Get familiar and up-skilled with architectural metalwork detailing using Advance Steel. In this hands-on lab you will learn how to detail a balcony unit complete with custom user sections and glazed panels. I will show all the tools in Advance Steel Revit that can be utilised for architectural metalwork detailing. As part of the lab, we will create all the required fabrication drawings and bill of materials. I will also share my tips and tricks about architectural detailing to help you produce your fabrication details

Schneider Electric has become a thought leader in electrical BIM (Building Information Modeling) for residential buildings, office buildings, factories, and data centers. The firm’s strategy was to transform the business strategy and operations to target the market of building owners/operators, planners, and the installation industry with a BIM approach. The new Technopole headquarters in France was built as a LEED-certified building. Several marketing campaigns used it to show the value that BIM creates in electrical. In this session, we will cover the following items: how to adjust the BIM process to your targeted customers with a customer success plan; how to train 2,000 internal employees with an adoption plan; how to scale up visibility with webinars and create 1,000-plus qualified marketing leads; how to get the visibility of 200,000 views in press and social media with a co-marketing campaign; how to get the alignment of two companies with leadership meetings; and how to reduce planning time on electrical floor plans by 50% by using custom application with Revit software.

This class will teach MEP subcontractors how to set up and use Revit software for MEP modeling, coordination, and fabrication. Having developed this service from scratch, we’ll offer a unique perspective on the process from start to finish. We’ll start by learning how to set up Fabrication Parts in Revit, adding custom parts to our catalog, and we’ll discuss efficient modeling strategies using these new parts. We’ll then explore add-ins and software that are helpful in the coordination process. Finally, we’ll discuss useful coordination drawings, spooling drawings, and how to create these so they facilitate a simpler workflow in the field.

This class will show enhancements for Autodesk’s Structural Precast Extension for Revit software from the German-based company IDAT. You’ll see how easily you can tag the precast assemblies. Learn a new way to create parametric reinforcement definitions inside a Revit family. With the click of a button, create real Revit reinforcement out of this definition. Create and control custom fabric sheets easily. Automate and define connections for columns, beams, and foundations with own families. For each precast element, different shop drawings can be configured and automatically created. For example, a wall can have a shop drawing for the panel itself, one for the reinforcement, and one for the electrical system. With additional programs, define the stacks for the transportation of the elements and the layout of the production tables in the factory. You’ll see how these enhancements speed up the creation of precast elements with Revit.

As projects deadlines become shorter our processes need to become better, faster, and more accurate. How fast is your workflow? Other than actual modeling, where do you spend much of your time? Can you run calculations faster? Can you coordinate with Electrical? We need to ask where in the process can we save time. How fast is fast enough to get our projects out the door, on time and under budget? Is your content up to the task? Are your other processes optimized? In this session we'll cover all the processes and content you should have in place to efficiently do a project from start to finish. This includes where calculations in families make sense and where Dynamo can help with heavy lifting. We'll start with linking in the Architect's model, adding Spaces and Zones, running HVAC load calculations, applying those calculations, sizing our air terminals using Dynamo, sizing terminal units, and coordinating the results with electrical. And we’ll show you how fast it can be… LIVE!

Learn advanced skills capitalizing on the new Fabrication functionality in Revit 2017 software. Using Revit schedules, assemblies, tags, views, interference checking, and new features in Revit 2017 software, we can produce fabrication documentation inside of the Revit software interface, which enables us to be fully coordinated with design consultants. While Fabrication Parts was introduced in 2016, it was in Revit 2017 software that they became fully functional while remaining in a single interface. We’ll cover how to model using Fabrication Parts; how to convert the design model into Fabrication Parts; how to use assembly views to create spools sheets and details; how to annotate Fabrication Parts in plan view and 3D; how to coordinate with other consultants in Revit software; how new Revit 2017 software features relate to Fabrication Parts; and how to import existing as-built conditions from Fabrication CADmep software into a new renovation project. This session features Revit and Fabrication CADmep.

Increasingly, our Building Information Modeling (BIM) projects require the delivery of detailed models. In the reinforced concrete industry, it is becoming a standard to create fabrication-ready models as manufacturing-centric approaches are entering the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) world. In this class, you will discover the effect when computational design meets reinforcement detailing. Do you want to get introduced to the world of computational rebar design? Then this session will familiarize you with the Autodesk, Inc., technology for complex reinforcement detailing with Revit software and Dynamo software. In this powerful 90 minutes, you will see a few examples, from the automation of basic rebar design over radial fan-shaped rebars to complex irregular elements. After this session, you will be inspired by the power and dynamics of parametric and computational design for complex problems. This session features Revit Structure and Dynamo Studio. AIA Approved

On every type of project, the adoption of a transparent and easy-to-apply Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow is the key to success. This also helps reduce the risk of errors and it provides huge productivity ratio improvements while making the design and engineering processes more efficient. To reach this objective, the engineer and the technicians, using Revit Structure software, need tools capable of automating 3D rebar generation (including semi-automated detailed drawings and schedules), but with the ability to make design-driven decisions for the reinforced concrete members in real time. In this class you will learn how GRAITEC’s Revit-software-based 3D rebar design tools deliver real benefits by consolidating design decisions based on local codes to accurately create 3D rebar in Revit software on the fly with localized families. These tools also produce automatic reinforcement drawings and schedules, published to the cloud or through Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform ready for fabrication by the rebar manufacturer.

It’s easy to criticize the construction industry—plagued with low productivity, high risk, low margin, and little investment in research and development. We’ve heard this messaging repeatedly, but what of the growing and positive trends toward design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and the industrialization of construction (IC)? These are often portrayed as niche and specialized, but they’re fast developing to become the norm. This class will highlight examples of how governments, traditional general contractors, forward-thinking designers, and emerging manufacturers across the globe are disrupting the industry and adopting a variety of technology to support their goals. We’ll present trends in DFMA and IC, and explain challenges to adoption. The industry is portrayed as bad—but it’s getting better.

Structural engineers manage design changes and updates on a daily basis. Coordinating models and drawings while maintaining quality is always a challenge—not to mention working remotely or from home. The DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle is an effective approach to managing change during design and construction processes. Linking Revit models with structural analysis tools is one of the biggest benefits and challenges structural engineering teams still encounter. In this class, we will look at best practices for keeping structural models and workflows DRY, including linking models between Revit, Robot Structural Analysis software, and Advance Steel software; managing, coordinating, and sharing models using BIM 360 software; and reviewing construction and fabrication drawings for quality control with BIM 360. Incorporating some of these approaches into your workflows will help you keep up with the pace of change.

Has computation become a core competency for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry? During this roundtable we’ll discuss how BIM (Building Information Modeling) and automation have caused an incredible transformation within our industry, and what we’re doing about it. We’ll discuss different techniques for upskilling junior staff and opening conversations with senior leadership.

The automatic generation of drawings is the best way to get all of your detail drawings from an Advance Steel software project. If you want to learn how to customize the drawing processes in order to get the most from this part of Advance Steel software, this is the class you need. In this hands-on lab we will walk through the entire workflow of configuring a drawing process using the Drawing Process Manager interface, including the creation of a new drawing process and an explanation of existing options and settings. This class will also include configuration and workflow tips for an efficient way of using drawing processes.

In this hands-on lab you will learn how to customize a drawing style to suit your specific requirements for detail drawings, taking into account what should be shown in detail, how should it be shown, labels, and dimensions to be created. We will walk through the workflow of configuring drawing styles using the Drawing Styles Manager interface, with an explanation of existing options and settings. We will configure and use model objects, labels, and dimensions in specific scenarios. This class will include configuration and workflow recommendations for an efficient way of using drawing styles. Please note that this class is suitable for intermediate and advanced users only.

In this class, we will discuss a complete workflow on how to use the PipeFab application inside of Revit software to do efficient and precise modeling and cut sheets for pipe work inside of Revit. The topics covered will include, but will not be limited to: cutting pipes to desired lengths; listing pipes; automatic numbering for mains and ranges; modeling helpers; and patch detailing pipe offsets with one click.

This lab will teach fabrication scripting for Fabrication CADmep software, Fabrication ESTmep software, and Fabrication CAMduct software, using *.COD scripts. It assumes no prior knowledge of COD scripting and will walk you though how to create and test scripts to bulk modify properties of Fabrication content.

Whether your company has a rich history with Building Information Modeling (BIM) or you've recently decided to take the plunge, developing and maintaining internal training is a tall order. BuroHappold Engineering New York has developed a thorough yet practical internal training program for Revit software and Dynamo software for its offices worldwide, and the company would like to share the outcome of the challenges that it faced along the way. With 90% of the projects in the New York office being Revit based, new engineers have a limited amount of time to adjust to the technology and the corresponding company standards. This demand placed an enormous amount of pressure on the firm's BIM team to create a training program that was fast, furious, and efficient. Attendees of this presentation will leave with a clear understanding of the steps necessary for ensuring that engineers are ready to hit the ground running in Revit projects.

Join us for a fun conversation where we'll discuss what you can do today with Steel Connections for Revit software. This session will showcase core product features and partner contributions, and we'll also preview what you'll be able to do with the next release. Attendees for this session must sign a NDA. If you haven't yet, you can do this while signing for this class here: http://www.autodesk.com/company/contact-us/customer-research-agreement

Mechanical-contracting operations rely on software, machinery, and advanced processes now more than ever. Integrating these processes into the business model is key to realizing the rewards of these technological advances. We’ll discuss the elements of early costing, estimating, modeling, prefabrication, modular construction, and washing models back through the estimating process. We'll also look at using Fabrication software content to generate internal manufacturing metrics and communications with business systems.

This class will cover how to implement Fabrication ESTmep software. We will provide a recommended implementation strategy, along with best practices for a smooth implementation. We will examine the Product Information Editor, ID Codes, and how pricing information is linked to items in Fabrication ESTmep software. We will also look at the Harrison Pricing Service to update the existing price list.

A lot has happened since Autodesk's acquisition 2 years ago of Micro Application Packages Limited. Learn what has happened to the products and see how they actually work. We expose the tremendous business value that sharing a common database between Autodesk® Fabrication CADmep™, Autodesk® Fabrication CAMduct™, and Autodesk® Fabrication ESTmep™ design, estimating, and CNC production software brings to your business. Create or change a service instantaneously and see the labor and material costs update along with them. See how content can be hooked to industry standard labor and material catalogs. If you are still spooling, estimating, or sending to the plasma table by hand, this class can change that forever.