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.

The model is ready—now the future of making infrastructure requires setting our design on planet Earth. Knowing how to accurately transfer and prepare surface, corridor, structure, utility, and cadastral data for use by survey and machine control equipment is essential.

AutoCAD Civil3D 2018 introduced a raft of new features.This class looks at two of those new features, connected alignments and dynamic offset profiles and how they will change the way you work with Civil3D.We will also look at some innovative ways to use these new features for other things, not just junctions.Who needs the junction wizard anymore? This workflow gives you more control and versatility.

Do you struggle getting syntax correct to write your own code? Don’t know where to start or have the time to learn how to code? The Action Recorder tool in AutoCAD software just might become your new best friend. This feature lets the user record, save, and play back custom macros by simply recording a series of actions as they are completed. In this class, we’ll cover how to use the Action Recorder to automate the creation and editing of geometry, as well as streamline a series of actions to one custom command. Creating and customizing commands will help to reduce repetitive steps and tasks to save time and increase productivity. We’ll also discuss sharing these custom commands and processes with other users to save time as well.

In this session, we'll go over the details of how to keep and maintain civil site plans in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, export those to Revit software and Collaboration for Revit cloud service, and incorporate both in InfraWorks software for sharing and presenting.

During this hands-on lab, you will learn how to use the best and latest 3ds Max productivity tools to speed up your CAD-based design animation workflows. After participating in the lab, you will understand which material types are the best to use for your Revit, Civil 3D, InfraWorks, or Inventor projects. In addition to rendering traditional still images, you will learn how to embed liquid simulations in your projects and you will be able to render your project ready to be used in VR on time and on budget.

Contemporary rail projects are vastly complex due to an intersection of several key factors. The deliverables and support that agencies and contractors ask for are scaling with new technology. These technologies are relatively new to the rail design space, and there are currently no precedents for implementing them. On two similar rail projects, tailored workflows and custom automation tools were developed in order to deliver the required standard documentation, visualization, clash detection, and asset management deliverables. The synergy between automation, connected BIM, and creative project workflow were essential to the execution of these projects. In this session, we’ll examine the project needs, collaboration between BIM 360 software and ProjectWise, and automation with the Subassembly Composer, Dynamo, Forge, and LISP.

This panel is back with a new list of topics to discuss. Learn from the experiences of this panel of diverse CAD managers who are widely respected as leaders in their field. Hear their unique perspectives and solutions to challenges faced by CAD managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. Topics include understanding CAD standards, keeping up with rapidly changing technology, managing users, communicating with management and other nontechnical people, budgeting, and much more. There will also be time for questions and answers when you can ask these experts the questions you’ve always wanted answered. Bring your questions and get answers from 4 CAD managers who have been there and done that.

Do you work in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry? Do you have questions about how to work better as a team across disciplines or firms working on the same projects? Are you looking to meet other professionals like you? Please join us for our Connected BIM User Community Panel. This is an extension of the virtual meetups we hold the first Thursday of each month where we feature new tips and tricks at each meeting and we have open questions and answers with BIM experts to address any questions and suggestions you have. Come to learn project management tips and tricks, model coordination tips and tricks, customization tips and tricks, template tips and tricks, and many more tips and tricks! We’ll also have an open question and answer session. Register for these virtual meetups to become more productive, increase your connected BIM skills, and have a place to get your questions answered. Multiple speakers from our virtual events will be sitting on the panel to answer your most-pressing questions.

This class we will demonstrate AECOM's approaches to rail design. Once the process is established the design is seamless & information transfer is so quick you can say it's a High speed rail by the end of the day!

The tools we use are Civil 3D and Revit. The class will demonstrate methods of achieving efficient collaboration between the technologies and align to project milestone. Attendees will gain knowledge on the lessons learn & decision making process for the correct outcome for the project. Attendees will also learn how the Autodesk's features compliment the design processes that help make this successful. The session will cover the following topics, the importance of model structures, roles and responsibilities among the design teams, projects setups and key steps. Real world coordinates and management for model coordination and future uses. Finally we will go through the key steps for effective technical workflows for Civil 3D datasets in Revit Projects.

Airport projects don’t fit into the typical AutoCAD Civil 3D software corridor workflows. And yet airfield designers require Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows just as much as, if not more than, conventional road designers. Designs have tighter tolerances, quantities are larger, and cross sections more complex. The challenge is in utilizing creative and sometimes unconventional corridor modeling methods, as well as configuring AutoCAD Civil 3D software appropriately. Led by a civil engineer with professional aviation design experience in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, this class will cover advanced strategies for modeling aviation projects with Corridors. We’ll look at unique assemblies, including the use of “reverse assembly modeling,” complex targeting, and atypical corridor baselines to model portions of runways, taxiways, intersections, and aprons. If you’ve struggled to get AutoCAD Civil 3D software to work for your aviation projects, this is the class for you!

AutoCAD Civil 3D software gives us many great features out-of-the-box for our day-to-day hydraulics and hydrology (H&H) modeling needs, but it's not until you dig deeper that you find it can truly bring out the I in BIM for civil engineers. Stop limiting your H&H workflow inside of the AutoCAD® software environment to simple area takeoffs. Don't limit the pipe network functionality to what comes out-of-the-box. Learn to use Civil 3D pipe networks, parcels, and catchment objects to greatly improve H&H productivity and drainage map plan production. Empower your team with the tools needed for advanced H&H workflows in Civil 3D as the data is prepared for seamless exporting into the Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension for Civil 3D or for Autodesk® Storm and Sanitary Analysis software. This class focuses on setting up your drawing templates and shared part catalogs for enhanced H&H modeling. We do discuss workflows, but this class focuses mainly on setting up the tools that are needed to perform the workflows.

Join us to explore methodologies and workflows to collaborate.In this roundtable discussion, join your fellow users and tell us your success stories on how you overcome these challenges or share your failures and the issues you encountered.

Ever wish that AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 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?”

In this session, we'll explore how digital tools like InfoDrainage are transforming drainage design through advanced reporting capabilities. This presentation will guide engineers through the process of converting complex drainage data into actionable, flexible reports that enhance decision making and ensure compliance. Learn about the ability of InfoDrainage to integrate diverse data types from various projects, creating customized reports tailored to meet specific regulatory and stakeholder requirements. We'll demonstrate practical strategies you can use to complete drainage design from concept to detailed design stage while integrating the drainage network within the site design in Civil 3D software and producing flexible reports to meet local authority requirements.

With today's rise in construction, design costs, and extremely tight budgets for CAD work, we must ensure we are using the most-efficient methods in Civil 3D software to meet project demands. We can easily go over budget by overmodeling in Civil 3D. Conversely, when we fail to properly use Civil 3D tools, we can waste time and money. So herein lies the question: When do I fully model and design something, and when do I draw some polylines? When do I hold, and when do I fold? Let's take a journey into how a complex corridor model may not be best for a site plan where a feature line is sufficient. A simple polyline can represent and benefit more than a full creation of a pipe or pressure network system. As we look at keeping some things simple, there are times to make all the abilities of Civil 3D work for us. Longer roadway projects may require conditional corridors and complex targeting. How much is too much? There comes a time to think through all scenarios—or just simply show the cards.

Railway systems have complex rules to follow during the design phase, and their automation is highly required due to the massive and systematic work that needs to be done, and the very detailed list of materials necessary. The catenary system is one of the most complex systems in railway. Using Civil 3D, Revit, and Dynamo software, we can automate the design process and create the best workflow—which we'll demonstrate in this session, including complex parametric families, and automatic section views for each mast with dimensions. We'll also demonstrate some other systems' design automation, like CCTV and the automatic creation of camera field-of-vision 3D views for the train driver and metro station platform cameras to achieve the best installation criteria and avoid rework during construction phase. Plus, we'll explore how to convert all of these scripts to plug-in buttons with pyRevit.

As roadway construction technology advances, bridging design data to construction requirements becomes critical. Optimizing point codes in digital delivery modeling offers numerous benefits. We'll explore crafting subassemblies to unveil corridor point codes for feature line development and transitions. By employing these subassemblies, we'll demonstrate corridor visualization using point and link code styles for design analysis and surface creation. Additionally, we'll develop tailored code sets for diverse digital delivery needs like IFC, exporting attribute-rich data from corridor codes. Lastly, we'll optimize point code organization for feature lines extraction, aiding survey construction modeling and design verification.

Civil infrastructure projects are critical assets characterized by their extensive lifespans, costs, and impacts. So, how can we ensure these projects fully achieve their main purpose of holistically benefiting local communities? This session will explore how a unified Autodesk environment can streamline the design of roadway projects while adhering to sustainability guidelines. We'll demonstrate a typical workflow connecting Civil 3D software and InfoWorks ICM, focusing on the integration of these tools and using as case study a roadway project at risk from sea-level rise. Envision Framework and UN Sustainability Goals provisions will be used to validate results, ensuring that picked approaches are innovative and grounded in recognized guidelines. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how Autodesk solutions can empower users to make more-informed decisions in their own projects, making sure sustainable practices are being adopted at every stage of a project's lifecycle.

In this technical session, we'll go through the entire corridor workflow using the new corridor interface. Here we'll look at creating a corridor with multiple baselines (alignments and feature lines). We'll also add corridor transitions to the model and review best practices. We'll also incorporate several custom subassemblies into the model. This will be an in-depth look at ways these new tools can improve our corridor model.