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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)
Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.
23p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Digital Project Delivery Using the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Forma Design Collaboration
Go from plan and design through construction to operations using the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Forma Design Collaboration software. This class will walk through a theoretical project touching on several software systems within the AEC Collection, including Civil 3D, InfraWorks, Navisworks, and Revit software. The project will demonstrate the tools, features, and new enhancements within Autodesk Forma. In this session, we will touch on each project phase and how the tools in the AEC Collection and Autodesk Forma can help improve project communication, design reviews, and final delivery.
86p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
A Transformational Journey on Rails: Better Outcomes for Passengers
Luxembourg railway owner began its digital transformation journey in 2017, improving quality and efficiency for construction projects through cloud-based project delivery. There are many main subjects for asset management, including maintenance building, earthworks platform, permanent way, overhead lines, signaling, and telecommunications. One specific aspect to the country is to have external project design offices and many subcontractors, using multidisciplinary design management based on Autodesk technologies, including Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, InfraWorks, and Forma Design Collaborationducts. The geographical aspect is taken into consideration through connected building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS). During this class, you will discover why a common data environment platform and products ecosystem save time and information for the delivery plan, and support supply chains, and how process owner mandates can be imposed on local markets, and what solutions are found to develop a business model dedicated to railway infrastructure.
225p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
How VHB Conquered the Cloud: Redefining Design Collaboration
As a leading engineering firm, VHB aspires to be at the forefront of innovation and technology. We achieve this goal by using Autodesk Forma, a cloud-based storage solution, to improve our design process. Autodesk Forma is not just a tool for construction services, Forma Design Collaboration software in Autodesk Forma can be used to boost Civil 3D and Revit performance by reducing open times, preventing crashes, and maintaining data quality. As the design process grows more complex, it requires continuous collaboration with clients, subconsultants, and stakeholders. Autodesk Forma allows essential parties to access, collaborate, and integrate seamlessly throughout the design process, ultimately enhancing outcomes for our clients. The connected workflow creates a more efficient design process, elevating our projects, especially those with integrated services. Collaboration is vital in our dynamic industry, and this session will illustrate how your design teams can use Autodesk Forma throughout the entire design process to increase efficiencies.
New Orleans 2022
Digging Deep with Collaboration for Civil 3D
Join Autodesk product managers responsible for the various components that make up Collaboration for Civil 3D software, including Civil 3D, Desktop Connector, AutoCAD software, and Forma Data Management. We'll review the workflow fundamentals, as well as things to consider when adopting this new solution. Collaboration for Civil 3D is built on rapidly evolving technology, so we'll also provide some insight into future plans with the goal of helping users prepare for the future.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Building Blocks: The Key to Unlocking Efficiency When Optimizing Your Collaboration for Civil 3D Implementation
The concept of building blocks offers a powerful analogy for the evolution of a Collaboration for Civil 3D implementation. It starts with essential building blocks as the foundation, and they are assembled incrementally to create a complex structure. This structured yet adaptable approach enables delivery of value while preparing for future growth, positioning organizations to lead and innovate with resilience in a rapidly evolving Project Delivery landscape. In this session, we’ll discuss how GHD reconfigured its foundational building blocks to create a stable base for adopting new technologies and methodologies, and to foster innovation. We’ll cover topics such as effective cloud data management, fine-tuning existing projects for better performance, and how important technical frameworks and governance are to ensure long-term success. Additionally, we’ll discuss how standardized workflows achieved faster model opening times, reduced infrastructure costs, and enhanced teamwork.
30p
64p
New Orleans 2022
Getting the Most from Collaboration for Civil 3d: Tips and Tricks
Collaboration for Civil 3D software has been around for some time now, and as the civil and infrastructure community has started embracing the technology, we’ll share some useful techniques and best practices for implementing and streamlining project collaboration and connected workflows. This class is for you if you’re a new or an existing user of this technology. We’ll start with a quick overview of the product and its components, and share tips and tricks on the project configuration, migration, and review process.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Building the Foundation for Asset Intelligence Through the Connected Data Environment
Your data is rich with insights—but it takes cross-discipline collaboration to see the entire picture. In this session with Autodesk and the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), we’ll discuss the value of data integration at the system level bringing together design, construction, and asset management. Autodesk and MDT are working collaboratively with Esri, Trimble, and Infotech to develop a connected data environment using workflows and technology. In this session, you’ll learn how MDT is using AASHTOWare Project, Civil 3D software, Trimble Business Center, and Esri technology to develop a lifecycle Project Delivery approach for civil infrastructure projects.
20p
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
ACC for Civil Infrastructure Projects: It's What Highly Productive BIM Coordinators and CAD Managers Crave

This interactive lab will be an accelerator that will teach BIM coordinators and CAD managers how to effectively use Autodesk Forma to manage civil infrastructure projects with modern cloud-based tools. We’ll take an immersive approach to learning: The class will be split up into disciplines, simulating a real project. The disciplines will work together to federate a project model using preprepared files. We’ll start with the basics of recommended file organization in Forma Data Management, set up our coordination space in Modeling, walk through best practices for exporting and coordinating discipline-specific models, run a mock clash-detection meeting, create/organize and report on our Autodesk Forma Issues, and then archive our project simulating a milestone submittal. Many of the default coordination tools in Autodesk Forma are built with vertical construction in mind. But there’s a world of value for horizontal construction as well—you just have to know how to unlock it!

51p
15p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Digital Project Delivery: The Keystone to a Sustainable Built Environment
Sustainable Design is a pipe dream if you cannot accurately predict, model, and monitor your building’s content and energy usage. Without digital project delivery focused on the specific needs of the building end use—not the needs of national or international standards—we cannot even begin to accurately and predictably lower the energy used by and embodied within our built assets. By using products such as Autodesk Forma alongside traditional delivery tools such as Revit and Civil 3D software, the Buro Happold Information Management team are driving Sustainable Design without uttering the word. By breaking BIM down into its constituent parts, we’re able to work with our clients to create a project data standard that takes the guesswork out of designing, building, and operating a building—and feeds the future by ensuring that we have a stock of buildings that can tell us how good our decisions were and if they’re operating as we hoped they would.
33p
New Orleans 2022
Infrastructure Project Delivery with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Autodesk Forma
This course will outline the steps to take your infrastructure project from planning into design, on to construction, and finally to operations. The Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection connected with Autodesk Forma will empower designers, owners, and stakeholders to communicate seamlessly during the entire duration of the project. Key elements include Civil 3D-to-Revit workflows, InfraWorks simulations, bridge workflows, clash detection analysis, and collaboration and model coordination in Autodesk Forma. With Autodesk Forma, we’ll demonstrate how contractors can have access to live design documents and files.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Workflow of InfraWorks, Civil 3D, Revit, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional for Civil Engineering
This class will showcase the power of the 2022 workflow of InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional software for civil engineering. We'll demonstrate how to create building site, platform, and gradings proposition with InfraWorks. We'll use Civil 3D to perform earthworks optimization from InfraWorks data. We'll link retaining walls for complex gradings from Revit to Robot Structural Analysis Professional for reinforcement analysis and detailing. We'll integrate the completed building site model in the real context in InfraWorks, which can be shared and collaborated on in Forma software.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Ditch the Server – All in project management with Forma
Come learn how Civil Engineering firm WSB moved nearly 400 users and over 400 projects from the network to Forma in one year and ditched the server. We'll cover lessons learned along the way and improving file management techniques. How to manage Desktop Connector and Civil 3D and techniques to reduce file management errors and circular references. Learn how to utilize file naming templates to optimize company file management standards. Dive into the user management system and how to optimize managing users, permissions and project templates. Leveraging Bridge to establish connections across projects and clients utilizing Forma. We will finish the course with bringing the entire team together, whether they use a CAD platform or not. Learn how to use the review tools, markups and create issues and leverage quality management tools that keep the team communicating and connected. Are you ready to ditch the server and make the move to the cloud?
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
OpenBIM Workflows at Autodesk: 2025 Edition
openBIM workflows enable interoperability and collaboration among different software applications and stakeholders in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry using neutral, industry-standard formats. These workflows center around Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), an open and neutral data format for BIM. But they also include other formats and technologies such as BCF (BIM collaboration format), bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), and IDS (Information Delivery Specification). As a follow-up to last year’s session, you'll learn about the Autodesk strategy around IFC and openBIM, the newest and future capabilities of Revit software, and other Autodesk AEC products supporting openBIM workflows. We'll also offer some insights for Revit users to optimize their IFC data exchange and quality. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user of Revit and IFC, this session will provide you with valuable insights and guidance to enhance your openBIM workflows and collaboration.
29p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
The Great Data Migration: Conquering the Transition to Autodesk Forma
Join us as we share our journey of migrating our 16-mile transit project from ProjectWise to Autodesk Forma. Executing this switch in a pretty short window was a feat that offered enormous challenges. We'll walk you through our initial assessment of the current workflow and the unexpected insights that shaped our decision. Experience our planning process and the efforts we took to preserve our project’s integrity during and after migration. Meet the team we assembled and learn how their unique perspectives created our success formula. Finally, step into the switchover command center with us as we navigate the communications that turned potential chaos into a seamless transition. This isn't just our story—it’s a road map for your own successful migration adventure.
36p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
BIM on Track: Interdisciplinary Design for Large-Scale Railway Projects
Railway projects include many disciplines: rail superstructure, civil works, tunnels, viaducts, road bridges, culverts, systems, and so on. In large-scale international projects, many parties are involved in the design and construction process. And the integration of all information in Autodesk Forma coming from different tools—such as InfraWorks, Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks Manage, and Twinmotion—enables the full BIM methodology implementation on a railway project. Autodesk tools also allow stakeholders to manage the project in the real geographical context, and to facilitate the production of photorealistic videos and virtual reality (VR) experiences for stakeholder engagement.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Silos to Synergy: Aligning Project Delivery Across Three Firms
Aligning Project Delivery across three engineering firms—spanning 5,000+ staff and major sectors like transportation, water, and buildings—is no small feat. This session will share how we’ve built a unified approach to Project Delivery, balancing consistency with flexibility. We’ll explore how governance, culture, and shared frameworks are helping us deliver at scale—while adapting to project and sector-specific needs. A key enabler has been our partnership with Autodesk, who supported us in adopting tools like Autodesk Forma into our standard workflows. From implementation to integration, Autodesk Forma is helping us streamline collaboration, enhance data continuity, and improve design coordination. If you’re leading digital strategy across a complex organization—or trying to get teams on the same page—this session will offer practical insights, tested methods, and honest lessons learned.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to ArcGIS GeoBIM and the Forma

Get on the road to cloud-cloud integration between geographic information system (GIS) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) with ArcGIS GeoBIM and Forma software. This instructional demo will showcase customer examples of the benefits gained from the fusion of geography and BIM data for project portfolio management, collaboration, and construction project insights informed by geography. By following best practices for geolocating intelligent models, AutoCAD software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Revit software, users can help ensure effective integration of these models in GIS. This reduces the cost of integration by ensuring upfront data quality. To facilitate this, ArcGIS GeoBIM provides analytics to identify documents with geolocation errors. Managing and visualization issues during the design, construction, and handover of BIM projects is crucial for financial and operational performance. We will show how the integration of GIS and BIM with project and issue performance dashboards significantly improves insights into these critical aspects of project management.

Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020
Connecting Design Authoring Software with Forma
Providing construction project teams with complete, accurate, and construction-ready design documentation is one of the best ways to ensure that design intent is met during construction. During the design process, there are many stakeholders that play a role in development of design documentation—from architects and CAD managers, to virtual design and construction teams, owners, contractors, and trades. But not everybody works in the same location or at the same time. Using the cloud to support collaboration during the design process can connect these stakeholders, and this class will discuss how to easily bring designs from AutoCAD software, Revit software, Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software into Forma to support cloud-based collaboration.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Sustainable Change Through Partnership: Delivering Data-Driven Transformation
Join us to discover how Ramboll, a prominent multidisciplinary engineering firm, formed a partnership with Autodesk to drive sustainable change and Management through innovative solutions, agile methodologies, and a strategy centered around data and an artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The "Together for Better Outcomes" initiative demonstrates the integration of Autodesk solutions—such as Autodesk Forma, Civil 3D, Revit, Autodesk Forma, and Datum360—across thousands of projects, ensuring user engagement and optimizing workflows. By employing digital change management principles and agile development methodologies, this strategy has successfully eradicated silos, standardized procedures, and created new revenue streams. Through this framework, Ramboll has developed custom solutions tailored to solve specific pain points in its workflows, enhancing the firm’s overall effectiveness and adaptability. These efforts are enabling Ramboll to deliver its vision of being the “Partner for Sustainable Change.”
44p
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