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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Stop Taking Photos on Site! Integrate Mobile 3D Capture and 3D Gaussian Splatting in Civil Infrastructure Management Instead

Have you ever taken a photo of something critical during a site visit only to forget where it was or find it lacking context when reviewing it later? The increasing accessibility of advanced reality capture devices—such as photogrammetry and SLAM LiDAR technology—offers an unprecedented opportunity for AECO professionals to accurately capture detailed and extensive site details. Integrating these technologies into your workflows can dramatically enhance documentation at various construction stages, improve coordination among stakeholders, and provide timely and transparent as-built information. This case study will demonstrate how to effectively use these advanced technologies (SLAM point clouds and 3D gaussian splatting) to enrich civil Infrastructure Management with Autodesk tools like Civil 3D, ReCap, InfraWorks, Revit, and Autodesk Forma.

27p

64p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Revit 2026 and Beyond: What’s New, Improved, and Unexpected

Revit 2026.0, 2026.1, 2026.2 and 2026.3 introduce significant enhancements aimed at boosting productivity and streamlining BIM workflows in the AEC industry. Key highlights include accelerated graphics for smoother navigation, expanded site and topography tools, and the new ReCap Pro plugin for seamless integration of reality capture data. User-driven improvements—such as more flexible compound structures and refined annotation tools—reflect direct feedback from the Revit Ideas page, ensuring the release addresses real project needs. This session offers an in-depth look at the top features, including live demonstrations of integration with Dynamo, Autodesk Forma, and Data Exchange to optimize design and documentation. Attendees will see practical applications across architecture, MEP, and structural disciplines, gaining actionable insights to leverage Revit 2026’s latest advancements for more efficient, collaborative, and future-ready project delivery.

67p

78p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Speed Up Large Data Sets in Civil 3D: Best Practices and New Techniques

When a large-scale infrastructure project gets started, you'll need to use tools in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to work with your data efficiently. The information in this session will reduce the time it takes to process huge files, from processing LiDAR-based surface models in ReCap software to implementing Autodesk Forma workflows. Speed up open times, improve collaboration, and learn best practices you can use immediately. We'll dive into topics that include: determining when to break up files using Data Shortcuts, managing .mms files for large surface models, using Forma Data Management software for data management, and adjusting AutoCAD settings for optimal performance.

30p

New Orleans 2022

Sharing ReCap Projects on Autodesk's Cloud Platforms

Whether you’re scanning an existing site or capturing as-built data near the end of a project, you've put in the work to create a digital twin of your site in ReCap software. Now stakeholders need to review it or perhaps teammates need it to further their design. We'll discuss how to use secure Autodesk platforms like BIM 360, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Drive to connect colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to your data. We’ll start with understanding various workflows to get your project up in the cloud. Once there, we'll use collaborative tools in the Autodesk Forge Viewer API to create markups and annotations that can be synced down to the project locally. We'll cover how teammates and partners can consume your data in other products like Revit software, Civil 3D software, and InfraWorks software. Lastly, we'll discuss where the product may be heading, and how that could affect current workflows. Whether you’re a surveyor or a BIM manager tasked with managing point cloud data, you’ll find value in this course.

New Orleans 2022

Reality Capture Process from Cloud Platform Using Autodesk Forge to Merge Intelligent Model

Point cloud is now a technology well known in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, including scanning and photogrammetry. With point clouds, you can save a lot of time in various use cases like digital twins, as-build comparing, or retro-engineering. Collecting data from the reality to virtual environment is always time consuming and painful. Discover in a smooth workflow how to merge point clouds on the Autodesk Forge platform with intelligent models to improve collaboration and save time.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Autodesk and Aurigo: Digitizing Construction and the Future of ConTech

Autodesk is committed to helping the construction industry realize the value of a fully connected digital platform across design, plan, build, and operate phases. Autodesk and Aurigo partnered to develop the most comprehensive set of cloud-based solutions for public and private owners. Aurigo’s integration with Autodesk Forma will provide owners a single technology platform for their entire program-design-plan-build-operate lifecycle. This session will showcase the Masterworks connector to PlanGrid as well as give a sneak peek into the soon-to-be-released product for owners.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2023

Shared Coordinates in 30 Minutes or Less!

Do you struggle to understand shared coordinates? Are you manually moving design models into the correct location? Are you constantly forced to do redesign work because models aren't aligned correctly? If you've answered YES to any of these questions then this lab is for you! Collaborating with architects, designers and engineers within the context of a real-world coordinate system doesn't have to be painful or time-consuming. In this lab you'll discover for yourself just how quick and easy it is to properly geo-reference point clouds, Revit models, Civil 3D drawings and much more within the Autodesk Forma. Along the way we'll discuss best practices, tips-n-tricks, and what to watch out for when working with shared coordinates. At the end of this lab you'll be able to quickly AND correctly define a shared coordinate system for ALL the design files of your project and cross-link them into other design applications, enabling better design decisions.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Automated Linework from a Point Cloud Using Linear Feature Extraction

In this session, we'll walk through a complete workflow starting inside ReCap Pro software, and publishing a point cloud to the Autodesk Forma platform. We'll extract linear features and bring them into Civil 3D software so we can create a simplified but highly accurate surface model. From there, we will publish the linear features as as-built information to ArcGIS Online for everyone to use. This is a workflow you've been asking for!

23p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Digital Asset Tracking and Inventory

This session will look at how Boustead Projects implements processes for monitoring and tracking prefabricated elements. It involves overseeing design approval before fabrication, as well as the real-time tracking of asset location and status with the use of QR codes. This real-time tracking facilitates the generation of accurate status reports for project stakeholders. For mechanical and electrical equipment required for testing and commissioning (T&C), each named asset is tagged with its T&C status, which is then documented in the intelligent model data. This data includes parameter values like equipment site label, site location, and system description, which are used for the respective unit on-site. Internally, Boustead Projects uses Assets to track the lidar scanning statuses based on rooms per level, keeping management informed about the progress of lidar scanning activities.

60p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Reality Capture Unfiltered: How Industry Leaders Are Using AI to Reshape AEC with Digital Prototypings

As AEC leaders race to digitize the built world, three forces are accelerating how projects are delivered - reality capture, artificial intelligence, and Sustainable Design. This panel brings together technology leaders like Autodesk and Matterport, alongside industry leaders from Colliers Engineering & Design and DPR Construction, to explore how these technologies are converging to drive measurable impact across design, construction, and operations. You’ll hear how Digital Prototypings are being used to automate site documentation, support Sustainable Design goals with accurate asset data, apply AI to flag issues, accelerate decision making, and improve coordination through cloud-based collaboration. Walk away with a clear view of how these companies are helping AEC teams future-proof their workflows and reduce environmental impact with data-driven insights.