You've heard about how Autodesk Informed Design software lets Inventor users push product configurations to Autodesk Construction Cloud for quick and easy specification by Revit end users. Are you wondering how to get started with Informed Design and its use of Codeblocks, though? Here's your chance to roll up your sleeves and get your hands on the Informed Design tools. Focusing on iLogic and Codeblocks, we'll walk through four targeted lessons to provide you with the confidence and familiarity you need to create Informed Design configurations that align with your daily work. We'll provide you with written and recorded tutorials, as well as detailed companion data sets so that once you've returned to the office, you can revisit what you've learned at AU 2024. This class is aimed at Inventor users who have some familiarity with iLogic, and who want to understand how iLogic and Informed Design Codeblocks fit together to provide a solution to inform the Revit world about manufactured designs.

Repurposing manufacturing content for BIM presents unique challenges. The Informed Design API represents a revolutionary new approach. Get hands-on experience with Informed Design in this lab-style class and test the workflow for yourself. We'll learn how Revit users can discover, configure, and place native Revit families (RFA) into Revit projects that originated in Inventor manufacturing software. We’ll learn how manufacturers of productized building components can publish designs with reduced detail for design in Revit. We’ll learn how to assess a Revit project for Informed Design components and automatically generate manufacturing outputs such as shop drawings and bills of materials (BOMs) for each variant. We'll learn how manufacturers can securely and with controlled permissions publish content to Informed Design via Autodesk Docs software, and how revisions can be consumed in Revit. Join us to discover, consider, and learn!

In early design stages, assumptions become liabilities. They can result in late design changes, costly rework, and coordination issues, often due to low-quality models early on. The Informed Design API closes the gap between BIM and manufacturing, bringing manufacturing detail from Inventor to Revit through parametric models. We’ll explore how Informed Design empowers mechanical designers and Inventor users to contribute to collaborative, model-driven design remotely, reducing downstream changes and saving significant time through design Automation, Integration, & Customization and configurability. In this session, you will learn how to build parametric models, and incorporate rules, regulations, and limits into your Inventor models. We’ll discuss how to make your Informed Design models fully BIM-compliant, using best practices for naming conventions, metadata, and interoperable design intelligence. We’ll cover how Informed Design reduces risk, encourages better decision making, and brings manufacturing to the front of the design cycle.

Informed Design is changing how we think about construction by connecting design, fabrication, and performance to deliver smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable outcomes. Built on the principles of outcome-based BIM, it shifts the focus from drawings to results, ensuring what is designed can be accurately fabricated and effectively delivered. This class will explore how tools like Revit and Inventor software enable early coordination and support modular construction, with a focus on prefabricated frames. Whether you’re in design, engineering, or delivery, you’ll learn how Informed Design reduces rework, improves buildability, enhances Sustainable Design, and sets projects up for success. At A.G. Coombs, we’re preparing to apply this approach within a whole-of-life framework, drawing on our downstream expertise to help close the loop between design and long-term performance. Join us to see how Informed Design can add value to your projects now and into the future.

Hatch, a global engineering consulting firm, excels in creating robust parametric models for infrastructure, mining, and energy projects. Our extensive experience has taught us what works and what doesn't. In this session, we'll guide you through Autodesk's new Informed Design tool for Inventor software, using our expertise to ensure your success. Whether you're an Inventor expert or just starting out, our approach to parametric modeling for Informed Design is accessible and effective. Join us as we explore the steps to create rich and efficient models, empowering you to optimize reusability, automate processes, manage quantities, and streamline BOMs. Let's unlock the potential of parametric models together!

In this session, we’ll cover the new Informed Design API. Informed Design is an Autodesk offering aimed at connecting products created in Inventor or Autodesk Fusion software with project data in Revit software. This will improve project outcomes and increase productivity by bringing together the capabilities of our manufacturing software with our architecture, engineering, and construction software. The class will start with an overview of Informed Design and how the API can be used to extend and customize the offering. We’ll cover product creation in Inventor and Fusion. And we’ll look at how to create good BIM content by generating well-formed Revit families for use in a Revit project. Then we’ll show how to create outputs from a Revit project at scale. We’ll follow up with an overview of specific examples of how our customers and partners are using the API, followed by an example of how to use the API.

Informed Design for Revit software is a powerful tool that empowers designers to create high-quality, manufacturable designs with increased efficiency and accuracy. By using customizable building product templates, designers can seamlessly incorporate manufacturing-level detail into their Revit design files. The ability to tailor these templates to align with specific building requirements ensures compliance with manufacturers' specifications, reducing project risk and preventing errors. This class will provide an in-depth exploration of how to use Informed Design for Revit to maximize design certainty, minimize rework, and streamline project execution. By using Informed Design for Inventor software, building product manufacturers create and share customizable reusable products with constraints. Participants will learn how to explore, customize, and incorporate these manufacturable building product templates into their designs within Revit for enhanced accuracy.

The construction industry is facing multiple challenges, such as increased demand for buildings, as well as sustainability pressures and skills shortages. Add to that the risk of natural disasters and global events, and the industry is forced to look at efficient, replicable, and sustainable practices. Industrialized construction is one of the ways the industry is trying to resolve these challenges. But the question remains: Is industrialized construction a solution, or can we do something more? In this class, you'll learn how the Manufacturing Informed Design API takes industrialized construction to the next level by introducing productization into the solution. It provides for defining, designing, and building with customizable construction products that are manufacturable and can be assembled on-site or in the shop. You'll learn how informed design supports Inventor and Revit software through Autodesk Construction Cloud in delivering sustainable and replicable solutions for homes, schools, and health care.

In this session, you will learn how to generate all potential Manufacturing Informed Design variants. We'll accomplish this by using Airtable, an intuitive cloud-based data organization and collaboration tool. By integrating Airtable with the power of Manufacturing Informed Design software's implementation of Blockly logic, we will guide you through the rapid generation of a comprehensive table encompassing all valid combinations of your product. Furthermore, we will demonstrate how Airtable can seamlessly interface with the Manufacturing Informed Design API to generate Revit families based on products developed in Inventor, and use the Manufacturing Informed Design website to see each variant that has been placed into the layout. Through this integration, you will witness firsthand the remarkable speed and efficiency gains achieved by caching each variant of your product.

Hear the story of how Cascadia Structural Timber Solutions went from being a small hand fabrication and truss manufacturer to a fast-growing glulam fabricator, looking to lead the way in new mass timber buildings using Informed Design in Inventor software. The mass timber industry is on the rise, and with it comes unique challenges on the jobsite. As many projects move to a hybrid of steel and wood, we need to be able to provide products that can be easily used and understood early in the design process. With Informed Design we can predefine structural members—from columns to beams to preassembled trusses—that can be added at the beginning of the design process. We can provide flexibility for our customers by giving them specific parameters they can change while still allowing the design to be easy to manufacture. With our push to implement lean manufacturing principles, these designs allow us to scale our business and increase profitability while providing a great experience for our customers.

Join the Autodesk Informed Design Product team for a forward-looking session on how Autodesk is advancing Industrialized Construction. This session will showcase the latest developments and future roadmap for Informed Design—Autodesk’s platform tool that connects design intent to manufacturing execution. Learn how we’re helping AEC and manufacturing teams accelerate delivery, reduce rework, and unlock new levels of collaboration and efficiency.

This session will outline a workflow for creating a Revit model of a steel composite cable stay bridge by using a combo of Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Informed Design for Inventor software. Modeling a bridge structure poses challenges due to its complex geometry, which adheres to a vertical, horizontal, and super-elevated roadway profile. Consequently, the steel girders, beams, and connection details must align with this 3D roadway profile, complicating the creation and placement of Revit families. For this challenge, COWI used Grasshopper and Dynamo to automate the creation of steel geometry, parameters, and insertion points, ensuring accurate orientation for family placement. Additionally, Informed Design was used to transform various iterations of intricate steel connections into families, which were then positioned using a Dynamo workflow. The integration of visual programming and Informed Design has been vital in efficiently producing complex bridge structures with a focus on Automation, Integration, & Customization.

Join us for a hands-on lab session at AU, where we aim to break down obstacles within the manufacturing and construction industry. Our focus will be on reducing rework in product and design decisions, resulting in more-efficient production processes. In this class, we'll explore how Autodesk's Informed Design tools can help minimize errors and enhance processes. We'll emphasize promoting cohesive work between design and supply chain teams. You will put these tools to the test in product design, building design, and manufacturing output. We'll also welcome your feedback on usability and efficacy. By participating, you'll gain insights into new workflows and uncover possible processes that use Autodesk's Informed Design software. Our objective is to ascertain what you, the user, find valuable, and how we can help eliminate industry silos.

Have you ever poured your heart into a design, only to discover later it's impractical to build? Architects are constantly challenged by the manufacturability of products during design. The ability to assess this early is a critical need for architecture teams. To maintain details, design teams often resort to copying elements from past projects leading to outdated solutions. By the time designers and manufacturers connect, the design is largely set, leaving limited options. What if you could design with the certainty that your vision can become a reality, seamlessly integrating into the world of industrialized construction? Autodesk Informed Design for Revit software is a solution that brings manufacturing information to the beginning of the design process. In this session, we'll learn how architects can use informed design to collaborate with subcontractors to share manufacturing model data. We'll discuss how this workflow can improve project certainty and prevent reworks.

Join Ryan McMahon, general manager of Autodesk Informed Design to gain insights on how this platform tool enables Industrialized Construction. Roadmap and feature highlights as well as industry imact will be covered in this talk.

Autodesk Informed Design and Data Exchange are the platform technologies we use to connect plant design and construction, with the help of Autodesk Construction Cloud. It's never been so easy to share data and its configurations. Data Exchange makes it very easy to collaborate and share information in integrated factory modeling (IFM) within Autodesk software systems, but also with applications such as Tekla or SolidWorks. Autodesk Construction Cloud helps us store all information centrally and make it available to everyone involved in the project. Informed Design offers the possibility to provide configurations from Inventor software for various types of building equipment in Revit software as configurable families. This ensures that only predefined variants are installed and prevents cost-intensive special solutions. Last year, we talked about the possibilities of the beta versions. Now we would like to take a closer look at the solutions and share experiences from customer projects with you. It's going to be good!

Bonava is a leading residential developer of affordable housing units in Northern Europe. To achieve this goal, lowering costs and increasing productivity is essential. Standardized single-family housing units have been developed, with accompanying models, drawings, and documentation in Revit software. When the site layout is ready, Dynamo software helps to get the information from the houses to the site model and vice versa. While solutions for the houses are predefined, site design remains the largest variable. We use generative design tools to create more-detailed site-layout solutions in earlier stages, and measure both hard and soft values for each option. Now, numbers back up design exploration, making it possible to identify correlations between different design metrics. Furthermore, this lets us bring representatives of different disciplines to fact-based discussions very early on, to assess the plot and make informed decisions for further development.

Design computation is a way of thinking and approaching design that goes beyond the tools involved. This class will focus on how Dynamo visual programming language extension fits into the design computation workflow at NBBJ and the larger architecture industry by walking through a series of example tools, processes, and approaches to computation. Dynamo extension excels at bridging the gap between what Revit software does really well and the ways that designers want to work. The class will explore practical examples along 2 primary avenues: workflow automation and rapid feedback. Key to both is data management. Revit software holds a lot more information than it easily presents. By extracting data and synthesizing it with internal or external information, Dynamo extension can push that information back into the model or present it to the designer to drive informed decisions.

Using our Autodesk suite to reshape our design process and owning our IP has enabled sustainable scaling and the delivery of large pipelines of work for central government using off-site construction methods. This success has led to a 300% increase in our manufacturing capacity in the last three years, while maintaining client satisfaction with the quality of our design and project delivery. We'll explain how this has been achieved through repeatable and continuously improved designs, supported by Autodesk Build and Autodesk Docs software. In the second half of this talk, the focus will shift toward the potential of Autodesk Informed Design software and how it can facilitate a platform design through the development of subassemblies, ultimately supporting off-site construction by maximizing productivity and improving quality through increased industrialization.