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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.

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.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2015

Revit API Expert Roundtable: Open House on the Factory Floor

Interact with a panel of Revit software API experts from Autodesk, Inc., to answer your questions and discuss all relevant topics of your choice. For anyone writing add-ins for Revit software, this is the perfect forum to better get to know the people who shape the APIs you work with, and explain your views, ideas, and problems face to face. Please note that prior Microsoft .NET programming and Revit software add-in development experience is required. This class is not suitable for beginners.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

Maximizing ROI by Effective BIM Implementation for a 4-Million-Square-Foot Iconic Project

This class will present an inspiring account of one of the finest Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementations at Msheireb, Qatar, comprising of 14 buildings—22-level hotel, 4-level parking, office, apartments, cultural and entertainment center—covering more than 4 million square feet. This BIM case study has ample examples to understand the critical factors that determined the success of this complex project that involved stakeholders from more than 15 countries, more than 20 trades, and a breathtaking rigid construction schedule in spite of 26 major change bulletins. Attendees will learn the best practices on BIM workflow, and strategies for complete project-lifecycle implementation. We’ll also cover how to customize Building Design Suite software, and how to use different tools and processes for BIM setup, design and change management, value engineering, constructability review, and accurate coordinated shop drawings for uninterrupted construction, site logistics, and construction management. This session features Revit and Fabrication CADmep.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Capitalizing On Simulation to Explore Designs with Recycled Carbon Fiber

This presentation will focus on simulation techniques used to compare traditional hurling stick material and performance against a composite redesign. We used several Autodesk tools—including Fusion 360 software, Netfabb software, Moldflow, and Autodesk Nastran software—to evaluate and optimize the performance of the composite structure.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2019

Drawing from Experience: Four CAD Managers with over 100 Years of Experience Tell All

This award-winning panel is back this year with a new list of topics to discuss. Learn from the experiences of this panel of diverse CAD Managers that are widely respected as leaders in their field. Hear their unique perspective and solutions to challenges faced by CAD Managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. Topics include CAD standards, keeping up with rapidly changing technology, managing users, communicating with management and other non-technical people, budgeting and much more. There will also be time for Q&A where you can ask these experts the questions you’ve always wanted to find answers to. Join us for a panel discussion that has become an anticipated AU tradition. Bring your questions and get answers from four CAD Managers who have been there and done that.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

Introduction to the BIM 360 Glue API

Come and discover the BIM 360 Glue software API. This API (application programming interface) is composed of 2 parts: the Web Services API and the display component. The Web Services API is REST-based, and it enables you to access your BIM 360 Glue software data, such as users, models, and actions. You can imbed the display component, or Viewer API, in your application. Using the BIM 360 Glue software API, you can, for example, automate the updating of projects and models from external applications. BIM 360 Glue software keeps track of a user's actions as data in additional to traditional model-centric information. You can also use such information to make a report that will keep track of a team's progress. Of course, BIM 360 Glue software is totally cloud based, so you can connect your own web services applications with the BIM 360 Glue software projects. We will also use examples of use cases to demonstrate what you can do with the BIM 360 Glue software API.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020

Simulate Anything: Fusion 360 and Ansys Interoperability

In order to streamline design-to-manufacturing workflows, there is a dire need to simulate anything. The Fusion 360 and Ansys relationship is getting stronger and deeper, which means more power to the users. With Fusion Simulation software, you can do a variety of analyses like linear and e-cooling. With Ansys Simulation you can simulate virtually any analysis type. Generative design outcomes can be validated with advanced analyses such as transient, nonlinear, fatigue, and random vibration, to name a few, in Ansys. This technology will enable users to do design in Fusion 360 and simulation in Ansys. Fusion Simulation setups can be packaged into neutral files and pushed to Ansys Mechanical and Discovery on the same or a different computer enabling designer-designer and designer-analyst workflows.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2018

Forge Platform/API: Meet the Experts

Get direct access to Autodesk Forge software development teams in this panel discussion. This hour is dedicated to answering any and all questions about current and soon to be released Forge APIs.

Panel / Virtual 2020

Why I Chose a Premium Plan for My Business

This session is for admins who are considering upgrading their teams to a Premium plan. With new plans for named users available, it can be tough to figure out which is the best fit for your company. Hear directly from a customer on why they chose Premium, and what challenges the Premium features helped them overcome. Learn tips and tricks from product managers on how to maximize the value of product usage reporting with user details and single sign-in so your company can be more efficient with administrative tasks and software spend. Attendees will leave the session with clearer understandings of the differences between a Standard and Premium plans, so they can make the right purchasing decisions for their companies.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Structural Optimization That Architects Don't Hate

Modern structural optimization based on reducing materials has facilitated improvements for some structures like canopies and bridges. However, when applied to buildings, these approaches to optimization are less appropriate, as they can impact internal building layouts, frustrating our architectural colleagues. Procedural generation—a method for using algorithms to generate geometry—when combined with more familiar structural optimization like Generative Design in Refinery, offers us a new methodology that can drastically reduce the complexity of the problem. It achieves this by mimicking human processes and applying them to the option generation process, such as aligning the building's structural frame with key features in the building layout, like cores and atria. This technique also offers the opportunity to include multidisciplinary constraints by adjusting the building structural frame to match the position of internal features, such as internal walls and corridors.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020

Inventor View Representations: Now You See It (Now You Don’t)

This class will teach you how to use View representations in Inventor assemblies. Representations control the visibility and several other characteristics of components within assemblies. Representations let you save specific Views of your assembly to prepare for presentations and create drawings. Proper use of representations will significantly improve your system’s performance when dealing with large, complex assemblies.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2013

Sell Your First App on the Autodesk Exchange Apps Store

Do you have something (anything) cool that you think other Autodesk® product users would like to buy? The new Autodesk Exchange Apps store makes it very easy to get your work in front of hundreds of thousands of customers. Come to this roundtable to ask questions and share your experiences selling apps on Autodesk Exchange. Members of the team who review and publish your apps are available to answer your questions and give you advice on making your app as successful as possible. Anything that you find useful is probably suitable to publish on Autodesk Exchange, including plug-ins, content libraries, e-books, and video tutorials.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020

Creating Intelligent Details and Keynotes in AutoCAD Architecture

Everyone knows that AutoCAD Architecture software is a 3D program, and that it has intelligence when modeling. However, this intelligence is sometimes lost when creating details. In this session, we’ll show how to create intelligent details using detail components. In doing this, we’ll be able to keynote these elements to maintain a consistent noting procedure. We will then introduce how to modify the detail components. We will also show how to place all of the detail files on a sheet. If keynoting isn't your choice, we’ll also cover how to tag these elements so that there’s consistent notation of the details on every project.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2017

A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D (Part 2) (REPEAT)

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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015

Managing AutoCAD Civil 3D from the Ground Up

Are you a CAD manager who is responsible for maintaining and managing numerous software applications, one of which is AutoCAD Civil 3D software—even though you might not consider yourself an AutoCAD Civil 3D software power user? AutoCAD Civil 3D software is much more than just AutoCAD software for civil/survey users. It has many traits and features that not only make it powerful, but can also bring unique needs and challenges to the CAD manager. The great news is that these challenges are not hard to overcome once you understand the reasons behind them. In this class we will discuss managing templates, styles, and settings, which can be the biggest obstacle to success with AutoCAD Civil 3D. The class will also explore data compatibility and translation, output options, and different approaches to training. Don’t miss this chance to learn ways to more effectively manage AutoCAD Civil 3D software within your CAD system.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

A CAD Manager's Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D

Are you a CAD manager where AutoCAD Civil 3D software is only one of the many software applications you are responsible for maintaining and managing, even though you might not consider yourself an AutoCAD Civil 3D power user? Even if you have an extensive background with AutoCAD Civil 3D software but you just want to learn more from a CAD management perspective, you won't want to miss this class. AutoCAD Civil 3D software is much more than just AutoCAD software for civil/survey users. It has many traits and features that make it powerful, and it can also bring unique needs and challenges to the CAD manager. The great news is that these challenges are not hard to overcome once you understand the reasons behind them. In this class we will discuss managing templates, styles, and settingswhich can be the biggest obstacles to success with AutoCAD Civil 3D software. The class will also explore data compatibility and translation, output options, and different approaches to training. Don't miss this chance to learn ways to more effectively manage AutoCAD Civil 3D software within your CAD system.

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