Want to stay ahead of the curve when designing and marketing your sustainable infrastructure services? Generative design will help you move the needle faster with your customers toward cleaner, safer, more reliable sources of energy. We’ll dive into platforms, concepts, and workflows that will help civil and environmental engineers design faster, optimize outcomes earlier to reduce project costs and schedules, deliver more value to their customers, and ultimately make a greater environmental impact. Discover how to rapidly optioneer and optimize to reduce overall design time and rework, as well as manage the complexity of large data sets associated with solar and wind projects. We’ll cover workflows integrating Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, Dynamo, and Generative Design in Revit software. We’ll familiarize you with geometric concepts for faster graphical and computational power. And we’ll demonstrate how Autodesk Consulting is funneling innovation into practice with various prototypes for sustainable design projects.

Reducing office energy use is crucial for achieving a carbon-neutral society. This session shows how aligning building systems with office usage can lead to significant savings. Activity-Based Working (ABW) offices let workers choose their workspace based on tasks and personal preferences, such as temperature and lighting, enhancing wellness and productivity. By creating varied zones̶cool, warm, bright, and calm̶we support passive energy use and reduce the need for uniform conditioning. Sensors monitor the environment, and data is visualized with Autodesk Tandem to understand and improve workplaces. After implementation, 70% of workers are satisfied with their selected spots, and overall satisfaction rose to 71%. HVAC zoning for diverse environments cut daily thermal energy use by up to 40%. Join us to learn how these strategies can significantly impact your office's energy use and worker satisfaction.

We will fill this class with the tips and tricks you'll need to create many different types of macros in AutoCAD software. Macros are small groups of commands and routines that can be any length and don't require any special characters at the end of the line. In this sequel to the popular 2013 class you will gain knowledge about creating custom macros that apply to your business needs and enhance your productivity on designs. You will develop a custom tool palette on which you will place your new macros for quick access. Most importantly, you'll be able to bring value back to your employer and gain the knowledge to help you excel within your field.

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.

This class will outline some tips for performing and troubleshooting advanced Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis software models. Join us for a discussion about moving data back and forth, as well as performance tips and troubleshooting guidelines. Come to the class ready to learn, and bring your questions.

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.

This session will celebrate the work of customers and thought leaders who are reshaping their businesses and, in the process, reshaping society by rethinking how they plan, design, and build, and by considering what the impact is of what they do now and in the future. Hear what they have started to explore (new approaches, technologies, and business practices) to consider the real possibilities for your businesses. This is a breakout to the Infrastructure Symposium on Monday.

Tired of seeing an AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software grading demonstration of a rectangular building pad? In this class, you will learn how to use the Civil 3D grading tools to build 10 common things that are great practical applications for most grading designs. We will look at walls, driveways, berms, swales, and many others things. We'll also look at how to combine these smaller designs into one large final design.

The Infrastructure Symposium general session includes the welcome address, the highlights on a few key projects, the presentation of the 2014 Excellence in Infrastructure winners, and an overview of the symposium sessions to follow. The symposium provides peer-networking opportunities across owner/operators and the network of engineering, design, and construction firms focused on supporting infrastructure projects and managing asset lifecycles. The Infrastructure Symposium is on Monday.

The NBBJ healthcare practice is currently using Simulation CFD 360 software to study patient comfort in healthcare design. This class will show examples of the work, and we will examine analysis of the results of this work. We will examine in-depth studies of natural ventilation, infection control, and patient comfort, and we will discuss methods and results. We will also look at additional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies to investigate the use of Simulation CFD 360 software in the study of energy-saving concepts as they relate to healthcare design and the design of other Sustainable Design Solutions.

Learn how to use the new AutoCAD Civil 3D Geotechnical extension to display and model subsurface data for infrastructure design work. This class will show how borehole data can be imported and used within AutoCAD Civil 3D software to greatly increase productivity for geotechnical engineers. Users will be able to plot hole locations, create 3D sticks modeling strata data at hole locations, and model strata top and base surfaces using geotechnical styling and hatching. The class will also see how the extension is used to quickly manipulate a strata surface by specifying what hole data should or should not be included and how to rapidly create geotechnical sections and automatically create borehole logs (strips) on the profile view.

This class provides an overview of current initiatives in sustainability for infrastructure projects as well as specific features in AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD Map 3D software that can help you reach the specific goals of those initiatives. The class focuses on real civil infrastructure and environmental project scenarios and how to use tools in Civil 3D and Map 3D to infuse innovation into design to meet project sustainability requirements. A focal point will be GIS features that are integrated with design tools.

In this class, a panel of experts from Autodesk Product Support will answer your questions and share troubleshooting tips. During this open discussion and Q&A session, we may not be able to answer or resolve all of your questions right away, but we can provide pointers or advice for further troubleshooting. We will also explain how to log a support case for more in-depth investigation. We will make a brief presentation at the start to introduce the Autodesk Product Support team and explain the current support options for customers.

Are you confused about how to plot all the different views (plan, profile, and cross sections) in AutoCAD Civil 3D software? Then this class is for you. We will discuss the settings and styles that help to automate the plotting of your projects, whether they include plans, profiles, cross sections, or a combination of these sheet sets. We will also examine the necessary settings required for your drawing templates to make the plotting process a breeze. In addition, we will cover some of the AutoCAD software plotting functionality that you can capitalize on. Come and learn how to automate the plotting of your projects using AutoCAD Civil 3D software (no Robin required). Batman is a trademark of DC Comics.

If you think that your Industry Model application in AutoCAD Map 3D Enterprise software is running slowly and you're tired of looking at the hourglass while you edit data, launch a form, or generate graphics, this class is for you. The AutoCAD Map 3D Enterprise databases grow fast in features count and complexity of relationships. It is not uncommon to see enterprise implementations with complex models (50 to 100 feature classes) and millions of features in each class. Should your application slow down when more data is added? Absolutely not. In this class we will demonstrate and discuss many practical tips and tools that will help you to optimize the system's performance and improve the user experience. We also hope you will share with us your experiences of optimizing the AutoCAD Map 3D Enterprise Industry Model application for small or large databases.

In this class, we will cover troubleshooting tips and techniques for issues that users may encounter in the latest versions of AutoCAD software. We will look at the most frequent types of questions that the AutoCAD Support team has received in the last year, and attendees will learn how to troubleshoot and resolve these issues or how to avoid them. The class will also include troubleshooting tips for some of the more recently added AutoCAD features, like the Autodesk® 360 cloud-based platform, model documentation, and Content Explorer.

Do you spend days or weeks determining a corridor path for your roads and highways projects? Do you spend hours refining your roadway profiles to minimize costs and satisfy sophisticated constraints? Do you spend tons of money on software to help you design your roadways? No more. This class reveals the easy-to-use and cost-saving Corridor Optimization and Profile Optimization features available with Roadway Design for InfraWorks 360 software. We will present the enhancements included in our latest release and explain how to use them to achieve the most effective results for your roads and highways design projects. We'll also teach you tricks for configuring the services to work for mining, roadways, and railway design projects.

Drainage Design for InfraWorks 360 software introduces new workflows for the use of the drainage engineer that enable cross-drainage computations and layout of storm-water sewer networks. Utilize the Watershed Analysis service to delineate watersheds and streams along your roads much faster than previously possible. This class will walk you through the drainage design process, from watershed to culvert, and we will quickly lay out pavement drainage.

Explore the functionality in AutoCAD® Raster Design, and AutoCAD® Map 3D software for working with aerial imagery, viewing Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, editing scanned maps and photos, and converting raster data into vector. Learn how to accurately insert georeferenced images. Insert and correlate non-referenced images. Access and manage imagery using image manipulation tools. Improve image display with nonlinear tonal adjustment and palette controls. Create slope and elevation maps from DEM data. The class will also look at draping images on surface models and the raster capabilities of the AutoCAD Map 3D Feature Data Objects (FDO) functions.