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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Building a Supertall Tower: BIM at the Core of Burj Azizi’s Management

This session will showcase a landmark case study of Burj Azizi, the 135-story, 725-meter, supertall tower redefining Dubai’s skyline and urban verticality. Explore how AE7 harnessed the full power of Autodesk’s digital ecosystem—including Revit software, Autodesk Forma, Navisworks software, and advanced add-ins like Dynamo and API and third-party Automation, Integration, & Customization tools—to orchestrate a data-driven, model-centered delivery process. From federated model management and real-time cloud collaboration to 4D construction sequencing and Digital Prototyping integration, this session will dive into how BIM enabled AE7 to navigate the immense complexity of building a vertical city. Discover how digital workflows enhanced multidisciplinary coordination, accelerated construction readiness, and transformed design intent into an immersive, high-performance built reality.

40p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Legacy to Digital Prototyping: Scan. Model. Transform.

Elevating the digital maturity of our clients' factories, we aim to transform traditional manufacturing practices by transitioning from outdated paper-based drawings to the powerful concept of the Digital Prototyping. We start by scanning the facility to generate a 3D point cloud, which forms the base for architectural and MEP models in Revit software. These are imported into Inventor software, where we design and optimize the production line with machinery, conveyors, and robots. Factory Design Utilities software allows us to quickly build detailed layouts. With Navisworks software, we perform clash detection and offer virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. FlexSim simulates the workflow to ensure efficiency. For data management, we use Vault Pro software and Autodesk Forma, while Autodesk Tandem software improves operations. This journey helps clients move beyond outdated systems and embrace the Digital Prototyping and Digital Prototyping.

48p

Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020

Connected Coordination in the Forma

With next generation technology, much of the model coordination process has been transformed through automation and digital collaboration, democratizing the model coordination experience for VDC managers and trade teams. But a truly coordinated experience isn’t possible without connecting all parts of BIM data from design to plan to build. This session will show you how Autodesk is delivering on this new level of connected model coordination and how integrated workflows will deliver best-in-class coordination capabilities.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Beyond the Blueprint: Exploring XR for AEC with the Autodesk Workshop XR Team

Unlock new levels of collaboration and coordination in your architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects with Autodesk Workshop XR software. In this session, you'll learn how data from Forma can be accessed in real time within a virtual workspace, significantly enhancing your project workflows. Our Workshop XR experts will be on hand to address your questions and demonstrate how virtual environments enable users to walk through Forma models, ensuring faster identification of spatial issues that often go unnoticed through traditional methods.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

From Reality Capture to Modeling: Integrating ReCap Meshes for Enhanced Efficiency in Autodesk Forma

In today’s fast-paced construction industry, bridging the gap between real-world conditions and digital-project environments is key to achieving accuracy, minimizing errors, and streamlining project delivery. Reality capture technologies, such as laser scanning, allow teams to document site conditions with precision. However, turning that raw data into actionable models and coordinating them across disciplines can be a challenge without the right tools and workflow. This lab will help you to set up a practical workflow that integrates ReCap Pro 2026, Revit, and the Modeling module in Autodesk Forma to enable efficient scan-to-BIM and Modeling processes. It will demonstrate how point cloud data can be used not just for modeling, but also for coordination and clash detection, using mesh representations and cloud collaboration.

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46p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Design to Fabrication: Streamlining MEP Models with Cloud-Based Collaboration and Automation, Integration, & Customization

Turning a design-stage MEP BIM model into a fabrication-ready (LOD 400) model using Fabrication MEP parts is one of the most critical and complex phases in the project lifecycle. Once IFC files and construction drawings are handed off, the responsibility shifts to general contractors and subcontractors to ensure constructability, meet engineering standards, and align with fabrication requirements. This session will demonstrate how Autodesk Forma , AutoCAD or Revit with Fabrication MEP parts, curated MEP database sets, custom scripts and powerful add-ins enhance model refinement. You’ll discover how early modeling decisions reduce waste, improve rerouting, and accelerate field installation. By resolving fabrication needs in the model, teams reduce material use and empower crews with ready-to-build content. Whether you're a GC or MEP subcontractor working toward high-detail prefab, this session offers the tools to bridge design and construction empower by the cloud base tools.

10p

46p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Enhancing Efficiency with AI: Breaking the Workflow Barrier with Autodesk Platform Services-Connected Data

This session will demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented systems streamline coordination, automate clash detection, and deliver natural-language-driven responses using Autodesk Platform Services connected data. Explore future-forward workflows that use AI integration with Autodesk tools like Revit, Navisworks, and Autodesk Forma. Discover how machine learning, deep learning, optical character recognition (OCR), and natural language processing (NLP) amplify project insights, enable query-based model exploration, and drive intelligent Automation, Integration, & Customization. Learn how Dewan achieved up to 70% efficiency gains, cut coordination prep time by 40%, and achieved processes up to 6,469x faster—all while enabling its workforce to confidently adopt and evolve with AI-driven custom tools. Walk away with actionable strategies to embed scalable AI, empower teams, and accelerate project delivery across every stage of the lifecycle.

16p

58p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Megascale, Microdata: How Revit and Computation Enabled Global Coordination on a Supertall Tower

North Bund Lot 91 is a 480-meter, all-electric tower rising in Shanghai. On it, global teams at KPF used computational workflows to manage geometric complexity and streamline international collaboration. This session will explore how Rhino, Grasshopper, Microsoft Excel, and Rhino.Inside.Revit software were used alongside Revit software and Autodesk Forma to coordinate a megaproject at an unprecedented scale. By exchanging data instead of geometry and scripting the transfer of rationalized façade systems across platforms, the team ensured accuracy, constructability, and design fidelity throughout. We’ll show how these workflows helped the team document more than 20,000 façade panels, manage input from consultants around the world, and maintain a single source of truth in Revit. This session will demonstrate how computational thinking isn’t just for form generation—it’s the key to delivering the next generation of complex, collaborative architecture.

Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020

What Is Autodesk Forma

Introduced at Autodesk University 2019, Forma brings together the most powerful portfolio of construction management software products in the industry, supporting workflows spanning all phases of construction—from design, to planning, to building, to operations. There is tremendous breadth of supported workflows, depth of capabilities in each of the software products, and connectivity of data between those products. Over the past year, Autodesk has focused on three main areas of advancement with Forma: continuing investment into improving Assemble, BuildingConnected, PlanGrid, and BIM 360 software; delivering more integrations and connectivity between the products; and building a unified platform. This class will show how Forma has advanced over the course of the last 12 months, and we’ll explore the workflows from design through operations that can be supported by the products.

New Orleans 2022

Harnessing the power of platform through BIM and GIS

How to integrate Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information System (GIS) with Autodesk solutions and ESRI solutions for asset management. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have long been used to model the environment and perform 2D spatial analyzes of large areas. However, with the increasing availability of computing power, data acquisition methods, and automated workflows that generate detailed 3D data, GIS models became more and more detailed and began to contain 3D models. . Through the bridge and tunnel project, we modeled the project in 3D using Revit. Templates were stored in ACC. We used Esri mobility tools (offline and online) to collect site data and populate a GIS database. After that we linked the Revit models to ArcGIS, then we could see the 3D models in the environment. We also added maintenance attributes and we were able to communicate.

Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020

Connecting Design Authoring Software with Forma

Providing construction project teams with complete, accurate, and construction-ready design documentation is one of the best ways to ensure that design intent is met during construction. During the design process, there are many stakeholders that play a role in development of design documentation—from architects and CAD managers, to virtual design and construction teams, owners, contractors, and trades. But not everybody works in the same location or at the same time. Using the cloud to support collaboration during the design process can connect these stakeholders, and this class will discuss how to easily bring designs from AutoCAD software, Revit software, Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software into Forma to support cloud-based collaboration.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Workshop XR 201: Mastering Collaborative Design Reviews in Virtual Reality

Step beyond the basics and learn how to lead effective, collaborative design reviews in virtual reality (VR) using Autodesk Workshop XR software. In this advanced hands-on lab, you’ll take on the role of session host—managing data sets, guiding stakeholders, and using real-time VR tools to drive better coordination outcomes. You’ll set up a Workshop, facilitate multi-user sessions, and practice in-headset techniques for managing perspective, assigning issues, and highlighting key design elements. Finally, you’ll see how VR issues connect back to Autodesk Forma, Revit, and Navisworks software for a full feedback loop. Leave ready to lead immersive reviews that streamline decisions and align your team.

Virtual 2021

Conditioned BIM Data Powers Connected Construction

BIM (Building Information Modeling) and virtual design and construction (VDC) managers serve pivotal roles in empowering stakeholders across multiple disciplines and teams to fully maximize the BIM data stored in the model. Design models often lack construction data needed for downstream use, but adding customized information to a conditioned and structured model can result in a model that can be utilized from design to construction to handover. Currently, siloed solutions force teams to maintain multiple sources of truth for project documents at different project phases, resulting in heightened confusion. In this session, we will cover how project teams can incorporate integrated workflows with Assemble software, and get the full benefit of a common data environment (CDE) used by other Autodesk construction solutions, facilitating collaboration between project members to avoid duplication and mistakes.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Structural Design to Fabrication with AEC Collection—Part II

This class is the next level up from the “Structural Design to Fabrication: Revit and Advance Steel—Buddies for Life” class at Autodesk University 2020. Once you have designed, simulated, and generated the fabrication drawings, the next step is making them available to the field teams. On top of that, tracking the changes and ensuring the site teams have access to the latest documentation is one of the main challenges. This class will focus on the various office-to-field workflows you can use to share the latest and greatest structural BIM (Building Information Modeling) data and fabrication drawings with the extended teams in the field. You will learn about the Forma Data Management workflows that come in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection that you can use to share and compare different versions of structural BIM data and fabrication drawings for effective decision-making processes in the field. This class will also cover the process of creating and managing issues related to structural field workflows.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Revit for Rebar: Why BIM Is Better for Concrete

CAD has helped grow the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry far beyond manually produced paper drawings, empowering us to produce more complex, more accurate designs. Today, the AEC industry continues to face new challenges, including financial constraints that increase pressure to deliver projects more quickly and accurately. As a result, AEC firms are evolving their technology once again. In recent years, the move from CAD to Building Information Modeling (BIM) has accelerated as BIM workflows have proven to deliver many benefits over CAD. With the rise of BIM, many new capabilities for reinforced concrete design and rebar detailing have been introduced in BIM authoring tools. When using Revit for rebar design and detailing, every structural member can be modeled, documented, tracked, and controlled, and design changes can be coordinated easily and managed accurately. Don't wait to move to BIM—the right time is NOW.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Validation of DfMA and Data Platform in Data Strategy Beyond BIM and Its Future

Daiwa House has achieved early adoption of building information modeling (BIM) in the design phase, adopted Forma Data Management as its standard common data environment (CDE), obtained ISO 19650 certification, and is currently pursuing a CDP strategy. Toward further growth and innovation beyond BIM, we've launched the "Data-Centric Project" with Autodesk this year, focusing on a data strategy. We've defined a DDP (DfMA data platform), prepared a KoP (kit of parts) using DfMA methodology, and verified its effectiveness in real projects to address social issues such as construction waste and decrease of skilled workers. As data strategy has become essential, along with the verification of the effectiveness of the DfMA methodology in actual projects, we'll present the overall concept of the data-centered project, and discuss how DfMA and data strategy are related to each other and to the realization of the digital construction industry.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Practical Application of InfraWorks for Bridge Modelling and Design

In this class, you'll learn from a bridge engineer who successfully designed almost 40 bridges using the InfraWorks-centered bridge modeling workflow. You'll see an overview of the workflow and get advice on how to implement it efficiently for a real-world project. Following an overview of the workflow that includes road modeling in Civil 3D software, bridge setup in InfraWorks software, preparation of parametric bridge parts in Inventor software, and production of drawings via Revit software, this class will teach you how to prepare a virtual environment in InfraWorks for ease of workability and sharing of data sources via Forma Data Management. You'll learn how to exchange the road models between InfraWorks and Civil 3D, including modification of road assemblies for bridge modeling in InfraWorks. This class will demonstrate modeling of individual bridge parts, such as abutments in Inventor or Revit. You'll see the preparation of drawings in Revit and related fine-tuning of the bridge model in InfraWorks.

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Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024

Cloud Coordination Model with Changes Awareness in Revit

Unleash the power of Revit software's Coordination Model Changes! Say goodbye to the tedium of manually tracking overlapping elements across disciplines, and welcome a sleek, cloud-based solution. This innovative tool instantly identifies modifications, additions, or deletions right in your Revit canvas/views. Experience effortless change detection with intuitive highlighting, clear object hierarchies, and filters tailored to your interests. Embrace the future of project management where your focus remains where it should be—on your design, not on tracking changes.

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