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New Orleans 2022
Manufacturing Informed Design API On Autodesk Forge

Today, building design decisions are not informed by what can be made. Construction processes are iterative, manual, slow, and reactive, with high risk and uncertainty. Data and tools are disconnected and don’t allow processes to work at scale. In this session, we'll go over our Manufacturing Informed Design project. We’ll examine how it brings together our portfolio to inform the design process as early as possible, and we’ll look at how the Autodesk Forge API we’re developing for this will enable our customers and partners to extend our solution. The Manufacturing Informed Design API will be a simple way for customers to 1) publish product templates from Inventor software into Autodesk Construction Cloud or Fusion Team, 2) discover those product templates via the API or Revit, and 3) customize and insert variants from a simple API. We’ll also cover how we’re extending the Autodesk Forge Viewer for simple low- or no-code configuration workflows.

New Orleans 2022
Forge Developer Session

Calling all developers! Join this session to learn what’s new with Forge and hear how we are investing in new programs, tools, and APIs to make you more successful. Help us choose the “best of the best” application from our Forge Hackathon, learn how the new App Store Partner Program can drive more users to your app, and get inspired from your peers who are already using the new Forge Data APIs to increase productivity and decrease costs. Whether you are a veteran Forge Developer or just getting started on the Forge platform, this session is for you.

New Orleans 2022
Autodesk Construction Session

When you think about your business, what are your goals, your dreams, your vision? What would you do if you could? You need a platform to simplify how you work, unlock the power of your data, and standardize your processes. Autodesk is that platform. We are enabling construction companies all over the world to forget the old days of a highly fragmented industry and to benefit from connected construction. During this keynote, Autodesk leaders will share Autodesk Construction Cloud updates and highlight industry innovators who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

New Orleans 2022
Future Disruptions in Automotive Design with Alias and VRED Line of Products
In the last few years, we’ve witnessed automotive design undergoing a sea change largely driven by two main factors: climate change concerns and consumer behavior. Push for more greener vehicles fueled by technological advancements has created a new category for consumers that’s redefining traditional vehicle aesthetics. Similarly, forces linked to ever-changing consumer aspirations and behaviors—largely driven by factors like rapid urbanization, rise in disposable incomes, digital and social awareness, unexpected events like Covid-19 pandemic, and geopolitical tensions—are already impacting automotive design. This session will take a look at how certain disruptions in the traditional automotive design approaches have the potential to shape the future of mobility and challenge the conformist styling concepts. We’ll also look at how Autodesk tools like Alias and VRED software continue to stay relevant in this overall transition.
New Orleans 2022
ISO 19650 to Support Digital Engineering Processes
Where are we four years after the launch of ISO 19650? Digital transformation is accelerating as we speak, and standards are coming to make our life easier. Everyone wants to be the first runner and the best in class. But how do we cope with this speed and get the job done? This class will give an example of SYSTRA digital transformation strategy and the effort needed to launch the implementation of ISO 19650 on both the organizational and project levels. We’ll give an overview of the lessons learned and describe "must" actions to be deployed. We’ll uncover how ISO 19650 served to ramp up our digital engineering and data management capabilities, and how it pushed us to invest in development of our own digital solutions based on Autodesk Forge. We’ll also briefly present their implementation on different ongoing projects. To conclude, we’ll look at the direction we are heading right now on our digital transformation journey. The BIM 360 and Autodesk Forge digital solutions will include eLODy, Pablo, Carbon Tracker, and SafebyBIM, among others.
New Orleans 2022
Let’s Talk About Data!
Hear from customers and Autodesk about how Autodesk Forge Data is solving problems! In this panel session, several experts will share thoughts about how various industries are using Autodesk Forge Data to tackle tough problems—from sustainability initiatives to solving problems in architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing spaces. With the introduction of the Autodesk Forge Model Derivative API several years ago, we’ve seen the emergence of new solutions to old problems. This centralized access to design data via the cloud has driven many customer-centered workflows. We’ll discuss these workflows, talk about some new workflows that Fusion Data and Data Exchanges enable, and also answer questions about the future of cloud information models that Autodesk is developing. We’ll have three customers and two Autodesk experts on hand to bring to light the power of the platform!
New Orleans 2022
Unleash the Power of Design Data with Autodesk Forge API
The Model Properties and Data Exchange APIs are recent additions to Autodesk Forge. They allow us to access design data in a more controlled manner, such as by filtering, searching, and comparing models between versions. Instead of sending the entire model, you can select only the portion that your collaborator needs. Together with the Model Derivative API and the Design Automation API, we now have more options to access design data. However, can you tell which one to use for your specific needs? Do you know differences among those APIs? In this session, we’ll introduce you to the Model Properties and Data Exchange APIs. We’ll then compare various options we have to access design data. We’ll show the examples of use cases, and discuss potential application areas that weren’t possible until now.
New Orleans 2022
Autodesk Forge Data Road Map: Moving from Files to Cloud Data
The industries you work in have evolved dramatically as technology has advanced, as have expectations for more-connected and more-customized products, buildings, and experiences. Moreover, you and your customers’ businesses are under pressure to move faster, reduce costs, and eliminate waste. Software has pioneered many of those changes, developing powerful tools for different parts of your workflows: design, simulation, visualization tools—you name it. But, we’ve created silos for those apps and the data that comes out of them. It’s still a pain to work with more-complex data collaboratively. Latency drags on processes, version control becomes a collaboration nightmare, data noise leads to confusion—the list goes on. Join us for this road map session, where we—the Autodesk Forge Data team—will cover how we’re tackling these challenges so you can work better with data across your apps and teams. Explore how you can use, and contribute to, the cloud data tools and APIs we’re developing.
New Orleans 2022
Don’t Look Back: Building a Digital-First Mindset, One Team at a Time
Digital transformation is a difficult journey. Dynamo, Autodesk Forge, and BIM 360 software are not inherently revolutionary technologies within an organization—at least, not without thoughtful coordination and purposeful implementation. In this session, we’ll review some tips from the trenches on how enterprises might achieve a “digital first” mindset—from the identification, development, and implementation of digital initiatives, to their support, measurement, and expansion. We’ll walk you through our strategy, and share how use of data and metrics have been instrumental to driving decision making. We don’t profess to have all the answers, but the team we’ve assembled at AECOM is eager to share our breadth and depth of experience on driving digital transformation from within to help spur change and enablement across these rapidly changing industries.
New Orleans 2022
Why and How to Build Autodesk Forge Data Exchange Connectors?
In today's hyperconnected world, convenience is the ultimate currency. Autodesk Forge Data Exchange API's genesis is the goal of creating connected platforms with the convenience to end-data consumers. It helps break the barriers of data siloes developed within the organization. Autodesk Forge Data Exchange provides instantaneous access to data for anyone, anywhere, in any app. Autodesk Forge Data Exchange liberates data from proprietary data formats, allowing seamless integration of cross-platform apps that can be desktop apps, web apps, mobiles apps, and apps from different domains and even those used from diverse geographical locations. This class will demonstrate how to use Autodesk Forge to create various types of Autodesk Forge Data Exchange Connectors. We’ll walk through the process of identifying the need and opportunity for building a connection between different apps. We’ll show the steps of creating an Autodesk Forge Data Exchange Connector within a desktop or a web app with sample codes. You’ll learn best practices to build connectors from a security, performance, and future needs perspective.
New Orleans 2022
There’s an App for That?! Get to Know the Autodesk App Store Community
Did you know that there are thousands of apps in the Autodesk App Store? For decades, developers have been augmenting Autodesk software to streamline and automate workflows. Now powered with Autodesk Forge APIs, they can do so much more. Come listen to a panel of developers who are in the App Developer Partner Program as they share the experiences they’ve had building with Autodesk APIs. You’ll learn all about the amazing outcomes they’ve had with customers who use their apps, and see why software customization is a game changer.
New Orleans 2022
Using Custom Grips to Enhance User Interaction with AutoCAD Entities
AutoCAD uses grips showed with a selected object not only to provide visual hints of the object—such as start/end/center points, or mid/tangent points or vertices—but also, more importantly, to provide shortcuts to various operations against the object, such as stretch, move, rotation, and scale. Other AutoCAD-based applications (Civil 3D software, AutoCAD Architecture software, AutoCAD MEP software, and so on) use custom grips with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) entities extensively. Fortunately, with .NET API, we can add custom grips to an AutoCAD object for our own specialized operation against the selected object. This session will show you a few practical examples of using custom grips.
New Orleans 2022
Up and Running with Data Exchange API: Where Does Model Derivative Fit?
The new Data Exchange service helps you unlock your data and gives you the flexibility to share the right data with the right stakeholders at the right time. Its flexible and powerful API allows you to access the granular data in exchanges and, given the structure of the data, it is also possible to quickly identify and get the difference between the versions of a shared data subset. In this class, we’ll have an overview of the concepts used by the Data Exchange to describe the data structure, and we’ll work with these concepts to explain how the data’s organized within an exchange container. We’ll discuss the current capabilities of the Data Exchange API as well as some future functionalities. Given its current capabilities, we’ll go through some workflows that best suit its use. To be fair, we’ll also see some cases where it might not be the right solution, and compare it with other APIs like the Model Derivative API, the BIM 360 API, and Autodesk Construction Cloud Model Properties API.
New Orleans 2022
Dynamo Blues: 10 Things to Avoid in Your Script and How to Fix Them
Like any other programming experience, Dynamo has its share of headaches. But once you know what to avoid, you can move on to success. Visual scripting has been growing in popularity in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry throughout the years with a lot of adventurous users. However, with adventures come pitfalls that can be challenging to navigate. In this talk, we’ll explore the 10 big things that can cause script errors and strange behavior in Dynamo. We’ll review the signs of the problem in the script, what to look for in an error, steps to try to fix the problem, and documentation to help you along the way. Come and get a helping hand in this talk to learn the ropes of solving any problem you run into with Dynamo!
New Orleans 2022
Deploy Better Plug-ins Faster Through CI/CD and Unit Testing in Azure DevOps
At Woods Bagot, we managed to cut the deployment time of our tools from days to minutes, while increasing quality and reliability, by repurposing common concepts and tools from the software development world. By implementing a DevOps philosophy in your workflow, not only can you deliver automation tools quicker, but you can also empower your teams from the start, improving communication and collaboration and promoting professional growth. You can increase the quality and reliability of the deployed software product thanks to automated testing and a faster feedback cycle. Moreover, with the ability of more-frequent and faster releases, backed up by live monitoring systems, developers can deploy tools that are tailored to the users and that really respond to their needs. The session will showcase how Woods Bagot has developed a full workflow for its Revit toolbar through the use an Azure DevOps pipeline—but you can apply the principles to any platform that benefits from automation tools.
New Orleans 2022
Automating the Workflow of Data from Revit with Autodesk Forge Data Exchange
Exchanging data from Revit software to other applications is very often a file-based and time-consuming task. In our case, it's typically based on an IFC export from Revit. This IFC file is then imported into another application and the result is imported into Revit by an add-in that reads a text or Excel file. We’ve addressed these challenges with the Autodesk Forge Data Exchange API, exchanging only the necessary subset of data. This API is still in beta and there are two possible cases that we may demonstrate on Autodesk University. The first one is to use the Autodesk Forge Data Exchange API to automatically get the analytical model from Revit, open it in a structural analysis application, do the analysis there, and then send the result automatically back to Revit. The results can then be used to create structural reinforcement and to suggest changes to the model. The other case is based on sending properties data back and forth between Revit and applications that handle building specifications, prices, and sustainability data.
New Orleans 2022
Simple, Fast, and Error-Free Design-To-Manufacture Workflows with Autodesk Fusion 360
Automated modern manufacturing technologies require a highly trained workforce, with equipment that punishes novices and cheerfully damages itself if mishandled. Advances in manufacturing often require investments in new equipment and extensive retraining—costs that often leave established manufacturers behind. Learn how to increase productivity through establishing robust, easy-to-use, error-resistant, end-to-end evolving workflows that build on existing manufacturing expertise and equipment. These workflows scale and equip designers with manufacturing expertise while also driving automation—providing a giant leap forward in usability for operators through proactively identifying and highlighting errors. In this session, we’ll use real examples to illustrate the process drawn from our educational expertise in transforming the prototyping experience of hundreds of novice students per year, enabling them to go from concept to custom part in a couple of weeks with a 90% first-time success rate.
New Orleans 2022
Greenwashing? Not Here: Autodesk’s New Sustainability Consulting Practice
This year, Autodesk is expanding its impact. We’ve made significant progress toward our own internal sustainability goals, achieving net-zero emissions across our business and value chain, pledging a 50% reduction in our scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2031, and investing in change makers through the Autodesk Foundation. However, we know that the real change happens when our customers shift their businesses to sustainability. Our new Sustainability Consulting Practice is designed to do just that. We’ve assembled a small and nimble team of sustainability experts across the globe to help solve our customers' most pressing issues related to energy, materials, health, resilience, work, and prosperity. In this session, you’ll learn about this new team, how they will work with customers, and how their expertise will position your company to be a leader in key impact areas.
New Orleans 2022
Starting Simple: Capturing Your Process Quickly and Adopting Fully
Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software can facilitate the dream of an online and integrated world for process management. This tool provides many industry-standard processes already loaded into the system, but one size does not always fit all. Whether young or established, capture your processes quickly. Many get star-struck by Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage, only to get caught up in how customizable it can be—which can lead to trying to get every detail right. This approach tends to impair. The best approach is to weave together the principles of starting simply, using the out-of-the-box processes, avoiding perfectionism, and putting user adoption first. This will manifest in a faster return on investment. Do not get left with an imperfect perfected process with nothing to show for your hard work. Lean toward being agile, building simply on the system foundations with the user always at the forefront of your plans. Ultimately, user adoption leads to happy directors and CEOs who haven’t wasted their money—and we all want that.
New Orleans 2022
Up and Running with Fusion Data API
The Fusion Data API unifies the way you can access data stored on Autodesk Forge, model hierarchy information, and properties of Autodesk Fusion 360 models. This API is based on GraphQL, an industry-standard technology that makes it easy to discover the properties and relationship information that the Fusion Data API provides.
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