This course will guide through the first steps of doing high-end visualization using VRED Professional software, and we will explore the capabilities of the software. This session features VRED Professional and VRED Render Node. AIA Approved

This presentation will show the creation of a concept seat, from using Autodesk® Alias® Speedform for creating the design and shape, to Autodesk® Alias® software for detailing like the stitching and other complex details, and finally Autodesk® VRED™ software for creating high-end renderings.

The presentation will show a seamless workflow from start to finish, and will give tips and trick about the latest features of each software that is used.

This class offers an in-depth look at how to use VRED software as a platform with diverse output types serving a wide range of needs from one source. We’ll show best practices for assembling and preparing one master file, including geometrical data, materials, animation, and interactive elements from various CAD and DCC applications (for example, Fusion 360 software, Maya software, and Revit software). We’ll also show how this holistic data set can be used for virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR); for real-time, physical, accurate ray tracing streamed to mobile devices; or to create rendered animations and still images. This class will focus on automotive, but also deal with data and workflows from different industries and disciplines.

With Autodesk, Inc., solutions, designers and engineers can use virtual models to explore, review, and fine-tune design variations. This talk will cover advanced visualization and design review workflows, including immersive virtual reality design review using head-mounted displays and tracking technologies with VRED Professional software; large-screen powerwall review using high-performance VRED ray-tracing clusters; and collaborative web/mobile design review solutions based on VRED Server. 

For over two decades Neoscape has been working on visualizing architecture to make things faster, more efficient and painless for our clients and artists. The challenge is with designers that have been trusting us for over a decade as our partners to raise the bar visually and technically. One of the best examples is with Boston based world renowned Safdie Architects. Every time we start a new project, we ask ourselves “how do we make this better and faster?” VRAY has been Neoscape render engine of choice for well over a decade. Now with Nvidia’s GPU rendering, Vray Next and Project Lavina we see a future where we can move faster and more efficiently. Something both us and our clients have been dreaming of for a long time. I will walk you through the promise in the future of design and visualization a future where we will collaborate and focus on what is really important. After 20 years waiting, Real time design visualization is here.

In this class will cover our way of achieving something that was dreamed of by visualization experts for years—physical accurate rendering in real time. The class will address the technical background, our path toward this goal, what was needed to achieve it, and application areas for this powerful technology and why it is so important for the automotive and other industries. VRED software is the product this class will be all about.

Autodesk manufacturing customers have a wide range of options for creating rendered images of their designs. This class will give an overview of product and capabilities available to PDMC customers and users within the manufacturing design space, and why and where you would use each one to best effect.

Autodesk VRED 3D visualisation software supports design exploration, communication, virtual prototyping, photography, and sales configurator solutions. The software enables users to quickly transform digital design data into compelling, high-fidelity images, animations, and real-time presentations, which can be consumed on desktop or through full-scale presentation environments or web/mobile displays. It's useful for efficiently exploring and validating digital designs for informed decision making and the creation of compelling design imagery for enterprise-wide presentations, alongside marketing communications. This instructional demo introduces VRED software to new users within automotive, industrial/product design, engineering, visualisation, and digital marketing. Starting from the initial data import, we will guide you through the process of achieving a detailed design review and configurator for presentations. Along the way, we will discuss materials, camera, lights, shadows, configuring variants, and more.

In this presentation, car designer Ning Ding will show best practices in automotive design through fast concept modeling, sketching, rendering, and animation workflows. Drawing on the full power available in Alias AutoStudio, Ning will share how designers and digital sculptors can work together during this process to bring a design to life. Ning will share live demo vignettes to show how designers can sketch and even directly create concept model by Alias, Speedform and Maya, visualize and render the 3D model in VRED and even create animations and cool scenes in Maya. Ning will also share insights into the current state of the automotive design market in China, where he has both practiced as a professional designer as well as his current job as a subject matter expert working for Autodesk. This session features Alias AutoStudio and Alias Concept.

Creating stunning, real-time interactive visuals for architecture, product design, and manufacturing is fast and easy with Unreal Studio. Unreal Studio is Epic Games’ suite of tools for importing 3D models from CAD and Digital Content Creation applications to Unreal Engine. This session will explore Unreal Engine visualization workflows and the Unreal Studio toolset, and illustrate how the Datasmith plug-in can accelerate your enterprise workflow.

This class will provide an overview of BIM implementation on one of the world's largest projects, the Panama Canal Third Set of Locks project which includes two massive lock facilities - one on the Atlantic side and another on the Pacific - each with three chambers and complex mechanical and electrical systems for locking Neo-Panamax vessels.BIM technology was used to manage the design and construction of this complex project.What if we started the Panama Canal Expansion today, with the dramatic advances in BIM that have occurred in only the last few years? With InfraWorks - which was not available during the planning phase - we can propose site design and road layout with GIS information. With Revit Parts - which was not available during the design phase - we can slice a model easily with sketch lines to produce the lift models for the concrete pouring sequence.With BIM 360 cloud services - also newly available - we can work better across regions and continents for design collaboration.Integrating these BIM tools with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies, we can now better visualize our design during the construction process. This presentation will present a "what if" scenario, to study how the design of this mega-project would proceed today, and to propose a new design template for the future.

Realistic light simulation is increasingly becoming more important to the design process, whether it is to support the design of a car's head and tail lamp clusters, or assessing how lights can is distributed around the interior of a railway carriage to support brand identity or how a room in a building is lit. This class with shed light (!) onto these topics describing how the various features of Autodesk VRED can be used to achieve different lighting effects. Attendees will learn amongst other topics how to differentiate between the various ray trace modes, how to use light simulation data and how the realistic modelling of materials is important to the overall scene visualisation

While architecture and engineering professionals should always focus on making the best design for the project, workflows designed to produce plans and intelligent models are often missing vital steps for the visualization at the end of the cycle. These steps are easy to add to your workflow once you know what they are. Learn how to speed up the visualization process with small adjustments to your AutoCAD® or Revit® software workflow and with 3D modeling standards that can be checked for and corrected with tools built into 3ds Max Design software. For visualization professionals, we look at how to create or select 3D models of environmental elements that slip easily into your pipeline without adding extra correction work or long render times. We also look at the vocabulary and tools that you can use to communicate with designers about your workflow needs.

New to design visualization? Having a hard time understanding the language needed to communicate or produce the daily requests for images or videos? Don’t know how a photorealistic image is constructed from a software perspective? Learn the basics of design visualization through various software examples. This lecture will help you understand the language needed to create images or videos that will communicate your designs. Get an overview of the Autodesk, Inc., design visualization portfolio. This class will work from concrete examples directly related to 3ds Max Design software, Maya software, Showcase software, VRed software, Navisworks software, Ecotect Analysis software, InfraWorks software, Revit software, Inventor software, AutoCAD software, and Inventor Fusion software.

The presentation will show a live demonstration of the workflows used for creating an animation in 3ds Max software and in Maya software, including how to prepare them and export the data in order to import them into VRED software for doing a real-time visualization. The live demonstration will show examples of classic keyframe animations, cloth-like vertex animation, and character animation from 3ds Max software and Maya software to VRED software.

Virtual Reality has always been restricted by the need for large investments of time and money. That restricts its appeal and adoption. With the influx of more capable and lower-cost HMDs that are continually evolving along with hardware, we can now unleash VR into the hands of a wider audience. Automotive designers, modellers, interior designers, engineers, manufacturers, and others can make better decisions and immerse themselves in an instant. It can be added as a verification to reduce the number of physical models while also making them more relevant and accurate.

VRED Server is a powerful solution that harnesses the power of VRED rendering technology and offers the possibility to enable customers to drive various custom applications with this unmatched technology, such as point-of-sale tools, configurators, visual collaboration, and so on. Learn more about this exciting solution in this class taught by Marek Trawny, the product manager of VRED.

This lecture will cover the process of creating striking videos designed to communicate complex infrastructure projects within a Building Information Modeling (BIM) pipeline. You will discover how products from Autodesk, Inc., can enable you to deliver detailed technical information to both engineers and non-technical audiences involved in a project. Helicopter video shooting, tracking, and 3D replacement have become essential exercises for achieving this purpose in transportation infrastructure projects such as airports, freeways, and elevated-train systems. We will follow some of these videos from beginning to end, covering topics that include: preproduction tips for shooting video from a helicopter and tracking with the MatchMover application; integration of tracking points and camera in a 3ds Max software environment; BIM pipeline integration with 3ds Max software and Revit software; rigging and animating transport in 3ds Max software; rendering management in the Backburner application; and optimized compositing. Download videos at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/thq3yvdw3119aho/AABlyqsDi9Wz57tZVBIImfnSa

This class will teach you the basics of Autodesk VRED real-time visualization software, and afterward you should be able to import and stage any vehicle. Dawn McArdle will demonstrate first-hand the simple workflows and tips and tricks gained from hours of her experience. You will learn this program quickly and should be able to immediately implement it with confidence. Using provided 3D vehicle files and 2D texture files, you will learn how to navigate, import, and prepare the vehicle model, assign materials, and set up lighting/shadows. Students will set up moving parts on the vehicle, and animate the camera. Some camera effects, such as depth of field and motion blur will be demonstrated. Finally, we will pull it all together by setting up variants (key-prompted commands to show variations during presentations) and output rendered images, with an understanding of the many options available for openGL and raytracing.

Are you new to design visualization? Are you having a hard time understanding the language needed to communicate or produce the daily requests for images or videos? Do you not know how a photorealistic image is constructed from a software perspective? Through various software examples, you will learn the basics of design visualization. This lecture will help you understand the language used to create images or videos that will communicate your designs. Get an overview of the Autodesk, Inc., design visualization portfolio. This class will work from concrete examples directly related to 3ds Max Design software, Maya software, Showcase software, VRED software, Navisworks software, Ecotect Analysis green building software, InfraWorks software, Revit software, Inventor software, AutoCAD software, and the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app.