A real-life metro project design will be demonstrated through using Autodesk AEC Collection. Design Authoring, 3D Coordination, Existing Conditions Modelling, Creation of Design Documents and Engineering Analysis were the BIM uses of the project. Stations, tunnels, underground utilities and real environment of the project were modeled by using Revit, Infraworks and Civil 3D. Autodesk CFD, Revit, MagiCAD tools helped designers for engineering analysis and simulation studies. Active use of technologies such as reality capture, virtual reality played an important role in the design process.

This class will cover the story and the key technicalities of My Home Experience, an ambitious project that is replacing “normal” decorated apartments by customizable virtual reality (VR) ones all across Brazil. We will start by showing off how a partnership between IM Designs and MRV is helping change the way people experience their dream homes. We’ll then dive into how to prepare your data set to fit your immersive technology (XR) hardware. For that, we’ll show how we solved performance and hardware limitation issues while achieving incredibly realistic looks through a series of optimization techniques in 3ds Max software, and we’ll explain their impact on real-time rendering. You’ll gain info about light baking, UVs, retopology, RTT for baking AO, normals, and more. On the hardware side, we’ll see how those techniques affect your GPU, CPU, and memory, and how to profile them to boost rendering performance. We’ll then finish by showing off the final implementation in untethered VR, and its challenges. We hope everyone learns a lot from our case.

Product development is a pain, right? It doesn't have to be. Let us walk you through it. We're 2 industrial designers with a knack for teaching. Design Thinking is a great process to move a team quickly from problem space to solutions. But it's just that: a cognitive process. What do you do with all those great ideas? This class will be a hands-on introduction to Design Thinking and Making. In small teams, we'll work rapidly through a design challenge, using a human-centered approach, and develop virtual prototypes using Fusion 360 software. Participants will be given a project brief, and we'll select teams at random. The focus of this highly engaging workshop is to rapidly develop a product solution (as a team) through Design Thinking and conceptual realization using Fusion 360. Teams will prepare and present their solutions in an informal share.

Let's see how the interaction in virtual reality (VR) brings your team and your client more understanding of the project and more constructive feedback! Interactive Patient Room Experience in VR is giving great opportunities to medical professionals to understand the layout and the overall clinical flow within the units, which helps designers create functional clinical spaces that elevate the patient and staff experience. As an alternative to costly physical mockups, we have built an interactive patient room that is fully responsive to the user's preferences. Experiencing the interactive environment in a virtual world helps medical professionals load different 3D medical equipment, change materials and finishes, and understand the relationship of the equipment with the users. we'll show you several examples where we used VR as an interactive health-care planning and design tool.

We will describe the nitty-gritty programming details to implement a cloud-based system to analyze, visualize, and report on universal component usage. The components can be Revit software families used in Building Information Modeling (BIM) or any other kind of assets in any other kind of system. The focus is on the cloud-based database used to manage the component occurrences, either in global or project-based coordinate systems. You can make searches based on both keywords and geographical location. Models are visualized using pure WebGL, Three.js, and the Autodesk View and Data API, providing support for online viewing and model navigation. You can use the web app in any browser and on any mobile device with no need to install any additional software whatsoever. This is an advanced class for experienced programmers.

Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) are taking the world by storm. Over the past three years, we’ve seen a huge interest in VR. But with current VR, technology teams have spent way too much time preparing their projects, and they require a heavy workstation to render VR experiences. In this talk, we’ll show how to automate common data preparation tasks using BIM 360 software and the Forge Design Automation API. We’ll share how to turn intelligent models into immersive experiences and how to make these experiences available on thin-client endpoints for VR headsets. Learn how to maximize productivity by using modern Autodesk, network, cloud-rendering, and streaming technologies. This lets engineers get a deeper understanding of the design, and makes for better-informed decisions in less time—at the push of a button.

Is your company “old school” and resistant to change? We feel your pain. We live your nightmare. Impacting culture change is difficult, stressful, and at times hopeless, and if it’s not addressed, it can cause a dire situation. This class will dive into the processes, technology, and teamwork that went into taking a company that was resistant to change, to a company that embraces technology implementation and utilization. This is a story of a construction company stuck in its ways, and it tells how the implementation of BIM 360 Docs software, BIM 360 Glue software, and BIM 360 Build software changed the way we build projects, exchange information, collaborate, and establish more-efficient processes.

The Las Vegas Stadium will provide a world-class home for the NFL Raiders upon the team’s relocation in 2020. The Mortenson|McCarthy joint venture team is currently building the $1.9 billion domed stadium. To overcome the aggressive schedule, scale and complexity the project is supported by a culture that fosters an innovative approach to implementing advanced technology, processes and lean construction methodology. In this session Joel Jacobson, and his 3+ years of managing Drone deployment on large-scale Mortenson projects, will share his unique approach to partnering with industry experts such as Dustin Williams of FlywheelAEC to deliver enhanced project awareness and improved communication across the entire Las Vegas Stadium project team. Joel and Dustin will share and discuss best practices, future outlook observed within the industry, and will demonstrate the lessons learned and data visualizations produced as a result of effective planning and coordination.

This class demonstrates automatic generation of reinforcement elements using results from analysis and design in Revit® Structure 2014 software. Design requirements from building codes and company standards can be controlled by user-defined rules similar to the approach used in expert systems. Various aspects of this expert system are discussed. Visualization of existing and needed reinforcement further support users to ensure their quality of work.

Mechanical motion is all around. From a simple door hinge to a car cylinder piston, it is easy to forget that even the simplest real-world motions can be complex operations in 3D animation software. This class will explore several methods for automating complex motion animation in 3ds Max 2020. Designers will learn how to wire parameters, then import the assembly into 3ds Max, as well as how to create similar constraints using 3ds Max tools. You will learn strategies for building a hierarchy based on the animation requirements, basic parameter wiring, and setting up links and Inverse Kinematics to mimic specific constraints. The class will step through multiple short lessons that allow you to create the animation of specific moveable parts. Finally, attendees will see what advantages each tool has for different steps in the animation of complex motion.

In the real world, one program just can't do it all when it comes to design, animation, and rendering of architectural models. This class will discuss the use of and best practices for animating and rendering Revit models using 3ds Max 2018 software and the new Arnold renderer in 3ds Max 2018. Learn methods for working with Revit models and rendering photo-quality images. Explore the use of the Scene Converter to update linked models so they work with Arnold. Use Physical Materials and the Sun Positioner to simulate outdoor lighting. Learn traditional photographic techniques and rules of composition to create compelling images. Learn how to frame a shot using composition techniques like the rule of thirds, diagonals, and the golden ratio. You will also see how to utilize Physical Camera controls to adjust scene exposure and depth of field. Get ahead of the competition by learning to create visually compelling, photorealistic renderings using photographic composition in a streamlined workflow.

3ds Max software offers many different toolsets and workflows that facilitate fast turnaround and short deadlines. In this session, we will explore several different feature sets that users of all skill levels and industry types can use. Specifics will include the easy bringing in of 3D data from other applications and the simple application of material shaders for photoreal and non-photorealistic (NPR) renderings and template-based lighting setups. Additional topics will include the use of the new Max Creation Graph editor for parametric/procedural modeling and animation, as well as several different options for rapid output, including Autodesk 360 cloud rendering. This session is aimed at all user levels and industries with an emphasis on fast turnaround.

Learn how to create tunnel sections and corridor modeling solids for tunnels in AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Learn how Civil 3D interacts with Revit Structure software and how to manipulate tunnel solids, obtain drawings, and create reports, volumetrics, and visualization in Revit Structure. Finally, learn how to model a tunnel natively in Revit Structure and export it to Civil 3D.

Doors are some of the toughest families to create effectively on the Revit software platform. With all of the moving parts, data requirements, and end-user demands, building out a comprehensive door library is always a challenge, even for the best Revit family modelers. In this class we take a thorough step-by-step approach to building a series of door components and combining them into assemblies for use in design, documentation, and construction administration. By focusing on these 3 use cases, we explore how to capitalize on all of the tools in the Family Editor to create doors that are easy for the end user to use, look terrific in rendering and animations, and document themselves efficiently in tags, schedules, and reports.

Our demonstration will focus on 3ds Max and its powerful extendability through scripts and plugins. Many 3D artists use both for bespoke workflows. With Maxscript knowledge, an artist has the ability to write useful tools to help with simple tasks. Writing bespoke C++ plugins, SiNi employs the full power of multi-threaded CPU processing, meaning our tools are many times more efficient and powerful that Maxscript. We will demonstrate how SiNi Software's suite of tools assist artists at every stage of production in all industries and types of work. As an independent Authorised Autodesk developer, we support many leading third-party renderers, plugins and file formats in 3ds Max, simplifying time-consuming tasks to a few clicks. Finally, we will discuss issues with multi-software workflows, (Revit, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Maya, Unreal), and software ideas to simplify the pipeline.

This class will walk you through the early steps of learning 3ds Max software from the ground up. We will explore the user interface and the workflows that best suit new users. We will address importing and file linking from external source files, cameras lighting, and rendering techniques aimed at the CAD and Rivet software users.

In this hands-on lab, you learn to use the tools and capabilities of the new Populate feature in 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design. Together, we will put in walk flows and idle areas, adjust flow points and segments, create ramps, and dial in densities, distributions, and direction.

In this hands-on lab we will maximize on several of 3ds Max Design software's powerful modeling tools to help you take your architecture, engineering, and construction content to the next level. We will explore various different workflows that will enable you to increase the quality and detail of your Revit software models and create all new models directly from within 3ds Max Design software.

In this session IKEA Communications AB in Sweden will present the challenge of a retailer taking on photographic renderings of indoor homes for catalog and web. We will share the progress, starting from the first stumbling steps of product image creation to the large volumes of full room sets that are used alongside traditionally created studio photos for the catalog and on the web. During the session we will show the model/material and texture standard, and we'll discuss how it's used. We will also cover internal tools we have built with help from Autodesk Consulting. Finally, we will go over lessons learned and things we would like to solve in better ways.

How do we define our roles as visualization artists in the process of creating high-end quality marketing images? Who controls the image? How do you create a productive and inspired process when different design disciplines want to push their own ideas? It's the architect's building, the developer's money, the interior designer's space, the graphic designer's brand-and they all want to push that upon the visualizer's image. How do we as an industry keep control of our work while still working with and within the bounds of the other disciplines involved, while keeping everyone happy with the process and the outcome?