Autodesk, Inc., has given us a variety of water resource tools in Infrastructure Design Suite software. If you are a manager or a designer, you need to know if you can stop paying maintenance on competing software and move your organization forward with a single family design suite of tools. You want to know what is in the suite and if it can do the things you need it to do. In this class you get a better understanding of what equations are being used in which applications and how to find the right fit for the project requirements that are being passed on down to you. We review Storm Sewers, Hydrographs, Express Tools, Storm and Sanitary Analysis, and River Analysis. If you are already familiar with these tools, you will also learn some tips and tricks.

This class will explore the computer-aided thinking and design process that the Nairobi-based Engineering Team from a leading social enterprise uses to create new, income-generating products for the poorest segment of Africa’s population: small-scale farmers. Developing irrigation products that are affordable and uniquely tailored to the complex needs of small-scale farmers in Africa is a design challenge with the potential to improve the lives of millions. Examples from the work of KickStart International will illuminate how Inventor software, Simulations Mechanical software, and Autodesk CFD software are used to address this challenge more efficiently. KickStart has been expanding their line of human-powered irrigation pumps for more than 15 years, and the introduction of Autodesk, Inc., software and 3D printing have improved workflow by shortening the concept-to-completion product-development cycle and offset some of the challenges of prototyping and batch producing locally, in Kenya, on the way to mass manufacture. This session features Inventor Professional, CFD, Fusion 360, and Simulation Mechanical.

Have questions about the roadmaps for Innovyze products? Join Autodesk product managers at Autodesk University and get them answered live.

Are you getting started with the Analyze Gravity Network tool in Civil 3D software but not sure how deep the rabbit hole goes? This class will go into detail about the Analyze Gravity Network workflow so you can see all the steps of the process. We’ll also go over tricks we’ve found to speed up tasks (like part size mapping and creating catchments), address project requirements like clogging factors, and review some ways to visualize the spread analysis using Microsoft Excel and Dynamo software.

Have questions about the product roadmap for Civil 3D or InfraWorks? Join Autodesk product managers at Autodesk University and get them answered live.

Learn how to implement step by step a complete workflow for river design based on the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. The workflow will start from InfraWorks software in order to understand preliminary conditions to go in depth with Civil 3D software and River and Flow Analysis Module to simulate and design new conditions. At the end we will present how to maximize interoperability with HEC-RAS.

Autodesk, Inc., has given us a variety of water resource tools in Infrastructure Design Suite software. If you are a manager or a designer, you need to know if you can stop paying maintenance on competing software and move your organization forward with a single suite of tools. You want to know what is in the suite for someone who does what you do and if it can do the things you need it to do. In this class you’ll get a better understanding of what equations are being used in which applications and how to find the right fit for the project requirements that are being passed on down to you. We will review Storm Sewers, Hydrographs, Express Tools, SSA, and River Analysis. You’ll also learn some tips and tricks from those who are already familiar with these tools.

Why have 30 different irrigation blocks in your drawing when you only need four with visibility states? Why are you guessing at what rotation you should place a stop sign? Want to show a different striping arrow in two clicks? These are just a few of the things that will be covered in this class on Dynamic Blocks. This instructional demo will cover multiple types of Dynamic Blocks using a combination of dynamic parameters. Blocks shown in the presentation will include different combinations of visibility states, rotation, stretch, attributes, alignment, and more.

AutoCAD Civil 3D software gives civil engineers some great tools out of the box to perform hydraulics and hydrology studies; but if you dig a little deeper, you can truly bring out the "I" in Building Information Modeling (BIM) for civil engineers. This is a lab session in which we will utilize AutoCAD Civil 3D software parcels for an integrated solution for watershed area delineation, hydrologic analysis calculations, and drainage map production. We will work in a highly customized hydrology workflows template that includes parcel object and label styles setup, specifically to produce drainage maps with dynamic hydrology calculations updating as the watersheds are edited. We will finish by exporting our drainage map out for more complex analyses in Storm and Sanitary Analysis (SSA).

Even more difficult than finding space to build increasingly taller skyscrapers, is finding room to place new urban underground infrastructure. Urban underground space is an extremely rare and limited resource, and the growing underground race demands efficient solutions due to climate changes in our atmosphere. Subways, underground parking lots, gas piping, drainage, and sewers systems have been built throughout the years in large cities around the globe, and, in several cases, built without any master planning or blueprints. In this class, we will present how Civil 3D software can be used to design drainage systems in a high-density urban underground infrastructure environment, and how Dynamo software can help to enhance the workflows.

In this class, you’ll learn how to use Civil 3D software to automate design and analysis of storm sewer networks with Hydraflow Extension tools. We’ll use AutoCAD software and Civil 3D to prepare data such as watershed and catchment areas, and lay out a drainage network for further analysis of hydrology and hydraulic in Hydraflow Extension. We’ll analyze hydrology, open channel flow, and culvert and pipe flow. We’ll also design detention ponds. And we’ll generate stage-storage curves, pond routing, and outflow hydrographs. We’ll use site-grading tools and corridors to complete design modeling.

Rain. What civil project doesn’t have to deal in one way or another with water falling from the sky? If there’s insufficient space to convey the water above ground, we need to take it underground in pipes. The Civil 3D workflows for designing our gravity storm sewers have been very disconnected. But with the release of the updated Analyze Gravity Networks in Civil 3D 2020, we have a much more integrated way of designing our storm systems. In this class you’ll learn how to set up your drawing to run the analysis efficiently, you’ll see what information needs to be entered into the analysis (such as rainfall data), and you’ll discover how to get your pipe network to update with the results.

The Grand Paris Express (GPE) is a major automated metro infrastructure project in Paris, with a new 200-kilometer tunnel line. The maintenance site (depot) is a key structure in a limited space inserted into a dense urban environment. This situation leads to numerous challenging conflicts between the rail and building design. In this class, we will share Systra’s experience on project Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementation, and show how BIM can be used for rail infrastructure design. You will also discover how BIM can be effective for track alignment, utilities, hydrology, catenary, and telecom when interfacing with architecture, structure, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) services. BIM has been used on this project to facilitate data exchange—especially between a civil design with AutoCAD Civil 3D software and architectural design with Revit software—but also to improve 3D coordination and design review. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D and Revit.

Intended for intermediate to advanced AutoCAD Civil 3D users, this class is designed to show land development professionals workflows for brokering data between AutoCAD Civil 3D software and Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) for the creation of detailed floodplain analysis. Using terrain data from both LiDAR and grading objects, this class will demonstrate how 1D and 2D hydraulic floodplain simulations can be quickly created from AutoCAD Civil 3D designs. With DEM terrain aggregation and geometric editing functionalities recently added in the newest releases of HEC-RAS version 5.0.7 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, this class will focus on techniques and nuances for setting up your HEC-RAS model and getting simulated results back into AutoCAD Civil 3D for the creation of detailed work maps. Utilizing only AutoCAD Civil 3D and open-source programs, this class will demonstrate how to successfully integrate HEC-RAS simulations with AutoCAD Civil 3D.

AutoCAD Civil 3D software gives us many great features out-of-the-box for our day-to-day hydraulics and hydrology (H&H) modeling needs, but it's not until you dig deeper that you find it can truly bring out the I in BIM for civil engineers. Stop limiting your H&H workflow inside of the AutoCAD® software environment to simple area takeoffs. Don't limit the pipe network functionality to what comes out-of-the-box. Learn to use Civil 3D pipe networks, parcels, and catchment objects to greatly improve H&H productivity and drainage map plan production. Empower your team with the tools needed for advanced H&H workflows in Civil 3D as the data is prepared for seamless exporting into the Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension for Civil 3D or for Autodesk® Storm and Sanitary Analysis software. This class focuses on setting up your drawing templates and shared part catalogs for enhanced H&H modeling. We do discuss workflows, but this class focuses mainly on setting up the tools that are needed to perform the workflows.

This class will discuss and present the smart way to use Revit software and Dynamo software for underground utilities design. This design process, especially for oil and gas plants, is in a constant state of change; hence, it is necessary to find a way to save hours of tedious work. We can achieve this goal by developing "smart" families able to move and adapt according to calculation, simultaneously respecting design and clients' standards. We can synchronize the families' data with the hydraulic calculation by using Dynamo to connect the calculation report to the model with a simple "run." In this way, the pipes routing gets updated, and with this, all quantities and drawings, reducing considerably the time related to these activities.

Autodesk has given us a variety of water resource tools in Infrastructure Design Suite. If you are a manager or a designer, you need to know if you can stop paying maintenance on competing software and move your organization forward with a single suite of tools. You want to know what is in the suite from someone who does what you do and if it can do the things you need it to do. In this class, you get a better understanding of what equations are being used in which applications and how to find the right fit for the project requirements that are being passed on down to you. We review Storm Sewers, Hydrographs, Express Tools, SSA, and River Analysis. You also learn some tips and tricks that those who already are familiar with these tools can use.

Wales, Alaska, is the most westerly inhabited village in North America. Having easy access to the site is not feasible if you should happen to forget what it looks like—not to mention that it’s covered in snow for 75% of the year. So let’s build a road over 10 miles of permafrost with the use of 12,000 acres of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data. Using InfraWorks 360 software, we’ll work in 4D and adjust the road location over the permafrost. Then we’ll use InfraWorks 360 Hydrology to determine the watersheds and culvert locations, and size them for us. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.