In the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, we are challenged to consider many design options, to find the fittest solution in the shortest time, and to be leaders in economic and sustainable designs. During this presentation, you’ll learn about how computational design techniques can help you improve your design process for buildings. In this class, you’ll discover how our products generate better outcomes for designs using computational and generative design techniques. You’ll get an overview of how ‘traditional" design improves with design automation, computational modeling, and generative design methods with Dynamo and Refinery. All of this will be taught using examples from the architectural, urban planning, and structural industry.

Let's go faster up front! Bubble diagrams can be BIM (Building Information Modeling) savvy. From day one on a new project, designers draw soft dreamy concepts while clients want to know that the numbers pencil out. Believe it or not, long before the model resembles a building, Revit software enables us to deliver both. Let digital practice leader Crispin Mathias+Fisher show you how to capitalize on data in early design phases while staying within the BIM environment. This Revit software-based course is geared toward designers of all experience levels. Generate presentation-ready graphics, easy-on-the-eyes schedules, and lovely design data straight out of Revit. Wait—what's that, you say? Revit can't do pretty? Oh, yes it can! Revit software does pretty and keeps concepts smart.

Do you need to access additional map data for your projects? Come to this presentation and learn how to locate, use, and configure web-based map services in AutoCAD Map software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and InfraWorks 360 software! This session features AutoCAD Map 3D and InfraWorks 360.

AREP is an international architecture firm providing complete services from programming to facilities management assistance. BIM offers a unique opportunity to work far upstream on the needed level of information for its integration into the digital model, allowing proper configuration of CMMS tools. AREP includes BIM specifications for facility management handover within its standard scope of services. This requirement of specifications also extends to existing buildings. We will present the results of experiments carried out on existing train stations (reverse-engineering) and new train stations that have enabled us to evaluate and quantify the gains expected for facilities management operations.

BIM plays a crucial role in the conception, modelling, and management of physical infrastructure, allowing architects and engineers to design within a 3D parametric environment. Unusual structural systems (e.g., buildings in seismic areas, tensile structures, reinforced concrete shells, diagrid structures) pose significant geometric, modelling, and analysis challenges. Conventional approaches with Revit and Robot, entail extensive resource allocation, are time-consuming and provide limited flexibility to accommodate significant variations. As a result, this case study investigates the automation of complex parametric structural systems. It explores the Revit/Dynamo/Robot interface and procedures to minimise data contamination, examines the flexibility to accommodate variations at any stage of the design process, and ultimately aims to increase productivity across the Atkins? infrastructure business. Several case studies have been investigated, and algorithms have been developed combining Dynamo's comprehensive set of pre-defined nodes, with the development of advanced Python coding. The case study begins with the development of an algorithm for multi-storey flat-slab buildings with stability to be provided by shear-walls in two orthogonal directions. Buildings in high-seismicity areas require a shearwall/floor plan area ratio of 1.5%, and specific Python code has been developed accordingly. Assuming even column distribution, constant floor-to-ceiling height, and regularity in plan and elevation, the algorithm is governed by six input parameters: Width, Length, Floor-to-ceiling height, Number of storeys and Column grid spacing (X, Y). No difficulties were encountered in the Dynamo/Robot interface. It then directs attention towards a second case study involving high-rise structures, and a third case study comprising complex surfaces.

Combine logic, geometry, math, and BIM (Building Information Modeling) with Dynamo visual programming. We'll use Dynamo to drive a Revit document and interoperate with other applications, data sources, and modeling tools. If you already have some experience with Revit software and are looking to expand its capabilities with computation, this workshop is for you. Basic understanding of computer programming and scripting is helpful, but not required. This is a full-day class, including networking opportunities over breakfast, lunch, and drinks. Participants will share one computer for every 2 people to encourage exchange.

In 2050, 66% of the world’s population will reside in urban areas. Landscape and Urban designers will be required to design more and better cities, with less impact on the environment. One of the most attractive characteristic of Landscape Design is its scale variety, ranging from balconies to huge campuses. In the “The Secret to Landscape Modeling with Revit”, we learned how landscape designs can be built in Revit, as well as the main challenges with the software. Large scale was one of these challenges. InfraWorks is the software that completes the Landscape Architect toolset for large scale modeling. In this class, we will discover how to model landscape elements in InfraWorks. We will also explore how to import information in your model from different data sources (GIS, Revit, 3D Models, Civil 3D) and collaborate in BIM360. Finally, you will learn how to present and visualize your project using Infraworks tools.

Thanks to the collaboration between Autodesk and Esri, more and more valuable geographic information system (GIS) information is available to users of Autodesk applications via ArcGIS Online and customer ArcGIS Portals. Users can access information that includes both public and organizational roads, highways, detailed elevation, and other raster data, street furniture, tree locations, and pipelines. In this session, we will look at the workflow that will let you capitalize on the GIS data available from ArcGIS and create a model within InfraWorks software. Using a real-world example with the City of Vancouver, we will show you what is featured and included in the libraries from ArcGIS, how to publish your own GIS data to ArcGIS Online, how to import that data into InfraWorks, and how to manage the data and views within the InfraWorks model. We will also discuss how this benefits the city, and how they’re actively using their models in their own workflows and processes.

For a number of years, the cloud has been a topic of acute interest for collaborative working and storage. But over the past 2 years, it's become much more than that. Now a mature, integrated system, the cloud presents a viable option for businesses that need additional compute capacity. At this moment in time the cloud, facilitated by a new integration tool from Escape Technology, offers an alternative to CAPEX spend for short-term projects or requirements. Whether you're rendering a building fly-through or the latest Hollywood blockbuster, there are always points in the project lifecycle that get tight on time. This is where burst capacity comes in. In the past the only option was to purchase or rent additional machines and licenses, but the cloud gives us a new facility. Spinning up virtual workstations, storage, and even render can give studios the extra resources they need without having to worry about purchase prices, space, cooling, and power. In this talk, delegates will learn about how the cloud has developed as a practical concept and is now being leveraged by major production companies and architects around the world. Lee Danskin, CTO at Escape Technology, will explore how cloud workflows can be used to augment - or entirely replace - an existing one. He will investigate the future of cloud working, including so-called ?born in the cloud? studios, and discuss the complexities of adding cloud burst capacity to an existing pipeline.

This session will cover a case study of BIM (Building Information Modeling) implementation for a complex urban project designed as a smart city. The 126-hectare project is called Garonne Eiffel, and sits in a large development area in Bordeaux, France. The heart of Garonne Eiffel is the Belvedere subdistrict, a 12-hectare (30 acre) area. BIM has been implemented on the Belvedere project, which is the first key step for a future smart city. We will present the project with its specific challenges (urban density, collaboration, technical complexity). We will discuss the BIM strategy applied, including good and not so good aspects. We will describe the workflows created with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to show how InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Navisworks software are key tools to urban design. We’ll show how we used InfraWorks to assemble Civil 3D modelization for the Belvedere project: buildings, roads, trees, and street equipment. And, we’ll show how Dynamo helped us improve our productivity.

A week after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, Norwegian architects Snøhetta were announced as the winners of the competition to design the new Le Monde headquarters in the French capital. The winning proposal aligned with the wish of both the client and the French society to counter the terrorist attack with transparency and openness-a wish recently reinforced by the election of Emmanuel Macron as the country's new president. In this presentation, Håvard Vasshaug will show you how the Snøhetta design team used Dynamo software and Revit software to create a glass façade that will communicate transparency in a monumental way-by automating the combination of multiple layers of variations in materials, orientation, placement, size, transparency, and reflectivity, while containing both complexity and cost. The project will be a landmark in Paris. Learn how Dynamo was used at the center of the design.

With just over 2 years since the UK Government mandated BIM Level 2 adoption on publicly procured built assets, construction project teams have claimed successful collaboration outcomes during the design phase. Successful examples of real-life application of collaboration during the construction phase, at the conversion of the coordinated virtual project information models into asset information models, and more importantly the physical assets, are sparse at best. Having invested extensive resources to produce a coordinated model which supports quicker installation on sites, design teams can only quite rightly question the role played by Tier 1 contractors in BIM workflows as federated, data rich models stay 'dumped' on the common data environment, CDE never fulfilling the intended purpose. This study examines the BIM platforms and tools available on the market, and demonstrates how Tier 1 contractors in the UK have developed information and resource management structures that enable efficient data capture during the construction phase to facilitate seamless delivery of BIM Level 2 education project with COBie requirements. More specifically, the study demonstrates the seamless workflows using BIM 360 Field and BIM 360 Glue on an educational project in the United Kingdom.

Learn hands-on the creation of basic bridge components in Inventor software. InfraWorks software can accept custom piers, girders, abutments, decks, and foundations created as IPT files in Inventor. In this class, you will model a parametric pier in Inventor and use Shape Modeler to prepare it for use in InfraWorks. Once in InfraWorks, we will export the bridge to Revit software.

You've seen lots of preliminary design with InfraWorks 360. This session will focus on presentation techniques to make your site plan look its best. We'd explore Civil 3D, Revit, and other data sources and how to make the most of each, along with some great options for sharing your brilliance. 

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Come hear how leading designers are interconnecting design, optimization and fabrication to support new ways of working.

Bastian Schaefer from Airbus and David Benjamin from The Living will show how generative design, optimization and new fabrication techniques are being used today in the aerospace industry. They will discuss their work on new aircraft designs and the Bionic Partition project, a new aircraft part designed via a novel optimization process and 3d printed directly in metal.

Gijs Van Der Velden of MX3D will speak about the exciting design, optimization and robotic fabrication processes they are creating in order to robotically construct a bridge in Amsterdam.

Achim Menges will show the stunning work his group is creating at the Institute for Computational Design in Stuttgart Germany using a variety of materials and robotic fabrication techniques. Achim’s practice and research focuses on the intersection of design computation, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing that enables a highly articulated, performative built environment.

Add the Design Computation Symposium Part 1 to your schedule.

In this instructional demo, we'll design frames in an Inventor assembly environment. We'll perform calculations related to frame designing. We'll then apply the fasteners in assembly as required. We'll insert the power transmission components and springs in the frame. Finally, we'll perform frame analysis to test the frame strength. We'll take an example of a real-world model and help you understand how the products are developed from 0-100%.

This class will cover the use of InfraWorks 360 software as a bridge modeling and design tool in the context of a wider transportation project, and we’ll explore a number of solid workflows to other bridge design and modeling products. You will learn not only how to model concrete bridges in InfraWorks 360 software, but also how to make use of the Line Girder Analysis cloud service to quickly validate the girders against different design standards and to establish the required prestressing. You will learn how to simply open up the corresponding analytical model directly in Structural Bridge Design software for further refinement and to carry out more-detailed analysis and design checks. You will learn how to open up the InfraWorks 360 model in AutoCAD Civil 3D software to carry out further refinements to the site and create alignment drawings that include the bridges. You will also learn how to create a Revit software model with a single click from the InfraWorks 360 model in order to add rebar and create structural drawings. This session features InfraWorks 360, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and Revit.

One of the challenges facing the industry is that optimization is usually offered only within a domain-specific software engine. One solution is to use general-purpose design environments such as Dynamo, coupled with optimization engines such as Project Refinery to enable multidomain, multiobjective optimization. This class will introduce Topologic, a new and free software kit (https://topologic.app). Topologic offers the ability to think spatially, topologically, and conceptually about a design project. Topologic is also tightly coupled with EnergyPlus for energy analysis within Dynamo and with Project Refinery. Thus, Topologic offers the possibility of multidomain, multiobjective optimization where the involved domains go beyond traditional building performance. This class will introduce the related concepts, illustrate the powerful features of the software through example workflows, and offer you hands-on experience to experiment with customized workflows.

Project 13 is an industry initiative led by the Infrastructure Client Group (set up by the Institution of Civil Engineers) to establish a better business model for infrastructure delivery, improving productivity, performance and mitigating the skills risk. Digital Transformation is a critical enabler to unlock the value of infrastructure and provide more cost-effective ways to deliver customer outcomes. This includes the digital delivery of new assets and their operation and maintenance. These changes are underpinned by having better information that enables better decisions, faster. As part of Project 13, Mott MacDonald are sponsoring a programme of work on behalf of the ICG to benchmark the infrastructure industry's readiness for digital transformation. We have been working with leading infrastructure owners since late-2017, where membership includes Heathrow Airport, Thames Tideway, Network Rail, the Environment Agency and Sellafield. This session will introduce the Infrastructure Readiness Level (IRL) model, a bespoke tool that has been specifically developed to establish each organisation's readiness for digital transformation. The tool serves many purposes. It informs an organisation specific and industry-wide picture that enables cross-sector benchmarking and pinpoints common themes, strengths and weaknesses. It has also helps identify and celebrate leading best practice, informs the future direction each organisation wishes to take in the digital space and forges new collaborative relationships between multiple teams who face common challenges. Gain an insight into the key findings of the work completed to-date through extensive engagement, and pinpoint the specific findings that are most relevant to you and your business. Through the use of the latest data analytics techniques deployed live during the session, help pinpoint the key considerations and what they mean for future investment decisions. Debate with your peers, and also make that connection in taking the opportunity to get your infrastructure organisation enrolled today.

As Design and Make come closer together, the ability to access and modify data throughout all phases a project or product life cycle are becoming critical for success. Access to designs, and the information they contain, is critical for downstream applications and users to do their jobs, but are difficult to access using today’s technology.. Learn how we are building the Forge Data Platform will enable you to make those connections, and enable applications and users anywhere in the design lifecycle to contribute to the design. The Forge Data Platform will help you manage, modify, share and collaborate on data from any application that exposes an API to access its data.