In the face of climate change, designing infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather events and rising sea levels is paramount, and traditional approaches often lack the tools to evaluate an ever-growing array of parameters. On top of that, planning on a 20- or even 10-year horizon is getting increasingly difficult, and it might not make sense altogether, for exponential change escapes our ability to foresee it. Exit planning, enter improvisation. This lecture will explore the concept of organizational improvisation and LEGO® Serious Play (LSP) as a powerful tool for designing climate-resilient infrastructure. By providing real-life examples and constructing scenarios with the class, we'll focus on how agility, creativity, and collaboration can enhance an organization's ability to respond to evolving environmental challenges. Join us to learn how LSP enables stakeholders to explore complex problems, co-create solutions, and envision resilient futures.

Our world has become increasingly interconnected, which makes resilient critical infrastructure more important than ever. Traditional methods of creating and maintaining non-building infrastructure struggle to keep up with the evolving landscape. In this talk, we'll discuss the urgent need for resilient and sustainable infrastructure in the face of aging systems, climate change, and urbanization. The session will focus on the transformative potential of digital technologies and explore how you can use them to design, build, and maintain transportation, energy, water, and utility systems. We'll present real-world case studies to show how digital transformation reshapes critical infrastructure today through data-driven decision making and advanced construction techniques. By gaining a deeper understanding of current challenges, you will walk away with actionable insights and strategies for integrating new technologies effectively into your business processes to reap rewards.

Civil infrastructure projects are critical assets characterized by their extensive lifespans, costs, and impacts. So, how can we ensure these projects fully achieve their main purpose of holistically benefiting local communities? This session will explore how a unified Autodesk environment can streamline the design of roadway projects while adhering to sustainability guidelines. We'll demonstrate a typical workflow connecting Civil 3D software and InfoWorks ICM, focusing on the integration of these tools and using as case study a roadway project at risk from sea-level rise. Envision Framework and UN Sustainability Goals provisions will be used to validate results, ensuring that picked approaches are innovative and grounded in recognized guidelines. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how Autodesk solutions can empower users to make more-informed decisions in their own projects, making sure sustainable practices are being adopted at every stage of a project's lifecycle.

Existing conditions and rehab corridors have always been tough to model, and there are many ways to model your corridor in Civil 3D software. So which way is best? Join us in this class as we dive into multiple ways to model your rehab corridor. There are great tools for optimizing the cross slope of existing roadways and enhance your design of new roadways that just need a bit more detailed design to them. There is a new(er) Rehab Corridor option, however, the workflow to create a rehab corridor is slightly different from the standard workflow used to create other corridor models. This session will review the new Rehab Corridor option and multiple methods in Civil 3D software for how to improve your daily workflows.

In this technical session, we'll go through the entire corridor workflow using the new corridor interface. Here we'll look at creating a corridor with multiple baselines (alignments and feature lines). We'll also add corridor transitions to the model and review best practices. We'll also incorporate several custom subassemblies into the model. This will be an in-depth look at ways these new tools can improve our corridor model.

Learn hands-on the creation of basic bridge components in Inventor software. InfraWorks software can accept custom piers, girders, abutments, decks, and foundations created as IPT files in Inventor. In this class, you will model a parametric pier in Inventor and use Shape Modeler to prepare it for use in InfraWorks. Once in InfraWorks, we will export the bridge to Revit software.

Unlock your companies GIS data in ESRI online and InfraWorks, dynamically build models and connect to valuable data resources.

Come learn how integrating ArcGIS location data can better support your design workflows.

In this class, you'll learn how to use generative design in Civil 3D software through Refinery. Starting with the prerequisite packages and initial setup, you will discover how to create a Dynamo graph for generative design purposes. You'll also learn how to create a study, assign methods, set constraints, and explore outcomes. This class assumes basic knowledge of Dynamo for Civil 3D. Join this class and take your design skills to the next level.

We all understand the power Civil 3D brings when creating roadway corridors. How about the efficiency Dynamo adds? Now add in the Generative Design functionality to your corridors, and you have something worth sharing with the community! Using out-of-the-box Civil 3D functionality, we've created a monster! That's right, we've created The Corridor Optimizer! Instead of building a single corridor model, we create hundreds—even thousands—of corridors, in search of THE corridor alternative. With every corridor created, we extract the quantities. Not just our end-area-based corridor quantities, but quantities representing the existing corridor elements that would be impacted by each of these thousand or so corridor alternatives. Once we have quantities, the real excitement begins! Input our pay item unit prices, and we generate costs. Input construction production rates, and we have a schedule! Carbon values? We have sustainability! Join us for this incredible story!

InfraWorks software has the ability to advance the designs of roads, as well as analyze a proposal's strengths and weaknesses early in the design workflow. This data completed in InfraWorks can then be used by AutoCAD Civil 3D software to complete the granular detail of the design. This will speed the broader details earlier in the project, while not necessitating redesign as the project enters the heavy design phase. This class will look at the functions available in InfraWorks to design and analyze a project design, move that data into AutoCAD Civil 3D, and show what's available to AutoCAD Civil 3D users as they begin their portions of the designs.

Join us as we take a beginner's look at the Subassembly Composer software. We'll create some basic-to-advanced subassemblies here in the hands-on lab. We'll go from creating the PKT files to importing them into AutoCAD Civil 3D software to applying them to our corridor. This class is ideal for those in the transportation industry who need just a bit more than the tools that AutoCAD Civil 3D has to offer. We'll explore the new software features that make 2017 Subassembly Composer part of your project workflows. So, whether you've tried the software for yourself or never even heard of it before, this class is one you won't want to miss.

In this Hands-On Labs, we'll explore the workflows between InfoWorks ICM and AutoCAD Civil 3D. While this is not a superficial, unnecessary, or overly bad sequel, this Hands-on lab will explore real-time collaboration we challenge two teams to execute a whodunnit flood simulation to save the little town of Topper. InfoWorks ICM enables team collaboration and empowers engineers to reach beyond single-purpose tools tools to evaluate various options against a multitude of rainfall events within the context of the entire watershed. This Lab will provide users the opportunity to save the town of Topper - together by leveraging Civil 3D data, and InfoWorks ICMs integrated catchment modeling to evaluate the town for possible flood damages.

Design projects need to rely on quality data for existing conditions in order to be successful. Point cloud data collected from mobile or terrestrial laser scanning, or even from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), fit into this; however, they're challenging to use effectively on their own. This class will provide the necessary information to import, process, and extract relevant 2D and 3D features in InfraWorks software and exchange them with AutoCAD Civil 3D software for design. The class will also cover best practices for working with these large data sets and extracted features for detailed terrain and existing-conditions models. Knowledge of InfraWorks, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and point clouds will be helpful. At the end of the class, attendees will be able to use point cloud data more efficiently, and be able to extract linear and point features for further use in InfraWorks and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Ugly. That's the only way to describe the default AutoCAD Civil 3D corridors. Or, you could say a crazy Technicolor spider drew them. Either way, they don't look like roads. Most AutoCAD Civil 3D users simply switch between the various default Code Set Styles and then turn off the layers they don't want. In this class, we'll learn how to create and apply link, point, and shape styles to a corridor. This will let us shade the pavement, hatch the sidewalk, and show grass in the grading, while at the same time hiding those unsightly projection lines. Additionally, we'll take a look at how the Code Set Styles control the labels applied to corridor cross sections, and even how to use expressions to display only the information we need, while hiding what we don't want (such as the vertical grade of a curb face).

Autodesk Vehicle Tracking is much more than just vehicle swept path analysis. Come join us in this hands-on lab to find out for yourself how Vehicle Tracking in Civil 3D and InfraWorks can improve your project decision making. Vehicle Tracking allows even beginner users to make educated decisions concerning their individual projects. During this lab, we'll explore all the functions of Vehicle Tracking and design the following: starting a project in InfraWorks and then importing it into Vehicle Tracking to design a parking lot ; ensure our project design meets city standards; utilize the Vehicle Tracking information for detailed grading design; create a roundabout within the project; and much, much more. After this hands-on lab, you will have gained new skills that you can take back to the office and show others the many different ways to use Vehicle Tracking software, Civil 3D and InfraWorks. This session features Vehicle Tracking, AutoCAD Civil 3D and InfraWorks

In this session, we'll walk through a complete workflow starting inside ReCap Pro software, and publishing a point cloud to the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. We'll extract linear features and bring them into Civil 3D software so we can create a simplified but highly accurate surface model. From there, we will publish the linear features as as-built information to ArcGIS Online for everyone to use. This is a workflow you've been asking for!

If you are an AutoCAD Civil 3D user being asked to provide data to your geographic information system (GIS) department, if you are being asked to use GIS data as background data for your designs, or if you think GIS is a 4-letter word-this class will answer this all-too-common question: "Why should I care about GIS?" You will learn to import GIS data not only as AutoCAD objects, but also directly as AutoCAD Civil 3D objects like Surfaces and Pipe Networks that use the existing database information. Once that data is in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, we'll explore ways to use it with labeling tools and other display techniques. This popular class has won the award for Best Hands-on Lab at Autodesk University; don't miss your chance to learn how the GIS tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D can make you more productive by automating common everyday tasks.

If you are an AutoCAD Civil 3D user being asked to provide data to your geographic information system (GIS) department, if you are being asked to use GIS data as background data for your designs, or if you think GIS is a 4-letter word-this class will answer this all-too-common question: "Why should I care about GIS?" You will learn to import GIS data not only as AutoCAD objects, but also directly as AutoCAD Civil 3D objects like Surfaces and Pipe Networks that use the existing database information. Once that data is in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, we'll explore ways to use it with labeling tools and other display techniques. This popular class has won the award for Best Hands-on Lab at Autodesk University; don't miss your chance to learn how the GIS tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D can make you more productive by automating common everyday tasks.

If you took part 1 of this class (today or a previous year at AU) and are ready to learn even more, this class takes the next step as we look at the GIS capability in Civil 3D and how it can benefit Civil Engineers and Surveyors.GIS data can be created directly in Civil 3D or imported from other programs. Now that you have access to that data the real fun begins.This class will explore ways to analyze, display and leverage this information to answer questions and automate common tasks.The request to provide design data to GIS departments is becoming more common every day. This class will explore the details of why just sending them a drawing is often not an adequate way to satisfy that request.You will learn ways to export Civil 3D objects to GIS formats that can be used easily and consistently by your GIS department.