9417 Results
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Dynamo + Rhynamo: Synchronous Design and Documentation Case Studies
Moving designs from conceptual modelers into Revit software for Building Information Modeling (BIM) and documentation has been a thorn in the side of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry for years, requiring specialist knowledge or just plain black magic. With the development of the Rhynamo package for Dynamo visual programming language extension (Revit's computational design plug-in), interoperability and model round tripping have never been easier. These case studies will discuss the various successes and pitfalls of how the Woods Bagot Design Technology Team have used a Dynamo-plus-Rhynamo workflow on several globally significant AEC projects over the past year, and emphasize the importance of being able to simultaneously design, document, and deliver at any stage of the project.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings
Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.
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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
AECO Roadmap: Digital Workplaces
Digital Workplaces are evolving—from structured asset handover to real-time operational insight and, insightful operations. In this session, the Tandem team will walk through the next phase of their roadmap, highlighting how Tandem is transforming Digital Workplaces into actionable tools for building owners, operators, and project teams. Learn how recent enhancements are enabling Insightful Operations through curated dashboards, KPI tracking, and system integrations—and what’s coming next to support portfolio-wide optimization. Whether you're delivering a Descriptive Twin or planning for predictive analytics, this session will help you stay ahead of where Digital Workplaces are headed.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)
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.
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Panel / Nashville 2025
Breaking Down Silos in
One of the biggest challenges in is getting disciplines to work together, sharing data and information in real time. Whether technical, organizational, or cultural, silos slow progress, create inefficiencies, and keep teams from reaching their full potential. This panel brings together industry leaders who are actively climbing that mountain. Through candid conversation, they’ll share real-world struggles, setbacks, and the steps they’re taking to reach higher ground. Expect honest insights, bold ideas, and practical strategies to break down barriers, improve communication, and build stronger, more connected teams. If you’re navigating the uphill journey of , this session is your chance to pause, gain perspective, and gather the tools needed to keep moving forward together.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
The Superb Guide to Easy Revit

Can you maximize the capabilities of Revit software (versions forevermore, especially 2022) as much as you’d like to? Join this conversation (spiced with true war stories) about some of our favorite workflows, shortcuts, tips and tricks, plug-ins, and resources—it’ll help you gain methods to enhance your deliverables and dial up your productivity. One of the challenges of Revit (both 2022 and much older versions) is the number of ways there are to accomplish an objective. We’ll talk about tricks for resolving curve balls in model, view, family, and annotation management and creation. Other conversation topics will include keystroke tricks, out-of-the-box and custom keyboard shortcuts, and simple macros (including Revit Macro IDE). We’ll also segue to cover tools to help you get the best performance in both file-based and cloud-shared projects in Revit; interoperability between Revit and AutoCAD and ReCap software; and system configuration tweaks to optimize Revit performance, even in the latest version.

New Orleans 2022
How to Easily Data Mine Revit, Forma Design Collaboration, and Autodesk Forma for Your Benefits
As we work through projects, there’s a constant generation of information. Unfortunately, we almost never get to see it, much less capture and analyze it, thereby missing many opportunities to inform future projects or help with current ones. Buro Happold is a global engineering firm that's decided to tackle this problem at an enterprise level by finding ways to automatically collect, share, and analyze this constant stream of project information. We've taken a multifaceted approach to mining project data for insights by using a mixture of internally developed tools, Revit software, Forma Design Collaboration, Autodesk Forma, and external tools like Microsoft Power BI and Kinship. This class will cover the methods and strategies that we’re using to mine all the data generated daily by each project. We'll look at how the firm is using the internal BIM Radar tool with mixture of external tools. We'll also discuss how to integrate new tools into project teams, and how to approach enterprise-level adoption and analysis.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Increase Your Estimating Productivity by 25% with Forma Takeoff
With rising material costs and razor-thin margins, construction takeoff—including accurate material quantification and cost estimates—is essential to starting and executing jobs on budget and on time. Forma Takeoff, with centralized 2D and 3D takeoffs, allows estimating teams to update quantities in real time, using the most up-to-date design files. By connecting existing building information modeling (BIM) data, Forma Takeoff can reduce takeoff and estimating times by 25% or more, minimize the risk of missed quantities, and guarantee accurate data capture. In this technical instruction, Edwin Bailey (senior preconstruction technology manager at Skanska) will showcase the workflows, techniques, and best practices for using Forma Takeoff, with real-world examples from Skanska's Class A Montrose project in Houston, Texas, among other examples.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Head in the Cloud and Boots on the Ground 2.0: Enhancing Communication by Deploying 3D Models to the Field with Forma
Last year we explored “easy wins”—how to break down the technical and cultural barriers preventing site teams from accessing and using digital project information. What’s next? This session will pick up where we left off, showcasing how Hansen Yuncken has evolved its approach to fully integrate Autodesk Forma into daily site operations, ensuring the right people have the data they need when they need it. Meaningful use of models during construction continues to be a significant challenge for us as an industry hooked on PDFs and spreadsheets. This year, we’ll dive deeper into the use of 3D model information in the field to connect and visualize data from Autodesk Forma. Considering how the model can be used for more than just “viewing,” we’ll explore curating models for specific tasks such as progress tracking, installation, sequencing, and more. Let’s get creative, challenge perceptions around how construction information is communicated, and start developing the construction workforce of the future!
New Orleans 2022
Take a Load Off with DPR, Windover, and Arcadis
Technology for preconstruction has come a long way in recent years. The introduction of building information modeling (BIM), cloud-based takeoff tools, AI (artificial intelligence), and bidding platforms has shaken up the way estimating and preconstruction management operates. The phase of construction has finally exploded with new ideas around cost modeling, historic cost analysis, new methods of collaboration, and the convergence of 2D and 3D quantification. As you mix in the ideologies around the common data environment (CDE), all these improvements in cost planning are also able to inform decisions downstream in the field and upstream to the owner and client. This session will entail an open panel and discussion featuring estimators from DPR Construction, Windover Construction, and Arcadis. They’ll share their experiences with the new age of estimating, and reveal how those benefits help drive their project efficiency. We’ll discuss common industry challenges, expanding on these new ways of working, and highlighting all the technologies that make it happen. Join us!
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Advanced Bridging in Autodesk Forma
As a virtual design and construction (VDC) manager for a general contractor (GC), one of the largest headaches is making sure your subcontractors get their models uploaded to your Autodesk Forma hub on time, and that they're named correctly and in the right format to make Model Coordination work seamlessly. What if it didn't have to be that way? If your subcontractors also happened to be working in Autodesk Forma, it doesn't have to be. What if they just published their own models internally and all the sharing happened automatically? This class will cover how to use the Bridge tool in Autodesk Forma to enable automatic sharing of models between Autodesk Forma hubs to streamline model coordination. Not only will we cover how to share models from the subcontractor's hub to the GC hub and then on into your coordination NWF, but we'll also show you how to share models from one subcontractor to another to enable direct coordination between subcontractor Revit models.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Zero to Build-Ready: How We Automated Project Setup with Autodesk Forma Templates
One click of “Create Project” in Autodesk Forma, and, like magic, folders auto-populate, design workflows activate, and dashboards light up—all before you can even finish brewing your coffee. Join us to unpack how our virtual design and construction (VDC) and design teams built an Autodesk Forma template that cuts setup from weeks to hours. Learn how we preconfigured Modeling rules (clash detection on the cloud!), embedded structured folders, and auto-populated Assets settings. We’ll demo how designers now sync Revit models to Autodesk Forma sheets with one click, while on-site teams track steel installations via prebuilt Assets dashboards with no Python PhD required. “This way, teams can focus on the important aspects of designing,” says our lead design manager. Discover how Autodesk Forma templates auto-invite team members, assign permissions, and deploy build settings, not admin work. This is perfect for general contractors, VDC pros, and design managers expecting to leave with actionable steps to replicate our framework.
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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Automating the Future with Build: Real-World Forma Applications on Dubai’s $2 billion mega exhibition facility & Palm Jumeriah
Discover how cutting-edge construction technology is transforming project delivery in the Middle East. This session will highlight the role of Autodesk Forma (ACC) in streamlining data collection, enhancing transparency, and improving collaboration and analysis on site. Gain insights into how Khansaheb Civil Engineering a leading UAE construction company is leveraging Automation, Integration, & Customization between CDEs on a $2 billion mega exhibition facility in Dubai and explore how data from its Palm Jumeirah projects is powering customized, automated dashboards, reports, and registers; tailored for both internal teams and external stakeholders. Join us to learn practical strategies for using Power BI to align ACC-extracted data to overcome coordination bottlenecks, address operational challenges, and maintain clear, current, and concise reporting without the need for manual input.
54p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Clash Review 4.0: Revolutionizing Modeling with Forma, Navisworks, Autodesk Workshop XR, and Beyond!
Step into the future of Modeling with Clash Review 4.0, where Automation, Integration, & Customization and immersive technologies transform clash detection and issue tracking. Discover how to use the Autodesk Forma Modeling module to streamline workflows and enhance collaboration. We'll explore seamless integration with Navisworks Manage and the Coordination Issues Add-In, bridging cloud and desktop environments. Drawing from real-world project examples, we'll share lessons learned in managing complex geometries, multidiscipline collaboration, and large model sets. Learn to handle high-clash volumes and customize issue filters to prioritize critical tasks. Experience the advanced workflow integrating Autodesk Workshop XR for virtual reality (VR) clash reviews. We'll also explore augmented reality (AR) technologies to minimize Project Delivery pitfalls on the jobsite. Leave equipped with strategies to boost clarity, accountability, and coordination speed across teams.
29p
New Orleans 2022
Why This Kenya-Based Design and Build Firm Moved to Revit
BuildX Studio designs and builds spaces that promote dignity, health, and environmental comfort in Kenya. Time and cost efficiency are key to keeping up with the pace of rapid development in the region. With the introduction of Revit software, the industry has experienced a digital revolution allowing for multidisciplinary worksharing through central models hosted on an individual firm’s local access networks or through Forma Design Collaboration software. Recently, BuildX conducted a survey to determine whether it should migrate its entire design team from AutoCAD software into Revit. We used two projects for comparison. Through a short time-lapse video, you’ll see firsthand the two-times more efficient process with Revit. A housing project in AutoCAD took 3,115 hours, while a similar project in Revit took just 1,478 hours. Join us to hear about the powerful outcomes BuildX experienced through migrating to Revit, how we upskilled the team, and how your firm can benefit too.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Immersive BIM Reviews: Eliminating Late-Stage Surprises with Autodesk Workshop XR and Forma
Late-stage design changes and coordination issues often derail project timelines and inflate costs in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. This session will introduce Autodesk Workshop XR software, a VR-based collaboration tool aligned with the Autodesk ecosystem that enables immersive, real-scale, intelligent-model reviews. When integrated with Autodesk Forma, it helps multidisciplinary teams detect constructability issues early, validate models against existing conditions, and communicate changes effectively. You will experience a live demonstration of a full BIM-to-XR workflow, connecting Revit and Navisworks models to Workshop XR for 1:1 scale validation and coordination. The session will also explore integrating segmented point cloud meshes into Workshop XR environments for as-built verification. You’ll gain insights into how Workshop XR workflows can reduce RFIs, enhance cross-disciplinary communication, and improve project efficiency—without the need for complex or costly hardware.
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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Road Trippin': Barton Malow Builders' Forma Training Roadshow
When implementing new technology, an assured way to miss buy-in across your organization is to sign team members up and say, "Good luck!” Training is the obvious answer to this problem. However, designing, implementing, and executing a training program is a heavy lift, and justifying the commitment is paramount. To do so, it's vital to measure success through data: Locations and geos trained, project value in geographic area, and, of course, the number of individuals trained. The value of training doesn't end there. Our program instills our companywide vision of doing business. It deepens relationships with Autodesk, creating a partnership that tackles our big issues together. These relationships directly guide feature developments at Autodesk. At this session, learn from Ryan Riley, virtual design and construction (VDC) manager at Barton Malow Builders (BMB), on how he developed the ACC Roadshow Training Program at BMB across 16 offices, and 10 states, while tackling extremely local, specific problems.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Discover How BHI Enhanced Project Collaboration and Sustainability with Matterport and Forma
This session will showcase how BHI implemented the Matterport and Autodesk Forma integration in a master planning project for a hospital in partnership with African Mission Healthcare (AMH) to transform its traditional construction workflows with the goal of enhancing collaboration, productivity, project management, and sustainability throughout the lifecycle of development. From capturing detailed 3D scans with Matterport's digital-twin platform to streamlining documentation and issue tracking via Autodesk's robust construction project management solution, attendees will learn about the strategic advantages of this integration.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
CIMIC brings your largest Forma AEC models into Unity and Esri ArcGIS
Using open source tools and open formats, CIMIC is federating their largest 3D architectural models, directly from ACC and into the Unity game engine. They show record loading times and record rendering speeds with the largest of federated scenes, while keeping ACC versioning, filtering and coloring, of single elements. This case study compares different pipelines that were explored before choosing the final result. Topics include ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity, IFC, I3S, OBJ, USD, FBX, 3D-Tiles and glTF. Learn how you can integrate ACC 3D models into your own game engine using APS, open source tools and open formats.
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