So much different software is installed with Factory Design Suite that it can be hard for a user to know where to start. This class will examine the entire workflow of Factory Design Suite, and show you the use of different software systems that are installed on your machine. You will learn how to use the Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform to quickly get the 2D layout data from the sales engineer at a client site and then provide him with a completed 3D layout with Factory Design Suite (which is in sync with the 2D layout). We will discuss in detail how Revit software interoperability enables the factory buildings to be used in Inventor software for flawless completion of factory layouts from concept to completion. Finally, we will explore Augmented Reality to discover how planners and engineers are using it to visualize and review virtual factories. This session features Factory Design Utilities, Inventor Professional, and Navisworks Factory Advanced. AIA Approved

This class will present a toolset for enabling and enhancing Human and Robot Collaborative for the building sector. A specific case study, “Collaborative Robotic Workbench”, developed for the Kuka Innovation Award 2018, will illustrate several techniques in generative design, communication protocols, and interfaces for enabling a human and robot collaborative building process. This workbench featured an augmented reality interface for superimposing data and dispatching tasks to the robot, a background computational engine for task distribution and path planning, and an online web platform for process visualization using Forge APIs. The class will provide an overview of the various system components and explain how they facilitated a collaborative construction process - going into particular depth on the communication between a ROS server managing the robotic process and a Forge viewer web client that enables remote monitoring of the construction process in real time.

Learn how CannonDesign uses a multi-user virtual reality (VR) environment to create shared experiences for collaboration in architectural building models. During this presentation, we’ll cover the build of the environment, basic configuration, and how it was put into production. We'll also give an overview of some of the software used, and look at use cases for both local and remote collaboration.

Join us for an exciting discussion about some of the most recent interactive technologies for architectural visualization and their uses on the latest devices. This discussion will touch on a variety of topics, including interactive animations and augmented-reality applications and viewing devices. We will examine their pros and cons, and discuss workflow to get your 3D data into these programs. Contribute your knowledge and experience with these applications, and hear from other users about their challenges and success stories. This session features 3ds Max and AutoSketch.

In order to create functional clinical spaces that elevate the patient and staff experience, the medical professionals that will utilize the spaces need to understand the layout and size of the rooms being designed, the equipment that populates them, and the overall clinical flow within the units. However, many medical professionals have difficulty understanding 2D drawings and renderings, which can lead to inaccurate feedback and delayed decisions. Understanding the scale of the projects in a virtual world helps them realize the size of the rooms and the relationship of objects within the rooms, ensuring that the spaces are tailored to the needs of the various users. We will show you several examples where we used virtual reality (VR) as a health care planning and design tool to present and get feedback from clients and medical professionals while designing surgical suites and critical care units.

A real-life metro project design will be demonstrated through using Autodesk AEC Collection. Design Authoring, 3D Coordination, Existing Conditions Modelling, Creation of Design Documents and Engineering Analysis were the BIM uses of the project. Stations, tunnels, underground utilities and real environment of the project were modeled by using Revit, Infraworks and Civil 3D. Autodesk CFD, Revit, MagiCAD tools helped designers for engineering analysis and simulation studies. Active use of technologies such as reality capture, virtual reality played an important role in the design process.

This class will cover the story and the key technicalities of My Home Experience, an ambitious project that is replacing “normal” decorated apartments by customizable virtual reality (VR) ones all across Brazil. We will start by showing off how a partnership between IM Designs and MRV is helping change the way people experience their dream homes. We’ll then dive into how to prepare your data set to fit your immersive technology (XR) hardware. For that, we’ll show how we solved performance and hardware limitation issues while achieving incredibly realistic looks through a series of optimization techniques in 3ds Max software, and we’ll explain their impact on real-time rendering. You’ll gain info about light baking, UVs, retopology, RTT for baking AO, normals, and more. On the hardware side, we’ll see how those techniques affect your GPU, CPU, and memory, and how to profile them to boost rendering performance. We’ll then finish by showing off the final implementation in untethered VR, and its challenges. We hope everyone learns a lot from our case.

Let's see how the interaction in virtual reality (VR) brings your team and your client more understanding of the project and more constructive feedback! Interactive Patient Room Experience in VR is giving great opportunities to medical professionals to understand the layout and the overall clinical flow within the units, which helps designers create functional clinical spaces that elevate the patient and staff experience. As an alternative to costly physical mockups, we have built an interactive patient room that is fully responsive to the user's preferences. Experiencing the interactive environment in a virtual world helps medical professionals load different 3D medical equipment, change materials and finishes, and understand the relationship of the equipment with the users. we'll show you several examples where we used VR as an interactive health-care planning and design tool.

In this class, you’ll learn how Autodesk uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power the Forge platform, and how you can use the same services for your own Forge applications. You’ll get hands-on experience showing you how easy it is to get started with Forge using our quick-start guide. We’ll start with a quick overview of the Forge platform and introduction to AWS. After that, we’ll dive deep into the specific steps and configurations used for both a Node.js application and a .NET application. We’ll discuss the architectures, microservices, development environments, and application deployment options, and help you identify the best practices for running a production Forge application on AWS. This class is best for attendees with some software development experience, and everyone must bring their own laptops. At the end of the class, you’ll have built and deployed a demo application to AWS using Forge.

Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) are taking the world by storm. Over the past three years, we’ve seen a huge interest in VR. But with current VR, technology teams have spent way too much time preparing their projects, and they require a heavy workstation to render VR experiences. In this talk, we’ll show how to automate common data preparation tasks using BIM 360 software and the Forge Design Automation API. We’ll share how to turn intelligent models into immersive experiences and how to make these experiences available on thin-client endpoints for VR headsets. Learn how to maximize productivity by using modern Autodesk, network, cloud-rendering, and streaming technologies. This lets engineers get a deeper understanding of the design, and makes for better-informed decisions in less time—at the push of a button.

As our global population increases, remote indigenous communities are compelled to develop to accommodate growth and responsible tourism. Technology is now available to support and promote development of remote communities in an environmentally and culturally sustainable manner. Specifically, photogrammetry and virtual reality (VR) enable effective decisions about sensitive development by empowering stakeholders with intuitive, immersive experiences of site conditions from new points of view. This session will present a recent project on the remote Fiji island of Vorovoro, executed as a joint effort between an indigenous island tribe, a university construction management program, a social enterprise promoting positive social impact, and a global AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) software corporation. The collaborative team created a feasibility study for a dam to retain fresh water on the island; developed new data workflows; and used drones, VR, and cloud-based collaboration platforms with a Forge partner.

This course will cover multiple project case studies from Perkins+Will concerning how virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) were integrated into the design and presentation processes. Each project case study will break down a unique application and strategy using 2D panoramas, VR, and AR within the project. The class will walk through the modeling, software, and hardware workflows involved in creating design content. The demonstration will also cover accessibility techniques in order to be able to deliver these types of presentations to large crowds, regardless of technical skill level. We will examine difficulties, pitfalls, and successes, as well as insight into how well the client reacted and was engaged in the resulting presentation. In addition, all attendees will have the opportunity to experience the case studies in VR.

Mixed reality (MR) combines virtual and physical realities into one space and offers an exciting new design opportunity for architects. By projecting the Building Information Modeling (BIM) model directly over the physical site in MR, architects can communicate design ideas to the team and clients in an immersive and interactive way. This session will demonstrate MR case studies, using Microsoft HoloLens, applied for different phases of architectural projects. We'll share our exploration regarding the process of precision alignment of a BIM model with the physical project site. We'll then use MR for virtual mockup and review of design options. Finally, we'll examine the potential of MR tools for construction administration and envision on-site MR clash detection using Microsoft HoloLens.

Today, there’s a boom in content as audiences consume media and entertainment in new ways at home, on mobile, and in AR and VR. Creators and producers are working to deliver more of what people want but are struggling because traditional production processes can’t scale. Production needs to become more collaborative, innovative, and open. Join Autodesk leaders and customers to learn how our latest technology helps coordinate and customize processes and forge scalable connections between teams, studios, and ecosystems. By moving production to the cloud, we empower innovators to craft more meaningful stories and bolder visions.

Importing a Revit model and all of its BIM (Building Information Modeling) data into Unity can be a difficult and time-consuming process, possibly requiring multiple plug-ins. This session will explore optimum workflows to connect, organize, and optimize Revit projects using a single platform. The result will empower project teams to work toward proactively building interactive architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) models with smooth BIM data imports, and quickly assemble virtual reality (VR) visualization experiences. When imported, some of the Revit data (like BIM and materials) could be lost, creating additional work. We’ll talk about streamlined workflows that let Revit data flow smoothly into Unity via BIM 360 software, without the use of plug-ins, in an easy and efficient fashion. This collaboration will make it much easier for AEC developers to quickly assemble VR visualization experiences, such as immersive and interactive walk-throughs and lifelike models, at any stage of a project.

In today's competitive visualization marketplace, it can be difficult to set your work apart. Is having a unique look enough to succeed? Perhaps the answer can be found in the marriage between good creative and evolving technology. Re-purposing visualization assets to the latest tools isn't a no-brainer; it requires creativity and finesse to be successful. Using recent commercial examples, Transparent House's director of production will show the real role that 3D visualization plays in a comprehensive and successful R/E or product marketing campaign, and how a thoughtful technology rollout can help push your studio to the next level and make you look like a rock star to your clients. From recent and relevant case studies-and real results data-you will learn how an effective visualization campaign is conceived during the creative process, and then how it evolves as it deploys successfully across the media spectrum-from concept, to renderings, to motion assets, to interactive.

We will cover the various techniques used in the film and television industry when dealing with sensitive sites or locations. This class will also address the use of ReCap Pro software for reality capture using point clouds with photogeometry and exporting the appropriate file format when importing into Revit software to assist in the manipulation of the site design (set design). We’ll examine use of storyboard techniques translated by production designers to create construction documents and renderings for both site location and set designs (exterior and interior) with Revit and 3ds Max software. We’ll also learn how cloud collaboration improves the workflow between various disciplines within the art department and production show runners for faster turnaround using virtual reality walk-throughs. We’ll also examine immersive design with the use of augmented reality and mixed reality to determine what is actually constructed, what is virtually constructed, and what is sent out for fabrication when constructing film sets.

In this roundtable session, attendees discuss the implications of the ever-changing world technologies on running a business. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): purchasing, implementation, training, and promoting or marketing their value. This discussion is open to virtually any topic, but we start with BIM, cloud, mobile, digital fabrication, and augmented reality. Attendees are encouraged to contribute to the conversation. Be prepared to not only air dirty laundry, but provide insight and possible solutions to the issues that might arise. This class is suitable for any size office, it is assumed that those with a larger technology budget will be more interested and involved.

Discover a stepwise approach to creating a digital plant asset. This course will showcase the journey right from concept to commissioning and maintenance of the plant. During this journey we will also cover the aspects of digital engineering of a plant, addressing the three Cs: coordination, collaboration, and communication—while at the same time integrating with time and cost, as well as managing asset information in real time.

With all kinds of different VR devices released to the market, the concept of VR/AR/MR is becoming increasingly popular, but it's still an expensive experience. Is there any way to make the VR experience more accessible, and easier for your customers? WebVR provides a good solution. This class will introduceWebVR and show you some cool demos to help you get a quick project started with the technology, There are several frameworks you can start with, and even mix together - we will discuss some of these, including Three.js, the Autodesk Forge Viewer, and ReactVR. The class will show live demos, and the code behind the different examples.