AI-powered Drawing Automation software is here! If you're an Autodesk Fusion subscriber, you already have access to it. This class will show you how to get the most out of Drawing Automation. We'll share tips on best practices, including how to optimize your templates and presets for maximum efficiency. Meet the team behind Drawing Automation. This is a great opportunity to share your experiences and feature requests, and to learn about our upcoming Drawing Automation road map. The class will be more than just a guide; it'll be an interactive session to explore, learn, and influence the future of Drawing Automation. Whether you're a seasoned professional, a curious beginner, or simply a tech enthusiast, this class promises to be an enriching experience. Join us to explore, learn, and influence the future of Drawing Automation. Step into the future of design with us today!

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.

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.

Autodesk added more iLogic snippets in the latest version of Inventor software to make drawing automation easier. This class will teach you how to prepare 3D models to easily automate the creation of drawings. Learn how to use the new iLogic snippets to automate different annotations such as dimensions, leaders, balloons, and more. In addition, you will discover when you should go beyond drawing automation capabilities with iLogic, and start using the Inventor API in this process. Finally, you will identify the right approach to automate your Inventor drawings.

In the world of engineering and design, speed and precision are crucial. Whether you’re working on complex mechanical systems, architectural plans, or intricate product designs, the time it takes to create and modify engineering drawings can make or break a project. This session will address both efficiency and faster, accuracy-creating engineering drawings in Autodesk Fusion software. We’ll explore the following innovative solutions/workflows and time-saving best practices that will help you accelerate your drawing process in Fusion: The power of Drawing Automation, Integration, & Customization, smart usage of drawing templates, techniques to speed up dimensioning and annotation, the magic of “shift” button in the Fusion Drawings, hidden gems “osnaps,” cut-copy-paste in Fusion Drawings, more than “just” a sheet bar, reusing title blocks across drawings, and many more. The goal of this session is to empower you with the knowledge to work smarter, not harder, and make your engineering drawing process more efficient and effective using Fusion.

In this lab, we will look at how to automate the various aspects of drawings within Inventor. We will show users how use standard snippets to manipulate views based on the 3D geometry as well as a quick dive into the API to look at how to further enhance the functionality to generate dimensions and balloons. We will look at options using Inventor 2019 new functionality as well as older methods utilising the API.

You say the word automation, immediately people start talking about Dynamo or API coding. What if I said there was a host of automation opportunities hiding inside Civil3D and most users only scratch the surface of what is right at their finger tips. This class looks at these opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, by leveraging code set styles to speed up drawing outputs and quantification of corridor materials

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.

Drawing Production is a process in which BIM Models should be used to generate drawings from the model including (General Plans, Plan & Profiles, Setting out, X- sections …etc). the current industry focus is always on the upstream Model Authoring process without much attention on what should be generated out of this model. And that’s where the problems start to arise. In this Session, you will learn how to unlock the full potential of Autodesk Civil 3D to tackle most of the drawing production challenges. We will focus on transportation and utilities sheet types and aim to demonstrate how to minimize the drawing production process time by around 90% of its current common status through demonstrating a BIM based approach, new features and workarounds.

The automatic generation of drawings is one of the most powerful methods to obtain all the drawings from 3D model, and with the right configuration the customer can get the most from this part of Advance Steel software. In this class we will explain what drawing processes are and how you can properly use them. Then we will cover the configuration of drawing processes through the Drawing Process Manager, with indication of frequently used options and settings. This class will also include configuration and workflow tips for an efficient way of using drawing processes.

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.

In this hands-on lab you will learn how to customize a drawing style to suit your specific requirements for detail drawings, taking into account what should be shown in detail, how should it be shown, labels, and dimensions to be created. We will walk through the workflow of configuring drawing styles using the Drawing Styles Manager interface, with an explanation of existing options and settings. We will configure and use model objects, labels, and dimensions in specific scenarios. This class will include configuration and workflow recommendations for an efficient way of using drawing styles. Please note that this class is suitable for intermediate and advanced users only.

The automatic generation of drawings is the best way to get all of your detail drawings from an Advance Steel software project. If you want to learn how to customize the drawing processes in order to get the most from this part of Advance Steel software, this is the class you need. In this hands-on lab we will walk through the entire workflow of configuring a drawing process using the Drawing Process Manager interface, including the creation of a new drawing process and an explanation of existing options and settings. This class will also include configuration and workflow tips for an efficient way of using drawing processes.

Drawings in Fusion 360 software has implemented a lot of new and exciting functionality this year. This class aims to introduce the newer capabilities—such as title blocks and templates, component versus body distinction, and multiasset documentation—to those who need more than the out-of-the-box solution. We will cover this through a series of demonstrations using real-world title blocks and templates, dimensions, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) to create shop drawings ready for manufacture. With this, users will be able to apply what they’ve seen to get more out of their drawings in Fusion 360 software, and create drawings that are thorough, accurate, and tailored to their needs. This session features Fusion 360.

In this practical class, you learn the following tips and tricks: how to add the scale value from the first view on the sheet and put it in the title block, how to include the plot date in the title block, how to add the Density property and other properties to a parts list and bill of materials (BOM), how to add model iProperty to the drawing revision table, how to automatically update drawing properties from model iProperties, how to remove trailing zeros of referenced parameters in leader text, how to associate by default materials to solid hatch in section views, how to create sheet formats with views, and how to have a parts-only parts list and a structured parts list in 1 drawing. This class covers several workflows that answer the most common questions Inventor software users have about the Drawing Manager.

The Fusion 360 Drawings Team has started its journey to achieve a more efficient drawing creation workflow so that a designer can focus better on the real design work. Starting from the very versatile but easy-to-use Center Mark Pattern feature, this class will show how these new functionalities and algorithms can help greatly reduce both the workload and the learning time of the drawing process. And we'll discuss the future of faster dimensioning, smarter (automatic or semi-automatic) view and annotation creation, and user style machine learning.

"In this class you will learn how to provide your application engineers, sales team, and even customers with a rich, 3D, graphically interactive, guided, design automation solution using Autodesk Forge Design Automation API together with Knowledge Bridge. Knowledge Bridge is a cloud-based, advanced configuration and engineering automation solution. Using Knowledge Bridge together with Forge, you can build your own custom solution guided selling experience that includes graphical selection, drag-and-drop, and advanced rendering using super-fast web-based graphics. These UI’s are constrained by and drive engineering selection, configuration and design rules that automate both pre and post-sales engineering process to create quotes, models, drawings, BOMs, and other engineering related reports. All this can be achieved without programming. And the structure is such that it can support even the most complex products. We’ll also show several examples of previous successful projects."

Autodesk Inventor is a powerful platform that you can adapt to suit your workflow. But, no one ever teaches you how! In this practical hands-on lab, we will learn how drawing borders, title blocks, and tables are created and formatted and can be saved into a template drawing file. Learn how you can reduce busywork, increase the professional presentation of your drawings and standardize your drawings to your regional, industry, or company CAD standard.