Your Building Information Modeling (BIM) data increases significantly in value the more you make use of it. Cloud-based technologies make this extremely easy. We explore how to connect the desktop and the cloud to make any BIM data you choose available to anyone you choose, including optional round-trip real-time editing of selected properties and features. This class discusses extracting information from your Revit Models, enhancing Collaboration for Revit workflows, new additions to the growing suite of The Building Coder desktop-BIM-cloud samples, AEC related Forge APIs such as the Viewer and the Model Derivative API. The latter enables easy translation of design files to different formats and extracting data from them to use almost anywhere. Using demonstrations and dissections of sample applications, we show how these programming tools can easily and vastly enhance your BIM workflows. This is an advanced class for experienced programmers. This session features Revit and Forge. AIA Approved

We will describe the nitty-gritty programming details to implement a cloud-based system to analyze, visualize, and report on universal component usage. The components can be Revit software families used in Building Information Modeling (BIM) or any other kind of assets in any other kind of system. The focus is on the cloud-based database used to manage the component occurrences, either in global or project-based coordinate systems. You can make searches based on both keywords and geographical location. Models are visualized using pure WebGL, Three.js, and the Autodesk View and Data API, providing support for online viewing and model navigation. You can use the web app in any browser and on any mobile device with no need to install any additional software whatsoever. This is an advanced class for experienced programmers.

In this session, we’ll explore how PennDOT (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation) is using Autodesk Forma to connect traditionally siloed phases of infrastructure delivery—design and construction. With the soft rollout of its design solution nearly complete, PennDOT’s construction teams are starting to use Forma Build functionality within Autodesk Forma to complement and enhance their existing systems. The session will highlight how PennDOT is navigating change management, improving project transparency, and streamlining communication across teams as it shifts toward a connected, digital-first project environment.

The construction industry is one of the most difficult industries with low productivity and one of the least digitized industries.It's a fact that managing a construction project can be quite complex and this is even more challenging when we waste time looking for the right data, solving conflicts constantly due to lack of information and bad communication between the different teams in the field which produce constant rework during the project.You will learn how BIM 360 as cloud-based construction project management solution that connects project information and workflows, keeping the office and field teams connected across a common data platform can help the construction ecosystem to improve communication, minimize rework, drive better decision-making processes and minimize rework.

Learn how clients such as Yokogawa Corporation of America and other firms have used the cloud to drive ROI and accuracy. In this presentation, you’ll learn how modern cloud technologies use systems such as Microsoft SharePoint and BIM 360 Docs software for powerful solutions around automated security, governance, document control, and reporting. The challenge is bringing all those data points together in a single process that’s easy for end users to engage with. With platforms such as SharePoint Office 365 and Microsoft OneDrive now supporting CAD drawings and DWG™ files, and the powerful BIM 360 Docs and a host of systems all moving to the cloud, there are real choices for the AEC to take advantage of the incredible value of the digital transformation of the enterprise that the cloud represents.

As you know, the construction industry is in the beginning stages of a major transformation. Join construction professionals, see the latest technology, and learn more about the future of construction from leading European contractors, owners, and service providers. Don't miss this afternoon of construction immersion on June 20th. Please note we highly recommend including the following four Construction sessions with Connect & Construct. A 360 approach to modular housing BIM360 Design Collaboration NextGen at Arcadis Autodesk Revit Live from a contractor's perspective Royal BAM Group adopts a Autodesk Forge based cloud solution platform to support their modular construction strategy

As the construction industry continues to benefit from the adoption of digital tools, old-school manual estimating techniques are quickly becoming obsolete. The better way? ProEst, the latest addition to Autodesk Forma. In this session, we’ll take a closer look at how the advanced automation features of ProEst can improve bidding accuracy, reduce estimating time, and increase visibility into key project metrics. We’ll demonstrate how the cloud-based ProEst platform streamlines preconstruction workflows to save time and money—and how your teams can benefit from new levels of connectivity and collaboration.

In the early days of CAD, we made 2D creations of designs. Then came the era of creating models in 3D. Now, the next phase is connected BIM (Building Information Modeling). This era is about building applications and solutions that connect a community of people to a project or product, and to the new means of production. In this era, you can optimize a design not only for how it functions, but for how it is built and interconnects with other systems, as well as in the cloud. This class will showcase how users can utilize the power of the cloud using Revit software and BIM 360 software. It will also showcase how the users can customize the information present in BIM 360 using Forge and how they can make their own customized apps.

The aim of this roundtable is to gather individuals who are excited about how the future of making things is shaping the building and construction industry. We will look at how the industry has progressed from an age of 2D flatland data production, to the more advanced age of optimization of 3D digital data, to the present-day era of interoperability and collaboration in a new age of connection. We will focus on how we conceptualize, share information, collaborate, construct, and deliver smart buildings that can be analyzed, rated on performance, monitored, and maintained. The roundtable will look at how the present and future Autodesk, Inc., cloud technology—including Forge Platform—is set to radically change and revolutionize this process by making the transition from conceptual Building Information Modeling (BIM) to constructional BIM as smooth and seamless as possible. We will focus on how to optimally connect the digital data around designing, constructing, and managing buildings with reduced risk and improved outcomes. This session features BIM 360 Docs and Forge.

Advances in technology are ushering in a new era where connectivity for builders, designers, and engineers is key. Technology is changing rapidly. Find out in this class how to better embrace these changes to create more value and competitive differentiation by using an evolutionary and remarkable pioneering BIM Cloud Workspace with Autodesk’s BIM 360, Stingray, Revit, Navisworks, Microsoft Azure N-Series, NVIDIA Grid, and RES ONE Workspace. Learn in this class how TBI is featuring a unique, innovative, niche cloud workspace to design, build, make, and create the future of the Netherlands in the belief that it can always be better: more attractive, smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable.

Embracing digitalization is widely recognized as the key to increasing transparency, efficiency, and productivity in construction. But in an industry that remains largely locked in decades-old processes and document-driven workflows, the best approach for capturing and using digital data is often still a mystery. The last several years have brought the introduction of compact, easy-to-use, 3D laser scanners and wearable, mobile mapping systems that enable renovations and retrofits to be captured digitally in a matter of days. New, indoor reality capture innovations deliver incredible simplicity, efficiency, and safety in as-built documentation. Software advances have been equally impressive, making it possible for users to quickly move from data capture to .RCP files for accurate, intelligent design.

Providing construction project teams with complete, accurate, and construction-ready design documentation is one of the best ways to ensure that design intent is met during construction. During the design process, there are many stakeholders that play a role in development of design documentation—from architects and CAD managers, to virtual design and construction teams, owners, contractors, and trades. But not everybody works in the same location or at the same time. Using the cloud to support collaboration during the design process can connect these stakeholders, and this class will discuss how to easily bring designs from AutoCAD software, Revit software, Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software into Forma to support cloud-based collaboration.

BIM 360 Docs software and BIM 360 Document Management help us store and collaborate on construction documents with our stakeholders. With Desktop Connector, we can manage files in Document Management through a connected drive, letting users benefit from easy syncing of files and folders and offline working. This class will teach you how to set up and use Desktop Connector with BIM 360 Document Management, and how to troubleshoot most common issues.

At Autodesk, we build solutions that include everything from 3D design, to preconstruction, through build, and into project handover. Customers often use Forma in tandem with advanced construction software and hardware, as well as with everyday software tools such as Microsoft Office 365, Smartsheet, cloud-storage solutions, and data-analytics tools such as Microsoft Power BI. Automating the workflows and data passed through these disparate systems helps keep everyone working with the latest and greatest information, eliminating errors due to siloed data and making collaboration easier on a construction jobsite. This talk will focus on using Autodesk APIs and our integration platform-as-a-service—Forma Connect—to build custom workflows and to connect various technologies together to build a tech stack custom tailored to your needs.

Learn how BIM 360 cloud services can help improve collaboration and productivity for design teams and construction professionals, with higher client engagement, leading to improved project outcomes. This hands-on lab covers integration with Revit®-based software, demonstrating simplified collaboration and coordination between design teams; integration with Navisworks®-based software for construction activities such as quantification and 4D simulation; and taking BIM further than preconstruction into the field and beyond with BIM 360 mobile technology.