Sure, we have standards. But have you ever created an object on the wrong layer? Tool Palettes provide the shortest, most efficient way to increase your productivity without programming and customization. In this session you will learn the hidden techniques to maintaining standards and managing block libraries. You’ll learn the easiest and most effective methods for managing existing blocks and dynamic blocks, and ensuring that the correct colors, layers, and linetypes are used for the creation of all geometry. You'll also learn the secret of how to create, display, and manage shared palettes securely as an enterprise solution for your company standards.

So we’ve already created our shell and modeled our critical systems; now what? Time to add details and use sections to keep track of the minute internals that are easily overlooked. A section lets architects create vertical slices of a complex system to view through surrounding structures. This class will walk through the workflows involving section and elevation views that can be used to improve productivity and reduce errors in building design. We’ll create section and elevation views, and then progress to a live preview of the modifications we make. We’ll then introduce subdivisions to our sections to add visual depth or zoom out as needed. We’ll use the Styles Editor to update our sections and elevations graphically based on set rules. We’ll also learn how to automatically update section/elevation views automatically on drawing open. Finally, we’ll add chutzpah to our drawing with materials, and see how we can automatically apply fill patterns to our designs.

AIA CES  Even with the enhancements of building information modeling (BIM) workflows, the estimators have struggled to take off quantities accurately due to the lack of "information" in the BIM data. Add to that the complexity of combining 3D takeoffs with 2D drawings, and the estimators have a never-ending nightmare. The result is either not winning the job, or winning with not much profit. This is where Autodesk Takeoff-the cloud-based 2D and 3D quantity takeoff (QTO) tool from Autodesk Construction Cloud-is proving to be a gamechanger. With the industry-leading, automated, 3D takeoff capabilities combined with easy-to-use 2D takeoff tools, Autodesk Takeoff allows estimators to generate accurate bids and win more jobs. This class will focus on showing the capabilities of the connected takeoff process using the BIM data hosted on the Autodesk Construction Cloud project. You'll learn about the automated 3D takeoffs and how to combine them with the customizable 2D takeoffs to generate accurate bids. You'll also learn how to review changes in design and update your takeoffs.

The purpose of this class is to reveal the design workflow for precast elements (walls and slabs) using advanced tools that automate the process of generating precast assemblies, shop drawings, and computer numerical control (CNC). This will help both fabricators and precast detailers to reduce the time spent modeling, generating shop drawings, and producing precast planar elements. This session features Revit.

While scanning technology is nothing new, improvements in its ease of use are expanding its applications. Using a Leica BLK360 scanner, two designers without prior survey or scanning experience captured a large portion of a wastewater treatment plant’s tunnels and connected facilities in four days, in preparation for a design project. New piping is to be installed in these existing facilities, which are already crowded with piping and equipment—a common scenario in similar long-established facilities. A rough routing drafted in Revit software was added to Navisworks software, along with the point-cloud files, enabling direct interference checks between the two without converting the point cloud to a model. Attendees will discover the detailed workflow they should apply to use this technology, and learn how it was used on this project in Ohio.

Precast structures are a prime example of why Building Information Modeling (BIM) is so crucial to engineering professionals. In a typical precast project, there are hundreds of pieces and parts that need to be tracked, ordered on time, and assembled correctly. Revit software offers the perfect medium to do that; however, Revit software by itself cannot yet perform a complete structural analysis and design, but offers some tools to help in doing so. In this class, we will explore the process of creating an analytical model of a typical precast residential building, exporting and running the structural analysis in Robot Structural Analysis software, and then transferring the reinforcing back to Revit software. Revit software and Robot Structural Analysis software are not specifically tailored to tackle all things precast, but the .NET framework and the Dynamo extension make it easier to streamline workflows. We will also look at how to use Dynamo to automate precast drafting and design. This session features Robot Structural Analysis and Revit. AIA Approved

Come and learn how one civil group managed to successfully migrate up to BIM 360 software and operate effectively with its Revit counterparts. We'll cover lessons learned along the way and how we overcame obstacles to achieve quality work, improving speed and efficiency utilizing Civil 3D 2021 software, Desktop Connector, BIM 360, and a few talented individuals. Topics to be discussed include: 1) Creating 3D pipe networks that interoperate with Revit models in BIM 360 Model Coordination; 2) Using innovative workflows to create utility models with assumed depths; 3) Managing data shortcuts in the cloud to produce extremely clean models for clash detection; 4) Utilizing BIM 360 Document Management software to track and manage quality reviews; 5) Learning virtually with a team on a daily basis and demonstrating world-class communication skills; 6) Combining all geolocated models in Navisworks software with LIDAR files of downtown Toronto.

In the fast-paced New York postproduction world you never know what challenges will arise. Every day is different. Every project has a unique set of problems to solve—it’s all just another day in the life of the best of the best visual artists in the world. In this session, founder and director, Vico Sharabani, shares his approach to the creative & the technical, balancing business & art, within a career in Media & Entertainment that touches Automotive, Manufacturing and Architecture (Football stadiums actually!)

Everyone knows that Revit software is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) 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 and nested detail components. In doing this, we'll be able to keynote these elements to maintain a consistent noting procedure, and be able to send this information out to our spec writer so even the detailed items aren't missed in the specs. 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.

The class will go over basic file maintenance and troubleshooting techniques. It will cover how to recover a drawing that has become corrupt using Audit, Purge, -Purge, and Recover. It will address the importance of a CER report and why it needs to be sent in and what to do after it’s been sent over. It will cover different troubleshooting solutions for printing. Finally, we’ll close with lag within the Windows environment itself.

Scott Aldridge (an innovation and disruptive technology leader at CDM Smith) and Matt Harraka (CDM Smith's national VDC manager) will demonstrate CDM Smith's mixed reality (MR) collaboration platform for VDC and discuss how they've integrated immersive MR into their firm's VDC processes. This MR collaboration platform empowers project teams to interact with 3D design models at scale using Microsoft's wearable holographic computer HoloLens. This creates new ways to visualize designs, share information, and identify problems, letting all involved make more-informed, more-effective, and quicker decisions. Aldridge and Harraka will discuss how incorporating MR enhances collaboration, improves workplace performance, boosts operational efficiency, reduces costs, facilitates input from key operational staff not normally involved, and is effective in educating stakeholders and the public.

In this class a panel of experts from Autodesk, Inc., product support will share tips and tricks to help you become more productive, and also answer questions from the audience about real-time problems. This smaller roundtable format will give attendees more of a chance to describe problems they face day to day, and receive advice from the speakers as well as other attendees. We will set up a computer in the class with AutoCAD 2016 software for any attendees who need to demonstrate their problems. Panel experts will include members of the Technical Support, QA, and Licensing Teams.

Products and their user interfaces are moving closer together. Nearly every device on the market is equipped with a digital display or touchscreen, and companies are focusing on interactive product experience, gesture control, and entertainment-while products themselves enhance or completely change functionality. Learn how Autodesk's tools for modeling, user experience, and visualization can be connected in the product-development lifecycle to provide the designer, engineer, and decision maker with a more realistic and immersive way to experience the product.

Join us for a networking lunch and learn session. As Revit users and AEC Technologists, we naturally design, create and share. While the software used is not the focus, it is definitely part of the process. In addition to this consideration, we need to have access to the hardware to design, create and share. In this presentation, we will take a look at a Revit plugin author’s typical workflow and how the right hardware can make or break your workflow.

Working for an AECO+ Company is like being in a committed relationship. As such, there are lots of ups and downs. Almost Everyone at one time or other wonders what it would be like to leave their firm and work somewhere else. When should that time be? Are your coworkers difficult to work with? Are you burned out from working long hours? Do you enjoy what you are doing? Does it have meaning? What about your boss? Are they making your life easier or harder? Do you want to advance, and your firm or co-workers are holding you back? Do you feel you are just getting paid too little? Is it really your firm or is it you that needs to change? How are all these questions affected by Covid? This class will discuss these questions and many more. This session will be designed so that the attendees will be given, and even encouraged, to give feedback and join in the discussion. So, bring your thoughts and complaints and your comments about your workplace and let’s dive right in!

Sit down, buckle up, and keep your hands on your keyboard for the fourth installment of the top-rated on-demand class of Autodesk University 2020 by Autodesk Expert Elite member Donnie “The CAD Geek” Gladfelter. After a challenging year that disrupted many established workflows, the focus for this installment is dependability. Join Donnie as he shares the most dependable drafting techniques acquired from 15 years of blogging and 2 million-plus YouTube video views, and as the design technology manager for a civil engineering firm of 700-plus professionals. From simple to advanced, you’re sure to discover new ways to remove tedium and boost your ability to meet project deadlines. Hourly employees need not attend as this session will only include dependable techniques proven to improve productivity.

Model Properties and Data Exchange API are recent addition to Forge family. They allow us to access design data in more controlled manner, such as by filtering, searching and comparing models between versions. Instead of sending the entire model, you can select only the portion that your collaborator needs. Together with Model Derivatives and Design Automation API, we now have more options to access design data. However, can you tell which one to use for your specific needs? Do you know differences among those APIs? In this session, we will introduce you to two new recently added APIs: Model Properties and Data Exchange API. We will then compare various options we have to access design data. We will show the examples of use cases, and discuss potential application areas that were not possible till now.

Join us for a networking lunch and learn session. Witness lethal hybrid performance and flexibility for Autodesk Workflows. Today, Mobile workstations are 100% more powerful than they were only 4 years ago at many Autodesk product design workflows. Maybe you thought it wasn't worthwhile upgrading your existing system yet, after all, a faster workstation doesn't make you a better engineer or designer. But with todays Intel Core HX hybrid Mobile Workstations, you will be measurably passively more productive. Autodesk Expert Elite Neil Cross along with Dell demonstrate the incredible flexibility and blistering performance of current generation Mobile Workstations with Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, come and witness what's possible and have your questions answered in this lunch & learn special.