With Autodesk's acquisition of Plan Grid and the new Autodesk Construction Cloud(ACC) there are several tools that assist in the flow of information in a project. This class will show various workflows not only with the supported technical software tools like Revit, Civil 3D and Plant 3D but also approval workflows, RFI's, Submittals, how sheets flow through a project and how you can use ACC Connect to transfer data across different cloud platforms. This class will inspire you to expand your use of the Autodesk Construction Cloud.

In this session, we’ll combine the power of InfraWorks and InfoDrainage to locate and design basins for a 5000-lot proposed subdivision in Colorado. You’ll learn how to import the Architect’s lot layout and overlay on the existing Civil 3D surface in InfraWorks, how to export new locations into Civil 3D, and how to layout basin, pipes, swales, channel, etc. in InfoDrainage. Once set up and fully tested, repeating the process with new Architect layouts will be a breeze!

AIA CES  Project Explorer provides a simple user interface inside of Civil 3D software that allows users to respond to changes much more efficiently. In this class, we'll cover how to simplify, navigate, and edit your projects much faster. Do you need a custom report from Civil 3D? No problem. Project Explorer allows for several custom reports that you can output to multiple different formats. In this modeless interface, you can have a full picture of your Civil 3D design.

You say the word automation, immediately people start talking about Dynamo or API coding. What if I said there was a host of automation opportunities hiding inside Civil3D and most users only scratch the surface of what is right at their finger tips. This class looks at these opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, by leveraging code set styles to speed up drawing outputs and quantification of corridor materials

At InSite we have spent years developing master planning solutions for large-scale master planning projects using connected data and automation in Revit, Civil 3D and online data platforms. This session will talk about how automating the process has helped the team reduce manual errors and improve efficiency for cities and precinct design, show examples of leveraging data to drive decision-making through the design, and how we are using data-driven platforms to solve problems in urban analytics, resilience, sustainability, development feasibility, and strategic planning. You will be shown real examples of this process and how it was achieved along with data being linked to online data platforms diving financial city model, automation of design and how 3D and data visualization is a powerful tool to drive informed decision-making on major projects. Design data, open data and web apps are combined to enable better outcomes throughout the development lifecycle.

Collaboration for Civil 3D has been around for some time now and as Civil/Infrastructure community have started embracing the technology we will share some useful techniques and best practices for implementing and streamlining project collaboration and connected workflows. This class is for you if you are new or an existing user of this technology. We will start with a quick overview of the product and its components and share tips and tricks on project configuration, migration and Review process.

The possibility to make anything can be overwhelming. Sometimes you just need a picture, a plan, or a push in the right direction. If you don’t know where to start in using Dynamo for Civil 3D, but you’re eager to know what can and cannot be easily automated, then this class is for you. In this class, we’ll walk through the specific steps of creating scripts in Dynamo for Civil 3D. These scripts will automate some of the mundane tasks you do in each of your designs. Whether that's placing a legend on multiple sheets, changing text to all upper case, turning on and off layers, adjusting line types of your design based on the type of plan sheet you are creating, or inserting trees at a specific interval along an alignment—Dynamo can do it! At the end of this class, you’ll understand the basics, and you’ll have a few time-saving tools to use within your own projects, and the knowledge of how they were created.

This class will focus on how to leverage tools you probably already have access to in the Autodesk AEC Collection and Autodesk Construction Cloud to start processing, analyzing, and leveraging drone photogrammetry data to improve your construction processes. Once at scale, many companies will likely opt for a partner product purpose-built for this entire workflow, but it's crucial to get buy-in prior to making this investment. At BL Harbert International we found that the best way to accomplish this is by providing concrete examples company-wide of useful applications on our own projects. To achieve that we've leveraged several tools already at our disposal in the AEC Collection and Construction Cloud. This class will step through a workflow of processing imagery in Recap Photo, to then analyzing in either AutoCAD or Civil 3D, to finally sharing with stakeholders and making annotations in BIM 360 or Autodesk Build.

In the design industry collaboration is always at the forefront of our minds. How can we better coordinate data between multi-disciplinary teams? What is the data normally isolated by Civil 3D could be linked to a Revit site model? With the integration of Civil 3D and Revit, the gates between multi-disciplinary silos, become freer and more open. Gone are the days of having to import Civil backgrounds into you model and “clean” that data up for use, only to have repeat that process when drawings are revised. By linking Civil 3D directly to Revit, you gain the benefits or a “live” link to seamlessly update data. In this session we will gain an understanding of how to link Civil 3D to Revit, analyze the data from Civil 3D to create specific views, incorporate Revit Site models into existing workflows, recognize the collaboration benefits within multi-disciplinary environment, and how to export Revit data back to Civil 3D to form a complete integration loop.

Big Innovyze for Small town in Brazil. A small town in the countryside of Brazil had one of its few tourist attractions impaired, generating a significant social and environmental impact, due to the rupture of the dam in Ayrton Senna Park. Schettini Engenharia understood that for this atypical situation, it would be necessary to bring together some strategic partners to develop the entire BIM solution with the help of GIS solutions, starting the first Smart City project in the region, as well as extracting the most from Autodesk and Innovyze solutions, aiming to adopt sustainable practices in its proposal, mitigating part of the damage caused by the rupture of this dam, and bringing better quality of life and safety to this community. In this challenging dam case study, you will learn the workflow between the following tools: Recap, Civil 3D, Revit, Docs, Navisworks, Unity, InfoDrainage and InfoWorks ICM.

This session will showcase how Autodesk Infraworks is being used to develop a high-resolution 3D existing conditions model of Interstate 84 /Route 8 interchange in Waterbury, Connecticut commonly referred to as “The Mixmaster”. This Infraworks model will be utilized by our design team during the development of “The New Mix”…a CTDOT program dedicated to planning for the long-term future of the Interstate 84 / Route 8 Interchange in Waterbury, Connecticut. During this session we’ll share tips and tricks for complex bridge modeling in Infraworks, as well as how we approached the use of 2D & 3D data coming from other sources such as Civil 3D, Nearmap, Sketchup, and Studio Max.

With our post-pandemic industry immerging into a new normal, our designers and engineers are now looking to technology to enhance collaboration and improve efficiency. With Civil 3D we now have functionality to provide users with standards to drive consistency in workflows. We will review the process GHD developed to restructure Civil 3D templates, providing our teams with the necessary standardization and functionality. From small sites to large BIM mega-projects. We will show you how to rethink template deployment, and what content to distribute. Learn how to restructure your templates using the best practice uses for your templates. We will share some of our tricks to maximize the benefits templates can offer. Using Dynamo and reference templates, we will demonstrate how we leveraged property sets to automate the way GHD enriches the meta data in our BIM models. We will cover the initial challenges, solutions, and how we improved efficiency and realized more project cost savings.

In this class FSTechnology will showcase how to achieve up to 40% in overall time reduction for some site supervision activities by automating the estimation of the site physical progress and of cut-and-fill volumes. The class illustrates two workflows which can be applied to both BIM projects and traditional project drawings. The first fully automated workflow calculates the progress of the construction works starting from the exchange on ACC of all point cloud data coming from drone surveys. The main steps are the production of simplified railways track path models in Revit, the performance of a bespoke clash detection in Navisworks to assess the progress of the works, and the interpretation of the XML output with .net scripts to feed a PowerBI dashboard. The second workflow generates DEM surfaces from point clouds via a Python script, to then calculate cut-and-fill volumes with Dynamo in Civil3D. The results are also exported as a structured data source for a PowerBI dashboard.

In this session we will explore Entwine Point Tiles (over 40 Trillion points), and how to consume them inside of Civil 3D as a surface (via point cloud) in mere minutes. As large point cloud datasets become ubiquitous in the AEC community, open-source libraries and software dedicated to manipulating these datasets are valuable tools for those in the geospatial community and civil engineers. Entwine is a free online cloud repository that anyone can access, and with this technical instruction go from zero (knowledge) to office hero in mere minutes!

Whether you’re scanning an existing site or capturing as-built data near the end of a project, you've put in the work to create a digital twin of your site in ReCap. Now stakeholders need to review it or perhaps teammates need it to further their design. We'll discuss how to leverage secure Autodesk platforms like BIM, ACC, and Autodesk Drive to connect colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to your data. We’ll start with understanding various workflows to get your project up to the cloud. Once there, we'll use collaborative tools in the Forge web viewer to create markups and annotations that can be synced down to the project locally. We'll cover how teammates and partners can consume your data in other products like Revit, Civil 3D, and InfraWorks. Lastly, we'll discuss where the product may be heading, and how that could affect current workflows. Whether you’re a surveyor or a BIM Manager tasked with managing point cloud data, you’ll find value in this course.

For Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Engineers, multi-disciplinary firms, and many others, the question of primary authoring software can be a complicated one. Should it be Civil 3D? Should it be Revit? Or is there a need for it to be both? This industry talk will discuss and evaluate the criteria for how to decide the most appropriate software for a range of project types. We will also consider what sort of project may be best served by utilizing both software platforms. For projects that might utilize both platforms, we will discuss the challenges and some suggestions of best practices for executing such a project. Join us as we share what we have learned while navigating this intersection of these two platforms.

In January 2014, Caltrans began work with Autodesk and Trimble representatives to establish a different method to collect survey and asset data that would leverage the strengths of both applications. The goal was to improve data collection methods in the field while providing attribute rich features that transfer smoothly into Civil 3D (C3D) and other asset management systems. The result of these efforts culminated in the creation of Caltrans Survey Asset Collection (CSAC) using the SHP Import/Export Utility. CSAC data is collected using Trimble Access on Trimble data collectors. The data is transferred to Trimble Business Center (TBC) where it is processed, edited, and exported to SHP files. The SHP files are imported into a C3D drawing, creating AutoCAD Points, COGO Points, Feature Lines, and Polylines, all containing embedded property set data. All corrections and edits to the data are made within TBC, new SHP files are exported, and the data is re-imported and updated in C3D.

AutoCAD use grips showed with selected entity not only to provide visual hints of the entity, such start/end/center points, or mid/tangent points or vertices, but also more importantly provide shortcuts to various operations against the entity, such as stretch/move/rotation/scale. Other AutoCAD verticals (C3D/ARCH/MEP…) use custom grips with AEC entities extensively. Fortunately, with .NET API, we can add custom grip to AutoCAD entity for our own specialized operation against selected entity. This instruction shows a few practical examples of using custom grips.

Autodesk established the Industry Alliance for Interoperability in 1994 inviting ~20 companies to work on neutral exchange formats for industry. This became the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) 2 years later opening participation to any interested parties, and was renamed again as buildingSMART International (bSI) in 2005. bSI develop and maintain the industry foundation class (IFC) data model and Autodesk has to include infrastructure entities as IFC 4.3, which is set to become ISO 16739:3 in 2023. This presentation will detail Autodesk involvement in IFC 4.3 to ensure its suitability to industry requirements and compatibility with engineering software. Autodesk Product Leads will cover how it is transforming IFC support by adopting the Open Design Alliance (ODA) IFC toolkit for a range of its products, has implemented pioneering infrastructure support for IFC 4.3 within Civil 3D, and cover new investments to extend IFC capability across a wide range of solutions.