With Autodesk, Inc., solutions, designers and engineers can use virtual models to explore, review, and fine-tune design variations. This talk will cover advanced visualization and design review workflows, including immersive virtual reality design review using head-mounted displays and tracking technologies with VRED Professional software; large-screen powerwall review using high-performance VRED ray-tracing clusters; and collaborative web/mobile design review solutions based on VRED Server. 

Learn from an Autodesk customer, a product manager, and a data scientist as they talk about how the design-review and model-coordination processes work today in construction, and how AI-driven technology can assist the user. Identifying issues before starting construction can save dollars and hours downstream, and Construction IQ software now has the first set of AI-driven tools to help you do this. Customers are digitizing their design-review and coordination processes and tracking their issues using apps like BIM 360 Document Management. Construction IQ is an AI layer that has learned from this data, and also from quality and safety issues, checklists, RFIs, and change orders from more than 30,000 projects. Hear directly from an early adopter customer about their design-review process, wins, and challenges. Understand where the opportunities for AI-driven change exist via workflows like autodetection of code compliance problems and identification of inconsistencies between different document sets.

Autodesk VRED 3D visualisation software supports design exploration, communication, virtual prototyping, photography, and sales configurator solutions. The software enables users to quickly transform digital design data into compelling, high-fidelity images, animations, and real-time presentations, which can be consumed on desktop or through full-scale presentation environments or web/mobile displays. It's useful for efficiently exploring and validating digital designs for informed decision making and the creation of compelling design imagery for enterprise-wide presentations, alongside marketing communications. This instructional demo introduces VRED software to new users within automotive, industrial/product design, engineering, visualisation, and digital marketing. Starting from the initial data import, we will guide you through the process of achieving a detailed design review and configurator for presentations. Along the way, we will discuss materials, camera, lights, shadows, configuring variants, and more.

Design review sessions are an essential part of product development for everything from automotive to architecture to manufacturing. It is essential to bring together stakeholders and experts from all disciplines—including design, engineering, and manufacturing—early in the design process. Visualizing prototype designs in VRED software in real time has been invaluable in discovering potential issues and delivering better products on a faster cycle. We have developed a set of design review tools implemented in Python inside of VRED to enable work sessions to be more effective and create a documentation trail for concrete decision making without resorting to as much physical prototype construction. Using ray tracing, VRED can enable reliable review of design details, especially glass, mirrors, and metals. Real-time remote collaboration enables participation from far-flung departments around the world without requiring travel. This session will explore case studies and demonstrate these capabilities.

Autodesk VRED 3D visualization software helps designers and engineers create product presentations, design reviews, and virtual prototypes using interactive GPU ray tracing and both analytic and cloud-rendering modes. This session highlights the AWS Quick Start designed for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals who are planning to implement or extend their Autodesk VRED workloads on the AWS Cloud to enable realtime, virtual, design reviews.

The XR team at Autodesk will join an architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) customer to lead this hands-on session where you'll learn about practical methods for hosting more-effective design reviews in today's hybrid work environment using extended reality (XR). You will learn how to easily connect project data into XR and how to manage headsets. You'll discover the best virtual reality (VR) use cases for fully remote, hybrid, and conference room settings, you'll see some screensharing best practices, and more. The customer will then guide the class in sharing a recent project and the practical VR workflow their company uses today. The outcome: better project clarity, better stakeholder engagement, and more-efficient design reviews—all making alignment easier and objectively more fun!

Pushing Inventor software data to cloud sounds scary to most Inventor software users. The class will start with how the releases of Connected Design on A360 cloud-based collaboration service in Inventor software are intended to help people collaborate on design shares, with best practices from real customers so far. Then attendees will walk through Inventor upcoming updates, explore the rationale of new features and how they improve the design review conversations, and share whether the updates fit their needs and how via a mini survey. Attendees will also participate in an envisioning of the future of connected design with the Inventor Development Team via interactive LUMA methods like RoseThornBuds and Creative Matrix, helping to define potential needs and shape a healthy Connected Inventor ecosystem for the long term. This session features Inventor Professional, A360, and A360 Team.

"Learn how BIM 360 can help you be productive with documents, design review as well as getting document approvals done efficiently."

Step beyond the basics and learn how to lead effective, collaborative design reviews in virtual reality (VR) using Autodesk Workshop XR software. In this advanced hands-on lab, you’ll take on the role of session host—managing data sets, guiding stakeholders, and using real-time VR tools to drive better coordination outcomes. You’ll set up a Workshop, facilitate multi-user sessions, and practice in-headset techniques for managing perspective, assigning issues, and highlighting key design elements. Finally, you’ll see how VR issues connect back to Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Navisworks software for a full feedback loop. Leave ready to lead immersive reviews that streamline decisions and align your team.

Design reviews are evolving—fast. In this session, we’ll explore how combining Twinmotion with Autodesk Workshop XR software enables architects and designers to conduct real-time, immersive design reviews that transcend screens and static presentations. You'll learn how to create engaging virtual environments that allow distributed teams and stakeholders to walk through projects, discuss changes spatially, and provide input live within the design context. We'll cover best practices for Workshop XR integration in design workflows, discuss hardware and collaboration protocols, and share insights from real-world implementation, including strategies to boost client involvement and decision-making speed.

Discover the transformative power of Autodesk Workshop XR software in this introductory hands-on lab designed to revolutionize your design review process. Experience how leading firms like Stantec, TMX Global, and Worley accelerate their projects using this immersive workspace. Equipped with Meta Quest VR headsets, you'll gain an understanding of how to walk through your Autodesk Construction Cloud models and use virtual tools to review details with precision—all within an immersive environment. This innovative approach quickly identifies spatial issues often missed on regular screens or with automated clash detection. It efficiently resolves problems, saving time and resources. By the end of the session, you'll understand how Workshop XR can sustainably guide projects from design to construction. We’ll provide everything you need, including laptops and Meta Quest headsets. Just bring your innovative spirit and readiness to explore new dimensions in design review with Autodesk Workshop XR.

When using immersive systems such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) for design review, a key attribute of the system is a seamless interaction with at-scale, realistic digital models. VRED software is a well-accepted, manufacturing design-review application offering close-to-truth photorealism and a highly immersive extended reality (XR) interface. Using artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled speech control with VRED software can increase the level of immersion, allowing a user to have direct interaction with the digital model without the need for scene-occluding graphical user interfaces (GUIs)—and also allowing the user to naively interact with VRED, enabling more users to perform unassisted design reviews in XR. Project Mellon is NVIDIA's internal speech-enablement project that uses the innovative Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) software with a prototype dialogue manager and 0-shot learning natural language processing (NLP) to achieve a developer-friendly integration of AI-enabled speech. In this session, we’ll show Mellon and VRED, and we’ll discuss how Mellon is used to easily update command lists without the need for extensive NLP training.

In this interactive hands-on lab, you'll learn how to use Autodesk Workshop XR (an immersive workspace) as an essential tool to accelerate your design review process, as have leading firms such as Stantec, HKS, and AtkinsRéalis. Together, we will create a workshop using a 3D model from Autodesk Construction Cloud. Then, using the provided Meta Quest VR headsets, you will have the opportunity to experience the immersive power of collaboratively walking through the model. By reviewing the model in detail and having live access to the associated building information modeling (BIM) data, you can identify spatial issues faster—issues that get missed when viewing on a regular screen or automated clash detection. Take the learnings from this hands-on lab back to your team and empower them to move successfully from design to construction more efficiently and sustainably. We will provide the laptops and the Meta Quest headsets; all you need to bring is your innovative spirit.

In this interactive hands-on lab, you'll learn how to use Autodesk Workshop XR (an immersive workspace) as an essential tool to accelerate your design review process, as have leading firms such as Stantec, HKS, and AtkinsRéalis. Together, we will create a workshop using a 3D model from Autodesk Construction Cloud. Then, using the provided Meta Quest VR headsets, you will have the opportunity to experience the immersive power of collaboratively walking through the model. By reviewing the model in detail and having live access to the associated building information modeling (BIM) data, you can identify spatial issues faster—issues that get missed when viewing on a regular screen or automated clash detection. Take the learnings from this hands-on lab back to your team and empower them to move successfully from design to construction more efficiently and sustainably. We will provide the laptops and the Meta Quest headsets; all you need to bring is your innovative spirit.

In this interactive hands-on lab, you'll learn how to use Autodesk Workshop XR (an immersive workspace) as an essential tool to accelerate your design review process, as did leading firms such as Stantec, HKS, and AtkinsRéalis. We'll walk you through creating a workshop using a 3D model from Autodesk Construction Cloud. Then, using the provided Meta Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets, you'll experience the immersive power of collaboratively walking through the model. By reviewing the model in detail and having live access to the associated building information modeling (BIM) data, you can identify spatial issues faster—issues that get missed when viewing on a regular screen or with automated clash detection. Take the learnings from this hands-on lab back to your team members, and empower them to move successfully from design to construction more efficiently and sustainably. We'll provide the laptops and the Meta Quest headsets; all you need to bring is your innovative spirit.

Unlock the magic of creative design! It’s an ever-evolving journey where everything can transform from week to week. And embracing change is what makes this process so captivating. In such a dynamic landscape, keeping up with design evolution can be a thrilling challenge. Depending on the design phase, the tools we use to communicate our vision shift dramatically—from sketches and images in the early stages to 3D content, renderings, real-time VR experiences, and mesmerizing movies as the design matures. Capturing the decisions made, the requests for changes, and the actions taken is critical for the streamlining of this process. Join this class to discover the ultimate way to integrate Autodesk automotive products and learn how customizations can enhance the collection and sharing of design review feedback, all while meticulously tracking project evolution and history. Get ready to revolutionize your design workflow!

We'll discuss visualization in virtual reality (VR) using large city data sets to plan, design, and market developments. Topics will include documenting cities through photogrammetry and how to utilize real-time city models in planning and design review. Using our highly detailed 3D model of San Francisco, we'll demonstrate the power of VR technology with a series of experiences at different phases of the project lifecycle. We'll showcase use scenarios for city planning, communicating, and marketing of hotel, commercial, and condominium development. This is not a step-by-step guide to creating VR experiences. We'll walk you through the streets of rapidly developing San Francisco neighborhoods. You should expect to gain a basic understanding of unique solutions possible for common challenges that developers and architects face.

Visualizing BIM and CAD projects in real-time 3D offers many advantages, but the workflow for creating these interactive, immersive experiences needs streamlining. That’s where Unity Reflect comes in; a new product that creates interactive real-time 3D experiences for any device (mobile/desktop/AR/VR) from Revit in one click. It helps every project stakeholder, from ownership to design and construction teams, make the right design decisions in real-time. During this session, we’ll showcase how Unity Reflect can be used out of the box or customized (developed on top of) to give designers, architects and engineers the ability to seamlessly federate their Revit models for real-time 3D. Learn how to enable real-time decision making, reduce time between revisions and meetings, and ultimately improve design review and construction planning processes.

As projects grow more complex with globally distributed teams and multiple locations, adopting tools that simplify collaboration and boost daily efficiency is essential. In this session, we’ll walk you through the cloud-based collaboration capabilities we're investing in to help you communicate and coordinate more effectively with both internal and external stakeholders—driving faster design outcomes.

This session will share details of a project called the VRED Session Management Service (VRED SMS). A prototype built by solutions engineers working together from Autodesk and Amazon Web Services (AWS), VRED SMS demonstrates how VRED 3D visualization software from Autodesk can be deployed and scaled on AWS in an on-demand way. VRED SMS allows applications that can interface a REST API to request a VRED collaboration session. Automated workflows execute to prepare the requisite instances and VRED configuration for a requested VRED scene file. This solution comprises a variety of AWS services, including but not limited to EC2 Image Builder, AWS Step Functions, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon API Gateway. It is also deployed using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). To automate the configuration of Autodesk's VRED software, this solution uses its Python and web APIs. The programmatic and workflow-driven nature of the solution makes it relatively simple to customize.