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2023
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Theater Talk / 2023
Flood Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change
Theater Talk / 2023
How Data Will Decarbonize the Construction Industry
Panel / Las Vegas 2023
Smart Infrastructure for a Better Future: The Digital Thread in Action
This panel, consisting of thought leaders from the AEC industry will explore the impact of using the digital thread for infrastructure management. We will discuss how this approach can streamline project execution, reduce time and cost waste, and provide a single source of truth for stakeholders. The panel will also cover the cost implications of not adopting a model-driven approach and the benefits of maximizing data throughout the asset lifecycle, from planning to operations. By adopting a model-based approach and maximizing the digital thread, infrastructure stakeholders can prepare for a sustainable, data-driven future that will be the catalyst for the digital twin.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Maximizing InfraWorks on Megaprojects Globally
In this presentation, you'll see how InfraWorks software was used to communicate design intent and plan design and construction activities for "Mega Project.” We're building at an unprecedented pace globally, replacing and upgrading failing infrastructure, and planning, designing, and constructing flood control and power generation projects—as well as the cities of the future—around the world. InfraWorks can be the tool you use to help tell the project story, from conceptual design to finished product.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Jumpstart Your Project: Cutting Edge Imagery Workflows with AI and 3D
Learn how high-resolution imagery products like True Ortho imagery, 3D textured mesh, 3D point clouds, and DSM/DTM can set the stage for designing the built environment, provide site-wide content at any scale, and help jumpstart any project. AI and machine learning help identify and extract raster and vector features that give context to the design. These AI features can include building footprints, impervious surfaces, vegetation levels, infrastructure locations, pavement markings, and more. These powerful datasets can be used as the source data for your design or can be further leveraged to create additional content like linear feature extraction, surfaces, contours, and 2D/3D project visualizations.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Getting Started with Generative Design in Civil 3D: A Beginner's Guide
In this class, you'll learn how to use generative design in Civil 3D software through Refinery. Starting with the prerequisite packages and initial setup, you will discover how to create a Dynamo graph for generative design purposes. You'll also learn how to create a study, assign methods, set constraints, and explore outcomes. This class assumes basic knowledge of Dynamo for Civil 3D. Join this class and take your design skills to the next level.
22p
119p
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 Autodesk BIM Collaborate products. 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
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Civil 3D Tips, Tricks, and Unnatural Acts: AU 2023 Edition
This session will be dedicated entirely to productivity techniques that will help improve your daily operations when working with Civil 3D software. These tips include automating regular tasks, using standard functions in new ways, exploring underutilized features, and even exploiting a handful of undocumented commands. We'll present the information using a real-world problem-solving context, rather than simply going feature by feature, so you can fully appreciate the "why" in addition to the "how." Come join us for this 90-minute session as we show you numerous ways to help you get the most from your Civil 3D investment.
19p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
The Future of BIM Is Information
The productivity of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) is going down. Other industries' productivity arrows are pointed up, but ours is not. After 25 years of building information modeling (BIM), one would think it would be different. But it's not. There are probably thousands of reasons for that, and we would never imagine knowing a fraction of them. But we think one of the reasons, however small it is, has to do with how we work with Information today. Other industries are implementing artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The AEC industry cannot. This inspiring talk will explore why not, will look at what we can do about it, and will provide a few examples that show we are on the right path.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Design a Highway in a Day: Using REM, Our "Rapid Engineering Model”
Bryden Wood is an industry leader in design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), and the firm's creative tech team specializes in design automation. Bryden Wood partnered with National Highways (UK) to develop Rapid Engineering Model (REM), which automates highway designs in less than 24 hours! This revolutionary approach to road design created genuine sector-wide digital transformation. We combine analysis and risk profiling of site constraints with rules-based placement of infrastructure along the highways network, embedding rigorous design performance standards around road safety, while assessing constructability to minimize operational disruption. REM generates data-driven insights to enable evidence-based decision making, as well as resulting in a 100% auto-generated 3D intelligent model of the highway. In this session, we'll take a drive through the REM digital workflow, the strategic benefits that it provides, and what we've learned from deploying this approach to linear infrastructure design.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Autodesk Tools Customization Aids BIM Implementation in Sanitation Company
Brazil has undergone significant legislative changes in recent years and has the bold, yet necessary, goal to universalize water and sewage services by 2033. That challenge has driven building information modeling (BIM) implementation in sanitation companies, which encouraged the Brazilian company SANEAGO to use and customize Autodesk Docs and the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection tools for its context. Similar to other sanitation concessionaires, SANEAGO currently deals with large project volume, developed by several different design companies, for the 226 municipalities it operates. This makes document management, standardization, collaboration, project analysis, and project design quite challenging. In this talk, we'll discuss the CAD-BIM transition, covering not only software usage, but also company diagnosis, policies, and project standards establishment, which involves changes in the design processes and in the organizational culture as a whole, in order to raise BIM maturity within the company and its entire ecosystem.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Empowering Africa's Development Through Autodesk Design Tools
In this presentation, we will illuminate how Autodesk's design tools have revolutionized development endeavours, specifically within the context of our customer's story in Africa. Through real-world examples and proven methodologies, we will illustrate how Autodesk's software solutions are becoming catalysts for progress in diverse sectors across the African continent. By delving into our customer's journey, you will gain an understanding of how these tools are fostering innovation, driving sustainable growth, and addressing unique challenges faced in Africa. We will closely examine how Autodesk's design tools are instrumental in propelling Africa's development in vital sectors such as infrastructure, Data Management, engineering, and manufacturing. This session offers valuable insights into how technology is shaping Africa's future, making it a dynamic and thriving hub of innovation and progress.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Automated Linework from a Point Cloud Using Linear Feature Extraction
In this session, we'll walk through a complete workflow starting inside ReCap Pro software, and publishing a point cloud to the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. We'll extract linear features and bring them into Civil 3D software so we can create a simplified but highly accurate surface model. From there, we will publish the linear features as as-built information to ArcGIS Online for everyone to use. This is a workflow you've been asking for!
23p
Article / 2023
AU Focus: Digitizing Design and Operations for Water Infrastructure
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
The Seamless and Bi-Directional Integration of InfoDrainage with Civil 3D

This session will delve into the exciting integration of InfoDrainage software with Civil 3D, a development with the potential to revolutionize drainage design in civil engineering. With its advanced features and capabilities for both traditional and green infrastructure, InfoDrainage aligns perfectly with the versatile functionalities of Civil 3D, paving the way for more-streamlined, efficient, and environmentally sustainable design workflows. We will explore the unique features of InfoDrainage, how they can be integrated with Civil 3D, and the benefits of this integration in improving the accuracy and speed of drainage designs. We'll provide practical insights into the integration process, giving you a clear understanding of how to use these tools effectively in your projects.

10p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Water Project Lifecycle Connected Data with Civil 3D, GIS, Dynamo, Python, and IFC

This class will showcase a connected data workflow used to deliver large water and sewer infrastructure projects from design to commissioning. This is accomplished with a systematic use of Civil 3D software and ArcGIS integration, asset data governance, and Industry Foundation classes (IFC) for digital-twin commissioning. The sewer and water designs are first developed in Civil 3D. Dynamo and Python are used to attach a class library as property set data and generate a spreadsheet model database. The spreadsheet is linked to an Esri geodatabase through geoprocessing and Python. This geodatabase is updated with field-collected attribute data and as-built data via Esri Field Maps. The computational process is reversed to update the spreadsheet and subsequently the Civil 3D model. The model is delivered as-built, and an IFC version containing the asset data is exported for the owner's digital-twin ecosystem.

5p
35p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

SSEN must expand its transmission infrastructure to meet growth in offshore wind generation by 2030, with an expected project spend of £1 Billion/year. To meet the challenges, a few key individuals, empowered by their leadership team, embraced Autodesk design & collaboration tools to develop new digital ways of working on in-flight pilot projects. With a mantra of "fail fast and fix," the teams delivered quick wins during live projects focusing on efficiency and re-use of data. The result was scalable project solutions for project delivery across the organisation worth in excess of £4 billion. The case study will discuss how a practical people-focused approach took SSEN on a journey from 3D modelling on pilot schemes to delivering multi-billion pounds of infrastructure project work using a detailed set of BIM protocols and a well developed in-house design team. They will share lessons, successes, and tips for quick wins all while delivering the day job.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2023
Shared Coordinates in 30 Minutes or Less!
Do you struggle to understand shared coordinates? Are you manually moving design models into the correct location? Are you constantly forced to do redesign work because models aren't aligned correctly? If you've answered YES to any of these questions then this lab is for you! Collaborating with architects, designers and engineers within the context of a real-world coordinate system doesn't have to be painful or time-consuming. In this lab you'll discover for yourself just how quick and easy it is to properly geo-reference point clouds, Revit models, Civil 3D drawings and much more within the Autodesk Construction Cloud. Along the way we'll discuss best practices, tips-n-tricks, and what to watch out for when working with shared coordinates. At the end of this lab you'll be able to quickly AND correctly define a shared coordinate system for ALL the design files of your project and cross-link them into other design applications, enabling better design decisions.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Breaking Silos – Share Your Design Data Across Tools with Autodesk Data Exchange
Our industry's reliance on interoperability workflow hacks—such as app-specific import/export plug-ins, file formats with varying support across tools, and limited point-to-point translators—result in inconsistent data-sharing experiences that suck up time and require rework. Autodesk Data Exchange moves your disconnected workflows toward more-seamless cloud interoperability between the design tools you use every day, whether they be Autodesk tools (like Revit or Civil 3D software) or other apps (like Rhino). In this class, learn how you can use Data Exchange to curate, securely share, view, and manage design data across these apps and multiple stakeholders—with specific focus on Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, and Dynamo. We'll explore how Data Exchange simplifies data sharing between those tools for architects, landscape designers, and more, so your teams and stakeholders can stage on the same page with the latest data changes relevant to you, without sharing your entire design files.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Dynamo and AEC Generative Design Product Briefing
This product briefing will showcase the latest advances in Dynamo visual scripting, Dynamo Player for workflow automation, and Generative Design in Revit software for automated design exploration. Come learn from Autodesk AEC Generative Design product managers about where they've been focusing their efforts and what's on the road map for future releases. We'll use real-world examples to showcase these tools and show how we've improved the authoring experience in Dynamo and the running experience in both Dynamo Player and Generative Design in Revit. This briefing will demonstrate the value that Dynamo and Generative Design in Revit bring to the design process. We'll show how customers are using the tools to automate their workflows and design explorations in their projects in order to optimize sustainability and efficiency and produce less construction waste. We'll cover the product principles that we use to prioritize new work and future direction. Finally, we'll address the future of the product.
44p
92p
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