Assemblies figure prominently in the building of Civil 3D corridors. They provide the basic information that can be used in many ways as your design takes shape. There is the potential for a lot of data, and since wrangling that data later could get confusing, having a strategy to manage the building blocks of corridors can make the long-term maintenance pay off. Save time and effort by using processes that standardize your corridor assemblies.

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.

This is a significant project being undertaken in Southeast Asia, and contains many road crossovers, 15 stations and stockyards, as well as a large number of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels. The development of this project will showcase the contractor’s investment in the ability to develop workflows that can be automated and scaled from various resources to generate the solutions for fast review for construction and auditing for the independent reviewer and the government body. This class will cover a quick review of the project and then dive into the consultants, support, and standards that provided automation workflows to deliver outcomes and deliverables. We will look at a Dynamo, Revit software, BIM 360 software, InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, and Navisworks, in an ecosystem that was developed to meet the transport bodies’ requirements. This project is ongoing, and we will look at the works and milestones delivered to date.

The Las Vegas Stadium will provide a world-class home for the NFL Raiders upon the team’s relocation in 2020. The Mortenson|McCarthy joint venture team is currently building the $1.9 billion domed stadium. To overcome the aggressive schedule, scale and complexity the project is supported by a culture that fosters an innovative approach to implementing advanced technology, processes and lean construction methodology. In this session Joel Jacobson, and his 3+ years of managing Drone deployment on large-scale Mortenson projects, will share his unique approach to partnering with industry experts such as Dustin Williams of FlywheelAEC to deliver enhanced project awareness and improved communication across the entire Las Vegas Stadium project team. Joel and Dustin will share and discuss best practices, future outlook observed within the industry, and will demonstrate the lessons learned and data visualizations produced as a result of effective planning and coordination.

See a demonstration of how the Connector for ArcGIS can save time migrating geographic information system (GIS) data from an Esri ArcGIS Portal into InfraWorks software and Civil 3D software for use in infrastructure workflows. See how the GIS data can be modified and published back to an ArcGIS Portal, and learn how to export this data to an external GIS database. Join Autodesk Expert Elite member John Mayo and Autodesk Product Manager Ramesh Sridharan as they show how this new technology can save time working with GIS data in Autodesk products.

Sure, AutoCAD Civil 3D software comes with a lot of parts for utility modeling, but what if you have a unique situation or your municipality uses a specific part that doesn't ship with the product? Civil 3D comes with tools to assist you in quickly creating that new part and getting back to design instead of spending hours and hours just trying to figure out what a work plane is in Part Builder and what you do with it.

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.

Firms spend thousands on design technology, yet few come close to hitting the target once that technology is put into production. End users often struggle with utilizing the tools provided to them as much as those tasked with supporting the tools do with staying ahead of a constant funnel of questions—or worse, no questions at all. In the end, Band-Aids are placed on a long list of symptoms with little resolution to the underlying problems that are holding your team back. This class will focus on strategies for establishing dialog between those tasked with making your selected design-technology work, and those affected by its use within your organization. By understanding the issues limiting the success of the tools you use for design, contextualized targets may be established and a plan for how to progress toward the bull’s eye of those targets may be set.

With the introduction of enterprise cloud work sharing in InfraWorks 2019 software, we will explore how BIM 360 software is changing the way engineering teams are collaborating on infrastructure projects. This session will explore workflows and tools that enable engineering teams to design, share, and collaborate. We'll take a closer look at the InfraWorks bridge design workflows, how to integrate applications that are not cloud ready, and how to understand the added value of cloud technologies.

Tired of seeing an AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software grading demonstration of a rectangular building pad? In this class, you will learn how to use the Civil 3D grading tools to build 10 common things that are great practical applications for most grading designs. We will look at walls, driveways, berms, swales, and many others things. We'll also look at how to combine these smaller designs into one large final design.

We will explore the underutilized, not so well known, and very powerful subassemblies included with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 software. First we must understand that there is nothing generic about Generic Subassemblies; these powerful tools can link our concepts to our finished design. Next we will consider multiple scenarios—if the design is to be complete, then we will provide some conditions for success, using Horizontal and Vertical Conditional Subassemblies to create complex corridors while limiting the amount of overall assemblies and providing a better design.

Getting accurate quantities doesn't start when you build a material list; it starts at the creation of the corridor assembly. This being said, using subassemblies that don’t depict the true build may yield quantities that are inaccurate. By using Subassembly Composer software, the user can construct a subassembly that will represent truly how the corridor will be built in the field. With the ability to add point, link, and shape codes to the subassembly, the end user can take full advantage of using pay items. Pay items will not only calculate an accurate quantity but can also categorize the quantity into subcategories. This class will walk the user through the process of creating subassemblies with Enumerations, Switches, and Decisions. Then you'll apply codes to the points, links, and shapes of the subassembly for use with the pay items in AutoCAD Civil 3D's code sets.

This class will show several tools from Autodesk, Inc.’s, toolbox for site grading. These tools will help with many types of tasks surface design, planning, and layout. They will save you time and money and give you a powerful visual so everyone can understand the obstacles and outcomes of site grading design. For an example, we will show you how to effectively link your finished ground surface to a sub grade surface so that it updates simultaneously. This class will cover many everyday tasks, and provide tips to help you accomplish them more efficiently and effectively. When finished with this class you will be able to grab a tool out of your toolbox, look at it, and think to yourself “I know I can use this tool for this task why wouldn’t it also work for this task in front of me?”

Come see how the Project Team is capitalizing on multiple Autodesk, Inc., tools and products—such as Revit software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Navisworks software—to bring together all industry-specific disciplines on this tunnel extension project in the heart of Los Angeles.

Join us as we take a beginner's look at the Subassembly Composer software. We'll create some basic-to-advanced subassemblies here in the hands-on lab. We'll go from creating the PKT files to importing them into AutoCAD Civil 3D software to applying them to our corridor. This class is ideal for those in the transportation industry who need just a bit more than the tools that AutoCAD Civil 3D has to offer. We'll explore the new software features that make 2017 Subassembly Composer part of your project workflows. So, whether you've tried the software for yourself or never even heard of it before, this class is one you won't want to miss.

ObjectARX technology is the premier API (application programming interface) that is supported by AutoCAD software, AutoCAD for Mac software, and the industry-specific AutoCAD software systems. If you need to access APIs that aren't exposed through AutoLISP programming language, if you want to create applications that are optimized for large data sets, or if you need to build efficient applications for Windows and Mac OS, ObjectARX technology may be the most effective API for you. This lecture will help you understand the basics of ObjectARX technology. We will discuss which development tools you need, how to interact with AutoCAD software, and how to create a very simple 'Hello World-esque' project. ObjectARX technology utilizes the C++ programming language, but this session does not require that you know C++. Prior AutoCAD software programming experience with AutoLISP programming language or Microsoft .NET is highly recommended. The second session of this series is a hands-on lab.

With Subassembly Composer for AutoCAD Civil 3D software, users build custom subassemblies to drive their corridor models to the next level. But what about creating subassemblies that are useful across many projects? In this class we will demonstrate how to successfully parameterize a custom subassembly, complete with targets. We will also explore a 4-sided example that Sundt Construction, Inc., has found very useful in corridor modeling.

The BIM 360 cloud collaboration services are enabling teams to work within an enriched review workflow and allowing them to evaluate and validate their design through clash reporting and spatial coordination exercises which allow teams to find, assign and track issues instantaneously with unprecedented access. We will explore the evolving possibilities provided by these Autodesk services to enhance a workflow traditionally done through 2D digital files or hardcopies of progress sets in a detached workflow. Focused on the interoperability between BIM360, Revit, Civil3D and Navisworks, we will demonstrate their applications and best practices, discovered through large project use, which enables the team to become 100% digital using the web interface or mobile applications. We will highlight solutions for transitioning a team into BIM 360 to conduct reviews, and discuss some of the common challenges encountered during this migration.

AutoLISP programming language has been around for decades, yet there are many functions that often go undiscovered or forgotten by veteran AutoLISP programmers. While there are hundreds of AutoLISP programming language functions (thousands, if you count ActiveX), this class will focus on 21 functions that new developers often overlook and that veteran programmers often forget. All of the functions fit into 1 of several different themes, including function execution, object creation and manipulation, and error handling. We will also discuss loading LISP files, accessing variable values, and configuring contextual help.