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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 / San Diego 2024
Speed Up Large Data Sets in Civil 3D: Best Practices and New Techniques

When a large-scale infrastructure project gets started, you'll need to use tools in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to work with your data efficiently. The information in this session will reduce the time it takes to process huge files, from processing LiDAR-based surface models in ReCap software to implementing Autodesk Forma workflows. Speed up open times, improve collaboration, and learn best practices you can use immediately. We'll dive into topics that include: determining when to break up files using Data Shortcuts, managing .mms files for large surface models, using Forma Data Management software for data management, and adjusting AutoCAD settings for optimal performance.

30p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Collaborate, Coordinate, and Consult on AutoCAD Drawings Using Autodesk Forma
In this class, we'll demonstrate how to set up, configure, and drive design standardization for AutoCAD drawings in Autodesk Forma. AutoCAD and Forma Data Management have tighter integration through Desktop Connector. We'll explore best practices for enhanced collaboration while handling AutoCAD drawing relationships, including references and supported files in Forma Data Management. We'll share a quick walk-through on the Autodesk Bridge and explore its potential to help users unlock coordination during the design process and drive standardization in AutoCAD drawings. We'll demo AutoCAD cloud-based features like Activity Insights and DWG™ History showing how users can consult the changes made to their cloud-based drawings and templates anytime, anywhere. We'll wrap up the session with productivity enhancements in AutoCAD 2024 and Desktop Connector that help users achieve three Cs during their design process through AutoCAD drawings in Autodesk Forma projects.
43p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Asset Commissioning: Implementation of BIM Technologies in a Large Water and Wastewater Company
Sabesp is the largest sanitation company in the Americas and one of the largest in the world. It is responsible for water supply and sewage collection in 375 municipalities, serving 28+ million people. The company's large numbers are accompanied by complex challenges. This presentation will explore the experience of an ambitious corporate building information modeling (BIM) implementation program, in its first wave of implementation. This implementation has as one of its main objectives the development of and access to asset information with a focus on commissioning. The program is in its second year of implementation, and you'll be able to check the advances obtained in themes that include: development of libraries and templates, development of unified processes for the use of a common data environment [Autodesk Forma, Forma Data Management, and Autodesk Platform Services (formerly Forge)], GeoBIM integration (Autodesk and Esri/GE SmallWorld), and BIM and ERP (SAP) integration. The entire technology base used in this implementation is supported by Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection from Autodesk.
32p
New Orleans 2022
São Paulo Metro Line 6: Resuming Largest Infrastructure Project in Latin America
With 15 km of metro line and 15 stations developed in Sao Paulo, Line 6 is the largest public-private infrastructure project under development in Latin America, and one of Acciona’s largest projects. Resuming it has its challenges: the size of the project, its complex and diverse city setting, the large network of stakeholders, and the extra challenge of a contract resumed after several years of being on hold. Building information modeling (BIM) had been implemented across most disciplines, allowing a smooth restart helped by point clouds and our topographers providing daily feedback to our engineering team. Forma Data Management software as a common data environment (CDE) has helped us to achieve the transversality of information. It has become a key tool for regarding project review, design interface, and constructability solutions. In the time of a pandemic, Autodesk Forma has facilitated the coordination and collaboration between different teams and countries, ensuring that key stakeholders have access to the latest data, anytime and anywhere.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Breaking down ISO 19650. A Document Controllers guide to Forma Data Management.
Forma Data Management now include workflows in support of ISO 19650 – an international design and construction information management standard. Governments across the world realize that inconsistent standards and practices are leading to huge inefficiencies and are mandating that these processes are adhered to. Unforeseen events like Covid have exposed how quickly things can change and we’ve have had to learn the hard way that the industry needs to be better prepared for the future. The need for a robust and powerful CDE solution is now more important than ever. Forma Data Management provides comprehensive capabilities for managing construction records through their entire life cycle and it’s all in the cloud! In this class we will demonstrate how document controllers can manage and optimize the document management process, handle the review, exchange, and distribution of project drawings, models, all while maintaining a consistent naming standard.
New Orleans 2022
Sharing ReCap Projects on Autodesk's Cloud Platforms
Whether you’re scanning an existing site or capturing as-built data near the end of a project, you've put in the work to create a digital twin of your site in ReCap software. Now stakeholders need to review it or perhaps teammates need it to further their design. We'll discuss how to use secure Autodesk platforms like BIM 360, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Drive to connect colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to your data. We’ll start with understanding various workflows to get your project up in the cloud. Once there, we'll use collaborative tools in the Autodesk Forge Viewer API to create markups and annotations that can be synced down to the project locally. We'll cover how teammates and partners can consume your data in other products like Revit software, Civil 3D software, and InfraWorks software. Lastly, we'll discuss where the product may be heading, and how that could affect current workflows. Whether you’re a surveyor or a BIM manager tasked with managing point cloud data, you’ll find value in this course.
New Orleans 2022
AECO: How Owners Can Bridge the Gap Between AEC and Operations
The moment a new facility opens, the data needed to operate it is immediately out of date. The disconnect between building design, construction, and operations is real and it significantly impacts building owners. The ability to locate and service critical assets from day one is compromised, risking asset performance, service quality and operational efficiency that only gets worse as time goes on. Sophisticated integrations between Autodesk and modern IWMS platforms like Archibus are streamlining this process and closing the gap. Better knowledge transfer from design to operation ensures a smoother transition, better design, and more efficient operations that significantly reduces costs, delivers a higher-quality occupier experience, and more. Join us to learn how organizations are leveraging these systems to maximize operational performance and extract data from their physical environment to make more informed decisions that strengthen their future.
New Orleans 2022
Shared Coordinates: Tales of Two Bavarian-American Cities
Large and complex projects often present large and complex problems that can last a lifetime if not properly managed. One of those problems can be establishing the appropriate geolocation of buildings on a site, or, in Revit-speak, "shared coordinates." As we explore two Bavarian-inspired destination towns that have been years in the making, and are worth billions of dollars in investment, time, and coordination, we’ll analyze how time can cause geographical data to shift and leave a place in space not where you thought it once was. Understand how this impacts existing built work and causes anticipated construction schedules to shift, and see how to reestablish shared coordinates in multiple platforms (Revit software, Civil 3D software, AutoCAD software, Navisworks software) to prevent miscommunications and downtime before it happens. The translation of data from party to party throughout the lifecycle of a project is vital. Join us as we discuss some of the do’s and don’ts developed throughout decades of relationships with these two projects.
New Orleans 2022
Bridging Revit and Inventor Using Autodesk Data Exchange to Make Configurator
Data Exchange is a service developed by Autodesk. It acts as an access manager that protects your data. Data Exchange gives you the control to share the right information with the right person for a suitable duration without the concern of industry type or application. Using the Autodesk Forge Data Exchange service, we’ve developed a solar configurator by creating two plug-ins useful for solar designers. The architect uses our Revit plug-in to enter the solar load requirements which automatically creates a view that consists only of the roof elements. Then the solar designer uses our Inventor plug-in to load the Data Exchange of the roof, automatically creating an assembly relative to the required solar load. In this class, we’ll discuss the Data Exchange service and its Autodesk Forge APIs and their uses. We’ll demonstrate our application that will help viewers to think about other possibilities, solving their business logic by making effective use of the Data Exchange and related Autodesk Forge APIs.
New Orleans 2022
Accelerating Digital Transformation: Using Autodesk Forge at Enterprise Level
For the last two years during the pandemic, Jacobs’ digital delivery team in Australia has been aware of the increasing challenges posed by remote project collaboration and stakeholder engagement. We’ve developed a platform named SIFT that is built on top of Autodesk Forge, Microsoft Power Platform, and Microsoft Azure services to help accelerate our internal digital transformation. SIFT democratizes building information modeling (BIM) data by helping design teams better consume and understand design information from intelligent models, bridging the gap between specialized BIM software and end users, and making information from Autodesk Forma easily accessible through enterprise-level IT infrastructure like Microsoft 365. When used together with Microsoft Power Platform, SIFT helps us effectively remove most coding requirements and lower the threshold for adoption and operation of BIM technologies, making BIM data more accessible and actionable.
New Orleans 2022
Microsoft Power BI to Maximize BIM and GIS Integration
Building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) integration has become an essential part of large-scale projects. While a massive amount of information is produced during the project lifecycle, it’s sometimes hard to use it because it’s trapped inside the BIM and GIS software. This becomes an obstacle for non-users of BIM and GIS—especially on decision-maker levels and from project management perspectives. Using business intelligence software, Microsoft Power BI, and the support of other software like Autodesk Forge and VCAD, Power BI will be able to present intelligent models and GIS layers in an interactive way connected with all types of trackers. In this session, the speaker will present how they created an information center that acts as the single source of truth for their projects using the interactive connection between Power BI, BIM 360 software, ArcGIS, and trackers in Microsoft Excel to give all team members access to up-to-date information.
New Orleans 2022
Transparency Catalog Project Builder: Design-to-Build Integrated Workflow
The demand for transparency is driving building-product transformation. The Transparency Catalog is accelerating the transformation by making it super easy to select, specify, and procure greener and healthier materials for high-performance building projects. Continually growing, it includes 1,770 manufacturers, products in 1,250 MasterFormat sections (Apr ‘22), and every EPD, HPD, Declare label and C2C-certified product available in North America. Architecture, engineering, construction, and owner-operated (AECO) industry stakeholders constructing high-performance buildings want to ensure the brands and products they select actually get specified, procured, and installed. Today, the substantial gaps in workflow, data, and tools make doing so time-intensive, expensive, and difficult to repeat. Transparency Catalog Project Builder enables integrated and efficient processes for AECO industry stakeholders to centralize data and collaborate across design, build, and operate. It builds knowledge and expertise to make informed decisions to help ensure the outcome is a credibly higher-performing building.
New Orleans 2022
Improving Efficiencies by Using Autodesk Assemble Data with Autodesk Forma Connect
IMC Construction is one of the largest contractors in the Philadelphia region, and a full-service construction management firm that takes pride in providing an innovative and collaborative approach to project delivery for clients. IMC is using Autodesk Assemble software to condition and append data to their models, enhancing the models to be ready for review at any moment. IMC then uses Autodesk Forma Connect to take advantage of the firm’s enhanced models and data throughout the project lifecycle. With the power of this integration, IMC can track cost drivers to stay in line with its planned budget, as well as collect and compare historical data to identify design inefficiencies, and track productivity on site. By maximizing the power of Autodesk Assemble to condition and enhance models—and the power of Autodesk Forma Connect to link data across the project lifecycle—IMC has improved the efficiency of this workflow by more than 90%, simultaneously increasing their competitive advantage and the quality of the projects they deliver.
New Orleans 2022
SLI: At the Forefront of Industrialized Construction
After a 14-year journey through multiple iterations, SLI has arrived at a point where it can build a 14-story high-rise structure in a factory and assemble it on a jobsite as if it was a kit of parts. But we’re far from the end of the journey. For example, we're now 60% of the way from completing a load-bearing version of our solution that will be assembled as a low-rise residential home for people experiencing homelessness. Without significant refinement in our manufacturing processes and assembly processes, we won’t achieve the level of affordability that we intend for our solution to provide. So, we clearly understand the necessity of transforming our design manufacturing and delivery processes via a comprehensive use of digital tools. Our partnership with Autodesk is intended to be a mutually beneficial collaboration as a result of our bringing to Autodesk all of our current and past experiences gleaned from our industrialized construction journey.
New Orleans 2022
Pharma Industry: Why BIM Can Become a Digital Transformation Cornerstone
Building information modeling (BIM) processes with federated 3D models and centralized common data environments (CDEs) are well-accepted norms in project delivery. Yet, the benefits derived from this digitalization favor the engineering companies over the manufacturing owner. Moreover, the owner's transformation focus is mostly on digitizing highly regulated drug releases and manufacturing performance. Converging these two digital approaches is not often seen as a priority. Yet, it may be a foundational step toward a successful digital transformation for businesses and their people. We’ll make the case for data convergence between digital assets (descriptive digital twins) and manufacturing data and analytics to solve business problems, like accessing the right information and documentation without time loss. We’ll share how the human-centered approach made visible the foundational benefit of BIM by linking objects to information using BIM 360 (collaborate) and data fusion technologies, and which KPIs can demonstrate value.
New Orleans 2022
Up and Running with Data Exchange API: Where Does Model Derivative Fit?
The new Data Exchange service helps you unlock your data and gives you the flexibility to share the right data with the right stakeholders at the right time. Its flexible and powerful API allows you to access the granular data in exchanges and, given the structure of the data, it is also possible to quickly identify and get the difference between the versions of a shared data subset. In this class, we’ll have an overview of the concepts used by the Data Exchange to describe the data structure, and we’ll work with these concepts to explain how the data’s organized within an exchange container. We’ll discuss the current capabilities of the Data Exchange API as well as some future functionalities. Given its current capabilities, we’ll go through some workflows that best suit its use. To be fair, we’ll also see some cases where it might not be the right solution, and compare it with other APIs like the Model Derivative API, the BIM 360 API, and Autodesk Forma Model Properties API.
Virtual 2021
Construction Keynote
The future of the construction industry has never been brighter, in part due to the increased adoption of technology across all phases—design, plan, build, and operate. From streamlining specific processes to better collect, manage, and analyze data to embracing new business models, it’s no longer a question of whether to use technology, but how and why. During this keynote, Autodesk leaders will share Autodesk Forma updates and highlight industry innovators who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
How to Create Digital Twins with Autodesk’s BIM Solutions and Unity
During the BIM (Building Information Modeling) evolution, we’ve seen many different solutions for many different contexts. Easy access to information means that our customers are coming to us much better informed and more curious. During the COVID-19 crisis, there was an abundance of information available via webinars, online workshops, and other channels that helped people understand BIM better. But how do we keep moving forward? Much has been heard about digital twins, the new proposal for project analysis in construction and postconstruction processes. Innovation raises questions such as: “How am I supposed to offer this solution to my customers?” In this class, we’ll explore the differences between a digital twin and an intelligent model, help you understand Unity solutions for digital twins, and highlight the advantages of this innovation by showing you how we can do it with the support of Autodesk partner Unity.
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