Architects today face a complex challenge: accurately estimating carbon footprints while exploring a wider and wider variety of forms. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to effectively integrate Autodesk Forma software's carbon analysis tools with Rhino software's modeling capabilities, presenting a novel workflow that allows the evaluation of multiple designs simultaneously. Understand best practices for organizing data in Rhino. Learn methods to quickly incorporate insights from Autodesk Forma back into Rhino for ongoing design iteration. Discover strategies you can use to dramatically reduce the time spent on evaluating carbon impacts, achieving vast efficiency improvements, while maximizing design quality and minimizing environmental impact.

A cross-industry technology fusion! We used Autodesk Generative Design software to create an adaptive connector bracket for robot-operated 3D scans of ancient structures. ReCap software and Dynamo helped us study traditional construction methods and enrich our restoration efforts. This report covers our process in Autodesk Fusion 360 software, including entering design parameters and extracting constraints from the historical site. It explains how we turned the bracket's requirements into criteria for rapid iteration and selection, quickly finding the best solution. It also explains how ReCap processed robot-collected point cloud data to investigate architectural principles and features of ancient buildings in Southern China. Finally, it describes how Dynamo converted these insights into automated building information modeling (BIM) scripting, bridging historical knowledge with modern technology for efficient restoration practices.

Discover the power of AI in design optimization with this innovative AU class. Learn how to use large language models (LLMs) and Autodesk Forma software, a custom extension, to efficiently compare and evaluate multiple design options for a specific site. Gain insights into how AI can analyze various design aspects—such as functionality, aesthetics, and environmental factors—to determine the most suitable option. Throughout the class, you'll explore real-world case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of using LLMs and Forma in design decision making. Acquire practical skills in using the Forma extension to streamline your design workflow and make data-driven decisions. By the end of this class, you'll have the knowledge and tools to harness the potential of AI in design comparison and optimization. Elevate your design process, save time, and create outstanding results that meet and exceed client expectations.

This session will detail how to use Revit software and building information modeling (BIM) for complete load calculation with the help of API development, from power outlets to lighting fixtures and up to the main switchboard. In an underground railway station project, a total load of approximately 4,000 amps has been successfully calculated for the electrical system design. We understand there are difficulties to simultaneously use BIM for electrical engineering, 3D modeling, and 2D drawings in a single model. This case study will demonstrate it can be successfully achieved with great efficiency. We'll explore: 1. How to make smart families that are efficient and easy to use for calculation and 3D and 2D representation. 2. How to connect the circuits and pass the load upstream for the whole system, including UPS and duty-standby situations. 3. How to calculate electrical load from other disciplines, such as HVAC and Comms. 4. How to calculate electrical load from other models, e.g., electrical load from tunnel models to station model.

In today's dynamic architecture, engineering, and construction industry, projects are scaling up in size and complexity. Delivering projects under tight deadlines without compromising quality is the ultimate challenge, and the demand for efficiency and optimum solutions has never been greater. This session will explore the transformative power of optimization in Autodesk products, showcasing how they're instrumental in achieving maximum outcomes. Through a series of practical examples using Revit software, Autodesk Forma software, Autodesk Tandem software, and custom API-based solutions, participants will uncover invaluable insights into the power of optimization at every stage—from design through construction to operations. Join this session to explore the forefront of optimization—where innovation meets efficiency and projects are not just completed but elevated to their fullest potential.

How do you seamlessly transition from a simple digital mass to the completion of complex intertwined geometry on-site? Join me in experiencing the transformative power of digitalization in construction, as we navigate the lifecycle of a $3 billion commercial precinct skyscraper. Through Revit software and supporting platforms, witness the orchestration of design, fabrication, and installation from concept to completion. From a seasoned architect's 20-year immersion in building information modeling (BIM) software, we'll explore the risks and pitfalls in planning for 5D BIM projects, and we'll look at contractual and operational challenges among various stakeholders throughout each stage of the project. We'll unveil the engineering intricacies of this megaproject, dissecting challenges of multiple volumetric titles over a freeway and rail corridor, and a twisting prefabricated steel roof. With insights into best practices and lessons learned, see how digitalization achieves precision and efficiency, shaping the future of construction.

In this talk, we will dive deeply into how ongoing technological strides are revolutionizing building services engineering and enabling new event-driven design workflows. We will explore innovative automation tools, including visual programming and SaaS platforms, that are not only enhancing the efficiency and precision of MEP designs, but are also promoting a more integrative and dynamic approach to engineering challenges by capturing engineering knowledge, as well as the data that drives it. This presentation will also emphasize the transformative potential of fileless data architecture through the power of federated GraphQL APIs, Neo4j graph databases, and Autodesk Forma software. These advanced technologies facilitate a seamless, real-time flow of information, adapting dynamically to changes and ensuring that every component within a project is consistently synchronized with a single source of design information.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative design (GD) are transforming the architecture, engineering, and construction industry toward a more efficient design process. But is the built environment in danger of losing social and equity values as a result? The powerful combination of GD and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has the potential to assist architects in improving building functionality and sustainability, enhancing value for architects, developers, and residents. However, ethical and social sustainability values may be overlooked if the metrics of the GD and GAI are not instructed to identify and prioritize them. This class will combine findings from a multidisciplinary research project from Carnegie Mellon University, and real-life architectural projects by HED. Learn how to prioritize important equity and social sustainability values in human-in-the-loop AI powered design frameworks, making ethical and socio-sustainable design decisions measurable and transparent to all stakeholders, for a more equitable and resilient built environment.

Building information modeling (BIM) platforms and design software have opposite strengths. To get the best from each, it's beneficial to have them working in combination and complementing each other throughout the whole design phase. Doing so will also help bring BIM culture closer to designers, breaking the entrenched silos between the disciplines. Embracing designers in BIM allows for earlier implementation in the project and delays design freeze, as every iteration is captured in the federated model. This workflow proposes a fully integrated approach to the use of Rhino software and Revit software, describing the interoperability requirements of these platforms at the different stages of a project. Interoperability is a big challenge—we will review how an agile methodology can let you incorporate emerging technologies, and how this technology affects the design process.

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is transitioning from traditional desktop applications to a decentralized cloud model, where project data is stored in databases, not bulky files. Leading this shift, Autodesk offers a comprehensive suite of APIs and services, unlocking new ways to connect workflows with data. This class, aimed at intermediate-level users, dives into Dynamo software's connectors and the new AEC Data Model API, facilitating seamless integration of cloud-based functionalities. We start with an overview of the AEC Data Model nodes and GraphQL nodes, enabling navigation to Autodesk hubs, projects, and data sources. Attendees will learn how to connect Dynamo graphs with cloud data and efficiently unpack and filter data using a variety of nodes. The class will conclude with examples showcasing cross-trade workflows. Takeaways will include understanding the capabilities of Dynamo and Autodesk Platform Services, and inspiring new data-driven methods for future projects.

This session will explore how language learning models (LLMs) can be integrated with Autodesk Platform Services APIs for optimization of hyperparameters like structural design, reduction of material usage, and embodied carbon. We'll demonstrate this using Autodesk Platform Services to extract building information modeling (BIM) data from Revit models to train LLMs, generating intelligent-design suggestions. The optimized designs are later visualized in Autodesk Platform Services Autodesk Viewer, clearly identifying improvements. Using sample Revit models, we'll showcase how this approach has led to substantial reductions in material consumption and carbon emissions, such as a 25% reduction in steel usage and a 30% decrease in embodied carbon. Discover how using AI and Autodesk Platform Services can create more-sustainable, more-efficient, and more-innovative structural designs, driving the industry toward a greener future.

Did you want some fun and exciting—and unconventional—Revit and Dynamo tips? Then attend this class! We'll cover some "off the wall" Revit tips, such as quick dimensioning from any location in your Revit model to any other location. Also, this class will cover some lesser-known Dynamo tips that'll get your Revit workflow really moving. How about crazy tips for family modeling? This class will have that too! Sit back and enjoy the ride, and even if you're a Revit and Dynamo expert, you'll learn something new.

Evolved Structures, a technology based on generative design and digital manufacturing, has the potential to revolutionize spaceflight system components. This presentation explores "prompt engineering" for guiding generative design artificial intelligence (AI) using textual and geometric information to create parts that meet functional, structural, and manufacturing requirements. By integrating essential design elements, engineers can maximize AI-driven optimization for innovative, high-performance spaceflight systems that are cost-effective and efficient to produce. The presentation will also showcase examples of fabricated hardware developed using this approach, which are slated for integration in future NASA missions.

In this class, we'll demonstrate a project that uses Automated Modeling to design a conceptual part. We'll then take that concept and refine it to become a functional, manufacturable part using Generative Design.

In this session, we'll take a look at Alias 2024 software—a new modern Alias for a new world showing innovative modeling and discoverability for a new age.

This session will look at Grading Optimization and how it can help users grade sites to optimal slopes or optimal balance. We'll look at the importance of zones, and the use of lines and points to provide detail to the automated grading. We'll also look at how to encourage desired results, and explore tools that can identify when results are trending toward undesirable results.

We all understand the power Civil 3D brings when creating roadway corridors. How about the efficiency Dynamo adds? Now add in the Generative Design functionality to your corridors, and you have something worth sharing with the community! Using out-of-the-box Civil 3D functionality, we've created a monster! That's right, we've created The Corridor Optimizer! Instead of building a single corridor model, we create hundreds—even thousands—of corridors, in search of THE corridor alternative. With every corridor created, we extract the quantities. Not just our end-area-based corridor quantities, but quantities representing the existing corridor elements that would be impacted by each of these thousand or so corridor alternatives. Once we have quantities, the real excitement begins! Input our pay item unit prices, and we generate costs. Input construction production rates, and we have a schedule! Carbon values? We have sustainability! Join us for this incredible story!

In road design, there are lots of cases where road elements vary a lot. And the typical way of introducing different road elements in the section is to design an assembly for each section you need. Road designers will arrive to a list of road sections that burden them with managing each assembly. This consumes more time that should be used in designing. In this class, you'll learn how to use protocol decision-making subassembly that will help designers create a "smart assembly” that has an algorithm that inserts, removes, modifies, or merges road elements by means of parametric design. This will change our way of road modeling altogether. Creating a massive list of sections that are difficult to manage will be a thing of the past. Building a smart assembly will improve efficiency in modeling complex road sections. And it will ease designers from managing a massive list of assemblies and improve their workflows in road modeling, leading to a more sustainable and efficient workflow.

Asset management using machine-readable and harmonized information will be critical in the future. Several development projects are underway in the field both internationally and nationally regarding the standardization of information. As buildingSMART describes it, "An Information Delivery Specification (IDS) is a computer-interpretable document that defines the Exchange Requirements of model-based exchange. This can be a combination of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), Domain Extensions, and additional classifications and properties [either stored in buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD) or somewhere else]. It holds the ability to create localized and use-case-specific requirements for your projects. The IDS is the missing link for predictable and reliable data exchange workflows.” This session will present a use case and demo of a bSDD add-on for Civil 3D software. The add-on was developed by Ramboll and is part of computational design development strategy. The objective is to use data content effectively during the entire lifecycle of the object.

This product briefing will showcase the latest advances in Dynamo visual scripting, Dynamo Player for workflow automation, and Generative Design in Revit software for automated design exploration. Come learn from Autodesk AEC Generative Design product managers about where they've been focusing their efforts and what's on the road map for future releases. We'll use real-world examples to showcase these tools and show how we've improved the authoring experience in Dynamo and the running experience in both Dynamo Player and Generative Design in Revit. This briefing will demonstrate the value that Dynamo and Generative Design in Revit bring to the design process. We'll show how customers are using the tools to automate their workflows and design explorations in their projects in order to optimize sustainability and efficiency and produce less construction waste. We'll cover the product principles that we use to prioritize new work and future direction. Finally, we'll address the future of the product.