If you’ve considered using cloud services but can’t find answers to questions like, “How do I ensure that nobody, not even service provider’s staff can access my data?” “Who has the encryption keys?” “How is the data destroyed after use?” this class is for you. The focus of this class will be to understand and summarize your concerns about security of moving data to the cloud and adoption of new Autodesk, Inc., services. We will discuss potential scenarios/options that could address your concerns. No service can guarantee total security and protection, and there is no “silver bullet” addressing all potential security concerns. In the class we will try to define what you can do with Autodesk to demonstrate that Autodesk 360 cloud services are secure and ready for sensitive workloads that require a higher standard of encryption.

Regardless of whether you need to work with others on a product mockup, configure a family of products or render a 3D image, adding cloud services to your Autodesk software helps you get your product to market faster and with higher initial customer satisfaction. • Compute-intensive tasks take minutes or hours instead of days. • Collaboration can be with as many people and use as many services as needed. • Multiple cloud services, e.g., Fusion 360, Configurator 360 and Render 360 enable teams to tackle multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.

Web Applications and Cloud Services are highly distributed and loosely coupled. They have dependencies on both internal and external services, and are released on different frequencies and schedules. The distributed nature and variety of the Cloud ecosystem makes it so that teams have to think about testing differently. This presentation will cover tips and tricks to enhance your development lifecycle to release changes faster, with higher confidence; how to build a CI/CD pipeline; how to package and deploy your code; when and where to introduce testing in the process; and what testing should be done.

This class gives you an introduction to Autodesk® 360 cloud-based services.

Join Andritz on the Smart Services journey that has catapulted the firm into the future. Discover how Andritz implemented a fully functioning spare-parts portal with lightning speed. Hear how the project team used an agile approach to integrate Autodesk Cloud Solutions into existing enterprise services. See how the team has realized a competitive advantage for Andritz selling spare parts against growing non-OEM (original equipment manufacturer) competition. Check out how easily Andritz customers can identify the spare part they need with confidence, even in the most complex equipment, and trigger an order process for speedy delivery. Be inspired by surprising aspects of the solution design and see how integration of Autodesk Cloud Services can retain customer satisfaction and ignite new business in a highly efficient manner. Everyone on the project has been excited by the possibilities and impact on Andritz.

This class will explore how Autodesk is leveraging Amazon Web Services to power A360, product trials and more. In addition to showing how Autodesk uses AWS, we will explore how Amazon Web Services can enhance design, engineering, and media and entertainment workflows for any size company. This class will provide an overview of the concepts and best practices for moving workloads to the cloud and running them at scale in a secure, scalable and cost efficient manner.

The rapid evolution of design technology, software, and cloud services changes how architectural offices and companies operate, and provides great opportunities for improvements that should be used. This follow-up class to “Custom Computational Workflows for BIM Design Implementation” shows how Revit software and Dynamo can benefit from these new developments and cloud services that can provide more global, efficient, fluent, or even fully automated workflows. Current practical examples of custom workflows we use at Zaha Hadid Architects showcase how manual and cross-application design-to-BIM tasks can be implemented via intelligent parametric elements and scripted processes. As a next step, these can be translated into cloud-enabled workflows for further automation and efficiency. What methods, tools, and cloud-services are available and which skills are required to use them?

This class presents an in-depth look at how to use Revit® MEP software with cloud tools for collaboration workflows in MEP engineering firms. We demonstrate the benefits of various cloud services , such as BIM 360™ Glue®, rendering as a service, and Autodesk® Simulation-based software. What is the big picture and how do the cloud services work together to add much more value than any one program alone? How do these cloud services fit in with Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows and how can you use them side-by side with Revit MEP? We answer these questions and more as we teach you how to use BIM with cloud to collaborate with your extended design team. Afterwards, join us for the panel discussion MP3174 Come Fly with Us in the Cloud: BIM Panel Discussion.

This class will explain a subset of capabilities that Autodesk cloud services offer to enable collaboration in civil infrastructure projects. Topics that we'll discuss include the presence of mobile devices in our daily lives, and the ways that we can use them in professional environments. Also, we'll explore the available technologies that will let multiple teams work together.

The fast-growing network around unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as the availability of cloud-based processing and analysis services, enables the emergence of a category of new workflows that disrupt the conventional surveying methods. By flying a UAV around a house or a building to capture aerial images, and by processing such images to produce meaningful 2D orthographic views and 3D data using Autodesk, Inc., photo-to-3D service, we have developed a complete solution that delivers the necessary reports in a fraction of the time and cost usually necessary to get such reports. Insurance adjusters are now being offered a completely new, automated solution that avoids using ladders to climb on roofs to measure or visually inspect them following a claim. Come and check out how this solution works, and how the same workflow can be applied to many other use cases and industries.

A hybrid cloud is a cloud-computing environment that uses a mix of applications on different infrastructures relying on orchestrated integration between the platforms. The infrastructures can be on-premise services; private cloud services; and third-party, public cloud services. This a legitimate option even if all the components are not pure cloud. Our Fusion Lifecycle implementations are typically hybrid cloud; we use Vault data management software (deployed as either on premise or private cloud) and Fusion Lifecycle software (pure cloud). These environments come with their own challenges. In this class, we'll discuss these challenges and provide recommendations on how to optimize these heterogeneous environments.

The Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform is all about enabling users to access their data from everywhere, anytime. The ability to view your design in 3d from any computer or device brings a total new experience in sharing information for your friends, colleagues, and collaborators. While we will explore how to use this WEB / Cloud Service API for creating a collaboration tool, and manipulating geometry, and metadata ; we would also get a truly new 3D journey using LeapMotion and either the Oculus Rift or simply the Google Cardboard. Come to the class with your Android phone or iPhone and get a Google Cardboard back home.

This class will discuss the benefits of the cloud for software developers and look at a concrete example of moving desktop functionality to the cloud. We will look at issues related to the architecture of software destined for the cloud. We will compare commercial cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services™ and Windows Azure™ and will take an look a several client-side environments for consuming this data, such as AutoCAD® software , Unity 3D, Android™, Apple® iOS, and HTML5.

Join us for this followup panel discussion of the AU class MP3169 Get Your BIM Head Out Of The Cloud. Come have a discussion with various panelists from the industry about how the cloud services can be used in a BIM collaborative workflow.

Laser scanning has become a very prevalent topic in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry over the last several years. While the software and hardware has dramatically improved over the years, offsetting or justifying the costs can be a challenge. Rather the project is driven by schedule or cost constraints. What have been the challenges involved in overcoming these hurdles and recouping the benefits that scanning has to offer? This class will take a transparent look at the purchase and use of Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC's, first laser scanner. We will explore the additional challenges as well as the metrics used to prove value. This class is geared toward those considering the purchase of, or who have just recently purchased, their first scanner or who want to learn more about the technology.

There are many unique aspects to designing and building a proton treatment facility. As an emerging type of treatment for cancer, proton centers present challenges that are not like any other healthcare project. With the complexity of the systems that support this new type of treatment, the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) plays a crucial role in the development of these types of projects. In this class you will explore how the use of BIM throughout design and construction impacted the development of 2 different yet very similar proton facilities. With a unique opportunity of a consistent team but different workflows, you will experience the power that BIM presents when applied as not just an authoring tool, but also as a pathway for collaboration.

In this session, Jeff Metcalf, CIO from Layton Construction will be presenting how Layton, Forge and other Cloud Service APIs have been leveraged in order to integrate with CMiC (https://cmicglobal.com), an internal ERP system, to reduce overhead and increase visibility into Key Performance Indicators across many projects using Autodesk Cloud Services including BIM360 (HQ) and BIM360 Field. (Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

The speed and cost of obtaining laser scans has made it realistic to generate point-cloud data for every renovation project, particularly detail-sensitive historic preservation projects. However, not all point clouds are created equal. How do you specify laser scan services so costs can be compared between providers? How can you ensure that the delivered data will meet your requirements? This presentation will review requirements for specifying laser scan services so the point cloud level of accuracy is appropriate for your project. We will review US Institute of Building Documentation (USIBD) level of accuracy (LOA) specification documents to help define this task. Once you have point clouds, how do you use them? Point clouds are extremely large and accurate. Using them in Revit software requires planning and an understanding of model requirements. A historic preservation project case study will illustrate benefits and pitfalls, and we’ll present tips and tricks for modeling efficiently.

How does the cloud help your firm grow and reach global scale securely? In this session, we will explore how Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables you to extend your IT infrastructure into the cloud with enterprise-grade security. We will see how Autodesk products can be deployed in a secure, scalable, and global cloud environment. We will look into the details of the AWS Virtual Private Cloud, and see how it helps your organization comply with security requirements and standards.

In this talk, we will explore the integration of AWS Bedrock with Autodesk Platform Services to create custom chatbots capable of answering complex analytical questions about your design data. Attendees will learn how to harness the power of advanced machine learning models and cloud services to provide real-time, insightful responses to design queries, streamlining the engineering and design workflow. The session will cover practical implementation steps, key benefits, and use cases, demonstrating how these intelligent chatbots can revolutionize design analysis and collaboration.