A real-life metro project design will be demonstrated through using Autodesk AEC Collection. Design Authoring, 3D Coordination, Existing Conditions Modelling, Creation of Design Documents and Engineering Analysis were the BIM uses of the project. Stations, tunnels, underground utilities and real environment of the project were modeled by using Revit, Infraworks and Civil 3D. Autodesk CFD, Revit, MagiCAD tools helped designers for engineering analysis and simulation studies. Active use of technologies such as reality capture, virtual reality played an important role in the design process.

This class covers the use of AutoCAD software and the cloud using the Autodesk cloud-based app AutoCAD® 360 (formerly known as AutoCAD® WS). We examine how AutoCAD 360 can be used to expand away from the traditional desktop by using the latest tablet and smartphone technology to collaborate with others on your AutoCAD designs on the building site, the factory floor, and in the field. We also touch on some of the best practices, workarounds, shortcuts, limitations, and advantages. We show you examples of where AutoCAD 360 has been used, and demonstrate how new technology is revolutionizing the AutoCAD workplace. Using AutoCAD 360 in the cloud provides limitless opportunities to make your designs totally portable and use technology that you may not have considered before.

This lab will walk students through an introduction to some advanced AutoLISP concepts and practices. Students will get a taste of reactors, VBA-style programming in AutoLISP, and advanced function and processes.

Over the past year, we have seen tremendous shifts in practice and process, as digital collaboration has become a necessity and cloud workflows have become the norm. Autodesk is accelerating innovation with AutoCAD to help you adapt and achieve better outcomes faster. Join us to learn about the power of technology platforms and how the future of CAD can help you unlock the new possible through greater automation, better efficiency, and improved insights.

The desert sun blasts down on the pair of gunslingers. A tumbleweed rolls by. Somewhere in the distance, a hawk screams. No one knows why a hawk is inside the building, but it’s Vegas, so no one bats an eye. The men square off in the crisp climate-controlled air of The Venetian. Their fingers poised over their mouses and keyboards, ready to let loose with a salvo of clicks and command line inputs to see who has the hottest AutoCAD tip in town. With so many drawing variables at play, it’s impossible to say who will share the most commanding tip. The only guarantee is TheMadCadr and The CAD Geek will present their sharpest-shooting productivity tips, tricks, and techniques for this winner-take-all duel in the desert! Although there will be but a single loser in this duel, there will be many winners who discover new ways to remove tedium and boost productivity on their projects. Cowboy boots, large belt buckles, and 10-gallon hats are optional, but you’re encouraged to pick up what these dudes are putting down.

Are you a glutton for the perfect CAD/BIM standard? Do you lust after other CAD/BIM managers who have the authority to get things done? Do project teams become greedy about their own standards, wrathfully rejecting the standardized and more efficient ways you proudly implement? You need not despair. This class will focus on ways to put yourself into the enviable position of having users who listen to you. Combining more than two decades of CAD, BIM, and IT support and management experience, plus years of working with numerous companies to help support their technical managers and staff, we will discuss the things nobody likes to talk about—the sins CAD and BIM managers commit while doing their jobs. What sins might you be guilty of, and what’s the path to righteousness? Join this session to learn some of the common pitfalls, missteps, and misconceptions that come with the job, and uncover why they happen, and learn how to avoid them.

This roundtable session focuses on the Autodesk® solution for design and implementation of typical overpass bridges. We also evaluate approaches for working with tunnels, retaining walls, and other structural elements that are common to road, rail, and highway projects. Attendees can learn how these structures can be initially located by the roadway engineer in the context of the road or rail model, further designed and detailed by the structural engineer, and finally used by the contractor for construction planning. Key to this workflow is the ability for all project participants including civil, structural, contractors, and owners to work in a coordinated way with the goal of reducing production cost, compressing project timeline, mitigating risk and improving the overall quality of the end product. This session has a live walk-through of the process, primarily using a combination of AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, the Civil 3D Bridge Module, and Revit® Structure software.

Building owners want to take rich data collected from BIM and put it directly to work managing space, assets, and maintenance. AEC professionals want to deliver their carefully-developed BIM data in a form that is immediately useful for building operations. Yet discussions around commissioning this information for lifecycle use can sound complex and daunting. This session demystifies BIM Execution Planning for the most important “BIM to FM” use cases – namely managing space and maintenance. The session walks through real world workflows, entities and object properties needed for professional facilities management. Demonstration sequences illustrate how to extend the usability of AutoCAD drawings and Revit models designed for construction, to easily flow hundreds of spaces and assets to FM management software, and begin getting immediate results.

The cost of a project is directly related to the schedule. How many work hours are required for each step? How will design changes and delays impact the cost? Meanwhile, there is continued pressure to consolidate schedules from owners and general contractors. This workshop will explore how estimating and scheduling can be further integrated within your project team to ensure costs are accurate, while capitalizing on the latest 5D BIM, project controls, risk analysis, and CPM methods. Additionally, we will present a case study for logistics tracking using equipment sets on various platforms assisted by Dynamo. We will show design changes in the comparison modes. And we will discuss automated location-based takeoffs and customized reporting templates. Related software involved in this presentation are Revit software, AutoCAD software, Dynamo, BIM 360 Glue software, BIM 360 Field software, Navisworks software, VICO, Assemble Systems, MSP, Primavera `P6, and Rhino.

Our demonstration will focus on 3ds Max and its powerful extendability through scripts and plugins. Many 3D artists use both for bespoke workflows. With Maxscript knowledge, an artist has the ability to write useful tools to help with simple tasks. Writing bespoke C++ plugins, SiNi employs the full power of multi-threaded CPU processing, meaning our tools are many times more efficient and powerful that Maxscript. We will demonstrate how SiNi Software's suite of tools assist artists at every stage of production in all industries and types of work. As an independent Authorised Autodesk developer, we support many leading third-party renderers, plugins and file formats in 3ds Max, simplifying time-consuming tasks to a few clicks. Finally, we will discuss issues with multi-software workflows, (Revit, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Maya, Unreal), and software ideas to simplify the pipeline.

So you think you know all there is to know about AutoCAD software? Are you ready to put that to the test? Attend this session to test your knowledge of AutoCAD and determine if you really are the best user in the room. When you're right, you win a prize; when you're wrong, you win the correct answer via demonstration. We challenge you to engage in this AutoCAD trivia game for bragging rights and prizes. If you attended last year, that was just practice!

Ever wish that AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software could create a dynamically linked subgrade surface while you build and modify your finish ground surface? What is a dynamic differential triangulated irregular network (TIN) surface? It is that magical TIN surface we have all wished there was an easier way to build. It can represent many different types of surfaces. It can be used to build a surface that represents the top of an aquifer or substrate from borehole data. It can be used to build a topsoil stripping surface for a business site design project. Best of all, it can be used to quickly build a multilevel subgrade and/or sub-base surface that is dynamically linked to your parking lot finish ground surface. It is so simple that you will leave this class by asking yourself, Why have I not used this feature before now?

This class will take attendees on a journey through a project’s lifecycle, and highlight different projects from across the country, applying collaborative model-based tools to everyday processes. Attendees will learn how McCarthy is using Assemble Systems and the BIM 360 integration through different stages of a project, and how they integrate with company processes. The class will gain an understanding of current efficiencies and challenges faced when implementing these new tools in their current state, as well as obtain a road map for the future. Attendees will understand various use case scenarios, from progressive design-build application and continuous-cost modeling during a project’s preconstruction stage through different applications of the platforms by McCarthy’s operations teams during the construction phase.

In this class, we will introduce you to the 7 specialized toolsets available to AutoCAD 2019 subscribers. Learn what toolsets are, and how their intelligent features can complement the AutoCAD design process by helping users work faster and become more efficient. We will lead you through some workflows using toolset features that can increase productivity and enhance your designs.

During our daily office routines, we must accomplish several repetitive and time-consuming tasks to meet client requirements and international standards. Some of these tasks are easy to automate; others seem limited by desktop computing resources and require human intervention. With the evolution of machine learning and introduction of the Forge Design Automation API, EMDC Group was able to automate some of those processes, thus saving tremendous amounts of time and improving our team's efficiency. This class aims to present a sample of what we've built in house to give attendees an idea about the tasks that can nowadays be automated and the potential that artificial intelligence and cloud computing introduce into the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

You’ve been using AutoCAD software to produce your drawings for some time and you have a huge library of details. Now that you’re moving to Revit software, what happens to all these details? You don’t what to just trash them, and you don’t want to re-create them in Revit. In this class, we'll look at the next step in your transition to Revit. We'll see how you can still use details right in your Revit projects, straight from AutoCAD. We’ll look at how we can bring those existing details into Revit and have them be referenced as correct in our projects, as if they were created there. We’ll even look at how to Revit-ize your AutoCAD details to start building a true Revit detail library. So, if not being able to use your details is holding you back from switching to Revit, or you're just not sure how to do it, don’t let this stop you. You don’t have to throw them out—they’re still good.

After passing the more than 11 million registered users mark, AutoCAD 360 (formerly AutoCAD��® WS) continues to revolutionize the industry. AutoCAD 360 provides users with a powerful collaboration platform on both web and mobile to design, edit, and share their drawings anytime, anywhere. See how you can keep all your team in sync with the latest copy of a drawing using AutoCAD 360, and every change made by each teammate is immediately synchronized with all other team members. Take advantage of the design feed on desktop, web, and mobile to communicate and track issues between the site and the office. Capitalize on all that web and mobile has to offer including geolocation, camera, real-time collaboration, and more. Want to get more out of AutoCAD 360? Come and check out our AutoCAD 360 Pro plans. Join us and learn how AutoCAD 360 can improve your workflow and save you both time and money. The class walks you through some of the exciting new AutoCAD 360 2.0 features on the web and mobile apps.

AutoCAD software’s COM automation API used for Microsoft VBA isn’t the only COM API that is exposed for use with AutoCAD software. There are 4 lesser-known COM APIs that have been lost in time; they were designed to automate some of the CAD management-related tasks in the AutoCAD drawing environment. The COM APIs that we will cover during this session enable you to create a transmittal package, work with sheet sets, define custom-CAD-standards plug-ins, and link objects to database records. This session will provide an overview of each API and will give you lots of sample code to take back for experimentation.

AutoCAD software can be extended in a number of ways, but many users are unsure of where or how to get started. In this lab, you learn to create custom desktop icons, modify the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar, create and modify command aliases that can be used to start commands, record and play back action macros, and define tools and tool palettes to reduce repetitive drawing tasks. This lab gives you a solid foundation in customizing AutoCAD so you can be more productive when you return to your office.

This is the #1 geek-out event for Autodesk, Inc., API programmers. Our panel of hardcore ObjectARX API and AutoCAD .NET API experts from the AutoCAD Development Team is ready to answer your programming questions. If you're writing plug-ins for AutoCAD software, this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs you work with, as well as your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.