Operational digital twins link real-time Internet of Things (IoT) data with digital representations of real-world processes to model what’s happening and to optimize what’s going to happen next. In 2021, Autodesk acquired Innovyze’s industry-leading water-modeling solutions, along with the Info360 SaaS platform, delivering an operational digital twin for water catchment, treatment, and distribution. Info360 joins water-simulation models used by most utilities worldwide with cloud technology, IoT monitoring, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and physics-based modeling techniques to create a dynamic digital twin for the entire water-processing cycle. In this session, we’ll demonstrate Info360. We’ll review trends in operational digital twins and how simulation models can move to the cloud to enable real-time simulation. We’ll review machine learning and AI modeling approaches that are being used to optimize in real time. And we’ll assess the challenges involved in deploying these systems, and what you should do to prepare.

In 2000, the Dora River flash flood demolished part of Highway A5 in Northwestern Italy, and there were huge economic and environmental damages. In this session, Ativa Engineering will show the solution that was adopted to ensure road safety. The project includes the erection of the highway’s profile for 10 km, the construction of 3 viaducts, and the adjustment of all overpasses and underpasses to enable the safe flow of the flash flood. In the road infrastructure field the Building Information Modeling (BIM) application is, today, a strong unknown factor due to the complexity of works and their multidisciplinarity. To test the BIM methodology, we’ve changed a “classic design” into a “BIM design,” in order to assess critical situations and potentiality. We’ve realized an engineered and hierarchical process that enables you to create and validate an effective communication structure between the different areas of the project and guarantee the production of smart models. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D and Navisworks Manage. AIA Approved

Learn the workflow to place embankment around the coastal regions by using InfraWorks software to create a conceptual design. Use Flood Simulation to simulate, visualize, and analyze 2D flood simulations in the model and export from InfraWorks to Civil 3D software for the detailed design, with all the model information. Finally, use IoT to monitor the embankment after construction. This system will enable early detection of disturbing phenomena or events occurring in the flood embankments, thus enabling early response and prevention of crisis.

This class is about showing how it is possible to work with mechanical softwares, which at the first impression seem incompatible with Revit or other to do correct 3D coordination, and to produce effectively 2D plans without geometry limitation. It will be based on the case-study of a construction project of a hydroelectric pumping station located in Morroco with a contract of 284 millions euros. The content of this class will demonstrate and share the practical solution that could be applied in any industrial construction projects.

Many architectural designs incorporate a water feature as a prominent visual component of the structure. This class explains how to implement 3ds Max Fluids for the creation of these features. This class will take you through the process of creating animated water fountains and tranquil waterfalls that can be found in a variety of landscapes. You’ll learn how to simulate water flow using 3ds Max Fluids and the Motion Field Space Warp. Apply a custom material to render realistic water. This class will step through the process of building a fluid flow from beginning to end using the capabilities built into the 3ds Max liquid fluid dynamics system.

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.

3ds Max software is a mature 3D digital content creation package widely used in the video game industry, at numerous television and visual effects studios, and as a standard in design and architectural visualization. With the recent addition of the Arnold renderer, creating stunning imagery and video has never been more accessible. Arnold now brings the visual quality of the Hollywood blockbuster movie back home to 3ds Max. In this session, we’ll explore techniques and workflows for bringing your Revit projects to life. First, we will see how to go from Revit software to Arnold in just a few minutes. Next, we’ll use tools such as Civil View, Populate, and Pflow to help tell a story. Then we’ll take a look at the brand-new Fluid system in 3ds Max that can create stunning water features in no time. And lastly, we’ll dive into some compositing workflows using Arnold AOVs. You might also have a chance to see what's coming next! Take your visualization game to the next level with Arnold and 3ds Max. Brute force for all!

Learn how to make a realistic flood assessment using the immersive 3D design environment of InfraWorks 360 software and Hydronia RiverFlow2D flood-simulation model. Even if you’re not a fully versed hydraulic engineer, you will learn to set up a flood simulation—from building the topographic model to generating a flood animation of water depths and velocities in a few minutes, and with effective communicational impact. See how you can make infrastructure design evaluations based on flood hazards while improving your hydraulic-simulation workflow and producing graphics and animations that greatly enhance your presentation to decision makers. In this class, you will learn the latest advances of the InfraWorks 360 flood-simulation plug-in, you will understand the tools available to define flood hazards in any location, and you’ll export your simulation results to AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Many architectural designs incorporate a water feature as a prominent visual component of the structure. This class will explain how to implement 3ds Max Fluids software for the creation of these features. This class will take you through the process of creating animated water fountains and tranquil waterfalls that can be found in a variety of landscapes. You will learn how to simulate water flow using 3ds Max Fluids and the Motion Field space warp, and apply a custom material to render a realistic water. This class will step through the process of building a fluid flow from beginning to end using the capabilities built into the 3ds Max Liquid fluid dynamics system.

Learn how to correctly prepare a complicated 3D model in Fusion 360 software, then transfer it to Autodesk CFD, validate the geometry, and simulate fluid flow basis on real multipiston axial pumps. Results of this scenario will be used for stress analysis with vibration and fatigue impact in Inventor Nastran software. This class is based on a real industry case. Almost all the car companies like Ferrari, Ford, or Tesla invest in electric drive solutions. One of the biggest challenges in their new projects is the silencing of the car interior. After eliminating the loud combustion engine, we start to hear things like the knocking of the air condition system caused by vibration of fluid flow driven by multipiston pumps. Elimination of this effect leads to fatigue and failures. You’ll learn how to protect your design in Autodesk’s Simulation software. Progress is impossible without changes. Autodesk helps us make these changes properly.

In this class, we’ll show how to solve a critical situation that might cause a waste of money and time in the maintenance operation of underground utilities of 630 railway stations. Lack of data causes major issues. To retrieve the correct information about the underground, we’ve established, for each station, an innovative workflow that starts from an AutoCAD file containing an old design of the utilities, mainly water system and sewerage. The first step of this workflow is the topographic and geophysics surveys, followed by a post-processing data and 3D rendering of the underground. Inside Civil 3D software, the 3D model of the underground utilities can be used to optimize the design of the sewerage and water system, and link them to information and documentation useful for maintenance operation.

Challenging the deconstruction and decontamination of a former industrial site: the refinery of Dunkerque in France. From a huge data sets of 30 000 old plans and a dynamic scan of a 90Ha area, the low LOD Revit models were made manually but also automatically using IA with image recognition. The representations of the contamination and lithology is modelled with voxels and informed using interpolation scripts with Dynamo directly from georeferenced boreholes stored in excel datasheets. The aim of this BIM model is to create scenariis of depollution depending of what is located underground : pipes, concrete and pollutants.

Autodesk introduced structural simulation-based generative design technology this year. Autodesk is working on generative design technology for fluids-based simulation. This will be a roundtable to discuss the future of generative design based on fluids simulation. Example use cases will be generation of flow profiles for header systems, the flow path within flow control devices, or generation of different novel heat sink designs. There will be a show and tell on technology and how it works in its infancy and some workflow concepts. We will follow this with roundtable discussion activities of what generative means to you, and what you would need it to do for it to have high value. Be prepared to share your thoughts.