Automating workflows and processes increases productivity, reduces errors, and saves costs.  Now you can automate your Inventor processes in the cloud – to achieve collaboration and automation at scale. In this class we will present five examples of what can be done with Forge and the Design Automation API for Inventor. These will be running examples with reference code available in github. The purpose of this class is to stimulate your creativity by demonstrating  what can be done - and also to provide sample code as a springboard to accelerate your own automation development. The five examples will be: A web based configurator, automating BOM pricing and supply by leveraging the design and back end systems, generating an assembly and drawings from iLogic rules, building product content by connecting Design Automation API for Inventor to Design Automation API for Revit and setting up a Design Checker for enforcing company standards.

AEC firms have an ever-increasing need to streamline and automate workflows. This class will introduce the Forge Design Automation API for Revit and show how it can be applied to automate AEC workflows for collaboration and automation at scale. In this class we’ll review real-world examples of how Autodesk customers and partners are using this API to create applications that can create, read, and modify Revit models in the cloud. Revit data is no longer trapped on the desktop.  Now you can use Forge to build competitive advantage and accelerate and improve your  workflows with web applications.

In the structural engineering industry, one of the challenges is reducing manual and tedious design tasks. Computational design tools such as Dynamo software give structural designers, engineers, and detailers the possibility to automate the creation of their deliverables to build structures with minimal energy. By doing so they spend less time on the repetitive tasks and more energy on the important parts of the design. In this class, you’ll learn how Dynamo can support design automation and computational modeling workflows for structural analysis and design of concrete and steel structures. You’ll learn about the appropriate packages to perform automation in your own daily workflows, and you’ll receive a set of teaching examples.

Automation in Civil Engineering, especially in the BIM space, is becoming a major revolutionary step in the new digital era. What was a job of core software developers is getting mainstream every day with easier programming languages (Visual & Text) and more and more engineers finding ways to achieve complex results using automation. Automation thinking for Civil Engineers is a basic level discussion on how to think in Automation terms. This topic covers how we can spot opportunities, how we, designers can ideate and what it takes to become an Automator. It talks about the questions designers should ask themselves, how to structure your automations, how to validate its scalability among other topics.

Resource constraints, cost concerns, and a desire to better leverage emerging AI and ML technologies have caused design teams in the water industry to adopt automation tools to accelerate their work. These tools allow designers to leverage standardized processes and design content to efficiently generate high quality documentation with 3D visualization, while still providing a customized solution to meet a client’s specific needs. These tools can allow multiple designs using alternative treatment technologies to be efficiently generated and evaluated as part of design optimization efforts. This presentation includes a discussion of current trends in design automation, with a focus on water and wastewater treatment facilities. This includes the use of bots, BIM/CAD automations, and specialized rules-based design automation tools. A case study of a project using the Transcend rules-based automation package will be discussed to show the value that can be achieved with these tools.

This class will discuss the various techniques for automating 3ds Max software. We’ll first cover techniques to build automated routines to drive complex tasks within 3ds Max. 3ds Max includes a local tool called 3dsmaxbatch that enables local automation of complex tasks. This functionality is also available in the cloud under the Forge Design Automation API. We’ll discuss MAXScript, Python, C++, and .NET approaches to automation, and how to connect your routines to the web to drive configurable automation.

Its not just AutoCAD anymore - the Design Automation API now includes Revit and Inventor. This class presents an introduction to newly expanded Forge Design Automation API. Members of the Revit, AutoCAD and Inventor Design Automation teams will discuss the general API architecture, specific implementation details and examples for automating the three products separately and in concert. (Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

With the release of Design Automation for Inventor on Forge, it's possible to leverage the scale of the Forge platform not only saving money but also removing the bottleneck of processing automated workflows. You can now automate jobs in parallel and only pay for the processing time used. In this talk we'll go over a number of customer success stories in moving automation from on-premise Inventor servers to our cloud-enabled, scalable Forge service reducing time to process from days down to minutes, imparting a competitive advantage. Specific topics include: 1) design automation overview and typical workflows; 2) customer case studies on moving automation to Forge; 3) extending the value of existing design data through the Forge platform; 4) Manufacturing and Construction automations with Inventor and Revit engines together; 5) what's next: road map and things we’re hearing around automation and Forge.

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.

At Autodesk, we value the 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 use Forge Design Automation for Revit software, this class will cover the basics and dive deeper. We will explore five different case studies and all the steps necessary to implement them. You will learn to use the power of automation and cloud computing to generate conceptual designs using adaptive components. You will see demos and discover the code needed to implement them. You will learn how to manage your activities and AppBundles to support multiple Revit versions. You will get the links to the speaker’s end-to-end working code samples for you to extend upon. You will learn about Design Automation and how to integrate it with other Forge services, and about new features that have been added since last Autodesk University. You will walk away with solid insight into how to build cloud applications supporting Revit workflows.

Forge Design Automation API for Inventor enables you to automate design tasks at scale in the cloud—freeing your team members from drudgery so they can spend more time being creative. Whether you’re automating processes such as standardized drawing creation or BOM extraction, or speeding up the sales process with a configurator, Forge helps you increase productivity and efficiency and gain a competitive advantage. Learn about two Forge customers’ solutions based on Design Automation API for Inventor: a flexible pipe end-fitting configurator project by TechnipFMC and Codeo’s latest kiosk configurator.

We've all heard it before: "You can't automate drawings with iLogic." Well, we’re here to tell you that you can! In this instructional demo, you will learn the basic techniques of developing the logic required to automate 2D drawings with iLogic and the Inventor API. From creating views, adding dimensions and balloons, and working with sketched symbols and even parts lists, this demo will shed an abundant amount of light on how to develop your drawing automation, as well as what to avoid to ensure a robust and stable automation project.

Forge is a set of web services provided by Autodesk. The Design Automation API is one of its components that added support for Inventor software roughly a year ago. In this class, we will provide an introduction to the Design Automation API and how you can use it to automate Inventor processes. We’ll show how you can estimate and optimize the costs of using this service, and the various ways you can run and speed up processes on the Design Automation service. We will also cover some of the specific tips the speaker learned while helping customers with specific workflows, for example, how to get modeling error details from Inventor, how to obtain a list of supported files types, and other useful ideas. We will demonstrate the coding ideas using the .NET Core development environment.

A renowned 3D design application like Inventor software has its limitations based upon user knowledge and aptitude. When you incorporate design automation to compliment workflows, product quality and consistency improves exponentially. In this instructional demo, you will learn how to streamline your design processes by capturing design intent and developing design automation. You will come to understand the 4 aspects of developing and implementing an automation plan. You will also learn how to avoid common pitfalls in planning automation, increase your time to roll out your plan, and ultimately achieve success with your plan.

Have you ever found yourself wondering if there’s a more efficient way to work? Maybe you downloaded an AutoLISP or VBA program to improve your productivity, only to discover that it doesn't work quite like you’d hoped. Many of the daily interactions you perform with AutoCAD software can be customized or automated. Using customization, you can tailor the product to the way you work. And automation enables you to streamline design workflows. This class will provide you with a basic, high-level introduction to features and programming languages you can use to customize and automate workflows in AutoCAD, along with resources for getting started.

For years, you’ve been creating powerful workflows that combine Inventor and Revit models, and that require the transfer of data and geometry between these 2 products. Now that the Design Automation API is bringing Inventor and Revit into the cloud, you can build these Inventor/Revit interop workflows into your web applications. Using some simple use cases, we will show you how you can easily build web-based workflows by using the Design Automation API to share data and geometry between Revit and Inventor.

At Autodesk University 2015, the combined use of the Vault API and the Forge Viewer API was first demonstrated. This class continues on that path and showcases the use of the Vault API and Forge Design Automation for Inventor software to programmatically modify Inventor files that reside within Vault software. We will see how to check out a file from Vault and modify the file using Design Automation for Inventor, eliminating the need for a local install of Inventor and its dependent licenses. Post modification, we’ll check the updated file back into Vault, creating a new version and maintaining file history.

Design Automation for Inventor software generally enables the desktop APIs to be used in the cloud—similar to how they would work on the desktop, but without the need of any installed software or dependent licenses. An additional, easily overlooked advantage of Design Automation for Inventor is its capability to run iLogic scripts in the cloud. These scripts being embedded in the CAD file itself can be programmed to auto execute under certain conditions. This class will address taking advantage of this capability to combine the Forge Design Automation API with iLogic to create a configurator by modifying an input Inventor file (IPT) in the cloud, according to the inputs provided by the user on an easy-to-use user interface. The results can be viewed immediately on a web browser using the Forge Viewer API, and are available for download in multiple formats such as IPT, IDW, and PDF. This web application sample uses the latest web technologies and is OS independent and mobile-device friendly.

We’ve all heard it before: "You can’t automate drawings with iLogic." Well, we’re here to tell you that you can! In this instructional demonstration, you’ll learn the basic techniques of developing the logic required to automate 2D drawings with iLogic and the Inventor API. From creating views, to adding dimensions and balloons, to working with sketched symbols and parts lists, this demo will shed light on how to develop your drawing automation, as well as what to avoid, thus ensuring a robust and stable automation project.