Passenger Terminal Building (PTB) is a very important feature of a modern, international airport complex. Expansion of airport is aimed at design and construction of additional buildings and facilities to service growing international and domestic passenger traffic. Baggage reclaim hall on the arrival side and check-in hall on the departure side are large volume spaces in PTB, requiring proper distribution of conditioned air for adequate human comfort. In this class, how Autodesk CFD is used to evaluate air-conditioning design is presented. Importance of airflow and temperature distribution from CFD results is highlighted to ascertain indoor air quality and thermal environment. Strategies for modeling airflow and heat transfer are detailed out with best practices for flow and heat load characterization. Challenges of unacceptable thermal environment (hot spots) are addressed through design changes and optimization of supply flow rates and discharge angles, resulting in better designs.

When planning a factory, many trades, project participants and disciplines are involved. In this presentation, I have made it my task to show you an end-to-end digital process, which we call the Integrated Factory Model (IFM). The coordination of all project-relevant data is the basis of an end-to-end digital process and is largely responsible for the success of a project. A simple 3D construction space model gives each project participant his workspace. There, for example, the layout planner carries out his process simulation and line planning with the Factory Design Utilities. Due to the adjacent construction spaces, collisions with other layouts or the building equipment can be detected and eliminated at a very early stage. All data is continuously merged, checked and adjusted in an overall coordination model in BIM360.

With our post-pandemic industry immerging into a new normal, our designers and engineers are now looking to technology to enhance collaboration and improve efficiency. With Civil 3D we now have functionality to provide users with standards to drive consistency in workflows. We will review the process GHD developed to restructure Civil 3D templates, providing our teams with the necessary standardization and functionality. From small sites to large BIM mega-projects. We will show you how to rethink template deployment, and what content to distribute. Learn how to restructure your templates using the best practice uses for your templates. We will share some of our tricks to maximize the benefits templates can offer. Using Dynamo and reference templates, we will demonstrate how we leveraged property sets to automate the way GHD enriches the meta data in our BIM models. We will cover the initial challenges, solutions, and how we improved efficiency and realized more project cost savings.

Many professionals have started utilizing satellite-based data in their design process to mitigate the risks from global warming, negative environmental impacts, COVID-19, low-intensity/large-scale conflicts, and other unforeseeable events. There are many types and a wide range of data format variations of 2D and 3D data derived from satellites, but the truth is that it's not always straightforward to "read" satellite-based data from your Autodesk design environment. In this case study, I will cover the following satellite-data-related topics, satellite data 101, benefits and limitations, examples of successful ACE projects, then some common pitfalls you would run into. I then will demonstrate how to cleanse and manage satellite data for 3 levels of design toolsets, namely AutoCAD, AutoCAD Plus, and AEC collection. Lastly, several latest open/free global scale satellite-based geo-data that could be leveraged in large-scale conceptual / master planning of AEC projects will be shown.

Gilbane VDC (Virtual Design and Construction) utilizes many tools and tips throughout the entirety of a project to support project needs. This presentation will run though a case study from project start to finish showcasing our process and procedures to put together various deliverables, and the outcome of each deliverable. We will focus on certain lessons learned that we now apply to our standard process, and highlight issues or success stories that have emerged from them. Beginning in Preconstruction, we will look at our Design Model Coordination Reports, touch on 4D scheduling, move onto Coordination and Drawing Submissions, and end on Verification, with a few more points scattered between. This presentation will educate others on Gilbane VDC's tried and true processes and spark ideas for the future.

Revit 2023 introduces the ability to create an electrical analysis model for preliminary design to analyze and plan the connected load in a Revit model before placing physical electrical families. This session will show how to create an Electrical analysis model from a linked architectural model or a 2D DWG or PDF. See how you can get a jump on understanding the electrical demands of your next project prior to placing components into the model.

From its early days Autodesk Fusion 360 has included ever improving tools for working collaboratively on decentralized teams. With an eye toward education and a few extra capabilities added just for the education space, Fusion 360 is ready to become a central part of the process of teaching design, engineering, and manufacturing. These tools are not usually focus when discussing Fusion 360 for the classroom, but they are the critical elements that make Fusion 360 the best solution for your classroom. You will see these communication and collaboration tools in use as we look at the process for creating, managing, and completing a class. In this session we will explore the tools that teachers will find most useful for conducting their classes in today's dynamic environment to ensure you’re able to keep offering the best instruction regardless of where you or your students are working.

Model States are now over a year old since coming out in Inventor 2022 and I’ve worked with many clients, exploring functionality, answering questions and teaching classes on Model States. All these interactions have given me the opportunity to note some techniques that help Model States work more efficiently and effectively. In this class I’ll share these tips that can streamline the creation and maintenance of Model States, as well as an introduction on how utilize iLogic with Model States. We’ll cover things as straightforward as naming Model States, all the way to animating model states to show the process of forming a part. No matter your familiarity with this new functionality, there should be a little something for everyone.

As BIM Lead for the MEP team in a multi-disciplinary design consultancy, trying to achieve a consistent look for our deliverables not only across a number of offices geographically, but also across multiple software platforms can be quite challenging. There is only so much content can be included in a template without overwhelming it. This case study will follow our journey to find a way to standardize the symbols we use, colors, naming conventions, classifications and more. The projects we work on vary from sizable new builds, which we would model in Revit, to "small works", where we may just be replacing a boiler in a plant room we originally designed some time ago, which will have been drawn up in AutoCAD. These smaller projects usually do not have a big enough budget to include modelling and then editing any existing services. Our aim is to provide drawings of the same look and quality across all our projects, regardless of the software package used.

Effective cultural and organizational change adoption has become a core competency for firms, in today’s rapidly changing AEC industry. Within VolkerWessels Infrastructure we drive digital transformation to our 4 divisions with a central digital program. In this class we will show how we used a proven changemanagement methodology in a specific adoption approach, in order to implement and adopt BIM360/ACC as a new cloud platform. The adoption approach is based on ADKAR, a changemanagement methodology by Prosci. This enables us to pay attention to communication, sponsors, resistance, instructions, coaching and the return on investment of the change. The effect is digital transformation, improved operational excellence and more 'bang for buck' from IT investments, in Cloud technology like BIM360/ACC. This make change and adoption one of our core competencies. We adopted BIM360/ACC efficiently and successfully in our organization by increasing the aspects of ADKAR to the target audience.

Discover decarbonization design strategies for building design as well as a data-informed workflow of implementing these strategies to decarbonize the training Revit House. Using Revit, the Revit One Click Plugin and One Click LCA, we will show you how to extract and manage quantitative and material data to measure the embodied carbon emissions associated with the design of the Revit House. After examining the results, and discovering the carbon hotspots, we’ll decide appropriate decarbonization strategies, aiming for a reduction of 40% in line with the World Green Building Council goal. We’ll then take you through the process of applying those strategies to the Revit House. Integration between Revit and One Click LCA has streamlined the data-informed workflow and provides carbon data when the designer needs it. Having this data means the designer can make data-informed design decisions and subsequently deliver measurably lower carbon buildings.

Designing parts for the injection molding process often relies on experience and generic guidelines. Determining the needed geometry for design features can be very time consuming. In this session we will look at how this process can be streamlined by using Fusion 360 and its Extensions. The Product Design Extension includes tools for quickly adding common features, such as snaps and bosses, to Fusion 360 parts. Will these features work? Will the snap fail during initial assembly? Will there be sink marks if a boss is molded as designed? Fusion 360’s Simulation Extension tools for stress analysis and mold filling simulation help answer these key questions. Now potential issues can be caught and corrected early in the design cycle, when there is still time to react and costs of changes are relatively low.

We will present the steps we have taken to prepare our company for the future; integrating methodologies for data creation and translation, workflows and remote working. We have taken many steps to streamline our design and manufacturing processes that can be applied to any company and have successfully demonstrated their effectiveness while in the process of transformation. We will present workflows, customizations and next steps while preparing for a life as a combined Product and Project manufacturer of amusement rides and mechanically driven mechanisms.

This session explores the best available technologies and frameworks required for infrastructure construction to achieve net zero by 2050. This session explores a research paper developed by Autodesk partnering with a collaboration of Australian industry associations namely the Infrastructure Sustainability Council, the Australian Constructors Association and Consult Australia.

As we work through projects, information is constantly being generated. Unfortunately, we almost never get to see it, much less capture and analyze it, thereby missing many opportunities to inform future projects or help with current ones. Buro Happold is a global engineering firm that's decided to tackle this problem at an enterprise level by finding ways to automatically collect, share and analyze this constant stream of project information. We've taken a multi-faceted approach to mining project data for insights by using a mixture of internally developed tools, Revit, BIM Collaborate Pro, ACC and external tools like Power BI and Kinship. This class will cover the methods and strategies that we are using to mine all the data generated daily by each project. We'll look at how the firm is using internal BIM Radar tool with mixture of external tools. We'll also discuss how to integrate new tools into project teams and how to approach enterprise-level adoption and analysis.

We will explain Upchain capabilities that can be integrated into custom release process workflow in order to remove manual work in checking that all of the required files or attributes have been submitted. Will also show how process can be modeled just specifically for mechanical or electrical design but also how it can support one big process containing both and how the system will automate the request for information and perform required files or attribute checks by itself. Will also show how workflow leaves an audit trail regarding processes and approvals.

Both mechanical and architectural design rely on visualization technologies to showcase designers’ ideas. Increasingly, that relies on generating highly realistic materials and lighting. This class will look at my pick of the top 7 OSL shaders that can be applied to your scenes in 3ds Max 2023 to render photorealistic images and animations. Learn where to find and download OSL shaders that can be used in a visualization and how to customize your own OSL shaders. Use multiple shaders to create a unique material for your models. Get ahead of the competition by learning to create visually compelling, photorealistic renderings using these top 7 OSL shaders in a streamlined workflow.

The new Data Exchange service helps you unlock your data and give you the flexibility to share the right data with the right stakeholders at the right time. It's flexible and powerful API allows you to access the granular data in exchanges and given the structure of the data, it is also possible to quickly identify and get the difference between the versions of a shared data subset. In this class we will have an overview of the concepts used by the Data Exchange to describe the data structure and we will work with these concepts to explain how the data is organized within an exchange container. We will discuss the current capabilities of the Data Exchange API as well as some future functionalities. Given it's current capabilities, we will go through some workflows where use of it is the most suitable. To be fair, we will also see some cases where it might not be the right solution and compare it with other APIs like Model Derivative API and BIM 360/ACC Model Properties API.

In this class, you will discover what cloud data management is all about and how Upchain can help your organization be more connected and efficient with a focus on user collaboration. It will help you understand what Upchain is, how can you start using it optimally in minimal time and what can you achieve with the power of cloud collaboration between different stakeholders.

Generative Design (GD) in Fusion 360 creates hundreds of innovative optimized design options within a short period of time. However, there is no free lunch. When it comes to engineering, users need to think about the assumptions and limitations of GD. GD models are often slender which do not behave linearly in real life, material may not be linear elastic over the loading cycle, and the model may need to contact other parts. Event Simulation (Fusion 360) and/or Explicit Dynamics analysis (Inventor Nastran) can help confirm the acceptability of the GD model by including all the nonlinear effects that may be encountered during actual use: nonlinear displacement, plasticity, and contact. This session will cover multiple aspects of creating the GD and performing a simulation with Event Simulation or Explicit Dynamics.