Grading parking lots incorporates complex design concepts and creative use of Civil 3D tools. Feature lines have always been the reliable standard, but recent additions to corridors make their inclusion a must. Through a combination of new features and solid workflows, we can now produce a faster, more dynamic process while still maintaining flexibility. We'll begin this class with a story of how Kimley-Horn and Autodesk collaborated to improve site design by improving how curbs are built using corridors. The ability to now create dozens of baselines and regions in a few clicks (along with other recent new features and conditional subassemblies) makes for a much faster workflow. We'll also give guidance on when to use corridors, feature lines, or both. We believe corridors for parking lot grading has finally arrived! Join John Armendariz and Brian Levendowski, along with Tim Yarris, Civil 3D product manager, to learn about these new tools, and how to apply them to your projects.

Keeping your projects on schedule, addressing issues promptly, and staying within budget is a significant challenge. This session will explore our strategies and tools for effectively achieving these project goals—from the design phase to field installation.

GEA is constantly working with its Mission 26 to improve customer experience and increase efficiency and quality. Dive into a compelling case study where Factory Design Utilities software, part of the Inventor and iLogic capabilities, radically transformed factory design from the sales stage to engineering / project execution and beyond! This course will explore GEA's groundbreaking transition to Factory Design Utilities, which reduced engineering time by up to 80% and simplified complex plant layouts. Discover the transformative approach that synchronized 2D and 3D designs, significantly benefiting sales and engineering processes, and delivering profound accuracy improvements. Join us to explore this shift as we explore how using Factory Design Utilities can help companies win more business, reduce design iterations, allocate time to critical tasks, manage more projects more efficiently, and ultimately improve overall factory design productivity and profitability.

In the design process of highway projects, applying building information modeling (BIM) technology, using parametric design methods, and delivering complete project models is a challenging task. During the design process, issues such as efficient design workflow, data exchange, model segmentation, WBS info, and digital delivery need to be addressed. With parametric design tools like Dynamo software, engineers can automatically create models and complete property assignments based on project requirements, significantly reducing repetitive work and allowing them to focus more on the design itself. This case study will show you the complete parametric design workflow and data exchange for this highway expansion project, with a focus on parametric modeling using Dynamo and Python. Through parametric modeling via programming, stakeholders can achieve efficiency gains of two to three times compared to manual modeling methods for roadbeds, pavements, bridges, and tunnels.

This session will delve deep into BIG's workflow with D5 Render, discovering how BIG harnesses this AI-powered tool to enhance architectural design processes. You will also gain exclusive insights into AI integration and visualization trends from Jens Majdal Kaarsholm, director of design technology at BIG. Come to learn firsthand how these advancements drive design progress, streamline workflows, and ignite fresh creative possibilities. Whether you're an experienced industry professional or an enthusiastic newcomer, this session promises to deliver invaluable insights into powerful architectural methodologies at the forefront of innovation.

Join us on an enlightening journey as Khatib & Alami explore the boundless potential of integrating building information modeling (BIM) with geographic information system (GIS). The collaboration between Autodesk and Esri has streamlined the integration process, and delivered tailored solutions to meet the evolving needs of global enterprises. Throughout this engaging session, participants will gain invaluable insights into optimizing workflows and the numerous use cases that open up once the floodgates of data interoperability are open. We'll equip you with the best strategies to use the combined power of BIM for buildings and infrastructures and GIS for districts and cities. Our focus on seamless integration of BIM and GIS data has yielded substantial benefits, facilitating effective communication and innovative applications for stakeholders throughout the spectrum of operations and asset management, and ensuring designs alignment with site conditions.

DLR Group anticipates that more than 80% of its workforce will need upskilling in the next two years. Sound familiar? During this session, DLR Group will present its approach to learning and development, featuring a comprehensive skills matrix that aligns skill levels—both technical and other critical ones—with specific tasks and functions performed. DLR Group will illustrate its journey that began four years ago with new-hire skill assessments and evolved into a program that ensures all employees, regardless of their roles or departments, possess essential skills and customized career paths. Learn how DLR Group used Power BI, along with learning management tools such as Pinnacle Series and KnowledgeSmart by Eagle Point Software, to build a program that supports its key focus areas and future business needs. Leave with ways you can help your firm facilitate mentorship opportunities, identify potential software cost savings, improve talent recruitment, and impact overall employee satisfaction.

Curious about the road ahead for AutoCAD software? Join Autodesk product managers and leaders for AutoCAD to learn about new features and functionality supporting the capabilities and workflows you need to drive more-efficient and more-collaborative projects. Discover how Autodesk is incorporating Autodesk AI into AutoCAD to elevate your design and drafting capabilities. Learn about the strategic insights and decisions driving development directions. Peer into the future of the product you use every day, and engage with Autodesk to help shape that product to better meet your needs and the needs of your company, project teams, and clients.

AutoCAD web and mobile apps redefine the design experience by providing an integrated, connected ecosystem for design and collaboration. The main objective of this session is to demonstrate how AutoCAD web and mobile apps can revolutionize the way we work on DWG files, making the process more efficient and collaborative. In this class, we will explore the collaborative features of AutoCAD web and mobile apps, and demonstrate them through real-world workflows.

In this class, a panel of Autodesk experts will share productivity tips and tricks, and answer audience questions about real-time challenges. Attend this class for expert AutoCAD advice. The class will start with a brief presentation to introduce the support organization, the speakers, and the current customer support options. This is a real-time question-and-answer session, so please come prepared with questions about AutoCAD software. A computer will be in the class running AutoCAD 2025 software for attendees who need to demonstrate their issues. Panel experts will include members of the Technical Support, Quality Assurance, and Licensing teams.

Energy efficiency, safety, and technology integration are fundamental aspects in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) design and analysis. Explore how Autodesk and Ansys are advancing innovation in AEC through highly effective tools that streamline the application of powerful modeling and simulation technologies. By integrating AutoCAD and Revit with Ansys's simulation offerings, complex simulations are accelerated and simplified. Advancements in numerical simulation—like graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration and new computational codes—boost computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and electromagnetic (EM) analyses, enabling more-detailed simulations and full-field EM solutions. We'll look at how these integrated solutions improve domain-specific applications, including HVAC system optimization, atmospheric modeling, indoor air-quality assessments, and 5G/6G channel predictions, showcasing the benefits of the Autodesk and Ansys collaboration for accuracy and interoperability in AEC and health and safety.

Maintaining drawing accuracy is critical to architecture, engineering, and construction designs. However, due to the complexity of collaboration, encountering inaccuracies is almost inevitable. Research indicates that more than 80% of customers have encountered inaccuracies within drawing elements. If not addressed, these inaccuracies could lead to additional time spent on corrections, or even costly overruns if ignored. AutoCAD software and its associated applications offer batch tools to assist customers in rectifying errors individually or in bulk. This guide will offer a detailed review of the current drawing cleanup tools, outlining their advantages and drawbacks. Additionally, we'll explore possibilities for early-stage error identification to prevent wide proliferation of inaccuracies.

Join us to learn about AutoCAD software's AI features that make your drafting more efficient than ever: Smart Blocks, Markup Import, and Markup Assist. We'll start by covering Markup Import and Markup Assist, the workflow that uses AI to interpret and apply feedback from marked-up PDFs directly into your AutoCAD drawings. You'll learn how Markup Import and Markup Assist can enhance collaboration, drastically reduce the time it takes to incorporate feedback, and reduce errors in your design workflow. Then we'll review Smart Blocks, a suite of AI tools designed to streamline your drafting and drawing cleanup processes. We'll cover Block Placement, Block Replacement, Block Search and Convert, and Object Detection—all of which use AI to help you find, create, and use your blocks. We'll end the session with an opportunity to share ideas on how else AutoCAD might use AI to increase productivity, enhance collaboration, and improve your drafting and documentation workflows.

AutoCAD software unlocks intelligent and connected design collaboration across people, devices, and platforms that will improve design efficiency and ease management of design projects. Learn how you can unlock this experience for you and your team by connecting the best of Autodesk Docs—the cloud-based document management and common data environment—with AutoCAD.

Collaboration between software developers and practitioners is necessary and a key driver of success in today's fast-paced technological landscape. This panel discussion will explore this intricate relationship, offering valuable insights and strategies for a structured collaboration loop. At its core, this method serves as a conduit, directing real-world project feedback into the development process. This exchange enriches development and significantly enhances software solutions' relevance and usability, making them more effective tools for the end users. The feedback is not just valuable; it's transformative. This panel aims to share the experience of the engagement framework involving the stakeholders during the development cycle from a multifaced perspective. It also aims to learn how the process benefits from the collective wisdom of end users, making it a truly inclusive and participatory approach by fostering a community culture for software solutions.

Jacobs, one of the world's leading design and consulting services firms, will share how a global design firm is using simulation technology to maximize the profitability by increasing throughput while decreasing operating expenses. Learn about the latest lean operating principles and techniques as well as innovative design and analysis tools to design an optimized solution customized for any specific process. Solutions include traditional design deliverables such as site plans and specs, as well as details about how the process needs to function, such as staffing plans and production schedules. Simulation of the operation or process provides a platform to show the recommended solution in action with a full set of metrics to prove the value of the entire solution quantitatively. These techniques can be applied to any industry or process where materials or people move through time and space. Join us to learn how to extract significant value through work process optimization.

Embark on an insightful journey into the do's and don'ts of publishing on Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), covering the entire process from Docs to Design Collaboration to Model Coordination. From creating and managing project documentation to collaborating with design teams and coordinating models effectively, we'll cover it all. You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the ACC publishing workflow, including the importance of Publish Sets in organizing and managing your project data. Whether you're a seasoned ACC user or new to the platform, this session is designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to optimize your publishing efforts on ACC. By the end of the session, you'll have a clear roadmap for success in ACC publishing, equipped with actionable strategies to streamline your workflow, enhance collaboration, and ensure the integrity of your project data. Don't miss this opportunity to master ACC publishing and elevate your design projects.

Join Mika Kazassoglou—an 18-year-old high school student from Liverpool, England—in exploring the use of software such as Autodesk Fusion, Revit, Autodesk CFD, and Dynamo to craft a unique solution for a local housing project. This session will offer a glimpse into his growth as a young, aspiring engineer, showcasing how he used these powerful tools to hone his skills. His project draws inspiration from sustainable design principles, incorporating elements from Passive House methodology to tackle energy efficiency and elevate living standards. He'll showcase the intricacies of his design process, looking at how Dynamo facilitated the creation of a distinctive roof model and how CFD analysis was used to assess its performance. Above all, this session will serve as a testament to the transformative potential of technically driven education, supported by Autodesk. It's a narrative of learning from mistakes, refining skills, and, ultimately, evolving into a more adept engineer.

As urban areas expand, the challenge is clear: evolve into sustainable and inclusive environments or risk growing disparities and instability. Many of the challenges we are trying to overcome are inherently spatial, so we must first understand their immediate surroundings in order to bring solutions to the table. Urban & Infrastructure projects should be able to collect and manage data to identify needs and prioritize them. Through the integration of BIM and GIS, we can adopt a geographic and holistic approach to overcome the challenges ahead of us by enabling the project to be visualized and assessed in that real-world context allowing professionals to enhance project understanding. In this talk, you will learn how to implement GIS (Geographic Information Systems) interoperability with BIM (Building Information Modeling) in early-stage planning to create inclusive and welcoming cities.

Have you thought about using Autodesk Construction Cloud to host Civil 3D files, but don't know if it works? Are you using Civil 3D and Autodesk Construction Cloud and are having difficulties? Come and see how Parsons has implemented Civil 3D and Autodesk Construction Cloud on an infrastructure project. We will show you how to take files and data shortcuts from ProjectWise and put them up on Autodesk Construction Cloud. Then, we'll give you the good, the bad, and the ugly on what we did. But most importantly, you will walk away knowing how to do it the right way.