus, at startup, for customization, and as standalone programs and routines. Learning these techniques will prove to be invaluable and save more time and money than anyone could believe. When seconds is just too long, see how you can use these methods to set up a page setup, print a PDF file, or bind a file with just 1 click. Attendees should have some knowledge about AutoLISP and AutoCAD scripts.

This class focuses on some of the major new Revit 2014 API features. We look at API access to the project browser, dockable panels, copy and paste, command launching, the graphics pipeline, schedule formatting, and additions to the view API including demonstration and discussion of sample code. We also provide an overview of all the new Revit 2014 SDK samples. Note that prior .NET and Revit programming experience is required and that this class is not suitable for beginners.

In this class, we talk about and demonstrate Apple iOS libraries for 2D and 3D graphics programming. We demonstrate the use of native classes that the iOS SDK provides for graphics programming including the Quartz and UIKit SDK, which are useful for 2D graphics. We also introduce and demonstrate the use of OpenGL library implementation for iOS (called OpenGL ES) as well as GLKit library. Finally, we demonstrate a browser-based graphics application that uses the WebGL technology to display 2D and 3D graphics on a browser running in an Apple device. This class requires some familiarity with the Objective C language and the usage of XCode IDE.

AutoLISP is a very powerful programming language, but it doesn't offer the same knockout punch that VB.NET/C# does when combined with the AutoCAD .NET API. This class will explore the fundamentals of VB.NET and examine how you can use it to enhance existing AutoLISP routines. During this class, you will learn how to create basic commands for AutoCAD software, and discover functions that you can use with your existing AutoLISP routines. We will show examples of how to work with AutoCAD objects, get input from the user, create a basic form, and pass values between AutoLISP and .NET, plus other general programming concepts. For this class, you should know some AutoLISP, but it will be a beginner-level class for VB.NET and the AutoCAD .NET API.

In this class, we talk about and demonstrate Android libraries for 2D and 3D graphics programming. We demonstrate the use of native classes that the Android SDK provides for graphics programming including the Canvas, SurfaceView and Drawable (for 2D graphics) classes and their subclasses. For 3D programming, we introduce and demonstrate the use of OpenGL library implementation for Android (called OpenGL ES). Finally, we demonstrate a browser-based graphics application that uses the WebGL technology to display 2D and 3D graphics on a browser running in an Android device. This class requires some familiarity with the Android Java API and use of at least one IDE like Eclipse for Android programming.

This class will discuss using the 3ds Max software development kit (SDK) for automating common tasks within 3ds Max software. We will spend time discussing the .NET API and the Python environments, and we’ll compare them both. The Python SDK is using a newer API called MaxPlus, but it is not fully exposing the C++ API. While .NET API is exposing most of the C++ API, it can sometimes be more difficult to work with. We will compare them and show techniques for automating common tasks, and creating user interfaces to control your tools. This session features 3ds Max. AIA Approved

Bridge design and modeling pose unique challenges that demand innovative solutions. Join us for an insightful workshop where we'll explore how to model complex superstructures in Revit using scalable workflows powered by the Revit API. In the first part, attendees will learn about our bridge department's transition from complex Dynamo workflows to an internal add-in solution, making the modeling process more scalable and user friendly. The second part will feature a hands-on lab, allowing participants to explore the API workflows and create their own superstructures using the some of the tools and plug-ins we've developed.

Forge is a set of web services provided by Autodesk. The Design Automation API is one of its components that added support for Inventor software roughly a year ago. In this class, we will provide an introduction to the Design Automation API and how you can use it to automate Inventor processes. We’ll show how you can estimate and optimize the costs of using this service, and the various ways you can run and speed up processes on the Design Automation service. We will also cover some of the specific tips the speaker learned while helping customers with specific workflows, for example, how to get modeling error details from Inventor, how to obtain a list of supported files types, and other useful ideas. We will demonstrate the coding ideas using the .NET Core development environment.

Discover how the Design Automation API for Revit can extend and enhance your BIM 360 Document Management approval workflows. Learn from Bechtel and Autodesk Consulting as they discuss their first-hand experiences. Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of the need for using the Design Automation for Revit API to extend BIM 360 Document Management, and the challenges faced while doing so through a recent Proof of Concept effort.

Are you an Revit-based software developer who has run into issues supporting your add-ins in a workshared environment? Have you hit situations where elements can't be edited or updated due to conflicts? As a followup discussion to DV1888: Facing the Elephant in the Room: Making Revit® Add-ins That Cooperate with Worksharing, join this roundtable session to further discuss the techniques that are available to developers to operate on workshared models. Bring questions from your own development experience or more detailed questions inspired by the lecture and discuss the possibilities with a group of experienced Revit API developers. Knowledge of C# and Revit API is required, and prior experience with Revit worksharing will be helpful.