Are you using Navisworks Quantification software and you want to talk with others about their workflows? Come to this session and discover from others what’s working for them and what challenges they face.

Return on investment on the AutoCAD platform is all about saving picks and clicks, and this class is all about exposing the super-secret tools in the AutoCAD platform. The biggest issue is that you don't know what you are missing from release to release unless someone exposes these little secrets. In this class, we provide a one-stop-shopping document to help you remember all of them and refer back to them. Updated from last year, this class includes new tools and uncovers AutoCAD 2014 secrets. Your repetitive steps and tasks won't know what hit them.

This class will explain a process to run external commands in batch mode from a central server to remote Revit software workstations. We will cover how to use client and server applications that communicate with each other to manage Revit software on remote workstations with WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) services. We will examine how to pass XML command data to Revit software to open a Revit software model and initiate batch commands. We will also show a specific use case for batch plotting of PDF files for view sheets. We will examine a flexible system for handling Revit software dialog boxes on the fly with usage examples and code snippets, and we will discuss the failure processing API in the context of bypassing warning and error messages while custom commands are running. Finally, we will show you how to gracefully close both the open Revit software model and the Revit software application.

In this class, we will cover how KBR used BIM 360 software, Navisworks software, and iConstruct to facilitate their Advanced Work Packaging process and increased project visibility, construction productivity, quality, and safety on a $500 million industrial construction project on the Texas Gulf Coast.

This class will cover how Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT Group), the largest telecommunication company from Japan, turned its complex data center facility Building Information Modeling (BIM) project into a successful BIM project from the facility owner’s perspectives with Autodesk Consulting. The owner established a BIM management office within their organization to manage the BIM process, utilizing project management methodology by Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Revit software was used to generate construction drawings and as-built drawings. Additionally, 3D models were coordinated and collaborated using BIM 360 Glue software during the preconstruction phase. The building QA/QC and commissioning process was redesigned using BIM 360 Field software. Information within Revit software was imported into the data center facility management system using Revit software’s COBie Toolkit and the data exchange format was customized to fit the facility manager’s demand.

Your drawings are a potential gold mine of information. Learn how to get the most out of your AutoCAD software drawings using the powerful Data Extraction tool. Learn how to build automated bills of material, drawing title sheets, coordinate tables and more. Learn how to extract data to AutoCAD software tables or Microsoft Excel files. This session features AutoCAD.

Once you have mastered the day-to-day use of Revit Structure, you must continue to push the boundaries toward enhanced integration for construction purposes. One of the most commonly used materials in a structural engineer's arsenal is structural steel. In this hands-on lab, we focus on using the information contained within Revit and the information we can derive from within custom family content to create enhanced structural steel schedules. This class is about the use of shared parameters and custom families to facilitate greater symmetry with steel fabricators through the use of smarter families and schedules.

You've heard about lean construction and production planning—now it’s time to try it out yourself. This interactive workshop will start by addressing the problem of waste in construction and how the Last Planner System improves productivity and schedule reliability. We’ll introduce pull planning: a collaborative scheduling technique that enables teams to develop workflow starting with a goal in mind and working backward, thus enabling successor activities to determine what needs to be completed for them to start their work. Then we’ll put theory into practice in a hands-on, team-based construction simulation developed by DPR Construction, designed to emphasize the importance of pull versus push, reliable flow, and clear subcontractor commitments in the pull-planning process. The class will finish by showing how BIM 360 Plan software helps the last planner by enabling teams to track task commitments and completion, and report on deviations.

Mapping Workflows is like BIM. Everyone talks about it and agrees we should adopt it, but does nothing about it. We need to change our thinking. Learn how to effectively evaluate your workflows to continuously improve efficiencies and maximize the value of your Autodesk, Inc., technology utilizing the PRAXIS platform. This roundtable will discuss how to identify repetition, bottlenecks, industry best practices, and inefficiencies in your workflows. If you are managing a large team and having difficulty getting mired down in detail and not having time to get to tactical and strategic tasks, this is the roundtable for you. This is a unique opportunity to share your insights and industry experience with each other and learn how mapping of workflows can help identify measurable improvements utilizing Autodesk technology. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a workflow assessment and show how it might be documented/refined using the PRAXIS workflow platform.

In this presentation, we'll walk through the workflow used to capture 3D reality data with a drone, use that 3D reality data and building design in Stingray game engine, and create virtual reality proposals and client-status updates. Learn how to amaze potential clients with virtual-reality walk-throughs and win their business. This session features Autodesk Stingray and ReCap 360. AIA Approved

Industrial robots, when compared to computer numerical control (CNC) machines, are among the most universal devices, suitable for an extremely wide range of fabrication and construction processes. Commonly used in automotive production and other high-volume production settings, robots are now increasingly implemented in the production of architectural components, low-volume production environments, and academic settings. As the cost of hardware has dropped, a major obstacle has been the overly complicated programming environment. To overcome this a number of automated design-to-robotic fabrication tools have been developed, including the new integrated Dynamo workflow. This course will begin with a brief introduction to both the industrial robotic manipulator and the Dynamo interface leading to the development and simulation of robotic movements, ultimately linking Dynamo motion control to the physical 6-axis robotic manipulator.

How does your structural engineering firm stand out? Structural engineering firms must also promote and market themselves as specialists and leaders in Building Information Modeling (BIM). Today we work, collaborate, and compete in the visual arena. Appealing renderings are not restricted to just the architect’s bag of tricks; you can use structural renderings for websites, cover sheets, proposals, and magazine articles. Structure is the beautiful yet rarely seen building bones of every project, and it will be the highlight of this rendering lab. In this lab we will discuss tips and tricks of Revit Structure software modeling for rendering purposes. We will import a Revit Structure model and quickly create materials, lighting, and structurally prominent renderings with 3ds Max software. A picture is worth a thousand words and this class is about using the collaborative visual power of 3ds Max software rendering to illustrate our expertise and become highly BIM visible in today’s competitive structural engineering atmosphere.

Are you unsure of how much detail you should show in your 3D model? See real-life examples of how a design-build mechanical contractor saved time and money by utilizing a unified workflow to produce a truly constructible 3D Revit software model from design through construction. This lecture will highlight how to set up personnel infrastructure to optimize software usage; how to describe the expectations that your design model should meet from a contractor's perspective; and how to identify techniques to incorporate early constructability feedback to enhance design. Through the use of a carefully planned unified workflow, the 3D design model can enhance your opportunities for prefabrication, utility racking, modular construction, streamlined coordination, expedited conflict resolution, and increased job site safety.

I don't know how many Autodesk University classes I've attended over the last 7 years, but each year I usually find myself in at least a couple where IT becomes the root of the discussions. Users and management express frustration when talking about software/hardware, upgrades, and incident management with the IT department. IT also has challenges with incomplete information or requirements definitions from its users. But nearly always the discussion is about communication. In fact, most implementation failures or disappointments boil down to a lack of simple communication (listening skills), understanding perspective, and goals. This talk is your chance to get access to an IT professional with many successes and service strategies who will help you begin to make a change for yourself and your company. If any of this resonates with you, bring your IT person or just your needs and questions so that we can all share and discuss different ways to get from A to Z and enjoy the journey together.

Collaboration for Revit cloud service has fundamentally changed the way the architecture, engineering, and construction industry works on complex projects that require collaborative workflows. This class will focus on explaining the concept of Collaboration for Revit. We'll demonstrate the fundamentals of using collaborative workflows using Collaboration for Revit, and illustrate how multiple stakeholders can work on the same model in the cloud. My co-speaker-the national Building Information Modeling (BIM) manager of a large architectural firm-will explain how their company used Collaboration for Revit to deliver complex projects on time and on budget using real collaboration on the firm's Revit models.

The graphical column schedule (GCS) in Revit® Structure may be a system family that cannot be edited in the Family Editor, but this does not mean that it cannot be customized. This class discusses how the graphical column schedule can be customized to suit your needs. We demonstrate how to create parameters within the column families so that information, such as base plate sizes and detail information, shows up dynamically in information boxes within the GCS. We also cover how to create custom column tags. The main focus of the class is to show how to schedule steel columns; however, the fundamentals of this class can also be applied to concrete, concrete masonry units (CMU), or even timber columns.

How should you manage your BIM 360 projects? Do you need to overview multiple projects—or 100 intelligent models in the same project? Or information spread in millions of objects? As a leading BIM construction company, VINCI Construction France is always looking to improve project management processes. In this class, we will present how a cloud-tools-based solution may arise to limit tasks that are time-consuming or have no brain value. This session will show the VINCI Construction France dashboard that was developed with the help of the BIM 360 API and the Forge platform to enable the models’ quality overview using data from the different bricks of BIM 360 software. This dashboard enables the firm to surface some insights from each BIM 360 component of a BIM project, and dive into that data to deliver better BIM quality through the firm’s BIM checking tools and methods. This class will present a custom Forge API development inspired by Sam Nseir's work: "Integrate BIM 360 data with PowerBI using R."

Existing conditions and rehab corridors have always been tough to model, and there are many ways to model your corridor in Civil 3D software. So which way is best? Join us in this class as we dive into multiple ways to model your rehab corridor. There are great tools for optimizing the cross slope of existing roadways and enhance your design of new roadways that just need a bit more detailed design to them. There is a new(er) Rehab Corridor option, however, the workflow to create a rehab corridor is slightly different from the standard workflow used to create other corridor models. This session will review the new Rehab Corridor option and multiple methods in Civil 3D software for how to improve your daily workflows.

Dealing with multigenerational and multidisciplinary teams around a single source of information that needs input from most of the stakeholders is one of the most difficult tasks I've encountered in my professional life. Most of the firms making decisions about Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementations are more focused on the technology, as well as what software to use, how much to pay the BIM manager, and how much to pay for infrastructure—and the firms take for granted that everyone will be very excited and all over the models. Well, I have bad news: not everyone will. You need a very well-studied strategic implementation plan regarding the human side, the collaboration, and the new processes. In this lecture I will show these difficulties divided by specific groups of stakeholders, and we'll cover some analysis and strategy around them based on real experiences in the matter. Having an integrated and motivated team is more efficient than having excellent technology without cooperation.

During the delivery of School Bundle 4, BAM executed this aspect of work through BIM 360 Field software and BIM 360 Glue software. The right people captured all relevant asset information on mobile devices at the right time. Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) was used throughout this process as a way of creating clean, compliant, and standardized data. The COBie data set was progressively enhanced throughout the construction delivery phase. This data set is associated with Building Information Modeling (BIM) objects, and coupled with all other data capture, through BIM 360 Field software, it meant that BAM had a complete data set at project completion stage. BAM facilities management (FM) provided clear guidance as to their asset information needs and ensured no time was wasted in the production of irrelevant asset information. The link formed between Building Ops software and BIM 360 Field software is bi-directional and seamless. The now fully developed asset information model (AIM) is central to the Building Ops software Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) system. All reactive and preventative actions are linked through the AIM. This session features Building Ops, BIM 360 Field, and Revit. AIA Approved