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Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
From Reality Capture to Modeling: Integrating ReCap Meshes for Enhanced Efficiency in Autodesk Forma
In today’s fast-paced construction industry, bridging the gap between real-world conditions and digital-project environments is key to achieving accuracy, minimizing errors, and streamlining project delivery. Reality capture technologies, such as laser scanning, allow teams to document site conditions with precision. However, turning that raw data into actionable models and coordinating them across disciplines can be a challenge without the right tools and workflow. This lab will help you to set up a practical workflow that integrates ReCap Pro 2026, Revit, and the Modeling module in Autodesk Forma to enable efficient scan-to-BIM and Modeling processes. It will demonstrate how point cloud data can be used not just for modeling, but also for coordination and clash detection, using mesh representations and cloud collaboration.
39p
46p
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
New Orleans 2022
São Paulo Metro Line 6: Resuming Largest Infrastructure Project in Latin America
With 15 km of metro line and 15 stations developed in Sao Paulo, Line 6 is the largest public-private infrastructure project under development in Latin America, and one of Acciona’s largest projects. Resuming it has its challenges: the size of the project, its complex and diverse city setting, the large network of stakeholders, and the extra challenge of a contract resumed after several years of being on hold. Building information modeling (BIM) had been implemented across most disciplines, allowing a smooth restart helped by point clouds and our topographers providing daily feedback to our engineering team. Forma Data Management software as a common data environment (CDE) has helped us to achieve the transversality of information. It has become a key tool for regarding project review, design interface, and constructability solutions. In the time of a pandemic, Autodesk Forma has facilitated the coordination and collaboration between different teams and countries, ensuring that key stakeholders have access to the latest data, anytime and anywhere.
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.
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.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
The Benefits of Factory Planning: From 2D to 3D and Back Again Using Cloud Solutions
How can existing 2D data be reused, verified against the reality, and combined with 3D data in a holistic factory design or integration? With Autodesk Forma, Autodesk offers the possibility to realize this not just for buildings and infrastructure models, but also for new and existing factories, whereby the integration of machines and equipment as well as the use of reality data (point clouds) plays an important role. The objective is to increase the quality of plannings and integrations to a very high level to reduce or completely avoid unforeseen costs, delays or planning errors.
32p
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
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Get the Most from Your Point Cloud: Automated Feature Extraction
In this session, we'll walk through an end-to-end cloud-centered workflow on using large point-cloud data for detailed design using ReCap Pro software and the Autodesk Forma platform. We will share simple tools to prepare surfaces, intelligently decimate large point-cloud data, publish to Autodesk Forma, and collaboratively extract design elements (like curbs, gutters, median, walls, ADA ramps, driveways, and drainage breaklines) and assets via browser and take them into detailed design technology like Civil 3D software to generate highly accurate surface models. Users can also publish the extracted features and assets to ArcGIS to use the information across the organization. This is a workflow the point cloud industry has been wanting for decades!
17p
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.

9p
9p
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Autodesk Forge: планы развития платформы
Применяете ли вы платформу Autodesk Forge на практике? Является ли она частью вашей стратегии цифровой трансформации компании? Или, возможно, с её помощью вы помогаете вашим собственным клиентам трансформировать свой бизнес? Если ответ на один из этих вопросов – да, то мы предлагаем вам подробнее узнать о том, над чем команда разработчиков Forge работала в течение последнего года. Обновления в ключевых компонентах платформы, повышение производительности и быстродействия для отображения информационных моделей в вебе и многое другое. Присоединяйтесь к нам на этом выступлении, чтобы узнать больше о существующих возможностях платформы Forge, а также о том, что будет реализовано в течение последующих лет. Данное выступление позволит вам более точно определить вектор развития платформы Forge и выстроить планы по разработке решений на этих технологиях.
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
Panel / Virtual 2020
The Breadth and Depth of the Autodesk Ecosystem
Autodesk has firmly committed to an open integration ecosystem to help construction firms collaborate and drive efficiency. As a result, technology partners offer over 150 direct integrations and Autodesk Forma™ Connect powers hundreds of possible custom integration workflows. Come listen to our key partners across industries such as mixed reality, reality capture, financials and budget planning, data and analytics, site and safety management, and more. We will discuss partnering with Autodesk, the breadth and depth of these integrations, and the workflows that can be achieved with our ecosystem.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Hurray! The Superb Guide to Easy Revit Is BACK!
The top-rated Superb Team returns with expanded insights into “Revit and its friends,” especially Autodesk Forma, and a curated collection of smart practices. Our lively conversation spiced with weird, wild, witty, and wonderful war stories is designed to energize you about exciting trend-setting software and fresh developments in familiar topics, including the latest and greatest tools and techniques in Revit 2026 software and Autodesk Forma. Discover wild and wonderful things to do with Revit (versions forevermore, especially 2026) using native tools or third-party software for reality capture, visualization, and AR/XR. Learn about innovative use cases and tools for artificial intelligence (AI) to automate repetitive tasks in Revit. Use interoperability with add-ins and other authoring and visualization software. And discover more Revit features, work-arounds, and add-ins to enhance productivity. We’ll offer input on all of these! Join us for wise and fun pointers on how to be a fearlessly productive Revit Warrior.
75p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Converting Unused Commercial Space into Modern Offices with Revit, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Tandem
Renovation projects are on the rise, with digital methods like reality capture, model-based collaboration, and Digital Prototypings proving essential. AFRY Switzerland's “AFRY Bellinzona regional hub” is a prime example. Located in a historic Swiss town of Bellinzona, the 2,000 m² space was transformed from an unused commercial site into flexible, modern offices. Autodesk tools were used throughout: Recap for reality capture, Revit for model authoring, ACC for clash detection and coordination, AR visualisation, site reporting, and a Digital Prototyping prototype with Tandem. Sustainable Design was a top priority—repurposing the existing space helped meet initial goals, with recycled materials and 90% reused furniture from previous offices.
58p
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
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 / Las Vegas 2023
How Digital Project Delivery Increases Operational Efficiency
During this class, projects members of the TELT Infrastructure megaproject will explain how to improve operational efficiency with the support of the Autodesk Forma platform and different desktop software systems. Digital project delivery helps solve one of the main challenges of the construction project: collaboration. It does this by providing up-to-date information, documents, and models, and initiating the revision workflow and the process of the design problems on the platform. From reality capture to existing-condition modeling, from design authoring to design review, the JV has been able to embrace the benefit of constructing digitally before constructing in reality, thanks to the cloud collaboration.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Transforming Infrastructure O&M with Laser Scan, Modeling, Autodesk Platform Services, and IoT
Want to learn more about managing your infrastructure assets using the BIM process with Autodesk Platform Services, IoT, and much more? In this case study, you will discover how to reduce data processing time by 90% and optimize your field operation by up to 25%. Using laser scanning for geometry survey, we have gathered precise and accurate data that has enabled us to create a detailed and realistic model with Revit software. Pathology registration and management has been implemented using Autodesk Forma, streamlining our data management process, and ensuring optimal efficiency. We have also developed a bespoke visualization environment using Autodesk Platform Services, which has provided us with a comprehensive platform to analyze and interpret our data. Furthermore, we have integrated IoT sensors, which have allowed us to gather real-time data, providing us with accurate and up-to-date information.
4p
45p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Monitoring Railway Infrastructure Sites Through BIM and GIS
Due to their nature, rail infrastructure projects greatly benefit from the adoption of workflows based on intelligent models and point clouds to allow off-site analyses without the need of the physical presence on the field. FSTechnology, a division of the Italian Railways, set up this workflow based on an integration of Autodesk software—including Autodesk Forma, Revit software, and Civil 3D software—with Esri ArcGIS GeoBIM. We combined CAD, building information modeling (BIM), point clouds, and orthophotos with geographic information system (GIS) and game engine technologies and added the construction program in a browser-based 4D solution with issue tracking. This is not only intended to monitor the progress of the physical works being executed, but also to achieve better control during the maintenance phase of the railways. All these combined and advanced technologies help us to monitor the most-critical infrastructures like viaducts and bridges, and factors of environmental interest and relevance, supported by artificial intelligence.
36p
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