In this session, we’ll explore the development and application of a web-based tool designed to streamline the application of zones into an architectural Revit model. Our application uses the AEC data model and integrates Autodesk Assistant, an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) agent, allowing users to interrogate their models using natural language. By automating these processes, our solution significantly reduces manual effort, while increasing model visibility. We estimate that our solution can save us an average of eight hours per project. Whether you’re interested in streamlining zone assignment or just want to see a cool AI tool, this session has something for you!

Generative design isn’t just a buzzword - it’s a powerful tool that can reshape how we approach projects in Civil 3D. Yet many users are unsure where to begin to implement generative design into their daily workflows. This class will explore how you can implement generative design into various Civil 3D workflows to create smarter, clash-free models, streamline tasks, and unlock better project outcomes. This session will demonstrate various real-world examples of where generative design can be applied, including route optimization & asset placement. You’ll learn how to prepare Dynamo graphs for use in generative design before creating generative design studies, evaluating outcomes and generating geometry in Civil 3D – all with practical real-world examples. Whether you’re looking to reduce risk, lower costs, improve Sustainable Design or simply work smarter, this class will give you the confidence and tools to put generative design to work on your Civil 3D projects.

Dr. Tonya Custis, senior director of artificial intelligence (AI) at Autodesk, draws on 20 years of experience in AI research to explore both the limitations and the transformative potential of AI in design workflows. While powerful, AI is often misunderstood—it’s frequently perceived as a catch-all magical solution rather than a tool with specific strengths and weaknesses. As AI becomes more commonly used in daily life, expectations rise for its role in professional tools. The best way to move beyond the hype, fear, and uncertainty surrounding AI is to develop an understanding of its history, limitations, and the types of tasks it’s best suited to help with. In this session, Dr. Custis will demystify how AI actually works, examine current trends, and outline the unique challenges of applying AI to design workflows—particularly those involving complex 3D design data. She’ll also share some recent work from the Autodesk AI Lab, offering a glimpse into the current state of AI in design and what the future may hold.

Imagine a design process where creative exploration meets technical precision, seamlessly blending Rhino’s fluid conceptualization with Revit’s detailed documentation. In this session, we will explore a dynamic, cross-platform workflow that transforms 2D sketches and conceptual master plans into data-rich, buildable models—while preserving design intent and enhancing efficiency. Discover how the Environment plugin for Revit empowers landscape architects and urban designers to push creative boundaries, iterate efficiently, and bridge the gap between design and documentation with accuracy. This session will highlight a methodical yet flexible approach that minimizes errors, fosters collaboration, and streamlines project execution—illustrated through real-world applications that demonstrate design optimization and efficient delivery.

As our industry strives to address global issues such as productivity and resources, we see productization surfacing as a key driver for change. In this session, we'll dive into what technology can do to support this change, and we'll explore existing solutions.

Generative design is often seen as a new design methodology. However, the key principles of the process mirror the fundamentals of design. In this class, we'll present a case study of how generative design is being used at University College London (UCL) to reinforce the core design curriculum through industrially relevant technology. During this class, you'll gain an understanding of the generative design process, see how you can apply it in an educational setting, and evaluate its use through a real-world example. We'll explore how we can use generative design for multiobjective optimization, and how this can be turned into a hands-on graded assignment that forces students to consider real-world requirements. This will include evaluations of student submissions and analysis of how effective this assignment was at teaching the principles of design, as well as course materials for you to take away and use while running similar teaching exercises.

Automation and AI in the Manufacturing industry can be a game-changer. These technologies can enhance the capabilities of a shop, allowing it to take on more complex projects that may have been previously out of reach. Automation can help in handling tedious or repetitive parts of the design and make process, such as quoting, toolpath programming, feeds and speeds management, and more to improve performance. AI can offer design optimizations, recommendations and DFM feedback for additive and subtractive workflows. Hear directly from the partners delivering these workflows in Fusion. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Considering the imminent climate crisis, we need to reduce our emissions drastically. However, at the same time, the mobility sector is steadily growing. One solution can be the Hyperloop, promising shorter travel times than air passenger travel with fewer emissions. mu-zero HYPERLOOP is a team of 50+ passionate students from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with a mission to contribute to a sustainable future of transportation. Each year, we design and build a Hyperloop Pod using Autodesk Fusion software, and ultimately compete very successfully against other teams at the European Hyperloop Week (EHW). This session will explore how we use Fusion to design and manage a complex project with 25,000+ components and collaborate with 50+ team members. Learn how to use Fusion as a comprehensive platform for concept sketching, simulation, generative design, and the handling of large assemblies and streamlined manufacturing workflows.

Join Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to discover its journey of adopting and deploying OpenUSD to build an interoperable Spatial Technology Stack (STS) with tools that include Maya software, 3ds Max software, Epic Unreal, and McNeel Rhino. The STS lets ZHA build immersive digital twins that enable deeper integrations between design and construction, enhance spatial experiences, and increase efficiencies in design and review cycles. In the session, we'll cover how no-code or low-code platforms and APIs, such as NVIDIA Omniverse, are enabling ZHA to build proprietary tools. These tools allow the firm to interact with and manipulate its data sets in processes such as robotics and digital fabrication. This approach reduces material waste while increasing sustainability and innovation. Join us to explore how this innovative approach revolutionizes architectural design, making it more engaging, responsible, and accessible to the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.

Teaching Tectonism to AI"" is an exploration that focusses on the convergence of AI and tectonism. Tectonism, as a leading subsidiary style of parametricism, poses a unique challenge for current text-to-image AI tools due to their limited comprehension of structural dependencies in architectural representations. The presentation will showcase the potential of merging structural topology generation tools with Generative Artificial Intelligence across various architectural typologies and how this is integrated into early stage ideations at Zaha Hadid Architects.

Specialized applications for structure, analysis, detailing, and more are now included when you subscribe to the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. How is the new, unified AEC Collection changing how you work? In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn about the seamless Revit software, Robot Structural Analysis software, Advance Steel software, and Dynamo software. You’ll learn how to link a Revit structural model to Robot Structural Analysis for structural steel code check and optimization. You’ll also learn how to control all models using Dynamo and Autodesk Generative Design software. This class will also cover how to set up and use BIM 360 Design software for sharing Revit, Robot Structural Analysis, and Advance Steel models, and to curate, coordinate, and manage deliverables throughout the project lifecycle. When design project teams have the right information at the right time, work happens faster.

In this course, the Evangelist Team will share how Fusion 360 software and Autodesk Generative Design tools in Fusion 360 can be used as part of a design exploration strategy for industrial designers, expediting the process from conceptual development to product development, helping to make decisions on the design strategy and aesthetic directions of a product.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that OpenAI developed and released in November 2022 with an $11+ billion investment from Microsoft. Going from a prototype we developed during an Autodesk Hackathon, you'll learn how you can use ChatGPT to create modeling objects or take action on your existing model design by either voice or text input. You will also get a chance to hear firsthand about the benefits and challenges we learned while integrating this developing technology into a flagship application.