Early BIM workflows rarely included actual building product data and families. As our technology grows and matures it is becoming more important to move from the “Building Models” (BM) that we started with and add more and more “I” so that we take full advantage of “Building Information Modeling” (BIM). Who better to provide this information than the companies that actually manufacture the products we use in our design. Building Product Manufactures (BPM’s) were mostly left out of the BIM party during the early stages of our transition from 2D to BIM, but now they are slowly being incorporated into our models. So the question is how we best welcome them into our party to benefit the entire design build team. This class will discuss strategies, topics, and tools that help the entire design build team to realize the true power of virtual design.

In this class, you learn how to use Autodesk® Product Design Suite to transform Inventor software models into intelligent models in Revit-based software for Building Information Modeling (BIM). We focus on simplifying the Inventor model, removing intellectual property, adding necessary connectors and metadata, and finally, importing the model into Revit. We also describe how to add value to your simplified BIM models by creating compelling visualization materials with Showcase® visualization software.

Repurposing manufacturing content for BIM presents unique challenges. The Informed Design API represents a revolutionary new approach. Get hands-on experience with Informed Design in this lab-style class and test the workflow for yourself. We'll learn how Revit users can discover, configure, and place native Revit families (RFA) into Revit projects that originated in Inventor manufacturing software. We’ll learn how manufacturers of productized building components can publish designs with reduced detail for design in Revit. We’ll learn how to assess a Revit project for Informed Design components and automatically generate manufacturing outputs such as shop drawings and bills of materials (BOMs) for each variant. We'll learn how manufacturers can securely and with controlled permissions publish content to Informed Design via Autodesk Docs software, and how revisions can be consumed in Revit. Join us to discover, consider, and learn!

Informed Design for Revit software is a powerful tool that empowers designers to create high-quality, manufacturable designs with increased efficiency and accuracy. By using customizable building product templates, designers can seamlessly incorporate manufacturing-level detail into their Revit design files. The ability to tailor these templates to align with specific building requirements ensures compliance with manufacturers' specifications, reducing project risk and preventing errors. This class will provide an in-depth exploration of how to use Informed Design for Revit to maximize design certainty, minimize rework, and streamline project execution. By using Informed Design for Inventor software, building product manufacturers create and share customizable reusable products with constraints. Participants will learn how to explore, customize, and incorporate these manufacturable building product templates into their designs within Revit for enhanced accuracy.

Building the next generation of construction products at scale requires a software platform that allows for high-level adaptation to the unique architectural and structural requirements of each project and enables seamless integration of digital manufacturing data with operations. The highly parametric nature of Inventor software is well suited for these challenges. In this presentation, we will cover how we've used the Inventor software development kit (SDK), a custom-built configurator, and highly adaptable Inventor models as the basis for designing and building our products.

Building product manufacturers—are you satisfied with paying a third party to create Building Information Modeling (BIM) (Revit software) content? Frustrated that you have to pay again when you add or update your products? Would you like to make BIM content available on your own website, along with your photos, specifications, literature, and testimonials? Contractors—are you frustrated with searching among multiple content providers before finding content that leaves you wanting more (metadata, connectors) or less (geometry details)? Do you spend a lot of time matching specifications with models to make sure they're correct or up to date? Inventor software provides the building product manufacturer with simplification tools and BIM authoring to create configurable models, while Configurator 360 software hosts those models on your own website, enabling contractors to view, specify, and download BIM content. When you add or change products, it's easy to add or update products in Configurator 360 software. Take control of your BIM content and provide the actual product BIM model, just in time. This session features Inventor Professional and Configurator 360. AIA Approved

This class will focus on how manufacturers are becoming an integral part of the architecture and construction digital pipeline. It will cover not only how building product fabricators can deliver reusable information to architects, but also how custom fabricators and system integrators can deliver coordinated models into an ongoing project.

When it comes to achieving better project outcomes, automation is the key—whether you’re making buildings, products, or media. Automation is changing how we work, what we work with, and what we’re capable of making—for the better. Join Walter Dopplmair - VP, EMEA Territory Sales to hear about real and relevant projects from across industries featuring visionary teams embracing the opportunities of automation. Better outcomes start here.

For today's architects to meet their ambitious sustainability goals toward net zero, new building materials that can sequester carbon emissions and replace petroleum-based products must rapidly enter the construction industry. In this session, we'll look at a case study where leaders in industrialized construction, composite manufacturing, and biomaterials technology joined Autodesk researchers. Together, they developed a carbon sequestering facade system by replacing the typical petroleum-based foam within fiberglass reinforced facade panels with mycelium fungi composites, a carbon-negative biomaterial. The session will describe the developmental journey from material research and performance validation to the use of Autodesk Forma and Autodesk Fusion 360 software to design the facade for a Californian housing development that meets sustainability, habitability, and construction project goals. Discover the rise of biomaterial building products and how today's construction companies are reducing their facade installation schedules with this approach.

The principle of Industrialized construction is to apply techniques learned from industries such as Automotive design to the design and construction of buildings. Moving to this new world has inherent challenges, from the complexity of mass customization to the supply chain pipeline.
You are not alone. Many great minds are focused on this complex problem and the challenges of getting there from where we are today.
If you are involved in the manufacture of building products or equipment, the pre-fabrication of building components and modular systems, or the challenges of implementing design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) in your Architectural practice, come and join your peers at Autodesk University for this informal networking session.
Take this opportunity to meet others at AU who are focused on the same problems as you and build your network of peers to help you meet this challenge long after AU is over.

Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) subcontractors are critical stakeholders in the AECMO built environment. We face a combination of cost pressures, skills and materials scarcity, and a journey toward digitalization. While the convergence of construction and manufacturing challenges us with new ways of working—including industrialized construction, building product componentization, and informed design—our building information modeling (BIM)-to-fabrication workflows must adapt. New Revit integrations and cloud-based fabrication workflows on a common data environment (CDE) for outcomes of connected construction and sustainability are critical. This panel of MEP contractors and experts will discuss insights of transformational BIM-to-fabrication-to-field workflows. The panel will show how streamlined workflows enable factory automation, data matrix tracking, and innovative remote machine operation using AR/VR technology. Learn how to make this your reality, not just a dream.

We are starting to see a convergence of different industries and disciplines like we have never seen before. Construction and manufacturing for modular construction and building product manufacturing coming further into design. Plant and power owners using these same methodologies to help meet deadlines and set quality standards. Owners using digital twin and integrated factory modeling for digitalization of factory building and production lines. Digitization in infrastructure for everything below or above ground. Along with GIS, the ability to explore locations, events, and trends so stakeholders can be better informed or create awareness of the environment. See how today’s current desktop and cloud technologies like Revit, Inventor, Construction Cloud, and Fusion 360 are helping to bring a common data environment to multiple industries. Understand how Collaboration, Connected Data, and Digitization are bringing the “art of the possible” to a level that we have never seen before.

The demand for transparency is driving building-product transformation. The Transparency Catalog is accelerating the transformation by making it super easy to select, specify, and procure greener and healthier materials for high-performance building projects. Continually growing, it includes 1,770 manufacturers, products in 1,250 MasterFormat sections (Apr ‘22), and every EPD, HPD, Declare label and C2C-certified product available in North America. Architecture, engineering, construction, and owner-operated (AECO) industry stakeholders constructing high-performance buildings want to ensure the brands and products they select actually get specified, procured, and installed. Today, the substantial gaps in workflow, data, and tools make doing so time-intensive, expensive, and difficult to repeat. Transparency Catalog Project Builder enables integrated and efficient processes for AECO industry stakeholders to centralize data and collaborate across design, build, and operate. It builds knowledge and expertise to make informed decisions to help ensure the outcome is a credibly higher-performing building.

When it comes to achieving better project outcomes, automation is the key—whether you’re making buildings, products, or media. Automation is changing how we work, what we work with, and what we’re capable of making—for the better. Join Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost to hear about real and relevant projects from across industries featuring visionary teams embracing the opportunities of automation. Better outcomes start here. Joining Andrew onstage will be these AU Speakers: Asa Kalama: Star Wars™: Galaxy's Edge is a place where you can live your own Star Wars adventure on a truly massive scale. Join Executive Creative Director, Asa Kalama, for a keynote presentation at the AU general session, to hear how Walt Disney Imagineering creatively executed precision technical work to unlock the power of play. Elizabeth Hausler: By 2030, more than 1/3 of the world will live in substandard housing. Join Elizabeth Hausler, founder and CEO of social enterprise Build Change, as she talks about how culturally appropriate design, rigorous engineering, access to financing, policy change, and the power of technology can provide resilient and safe housing for everyone. Watch the AU General Session in Hall D or catch it in the Theater or Venetian Ballroom EF.

When adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM), the longest slog is creating the family files that you'll need to generate your designs productively. But there's already so much great content out there on building product suppliers' websites-couldn't you just use that? We all know that it's not that simple. Manufacturing models are not only far more complicated than we require for BIM: they rarely contain the data we need. So how can building product manufacturers, suppliers, and specifiers work together more closely to share data in ways that benefit all parties? In this presentation, we'll tell the stories of customers who've taken on the challenge. We'll look at the problems they've faced and the solutions they've implemented, and we'll discuss the merits of each. The challenges of sharing data with the right amount of detail at the right time are by no means solved. We're interested in your views on this subject, and we look forward to some lively debate!

Do you live in a world where you need to leverage both Revit and Inventor to design and fabricate elements for a building? Essentially, do you import Revit data into Inventor and vice versa? We want to hear about your current issues and get your feedback on some design concepts we have to improve the interoperability of Inventor and Revit. This will be a highly interactive workshop. It is open to all customers that take part in the development of custom fabrication and building products.

This hands-on lab will allow users to get some hands-on time with generative design. We will cover how to define a generative design study from scratch, apply loads, constraints, and manufacturing methods. Once completed, we will explore the results and export an outcome and then use the innovate tools with Fusion 360 to adjust the design to suit the manufacturing method we would like to use. We will cover 2 example through the workshop, one focused around manufacturing products and the other around building products.

Industrialized construction is here to stay; prefabricated elements in the built environment and the design-for-manufacture-and-assembly (DfMA) process that enables it are fast becoming the norm across all sectors. So why is it that most of the case studies and best practices we see relate to volumetric modular construction of housing and hospitality? What about the vast but largely unsung impact of advanced building products, single-trade assemblies, and multitrade assemblies that make up the majority of the market? This panel will invite leaders from across the prefabrication continuum to explore why it's not just about modular.

This lab will provide an opportunity for customers to get hands on with the new “Revit AnyCAD” functionality in Inventor 2021 software. We will cover some of the theory of why BIM (Building Information Modeling) is important to building product manufacturers and custom fabricators, and level set on our existing BIM exchange tools. We will then work our way through a four-part example use case for referencing Revit data. We will cover some basic cleanup of the model in Revit software, test what we can do with the data in Inventor, marvel as changes made to the Revit model update inside of Inventor, and round-trip the Inventor model back into Revit.