Join other licensing experts and innovators from the enterprise community. Autodesk Enterprise licensing offerings have evolved significantly in recent years. Find out how these changes have influenced management techniques and what works well in your area of industry. Veteran Autodesk University speaker and licensing evangelist Jerry Milana will host the session, starting with 15 minutes for introductions and topic nomination and prioritization. We will then allot 20 minutes to each of the top-3 topics. We will finish up by summarizing the highlights of our session, including a wish list for the Autodesk Licensing Team.

This session will demonstrate how BIM 360 and Cintoo Cloud can be efficiently leveraged in a collaborative way to extract meaningful information at every stage of the BIM process: to distribute the terrestrial laser scan data via the cloud to drafters and modelers; to compare the as-built reality to the BIM model built from the scans to check model completeness and accuracy; to compare the as-built to the BIM model for quality check during the construction process; to visually detect issues when comparing scan and BIM in an immersive and collaborative VR experience.

This course walks you through the licensing and software delivery steps that assure an optimal implementation of Autodesk, Inc., software across your network. We will focus on the critical decision points in deploying and licensing Autodesk products with emphasis on recent changes and industry best practices. We will cover planning, implementation, fault tolerance, day-to-day administration, and troubleshooting techniques. This course is ideal for IT administrators and CAD managers involved with Autodesk licensing and software installation. Old pros say this class is a great refresher. Those new to the subject matter leave with more direction and confidence. Discover why many Autodesk University attendees sign up for this course year after year.

Sick and tired of the same old user groups? Wish you had a group who really understood what you were working on and could help you overcome some of your hurdles? Lets admit it: we all need sounding boards, but how do you find those people? In this roundtable session, we share with you how a small group started meeting monthly over beers to discuss our troubles with BIM, and we were shocked at the outcome: pure Guinness...I mean genius. BIM was always designed to improve collaboration, but no one would have thought that it would break down barriers in the local market and help all of us improve our workflow. Conversations often get spirited but also lead to breakthroughs that may have never occurred without an open mind. Our group has made several innovative breakthroughs and in this session, we show you how. Every local market is different, so collaborating with those in your market is key. Come join us as we discuss how it is easy to start a local user group and break down barriers and start collaborating.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is one of the leading agents of change in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry today. Come learn how BIM is more than just 3D drafting, and see some ways you can incorporate it into your workflow. We will show some of the simple benefits that all BIM users can enjoy, discuss how BIM can help your business, and preview some of the latest and upcoming technologies This session features Revit, Dynamo Studio, and React Structures. AIA Approved

In this class, we discuss techniques for making your cloud-based web applications (websites and web services) secure. We demonstrate this using ASP .NET. We talk about how you can implement SSL for your web applications so that the data transmitted between the web application and client (typically a web browser) is encrypted. Next, we demonstrate authentication technologies for your web applications, and how to control and limit (authorization) what users have access to in your web application. We talk about implementing infrastructure for accounting or auditing that will help track and analyze how your web application is being used. Following this, we talk about how input can be validated (e.g., ensuring only a date is entered in a date field) for added security. Finally, we discuss session management where the web application securely tracks and stores a user's activity in order to avoid impersonation of a valid user.

Try as you might, you can't always make people voluntarily comply with CAD standards. So if standards violations are a foregone conclusion, then how can we deal with the violators who make the CAD manager's life miserable? In this roundtable session, we will discuss strategies for finding, understanding, and quantifying standards violations from a time/money standpoint to enable senior management to understand the cost of standards violations and empower you to correct the situation. We will also discuss using positive peer pressure from other users to motivate violators to comply. If you have to deal with standards violations in your environment, come and join this discussion with your CAD management peers and learn multiple strategies for fixing this vexing problem.

Denver International Airport (DEN) has been capitalizing on the value of the BIM 360 platform for 8 years. Now DEN is deploying the latest tools on the BIM 360 platform on more than $2 billion worth of capital improvement projects, for every purpose from production, coordination, quality assurance, and review in design, to inspections, asset data capture, and quality assurance and quality control in construction, to transitioning to operations at handover. BIM 360 Design Collaboration, BIM 360 Glue software, Navisworks software, BIM 360 Model Coordination, BIM 360 Docs software, BIM 360 Insight software, and BIM 360 Field Management have all provided value to DEN. With the latest BIM tools, it is becoming increasingly clear that leadership in BIM adoption must begin with the owner as the ultimate customer for all facility data.

This intermediate class will discuss the new physical based materials [we call �Prism',] found in the cloud-rendering service and Fusion 360. We will discuss this new initiative and then take a peek into some future looking initiatives. The class will also discuss the basic material types available, how they are used and why they help achieve photorealistic design visualizations. The attendees will understand the requirements of texture creation/preparation and what makes a �good material'. They will also learn how to fully take advantage of the material models and rendering tools in the Fusion 360 app and in the Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform.

Looking for ways to easily incorporate 5D BIM into your existing workflows? Join this session to learn how Assemble can easily connect your quantities from the BIM model to your existing Microsoft Excel estimating templates or your Sage estimating databases.  Streamline your takeoff process and eliminates tedious, time-consuming workflows.

This class will cover creating custom environments for VRED using 360 HDRI photograpghs, and custom scenes using photoediting software to make your scenes unqiue and tailored to your needs. Specific topics include custom 360 photographic environments (set up and processing) plus how to use them in VRED; quick and easy custom environments for simple lighting in VRED; setting up an environment with models and custom environment quickly and easily in VRED; making it believable and small details that have a big outcome (depth of field, etc.); and tips and tricks for creating and setting up environments in VRED.

This lab will explain the process of accessing Python inside of Dynamo, a powerful way to talk to the Revit API and allow for greater degrees of functionality that out-of-the-box Dynamo and community driven packages may lack. It will cover the core basics of the Python language such as syntax, what the IDE colours mean, how and when to indent (And what it means if you don't), what object types are and how to cast them to another type as well as covering looping? one of the most powerful features that Python has available. It will discuss the potential pitfalls that you run into when accessing Python from Dynamo such as data typologies and wrapping, before diving deeper into external resources: How to access the contents of an external .dll, how Dynamo specifically talks to external and internal resources, how we can retain a 'lightness of touch' by only importing targeted methods before looking at how we interaction with the Revit document through transactions and specific Dynamo casts. It will cover the limitations of the Python Node in Dynamo, such as list interaction and a lack of a real intellisense, before working through a couple of examples of Revit API calls that are not present in out-of-the-box Dynamo.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has selected the design of its new Southern California headquarters located on a 19-acre site near the campus of University of California Riverside. The approximately 380,000-square-foot facility will be one of the largest and most advanced vehicle-emissions testing and research facilities in the world. It will also be the largest “net-zero energy” structure (producing as much energy as it uses) of its type in the nation. Learn how Hensel Phelps and U.S. CAD used the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to procure, win, and manage a project through design into construction. Topics will include using Navisworks software as a starting point in design validation for AR/VR environments, using 3ds Max software with drone data to implant design in existing spaces, managing detailed level trade partner files for field validation using drone data and laser scans, using Civil 3D files to help quantify and manage earthwork, and validating coordinated 3D models in the field via use of tablets and BIM 360 Glue software.

So you just won a major new project and your client has told you to go buy a big box of BIM Level 9 with the Collaboration & CDE add-ons. You've booked a meeting room too, so things just got real. Luckily, we've banged our heads against this wall for you, so come hear some of our stories on projects ranging from the new Heathrow expansion to Biomes in China or the Oman desert and others in between. We'll discuss challenges such as mobilisation, the human side of BIM (TM), data workflows and how we tackled them, and more.

Drawings in Fusion 360 software has implemented a lot of new and exciting functionality this year. This class aims to introduce the newer capabilities—such as title blocks and templates, component versus body distinction, and multiasset documentation—to those who need more than the out-of-the-box solution. We will cover this through a series of demonstrations using real-world title blocks and templates, dimensions, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) to create shop drawings ready for manufacture. With this, users will be able to apply what they’ve seen to get more out of their drawings in Fusion 360 software, and create drawings that are thorough, accurate, and tailored to their needs. This session features Fusion 360.

Using our large 3D model set, we take different parts of our attractions and put the moving pieces together. With geometry from across the project fed into the engine and presented in 3D. Like a 3D world from a game, but it’s a real place. While Walt Disney Imagineering is not developing VR rides, we use VR in various ways to help us design and test rides. This commitment to making the illusion complete for the viewer has led to some really fascinating advances from Disney R&D and Imagineering. From group experiences in simulator rooms to some more radical ways to simulate our attractions and experiences, VR is an integral design tool. That also means putting in media, animated figures, and other timed effects. Every piece of our puzzle to create our attraction, we put into a virtual reality simulation. With the VR, we make quick iterations with our creative team and ultimately this VR environment timing feeds real world controllers for the attraction in some really amazing ways.

Just 12 months ago, we asked ourselves the question, is it possible to create a single Revit standard suitable for use across a global business without making compromises? This session chronicles the journey we've completed to do just that. we'll cover how we've created families that can 1) shapeshift depending on the country they are being used in, 2) switch between metric and imperial units as needs require, and 3) contain more data than any other families we've ever created. In addition, we'll also cover how we've created an engine that can produce Revit templates from scratch to any desired specification in a matter of minutes. And the reason we did all of this? To unlock the potential of the data we're generating on all of our projects by creating a single “digital language” to store it all-and we don't want to keep that language to ourselves. We've learned a huge amount by tackling this challenge, and now we want to share this knowledge with you.

Join this panel of members from top construction companies who are advancing innovation and productivity in the industry. We’ll discuss topics, including the state of construction today, barriers to technology adoption, measuring ROI, and how to standardize technology across your organization.

BIM 360 software is not just for models! You can use the tools built into BIM 360 to manage many different tasks in a collaborative environment outside of traditional BIM industries. In this class, we’ll explore classic collaborative issues that hamper productivity and limit the ability to transition to a BIM environment. We’ll take a look at how to implement a Level 2 BIM system to enhance collaboration and efficiency while maintaining consistency while also utilizing Forge to automate time-consuming tasks.

More and more jobs are requiring a prefabrication mentality. The ability to take a digital model and utilize advanced work packing to help manage, track, and procure is fast becoming a requirement in the industry. See how STRATUS, built on the Forge platform, can manage production in detailing, shop, and field workflows.