Robert Ostermann (Magna Steyr Graz) and David Reaume (Autodesk) will present how easy it can be to create a 3D representation of an existing factory campus that contains and combines infrastructure, building, factory, and asset data. This integrated model enriched by real-time data will help all stakeholders to easily fulfill their different tasks in a perfect manner. To come to this valuable integrated model, you'd need a qualified data strategy and structure, behind which will be the DNA of this model. A short introduction about this process will be part of this presentation as well.

Do you find that you have too many templates to manage? Are you struggling with keeping drawings and models up to your latest company standards? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this class is for you. Inventor iLogic and the API are powerful tools that can be utilized in creating your Inventor templates, along with managing your Inventor files by keeping them up to the latest company standards. In this class, we’ll create one template for multiple drawing sheet sizes and a part template, driven by iLogic rules. We’ll design and create external iLogic rules to check model standards, switch drawing styles, sheet sizes, dimension schemes, and a few other useful tools. This class will demonstrate how the power of iLogic can help you minimize the number of templates you need to create and maintain, along with forcing the user to input standard company iProperties. These iLogic programs will make model and drawing setup a breeze.

The overwhelming amount of data associated with modern design projects can be staggering. Add to that the difficulty of finding the correct version of a file, navigating through complex directory structures, and ensuring that you're working with the most current version of your design, and your senior professionals may be spending as much as 25% of their day handling data management tasks. This session shows you how Vault Professional software can not only eliminate that overhead but also actively improve your workflow processes to reduce project completion times and dramatically increase your profitability.

Productivity through programming has never been a friendly or intuitive process. Whether you are using LISP, VBA, or menus and macros, if you don't get the right syntax, it won't work. AutoCAD 2009 introduced the ability to build custom macros and commands simply by using AutoCAD software. In this class, we cover how to record, play, save, and share macros that automate creating, editing, and modifying geometry, as well as simplify drawing maintenance and utilities, with one custom command. Reducing repetitive steps and tasks is the key to personal productivity. It is time to tap into the power of the Action Recorder!

Do you have Vault Professional software rockin', rollin', and keeping your data managed and safe? But you are still managing network servers and FTP sites, and using email to distribute drawings and designs? Don’t you wish you could capitalize on your Vault to collaborate without having to duplicate information? Do you want to know what some of your competitors are doing to streamline their processes, information, and productivity? Or, do you have Fusion Lifecycle software tuned up and your processes dialed in? But you aren’t capitalizing on your design data to generate BOMs or linking them to drawings and documentation? Do you have neither and want complete nirvana in a silky smooth process, but don’t know how to get started? Attend this class, our team will show you how to get there.

This class is designed to assist you in building a new workflow to utilize Vault software for managing company standards within your organization. It will cover how to set up custom file categories, file lifecycles, user groups to support an innovative way of managing company standards within Vault, along with tracking any changes. We will discuss how to have AutoCAD software, Revit software, or Inventor software to look at the new working folders for updates to standards and content. Finally, we will learn how to automate deploying these changes to all users so they will always have the latest and greatest content and standards as soon as they become available.

Key to the successful implementation of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning is the development and implementation of innovative strategies that will support students in thinking across disciplines. This class highlights how the “design thinking” process, a methodology that has been successfully applied in business and multiple fields of design, can serve as a powerful tool for operationalizing STEAM learning in secondary education by promoting 21st-century skills related to creativity, critical analysis, collaboration, communication, and content mastery. The class will draw connections between design thinking and new research in the area of cognition and learning that challenge traditional educational policies and practices. Examples from the Digital STEAM workshop will be used to illustrate the potential of technology enhanced design thinking to support the successful integration of STEAM learning in secondary education.

Learn how quick and easy it is to start programming for Android devices. I will create from scratch a simple Android application with traditional user interface elements such as buttons, tabs, and lists. I will then deploy this app on an Android device and show it running. I will finally show how you can debug and test an Android application. In the process of these demonstrations, you will learn where you need to go and what you need to do to start programming for the Android operating system. I will also talk about the SDKs that are important to a CAD developer and illustrate how to consume REST web services from an Android device.

Streamlining your templates and custom tools and objects in AutoCAD® and Revit-based software can drastically reduce the amount of time that you spend every spring to prepare your firm to update to the new Autodesk releases. This class shows examples of how Thornton Tomasetti's reduced use of tool palettes in AutoCAD and custom families in Revit have greatly lessened the amount of time needed to prepare our in-house standards for the yearly release of Autodesk software.

Berkeley Group has been constructing residential properties in the UK for more than 40 years using traditional approaches. Berkeley Modular is a startup that will deliver off-site manufactured housing products, but at levels of productivity normally associated with other sectors such as automotive. This off-site manufactured housing product is intended to be safe, high performing, high quality, and comfortable where actual performance matches designed intent. The class will chart the development of a new factory build and cover lessons learned, including planning of the layout, specifying the flexible manufacturing system and development of productive workflow, and the development of a technology platform that supports the concept of mass customization and uses conversion velocity. The digitally enabled agile manufacturing platform includes BIM 360 software as the CDE, as well as a suite of integrated manufacturing systems based on Vault software, Inventor software, coBuilder Collaborate, Oracle Fusion, and Siemens MES.

What you do know is that your team has embraced the powerful functionality that the Vault line of products has to offer. What you do not know is that your team has only scratched the surface. Right under your fingertips, already installed on your machines, lies functionality that can have a drastic impact on the way you work. Increase productivity, reduce employee stress, and maximize output by learning about functionality that exists in our products today. Attend this class and we will show you some of the most powerful features in the product that you likely aren't using. This class features several demonstrations using real-world examples. It is time to use Vault software to its full potential. This class applies to all Vault packages and spans several releases.

This presentation will discuss a variety of asset information management solutions and offer insight into what it takes to effectively implement one on your project. With many options available, owners continue to look for the particular asset management system that suits their facilities' needs, some of which are now incorporating 3D as-built intelligent models into their interface. Regardless of the specific management system chosen by the owner, early planning and communication between the entire Project Team is key to establishing a workflow that will enable the massive amount of facility data to be collected and delivered in an efficient manner. The common goal is to have all of the information input and functioning in the owner’s asset information management system in time for the first day of building operations.

Learn how to increase efficiency and traceability of your design review and approval processes. This class will show how Fusion Lifecycle software coupled with Vault software will address inefficiencies in existing processes at Dynamic Attractions. This includes a shift from project-based systems to product-based systems. We’ll show why a clean-slate approach is needed to align our CAD, Vault, and Fusion Lifecycle data with a new material requirements planning (MRP) system. We’ll explain why we plan to only migrate some cleansed library and product data. We’ll also cover how we have overcome the cultural hurdles and barriers to improvements; we’re excited to finally move forward with a product lifecycle management (PLM).

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.

In this class, we will go beyond the basic rendering tools and dive deeper into what AutoCAD 2013 software has to offer. We will start by taking an expanded look at the settings that control how we establish and save a 3D view. Next, we'll discuss how to create and edit targeted light sources. The class will then focus on creating custom materials using special effects like bump maps and transparency maps. Finally, we'll talk about efficient ways to work with larger renderings and then pave the way for animated output. This class is a continuation of the class "Bringing Your Ideas to Life: Creating Photorealistic Renderings Using AutoCAD® 2013."

Design and Engineering Departments are challenged to lower new product development costs while balancing high quality with low warranty returns. These innovative and customized Products need to come to market faster, to help increase Sale win rates against global competition. Concurrently Design & Engineering workflows need to reduce design errors and optimize Engineering Change.

If you listened to all the grand predictions a decade ago, you’d think the only thing we’d be doing is modeling everything in 3D. But that reality hasn’t come to pass. The CAD manager and Building Information Modeling (BIM) manager have to know how to get everything to play nice, capitalizing on the power of BIM tools while making sure the 2D work that’s still required is completed correctly. This course will take a look at key settings and work methods, beginning with a comparison of national CAD versus BIM standards. Next, we’ll examine tips for making CAD files such as templates work better in a BIM environment, and then move into sharing files both ways—correctly. The last item examines how to alter the CAD interface to follow BIM tasks, making it easier to move back and forth easily between the applications. Taking this information-packed course will help you maintain your 2D sanity while moving the Design Team forward with today’s 3D modeling tools—so sign up early and often.

Have you ever thought, “Wow, I'd like to use Vault Professional software to manage that”? Vault software is great at managing files and items, but what about other things like project information, task lists, and whatever else you can dream up. Well, with Custom Objects now you can. This exciting class will teach you how to get started with Custom Objects. You’ll learn about creating custom objects, custom object security, categories, and maybe even a little UI modification.

This round-table discussion will focus on the actual experiences that infrastructure engineering companies have working with Vault software. The speaker will present a training strategy that was especially useful for introducing employees to Vault software. He will also share experience regarding effective motivations for employees. The discussion will include the functionalities of Vault software most useful to and appreciated by engineers, managers, and administration. We will examine the main advantages of Vault software as seen by the employees of the company (the administration, managers, engineers, and IT and CAD administrators) who carry out different functions and use different software that includes Vault Client software, Microsoft Office software, AutoCAD LT software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Bentley Microstation software. The speaker will share practical ideas for optimizing Vault software through the use of additional programming and configuration. The discussion will also cover tasks for job servers.

AutoCAD Electrical software is more than just an electrical schematic design tool. It also includes symbol libraries and functionality for panel layouts, one-line, hydraulic, pneumatic, and piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) drawings. Within AutoCAD Electrical, all types of drawings and the included components are linked and update each other automatically. Attend this class to learn the simple requirements for creating the links between drawings and how you can capitalize on this capability to improve your efficiency and the quality of your design package.