Lighting is often viewed as one of the most complex topics in 3D rendering. Lights are technically simple to use, but without the theory behind, one might feel lost. In this class, attendees will learn basic techniques that will help them achieve well-balanced and photorealistic-looking renders. Attendees will receive point-to-point guidance that will help with the lighting process of any scene. Building on last year’s presentation, the speaker will provide a quick summary of the previously explored topics, including the concept of light hierarchy. Furthermore, attendees will learn how to balance the exposure of a scene that has both interior and exterior lighting. To help understand common lighting mistakes, the class will analyze a couple of badly lit scenes, find errors, and learn how to fix them. At the end of the class, attendees should be able to improve their lighting skills by applying these basic concepts, and achieve photorealistic renderings. This session features 3ds Max.

Lighting design has always been a difficult discipline to communicate; it’s a challenge for clients and project teams to produce the lighting design in their mind’s eye. This is especially applicable with refurbishment of cultural arts and heritage projects, where the complexity and intricacy of such internal spaces makes the way in which light interacts with surfaces and finishes particularly difficult to convey. From the outset, we've been keen advocates of using visualization tools, such as 3ds Max software, to demonstrate the lighting approach with clarity and photometric accuracy, using a range of 3D mediums—from traditional “static” images to in-house developed interactive tools and experimentation in virtual reality (VR) to “show and tell.” In this session, we’ll provide an overview of these visualization processes through selected case studies of our heritage projects for the likes of Historic Royal Palaces UK, as well as University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.

The combination of VRED software and Ansys VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation delivers physics-based engineering-grade light simulation to studio designers. The unique solution empowers the design studio with accurate lighting to enhance photorealistic visualizations, up to the simulation of highly complex optical components such as light guides. Discover VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation to do the following: easily identify lighting-quality issues resulting from the optical engineering process; run Ansys SPEOS-based ray file simulation that is compatible with high-performance computing (HPC) clusters; explore a wider range of design possibilities; and bridge the gap between engineering and design in the long run by creating a consistent shared data stream, ensuring data consistency.

Until recently, daylighting performance modeling was a customized skill in the world of design building, requiring tedious and highly technical model setup with specialty analysis software. With new tools for Revit software, easily repeatable analysis workflows are now possible with results available in-canvas. Therefore, users can get preconfigured, industry-standard, quality information quickly and on demand using the designer's full Revit software geometry. Computationally intensive processes are moved to a fast simulation engine in the cloud to free up computer resources and offer speeds 50 to 1000 times faster than comparable tools. This class will demonstrate live a number of workflows using 2 of these new tools: the Lighting Analysis tool for Revit software helps automate simulation and results management for typical daylighting analyses like LEED 8.1; the Rendering Illuminance tool for Revit software enables flexible and general visualization of illuminance levels for any time, location, or sky condition for any Revit software 3D view.

Realistic light simulation is increasingly becoming more important to the design process, whether it is to support the design of a car's head and tail lamp clusters, or assessing how lights can is distributed around the interior of a railway carriage to support brand identity or how a room in a building is lit. This class with shed light (!) onto these topics describing how the various features of Autodesk VRED can be used to achieve different lighting effects. Attendees will learn amongst other topics how to differentiate between the various ray trace modes, how to use light simulation data and how the realistic modelling of materials is important to the overall scene visualisation

This class gives an in-depth look into “how to setup” a virtual light booth as a VRED standard environment that reflects the behavior of the real world. The attendees will also learn about the VRED render pipeline, spectral raytracing, different techniques to measure and visualize light and gives a best practice to push the rendering close at possible to the real image. This class targets everyone who wants to compare and proof virtual materials with their real world examples under similar conditions.

ElumTools is a Revit add-on that is a powerful photometric calculation tool. But sometimes it's a challenge to get the photometric modeling results you expect from your Revit software. This class will cover creating lighting families that calculate properly using ElumTools, including placement and orientation of photometric webs, general use versus emergency calculations, and switching. By using the Luminaire Manager and Photometric Instabase, we will demonstrate how to model the correct luminaire in the correct orientation and conditions.

Engineers, Architects and Designers are persistently constrained to provide a greater performance and better solutions when it comes to applying light effectively. Our process will enhance the BIM collaboration level and address how Generative Design can help manufacturers to produce more with less resources, energy and time to support sustainability. This class will go beyond the fundamentals of interior design lighting and dive into settings to promptly prototyped an automated system that can understand the requirements for the photometric light, select proper schemes, and calculate the level of lighting. We will learn how to link the IES files to any light rendering software then by altering the code preferences we can achieve accurate visuals that can be adjusted and updated at real time. The chosen design will be automatically translated into BIM data that will generate electrical plans and instantly calculate the intensity and quantity of light required for a particular space.

Using Autodesk Forge API, manufacturers, engineers, architects and designers will learn how to build a collaborative ecosystem to address the lighting design process/industry efficiently. This class focuses on interior design lighting and deeply analyzes its settings to prototype an automated system that understands the photometric light preferences, and compute the level of lighting and proper structure to select the suitable options set. Our class will show how we can enhance the BIM collaboration level and tackle how Generative Design can support manufacturers to produce more efficient luminaries with less resources, energy and time. We will learn how to integrate IES files with any rendering software to achieve accurate visuals that can be adjusted and updated at real time. Using Forge design automation API, the chosen design will be automatically translated into BIM data from which we can generate electrical plans and simultaneously calculate the amount of light fixtures.

Realistic light simulation is increasingly becoming more important to the design process, whether it’s used to support the design of a car’s head and tail lamp clusters, or to assess how lights can be distributed around the interior of a railway carriage to support brand identity, or to light a room in a building. This class with shed light onto these topics, describing how you can use the various features of VRED software to achieve different lighting effects. Among other topics, attendees will learn how to differentiate between the various ray trace modes and how to use light simulation data, and they will discover the importance of the realistic modeling of materials to the overall scene visualization. In this class we will work through a car lamp example with various significant design and engineering characteristics like LEDs, light guide elements, and multicomponent cover glass.

Customers created a Building Information Modeling (BIM) automatically analyze, to develop a technology that can quickly and lighting design and visualization, you can promote your architectural design. It uses an API of Revit, first, extract the building information needed for lighting design. Then it will automatically place the lighting in individual rooms within the building. Further, through the illumination analysis, to render automatically create a photographic image. In addition, it provides dynamic control design of individual lights that are arranged. This enables you to control the lighting in the actual space. These technologies are also applicable to other facility designs.

Revit software and Green Building Studio web-based energy analysis service provide us with in-depth and overwhelming data in relation to building performance. Currently, however, organizing the data and decision-making is mostly a user responsibility. For example, although Revit software's full analysis provides us with lighting and thermal analysis, the results are not synchronized. To be more exact, the lighting part of the full analysis uses lighting power density (LPD), which is only related to the area and disregards other features such as window properties (even window size) or orientation, and so on. Using the Dynamo visual programming language extension and cloud-rendering services (illuminance calculation is currently a render operation) provided by Autodesk, Inc., it is possible to gather and organize illuminance values for the internal space. From there it is easy to calculate the internal lighting load, and accordingly it is possible to achieve a fully concerted thermal and lighting analysis, which is crucial in decision-making (especially in the design phase).

This class will explain how Canam Group integrated Advance Steel detailing software in order to detail steel beams in light gage stud walls in the firm's multiresidential projects. You'll learn how to create light gage stud walls and header beams with MWF software developed by StrucSoft Solutions, a Revit add-in. You will see how MWF can create and detail light gage stud walls efficiently. We'll cover how we import/export header beams from Revit software to Advance Steel software. You will learn how to detail the connections of the wall header beams, with user connections in Advance Steel, and how to add stiffeners, bent plates, and nelson studs. You will learn how to use the verification tools available in Advance Steel. We'll highlight the benefits of using these 2 compatible software systems to prepare the drawings for shop. We'll cover how to prepare the documents for fabrication, like computer numerical control (CNC), DXF for plates, bolt list, single parts, and cut list for studs. And, finally, you will learn how to produce the erection drawings using Revit.

Errors made on construction projects can often prove to be extremely costly, with general contractors and subcontractors sometimes spending years correcting mistakes that weren’t picked up. As efficiency and accuracy becomes increasingly important in the industry, we can’t afford to waste time. The desire to build directly from the model is driving the construction process to perform construction verification with scanning and layout in a fraction of the time using the Topcon GTL-1000. Hear from a group of construction and industry professionals on how the newly integrated tools for construction verification provide users with a live, as-built model from a full dome scan and the same resection setup for layout, let project engineers near real-time adaptations on-site to identify and rectify any discrepancies quickly, and reduce the financial impact of clashes with a touch of a button.

Back by popular demand—and intended for emerging users of 3ds Max software and Maya software—this session will explore the world of image-based lighting for rendering images using high dynamic range (HDR) maps and the mental ray, NVIDIA iray, and V-Ray rendering engines. We'll begin with the process of capturing the existing real-world environment lighting. From there we'll see the steps involved in creating HDR panoramic image maps that are used within 3ds Max software and Maya software for photorealistic scene lighting. Finally, we'll employ camera techniques to create very real images, and we'll combine computer graphics and real photographs for completely believable and realistic final imagery.

This class will explain how Canam Group integrated Advance Steel detailing software in order to detail steel beams in light gage stud walls in the firm's multiresidential projects. You'll learn how to create light gage stud walls and header beams with MWF software developed by StrucSoft Solutions, a Revit add-in. You will see how MWF can create and detail light gage stud walls efficiently. We'll cover how we import/export header beams from Revit software to Advance Steel software. You will learn how to detail the connections of the wall header beams, with user connections in Advance Steel, and how to add stiffeners, bent plates, and nelson studs. You will learn how to use the verification tools available in Advance Steel. We'll highlight the benefits of using these 2 compatible software systems to prepare the drawings for shop. We'll cover how to prepare the documents for fabrication, like computer numerical control (CNC), DXF for plates, bolt list, single parts, and cut list for studs. And, finally, you will learn how to produce the erection drawings using Revit.

Bergen’s Light-Rail Project Building Information Modeling (BIM) strategy was shaped by strict demands: 300-plus professional stakeholders, lots of tunnels, heavy storm events, traffic, and tracks running down the middle of Norway’s second-largest city. The unique execution plan created for this project was customized from a mix of private and government guides. The resulting plan included model specifications, level of development (LOD) progressions, quality assurance criteria, and collaboration policies. The project capitalized on iConstruct, FME, and A360 cloud-based collaboration service to automatically create and compose the federated/collaboration model. A powerful set of custom information was added to objects at this collaboration stage to further facilitate the mapped processes. Autodesk Consulting and Premium Support assisted to optimize and customize workflows. And Autodesk Consulting is currently working on a joint Autodesk, Inc./Sweco cloud solution, so the entire project team will have an updated model available every day as this project moves toward completion. AIA Approved

Bergen Light Rail in Norway is one of the largest infrastructure projects in northern Europe. It’s the largest project in Sweco’s history, which means all hands on deck. With more than 500 people from 30 disciplines across 20 offices in 6 countries, this model-based project needed a new way of cooperating and communicating. By implementing a solution that brings together Jira, Navisworks software, and a web application that uses the power of Forge, all stakeholders can now view, create, and manage issues from within the intelligent model. Currently more than 6,000 issues have been created and are maintained for this project alone. Discover how daily updated models in Navisworks and the web application save countless hours and drastically improve the design process as everyone in the project always has access to the same information wherever they’re located. The class will cover how all stakeholders have web access to intelligent models and issues related to them.

Do you want to create professional-looking renderings? Learn how to convert your 3D AutoCAD models into finished, photorealistic renderings using tools already built into AutoCAD software. In this class, you learn how to use lighting, material, and rendering tools in AutoCAD to place and control lights, add and adjust materials and textures, and control the surrounding model environment to produce eye-catching images. You see how to take real-world objects and quickly create custom materials, and produce reusable models of light fixtures that behave like real-world lights. You also see how to take full advantage of the Autodesk® 360 cloud-based rendering service to create beautiful renderings quickly and easily, and even produce rendered animations entirely inside AutoCAD.

Have you ever wanted to use Revit®-based software to produce point-by-point lighting calculations directly in the Revit model? ElumTools, an add-in for Revit, is the answer. In this hands-on lab, you learn how to use ElumTools in Revit to achieve point-by-point calculation by using the architectural model and lighting families.