Has your organization fully embraced the BIM revolution and are you realizing the benefits and overcoming the challenges involving BIM for Civil Infrastructure/AEC from planning to design to construction to life-cycle O&M? This roundtable focuses on lessons learned, best practices, and costs-benefits for BIM deployments in Wisconsin for comparative civil infrastructure highway and site civil design and construction projects. Attend this roundtable to interactively discuss and demo the benefits and challenges to get the most out of BIM.

Learn how Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler (AIM) software can enhance your transportation workflows during the conceptual design phase. Not only can you use Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler to provide eye-catching conceptual visuals in record time, but also you can feed this conceptual model into AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software to proceed with your design. This class focuses on employing Autodesk at the beginning of a transportation project and the interoperability between Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler and Civil 3D. In addition, interoperability options between Autodesk infrastructure Modeler and other products in Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Ultimate, such as Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software, will be discussed. This class will benefit Infrastructure Design Suite users who are interested in getting the most from their suite investment as well as standalone Civil 3D and Autodesk infrastructure Modeler users who want to know more about how these products can interact.

Learn how Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler (AIM) software can enhance your transportation workflows during the design execution phase. In Part 1 of this series, we focused on the classic ability of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler in the conceptual design space, but what about later in the design? This class will show how a well-established AutoCAD® Civil 3D software model can be fed into Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler to communicate the design visually. In addition, we will discuss interoperability options between Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler and other products within Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite, such as Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. This class will benefit Infrastructure Design Suite users who are interested in getting the most from their suite investment as well as standalone Civil 3D and Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler users who want to know more about how these products can interact.

This class shows you how to use InfraWorks software to create highly realistic and accurate context models for civil infrastructure projects that support a more efficient, productive, and collaborative design workflow. The class shows how to aggregate a variety of data sources in InfraWorks such as geospatial information, LiDAR data using ReCap software, design data from AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, and 3D models from Revit® and 3ds Max® software. Use ReCap to preprocess LiDAR data for other Autodesk applications. The class shows several real-world infrastructure projects where InfraWorks was used to support design and communication.

As a part of the Infrastructure Design Suite PowerTrack, this class will highlight geospatial, surveying, and other data collection methods as well as design tools using Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler, AutoCAD® Map 3D, AutoCAD®Civil 3D®, and Autodesk® Storm and Sanitary Analysis software. Attendees will see a real-world project move from a planning concept to more detailed design, including early analysis of project alternatives. Autodesk® Vault Collaboration AEC software and the Autodesk® 360 cloud computing platform will be used throughout the process for collaboration, analysis, and more.

With 5 domains of operations—air traffic, airside, landside, ground access, and underground facilities—an airport presents both the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity to benefit from a digital model of the facility and it's functions. When working on airport transportation planning projects, it is paramount to know the most effective ways to create multiple data sources and then connect them with the Infrastructure Design Suite software tools into an integrated model to be used for decision-making. In this overview of AutoCAD Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, and Navisworks project review software, we will explore the integrated workflows and some critical functions that have been tested and proven in the field

This class will demonstrate the unique form of civil engineering that is done at Walt Disney Imagineering and how AutoCAD Civil 3D software has helped to create the complex infrastructures that are a part of Disney's theme parks and resorts. The modeling engines in Civil 3D are taken to the limit to meet the immense design requirements. With drawing data containing over tens of thousands of model objects, built to real-world specs and spanning multiple projects, the “I” in Building Information Modeling (BIM) has taken on a whole new meaning: Intelligence. In this class, we will focus on a project-specific journey and see how the age-old profession of civil engineering uses the capabilities of Civil 3D to meet these unique demands.

During this class the participants will learn about the Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes designed and implemented by Egis Group for highways and road design. The class will focus on the standardization of design and collaboration in infrastructure projects using AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Through relevant projects examples (highways, airports), the participants will discover how to deploy a collaborative standardization on the AutoCAD Civil 3D software platform. The participants will also learn how to manage standardization for multidisciplinary applications such as roads, bridges, airports, and so on. In addition they will learn how to manage AutoCAD Civil 3D software to integrate different requirements such as a company’s own production rules, local or international design standards, and customer requirements—such as personalized outputs. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D.

In this class, we’ll demonstrate how to use automation for transportation, land development, and pipe networks workflows in Civil 3D software through Dynamo and Python. The class will introduce Dynamo for Civil 3D capabilities, focusing on the implementation of computational design for infrastructures. We will cover how to expand the possible workflows through Python scripting to use the AutoCAD and Civil 3D APIs.

InfoWorks ICM assists engineers and designers in understanding projects impacts on the environment. Extreme events continue to stress local and regional civil infrastructure, and our tools and techniques must change as we design projects in our communities. InfoWorks ICM enables team collaboration and empowers engineers to reach beyond single purpose tools to evaluate various options against a multitude of rainfall events within the context of the entire watershed. This technical instruction class will provide users through a number of considerations to preserve Civil 3D designs in evaluation of possible flood damages across the wide range of flood scenarios.

This session will provide an overview of 2 new Stormwater Modeling Solutions—Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) and AutoCASE software—that will help civil engineers and landscape architects design for the future. For decades cities drained stormwater with sewers, but these systems are fraught with pollution and flooding issues. In response cities have embraced a new “green infrastructure” approach to managing stormwater—partnering with developers to install absorptive rain gardens and green roofs to harvest water, filter pollutants, and provide a host of other social and environmental benefits. Autodesk, Inc., and its partner Impact Infrastructure have introduced these solutions to support this revolution. As green infrastructure is still a relatively new concept, GSI and AutoCASE software eliminate the learning curve by providing an easy way to design these techniques and analyze their benefits. This session features a case study on using GSI and AutoCASE software for the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District.

Local governments are gradually more involved with 3D infrastructure designs: On one hand, they’re managing their existing infrastructure—like storm/sanitary sewers and aqueducts networks—through georeferenced databases. On the other hand, they’re designing their proposed infrastructures through Civil 3D objects. Civil 3D software never had a perfect fit to connect with geographic information system (GIS) data, from recreating existing 3D infrastructures to better connecting them with proposed designs. Then Dynamo came into the picture! This presentation will cover efficient workflows using Dynamo for Civil 3D, mapping electric utility GIS data to automatically create Civil 3D pipe network objects using a custom pipe catalog. We will also cover attribute transfers involving both object data and property sets.

This class will explore the workflows for dealing with storm and sanitary networks using Autodesk® Infrastructure Design Suite—from the planning phases in AutoCAD® Map 3D and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, the conceptual visualization in Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler software, design in AutoCAD Civil 3D, and finally virtual construction in Autodesk® Navisworks® software. We will work our way through each product, covering basic introductions, file formats, import and export, and how to work with the objects in each format.

Civil infrastructure projects involve a large amount of collaborating disciplines with as much software applications to support the engineering and construction tasks. A lot of different applications produce a lot of data related to each other, and have to be managed with a reliable solution. During this class, we will take you on a journey of how to support the demands of the project teams based on collaboration and data management, and how to pick the right direction for your project needs. We will share this information based on the experiences at the largest lock in the world (OpenIJ), which is now in the construction phase in The Netherlands.

This class discusses the results of an Advanced Infrastructure Analysis Technology assessment recently conducted by Autodesk Consulting for a major electric and gas utility that has over 15 million customers. A key focus of the engagement was the evaluation of emerging mobile and visualization technologies of potential benefit to the client's gas transmission and distribution network operations for both the short-term and long-term replacement of current mobile solutions. In this class, we demonstrate a number of Autodesk products, including InfraWorks civil infrastructure design software, ReCap™ reality capture software, and Autodesk® PLM 360 cloud-based product lifecycle management software. We highlight current advances in emerging technologies, including reality capture and augmented reality. We discuss the business requirements that were identified, the current limitations and advantages of each solution, and the final short-term and long-term recommendations that were presented.

Adding asset information to Infrastructure BIM projects. While the delivery of asset information on Building projects is becoming well understood the same is not always true for Infrastructure projects. This class will look to change that. Using real clients requirements for common infrastructure assets the class will demonstrate how property datasets can be structured for asset information delivery. The class will show how standards can be managed at a company level so that all project deliver consistently structured data and how the property data of common several Civil 3D objects can be extended to allow client specific attributes to be added to designs as they progress.

The class will then show how this data can be passed downstream to Autodesk Navisworks and how the Navisworks COBie Extension can be configured to deliver asset information either in COBie format as well as showing how the tool can be used to deliver based on bespoke client requirements.

Since 2015 we have been developing our capabilities to use Autodesk technologies to automate the modelling of linear civil infrastructures such as Bridges and Tunnels. These capabilities are now well implemented by most of engineering companies. But what about all the other railway linear infrastructures disciplines such as fencing, hydraulic structures, track, catenary, tunnel MEP elements that requires to be fully integrated in the design… In this class, we will review how we can enhance BIM modeling automation workflows on Revit and Civil 3D for these disciplines. For that we will take the example of Etihad Rail project where SYSTRA has developed a large-scale automation strategy using the in-house solution BIMinOneClick This class is subject to our customer agreement, “Etihad Rail”

Are you tired of using the out-of-the-box cylinders to represent your local stormwater structures? Does your locality have a stormwater structure that is just a bit different than that which Autodesk provides? If so, this class is for you! During this session we’ll dig into the tools and explore tips and techniques that will let you successfully use Inventor software to create custom stormwater structures for use in Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software. We’ll pay special attention to basic part modeling and the required variables so that the parts will export into both products. This class is designed for CAD managers and civil engineers who want to author their own infrastructure content.

Learn workarounds and tips to get the most from Infrastructure Design Suite software. Whether you would like to create realistic renderings of AutoCAD Civil 3D model in 3ds Max software, integrate AutoCAD Civil 3D software corridor models in InfraWorks software, or convert multiple polylines to pipes using AutoCAD Map 3D functionality, you will learn workflows that will improve your productivity and help you get a good return on your investment. This class is designed to assist you in making Infrastructure Design Suite software work for your organization.

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