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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

New Orleans 2022
Streamline your MEP Design Process connecting PID and 3D Model within Revit
The MEP design journey is an iterative process between P&ID schematics and the 3D modeling and detailing on Revit. Using out of the box solutions, this workflow is lacking some dynamic link between P&IDs and 3D Model that would avoid redundant data creation and would help to ensure consistency between synoptic schemas, BIM models and the project documentation. We will present the Revit plugin created in collaboration with Autodesk Consulting that bridges that specific gap and how Bouygues Construction is using this Revit API development (among others) to help improve Revit adoption and move forward in its BIM maturity journey.
New Orleans 2022
The Red Sea Development - Leading Digital Transformation in Saudi Arabia
case study from the Red Sea Development which illustrates our journey from defining our digital delivery requirements to the construction of hotels using prefabrication and off-site manufacturing. With examples of precast volumetric apartments, laminated structural timber frames and entire villa modules assembled and shipped to site, we will share lessons learned from managing information, design models and shop drawings during the design, procurement, and construction phases for 3,000 buildings. Learn how we, as the owner, configured and implemented BIM 360 for our large scale complex projects. Our BIM processes, workflows and use of BIM 360, were awarded the BSI Kitemark for delivering projects to ISO 19650 standards. Our challenge is ensuring everyone has the knowledge and skills to participate in our digital delivery process. We will explain how we invest in education and training to onboard teams quickly, improve methods of working and increase productivity.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
CAD and BIM Manager's Handbook 2013
CAD/BIM management requires a diverse set of management skills. This class provides tips, tricks, technologies, tools, and strategies to better manage your company's CAD/BIM environment. We discuss problem identification, problem solving, user motivation, senior management support, budgeting, training program justification, objection handling and more. As the class progresses, you complete a self-evaluation to help you prioritize your management action items and quantify the savings you can generate via better management practices. This class is product agnostic, so don't worry about what discipline you support as a CAD manager. If you are frustrated by the management aspect of your job, this class gives you the tools to succeed.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
2D to 3D: What Not to Do
Transitioning your company from 2D AutoCAD® software to 3D BIM, civil, or mechanical modeling is tough, but you already knew that. In this class, we learn the key factors of 3D work process success by examining common causes of transitional failure. Key topics include user transition, software transition, ideal hardware configurations, IT issues, training, standards, and management support. We use a chronological approach, taking you from required planning and budgeting to testing through implementation and training. Along the way, real-world tips on how to manage resistance to change and management hesitancy are presented in the framework of saving time and money. No matter where you are in your company's 2D to 3D transition, you're sure to pick up a few good ideas on what not to do in this informative class.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018
Connect Assemble to Microsoft Excel & Sage Estimating
Looking for ways to easily incorporate 5D BIM into your existing workflows? Join this session to learn how Assemble can easily connect your quantities from the BIM model to your existing Microsoft Excel estimating templates or your Sage estimating databases.  Streamline your takeoff process and eliminates tedious, time-consuming workflows.
Theater Talk / 2024
State of Design & Make:​ A Conversation on ​AI, Sustainability, ​and Resilience
Theater Talk / 2024
Standardizing BIM Data for Embodied Carbon Analysis
Theater Talk / 2023
A Digital Transformation Journey in Construction
Theater Talk / 2024
The Importance of Human Judgment in AI-Driven Design
Theater Talk / 2024
BOLT: Building Optimization by Leveraging Technology
Article / 2024
AU Focus: The Future of Manufacturing
Article / 2022
Digital Twin for Building Owners
Walt Disney World’s Brandon Wlosinski and Autodesk’s Dorian Chau explore what digital twins mean for building owners.
Theater Talk / 2024
Achieving Cutting-Edge MEP Design with XR
Theater Talk / 2024
Building the Sustainable Infrastructure Projects of Tomorrow
Article / 2021
ISO 19650, the Common Data Environment, and Autodesk Construction Cloud
Use of the ISO 19650 international standard for managing built assets is on the rise. Check out this overview with Joan Allen and Angela Yee, including best practices for managing construction project data and documents.
Article / 2023
AU Focus: Common Data Environments
Article / 2022
Digitizing Ipiranga Museum: Preserving Cultural Heritage through GIS and BIM
How do you transform a physical building into a digital asset? Discover a step-by-step approach with this case study of Brazil’s Ipiranga Museum.
Article / 2022
Improving Efficiency: Dynamo for Existing Buildings
Dynamo can help manage data and automate object placement for historical building renovation projects, saving time and minimizing human error. Olga Kerkhanidi shares her work on Montreal’s landmark Roger-Gaudry Pavilion.
Article / 2022
Adopting Early Energy Modeling in an Architectural Practice
Discover how top-ranked architecture firm Lake|Flato adopted Insight building performance analysis software to embrace early energy modeling systematically, from messaging and training to support and results.
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