Sundt Construction faced a difficult site work package that included landfill remediation. During the project pursuit, Sundt defined a new process to generate volumetric comparisons from UAS-captured data; align with the project coordinate system; and produce an engineered report. This reduced the risk of over excavation, enabled everyone on the team to see how earthwork progressed, and captured construction progress in a meaningful way. Calculating quantities in Civil 3D software produced accurate quantities and an intuitive visual, and enabled the flexibility required to track 6 different quantity types. This class will discuss the process used to bring new value through these construction technologies and demonstrate the process of generating the data.

Autodesk Fusion software is one of the most powerful design and engineering tools available on the market. It allows industrial designers and mechanical engineers to design, analyze, and manufacture their ideas. Thankfully, there are plenty of learning resources to help people new to CAD—or just new to Fusion. However, it can be difficult to find more advanced content that shows how to get from an intermediate level all the way to an expert level—how to design and engineer the best products possible and do so more quickly and easily. In this technical session, you'll learn the most effective techniques to take your product design and engineering skills to the next level and beyond. If you're interested in becoming a Fusion design and engineering expert, this class is for you!

"Sustainability" means many different things to different manufacturers. In some cases designers and engineers strive to make a product perform with greater energy efficiency. In other cases they focus on making the product easy to recycle at the end of its life or they design out restricted substances with advanced material selections. Regardless of the focus, the design and detailed-engineering phases hold many opportunities to decrease the environmental impact of a product. During this hour attendees will learn about current trends in sustainable product design and compliance, and we'll explore which are relevant to their products or product lines. Attendees will also learn how to easily apply Autodesk, Inc., tools at key points in design and engineering workflows to aid in the exploration of more sustainable design alternatives.

All too often the sharing of product and project-related information from product/project development teams into manufacturing is a very manual and inefficient activity, typically driven by people creating, searching for, and chasing data and then relying on individuals to pass the right information to the right people at the right time. As we hear on many occasions from manufacturers, this can be fraught with delays and errors which ultimately impacts delivery time and cost. There is a better way. In a first of its kind, this class will bring together the worlds of product development and product execution to provide examples of how these two disciplines can actually take advantage of each other to reduce the risk of late delivery, increased costs, poor quality etc through poor information, data and processes. Whether it be 3D models, 2D drawings, Bill of Materials data, specifications, procurement, quality management, change management, project management etc we want to show you how you can share and re-use that information to downstream users.Adam Freeman from UK-based CRM & ERP vendor The Access Group has been working with manufacturers for more than 15 years on how they can streamline and remove waste within their make, buy and resource transactions. Autodesk Solutions Specialist Steve Bedder has been doing a similar thing with manufacturers but within the product/project development processes. Together Adam and Steve cover pretty much the complete value stream of how information, data and processes are created, managed and shared and in this class will share some of the best practices on how you can improve the way your business integrates from product development to product execution.

Discover how Viewrail, a leading stair and railing manufacturer, is harnessing the power of iLogic within Inventor software to redefine its engineer-to-order operations. Through a comprehensive demonstration, we'll illustrate the streamlined process of designing custom orders, enabling customer interaction through a dedicated portal, generating both customer and production facing prints, and seamlessly transferring manufacturing data to the shop floor. Gain invaluable insights into how Viewrail's strategic adoption of iLogic enhances efficiency and accelerates production timelines. Join us for an engaging conversation, and walk away inspired to revolutionize your own approach to engineer-to-order.

As our industry strives to address global issues such as productivity and resources, we see productization surfacing as a key driver for change. In this session, we'll dive into what technology can do to support this change, and we'll explore existing solutions.

With engineering and design changing rapidily, the toolsets used to create the products of the future need to change. This class will take attendees through how the Product Design and Manufacturing collection, in particular the connection between Fusion 360 and Inventor, can address the challenges of the future. We will show how a connected cloud workflow can help designers and engineers take a product from concept through to manufacture utilising a truely integrated, advanced manufacturing toolset.

In this class, we will introduce you to the different types of bills of materials (BOMs) and show you how you can use Autodesk PLM 360 to manage them. We will discuss the different types of BOMs, such as engineering, manufacturing, and product, and how the different types will influence your solution. The class will also cover how different types of products, such as engineered-to-order, configured-to-order, or volume manufacturing, affect the BOMs. Finally, we will discuss how to get BOM data into Autodesk PLM 360 and how you can use it once it is there.

Configurator 360 cloud-based product configuration software provides a platform for rapid deployment to the cloud of configuration models that let users configure their own basic parts or full engineer-to-order (ETO) rules-driven models and everything in between. But don't stop there! The sky is the limit for processes that can be captured this way. In this class we explore how compact rules can be captured in applications that do many things besides configure products. We learn what these applications can do and how to make them.

This is your chance to have a direct dialog with a panel of Inventor product managers. This session will focus on the strategy and vision that drives Inventor software. The hosted panel will give you some insight into the “why” and “what” of the functionality that makes it into Inventor. Attendees will hear responses from the panel, as well as get the chance to ask Inventor product managers direct questions. This is a great session to take along with the "Ask the Inventor Developer" class.

Join us for a dynamic Autodesk University session focusing on the strategic role of configurations in consumer product design through Autodesk Fusion 360. We'll discuss how to use this powerful feature to create highly customizable, efficient, and innovative products that appeal to diverse consumer needs. The session will highlight practical examples and best practices, equipping you with the knowledge to integrate configurations effectively in your design process to enhance product performance and market appeal.

Have questions about the roadmaps for Innovyze products? Join Autodesk product managers at Autodesk University and get them answered live.

This is your chance to hear from a panel of Inventor product managers on their roles in the Inventor Product Team. The hosted panel will give you some insight into the “why” and “what” of the functionality that makes it into Inventor software. Attendees will hear responses from the panel, as well as get the chance to ask Inventor product managers direct questions.

This class will work through the process of using Simulation CFD software and Simulation Mechanical software to generate engineering data throughout the product development process in order to optimize the design. You will discover that you don't need to be an analyst or expert in finite element analysis (FEA) or computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to use the Simulation software as many engineers still believe today. We will walk through the entire process of setting up and running simulations that examine how the effects of wind may directly affect mechanical properties, performance, and product design.

Do you reuse most or all of your previous designs for every new customer order? Do you want your salespeople and/or your customers to be able to easily configure design orders and be confident that the configurations are valid? If so, join us in this class as we discuss how Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order (ETO) software delivers easy-to-use web and mobile interfaces for configuring products. You will also learn how Inventor ETO enables easy reuse and management of CAD data in the back-end database.

Most CAD/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) tools are designed to enable engineers to design and manufacture products. From the very beginning ArtCAM software has been developed to enable artists and designer to create whatever they can imagine. ArtCAM is used in a variety of sectors from jewelry and coin minting, to the design and manufacture of architectural cornicing and facades. The common theme across these sectors is the desire to produce intricate artistic forms with incredible detail that can then be quickly and easily machined or 3D printed. This class will introduce you to the process that will enable you to take a simple 2D drawing and convert it into a complex decorative relief and machine it.

While it's common knowledge that additive manufacturing (AM) has become an integral tool in product development, it can be difficult to know how to fit AM into your workflow. In this talk, we'll discuss how to effectively use AM to accelerate product development and prepare designs to ramp up to production. We will include an overview of the common additive technologies and materials currently used by product designers, and look at the advantages and disadvantages of each from a product development perspective. Building on this overview, we'll discuss example workflows and case studies where additive manufacturing was used effectively to reduce time to market and mitigate process and design risk.