Vault product data management (PDM) software helps designers and engineers better organise design data, enhance documentation management, and streamline revision processes of their product data. Product data is not exclusively used by development teams, but should also be available outside the engineering department. On the other hand, the engineers require data from upstream processes such as sales orders and specifications. And that's where a product lifecycle management (PLM) system like Fusion Lifecycle software comes into the play. Fusion Lifecycle serves as a company-wide information source for activities before, during, and after development actions, supported by automated processes. In this class, we will have a look at how both worlds (PDM and PLM) can be tied together to streamline the workflows throughout the whole product development cycle.

In this hands-on lab you will learn how to customize a drawing style to suit your specific requirements for detail drawings, taking into account what should be shown in detail, how should it be shown, labels, and dimensions to be created. We will walk through the workflow of configuring drawing styles using the Drawing Styles Manager interface, with an explanation of existing options and settings. We will configure and use model objects, labels, and dimensions in specific scenarios. This class will include configuration and workflow recommendations for an efficient way of using drawing styles. Please note that this class is suitable for intermediate and advanced users only.

This class demonstrates how to use custom families that incorporate structural calculations within a project environment. In addition, this class shares some project procedures and tools that will enhance the capabilities of Revit Structure software for engineers, such as working schedules, calculated values, and conditional formatting. By integrating engineering into custom families and project procedures, a structural engineer can make use of more features of Revit to aid in the engineering design process. This class covers several custom families and procedures and how to incorporate various methods, through conditional formatting and visibility settings, to notify the engineer if any of the components are overstressed or otherwise not working. In the companion class, SE1591 Incorporating Engineering into Revit® Structure: Advanced Families, the custom families are discussed and demonstrated within the Family Editor.

PlanGrid’s customer advocates Peter Razavi and Lorrin Blair have worked with hundreds of companies around the country to help implement PlanGrid according to their unique needs. In this session, you’ll learn how different companies have set up and standardized their workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity. Razavi and Blair will discuss real customer stories and lessons learned based on company business model, size, and region.

BIM 360 Glue software has revolutionized the way site and office teams collaborate, removing barriers to successful Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementation and driving BIM adoption at all levels on the project. The intuitive nature of BIM 360 Glue software has enabled Hansen Yuncken to overcome the technical divide with its site teams and subcontractors, developing a motivated workforce to become more active in the BIM process. This session will look at 2 specific case studies and the workflows implemented to harness site teams’ involvement in the collaboration and coordination process. It will cover some of the core features and how the software was used in the field to coordinate trades and contribute to quick and practical design resolutions. There will be an overview of enhanced workflows, and we’ll look at how to gain greater efficiencies by utilizing the streamlined integration with Revit software and Navisworks software for greater collaboration and downstream use during construction and commissioning phases.

Hansen Yuncken, Australia’s largest private general contractor, was the first in Australia to successfully complete an enterprise implementation of BIM 360 Field software, spanning over 100 projects in a single year. A more strategic and consistent approach has achieved greater returns and assurance through a streamlined system with integration to corporate systems achieving transparency and enterprise analytics. This session will cover best practices and skills learned from Hansen Yuncken’s approach to the implementation of BIM 360 Field software. It will cover techniques and the importance in the development of standardized project templates to support streamlined project establishment and organizational consistency. Learn some of the core concepts within the application that supports user efficiency in the field, along with training strategies to support all user levels. We will provide an introduction on the benefits and efficiencies achieved from enterprise system integration.

In this interactive session, we will discuss how workflows are evolving with the cloud. We will discuss the difference between workflows that are procedural and those that mirror company processes. We will also discuss how training workflows can become job resource tools and vice versa. This interactive session will explore your custom training options and demonstrate how modern technology provides the opportunity to have the best of all worlds—the unique corporate knowledge of your own subject matter experts and lower cost than that involved in retaining a traditional training firm or funding in-house trainers. This session will show attendees how to improve both training development and effectiveness with just-in-time knowledge capture, course development, and learning options. This enables high-billable-rate professionals (both subject matter experts and their staff) to be project-ready on demand. And that all makes your company more competitive in future project bids.

The cloud is already helping thousands of architects, engineers, and contractors with improving communication and quality of designs for taking to site. This session will discuss the BIM 360 portfolio and how it can support you in design through to construction. You will get hands-on with Revit and Collaboration for Revit using BIM 360 Team to communicate with other team members to resolve design issues faster. Use BIM 360 Glue to spell-check your models against other disciplines. You will then investigate how your design can be taken out to site to help with commissioning and progress tracking.

This class shows how an extension to Revit software can calculate a fire sprinkler system inside of Revit MEP software. You will learn what additional parameters, such as minimum pressure and water density, you must set at the sprinkler to enable the performance of calculations. The structure of the network has no limits (gridded and looped), and we will show how to define the active area. You will learn how to optimize the network through changing diameters and changing a tree-typed network to a looped one. The calculation is done with the Hazen-Williams formula (or the Darcy-Weisbach formula) according to the rules of the National Fire Protection Association, FM Global, VdS, and others. The result is the minimum pressure and water flow at the pump. You will see how you can show the pressure loss, the water flow, and other elements in a graphic, colored form in Revit software. You can also print the result in a table form.

Whether your company has a rich history with Revit software or you've recently decided to take the plunge, developing and maintaining internal training is a tall order. BuroHappold Engineering New York has developed a thorough yet practical internal training program for its offices worldwide and would like to share the outcome of the challenges that were faced along the way. With 90% of the projects in our New York office being Revit-software based, new engineers have a limited amount of time to adjust to the technology and the corresponding company standards. This demand placed an enormous amount of pressure on the Building Information Modeling (BIM) Team to create a training program that was fast, furious, and efficient. You will leave with a clear understanding of the steps necessary for ensuring that engineers are ready to hit the ground running in Revit software projects.

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.

Integrated cross-disciplinary engineering requires integrated modeling. In turn, this necessitates a computational environment that promotes automation and facilitates collaboration and interoperability. At BuroHappold Engineering, Revit software is the principal Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, used across the organization for model coordination and deliverable production. Based on this, BuroHappold has developed global protocols for interdisciplinary collaboration, information exchange, and retention and reusability of computational knowledge. Drawing on the Revit software database, a visual programming environment such as the Dynamo extension platform can act as conduit and integrator between modeling, analysis, and production. We can use Dynamo extension’s built-in package manager in conjunction with resources such as a company intranet for dissemination of workflows as well as for version and dependency tracking. The effectiveness of such sharing of computational protocols and standards is a major component for collaboration in design practice.

This class will cover real-life industrial tips that enable the creation of high-quality visualizations in an effective and flexible way. Through a few examples we will touch 3 distinctive areas of the topic, including parametric modeling; optimized image production (workflow proportion of 3D and post production); and architectural presentation tricks (inventive animation techniques). There will be software insights regarding 3ds Max software, Chaos Group's V-Ray rendering engine, Itoo Forest Pack plug-in, SolidRocks software, ATK, and Adobe Photoshop software. This presentation is not only for 3D artists—it’s also for architects.

Businesses waste more than trees when they rely on paper documentation to do work. They waste money. They waste time. They invite liability. Every day, businesses in our industry continue to place valuable information that can protect them on paper in the trailer, where it can get lost or damaged, or be inaccessible when needed. If you’ve ever struggled to put together a complete record drawing set or fished through boxes of loose papers for a safety document, you know how frustrating it can be to do your job with antiquated processes. In this class, we’ll show you how to get set up with a program that will help you digitize your field support and safety efforts and bring these processes into the 21st century, using advanced workflows in PlanGrid that go beyond what you can learn from the PlanGrid trainers themselves.

Designing and making a custom-fit Ironman suit with my son for Comic-Con International: San Diego is the inspiration for this class. It's like asking a tailor to use CAD for textile design or requesting a well-cut Italian suit made from metal. It started with the shape of my son. Then the compounded complexity of modeling sheet metal layers that custom fit him. Last but not least, how were we to work out the flat pattern of these complex surfaces? Finally, we had to make it, but with what and how? In this class, we'll explore a digital workflow with Fusion 360 software. We can use ReCap Pro software to convert human scan data to mesh model. We can refine mesh model with ReMake software. We can use Fusion 360 for sheet metal design based on the human mesh. And we can do flat pattern creation with ExactFlat Online software. We then lay out a nested flat pattern and cut on stock sheet using Fusion 360 CAM 2D profile cutting. We assemble all the parts together, and the custom-fit Ironman suit is finalized with perfect shape and size.

This class will present how real-life architectural projects have used the Dynamo visual programming extension to optimize complex design problems within Revit software. The class will give an introduction to optimization and rationalization algorithms, and the attendees will use the Dynamo extension and Python programming language scripts to create faades that adapt to varying design requirements. Attendees will also learn how to generalize the workflow so to apply it to other design problems concerning rationalization and optimization.

In this class, we will discuss a complete workflow on how to use the PipeFab application inside of Revit software to do efficient and precise modeling and cut sheets for pipe work inside of Revit. The topics covered will include, but will not be limited to: cutting pipes to desired lengths; listing pipes; automatic numbering for mains and ranges; modeling helpers; and patch detailing pipe offsets with one click.

Automated Machine Guidance (AMG) can be a misleading phrase. While a machine knows what specific elevation a surface needs to be, operators are ultimately responsible for the grade. It is important that operators have all of the information to ensure that the equipment is producing design conditions. With only grade specified in an AMG model, it is easy for operators to not understand what they are grading and the importance of grades. This class shows how Sundt Construction uses AMG to communicate with operators. If a roadway is changing from a shoulder to a barrier, it is something operators need to know, but it is not something immediately obvious by looking at a view of a surface. By adding line work and text, it is possible to easily communicate hinge points and any other information that might aid the construction process. Learn about the importance of communicating with the operator, what to communicate, and how to do so. If your firm has technology in the field that is providing information to equipment operators, this class is for you.

Parts first became available in Revit® Structure 2012 and has been widely improved upon since then. This hands-on lab starts with a discussion of the evolution of the Parts tool since it was introduced and explores the many potential applications and uses for this tool. From collaboration and coordination with other disciplines to increasing internal efficiency, this tool has immense potential in the design phase of a project. The lab exercise enables attendees to use the tool and try out some of the features in a simulated project. In addition to covering the positive aspects of this tool, this lab also discusses and demonstrates some prospective challenges associated with using Parts in various applications.

This session will share the design process of the conceptual designs of a signature pedestrian bridge and an arena roof. Both structures are unique and somewhat complicated. The iterative nature of the designs prompted the use of both Revit software and Dynamo software for a coordinated, efficient conceptual phase. To facilitate concept development, the geometry of the structures was created using Revit conceptual massing and adaptive components. Then, to help minimize the rework associated with verifying the feasibility of each design iteration, the structural engineer used Dynamo to help automate some of the structural analysis-pulling information from Revit into a spreadsheet, and ultimately into structural analysis software. The use of several tools and applicable technology let these projects efficiently move through the conceptual phase and into design. This session will share, in detail, how all the models and scripts were created.