In the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, we are challenged to consider many design options, to find the fittest solution in the shortest time, and to be leaders in economic and sustainable designs. During this presentation, you’ll learn about how computational design techniques can help you improve your design process for buildings. In this class, you’ll discover how our products generate better outcomes for designs using computational and generative design techniques. You’ll get an overview of how ‘traditional" design improves with design automation, computational modeling, and generative design methods with Dynamo and Refinery. All of this will be taught using examples from the architectural, urban planning, and structural industry.

This class will give users a look at the future of Inventor Connected Design beyond Inventor 2017.  Users who need to collaborate and share their Inventor designs will see how Connected Design is evolving to leverage A360 Team for secure viewing, markup and commenting with non-Inventor users. This session features Inventor Professional and A360 Team.

This industry talk will provide attendees with an inside look at how Innovation Forge is utilizing Generative Design to break barriers in engineering problem solving. Often times, there are additional engineering criteria other than mass and mechanical loading which must be included in the overall development of a design. Aesthetic qualities, surface area, flow characteristics (both internal and external), and manufacturing methods are just some of the additional criteria that will be explored in this course. Attendees will be presented with tips and tricks to achieve the best results for the given design requirements and follow through multiple real-world examples of how Autodesk Generative Design is able to contribute to a much larger design process. To round out the session, attendees will be presented with areas of research to further aid in problem setup and generation.

Traditionally, design decisions are made and solutions are developed before understanding the potential outcomes of those decisions. We then validate the solutions, revise decisions, and redesign, creating massive waste in the process. This is the paradox of design. Design optimization techniques and technology (APIs, visual programming, and simulation tools) can help break this paradox by simulating many options and the potential outcomes—informing decisions rather than simply validating them after the fact. This technology will change how we design, much like the advent of Building Information Modeling (BIM) did a decade ago. Therefore, it is critical to understand the fundamental changes to the design process that will be necessary to capitalize on this new technology. This round-table discussion will explore the paradox of design, as well as the challenges of design optimization, lean design processes, simulation technology, and computational design.

This class will expand your learning with VRED Design and introduce you to preparing a scene to use in virtual reality. We will cover scene considerations, data optimisation, and workflows to utilise VR for design review with animation, interactions, and collaboration. We will show how to utilise VRED presenter as a platform to share your visual rich interactive designs.

This hands-on lab will allow users to get some hands-on time with generative design. We will cover how to define a generative design study from scratch, apply loads, constraints, and manufacturing methods. Once completed, we will explore the results and export an outcome and then use the innovate tools with Fusion 360 to adjust the design to suit the manufacturing method we would like to use. We will cover 2 example through the workshop, one focused around manufacturing products and the other around building products.

Generative Design is changing how designers and engineers bring new products to market. By leading with objectives and functional requirements, Generative Design allows users to rapidly generate and explore 100’s or 1000’s of higher performing design options that would have been previously unexplored. What’s new to many – is that the value of Generative Design is not exclusive to the aerospace industry and additive manufacturing. Generative Design now has the ability to explore options for traditional manufacturing techniques as well like CNC, and provide inspiration for casting. TB Wood’s is a recognized industry leader for highly-engineered industrial machinery applications. TB Wood’s has been producing commercial castings for over 160 years, while being a global leader in the design and manufacture of couplings and belted drive solutions. Join Autodesk & TB Wood’s for an overview on how to connect the benefits of Generative Design with the industrial machinery industry.

Innovative design and production practices are rapidly changing everything we touch on a day to day basis, as well as how these things are created. Autodesk's Product Design Suite gives design teams the tools they need to push the boundaries of existing design processes. This session (segment?) will follow the use of several Product Design Suite design and visualization tools in a typical product design workflow, and will highlight the strengths of Intel's hardware solutions throughout that process.

In this session, we’ll discuss how design for additive manufacture (DFAM) can influence the performance of additively manufactured parts. This session will focus primarily on laser powder-bed fusion, but concepts can be transferable to other additive techniques. We’ll explore lattices, hollow geometries, and thin walls as common features in lightweight designs, including the challenges that these can pose in design, post processing, and actual performance. Autodesk Research is currently undertaking research to characterize how as-built features perform (mechanically) compared to idealized conditions—generic bulk-material values found in literature. This will enable better representation of these features at the design stage to facilitate more accurate simulation and optimization. Attendees will leave more familiar with DFAM, considerations during the design process, and the impacts these have on overall part performance.

An increasing number of designers, architects, and engineers are using graph-based visual programming and scripting techniques to generate and optimize design solutions. The Design Computation Symposium is a forum for presenting the results of this new approach to design and for discussing the development and use of computational design tools. With conventional computer-aided design, the designer uses interactive and direct modeling techniques to create or edit the design. By comparison, a computational designer uses scripting and other graph-based programming techniques. The script essentially captures the logic of the design and its execution generates the design solution, or indeed generates numerous design alternatives. This year's symposium features a number of different presentations from accomplished researchers, practitioners, and educators which focus on the fascinating relationship between logic, geometry, architectural form, analysis, simulation, and digital fabrication.

Contemporary shifts in technology and environmental concerns are changing the circumstances of building performance. Integrated teams that employ interdisciplinary design and construction personnel are responding to this changed set of conditions. The foundation of interdisciplinary architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) practices begins with the education of the next generation of AEC practitioners. In this class, we will discuss how students engaged in an iterative design and learning process build knowledge and communication skills toward an integrated design-build studio. This integrated design-build studio uses a series of assignments housed in dedicated design labs where students solve realistic design problems. Faculty-implemented Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies and established ecological accounting methods increase interaction and innovation in the interdisciplinary design-build studio.

Generative Design in Fusion 360 software is extremely powerful for creating designs optimized for performance, manufacturing, and cost. However, some may argue that it’s "too much tool" for everyday modeling and simple design work. As we continue to evolve our solution and pursue new innovations, we remain focused on our vision of making generative design more approachable and applicable for a broader range of design tasks and users. In this session, we’ll be talking about the work we’re doing to bring this vision to life, and help you understand how to make the most of Generative Design in Fusion 360.

Engineers and designers face an internal struggle when choosing between traditional design methods engrained through years of practice and new Generative Design workflows. Simply applying traditional design methods to Generative Design tools often leads to insufficient results which can be used for inspiration, but are not ready for manufacture. This hands-on lab will bridge the gap between traditional and Generative Design workflows, empowering users to complete the design process by leveraging Generative Design in powerful ways. Attendees will leverage Autodesk Generative Design alongside Meshmixer, Netfabb, Fusion 360, and Nastran to create a finished product, while exploring workflows which greatly improve productivity.

Copy Design is one of the most powerful features in Vault software. Engineers use existing designs in one way or another, whether reusing the designs completely to eliminate design time, copying an existing design, or updating a design, which takes less time. And less time is less cost. Apart from reduced modeling time, design reuse will have further impact in the form of cost and time savings in the downstream engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing. The Copy Design feature in Vault 2020 has many enhancements that help engineers do more, faster, with existing designs. This class will discuss the enhancements to Copy Design, and show you how to use Copy Design to be more productive.

Unlike generative design for manufacturing, generative design for architecture requires the incorporation of the user’s unique design intents and ideas into the generative model. As most of our work shows—from the Autodesk office at MaRS to the Autodesk University exhibit hall layout, and from urban developments in the Netherlands to housing complexes in Japan—each project’s output looks different because each geometric system has been developed as a combination of the designer’s intent and reusable geometric tools. This session will show how to approach design problems through the generative design framework (problem formulation) with a focus on how to incorporate design intents in the form of geometric systems (model parameterization). Through Dynamo and Refinery, we’ll take a look at and customize a variety of custom geometric tools and test them in real-world case studies: from subdivision logic for office and urban neighborhoods to automated massing strategies and building siting algorithms.

Join us for an introduction to Autodesk Generative Design technology. In this class, we will cover the vision for Generative Design, provide technology demonstrations, and walk through customer problems that highlight the value of employing generative-design techniques in real-world applications.

Generative Design in Revit software was released last year for the first time in Revit 2021. This new suite of emerging tools enables generative design workflows that automate the creation and analysis of design options directly in the Revit context. This session will showcase the value that generative design brings to the design process, and demonstrate how analyzing more data-backed design options can lead to an enhanced design process. We will show how customers are using the tools to automate design exploration in their projects to optimize sustainability and efficiency and reduce construction waste. We’ll cover the product principles we use to prioritize new work and future directions. Finally, we’ll address the future of the product, where we intend to invest, and the road map for achieving our vision.

Copy Design is one of the most powerful features in Autodesk Vault. Engineers are leveraging existing designs in one way or another, either by reusing the design completely to eliminate design time, or by copying an existing design or updating the design which will take less time. Less time is less cost. Moreover, apart from the reduced modeling time, design reuse will further have its impact in the form of cost and time savings in the downstream engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing. The Copy Design feature in Autodesk Vault 2020 has many enhancements which help engineers do more faster with existing designs. This class will discuss the enhancements to Copy Design and illustrate how to use Copy Design to be more productive.

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.