This lecture will cover the current visualization process in the automotive sector and the integration into the product development process. On this basis, a great future scenario shows and explains the benefits of high-quality visualization to the department’s development, production, and sales.

New to design visualization? Having a hard time understanding the language needed to communicate or produce the daily requests for images or videos? Don’t know how a photorealistic image is constructed from a software perspective? Learn the basics of design visualization through various software examples. This lecture will help you understand the language needed to create images or videos that will communicate your designs. Get an overview of the Autodesk, Inc., design visualization portfolio. This class will work from concrete examples directly related to 3ds Max Design software, Maya software, Showcase software, VRed software, Navisworks software, Ecotect Analysis software, InfraWorks software, Revit software, Inventor software, AutoCAD software, and Inventor Fusion software.

For over two decades Neoscape has been working on visualizing architecture to make things faster, more efficient and painless for our clients and artists. The challenge is with designers that have been trusting us for over a decade as our partners to raise the bar visually and technically. One of the best examples is with Boston based world renowned Safdie Architects. Every time we start a new project, we ask ourselves “how do we make this better and faster?” VRAY has been Neoscape render engine of choice for well over a decade. Now with Nvidia’s GPU rendering, Vray Next and Project Lavina we see a future where we can move faster and more efficiently. Something both us and our clients have been dreaming of for a long time. I will walk you through the promise in the future of design and visualization a future where we will collaborate and focus on what is really important. After 20 years waiting, Real time design visualization is here.

Join the founders of leading visualization studios DBOX, Neoscape, RM Design Studio, and FloodSlicer in a conversation with Jeff Mottle the Founder of CG architect to discuss their most noteworthy projects. Learn how they helped elevate and transform their client's architectural visions to communicate compelling, innovative, and engaging stories.  Whether you’re an in-house visualization artist, a creative director in a dedicated visualization studio or a practicing architect who uses visualizations in design, this session will provide insight into how visualizations can shape the success of an architectural project and win more business.

Join experts in architectural visualization and virtual reality (VR) to discuss the future of VR and its applications in the field of visualization. The last 12 months have seen an unprecedented surge in interest and adoption of VR, augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies to help visualize architecture. But there are many challenges and uncharted waters ahead. The panelists will discuss how these technologies are being used in practice, where the opportunities lie, and how companies are working around the shortcomings and problems in VR. Whether you’ve been experimenting and implementing these technologies for a while, or you’re just trying to get your head around what’s going on, the panel will cover everything you could want to know about these potentially game-changing technologies.

Are you new to design visualization? Are you having a hard time understanding the language needed to communicate or produce the daily requests for images or videos? Do you not know how a photorealistic image is constructed from a software perspective? Through various software examples, you will learn the basics of design visualization. This lecture will help you understand the language used to create images or videos that will communicate your designs. Get an overview of the Autodesk, Inc., design visualization portfolio. This class will work from concrete examples directly related to 3ds Max Design software, Maya software, Showcase software, VRED software, Navisworks software, Ecotect Analysis green building software, InfraWorks software, Revit software, Inventor software, AutoCAD software, and the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app.

Southern California Edison uses Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler software in their operations center to manage smart meters. This class will show and tell how utilities can integrate Autodesk visualization tools with their smart meter systems to effectively manage smart meters in their network. You will learn how you can use Infrastructure Modeler to visualize various meter events and to empower operations personnel to direct work in finding resolutions to issues.

As the 3D architectural visualization industry approaches almost 25 years, we can look back with amazement at the many developments in technology and workflow that have contributed to the rapid growth of the field, both creatively and technologically. Although recent years have seen only more incremental change, recent developments in AR, virtual reality, graphics processing unit, real time, cloud, and smart cities, to name just a few, have positioned us on the cusp of potentially major advances that could impact the future of the industry. Panelists will speak about what they believe to be the next big things to impact the future of the architectural visualization industry. Panelists will include Paul Doherty (the digit group, inc.) a leading expert in smart cities and visualization; Jorge Barrero (M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc.), senior associate; Carlos Cristerna, visualization director at Neoscape, Inc.; and moderator Jeff Mottle, CEO of CGarchitect.com.

Godrej Storage Solutions is the largest intralogistics solutions provider in India and in Asia abroad. It deals with projects that are unique and customized. The major output is a general arrangement drawing of the warehouse layout. Due to its complex nature, the designs are prepared in 2D layouts and reviewed by customers. This process involves multiple iterations before the customer gets a complete idea about the proposal. After many such iterations, technical sign-off happens but with the uncertainty of an error-free solution. To reduce this long cycle time and for better visibility for the customer, the Godrej design team makes 3D walk-through videos of a complete warehouse with all civil details. This helps the stakeholder to virtually visualize the full warehouse facility during the design stage itself and ensures no conceptual errors. Another aspect of the project business is that the project location and decision makers are not co-located. Hence, visualization helps them making timely and accurate decisions.

Max Bögl, a German construction and infrastructure company designed a fully automated urban mobility solution: Transport System Bögl (TSB). It is based on magnetic levitation technology and designed to provide a future-proof public transport for densely populated cities. Max Bögl approached Autodesk Consulting to help finding a quick design solution for their urban mobility systems and build 3D visualization models to communicate the proposed tracks more easily and convincingly. One of the key aspects of the whole design is the light-weight construction of elevated tracks, InfraWorks Bridge Design capabilities with its parametric modelling approach was the perfect answer. This class will highlight the main steps of the solution, the creation of the track and 3D visualization models using Inventor and InfraWorks, including animated parts, generated in 3ds Max to better demonstrate the TSB in action.

While architecture and engineering professionals should always focus on making the best design for the project, workflows designed to produce plans and intelligent models are often missing vital steps for the visualization at the end of the cycle. These steps are easy to add to your workflow once you know what they are. Learn how to speed up the visualization process with small adjustments to your AutoCAD® or Revit® software workflow and with 3D modeling standards that can be checked for and corrected with tools built into 3ds Max Design software. For visualization professionals, we look at how to create or select 3D models of environmental elements that slip easily into your pipeline without adding extra correction work or long render times. We also look at the vocabulary and tools that you can use to communicate with designers about your workflow needs.

Visualization is a terrific way to improve communication with non-technical stakeholders, but what’s in it for you, the designer? This class will show you three practical workflows that use visualization and validation tools to help make design decisions and create technical exhibits. You have invested time in building a model—now let’s take it to the next level with these core activities: visual impact with photomontages using AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software, lighting levels with street lighting analysis using Civil 3D and 3ds Max Design, traffic impact analysis using Civil 3D, 3ds Max Design, Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler software, and Quadstone Paramics (a Pitney Bowes company).

In this session we will share insights in how to review, evaluate and showcase digital prototypes in context, holistically. Using the example of a kitchen, we are showing how Fusion and Revit Data can be used in Autodesk VRED to influence and inform the design and layout process. You will learn on how to import and setup the data, prepare it for real-time and XR review and collaborate with colleagues remotely to take a educated decision. Join us and understand the value of advanced visualization and digital prototyping with Autodesk VRED for your product development process. Learn how to involve all stakeholders by delivering the same high quality visualization on any device from anywhere at any time.

Throughout the last decade, Autodesk Research has been developing advanced techniques for data visualization in a 3D environment. One example of this is Dasher 360, a Forge-based application that can display in a 3D context sensor data captured by sensors in buildings (or on infrastructure such as bridges). In recent months, we’ve been working to publish the core components that display this rich 3D data, for instance, to spatially locate sensors in a 3D model and to map large amounts of IoT (Internet of Things) sensor data to the surface of 3D objects via animated heat maps. This session focuses on how Forge developers can integrate these components into their own applications, delivering first-class visualizations of their customers’ data.

You have accumulated asset data in your enterprise—now what? This class shows how utilities can use Autodesk® visualization tools to integrate with their smart meter systems to effectively manage smart meters in their network. The integrated solution demonstrates how you can use the power of Autodesk® Infrastructure Map Server technology to visualize various meter events and empower operations personnel to resolve issues.

How can Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows reduce the disconnect between document production and design intent visualization? This discussion will focus on taking a Revit BIM model into visualization and the production effort required. We'll cover a variety of visual communication platforms, from still images to panoramic images to interactive, dynamic virtual reality (VR). This roundtable will cover methods of accurate BIM visualization as well as isolated visual efforts with respect to production time and quality.

In this session, we’ll cover how CannonDesign collaborated with Autodesk’s 3ds Max team to explore the use of the USD file format for visualization of data created in Omniverse. We’ll also explore our standardization of PBR materials and the Substance suite for material creation. We’ll present case studies that demonstrate live collaborative scenarios for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) production work, and examine how these features create an opportunity for new ways to explore architectural design.

This class is intended for architectural visualizers and visual-effects artists alike. It aims to demonstrate Factory Fifteen’s unique position between these 2 industries by showcasing 2 projects—a proof-of-concept science-fiction drama, and a film showcasing a stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Attendees will learn how Factory Fifteen’s work in film has cross-pollinated the firm’s work with architects, creating new digital workflows and sensibilities toward “selling architecture.” As well as providing an overview, the speaker will go in detail into the filming and 3D post-production (using 3ds Max software and V-Ray) of one hero shot from each project, as well as illustrating planning and execution at every stage. The first shot involves the design, build, and animation of a mechanical robot and its integration into film footage. Shot 2 involves an elaborate time-lapse sequence over 8 years within a World Cup stadium, from tournament mode to legacy mode, dramatically replacing footage with an evolving digital sequence that leads us to the year 2030. This session features 3ds Max.

Learn how you can use VRED software’s high-quality capabilities in the studio pipeline to visualize your model data at every step of the development process. We will touch on the streaming capability of VRED Core software and how it enables all users to access and interact with digital 3D models in high quality through interfaces tailored to any persona’s needs, independent of hardware and expertise. We will share the latest advancements in visualization technology that enable everybody to work and collaborate on the same data set in the same virtual space, each via the devices that fit their needs. Join this session if you want to learn more about how Autodesk’s VRED software could help your company save time and money by bringing people and data together in one joint, collaborative virtual world.

How do you tell a story with a rendering? How can a 3D model be transformed into a work of art? Is it the illumination, the camera settings, the props, or the composition that brings a project to life and transforms it from a flat image into an inspiring representation of your architectural project? Whether you are a new AutoCAD® or Revit® software user or a production professional who is looking for a new angle on your projects, this class immerses you in the creative and technical architectural visualization possibilities that are available in Building Design Suite. By learning basic principles of architectural photography and the qualities of great interior and exterior images, you can gain a fresh perspective for producing renderings that will delight and inspire your clients.