Ideally, a dedicated software development team, skilled in the software development lifecycle, handles the task of customizing Autodesk, Inc.'s, products to meet your business needs. More often this task is handled by the advanced CAD user or manager who started off tinkering with a few lines of script but now spends nights and weekends wrestling a mountain of now-mission-critical code. If this scenario sounds a little too familiar, please join me as I give you a crash course in effective software development practices while sharing some tips and tricks that should make your code-wrangling days more enjoyable.

Ideally, a dedicated software development team, skilled in the software development lifecycle, handles the task of customizing Autodesk products to meet your business needs. More often, however, it is the advanced CAD user or manager who handles this task, starting off by tinkering with a few lines of script-but ending up spending nights and weekends wrestling a mountain of now-mission-critical code. If this scenario sounds a little too familiar, please join us for a crash course in software development best practices, and discover some tips and tricks that should make your code-wrangling days more enjoyable.

Whether you’re developing web- and mobile-based solutions, customizing Autodesk desktop software, or building integrations into your enterprise workflows, Autodesk is fully committed to supporting your software development efforts. In fact, there are 10 ways you can get Autodesk support and we keep adding new channels. In this class, we’re going to talk about how to get the best out of the support resources, and how to fit them to your needs as quickly as possible. You can choose from open and community support for Forge in StackOverflow, our advanced Accelerator program, our most recently added tool “The Doctor is in,” Autodesk Developer Network support for your desktop challenges, “ADN Open” online resources, and much more.

Ask your programming questions to our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our software development teams. If you’re writing solutions that are based on these technologies or you’re just about to start and want to know more, then this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with and your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

Exchanging project data between applications is a favorite problem in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC): Offices need to manage the risk involved in undersharing and oversharing. Collaborators need to understand if they’re working on the same version of a project. And data formats must be compatible. While desktop software systems are the powerhouses driving design and engineering workflows, teams need to communicate beyond their desks, often through distributed cloud interfaces that change rapidly. The software development teams for Revit software, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Docs have created multiple ways to address interoperability problems, and have had hundreds of hours of conversations with project clients and AEC professionals about what does and doesn't work. The most-promising methods include rapidly evolving cloud applications that change and improve constantly. This class will summarize these findings, identify the most-recent tools available to solve interoperability challenges, and look down the road to emerging methods for teams to share data.

Autodesk acquired the Autodesk Fabrication product line in October 2011. Since then, there have been two new releases of Fabrication CADmep, Fabrication ESTmep, and Fabrication CAMduct. In this class, you'll get a run down of the new features released in 2013 and 2014 and how to use them, taught by Autodesk Fabrication Software Development Manager, Andy Robins.

RHDHV’s mission is to enhance society, and digitalization has become an integral part of this mission. The importance of building information modeling (BIM) data is therefore growing rapidly. However, ensuring consistency in a large and global organization is a challenge. This class will provide insight into how RHDHV envisions its staff working in a consistent manner and producing consistent BIM data. The session will cover the use of standards, guidelines, content, and tools to standardize workflows, as well as practices from the software development industry to streamline this. We’ll discuss automation as a means of generating content in line with standards and reducing the need for extensive training. We’ll explore collaboration in a cloud platform, along with cloud tools and dashboarding to validate consistent BIM data across the organization. You will gain insight into how RHDHV overcomes its BIM data consistency challenges, and how you can apply these strategies to your own organization.

Back for the 5th successive year! Our panel of hardcore ObjectARX® and AutoCAD .NET experts from our AutoCAD software development team are ready to answer your programming questions. If you are writing plug-ins for AutoCAD software, then this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs you work with as well as your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

Ask your programming questions of our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our software development teams. If you are writing solutions that are based on these technologies or you are just about to start and want to know more, then this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with and your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

Address your programming questions to our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our software development teams. If you're writing Solutions that are based on these technologies or you're just about to start and want to know more, this is the perfect forum to both get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with and meet your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

Release your inner geek. Straight from our AutoCAD Software Development Team, a panel of hardcore experts on ObjectARX technology, AutoCAD software, Microsoft .NET, and LISP are ready to answer your questions about the inner workings of AutoCAD software and its APIs. If you're writing plug-ins for AutoCAD software, then this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs you work with and meet your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.

Get direct access to Autodesk Forge software development teams in this panel discussion. This hour is dedicated to answering any and all questions about current and soon to be released Forge APIs.

This is an introductory class into the advanced topic of finite element analysis (FEA). This class will be application-oriented rather than theory oriented, and it is intended for those of us who can gain design value from some basic FEA techniques without having to have a PhD in mathematics. The goal is to bring the accessibility of advanced Digital Prototyping tools to the casual user. Each year the "expert systems" software development brings practical accessibility to more and more users. You should jump in here and start learning these tools—now is the time. You can leave your calculator at home.

You’ve heard the buzz about this exciting new Autodesk platform called Forge. But what exactly is Forge? Forge is a platform of web service APIs that allow you to integrate Autodesk SaaS products (such as Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs, etc.) into your workflows and/or to embed some of the components used in those Autodesk products into your own web or mobile applications. In this presentation I will explain in more detail what Forge is (and what it isn’t) - and show you examples of how to use Forge to enhance your on workflows and applications. This class is suitable for software developers, CAD & IT managers and decision makers.

Ask your programming questions to our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our software development teams. If you are writing solutions that are based on these technologies or you are just about to start and want to know more, then this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with and your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Come and ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or just listen and learn.Joint AU/Forge DevCon class.

When we look back 10 years, we can easily identify how much we've learned and how much growth we've experienced. If only we knew 10 years ago what we know now, how much better would we be? This session hopes to provide the top lessons learned over the last 10 years of .NET development for AutoCAD software.

Do you write code in any language (LISP, C#, JavaScript, and so on)? Do you work in a programming team or solo? Do you wish you had a way to compare today's version of the code to what you or someone else wrote several weeks or months ago? Do you ever make a coding mistake and wish you could easily revert back? Is your code backed up? In this class, we'll explore how to get started with source control software, no matter what language you currently program in. Whether you're a CAD manager who infrequently dabbles in LISP code; a newbie .NET programmer trying to write your first plug-in for AutoCAD software, Revit software, or 3ds Max software; or a full-time web developer, you can benefit from this class. We'll look at how to set up code repositories for LISP or .NET code (or any other code, for that matter), check out repositories, update and commit code changes, compare to previous versions, roll back to previous versions, and more.

Do you write code in any language (LISP, C#, JavaScript, and so on)? Do you work in a programming team or solo? Do you wish you had a way to compare today's version of the code to what you or someone else wrote several weeks or months ago? Do you ever make a coding mistake and wish you could easily revert back? Is your code backed up? In this class, we'll explore how to get started with source control software, no matter what language you currently program in. Whether you're a CAD manager who infrequently dabbles in LISP code; a newbie .NET programmer trying to write your first plug-in for AutoCAD software, Revit software, or 3ds Max software; or a full-time web developer, you can benefit from this class. We'll look at how to set up code repositories for LISP or .NET code (or any other code, for that matter), check out repositories, update and commit code changes, compare to previous versions, roll back to previous versions, and more.

At Woods Bagot we managed to cut the deployment time of our tools from days to minutes, while increasing quality and reliability, by repurposing common concepts and tools from the Software Development world. By implementing a DevOps philosophy in your workflow, not only do you deliver automation tools quicker, but you also empower your teams from the start, improving communication and collaboration and promoting professional growth. You increase quality and reliability of the software product deployed, thanks to automated testing and a faster feedback cycle. Moreover, with the ability of more frequent faster releases, backed up by live monitoring systems, developers can deploy tools that are tailored to the users and really respond to their needs. The session will showcase how Woods Bagot has developed a full workflow for their Revit toolbar through the use an Azure DevOps pipeline, but the principles can be applied to any platform that benefits from automation tools.

What happens when some enthusiastic Software Developers team up with a few cutting-edge Mechanical Designers? Henderson Engineers, an MEP design firm, has been working on developing a modular DFMA Air Duct system for a while now, and had developed some clever Revit families and Dynamo scripts to help their designers model them. They joined forces with EvolveLAB, a BIM consulting and software development company, to create a Revit Add-In that focuses on the real-time generative design of these modular duct layouts. In this session, we’ll review how these companies utilized some unique properties of the Revit API to create a co-authoring system which allows a mechanical design to sketch out a main duct layout in Revit, while the computer simultaneous (and continually) produces the most optimal layout using the DFMA kit of parts for that sketch, which is then finalized and converted into a fully-connected Revit Duct System.