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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Smooth Collaboration: Automatic Synchronization of Projects in Forma Data Management with AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP 2025

Forma Data Management is a cloud-based common data environment on the Autodesk Forma platform, facilitating concurrent collaboration between multiple users. Does working together on the same project pose challenges for the team, particularly when multiple users are working on the same set of drawings? Are you experiencing any synchronization issues while collaborating on the same project drawings? Do you encounter issues when notifications about one user's edits are not sent to the other users? Collaboration becomes significantly more productive when the system operates as anticipated and delivers instant results. With Forma Data Management project synchronization enhancement in AutoCAD Architecture software and AutoCAD MEP toolset now resolves the challenges and alleviates our burdens. The projects hosted on Forma Data Management now support automatic synchronization of changes across multiple users. Now two or more users can collaborate on a project across offices and locations. Users can identify if a drawing is available for editing or locked by others.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Forma Design Collaboration: ACCelerating Distributed Team Workflows

The cloud-based collaboration services, Autodesk BIM Collaborate & Forma Design Collaboration, are enabling teams to gain efficiencies through an integrated model, document management, and review solution, providing permission-enriched workflows, allowing teams to execute projects with unprecedented efficiency, access, and control for team integration. We will highlight the evolving possibilities provided by these Autodesk services, all managed through a web interface and mobile applications. Looking at the functionality that each service module brings to the project, we will walk through common project workflows and discuss the best approach for migrating your next project to the cloud. As one of the leading consumers of Autodesk Forma services, with over 4,000 active projects, we will share our success and challenges along the way.

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Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Why the Cloud Is the Perfect Companion for Structural Steel Experts

This class will introduce a wide range of Autodesk cloud-based tools, from quick exchanges with the shared views feature for 3D models and 2D documentation to Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM 360 Design software) for multiteam collaboration. Learn about how connecting workflows, teams, and data can reduce risk, minimize rework, and maximize efficiency when designing and detailing a steel structure.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

BIM Collaborate: Bringing the Distributed Team Together

Autodesk’s cloud-based collaboration services—BIM Collaborate and Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM 360 Design software)—are empowering teams to work within an integrated document management and review solution, providing permission-enriched workflows, and enabling teams to execute projects with unprecedented access and control for team integration. This class will highlight the evolving possibilities of these Autodesk services, all of which can be managed through a web interface and mobile applications. Looking at the functionality of each service module, we will walk through common project workflows and discuss the best approach for migrating your next project to the cloud. We are one of the leading consumers of Autodesk’s Forma services, with more than 3,000 active projects. We will discuss our success and the challenges we encountered along the way.

New Orleans 2022

The Future of Integrated Factory Model Collaboration

Building projects are already realized with the innovative Autodesk Forma, a data and collaboration platform enabling different planning disciplines and teams to work together in a common data environment. In a factory planning project, those planning disciplines are enhanced with teams needing to integrate complex production lines, conveyor systems, steel structure, and even logistics equipment. Hidden behind firewalls, software installed and running on-premise forces teams to handle time-consuming and inefficient data exchange, disconnected collaboration tracking processes, and inadequate viewing and reviewing of tasks. This class will demonstrate how Autodesk’s Cloud Services make it possible to efficiently exchange data between on-premise systems and cloud solutions (off premise). We’ll showcase and provide a best-practice approach, and cover how to set up a model coordination space in Forma Design Collaboration to manage a holistic factory model, its clashes and issues, and its review tasks.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

How Forma Design Collaboration Boosted Our Success During a Global Pandemic

Many ongoing projects were affected during the pandemic, requiring changes to our design teams’ traditional workflows. Keeping all teams connected and motivated while social distancing has been an enormous challenge for our industry. Autodesk Forma has evolved to provide the greatest efficiency for cloud collaboration and team integration. In this class, attendees will learn how to use Revit Cloud Worksharing applying a standardized workflow that’s easy to understand and effective for fast-track projects, including project creation, worksharing process, and publish settings. With this workflow, we’ve been able to reduce communication lags, avoid local server failures, and optimize the sync process of our models by up to 50% compared to the traditional local server workflow.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Buildings and Infrastructure—Together at Last!—With Forma Design Collaboration

Are you interested in using Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM 360 Design software) for multidisciplinary projects? This class is for you! Following a quick product overview, we'll dive into a live project for a whirlwind tour. We’ll start in the authoring tools—working with files from Revit software, Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software—and show you how to share those files to the cloud. Next, we'll jump into design collaboration, where each design team will create and share its work packages. We'll then move over to model coordination and review any 3D clashes that have popped up. From there, we’ll visit BIM 360 Docs software and see how all project stakeholders have roles to play in model viewing, sharing, markups, issues, and more. Finally, we'll wrap up our journey in Insight building performance analysis software, where we’ll track the health of our project at a glance. This fast-paced course will help you in your decision about whether to adopt Forma Design Collaboration within your own firm.