Establishing an effective intelligent model coordination process with properly shared or related coordinates is essential to successful collaboration across multiple disciplines and distributed work teams. Historically, intelligent model coordination between AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and Revit®-based software has been one of those ongoing challenges for effective BIM collaboration. In this class, you gain insight from both civil and architectural BIM experts about the latest and most efficient workflows and utilities that make true BIM coordination between Civil 3D and Revit software easier than ever before. Learn best practices for coordinating between Civil 3D 2014 and Revit 2014 with the new BIM Coordinator tool.

In the real world, a single program just can’t do it all when it comes to sketching, massing models, final design, animation, and rendering of architectural models. This class will discuss the workflow for using multiple Autodesk products in a production environment. Discover the ins and outs of this workflow, starting with an AutoCAD sketch, going to a FormIt massing model, and on to Revit software for final design—then using 3ds Max 2019 software and Arnold to render the final animation. Learn methods for creating models in FormIt and discover how it affects working with Revit downstream. Review the Revit-to-3ds Max linking process and how to render photo-quality images. Use Physical Materials and the Sun Positioner to simulate outdoor lighting. Learn photographic techniques and composition to create compelling images. Utilize the Physical Camera controls to adjust scene exposure and depth of field. Get ahead of the competition by learning how to create your renderings using photographic composition in a streamlined workflow.

Return on investment in the AutoCAD software platform is all about saving picks and clicks, and this class is all about exposing the super-secret tools in the AutoCAD platform. The biggest issue is that you don't know what you're missing from release to release unless someone exposes these little secrets. In this class we provide a 1-stop-shopping document to help you remember these secrets and refer back to them. Updated from last year, this class includes new tools and uncovers AutoCAD 2015 software secrets. Your repetitive steps and tasks won't know what hit them.

When switching to Revit software using MEP Fabrication Parts, one of the first hurdles you need to cross is understanding how to get services and service templates configured in MEP Fabrication Parts. Many companies are making the transition to MEP Fabrication Parts from AutoCAD and Revit system family routing workflows. Knowing how to navigate the services in MEP Fabrication Parts is key. You will be surprised by how little customization is required to get a basic service to function correctly in Revit. Many of the settings that Fabrication CADmep software and Fabrication ESTmep software require are not necessarily required when using these services in Revit. We will cover how to deal with issues of connectivity and routing while in Revit and what changes to the database will improve routing and product selection.

Your drawings contain a potential gold mine of information. But are you getting the most out of them? In this class, you'll learn to dig deep into your drawings using the powerful Data Extraction tool. You'll learn how to easily extract golden nuggets of data, and then easily reuse that data in a variety of ways. Together, we'll build automated Index to Drawings sheets and coordinate tables. We'll even combine AutoCAD data and Microsoft Excel data to unleash the power of your AutoCAD DWG™ files.

With the introduction of the DWG™ Compare feature in AutoCAD 2019 software, collaboration with other designers becomes much easier. In this class, we will use real-world examples to tell a story about the pain of current collaboration workflow and how DWG Compare can help. We will also introduce and demonstrate Shared View and the AutoCAD web app in this collaboration story.

Your drawings contain a potential gold mine of information. But are you getting the most out of them? In this class, you'll learn to dig deep into your drawings using the powerful Data Extraction tool. You'll learn how to easily extract golden nuggets of data, and then easily reuse that data in a variety of ways. Together, we'll build automated Index to Drawings sheets and coordinate tables. We'll even combine AutoCAD data and Microsoft Excel data to unleash the power of your AutoCAD DWG™ files.

Have you ever been frustrated by code that is difficult to read or understand (including your own!)? Have you spent hours wading through hundreds of lines of code to fix a bug? Or have you had a hard time changing your code because you're afraid you'll introduce some new bug? If you write code, you've probably written your share of bad code—we know we have! In this class, you'll learn important tips on how to elevate your coding skills to the next level. We'll explore things like the importance of naming, what functions and classes should do, why comments are (mostly) evil, and how proper formatting is a critical part of writing clean code. You'll learn about the important skill of refactoring your code, and how unit tests can help you safely refactor. Whatever language you're programming in, and whatever Autodesk product you focus on, you will learn something valuable in this class.

Some CAD managers are challenged with balancing their “real work” (as a billable employee) with their CAD management responsibilities (often considered nonbillable time). This can be a daunting and thankless assignment. Billable work and deadlines consume your workday, so CAD management gets squeezed in between projects, during lunches, or after hours. But it’s possible to use some simple (and a few not-so-simple) AutoLISP tricks to make AutoCAD software do some of the heavier or more tedious CAD management tasks, so you can get back to your work (and your life). Like many tools, AutoLISP can be intimidating, frustrating, dangerous, and powerful all at the same time. But as with any tool, understanding how it works and how to work it makes a huge difference. In this session, we’ll look at some real-world scenarios, a number of examples, and a variety of resources available to use back at your company.

This class covers the use of AutoCAD software and the cloud (the Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform), utilizing the AutoCAD 360 cloud-based app (formerly known as the AutoCAD WS app). We will examine how we can use AutoCAD 360 services and products to expand away from the traditional desktop when you use the latest tablet and smartphone technology to collaborate your AutoCAD software designs on the building site and the factory floor, as well as in the field. We will also touch on some effective practices, workarounds, shortcuts, limitations, and advantages. We will show you examples that use AutoCAD 360 services and products, and we'll demonstrate how new technologies are revolutionizing the AutoCAD software workplace.

Since AutoCAD 2015 software, a custom document window can be added into AutoCAD, similar to AutoCAD software’s “New” window (AutoCAD 2015) and “Start” window (AutoCAD 2016 and later). AutoCAD customization programmers can enhance AutoCAD users’ experiences by using this custom document window to provide rich information that might be needed when a user is working with AutoCAD. This class will demonstrate a small framework that creates an empty custom document window in AutoCAD, which makes it possible to develop independent UI components to show various types of information and plug these UI components into the custom document window at design time, or at runtime dynamically.

Mechanically-stabilized earth (MSE) walls are inherently complex shapes; smoothly curving in all 3 dimensions while the structure changes shape. Modeling complex geometry for quantity takeoff, automated machine guidance (AMG), and coordination can be accomplished using AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software with or without the use of Subassembly Composer (SAC). In this advanced class, we create an MSE wall that is based on construction documents. We streamline stepped profile creation, removing a data input bottleneck. We also demonstrate 2 methods for creating MSE wall assemblies and the advantages and disadvantages of using SAC. Moving onto creating the corridor itself, we discuss issues of representing profile steps and how Civil 3D can properly represent necessary detail for MSE walls. After creating the model, we briefly show quantification, visualization, and coordination. All of these steps lead up to exporting the model for AMG to enhance field productivity. At the end of this class a user who knows Civil 3D will be able to easily create a 3D MSE wall. Although this class focuses specifically on MSE walls, these same techniques can be used for any linear structure.

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.

Collaboration and communication with our peers for a project is important today than past. In order to improve our efficiency, we need smart tools to use. Autodesk Design, Manufacturing and Cloud tools help us to do our collaboration in a better way with our peers. In this class, we will learn the answer of how, why and when questions.

Your customers want a mobile app for your Forge data, but is complex and time consuming.This class will show you how easy it is to build a mobile app with a customized UI experience that works offline with your Forge data.We will use React Native to build the native mobile part and connect it with the headless version of the Forge viewer and Forge API.Intermediate web development experience required. (Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

Autodesk Forge is an on-demand web services platform. That means you need to be online to connect to the Autodesk servers to use the various Forge APIs. However, the Autodesk Forge Viewer can work with multiple online, as well as offline sources. There are times where an offline workflow is preferable because of lack of connectivity, security concerns, or performance. In this lecture, we will explore how to optimally use the Forge Viewer in an offline mode, and how to cache and synchronize the data with the server for Mobile and Web applications requiring temporary offline mode capabilities.

Revit Shared Coordinates are essential for setting up a project’s real-world location and coordinating the alignment of models linked between consultants. With the adoption of BIM (Building Information Modeling) in the field, digital setting out of projects is becoming more prevalent—and getting the coordinates right is increasingly critical. However, a project’s setup is usually done only once at the beginning by one person, so there are few opportunities to learn it. This makes understanding and getting it right a bit of a dark art. Drawing on years of experience working with projects in the real world, this session will cover the theory of shared coordinates, reveal the system behind the curtain, and show the application with a real-world example. Whether you’re trying to get your model to report spot coordinates, or you just want to know how to align that structural model with yours because origin-to-origin isn’t working, this class will show you how it’s done right.

AutoCAD content is designed to be reused in the current drawing or other drawings. The most difficult task concerning reusing content is managing and organizing that content. AutoCAD software comes with a couple of tools that assist in reusing content from the local driver or a network location: DesignCenter and Tool Palettes. In this session, we will look at the functionality of DesignCenter and Tool Palettes and how these tools help organize and reuse drawings, hatches, and other reusable content.