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.

At Autodesk University 2015, the combined use of the Vault API and the Forge Viewer API was first demonstrated. This class continues on that path and showcases the use of the Vault API and Forge Design Automation for Inventor software to programmatically modify Inventor files that reside within Vault software. We will see how to check out a file from Vault and modify the file using Design Automation for Inventor, eliminating the need for a local install of Inventor and its dependent licenses. Post modification, we’ll check the updated file back into Vault, creating a new version and maintaining file history.

Implementing technology is a difficult process, but what happens when your team isn’t ready for it? We’ll take a deep dive into how Hensel Phelps uses an extensive survey to understand its team’s efficiencies and gaps, and look at how the firm is succeeding with the tools it currently has. In addition, we’ll look at how to partner with technology companies to help you achieve your goals of creating efficiencies, increasing ROI, and expanding opportunities to yield tangible improvement on project outcomes.

We all hate interop, let's not hide it. Instead, let's look at the big picture of why and what teams need, what makes it difficult and why, and how it can be approached. Amongst other issues, we will discuss: the impacts of sharing files versus sharing data, what tool ecosystem to use and how finding the right tool for the job usually results in a million 'right' tools doing a million jobs, and how to integrate workflows which require more specialised skill sets. For these points, we will zoom in with specific case studies from our work at Grimshaw, illustrating various problems faced, approaches used, what didn't work, and how we solved the issue. We'll also cover the tools we use and the history of the tools we've built to accomplish this.

CAD standards matter. Yet so few of us have taken the time to develop, document, and deploy the CAD standards we desperately need. The reason is simple—developing CAD standards is hard work. Never fear—we’re going to outline the entire process of installing CAD standards in your company. This class will share with you a framework, including knowing when it’s right for you to create standards, identifying which standards are needed, and deploying your new CAD standards. Learn a tried-and-true process that anyone can put to use, regardless of how busy she or he is. Get supportive milestone information, a checklist to help you go home and document your own effective practices, and a complete framework to help you start. This is the class you’ve been waiting for. Not another day should go by without you and your staff having excellent CAD standards at your fingertips.

The ISO 19650 series contains the latest industry standards and best practices for the management and collaborative production of information using Building Information Modeling (BIM) applying a shared repository, known as a common data environment (CDE). Enabling technologies are needed to achieve the functional and nonfunctional requirements of a CDE and support the activities within the information management process. To ensure Autodesk customers have the technology they need, Autodesk engaged a leading authority on information management when using BIM and the author of ISO 19650-2 to assess BIM 360 Docs software. The outcomes of the review included product enhancements and a recommended configuration to support the adoption of the ISO 19650 series. This class will cover the outcomes of the review process and provide an introduction to the ISO 19650 family of standards with a road map of future developments.

In the early days of CAD, we made 2D creations of designs. Then came the era of creating models in 3D. Now, the next phase is connected BIM (Building Information Modeling). This era is about building applications and solutions that connect a community of people to a project or product, and to the new means of production. In this era, you can optimize a design not only for how it functions, but for how it is built and interconnects with other systems, as well as in the cloud. This class will showcase how users can utilize the power of the cloud using Revit software and BIM 360 software. It will also showcase how the users can customize the information present in BIM 360 using Forge and how they can make their own customized apps.

This session will cover many areas, including 1) Better analytics: Member Limits by Services lacks the detail to understand which areas of your business are getting the most benefit from BIM 360 software and where more support is needed; 2) Data downloading: We have previously only been able to see user status and last sign-in, but it was not linked to the other valuable data in BIM 360 that the data extractor provides; 3) Data cleaning: Microsoft Power BI's Query Editor enables noncoders to transform data sets into a usable format in an intuitive user interface where any Microsoft Excel user will feel at home; 4) Dashboard reports: Once the downloads from the data extractor have been transformed and loaded into Power BI, you can create visual reports that show a high level of detail on BIM 360 usage. To get the same level of understanding you would need to visit many admin pages; and 5) Storyboarding reports: Care should be taken to construct a visual report that first explores trends before progressively drilling down through subcategories to examine detail.

Moving from a MicroStation to a Civil 3D platform is a shift. We will review the data presented to senior leadership, arming them with information to make the switch. Not all projects are equal; hence, we will discuss the types of projects that are suitable for the change. Equally, teaching data management, BIM principles, and Civil 3D is key to a successful platform migration. We will cover the pedagogical theory and techniques used to empower users with new skills. We will consider key strategies to facilitate this shift across different offices in the United States. Data is central to a Civil 3D project. We will examine the data management tools and techniques used to make the learning curve less steep. This will include types of data that are typically necessary for a design project with Civil 3D. In this talk, we will consider how data was created, managed, and shared in Civil 3D 2019/20. Finally, we will review a few technical and non-technical challenges encountered while making the shift.

Traditionally, facility data was managed using paper drawings and post-it notes. The process then evolved to include CAD software like AutoCAD software and static spreadsheets. In today’s world, collaboration over the web has become commonplace. In this class, we will demonstrate how easy is it to publish drawings from multiple disciplines into a single intelligent model making it available for collaboration. Once published, the drawing is then sent to the Forge server where it is converted to a viewable file format. This file is then combined with the live data from the database to create an intelligent resource. Next we will demonstrate how changes made in an AutoCAD drawing can be republished and viewed using the Forge Viewer in faciliCAD Web Manager. Live data enables real-time collaboration. Last, we will show how changes made in the database information show instantly without the need to republish the drawing.

An open discussion of lessons learned while implementing functionalities of the openBoM application using the Forge Viewer and Data Management API. The discussion will include ademo of the application, an overview of the technical issues and architectural decisions, as well as a discussion of prospects for further use of the Forge platform in the application. Active audience participation is assumed and encouraged.

Tune in as we show how it's possible to integrate Fusion 360, Fusion Team, and Forge to create a simple product catalog for your customers.

Vault product data management (PDM) software enables users to control and manage their design data from concept right through to design and manufacture. Within a regulated industry there are several key steps and systems, along with collaboration with other departments, to adhere to before the final phase, implementation of a project, or product delivery. This class will delve into best approaches and practices of Vault implementation and configuration, as well as industry standards and integration with other systems and departments.

This session will cover and demonstrate planned functionality for Vault software. We’ll discuss the future strategy of the product and how you can help drive the product to fit your needs.

We all have ideas. Let's take some time to break them down in this roundtable session. Through the course of the discussion, find out how your peers are performing their Vault activities. Gain an understanding of what the Idea Station really is and does. Learn the best way to enter an idea for evaluation. Maybe you have an idea out there you’d like to discuss, or one that’s been added to the product. This is your chance to share those experiences. Together, with your colleagues and peers, you can look at some of the ideas in the Vault Idea Station to identify the gap being addressed. If you or your peers have found a way to perform an activity, work-around, or solution—now’s the chance to share it or hear it. By the end of the session, you may have some great ideas to submit, or realize some are not needed or others have been addressed in different ways. Better yet, you may find that one treasure that everyone would love to see and vote up for future releases.

Learn about the Inventor Professional software features for advanced mechanical engineering design, finite element analysis, motion simulation, data management, routed system and mold design, and enhanced CAD productivity.

When adopted throughout a company, people can be intimidated by visual programming, Dynamo can feel confusing, and collaboration can be difficult. Therefore, managing Dynamo libraries is labor intensive. GitHub is widely used in software engineering for facilitating collaboration and consistency of code over time. However, it has never been applied in computational design. DynaHub—an open-source Dynamo extension that connects Dynamo to GitHub—bridges a gap by letting you push and pull automations and packages from a centralized and accessible repository. Any user or organization, through their GitHub account, can use the Dynamo scripts stored in their own repository, knowing that they are using the most recent and validated version. By adopting this strategy at Willow, we experienced an increase in productivity, confidence, and usage.

As owners and facility managers, we are the ultimate customers, consumers, and caretakers of Building Information Modeling (BIM). We manage our buildings, grounds, and utilities for years and even decades after the designers and contractors have wiped their hands clean of the projects that built them. In spite of that, proportionally little emphasis is given to owners and facility managers when it comes to BIM. Most is focused on owners as customers of designers and contractors, rather than emphasizing owners as consumers and users of data. What BIM information does a facility really need? How is it integrated into a facility management program? How does an asset management program get stood up for a facility? How are renovations, partial facilities, and campuses integrated in such a program?