Reality capture techniques are becoming commonplace in many aspects of design. The factory layout process is no different. From the clean up and orientation of the point cloud to the possibility of using point clouds as factory assets, when it comes to utilizing point clouds with Factory Design Suite software, there is a lot to consider. Join us in this class as we focus on the various techniques and workflows for capitalizing on point clouds captures in the factory layout process.

This class will explore the implementation of an efficient workflow for 3D scanning of large plants. From laser scanning at the field until a point cloud, which can be combined with a 2D layout and 3D models, our scan projects count regularly more than 100 scans. After the scans are taken, the scans are removed from noise and then divided in layers according to the flow sheet. The buildings are also on a separate layer and divided into roof, walls, and floor. These scans are then combined in Navisworks software with a 3D model of a new line generated at our company. The 3D models are made with Inventor software. A 2D layout, which we receive from the customer, is also attached. This workflow has been improved on a lot since the start, and this is what we want to teach in this class. Recently we purchased a drone to capture photos at places that are not reachable for our scanner (for example, ducting on a roof). A 3D point cloud can then be derived from those photos and combined with the laser scan point cloud This session features ReCap, Inventor Professional, and Navisworks Manage.

Who else is the Factory Design Utilities software useful for, besides factory planners? With the integration of Factory Design Utilities inside the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, everyone has access to this effective tool to layout spaces with Inventor assets. Aside from the usual approach of planning factories, we will look at examples from trade fairs, retail environments, event planning, playgrounds, cafeterias, and others. We will begin with the asset creation in Inventor software and the space layout in 2D in AutoCAD software. Combined, we will then move to the Factory Design Utilities and understand how these 3 tools can be used in conjunction. We can then explore our layout with Navisworks software to visualize the layouts we create.

Not everyone is aware of all of the associated risks and hazards that are involved with complicated construction operations—even the professionals who perform those tasks every day. Special training is required before commencing this type of challenging and potentially dangerous work. This is where BIM aids in communication and training in a safe environment. BIM safety models can present both correct and incorrect practices side-by-side for comparison. This class focuses on how models can be developed and used to explain safety hazards and procedures in a safe virtual environment. It shows how BIM tools such as Revit®-based software, Navisworks® Manage, 3ds Max®, and other modeling tools can greatly enhance communication and even help identify common, complex, and unique safety issues. These models can then be taken out into the field using Autodesk tools, such as the Inventor Publisher mobile app, and referenced on tablets, iPads®, and other mobile devices. Continue the discussion by signing up for CR2792-R Visual Planning: BIM for Safety-The Roundtable Session.

This class is about showing how it is possible to work with mechanical softwares, which at the first impression seem incompatible with Revit or other to do correct 3D coordination, and to produce effectively 2D plans without geometry limitation. It will be based on the case-study of a construction project of a hydroelectric pumping station located in Morroco with a contract of 284 millions euros. The content of this class will demonstrate and share the practical solution that could be applied in any industrial construction projects.

This session is about the new BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflow for bridge design with InfraWorks software, Inventor software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Structural Bridge Design software. InfraWorks has become the Autodesk center tool for bridge design in realistic contexts. You can easily and quickly design any bridge proposition. Structural parts of the bridge are automatically predesigned according to each span. With InfraWorks, you can perform line girder analysis in the cloud. You can download the structural analysis file to perform structural analysis with Structural Bridge Design. Customized parametric bridge parts can be created and modified with Inventor and added in InfraWorks. This workflow gives a lot of freedom to create any kind of bridge. Civil 3D will help optimize alignment and profile earthworks and gradings. You can send InfraWorks bridge to Revit with a BIM dynamic link. You can design reinforcement in Revit and create shop drawings. Tunnels can be designed with a similar BIM workflow. Come and see what you can do!

When adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM), the longest slog is creating the family files that you'll need to generate your designs productively. But there's already so much great content out there on building product suppliers' websites-couldn't you just use that? We all know that it's not that simple. Manufacturing models are not only far more complicated than we require for BIM: they rarely contain the data we need. So how can building product manufacturers, suppliers, and specifiers work together more closely to share data in ways that benefit all parties? In this presentation, we'll tell the stories of customers who've taken on the challenge. We'll look at the problems they've faced and the solutions they've implemented, and we'll discuss the merits of each. The challenges of sharing data with the right amount of detail at the right time are by no means solved. We're interested in your views on this subject, and we look forward to some lively debate!

Reverse engineering is an essential part of product development process. Whether you are a designer doing benchmark or retrofitting an older design, you need to work with incomplete data. Digesting the incomplete data and changing it into useful model geometry is a science and an art. Generally, most CAD tools have provided some capabilities to enable varying levels of reverse engineering. Inventor 2017 software particularly offers quite a few workflows to help the reverse engineering process. It enables the users to obtain high-fidelity results. Regardless of the formats of the source data (2D or 3D), these workflows provide interesting opportunities. This class will introduce various workflows and techniques with real-world examples. The attendees will get a better understanding of these workflows and learn how to tackle future reverse engineering tasks with ease. This session features Inventor Professional and Inventor Professional.

In this class, we use Inventor® software to demonstrate techniques to combine a 3D substation project model and component pricing, extract bill of materials (BOM) information, and help estimate station costs.

Discovery how Autodesk Factory Design tools can help you to experience Digital Factory and improve your workflows and efficiency. Using different data types for one purpose, creating efficient and well-planned factories. Also, you will discover how can you use your BIM models for Factory Design.

IQL will show how there are different ways of working/interacting with the built environment and explain the integrated project delivery: client, project manager, and main contractor being 1 team with the same goal approach. We'll explain how we developed a strategy, managed the design, and delivered from concept design to project handover using different digital technologies at different stages. This class will demonstrate how we've created a strategy and EIR for a project that will run for the next 8 years and which will attract future tenants. We’ll show this from a project management point of view: management of the design stakeholders, management of design, BIM for master planning, quantification, the use of BIM for visualisation/VR, and BIM as a product to attract tenants. From a construction management view, we'll demonstrate trade design coordination, supply chain management/education, BIM on-site, 4D sequencing and construction optimisation, and BIM use for tenant engagement.

You don't have to be a high-end graphic designer to generate quality images or videos with the Autodesk Product Design Collection. When it comes to rendering, most people think that 3ds Max software is the only way to go. But the Product Design Collection has many other tools that produce quality renderings. In this class, we'll discuss the simpler approaches to generating amazing images, videos, and even a little virtual reality-with Inventor Studio software and Navisworks software.

We've all heard it before: "You can't automate drawings with iLogic." Well, we’re here to tell you that you can! In this instructional demo, you will learn the basic techniques of developing the logic required to automate 2D drawings with iLogic and the Inventor API. From creating views, adding dimensions and balloons, and working with sketched symbols and even parts lists, this demo will shed an abundant amount of light on how to develop your drawing automation, as well as what to avoid to ensure a robust and stable automation project.

In this class, we will take you on a tour of Autodesk® Product Design Suite 2013. We will show you what you can do with this flexible set of tools that are specialized in 3D mechanical design, simulation, tooling, electrical design, visualization, documentation, and collaboration. Using the design suite tools, you can evaluate and optimize machines while exchanging information with others throughout the design workflow. You will learn what you can accomplish by combining the Digital Prototyping capabilities of Autodesk® Inventor® software with enhanced design, visualization, and cloud services tools to reduce development costs and get machine designs to your clients faster and with less rework.

This class will walk you through how to prepare and deploy your Inventor software and Fusion 360 software 3D models into bespoke applications for the HTC Vive and the Microsoft HoloLens. Creating and deploying interactions on the HTC Vive and the HoloLens is more like game development than engineering, and that can be a tough barrier to cross for those who don't have a computer science background. You will leave this class with an understanding of how to create and deploy interactive environments that let you walk around your Inventor and Fusion 360 3D models as if they were really there. We'll also cover how to optimize your designs in 3ds Max software for maximum performance, and we'll cover some of the limitations of the hardware. If you've ever wanted to see a full-scale 3D rendering of your designs that you can walk around in and mark up, then this is the class for you!

The Factory of the Future provides an answer to the question: What does our factory signify? Based on an international survey among 700 participants, we will present current challenges and changing requirements in the factory of the future. From a research point of view, we will evaluate the challenges and present solutions for each challenge. We will present the following technologies: smart robots, human-robot collaboration, additive manufacturing, augmented reality, production simulation, immersive training, integration of the value chain, and decentralization and production steering. We will introduce the example of the e.GO Mobile AG factory—an industry 4.0 reference factory—and present solutions for an integrated digital factory twin. The e.GO factory is a pioneer in the automotive industry, focusing on data-driven use cases to address future challenges. This example will show that the factory of the future is already here today.

Have you heard great things about iLogic but never really learned about how or when to use it? This hands-on lab will cover key concepts and techniques, with minimal expectations of programming experience. You’ll leave with an understanding of how you can be more efficient with Inventor software by using iLogic to automate routine tasks. We will begin with the basics: What are rules and when do rules fire? Samples and exercises will illustrate the extents of what you can do with rules—in parts, assemblies, and drawings. We’ll work with iLogic forms, which let you make a user interface without programming. We’ll use rules in different circumstances and scenarios—for parameter validation, for updating iProperties on file open/save. Finally, you’ll get some exposure to more-advanced capabilities like external rules and using the Inventor API.

Do you think your products are too simple or too old for simulation? Do you think simulation is expensive? Do you think simulation is difficult to learn? Do you think simulation is only for predicting failure? If you agree with any of these, then this class is for you. In this class, you'll see how far simulation technology has advanced and been made accessible to engineers and designers like yourself. As a result, more and more companies are adopting simulation early in the design process to help engineers and designers make better-informed decisions earlier. You will also learn how other companies have successfully used upfront simulation in their workplaces. This session will cover workflows, including some guidance and tips, of Inventor Simulation software and Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software, both of which work inside the familiar interface of Inventor software. This class is a must if you want to reduce your stress levels (and maybe blood pressure).

This presentation will focus on the newly developed Topology Optimization technology now being used in Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software and also found in Autodesk Nastran standalone, Fusion 360 Ultimate software, Inventor Simulation software, and Dreamcatcher software. We will begin with an introduction of how Topology Optimization works, and then we'll focus on the Autodesk Nastran In-CAD interface for Topology Optimization. We will perform several examples that will include how to produce designs with minimized mass and maximized stiffness that comply with various design and manufacturing constraints. Examples will include minimized mass with stress and compliance design constraints and various manufacturing constraints such as additive and subtractive with symmetry. We will show a complete workflow that includes importing optimized .STL geometry and building a verification analysis model.

Learn how to correctly prepare a complicated 3D model in Fusion 360 software, then transfer it to Autodesk CFD, validate the geometry, and simulate fluid flow basis on real multipiston axial pumps. Results of this scenario will be used for stress analysis with vibration and fatigue impact in Inventor Nastran software. This class is based on a real industry case. Almost all the car companies like Ferrari, Ford, or Tesla invest in electric drive solutions. One of the biggest challenges in their new projects is the silencing of the car interior. After eliminating the loud combustion engine, we start to hear things like the knocking of the air condition system caused by vibration of fluid flow driven by multipiston pumps. Elimination of this effect leads to fatigue and failures. You’ll learn how to protect your design in Autodesk’s Simulation software. Progress is impossible without changes. Autodesk helps us make these changes properly.