This presentation is centered on optimizing the performance of your desktop or laptop workstation for your design workflows. The concepts covered are relevant to AEC, industrial machinery, Revit, Inventor, and even AutoCAD—though some tweaks may be necessary based on the specific software, and I will give those. Given that many of us depend on AutoCAD for sharing designs and generating printouts, mastering these setup strategies can significantly save time, especially when handling large datasets/drawings. By thoughtfully configuring your system and software, we will consider how it interacts with other applications so you can improve overall performance across all your design tools.

Using Autodesk Fusion software for rapid PCB design, the E-Tech team at Ford Design is creating modular system components to streamline development and reduce wiring complexity. By embracing PCB basics, design rules, and community resources, we're building reusable libraries and integrating program-specific features in our experiential properties around the globe. This approach enables faster prototyping, repeatable builds, and enhanced system continuity—with ESP32-based modules featuring Ethernet for server communication. We're focused on adaptable form factors and making PCB design accessible for makers and rapid iteration.

Autodesk Platform Services is an industry-leading Design and Make Platform as a service. It makes the same technology used by Autodesk’s SaaS solutions available to external developers and businesses. This class will focus on industry trends, technology insights, and business strategies using Autodesk Platform Services to accelerate the success of your product. This class will help developers, customers, and business partners use all of the tools and resources that Autodesk provides to make sure that products built on top of Autodesk Platform Services are as successful as possible. We'll explore tools and resources that will help you learn and use Autodesk Platform Services, and we'll cover how to improve product awareness, marketing, sales, and more. We'll also include information about industry trends that we're seeing, and we'll look at several case studies to show you how products in multiple industries have become successful using Autodesk Platform Services.

Discover how Sensio (dba Made by Gather)—the company behind America’s fastest-growing kitchen brands—moved from time-consuming manual and semiautomated tasks and workflows to an automated and integrated (Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension and ERP) ecosystem, supporting their collective of visionaries, movers, and shakers who make super-premium design and innovation accessible to the world. This presentation will take you through the company’s transformative journey—highlighting how they’ve successfully integrated with their ERP and continually evolved their product development, change management, and supply chain Automation, Integration, & Customization to take full advantage of continual enhancements that Autodesk has made to these respective processes and workflows. Through the company’s experiences, you’ll gain key insights and strategies for transforming your business with connected data and processes.

At Miller-Davis Company, we set out to solve a frustrating and all-too-common challenge: the disconnect between project management and accounting systems. With Autodesk Construction Cloud as our operational hub and Sage 300 as our financial backbone, we needed a way to unify data without burdening our teams with double-entry or constant reconciliation. In partnership with Autodesk and powered by Agave’s integration platform, we built a seamless connection that brings cost data into real-time alignment—bridging field and finance with minimal disruption. This session will walk you through our integration journey, including the strategy, implementation lessons, and how we’re planning to use connected data to drive clarity, accountability, and smarter decision making across our projects.

Autodesk Platform Services (APS) unlocks your design and make data to power better ways of working. Come join your fellow Autodesk Developers to learn about new features and development opportunities, or just to connect with your fellow coders! Whether you're developing in the cloud or on the desktop, for mobile apps or the Autodesk App Store, or even just to make your own life easier – this Meetup is the place to find like-minded people working with Autodesk Platform Services. Share your experiences, learn from others, and network with the APS team!

Parsons, Autodesk, and Esri partnered to solve a massive challenge: how to organize, index, and expose hundreds of infrastructure projects—encompassing hundreds of thousands of CAD and BIM files—in a single, searchable, map-centered interface. This session will present a real-world case study of how the Parsons, Esri, and Autodesk Consulting teams used ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Platform Services to create an automated and scalable application that connects project locations with associated design documents, enabling users to search, view, and explore design data spatially. Learn how this solution streamlined access to critical files, broke down data silos, and unlocked new efficiencies across Parsons’ enterprise. Whether you're facing legacy data sprawl or planning your own GIS-BIM integration, this session will offer valuable insights and lessons learned.

Autodesk's Vault Data API offers a modern, RESTful approach to interacting with Vault data, streamlining integration and Automation, Integration, & Customization processes. In this session, we'll explore the core functionalities of the Vault Data API, highlighting its advantages over the traditional Vault SDK. Attendees will see a real-world example of what is possible with the Vault Data API, including how Vault data can be surfaced directly in Microsoft Teams through custom integrations. The session will also demonstrate a ChatBot that allows users to interactively query Vault information, showcasing new and innovative ways to make Vault data more accessible and collaborative. This class aims to equip software developers with the knowledge to enhance their applications by integrating Vault data seamlessly.

Through live demonstrations, we’ll showcase real-world applications where artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots intelligently analyze design data, automate routine queries, and provide intuitive natural-language interfaces to technical information. In this presentation, we’ll explore the process of building advanced custom AI chatbots for interacting with design data. This talk will demonstrate streamlining workflows, saving individuals hours through generative AI’s efficient processing of complex design data. We’ll begin by showing methods for pulling data into Amazon Bedrock and using the latest foundational models to use your data in new and fascinating ways. We’ll review the Autodesk Platform Services APIs for access data, and how to use prompt engineering, agent-based architectures, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to solve industry problems. We’ll showcase live demos of AI-powered chatbots that can query and analyze design data, demonstrating real-world applications and best practices.

Every organization collects data—but what happens when 80% of that data goes unused? This session will be Part 2 of showing how the integration of Vault software with Power BI can turn that dormant data into a leadership tool that supports smarter business cases and executive decision making. Using a real-world example from the utility sector, we’ll walk through how connecting the design process with Vault, using Vault Data APIs, and visualizing with Power BI can uncover valuable insights and drive tangible operational improvements. We'll also dive into the Vault engineering change order (ECO) process, illustrating how this integration delivers measurable impact for both internal teams and external stakeholders. If you're looking to empower leadership with clear, data-driven narratives and justify technology investment with confidence, this session is your blueprint that demonstrates what you can deliver after taking this class.

Greenpoint Technologies is a leading business-jet completion center that specializes in crafting custom aircraft interiors for private clients, governments, and heads of state. Using Vault Professional software and Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension, Greenpoint has optimized its product development processes through the integration of connected data and workflows. This integration provides comprehensive visibility across the organization, from concept to manufacturing. The firm’s innovative use of Product Lifecycle Management ensures engineers from various departments benefit from standardized, predictable workflows, automated task processes, and insights into inefficiencies via Power BI analytics. This presentation will showcase Greenpoint’s journey toward achieving cost savings, quality improvements, and timely deliveries through advanced PLM and data management strategies.

This class will explore how owners manage data structure and ensure seamless data flow between lifecycle models, Autodesk Tandem software, and various CMMS systems. We’ll dive into the workflows, tools, and quality control methods that help maintain data relevance, accuracy, and visibility throughout a building’s lifecycle. As buildings undergo constant change—sometimes with portions occupied while other areas are under construction—how can owners prevent data from falling through the cracks? How do they preserve reliable sources of truth across systems? And how do they understand when to retire the assets no longer in use. We’ll be sharing the lessons learned and best approaches. We’ll also examine what structured data means to an owner in terms of value for facility operations, finance, occupant experience, and achieving Sustainable Design goals. Finally, we’ll discuss strategies for bringing the not-so-rich / accurate models across the finish line to add to the expanding portfolio of great Digital Prototypings.

As buildings become smarter and the demand for real-time operational insight grows, integrating live data into Digital Prototypings is more critical—and more complex—than ever. Autodesk Tandem Connect software is a powerful iPaaS solution purpose-built to bridge this gap. With its intuitive low-code/no-code interface, Tandem Connect enables the seamless integration into your Digital Prototyping of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, maintenance management systems, building management systems, and space management platforms—without requiring deep technical expertise. Designed for scalability and cloud deployment, Tandem Connect empowers facility managers, operators, and innovators to augment their Digital Prototypings with real-time data streams that drive awareness, optimize asset performance, and inform better decision making. In this session, you’ll see real-world use cases that show how organizations are using Tandem Connect to unify mission-critical systems and unlock actionable insights for smarter building management.

Data federation, amalgamation, validation, and collaborations among multiple stakeholders are critical for successful whole-building performance analysis projects. Buildings AI—powered by Autodesk’s innovative AEC Data Model software—addresses these challenges by providing consistent and granular data representations essential for collaborative workflows. Using Autodesk Platform Services Design Automation, Integration, & Customization APIs, Buildings AI harnesses Revit System Analysis capabilities for building energy modeling and precise cooling load calculations—a whole-year energy analysis. This advanced browser-based SaaS solution allows HVAC designers to efficiently transition between projects in Revit, PDF, and AutoCAD Architecture drawings using agent-based AI workflows. Discover how Buildings AI can drive significant growth outcomes in the HVAC and energy modeling industries by delivering a rapid, user-friendly, and scalable tool designed explicitly for HVAC system optimization, regulatory compliance, and sustainable design outcomes.

The Denver International Airport (DEN) is widely recognized for its leadership in BIM. As part of a recent modernization initiative, DEN took a major leap forward by extending that BIM vision into geographic information system (GIS) technology—transforming how spaces inside the airport are mapped, managed, and maintained. In this session, you’ll learn how digital facilities and infrastructure (DFI) and GIS collaborated to build an 18-million-square-foot ArcGIS Indoors database spanning the entire campus using detailed Revit models. More than 7,000 rooms in this space management Digital Prototyping are now spatially enabled and linked to identifiers used in asset and facilities systems. We’ll share key milestones from our 10-year Management and cover how recent breakthroughs connected Revit and ArcGIS workflows. From exporting BIM to ArcGIS Indoors to now strategizing about how to push data back to Revit, DEN is building a truly bidirectional BIM-GIS environment—bringing spatial intelligence to new disciplines and teams across the airport.

Do you want to ensure the physical version of your electrical design has enough space in the mechanical layout? Are you tired of discovering too-tight bend radii during the first prototype build? Are you interested in keeping your mechanical and electrical designs in sync? Are you skeptical that any of this really works in a real-world environment? Attend this class to learn about all of this from real-life examples as they’ve been accomplished by your peers around the world. And learn why AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software are better combined together—just like chocolate and peanut butter.

Let's clear up the Clouds. This class covers the latest in virtualization technology advancements and everything you need to know to plan your approach to virtualization with Autodesk software. Learn the difference between the Cloud, Private Cloud, and Virtual Private Cloud, and how to deploy a virtualized workstation solution optimized for Revit, Inventor, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, and other common Autodesk software. This class covers hardware and software technologies from HP, NVIDIA, Citrix, and VMWare.

In this class attendees will learn about the new phase change functionality within Simulation CFD software. This functionality is aimed at the removal of large amounts of heat with refrigerants. The class will detail relevant simulation scenarios, applications, and best practices, and we'll examine a case study derived from the co-development efforts between Autodesk, Inc., and Parker Hannifin on this feature.

In this session we will explore the reasons of why workstation virtualization is now becoming more mainstream and why customers are looking at it far more than ever before. Globalization of businesses, technical readiness and security considerations have all been major drivers in the adoption and now, with new emerging technologies, it is the right time to see if and how it would fit in your organization and what it can bring to the table. The different technologies will be contrasted and compared and some hints, tips and gotchas called out to make your organization more effective wen considering implementation.