This class is filled with timesaving tips and tricks that you can use to increase productivity immediately, no matter what version you currently live in. If you’ve attended previous offerings of this class, you know there is always something you didn’t know you could do, so don’t miss out this year. I have many tips to expose, including a few tips from the new and exciting AutoCAD 2016 software. Some of the best and most production-enhancing tools have been introduced in recent upgrades. To take advantage of them, attend this class and discover what might take you years to discover on our own. Leave this class with the knowledge to dazzle your co-workers back home—a great way to ensure yourself a ticket to attend next year!

The advances in integrated graphics technology over the past 3 generations of products have been significant across Intel's Core® and Xeon® family of products. Those in the computer-aided design and media and entertainment space have seen Intel's HD graphics pave their way into the entry-level workstation market with certification of products, such as AutoCAD®, Inventor®, 3ds Max®, and Maya® software, and improved performance with key benchmarks. By the end of this class, you will have an understanding of how AutoCAD products can take advantage of all the capabilities of the workstation platform in a desktop environment. In addition, you will learn how AutoCAD LT® software can let users be more nimble and help with collaboration and synchronization of drawings while on the go on a tablet with Intel Core® technology. The AutoCAD® 360 mobile app can further simplify sharing by providing integration between the office and the field, enabling anytime, anywhere access with a compute continuum offering from Intel.

As engineers, we solve problems by evaluating inputs, outputs, and boundary conditions. Engineers have attempted to solve problems surrounding the effects of global poverty since it has existed, but often neglect important historical and political inputs. Neglecting these inputs has resulted in growing global inequalities in terms of wealth, human rights, and livelihood. One factor leading to these disparities is how we go about measuring progress toward a more equitable world. How can engineering help effectively measure global inequalities and give justice to vulnerable people who have been and continue to be excluded and exploited, all while bearing the brunt of the ecological impact of climate change? In this class, we will discuss better ways of measuring inequalities, designing for environmental justice, and bringing the industry’s attention to these systemic and historical realities which are often ignored by practitioners.

BIM and terrestrial laser scanning have been well received within construction for the unparalleled accuracy delivered during the planning and development process. For VDC and BIM managers, the ability to accurately plan projects to scale, time and budget is just one of many benefits. Having the ability to compare the scanned as-built to BIM models doesn’t only prove its worth in the initial planning stages of a build, but also in quality assurance throughout a project’s lifespan. Cintoo has embedded its unique point cloud-to-mesh technology into Cintoo Cloud, a platform connected to BIM 360, to allow this QA/QC workflow. Learn from current Cintoo Cloud and BIM 360 users who has been successfully using this collaborative workflow on various jobs recently for a more efficient project coordination. Learn how Cintoo Cloud can also provide access to laser scan data in mesh or point cloud format to team members at home or at the office for efficient Scan & BIM modeling or clash detection.

Learn how AutoCAD 2016 software can help you work more efficiently by taking advantage of new and enhanced functionality. Many of the updates to AutoCAD 2016 software functionality were based on Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) wish-list requests. Some are subtle and could be easily overlooked, but all are timesavers that are worth discovering. In this session you will explore enhancements to the AutoCAD software user interface, powerful dimensioning and revision cloud updates, new and enhanced support for 3D modeling, and handy tools to improve security and reduce frustration when working with custom apps.

There are powerful ways to improve your architecture, construction, and engineering workflows with 3D visualization. Discover how high-resolution aerial content, 3D, and AI from Nearmap can be used to solve specific and common challenges for Autodesk users to improve the quality of AEC designs and proposals. You’ll learn 5 ways to elevate your projects through terrain data, high-resolution imagery, textured mesh, point cloud, and building footprints derived from AI. We’ll cover the ins and outs of pulling Nearmap content into InfraWorks and various tools to make your proposal stand out. Set yourself up for success with proper integration between Nearmap, InfraWorks, and Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS, create common workflows and get relevant data in all the right places - for basemaps, digital twins, contours and topography, terrain themes, flood simulations, immersive conceptual design, and 3D visualization.

Whether you’re developing web- and mobile-based solutions, customizing Autodesk desktop software, or building integrations into your enterprise workflows, Autodesk is fully committed to supporting your software development efforts. In fact, there are 10 ways you can get Autodesk support and we keep adding new channels. In this class, we’re going to talk about how to get the best out of the support resources, and how to fit them to your needs as quickly as possible. You can choose from open and community support for Forge in StackOverflow, our advanced Accelerator program, our most recently added tool “The Doctor is in,” Autodesk Developer Network support for your desktop challenges, “ADN Open” online resources, and much more.

Out of the box, the Vault job processor is a great way to keep your data updated. The job processor can update visualization files, create PDF files, and synchronize properties. The job processor also has many limitations. This course will show you how to hack your job processor through custom jobs to enable more-granular control of your design automation tools. Learn how to create a custom job-processor job, interact with the jobs by setting priorities for different job types, query the job queue, and add or remove jobs to the queue. With this additional functionality, you'll be able handle different types of files separately and take control of your Vault.

BIM 360 Cost Management software was introduced last year with capabilities that support budgets, contracts, and change orders. Since then, functionality has been added for main/prime contract setup, payment applications, RFI-PCO creation, invoices, supplier/owner access, and more. Join the product manager to discover how to execute these workflows in BIM 360 software, as well as learn about the new capabilities in the module to support additional cost management capabilities.

The best leaders may not be great managers. The best managers may not have the skills to lead. We will look at the skills of each position and see how you can blend them together to make you the most effective at both. You can improve your effectiveness by knowing what skill to apply to each situation. We will show you how to identify the situations where leadership is the most effective approach and the situations where management skills need to be applied. Making the wrong call about which hat you need to wear can get you into hot water. Come away with the tools you need to be more nimble and productive.

In this session, we will learn how to create drawings that have automated schedule tags on equipment and different equipment schedules. Learn how property set definitions (PSD), schedule tags, and schedule tables can help automate the documentation process. Rather than managing disconnected information in the traditional Microsoft Excel import method, let's use an automated set of features specific for these tasks. By developing these PSDs, tags, and schedule tables, and putting these in your company’s standard templates, you will have an efficient way to work.

This class covers the use of Autodesk Sync from inside of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT® software. We take a close look at using a combination of Autodesk Sync for the desktop, and the Autodesk 360 web and mobile app. We also go over how to use each of these features separately as well as combined, and when you may want to use them.

In 2010, Autodesk, Inc., released AutoCAD for Mac software, but it was missing important features were missing that real drafters need on a daily basis. After 4 years the functionality gap has closed substantially. We will take a look at the features in the latest release of AutoCAD for Mac software, we'll examine how we can use these features in our daily workflow, and we'll discuss differences between the Mac and PC versions of the features that continue to exist. AutoCAD for Mac software has come a long way from the initial release, and you might be surprised how few reasons there are to not make the leap.

Do your documents suffer from a lack of coordination? Learn how to use the Sheet Set Manager in AutoCAD software to manage and automate the creation of complete, organized sets of drawings. In this class, you’ll learn how to use the Sheet Set Manager to manage existing drawings, plot and publish using sheet sets, create new drawings with title block data that populates automatically, and also add sheet labels, view labels, and callouts with everything linked together to create fully coordinated sets of documents.

If you want a plethora of power user tips, then be sure join Cadalyst columnist and Autodesk, Inc.'s, technical evangelist Lynn Allen as she takes you through a whirlwind of productivity techniques that are certain to improve your everyday drawing life. At a tip a minute, you'll be sure to discover some top-secret AutoCAD software features that will remove tedium and boost your ability to meet project deadlines.

In this class, we will cover troubleshooting tips and techniques for issues that users may encounter in the latest versions of AutoCAD software. We will look at the most frequent types of questions that the AutoCAD Support team has received in the last year, and attendees will learn how to troubleshoot and resolve these issues or how to avoid them. The class will also include troubleshooting tips for some of the more recently added AutoCAD features, like the Autodesk® 360 cloud-based platform, model documentation, and Content Explorer.

Do: set up Autosave. Don't: forget about Express Tools. Do: use Layer "0." Don't: use Layer "0." Do: subscribe. Don't: miss this class! In this class, we'll review common and uncommon Dos and Don'ts when using AutoCAD software. Gain little tricks that will make your AutoCAD experience run smoother with less aggravation-and improve your speed and efficiency. After this class, you'll have a better idea of what to do and what not to do to improve your everyday AutoCAD experience. Do: isolate. Don't: forget to purge. Do: audit . . . and more.

This class will present strategies used to create cross-platform plug-ins, taking advantage of C++ language in order to create core source code that could be used by AutoCAD software for Windows and by AutoCAD for Mac software. We will then demonstrate how to consume this shared core code into each platform, taking advantage of each specific user interface feature (Microsoft MFC, Microsoft .NET inside Windows, and Cocoa inside Mac OSX).

AutoCAD software has always served as the common denominator for growth as CAD software has improved. It's been the native CAD language for a majority of users for decades. Safely managing the transition from a primarily 2D product, such as AutoCAD LT software, or from a primitive 3D AutoCAD to a powerful 3D parametric modeler is a must for any company. Improper understanding of the core Inventor tools and concepts can hinder your company's adoption of more-effective tools for design, and further delay the transition. This class will focus on the basics of Inventor for the AutoCAD user, as well as techniques to safely and effectively evolve your designs.

In this class you are going to learn the tricks of PDFs with AutoCAD software. Now more than ever since AutoCAD PDFs can be imported back into AutoCAD as actual AutoCAD entities, we will walk you through not only how to create PDFs in AutoCAD, but also how to add all the cool little features, like including layer information and hyperlinks, and capturing font information during creation. Then, we will review these features on how they behave inside the PDF reader. Next, we will import that PDF back into AutoCAD as geometry and show you how to understand and control the way geometry gets re-created. Lastly, we will show you how to fix the AutoCAD SHX Text issue that comes back in as geometry, and teach you how it can be converted back into text objects, and then into Mtext.