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.

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.

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.

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.

This session is an opportunity to learn from the experience of construction companies that have excellent enterprise implementations of BIM 360 software. Representatives of these companies will share what business outcomes their firms have achieved, what made their firms’ implementations successful, and the obstacles the firms faced and how they were overcome. As an audience-centered session, the bulk of the time will be dedicated to open discussion and learning from each other.

How InfraWorks is changing urban development

This session will walk through a typical highway/road design transportation project that lets you connect geographic information system (GIS) data in a more seamless manner to your BIM (Building Information Modeling) design model in an InfraWorks workflow using the full suite of infrastructure solutions using InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Structural Bridge Design software. We’ll look at the following workflows: InfraWorks road layout tools and component roads for preliminary design; cloud services for corridor and profile optimization; and the moving of preliminary designs from InfraWorks to AutoCAD Civil 3D software for detailed design and documentation.

Learn about PlanGrid’s new suite of features, including BIM (Building Information Modeling), and how they can improve field-office collaboration and boost overall field productivity. See what’s new in 2019 and how you can apply it to help your teams build better together.

Top Autodesk thought leaders from all parts of the enterprise share their exclusive insights on our leading edge software development practices, our evolving effort to partner with and learn from our customers, and our initiatives to meet your needs in the next 5-10 years. This will be a unique, fast paced, highly interactive format with 15-minute engaging dialogues in each key area, immediately followed by a networking reception with the panelists.  It is a great opportunity to deepen your connection to Autodesk, and to consider how to position yourself for the future with Autodesk as your partner.

Moderator—Minette Norman, Vice President Engineering Practice

Development Practices—Maria Giudice, Vice President Experience Design and Alicia Wong, Director, Agile Practice

Customer as Partner—Moonhie Chin, Senior Vice President of Global Customer Support and Operations (GCSO) and Leeann Manon, Director, Product and Platform Marketing

The Future—Heather Kerrick, Senior Research Engineer and Lynelle Cameron, Senior Director, Sustainability and Autodesk Foundation

Creating technical design solutions and presenting them to stakeholders is part of the everyday life of a design engineer, and the expectation of doing more with less is rapidly becoming the status quo in industry today. This class will use a real world example to demonstrate how you can unleash the potential of Generative Design in Fusion 360 to automate the solutions exploration phase of any design. You will learn how to import existing design data, set up design and manufacturing constraints, and execute automated design creating an unlimited set of possible solutions. Next, you will learn how to leverage the flexibility and power of 3ds Max to quickly create a compelling story for your stakeholders with stunning visuals, bringing the designs to life. Design engineers, it’s time to level up and maximize your potential with today’s latest and greatest engineering and presentation tools.

See a demonstration of how the Connector for ArcGIS can save you time accessing geographic information system (GIS) data from your Esri ArcGIS Portal in InfraWorks software and Civil 3D software for use in your infrastructure workflows. See how the GIS data can be modified and published back to your ArcGIS Portal, and learn how to export this data to an external GIS database. This demonstration will also go into detail about gravity networks and how they can be carried between Civil 3D and ArcGIS Portal to benefit design and plan production steps.

This instructional demo will introduce DynaShape, a free and open-source Dynamo package for constraint-based form-finding, optimization and physics simulation. Participants will learn the basic features of DynaShape along with a number of useful geometric and physics-based design principles DynaShape. This allows the users to model complex curved forms that are based on certain physical/structural types (e.g., catenary shells, tensile structures) or that meet certain geometric properties (e.g. planar quad panels, unrollable surface stripes, as-uniform-as-possible edge length) right inside the familiar Dynamo environment. At the beginning, participants will learn how DynaShape treats a design system as a collection of nodes (i.e., vertices in 3D space). Different forces and constraints are then applied to these nodes. Examples are the Length constraint that keeps 2 nodes at a specified distance, the CoPlanar constraint that keeps a group of nodes to lie on the same plane, the Equal-Distance constraint that maintains uniform-segment-length of a polylines, and many more. Usually each node is subjected to multiple, usually conflicting, forces and constraints. This typically makes it very hard for a human designer to conceive what the 'best' positions of all nodes that can satisfy all these constraints and forces simultaneously. Here, the iterative algorithm in DynaShape will find a solution that meet all the constraints, or satisfy them as much as possible if the overall system is over-constrained. The instructors will then guide the participants through a number of hand-on DynaShape design examples, such as doubly curved rooves, compression-only forms, and membrane simulation Finally, to take advantage of the Dynamo platform, we will then employ the Dynamo customizer and project Fractal to explore different DynaShape constraint and force parameter settings. This allows the exploration of a wide range of complex design solution. For example, we can demonstrate a tensile structure design scenario where the anchor and cable positions are parametrized and handled by project Fractal, allowing the designer to 'optineer' a variety of emerging tensile forms.

In this session, we'll cover a complete workflow based solely on Autodesk technology, from process planning to 2D-3D layout and 4D timeline management. Then we'll bring you into the virtual factory experience, meaning that you can experience the factory as if it was built already. Finally, we'll present the advanced manufacturing technologies for the factory of the future-technologies that are available today. At the end of the session, you'll understand how to set up integrated factory workflows, and you'll know the importance of process planning and the integration of an "as build" situation-which is very common and useful for avoiding collisions. Additionally, you'll know how to use virtual reality solutions to communicate the entire plan with stakeholders, and you'll understand how smart manufacturing is paving the way for agile manufacturing.

Developing schemes for land usage requires the gathering and analysis of a lot of existing data, the incorporation of proposed structures and buildings, and perhaps even some free-form “napkin” sketches. Such data is pertinent to coming up with solutions and alternatives. Once this conceptual design is formalized, the design progresses to the next project phase, design development / detailed design. In this session, you’ll discover tools you can use within InfraWorks software to develop and test a conceptual design, developing alternatives and weighing them against each other. We will use data from a variety of sources, including geographic information system (GIS) data, Revit models, scanned hand sketches, AutoCAD and Civil 3D drawings, FormIt models, and more. You’ll also learn how to carry a conceptual design farther by bringing it into Civil 3D software, and from there the design surface will be shared with Revit software via BIM 360 software. Finally, we’ll use Navisworks software for visualization and quantification.

Generative Design is changing the way we design, engineer, and manufacture the products of tomorrow. By leveraging cloud technology - 100’s or 1000’s of higher performing design options can be generated based on objectives, allowing users to make tradeoffs for different materials, performance, and production options. The benefits of Generative Design are also not restricted to just the world of Additive Manufacturing, but can also be leveraged with Subtractive Manufacturing, and even as design inspiration for traditional techniques. What you might not be aware of, is that Generative Design technology is now available to any user of the Manufacturing collections. This allows you to seamlessly go from your CAD workflows within Inventor, to generating a design in Fusion 360, back to having the generated design into the context of your original assembly with Inventor. Join us to learn how to get started with Generative Design in Fusion 360, hands-on, alongside Inventor.

Welcome to Subassembly Composer for AutoCAD Civil 3D software! This is a lab for those that have utilized AutoCAD Civil 3D software for some time, but are interested in figuring out how to take their corridors to a whole new level. We will develop subassemblies you can put to work as soon as you're home, and give you a methodology for creation that will make your co-workers think you're a professional software developer. Specifically, we will begin by diving into good subassembly design practices, taken directly from our friends in the software development industry. The subassemblies we'll build together in this lab are particularly relevant to those in the land development industry, but they have direct value for those designing with corridors in AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This lab will also touch on how to harness the capabilities of the Subassembly Composer to utilize InfraWorks 360 software for design visualization. Consider this class the introduction to the course I taught last year for those in the aviation design industry. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D and InfraWorks 360.

The role of engineering simulation is changing—it’s really about business benefits. However, achieving those benefits and associated growth of the engineering simulation market is tempered by a lack of available expertise. The ASSESS Initiative has brought together thought leaders in engineering simulation to better understand the opportunities, issues, and challenges associated with significantly broader use and benefit of engineering simulation. This session will explore the activities of the ASSESS Initiative, including efforts related to democratization of engineering simulation, engineering simulation credibility, and generative design.

Working on campus projects, strip malls, or any multibuilding project inevitably brings up discussion of how to manage the details. Often a major driving factor in choosing how to manage the details is whether all of the buildings will be included in one set of construction documents, or if each building will have a separate set of documents. Based on the project and which of these 2 approaches is selected, there are a number of strategies that can be implemented within Revit software to help streamline the construction document process. This class will dive into creating a single project file that only contains typical details, and how to link that file into all pertinent building models so that they all update seamlessly. This process isn't well known, but it can keep the liability aspect of a project to a minimum.

In the last years the architecture, engineering, and construction industry has adopted Building Information Modeling (BIM) as the main process for coping with project design, but often HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) engineers have faced waste of activities and creation of misleading project expectations. To avoid this, the Danish firm MOE has optimized the HVAC design process. This class will show the benefits of creating MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) models from project kickoff, where MEP geometry and data smartly increases its level of development (LOD) along all project phases, without losing information in phase transitions. It will show how to convert 2D lines into ventilation ducts and heating pipes, including their fittings via the Dynamo extension. It will show that dummy equipment families combined with Dynamo are capable of performing pressure loss and velocity calculations in early phases. It will publish a series of Dynamo nodes for HVAC design—for example, how to hook up open connections virtually via the Revit software API. Calculations are also available in intermediate phases. Moreover, we will show HVAC design quality control via Dynamo and BIM 360. This session features Revit MEP and A360. AIA Approved