Become more effective with Showcase software and bring your presentation to the next level. This class covers advanced topics as well as tips and tricks with Showcase. If you are a beginner user, be prepared for a class that is fast paced and created for intermediate to advanced users. Come and learn Showcase directly from the Autodesk technical marketing manager.

Yes, you've heard about Data Standard, but you don't know exactly what it might do for your business. In this class we will cover the capabilities of Data Standard, see it live in action, and also get first understanding of how you can configure/customize Data Standard in order to cope with your company’s processes.

Autodesk products, in particular the entertainment creation suites, offer an opportunity to reinvent learning in language arts, social studies, and other core academic classes. By using a game or movie development approach to core subject learning, you can motivate your students to learn with the use of tools such as Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk Maya®, and other software products. The variety of Autodesk products, combined with the general principles that have already seen amazing classroom success, could reignite a passion for learning in so many students and schools. You can be part of the solution, as a mentor or teacher or business.

How do you deploy Configurator 360 software in a professional/commercial environment? The great technology from Configurator 360 software embeds effectively into your own company's website and integrates configuration and quoting into your company's business processes. New capabilities introduced this year make Configurator 360 software suitable to be a key component that can help your company to better serve its customers. In this class you will discover how to integrate Configurator 360 software's configuration and quoting capabilities into your own website, and you'll see how to use Configurator 360 software in conjunction with Autodesk PLM 360 software to track leads. You will also learn how to respond with custom quotes and lead into other downstream engineering, sales, and financial operations.

During the process of designing and drafting, you often need to share your designs with clients who do not have AutoCAD software. In this class, we will learn how to share views electronically using the Autodesk cloud environment, as opposed to simply printing PDF/DWF files. These shared views are stored in the cloud to be viewed and commented on using any web-enabled desktop or mobile device. After sharing a drawing file, we will measure and mark up the design in the Viewer and send the design back to AutoCAD. We will also use the Drawing Compare command on the two versions of a drawing file to highlight the differences so that the clients can easily visualize them.

Bayer AG decided to switch from local licensing based on disparate subscription contracts to a global, centralized approach with flexible licensing and Enterprise Priority Support from Autodesk, Inc. What were the reasons? Where are the benefits? Why does this decision make sense for international operating companies with a variety of products in use? This class describes the process of introducing the Enterprise Flexible Licensing Program at Bayer with an internal view on the challenges and the most effective practices that the company implemented to optimize and grow utilization of Autodesk technologies across multiple global locations. You will learn how Autodesk established the infrastructure to form a worldwide support structure for the Bayer users, from on-boarding user education sessions to in-house events. Dedicated personnel at both Bayer and Autodesk are vigilant in seeing that management and users in the different legal entities have knowledge of the program and support infrastructure.

Mobile computing has become more commonplace. In this class, we will take a look at how tablets, particularly the Apple iPad mobile device, can occupy a spot in your briefcase. In this class, we will discuss both Autodesk® apps, such as AutoCAD® WS, Autodesk® Buzzsaw®, and Autodesk® Inventor® Publisher, and other third-party apps, such as PDF readers, word processors, and sketching programs. We will also touch on some cloud-based storage solutions, like Egnyte® and Dropbox™, as well as web-based apps like Google Docs™. This class will cover the basics of the different models, as well as basic operations like mail, web browsing, and app management.

Configurator 360 software offers a powerful way to deploy engineering and business rules to generate quotes for custom product configurations that include 3D models, bills of materials, drawings, and pricing details. Autodesk PLM 360 software offers the perfect platform for managing workflows for the managing and processing of quotes and orders. By integrating these 2 Solutions we can create a powerful Solution for creating and managing engineering, configured to order product quotes and orders and the critical outputs they need. In this session we will review how to build and combine the components of this integrated process. We'll demonstrate how to create and deploy configurations using Configurator 360 software, how to structure workspaces for quoting engineered-to-order products, and how to integrate these into a single solution.

Tune in as we show how it's possible to integrate Fusion 360, Fusion Team, and Forge to create a simple product catalog for your customers.

This interactive class will demonstrate the importance of the discovery process at the beginning of any visualization or video project. After an introduction to the key elements of the discovery phase, the class attendees will collaborate to develop a set of questions to ask during discovery that will achieve the best results and reveal the single most important message to tell. Working in small groups, the class will then compete with each other to find the most compelling story in several scenarios based on typical client requests.

Selling complex and customized equipment is challenging at best, and creating a compelling bid package is critical to winning more business. This class will show how to use Factory Design Suite software to accelerate the creation of a build proposal, how to create compelling content, and how to create a bill of equipment required for costing the proposal.

This lab will introduce designers to the real-world use of, and best practices for, rendering Revit software models using 3ds Max software and the NVIDIA iray rendering machine. Learn key techniques for working with Revit software models inside of 3ds Max software, and discover what it takes to render photographic-quality images using the iray rendering machine. Explore the creation and application of the Autodesk, Inc., library materials to quickly create surface textures. Utilize the daylight lighting system to simulate outdoor lighting. This class will introduce the use of traditional architectural photographic techniques and composition for the creation of compelling images. Learn how to control the camera through the use of composition techniques like the rule of thirds and the diagonal method. Use 3ds Max software exposure controls to adjust the scene exposure, and then set up and render using the iray rendering machine. See how you can get ahead of the competition by creating visually compelling, photorealistic renderings using photographic compositions and the iray rendering machine.

This class demonstrates how to use Autodesk Quantity Takeoff software to estimate a project during early design. You will learn how to take advantage of intelligent model-linked workflows from Autodesk Revit software and how to perform estimate updates as the project design progresses.

Do you reuse most or all of your previous designs for every new customer order? Do you want your salespeople and/or your customers to be able to easily configure design orders and be confident that the configurations are valid? If so, join us in this class as we discuss how Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order (ETO) software delivers easy-to-use web and mobile interfaces for configuring products. You will also learn how Inventor ETO enables easy reuse and management of CAD data in the back-end database.

Whether we use a pencil or the latest technology, as digital artists we still need to develop creative to give our clients an advantage over the competition. Clients sell the same product to the same clientele—how do we help them differentiate? We have technology converging in many ways (architectural visualization, video games, real time)—how do we find the best way to make use of this convergence? Ultimately, as a creative agency or architectural visualization firm, we need to look for ways to show off products and environments that are visually more compelling so that they become the catalyst of this differentiation. Products such as 3ds Max software, Maya software, NVIDIA mental ray software, Revit software, AutoCAD software, and new emerging real-time technologies like Showcase software help with this problem, but that’s just the beginning. In this roundtable we will talk about why we follow these trends and where these new technologies will bring us. Is it all a fad? Will we find a real practical use other than entertainment? Will our clients end up showing us the way?

As the challenges we face become more complex, visual thinking is emerging as an effective strategy to help us solve them. Visual notes, or sketchnotes, help us make better decisions faster, help us communicate our decisions more effectively, and help our teams better execute those decisions. At this workshop, learn what sketchnotes are and how to use them. Using the process of sketchnotes, you will learn how to combine imagery and words together to make information more interesting and create a compelling piece to help drive innovation forward. You will also leave this class with practicing tips to further develop the sketchnotes technique independently.

Do you know VRED software? It is primarily used by the automotive industry for 3D visualization, virtual prototyping, and CGI (computer-generated imagery) production. But can this tool be used with Autodesk, Inc.’s, Media & Entertainment packages or be integrated into your current CGI pipeline? In this lesson, Lukas Faeth, product manager for VRED, will show you how to combine both worlds to create the most compelling imagery through virtual photography.

In this 60-minute instructional demo, we will examine how to use Inventor software and Configurator 360 software to create parametric assembly models where the components cannot be predicted in advance, hence the inability of iLogic plus suppression to solve the problem. We will show how to start with a base model for context, how to annotate accessory components so they can be added dynamically but only in legal configurations, how to use Configurator 360 software as a delivery mechanism, and finally (yes, a bit unrelated) how Configurator 360 software can export the full assembly to Revit software. Common areas of application include furniture systems, customized enclosures, industrial components with customized accessories, and many others.

This class will show how we used the AutoCAD OEM CAD platform to create a mobile application that will enable users to process point clouds and create precise, detailed, and fully textured 3D models in the field. The discussion will explore how to exploit a Windows Surface Pro tablet's touch-based inputs through the use of a stylus and finger gestures. In particular, we will also demonstrate how to map traditional AutoCAD software commands onto the stylus controls. Due to a lack of real estate on tablet devices, creating an uncluttered, simple user interface is paramount to creating a successful commercial tablet application. Using the AutoCAD OEM platform, we will show how to reduce the amount of exposed functionality thus exposing only a few essential commands to the user via a clean, uncluttered interface. Lastly, we will demonstrate how to package the application with only the relevant menus, icons, and splash screens to create a finished commercial application that has a small install footprint suitable for a tablet platform.

Join me on a Reality Computing expedition. Maximizing on the latest fascinating developments in Capture technologies and Reality Computing Solutions, we will demonstrate and analyze various use cases of applied Reality Computation from the worlds of media and entertainment, arts, archeology, science, museums and design, and explore new ways of doing the old stuff. For the first time we will be deep diving in Project Memento, our standalone, state-of-art end-to-end solution that creates high quality publishable and fabbable 3D models from reality captured with photos, handheld scanners or mid range scanners, and prepares them for fabbing, publishing online, or for further digital workflows with Fusion360, Autodesk Maya and more. The class will teach best practices how to capture the reality so that you can make the most of their digital replicas, how to leverage Memento's toolset to prepare it for different workflows and in general, you will learn of all new opportunities offered by that the brave new Reality Computed world.