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.

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.

Informed Design is changing how we think about construction by connecting design, fabrication, and performance to deliver smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable outcomes. Built on the principles of outcome-based BIM, it shifts the focus from drawings to results, ensuring what is designed can be accurately fabricated and effectively delivered. This class will explore how tools like Revit and Inventor software enable early coordination and support modular construction, with a focus on prefabricated frames. Whether you’re in design, engineering, or delivery, you’ll learn how Informed Design reduces rework, improves buildability, enhances Sustainable Design, and sets projects up for success. At A.G. Coombs, we’re preparing to apply this approach within a whole-of-life framework, drawing on our downstream expertise to help close the loop between design and long-term performance. Join us to see how Informed Design can add value to your projects now and into the future.

This technical instruction will demonstrate how to eliminate tedious manual duct takeoffs by developing a Revit add-in that automatically extracts duct information and calculates external static pressure. MEP engineers currently waste hours manually measuring ducts and entering data into spreadsheets for ESP calculations. The session will look at using the Revit API to capture duct parameters directly from the model, apply the same calculation logic as traditional spreadsheets, and integrate an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to handle multiple Automation, Integration, & Customization tasks. You’ll see a live demonstration of the working add-in, explore the core C# components, and learn how to integrate multiple tools under a unified AI interface.

Why struggle with your current outdated workflows to develop design documents? You can integrate fabrication level modeling into your current workflow and be more efficient—spending more time on engineering and less time on modeling! The current industry standard for engineering firms that use Revit software involves focusing on the out-of-the-box content. Firms struggle with the limitations around modeling advanced systems in Revit. If used correctly, Fabrication Parts for Revit can eliminate the amount of rework that is generated around using Revit design systems. Firms have adopted the approach to build better content and develop stronger templates. But still, modeling systems such as plumbing can be labor intensive. Modeling plumbing systems in AutoCAD Plant 3D software or AutoCAD MEP software can help better bridge the gap for those who struggle with plumbing in Revit.

"Revit 2026 introduces powerful new capabilities that transform how MEP designers work. In this session, we’ll explore two major enhancements that give users unprecedented control and flexibility over electrical and mechanical systems. You’ll also learn how to apply Dynamo scripts to automate the task. On the electrical side, we’ll cover the newly introduced user-controllable conductor sizes and cable configuration tools. These updates eliminate long-standing limitations, enabling both imperial and metric workflows with custom logic to automate conductor sizing and assign cables to circuits based on your own standards and rules. On the mechanical side, we’ll showcase a highly requested feature: the ability to override pressure loss coefficients for ducts and pipes. This gives mechanical engineers precise control over pressure drop calculations, ensuring more accurate sizing, balancing, and performance simulations across HVAC and hydronic systems. By the end of this session, attendees will gain insight into how Revit 2026 empowers MEP professionals to create smarter, more adaptable, and globally compliant designs—all from within the native Revit environment. "

This award-winning panel is back again with new topics to discuss and insights to share. This year, the panel will comprise a diverse group of CAD managers who are widely respected as leaders in their field. They will focus on connectivity, which can mean many things to a CAD manager. Topics will range from technology and data to the even more challenging human aspects of teams and workflows. Hear their unique perspective and learn about solutions to challenges faced by CAD managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. Join us for a panel discussion that has become an anticipated AU tradition. You won’t want to miss this chance to hear the important lessons learned from decades of experience—from four CAD managers who have been there and done that.

Using Autodesk Fusion software for rapid PCB design, the E-Tech team at Ford Design is creating modular system components to streamline development and reduce wiring complexity. By embracing PCB basics, design rules, and community resources, we're building reusable libraries and integrating program-specific features in our experiential properties around the globe. This approach enables faster prototyping, repeatable builds, and enhanced system continuity—with ESP32-based modules featuring Ethernet for server communication. We're focused on adaptable form factors and making PCB design accessible for makers and rapid iteration.

In this session, we’ll explore Autodesk’s MEP Content Editor, a powerful tool designed to streamline the creation and customization of fabrication components within Revit and AutoCAD workflows. You’ll gain hands-on insights into modifying database-driven parts, adjusting specifications, and optimizing content for enhanced project coordination. We’ll cover best practices for maintaining data consistency, using parametric capabilities, and integrating manufacturer-specific components to ensure accuracy in fabrication modeling. Whether you're a BIM manager, detailer, or engineer, this session will equip you with the skills to efficiently manage and refine MEP fabrication content, improving workflow efficiency and project outcomes.

Discover how IMI Critical Engineering, a greenfield manufacturing facility, overcame the limitations of traditional 2D CAD models by moving to 3D simulation modeling. Relying on 2D layouts led to inefficiencies, high error rates, and communication barriers between engineering, operations, and leadership teams. This session will explore how IMI used FlexSim software’s advanced features—such as process flow, SQL queries, and video recording—to achieve significant improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration. By visualizing the production process in a dynamic 3D environment, the team identified bottlenecks, iterated designs more effectively, and minimized costly errors before implementation. Read real-life case studies to learn how this Management reduced errors, optimized workflows, and streamlined decision making, ultimately leading to higher productivity, better resource use, and sustainable growth for IMI.

This session will focus on the new interoperability between Factory Design Utilities software and FlexSim, showcasing the access of the Factory Design Utilities library in FlexSim as well as the export of a factory layout from FlexSim to a Factory Design Utilities tool. We’ll also share future development plans for FlexSim and Factory Design Utilities and what Autodesk is doing for the Factory Design Utilities space.

In this session, we’ll explore the development and application of a web-based tool designed to streamline the application of zones into an architectural Revit model. Our application uses the AEC data model and integrates Autodesk Assistant, an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) agent, allowing users to interrogate their models using natural language. By automating these processes, our solution significantly reduces manual effort, while increasing model visibility. We estimate that our solution can save us an average of eight hours per project. Whether you’re interested in streamlining zone assignment or just want to see a cool AI tool, this session has something for you!

Get a greater understanding of how businesses can unlock the full potential of Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension Product Lifecycle Management in our immersive hands-on workshop designed for those who are eager to enhance their knowledge of what PLM can offer. This workshop aims to provide you with an in-depth understanding of the powerful Fusion Manage Extension features and tools, enabling you to streamline your workflows and optimize your business processes. In this introduction to Fusion Manage Extension, you’ll gain a comprehensive overview of Fusion Manage Extension and its key functionalities. This workshop is ideal for those who want to learn more about the power of PLM or want to get hands-on with the technology.

Understand the power of models, data, and management working and evolving together with shared tools across one environment. Through the lens of a vast, 270,000 sf greenfield pharmaceutical manufacturing facility project, CRB shares how their team flowed through multiple phases from design to operations for this advanced digital facility. This session outlines how data and models from previous phases of a Digital Prototyping project can be used to better inform and improve the subsequent phases and the overall optimization of a factory’s production. Supporting the facility, tools like ACC, Revit, and Plant 3D enabled effective project, document, and Field Engineer, with Modeling to support turnover and proactively avoid issues. Autodesk tools continued to shake hands and support the project through factory operations, with tools like FlexSim to justify the business case, develop operating strategies, and detect future production inefficiencies.

This session will explore a practical, classroom-tested workflow for integrating advanced electronics and mechanical design using Autodesk Fusion software. Using a mechatronics case study—a Raspberry Pi Pico-controlled NERF turret—you'll learn to streamline multidisciplinary design, enhance collaboration, and prevent integration challenges. See how Fusion can simplify electronics PCB and mechanical design integration, optimize prototyping, and support real-world educational outcomes. Gain practical methods for improving your electronics-mechanical workflow efficiency.

Join this session as we share the development road map and product strategy for Inventor Professional software, including some elements of the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. The presentation will cover recent and planned functionality that will add value to your everyday workflow needs. We encourage you to engage with Dan and members of the Inventor engineering team with questions and feedback during and after the session.

Sit down with the Inventor product team and discuss your most-pressing issues, concerns, and questions about Inventor. A number of Inventor team members will be available to answer your questions. What are the best practices for maximizing your Inventor use? How are Inventor projects prioritized and chosen for each release? Where is Inventor going in the near future? Model States, BIM workflows, Drawings, Sheet Metal, Autodesk Fusion vs. Inventor—all your favorite topics will be open for discussion.