In this class, you’ll learn how Autodesk uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power the Forge platform, and how you can use the same services for your own Forge applications. You’ll get hands-on experience showing you how easy it is to get started with Forge using our quick-start guide. We’ll start with a quick overview of the Forge platform and introduction to AWS. After that, we’ll dive deep into the specific steps and configurations used for both a Node.js application and a .NET application. We’ll discuss the architectures, microservices, development environments, and application deployment options, and help you identify the best practices for running a production Forge application on AWS. This class is best for attendees with some software development experience, and everyone must bring their own laptops. At the end of the class, you’ll have built and deployed a demo application to AWS using Forge.

In this class, we’ll explore the journey one person has taken to create numerous 3D prints and designs—with a case study of two specific, very popular, 3D-printed designs—using Fusion 360 software and other Autodesk tools. These designs help demonstrate the value of Fusion 360 software’s multiple workspaces, while requiring the user to find alternative workflows to overcome some limitations. Both projects are 3D-printable items that can be printed on most home 3D printers or through any commercial service. Come and share my experience.

Presented by Fusion 360 Quality Assurance, this class will focus on the challenges presented by larger models, such as performance, clutter, and informational or screen overload. Discover Fusion 360 software tools to help you stay organized. Learn how to prevent performance problems as we explore solutions in the user interface, your workflows, hardware configurations, and data management. Starting with the newly distributed design workflows, we'll also demonstrate commands and tools to increase productivity and extend the power of your assemblies and designs in Fusion 360 software.

The Las Vegas Stadium will provide a world-class home for the NFL Raiders upon the team’s relocation in 2020. The Mortenson|McCarthy joint venture team is currently building the $1.9 billion domed stadium. To overcome the aggressive schedule, scale and complexity the project is supported by a culture that fosters an innovative approach to implementing advanced technology, processes and lean construction methodology. In this session Joel Jacobson, and his 3+ years of managing Drone deployment on large-scale Mortenson projects, will share his unique approach to partnering with industry experts such as Dustin Williams of FlywheelAEC to deliver enhanced project awareness and improved communication across the entire Las Vegas Stadium project team. Joel and Dustin will share and discuss best practices, future outlook observed within the industry, and will demonstrate the lessons learned and data visualizations produced as a result of effective planning and coordination.

Have you seen a facilities management spec? What is a facilities management spec? As a facilities manager, would you like to have a say in what your data deliverable is? As a contractor, would you like to focus your owner on what matters? What if the asset data was collected, organized, and usable before the facility opened? What if the preventative maintenance was scheduled and the maintenance records were accessible on a phone or tablet before day one? Our industry is producing some fantastic data, but owners are often left with none of it or an overwhelming, unusable amount of it. This class will focus on what a facilities team genuinely needs to maintain the building. We’ll give you the questions to ask in order to focus on the data facilities that technicians need, not the data we want to provide them with. We’ll also discuss the processes needed to achieve success.

As our global population increases, remote indigenous communities are compelled to develop to accommodate growth and responsible tourism. Technology is now available to support and promote development of remote communities in an environmentally and culturally sustainable manner. Specifically, photogrammetry and virtual reality (VR) enable effective decisions about sensitive development by empowering stakeholders with intuitive, immersive experiences of site conditions from new points of view. This session will present a recent project on the remote Fiji island of Vorovoro, executed as a joint effort between an indigenous island tribe, a university construction management program, a social enterprise promoting positive social impact, and a global AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) software corporation. The collaborative team created a feasibility study for a dam to retain fresh water on the island; developed new data workflows; and used drones, VR, and cloud-based collaboration platforms with a Forge partner.

This hands-on lab will introduce the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app as a design tool for designers and engineers of all skill levels. We will focus on the basic functional areas of the Fusion 360 app and lead the attendees through the modeling of a simple consumer product. We will cover T-Spline form creation, basic solid modeling and assembly, and materials and rendering.

Come and discover what the Inventor Product Development Team is working on for future releases of Inventor software and related offerings to help you in the future of making things. This session will feature Inventor Professional software.

Learn how quick and easy it is to start programming on iOS for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod. In this class the speaker will create from scratch a simple iOS application with traditional user interface elements like buttons, tabs, and lists. We will then deploy this app on an iPad and show it running. Finally, we will show how you can debug and test an iOS application. You will learn where you need to go and what you need to do to start programming in iOS. We will also show you how you can use GLKit framework to draw 3D graphics, and how to access REST web services from your iOS device.

In this hands-on lab, you learn to visualize your Inventor 3D CAD software designs in 3ds Max Design software. We go through the steps to prepare your model for 3ds Max Design, including using the Shrinkwrap tool. Discover the import options available in 3ds Max Design and determine the best method based upon your model size or complexity. Explore materials, cameras, and lighting to place your design in the best possible light. Use tools to connect the parts for simple assemblies. Build animations and create renderings of the scene to share with your clients.

During this presentation, we provide an overview of Mockup 360™, a new cloud-based digital mockup tool for manufacturing industries. Mockup 360 removes many of the existing barriers to working collaboratively on full 3D mockups, such as model size, cost, IT implementation, and limited sharing. Mockup 360 works seamlessly with Autodesk® Product Design Suite, Factory Design Suite, and Inventor® software by allowing users to directly upload their 3D models into mockups and share with colleagues, suppliers, and customers. In addition to introducing the product, we outline typical workflows that take advantage of the power of the truly open collaboration in Mockup 360. After this class, attendees should be comfortable with the basic concept of the product and be able to make a decision on whether Mockup 360 can improve their design processes.

3D printing has revolutionized the design and manufacturing production workflow, making the creation of design prototypes as easy as pushing a button. Inventor software has been a central tool in this revolution, enabling designers and engineers to create and iterate their design faster than ever before. This course will step through the process of developing, printing, and iterating the design of a real product prototype. Quad copters and drones are used every day for a variety of purposes, from videography to inspecting large tanks. Many drones leave the blades exposed and a single hit into a surface can easily damage both the blades and the drone. Here you will step through the process of designing blade guards for a popular drone quadcopter, seeing the steps and different phases of the design used to create a 3D printable final product.

Do you wish detailing your drawings took far less time? Do you wish there were quicker, more-efficient ways to get your detail drawings completed? This class will go over some tips and tricks you can use when creating your drawings, as well as best practices, the setting of standards and items you tend to use often, custom symbols creation and use, efficient dimensioning, and the use of design views and level of details to help speed up the detailing process.

In this hands-on class you will learn the basics of how to use lookup tables (Revit 2015 software and above) within your families.

This session is full, but an alternate time is now available.

Now that you know the basics of part and assembly modeling in Inventor software, we will discuss and show some of the more advanced features for assembly modeling in Inventor software. We'll cover some tools and tips of efficiency, differences between top-down and bottom-up assemblies, adaptive parts, model simplification, level of detail, weldments, Inventor Studio environment, and frame generator. This session features Inventor Professional.

This round-table discussion will focus on the various Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards from around the world, the benefits and adverse effects they cause, and the ways they may help or hinder progress as it grows. Comments from experience are welcomed and encouraged.

In this class, you will learn how user sections are created and customized to suit your company-specific standards, and how to use these user sections in Macros for stairs, railings, and cladding. Furthermore, you will get an introduction to the relevant databases and tables, and understand what is necessary to keep your profiles when upgrading to the next Advance Steel software version. This session features Advance Steel.

Autodesk has historically developed software and provided consulting services for metal additively manufactured (AM) lattice-type structures. Common powder-bed processes include SLM (Selective Laser Melting) / DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering), and EBM (Electron Beam Melting). When considering real-life applications of these structures, many assumptions are made about the characteristics of the manufactured material. Among others, these include strength, elastic moduli, thermal properties, material density, surface finish, and structural stability. These characteristics are affected by many factors, including machine parameters, build orientation, and feature size. This session features Autodesk Explicit Solver, Nastran, Netfabb, Within.

Industrialized construction is becoming more important than ever, considering current housing shortages and a decline in skilled labor. Optimizing factory processes is thus essential for productivity; however, changes to lines can be both expensive and disruptive. In this presentation we will demonstrate how a process-based digital twin can help to analyze and optimize a factory. First, a factory information model is created using discrete event simulation and virtual reality. This model is then updated using a variety of sensors that can measure baseline performance. Together, the model and sensors produce a digital twin of a factory that serves as a virtual test bed for evaluating the manufacturing process and optimizing factory layout and resource allocation to mitigate any adverse effects. We’ll share preliminary results from an ongoing project to integrate energy efficiency technologies into modular buildings with little or no additional lead time and first cost.

Templates are the foundation of any project. Revit software offers a number of features that make it important to maintain a solid company or project template, helping to produce high-quality, consistent documents and data. There are many different ways to set up a template and every company has its own twist. In this round-table discussion we will talk about the different viewpoints regarding template construction, and we'll investigate what may work most effectively for you in your environment.