Looking for an easy way to add wireless communications to a project? Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee? Wireless electronics is considered by many to be a dark art, even electrical engineers! However, today’s modular hardware and simplified software resources has made it possible for even nonelectrical engineers to successfully add wireless communications to their designs. This course is for mechanical engineers, industrial designers, architects, and software engineers looking to control objects wirelessly or gather data from devices or systems remotely. Spend time with us learning to add Wi-Fi to your next project! Using Eagle, we will build a small sensor-based system that posts data to the cloud and responds to commands from your browser. Some familiarity with embedded software platforms, including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or similar will be helpful but is not required. Familiarity with breadboarding concepts will also be helpful.

Revit families were created to communicate with each other; we can push or gather data via their connectors, which lets us create some very powerful families and schedules. Using this data, we can coordinate across disciplines and decrease errors and design time. Mechanical can input values and provide electrical with the necessary information to properly design their systems with minimum effort. Parameters can be viewed as discreet bits of information you plug in to your equipment to populate your schedule-an arduous, tedious task. But if you look at how all those bits of data can affect all the other bits of data, and you can get them talking to each other, you'll have a useful design tool. Since engineering is chock-full of formulas, we'll look at how we can use these formulas to drive our parameters and streamline the design process. We'll look at how mechanical elements push data upstream to help calculate electrical loads.

Today, much of the mechanical design has been completed before electrical design has barely started, practically eliminating any possibility of effective mechanical-electrical co-design. We propose an integrated MCAD-ECAD flow, harnessing generative AI to make mechanical electrical co-design a reality—to achieve optimal design and reduce turnaround time, design churn, and cost. We'll show how integration between Autodesk Fusion software and OrCAD X combined with Cadence's generative-AI printed circuit board (PCB) design solution, can transform mechanical-electrical co-design. The flow helps users achieve two seemingly contradictory goals: shift-left for mechanical and electrical engineers and shift-right for layout designers. In hours, mechanical/electrical engineers can get information like fully placed boards and thermal profiles early in design cycle, while PCB designers can start their work when the design is stable. This flow can help users reduce design cost and turnaround time, and create much more optimal designs.

Revit® MEP software for electrical engineering is all about coordination. Yes, it does modeling in 3D, but the biggest benefit for electrical is not that it can model 3D lights. Rather, it is that it produces a coordinated model with the insurance that everything is circuited and documented correctly. Setting up Revit MEP for Electrical can be painful. There are many pesky settings and things that just do not work the way you want them to work. Come and join me as we discuss the major items that I have discovered that keep electrical engineers up at night trying to configure Revit MEP to work the way they want it to. We tackle problems such as editing panel schedules, changing graphics of nested families, working with homeruns, working with hosted fixtures, and working with load classifications. Don't let Revit MEP get the best of you. Learn how to fix these pesky settings before they drive you crazy!

Are you an electrical engineer or contractor looking to grow or accelerate your VDC practice with AI and aren't sure where to start? Join us as we show you how you can do just that using an AI-powered design tool from Augmenta to supercharge your Revit modeling workflow. In this interactive session, you will learn the ropes of using the Augmenta Construction Platform's automated electrical modeling capability to amplify your VDC capabilities and walk through the entire process of developing design solutions automatically A to Z. Utilizing the Revit model data, we'll develop and analyze multiple designs in parallel, opening up a world of opportunities for trade-off exploration and data-driven decision making upstream in the design process. We will cover what is needed to get started, and dive into the ways AI will transform your Revit Modeling process. We believe that design activities will shift from output focused to outcome oriented. Are you ready to join the movement?

For a while, MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) disciplines in general, and electrical in particular, have been somewhat behind architecture and structure disciplines when it comes to utilizing BIM (Building Information Modeling) capabilities; hence, electrical engineers usually used BIM software as a drafting tool while keeping the same old calculation sheets and process. The purpose of this class is to give a detailed approach on how electrical analysis and workflow can be embedded successfully in BIM software, to motivate MEP and electrical engineers to take the design process to the next levels—not just by the integration between analysis software, but by preparing a full workflow. The lecture will describe embedding electrical analysis using Revit software, Revit API, and simple database; following electrical design tasks such as feeder sizing and protection sizing; explaining how Revit is used as the main tool and central platform for the electrical design process; and also making the electrical and MEP engineers think of the next level.

In this class, we will discuss how, as project leads, architects can work with consultants who do not see the benefit of Revit software as a collaboration tool. What options do we have when consultants are not willing to use Revit software's information management capacity? How do we manage expectations on a project with consultants unwilling to use Revit software's 3D capabilities? What strategies can we use to stay on budget when consultant-supplied Building Information Modeling (BIM) is incomplete? How can we set up 3D modeling requirements to facilitate consultant BIM use? What tools do we have to reassure consultants that modeling in BIM is both efficient and beneficial for all parties? You will also have an opportunity to review sample execution plans for different levels of BIM involvement.

Improving electrical design workflows is critical for electrical engineers and designers to increase efficiencies, focus on sustainability, and deliver for their clients. April Kane—an electrical designer/BIM consultant for Spectrum Engineers —has a mission to improve her team's electrical workflows. She has partnered with the Advanced Electrical Design for Revit team as an early adopter of the new Revit extension. This presentation will focus on a case study starting with the considerations and assessments the firm took before reworking its electrical design workflows. We'll show an example of a project using the new enhanced workflows.

Revit MEP software for electrical engineering is all about coordination. Yes, it does modeling in 3D; but the biggest benefit for electrical is not that it can model 3D lights. Rather, it's that it produces a coordinated model with the assurance that everything is circuited and documented correctly. Setting up Revit MEP for electrical can be painful. There are many pesky settings and things that just do not work the way you want them to work. Come to this class to discuss the major items that keep electrical engineers up at night trying to configure Revit MEP to work the way they want it to. We'll tackle problems such as editing panel schedules, changing graphics of nested families, creating circuit paths, developing powerful electrical schedules, working with hosted fixtures, and working with load classifications. Don't let Revit MEP get the best of you. Learn how to fix these pesky settings before they drive you crazy.

Modern electrical design is becoming more modular every day. Instead of individual wires attaching to individual screw terminals, pre-made harnesses are used to provide connections between components. Take this class to learn about the cable and harness tools in AutoCAD Electrical. We cover how to manipulate the tools to provide intelligent reports for rack systems, console interfaces, and other non 'standard' requirements.

Now that we have been using AutoCAD Electrical in industry for a while, let's see what we can do to squeeze more productivity out of the software. The class covers unique ways to use the software's existing tools to become more productive.

In this class we will discuss Seattle City Light's (SCL) current program to update and modernize its construction standards and how this effort has affected the firm's automatic utility design (AUD) project. We will review how this process has impacted SCL's compatible units in its work management system and the industry models (feature classes) maintained in AUD. We will also discuss the drivers for the modernization, the timing considerations related to the current AUD project, and impact of the changes on AUD.

Everyone approaches AutoCAD software differently, so in this hands-on lab we cover several approaches to customizing and launching commands. After creating a workspace, we will create a custom panel on the ribbon to hold your favorite commands, and we'll also see how to add the same commands to the Quick Access toolbar. As some of you know, I'm a Tool Palette junkie, so we'll see how a button on the Tool Palette may result in a better approach. For the keyboarders, we'll create a 1-line lisp, and we'll edit the ACAD.PGP file for aliases. But what about those rollover tips and the content of Quick Properties? We'll also check those out. In addition to some quality time in the Customize User Interface, we will also present tips along the way, all of which I hope will result in a more efficient and productive daily AutoCAD experience.

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.

The introduction of parametrics into AutoCAD® software in 2010 was one of the most important new features in recent years. AutoCAD 2011 further enhanced this feature with added functionality such as inferred geometric constraints. Parametrics are, however, not an easy concept for many users, and real-world applications and best-practice strategies can be hard to master. This class will take a structured approach to explaining these parametric features and how best to use them to provide maximum value to your design development.

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.

Meet with electric utility industry peers to discuss the intricacies of substation design. Find out how other utilities are using design resources. Compare workflows. Share successes, failures and challenges. Benefit from others' experience. Share ideas for improving processes. The more knowledge we have, the better we can design substations.

Underground utilities such as cables and conduits are rarely seen, and underground electrical vaults are complicated, dangerous, badly lit, and sometimes full of water or ice. Vaults are hard to access and records of what is inside of them will often be missing. Using cameras and ReCap 360 software, the Locates, Engineering, and Operations personnel at Anchorage Municipal Light & Power are creating 3D models of these assets in hard-to-reach underground vaults. They then use ReCap 360 software to make these 3D models available to utility personnel out in the field or back in the office.

This workshop will demonstrate how to use ElumTools (an add-on for Revit software from the makers of AGi32) in Revit software to achieve daylight modeling with point-by-point calculation by utilizing the architectural model and lighting families.