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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2023

The Unofficial CAD Manager

Have you been working as your company's unofficial CAD Manager, and don't have any official authority with management? In this class, join other individuals who are in a similar situation or other full time CAD managers for this roundtable discussion. Learn tips from others on how to turn an unofficial position into an official position. Engage in a lively discussion where you can learn from others and share your experience on CAD support and CAD management.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

GIS Essentials in CAD: Aerial Imagery, Terrain & Google Earth Visualization

In this class, you will be familiarized with the idea first introduced by Plex-Earth, that most of the complexities in CAD-GIS interoperability, from data availability to compatibility, can be eliminated if seen from the designer's perspective. Our extensive experience on real-life projects has shown that seamless access to essential GIS data like historical imagery, terrain elevation data, and immersive visualization tools like Google Earth, give a competitive advantage to CAD-based workflows. As such, if you are a CAD user, you can completely understand your project area without requiring GIS skills. As a CAD manager, you can boost your team's overall performance, reduce errors and make informed decisions by accessing geospatial data from top-notch providers like Airbus, Maxar, Nearmap, Hexagon, and Google Maps, all without costly subscriptions. Finally, as a software developer, you can leverage Plex-Earth to upgrade your product offering and augment your customers' capabilities.

30p

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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

HVAC Schematics Created Using Revit System Analysis Systems, Zones, and Space

In this session, we'll cover importing Revit systems, zones, and spaces from Revit System Analysis into HVAC Solution Pro software and creating intelligent HVAC system schematics. HVAC loads can also be imported from industry-leading load providers. This data is used to automatically build systems, calculate projects, and select HVAC equipment from equipment manufacturers. "What if" scenarios can be modeled using various equipment parameters and weather data. Various coordination files can be automatically created, including equipment schedule, schematic, electrical schedule, detailed report, and many more. With our Revit add-in, the schematics and schedules can easily be placed in a Revit drafting view. We use the Revit API to create custom schedules. A variety of systems can be created, including air, hydronic, steam, plumbing, refrigerant, VRF, and fuel gas and controls. See how what used to take days and weeks now takes minutes and hours.

65p

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2023

AutoCAD in the Age of AI

If you're excited about AI and have ideas about how it might apply to AutoCAD, join us for a discussion on insights, automation, and machine learning (ML). We'll introduce AI technologies, learn how AutoCAD is currently using them to enhance your design workflows, and engage in an open discussion about how you would like to see AutoCAD leverage AI and machine learning. Come ready to share your ideas and what excites you most about AI in the CAD industry!

29p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Advancing 3D Visualization Education: Training by Industry for Industry

With the visualization and 3D rendering software market projected to hit $7.43 billion by 2028, demand for 3D visualization artists continues to rise across various industries. Specialized education programs are critical for equipping artists with up-to-date knowledge, yet there are few such programs. CG Spectrum is addressing this with a new career-focused visualization pathway developed by industry, for industry. Starting with a foundation in visualization with later specializations in architecture, product, and industrial, students go from zero technical skills to becoming proficient visualization artists. To ensure graduates are job-ready, we're inviting industry leaders to join our Visualization Advisory Board. By doing so, you can network with other leaders, keep abreast of the latest trends, develop education solutions to address industry needs and challenges, and directly impact and inspire the next wave of 3D artists. Let's work together to shape 3D visualization education.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Schematic Design Development with AutoCAD Architecture

In this informative and engaging talk, we'll explore the powerful capabilities of the AutoCAD Architecture toolset in the context of schematic design development. AutoCAD Architecture, a leading software system for architectural design and documentation, offers an array of tools and features to aid the design process. We'll delve into the key aspects of using AutoCAD Architecture to develop schematic designs efficiently and effectively. We'll discuss how the software enables architects, designers, and drafters to create and refine initial design concepts, transforming them into comprehensive schematic representations.

39p

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2023

Exploring AutoCAD on the Web

In this lab you'll have the opportunity to explore real world projects and scenarios that teams have had success with, leveraging the power of AutoCAD on the web. Be inspired with new ways to improve your workflows, and seamlessly extend collaboration to more stakeholders—unlocking the true potential of a subscription to AutoCAD or and the new AutoCAD Web offering.

49p

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Developing BIM 360 Capability in Kenya to Optimize Construction of the Largest Waste Recycling Facility in East Africa

Sanergy is a social enterprise based in Nairobi, Kenya, that safely collects and treats 12,000 tons of waste, converting it into valuable products: insect-based proteins derived from black soldier flies for animal feed, organic fertilizer, and biomass fuel briquettes. This model provides a closed-loop, zero-waste solution that ensures waste is transformed into high-quality sustainable products. We are in the process of scaling up our production of insect-based animal protein to convert roughly 70,000 tons per year of organic waste into 3,600 tons of animal feed through the construction of a new advanced facility. Sanergy is a devoted Autodesk user, and this massive construction project provided an opportunity to capitalize on the power of BIM 360 software. In this session, we will review the training given by third-party providers via the Autodesk Foundation, the challenges faced when rolling out a new technology-based way of working in construction within the context of an African country, and the benefits achieved.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018

A Couple of Guys and a BIM Computer

With many projects being vastly different from one another, it can be hard to figure out what exactly your BIM (Building Information Modeling) and virtual design and construction (VDC) needs will be for your project. AECOM Hunt has had the fortune to work on and coordinate many different projects. We have learned that, while perhaps similar, no 2 projects or teams are the same, and that each must be handled uniquely. During this course we will share our experiences on 4 projects: Little Caesars Arena, home of the Detroit Redwings; Aloft Magnificent Mile, Chicago; Mount Carmel Hospital, Grove City; and Kite Pharma-Cell Therapy. Other topics will include BIM (Building Information Modeling) stages such as coordination, completion, and turnover.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020

Use AutoCAD and Inventor with ProModel Simulation to Optimize Factory Layouts

It is common to design factory layouts using AutoCAD software and Inventor software to ensure spatial accuracy and safety compliance. However, it is not the norm to be as diligent with process design. Often plant designers will rely on equipment vendor rates and will assume equipment and resources will integrate and run according to the design on paper. But what happens when the reality of process variation and equipment and labor interdependencies come into play? It’s very difficult to take all these factors into account using only CAD drawings and layouts. The solution is to use simulation to optimize the factory workflow, then create a direct link from the simulation to the factory layout, providing a digital twin of the factory. We will demonstrate the value and basics of how using ProModel and Process Simulator Autodesk Editions, synced with AutoCAD and Inventor, can help optimize your digital twin first so that you’re not playing trial and error with your real equipment, inventory, and labor.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

2D to 3D: How to Make It Work for You

We deliver our projects differently from most building services companies. Our engineers generate project deliverables rather than CAD technicians. As such, the majority of engineers deliver projects in Revit software, creating intelligent models to meet clients’ requirements. We’ve been delivering projects in 3D for 10 years; however, only recently has the engineers’ preference become working in Revit rather than AutoCAD software. This shift is a result of the work completed throughout the last few years; engineers now believe delivering projects in Revit is the simplest and quickest method. We will guide attendees through the work we have undertaken to achieve this, looking at the easiest wins before moving to the more ambitious, including the development of bespoke tools. We will look at how we can automate boring tasks, giving engineers more time to be creative. We will touch on the issues we have experienced, cover tips and tricks we have discovered, and show how to maintain tools and resources once they are out in the “wild.”

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020

Speed Up Drawing Creation Through the Power of Templates in Fusion 360

Drawing templates, when used to create drawings in Fusion 360 software, can both accelerate the time it takes to complete your mechanical engineering documentation, and ensure your drawings consistently represent your business and project standards. We will start by creating a new title block, with fields that can be automatically populated with information from the design, project, and your profile. We will add this to a new template, then walk through other options for customizing the template for your specific office and business needs. We will then show the power of "placeholder" elements in your template, and demonstrate how they can help remove much of the tedium of creating a new drawing from scratch.

Hands-on Lab / Virtual 2020

AutoCAD Customization Boot Camp: Automate Workflows and Tasks

AutoCAD software offers a variety of features that let you automate workflows and reduce repetitive tasks. In this lab, you will create action macros, develop simple AutoLISP programs, learn the basics to deploy AutoLISP files, and manage settings with user profiles. After this lab, you will have a broad understanding of how to implement automation and improve productivity when you return to your office. This session features AutoCAD software; AutoCAD LT software doesn't support AutoLISP programming.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018

A Winning Combination: 3ds Max 2019 and Revit Interoperability

This class showcases the interoperability of 3ds Max software with other products, such as Revit software and AutoCAD software. This class is all about linking and reloading files from other software products into a 3ds Max scene. We will start by learning about the various settings that can be configured while linking a Revit (.rvt) file. We will then create a new linking preset and modify it as per specific requirements. Learn to use the new preset to bring a Revit file into the 3ds Max scene. Finally, we will use a variation of the source Revit file and learn how to load those changes to show up directly in the 3ds Max scene. If time permits, we will explore the interoperability of AutoCAD and 3ds Max software products.

Hands-on Lab / Virtual 2020

AutoCAD Customization Boot Camp: Basic (No Experience Required)

Customizing the AutoCAD software or AutoCAD LT software is a great way to increase productivity, but many users are unsure of how to get started. In this lab, you’ll learn about several of the basic customization features that you can use to simplify workflows and reduce repetitive tasks. You can customize features such as command aliases and the ribbon to improve access to frequently used commands, and you can create tool palettes and script files to reduce the number of steps required to complete a task.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020

Create Your First AutoCAD Plug-In

Have you ever wanted to automate complicated or time-consuming design processes? Maybe you've been intimidated at the idea of learning how to program, or even where to start? In this class, you'll learn how to write your first plug-in for AutoCAD software, using the C# language. If you've already started your programming journey, you'll benefit from learning some coding best practices. Join a two-time Autodesk University Top Speaker for this exciting introduction to programming in AutoCAD.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2015

Drawing from Experience: Tell All of 4 CAD Managers with Over 100 Years of Experience

Learn from the experiences of this panel of diverse CAD managers who are widely respected as leaders in their field. Hear their unique perspective and solutions to challenges faced by CAD managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. Topics include understanding CAD standards, keeping up with rapidly changing technology, managing users, communicating with management and other non-technical people, budgeting, and much more. There will also be time to ask these experts the questions you’ve always wanted to ask. Bring your questions and get answers from 4 CAD managers who have been there and done that.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2015

A Practical Guide to Parametric Drawing in AutoCAD

Parametric design tools aren’t just for programs like Inventor software, Revit software, or AutoCAD Civil 3D software; there is also a set of parametric drawing tools that you can use to create dynamic relationships and constraints between objects in AutoCAD software. The parametric drawing tools will revolutionize the way that you draw and edit objects in AutoCAD software. This class will introduce you to parametric drawing in AutoCAD software by using both geometric and dimensional constraints to add intelligence to your objects. You will learn how using Auto Constrain and Inferred Constraints can help you quickly add constraints and change your process from drafting to modeling. If you’ve ever wanted geometry in your drawing to update based on changes that you’ve made to other objects, or if you’ve wanted to type a new value into a dimension and have the object update based on this new value, this class is for you.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2018

A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D (Part 1)

If you are an AutoCAD Civil 3D user being asked to provide data to your Geographic Information System (GIS) department, if you are being asked to use GIS data as background data for your designs, or if you think GIS is a 4-letter word, this class will answer this all-too-common question: "Why should I care about GIS?" You will learn to import GIS data not only as AutoCAD objects, but also directly as AutoCAD Civil 3D objects like Surfaces and Pipe Networks that use the existing database information. Once that data is in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, we'll explore ways to use it with labeling tools and other display techniques. This popular class has won the award for Best Hands-on Lab at Autodesk University. Don't miss your chance to learn how the GIS tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D can make you more productive by automating common everyday tasks.

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