Having a dashboard for your Revit model is a great way to monitor trends, watch out for issues, and share insights about the model file with everyone in an easy-to-consume graphical format. In the past, dashboards were something only the big firms with the big staffs were able to create and manage. But the free and relatively cheap tools available now make it much easier for you to collect and share the data needed for a slick dashboard that you can share with your team. This session will cover using the Model Checker for Revit software to build and generate a report that can be used to monitor model fidelity in a data visualization tool like Microsoft Power BI, and we’ll discuss some best practices around that process.

Are you a glutton for employee learning and upskilling? Do you lust over new employee onboarding and upskilling programs that work? Bad experiences can leave your employees full of wrath and joining the ranks of the Great Resignation. With the battle for top talent stronger than ever, there’s no time to be slothful. Your employees, both new and established, will be green with envy for the outstanding learning experiences you’ll learn how to provide while attending this class. Who knows, you might even find employees greedily consuming learning content versus avoiding it like the plague. Taught by two award-winning Autodesk University instructors, this session will focus on overcoming the sins of onboarding and upskilling employees, and putting your programs on righteous paths. We’ll explore the process of defining program objectives, developing scalable training plans, initiating strategies for social learning and mentoring, and providing a pathway for your team to learn, grow, and lead.

Are you a glutton for the perfect CAD/BIM standard? Do you lust after other CAD/BIM managers who have the authority to get things done? Do project teams become greedy about their own standards, wrathfully rejecting the standardized and more efficient ways you proudly implement? You need not despair. This class will focus on ways to put yourself into the enviable position of having users who listen to you. Combining more than two decades of CAD, BIM, and IT support and management experience, plus years of working with numerous companies to help support their technical managers and staff, we will discuss the things nobody likes to talk about—the sins CAD and BIM managers commit while doing their jobs. What sins might you be guilty of, and what’s the path to righteousness? Join this session to learn some of the common pitfalls, missteps, and misconceptions that come with the job, and uncover why they happen, and learn how to avoid them.

Are you a glutton for good training? Do you lust over other company's effective education technology? Bad training programs can leave your employees full of wrath, so don't be slothful—come check out this session that will outline the issues many companies see when building up or overhauling their own training programs. Your competitors will be green with envy when you show off your skilled employees—just don't get greedy. This session will offer firsthand experience and knowledge shared by 2 instructors who have spun up successful training programs in firms of more than 350 people and designed Autodesk authorized training curriculum, and who continue to build training programs for firms across the nation today. You will leave this class with proven strategies and best practices for avoiding sins that limit the success of training programs. This session features AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D. AIA Approved

Are you a glutton for the perfect CAD/BIM standard? Do you lust after other CAD/BIM managers who have the authority to get things done? Do project teams become greedy about their own standards, wrathfully rejecting the standardized and more efficient ways you proudly implement? You need not despair. This class will focus on ways to put yourself into the enviable position of having users who listen to you. Combining more than two decades of CAD, BIM, and IT support and management experience, plus years of working with numerous companies to help support their technical managers and staff, we will discuss the things nobody likes to talk about—the sins CAD and BIM managers commit while doing their jobs. What sins might you be guilty of, and what’s the path to righteousness? Join this session to learn some of the common pitfalls, missteps, and misconceptions that come with the job, and uncover why they happen, and learn how to avoid them.

Ever want to be able to fill in Revit parameters by picking from a list of values? Ever want to have all the standard classifications at your fingertips? Ever want to manage all your standard data to use across all your models from Microsoft Excel? Come see the Autodesk Classification Manager for Revit! This free utility, now included with Revit software, will let you do all these things and more. It comes preloaded with the complete UniFormat, MasterFormat, OmniClass, and Uniclass databases, as well as databases for IFC and FICM. Plus, you can build your own quickly and share them across your organization. We will show you how to use this powerful tool, and provide detailed examples of what you can do with it. This class will be presented by the not-so-classy team that developed it.

Are you required to provide a COBie deliverable and you're using Revit software? This is the class to learn all you need to know about the Construction to Operations Building Information Exchange format and how to deliver a compliant spreadsheet using the COBie Extension for Revit. The team who built this free Autodesk utility will teach you the key aspects of COBie, how to use the COBie extension effectively, pitfalls to avoid, and other tips and best practices.

At Autodesk, we know there is a need for our customers to bring their work to the cloud for collaboration and automation at scale. If you’re a Revit API developer and would like to get started on Forge Design Automation for Revit, this class will cover the full basic workflow. We’ll walk through a simple example of a Revit add-in, turning it into a Design Automation application. We’ll go through all of the steps necessary to go from the desktop to Forge. This will include code samples as well as a working end-to-end example of both desktop code and Design Automation code. We’ll teach you the syntax for using Design Automation. We’ll show you common errors and how to avoid them. We’ll explain how to troubleshoot problems. You’ll walk away knowing all of the building blocks and have a solid starting point for automating your processes on Forge. Come learn from someone who is part of the team that built Design Automation for Revit.

With almost a million downloads worldwide, the Autodesk BIM interoperability tools—which include the Model Checker for Revit software—have become the industry standard in reviewing Revit models. This tool is now available for your BIM 360 models! Built on Forge, the Model Checker on Forge tool can review all your models and generate reports on their compliance with the checks you define. Whether pass/fail, counts, or lists, you can view the check reports individually and easily put them into a Microsoft Power BI dashboard. Model Checker lets you select multiple models and define schedules, and, of course, it runs automatically in the Autodesk cloud. This session will be a thorough study of this amazing new tool, including how to use it and tips and tricks.

Are you required to submit a COBie deliverable from your Revit software model? Do you need to be able to apply classification data to Revit elements from systems such as UniFormat, MasterFormat, OmniClass, Uniclass, or even a custom database? This session will provide a deep dive into the 2 tools to help you do this: COBie Extension for Revit software and Classification Manager for Revit software. Learn how to get them, how they work, and how you can configure them to meet your needs. Walk away with the expertise necessary to manage and track COBie and classification system data in your Revit models. This session features Revit. AIA Approved

Are you a glutton for good training? Do you lust over other company's effective education technology? Bad training programs can leave your employees full of wrath, so don't be slothful-come check out this session that will outline the issues many companies see when building up or overhauling their own training programs. Your competitors will be green with envy when you show off your skilled employees-just don't get greedy. This session will focus on overcoming the 7 deadly sins of training, and putting your program on a righteous path. We'll explore the process of defining education mission statements, aligning curriculum with student learning styles, and reinforcing learning at every corner through specific methods. You will benefit from the unique experience and knowledge shared by 2 instructors who have built successful training programs in firms of more than 350 people, designed Autodesk Official Press curriculum, and continue to build training programs for firms across the nation today.

In this timely panel discussion, hear how building owners, large and medium design firms, and the industry as a whole is using and benefitting from automated model checking. Learn, specifically, how they are reviewing their Revit models in BIM 360 software, generating reports on fidelity issues, and utilizing that data in dashboards. This panel will include a building owner (Denver International Airport) that manages all its design and construction projects in BIM 360; a large design firm (Jacobs) that works with DEN and other owners; a small design firm and how it works on BIM 360 projects; and the product development team responsible for Model Checker for Revit and Model Checker for Forge (CADD Microsystems). Facilitated by an architect on the Autodesk team, you will see and hear about all the great benefits these different project stakeholders have gained by implementing automated model checking on their projects.