What if we could build a complex project right the first time without any errors? Join us for an insightful session delving into the impact of Engineering Grade AR™ in the construction industry. Discover how AR technology enables real-time issue detection and superior project controls, safeguarding projects from costly errors, clashes, and design deviations before they escalate. Over half of construction project owners face underperforming projects. This session will highlight the impact of AR in construction, with a focus placed on project controls. During the session, we'll dive into how issue detection integrates seamlessly with Autodesk Forma, streamlining collaboration between onsite teams and office personnel, allowing for precise task assignment and issue resolution. Attendees will learn how AR is being used to collect real-time project data through advanced 3D modeling, delivering up to 9X ROI on mission critical projects.

Emerging technologies open up opportunities for utilizing new infrastructure construction approaches. vGIS is redefining construction projects with engineering-grade augmented reality and AI-powered digital twin technology.

This sharing session will touch upon PennDOT's (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's) innovative initiatives with augmented reality, drone data capture for both design and construction, and its Project Delivery Collaboration Center solution. We currently have multiple pilot projects underway and would like to share our lessons learned and how we plan to tie them all together with a single platform. We plan to make our Project Delivery Collaboration Center solution available this fall. It will provide the backbone for connecting our current legacy systems, future systems, and design collaboration. It is a one-stop shop for the department designers for project file management, workflow, schedule oversight, project health, and more. We plan to cover our work with Datumate, Reconstruct, Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject, IMAJION, and the Autodesk Forma platform.

While professional artists use high-fidelity animation techniques—pioneered and refined by Autodesk's animation products MotionBuilder, 3ds Max, and Maya—in games, film, and design production pipelines, we ask the questions: What if the user is not as skilled? What if their requirements for control are not as stringent Could we leverage new input modalities to allow untrained creators to record and edit 3D motion in just a few minutes? We'll discuss the speed and utility afforded by animating in a completely new paradigm: One that allows you to express intent with your body, fingers, face, gaze, and speech while enhancing presence, storytelling, and collaboration in real-time immersive experiences, and engaging your spatial understanding, reasoning, and memory to author 3D animations. Come and hear what our panel of experts from Meta Platforms, Workshop XR, Entertainment and Media Solutions as well as Autodesk Research have to say.

Join us for an engaging panel discussion with real-world applications at the intersection of robotics and extended reality (XR) in the AEC industry. Learn how companies like DPR Construction harness these technologies to safeguard the well-being of their craft teams, deliver quality work, and exceed customer expectations. We'll discuss how robots are transforming construction work with precise installation lines, and explore how XR is revolutionizing the way owners experience their projects and data, gaining their buy-in before work begins. Get valuable insights from industry experts as they share the work they're doing today, while shedding light on the future of these transformative technologies. Speakers will be Rayya Karaa, Senior virtual design and construction (VDC) PM at DPR; Tim Gaylord, Corporate Director of Innovation at DPR; Roy Malcom, Senior virtual design and construction (VDC) PM at DPR, Nicolas Fonta, senior director and general manager of XR at Autodesk and Alex Bingham Associate Architect at Cushing Terrell.

Caltrans, in coordination with our software partners Autodesk, Trimble, and ESRI, is in the process of developing a digital geospatial ecosystem to centralize, standardize, and connect Caltrans' digital data across programs and divisions. New tools in Civil3D 2024 and Trimble Business Center have been developed and are being tested to assist with the needed data interoperability. The system aims to increase engagement, equity, innovation, integrity, pride, safety, climate action, stewardship, and efficiency by using tools of today and working with industry to develop tools of tomorrow. This Caltrans effort will support FHWA initiatives such as BIM4I to streamline data connectivity for Project Delivery and create, maintain, and provide access to a statewide digital catalog of Caltrans assets. The proposed milestones include beta testing new industry tools, creating project delivery dashboards, integrating digital as-built data from Construction's connected data environment, and developing new project delivery products such as mapping on demand and augmented reality in the field.

As AI rapidly advances, we stand at the crossroads of AI's immense potential and the risk and challenges it brings. How will this revolutionary technology affect our workflows and jobs? Join us to learn how the latest AI innovations can accelerate creativity, visualization, and simulation instead of replacing our skills. Get an inside look at experimental projects that transform co-creation between designers and AI. With the right mindset and tools, we can harness AI as a partner to accelerate our creativity, not replace it. Be part of the AI revolution and discover how to co-create the future of accelerated design and creativity!

In this session, you'll see how you can maximize innovative VRED, Alias, and Shotgun workflows and tools for your industrial design processes and workflows. Realize the power of the connected solution and see how the software can help you streamline workflows and improve efficiencies. Understand how you can take best practices from automotive design and apply them to the industrial design process.

Our industry is changing, and the way we collaborate and deliver must change with it. This change is having disruptive effects on how infrastructure is planned, engineered, and constructed. Digital twins (or virtual representations of the real world, including physical objects, processes, relationships, and behaviors) are promising to be a solution to creating deliverables that provide centralized, purpose-built access to stakeholders along the design and construction supply chain. We are at a time when the distance between building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) is shrinking, and emerging workflows require sharing new system engagement views with more collaborators, including asset owners. Although some customers are seeing the benefit of a digital twin, others wonder how best to modernize their approach to reduce risk, increase transparency in infrastructure asset delivery, and bridge information gaps between project and operator participants.

This session will showcase our studio space in Toronto, where our journey started with a Revit intelligent model that has now evolved into a digital twin complete with IoT integration. You'll learn how we've integrated SQL, Revit, Autodesk Tandem, and Autodesk Forma into our workflows to create detailed 3D models, monitor asset performance, and capture project data. We've incorporated data from IoT sensors into Autodesk Tandem, thereby gaining insights into maintenance needs that enable us to address issues promptly. We'll discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing this throughout the project lifecycle, and how it improves quality, reduces costs, and increases user satisfaction. The aim of this session is to inspire you to consider the potential digital twin concepts, unlocking efficiency and quality in your projects' stakeholders. You'll leave the session with an understanding of how to integrate digital twin modeling and IoT technology, and the benefits that come with it.

The XR team at Autodesk will join an architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) customer to lead this hands-on session where you'll learn about practical methods for hosting more-effective design reviews in today's hybrid work environment using extended reality (XR). You will learn how to easily connect project data into XR and how to manage headsets. You'll discover the best virtual reality (VR) use cases for fully remote, hybrid, and conference room settings, you'll see some screensharing best practices, and more. The customer will then guide the class in sharing a recent project and the practical VR workflow their company uses today. The outcome: better project clarity, better stakeholder engagement, and more-efficient design reviews—all making alignment easier and objectively more fun!

Discover the power of Twinmotion's advanced visualization capabilities to elevate your Revit design process. This insightful session will delve into the deep integration of Twinmotion into Revit, enhancing decision making and asset management and producing stunning visuals. Through an engaging case study, you'll learn how Twinmotion's real-time rendering, user-friendly features, and Auto-Sync technology enrich the Revit design process. You'll explore Twinmotion's practical applications in Revit projects, creating interactive visualizations with superior asset libraries, dynamic visual effects, and intuitive scene settings. Examine Twinmotion's seamless implementation in real-world projects, understanding its impact on design decisions, client presentations, interdisciplinary collaboration, and model updating. Experience the harmonious pairing of Twinmotion's visualization acuity and Revit software's documentation prowess, which together deliver compelling, innovative architecture.

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, workstations stand as pivotal tools that catalyze innovation and drive efficiency across a spectrum of industries. This presentation sheds light on recent innovations in workstations impacting the building design/construction, product manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Driven by the rapid implementation of new Autodesk tools and integrated add-ins, these industries are continually pushing the limits of computational requirements. In other words, the software "monster" that we have created (and love) needs to be properly fed. In this session we will discuss innovation in CPU, GPU, I/O, and workstation engineering that can benefit the complex 3D, VR, AI, and Reality Capture workflows.

Come to this session to see how using Variable Rate Shading in VRED software is a good way to achieve good quality on materials and areas you want to focus on, saving performance on areas that can be rendered with lower quality.

The digital creation process has made physical models rare. Today, iterative work around form finding, feature line definition, or design definition convergence has to happen digitally on 2D screens. Imagine if you could connect virtual reality (VR) full-scale visualization in VRED software with 3D modeling workflows in Alias software through custom tools that allow designers to sketch tape lines in VR, giving instant feedback to the 3D modeler in Alias—and use ShotGrid software to capture the sketched tape lines to feed downstream digital-modeling activities. Discover how Autodesk Consulting can help you improve collaborative workflows in your studio, going beyond out-of-the-box product capabilities.

This class is aimed at architects and visualization professionals interested in learning more about the pipeline, best practices, and tips and tricks for getting a building information modeling (BIM) data set prepped for use in a real-time game engine. The majority of this class will revolve around work done in 3ds Max software, where we'll import a Revit architectural data set, clean and organize the model, set up initial shaders and lighting, and finally export the model for use in a real-time environment. We'll then bring the prepared data set into Unreal Engine, showing the import process. We'll explore how geometry, materiality, and lighting information is translated. And we'll show the process for making future updates to the original data set in 3ds Max, and demonstrate how to seamlessly translate these changes back to Unreal Engine.