Learn how Autodesk Construction Solutions helps customers drive successful project outcomes by utilizing available BIM 360 adoption metrics. In this class, we’ll explain how developing a deep understanding of project-level and portfolio-wide adoption health can provide valuable insight into focusing and optimizing use of BIM 360 software.

Do you want to use the Autodesk cloud tools, but also need to continue to use your existing desktop tools? Finally there's a cloud solution that acknowledges your need to bridge your current tools with new solutions in the cloud. Come and learn how to bridge your desktop world with the cloud, using a tool that's so simple, you'll think it's magic. Introducing Autodesk Drive software, the virtual file system that connects to the Autodesk cloud.

This will be an introduction to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 software and InfraWorks 2018 software working with BIM 360 software to provide work sharing and design collaboration to the infrastructure design and construction. The class will show how to use Autodesk Drive service and BIM 360 to bring data shortcuts to a whole new level. We'll also explore our models from AutoCAD Civil 3D and InfraWorks in BIM 360 for review and markup.

In this class, we'll demonstrate how to set up, configure, and drive design standardization for AutoCAD drawings in Autodesk Construction Cloud. AutoCAD and Autodesk Docs have tighter integration through Desktop Connector. We'll explore best practices for enhanced collaboration while handling AutoCAD drawing relationships, including references and supported files in Autodesk Docs. We'll share a quick walk-through on the Autodesk Bridge and explore its potential to help users unlock coordination during the design process and drive standardization in AutoCAD drawings. We'll demo AutoCAD cloud-based features like Activity Insights and DWG™ History showing how users can consult the changes made to their cloud-based drawings and templates anytime, anywhere. We'll wrap up the session with productivity enhancements in AutoCAD 2024 and Desktop Connector that help users achieve three Cs during their design process through AutoCAD drawings in Autodesk Construction Cloud projects.

Digital transformation is disrupting the industries. In this new era of digital-first, data-based decisioning, it is critical to not only optimize the costs but to drive the top-line growth. While this may seem daunting, you don't have to do it alone. In this panel featuring Autodesk leaders and customers, we will talk about how Autodesk worked as a strategic partner for its customers and helped the customers implement data-based decisioning in their processes using Autodesk Platform Services. We'll give an overview of the lessons learned and describe the critical actions to be deployed. We'll also discuss how Autodesk is taking this strategic partnership further to drive top-line growth for Autodesk customers via Autodesk Platform Services.

As a building information modeling (BIM) professional, navigating the ever-evolving landscape of standards and technologies is essential. Explore the opportunities offered by the buildingSMART Professional Certification Program, designed to elevate openBIM expertise. In this session, learn how you can enhance your BIM career through the PCERT program. Explore the certification levels available and gain insight into the skills and knowledge areas covered in each level, critical for success in a modern BIM ecosystem. Discover how buildingSMART and Autodesk drive the advancement of open standards and empowerment of BIM professionals. Gain invaluable insights into the certification process, and discover how the program equips the next generation with future-proof skills. This session is tailored for BIM professionals using Autodesk products such as Revit software, Navisworks software, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and other BIM tools. Learn how to enhance your proficiency and stand out in a competitive job market through certification.

Whether you’re scanning an existing site or capturing as-built data near the end of a project, you've put in the work to create a digital twin of your site in ReCap software. Now stakeholders need to review it or perhaps teammates need it to further their design. We'll discuss how to use secure Autodesk platforms like BIM 360, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Autodesk Drive to connect colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to your data. We’ll start with understanding various workflows to get your project up in the cloud. Once there, we'll use collaborative tools in the Autodesk Forge Viewer API to create markups and annotations that can be synced down to the project locally. We'll cover how teammates and partners can consume your data in other products like Revit software, Civil 3D software, and InfraWorks software. Lastly, we'll discuss where the product may be heading, and how that could affect current workflows. Whether you’re a surveyor or a BIM manager tasked with managing point cloud data, you’ll find value in this course.

The aim of this roundtable is to gather individuals who are excited about how the future of making things is shaping the building and construction industry. We will look at how the industry has progressed from an age of 2D flatland data production, to the more advanced age of optimization of 3D digital data, to the present-day era of interoperability and collaboration in a new age of connection. We will focus on how we conceptualize, share information, collaborate, construct, and deliver smart buildings that can be analyzed, rated on performance, monitored, and maintained. The roundtable will look at how the present and future Autodesk, Inc., cloud technology—including Forge Platform—is set to radically change and revolutionize this process by making the transition from conceptual Building Information Modeling (BIM) to constructional BIM as smooth and seamless as possible. We will focus on how to optimally connect the digital data around designing, constructing, and managing buildings with reduced risk and improved outcomes. This session features BIM 360 Docs and Forge.

MWH are a global engineering and construction management company who build some of the world’s largest wastewater treatment plants. MWH in conjunction with Autodesk Consulting have implemented an innovative method to embed the construction Inspection Test Plan (ITP) inside BIM 360 Field. This method makes ITP completion intuitive for the site manager and enables the off-site quality management team and project manager to monitor its progress. Zoe Robertson from MWH and Anthony Neal from Autodesk Consulting will demonstrate how an ITP that has been documented in MS Excel can be generated into Autodesk BIM 360 Field clearly showing the building elements that require inspection and what quality inspections need to be conducted. We will also demonstrate how the ITP process can be further streamlined by embedding it in the BIM model during design. We will also discuss the people aspects that need to be understood and considered when driving QA/QC completion on-site.

During this one-day experience, Autodesk experts will guide you through our data management platform that enables you to map your company's product processes into a SaaS solution.

Navigating the imminent growth in the renewable energy market presents challenges around skills and project data quality. Autodesk tools enable customers to overcome these challenges by investing in upskilling and ensuring high-quality data for their projects. AutoCAD files are critical in this, providing the precision needed, especially with the shift toward 3D designs for energy yield modeling. Well-optimized and structured preconstruction stage designs in AutoCAD can make or break a potential project's funding and eventual construction, thus driving customer value. This panel will explore how Autodesk software can empower customers to unlock the renewable energy sector's potential, overcome bottlenecks, and mitigate risks. By addressing these challenges, users can contribute significantly to achieving the ambitious Net Zero emissions targets and combat climate change, driving positive outcomes for their businesses and the world.

As technology continues to evolve and provide the AEC industry with new tools, the pressure from clients and owners to deliver faster and better outcomes also increases. Within Autodesk’s ‘Multiverse’ of tools spanning multiple industries, designers usually need to figure out how to best utilize the tools currently available to efficiently produce appealing designs with reduced roadblocks. By understanding which tools to use, organizations can potentially save costs and avoid the dreaded re-work in the design process. In this class, we’ll discuss the impact and opportunities of several workflows and trends in relation to the architectural design process. Find out how you can leverage Autodesk tools and software to drive efficiencies and innovation in your processes that will benefit your company, enable a faster decision-making process, and improve your designs and your bottom line.

Top down, bottom up, skeletal modeling, multi-body master part—if you are having difficulty turning your part models into assembly models do not despair! There are many alternative assembly techniques that can help you to produce great results. This class is for drafters who have made their way through a basic Autodesk Inventor software training course, but who are having difficulty using Inventor in production, particularly on bespoke, one-off projects. This class focuses on "alternative" assembly modeling techniques in Inventor that can help you build unique, fully parametric models quickly and simply without the nightmare of assembly constraints and circular adaptive references. This class will benefit drafters from all engineering and manufacturing industries. Attendees should have working knowledge of Autodesk Inventor. If you produce bespoke, unique, one-off digital prototypes—this class is for you.

In the real world, one program just can’t do it all. Sketching, massing models, final design, animation, and rendering of engineering models—this class will discuss the workflow for using multiple Autodesk products in a production environment. Discover the ins and outs of this workflow, starting with a sketch, moving to Inventor software for final design, then finishing with 3ds Max software and Arnold to render the final animation. Learn how Autodesk Drive can help manage the workflow files, review the Inventor-to-3ds-Max import process, and see how to render photo-quality images. We’ll cover how to use Arnold materials and lights to light the scene and composition to create compelling images. And we’ll show you how the Camera controls can adjust the scene exposure and depth of field. Get ahead of the competition by learning to create your renderings using photographic composition in a streamlined workflow.

This will be a technical step-by-step presentation showing you how to set up, maintain, and use Vault Professional data outside of your firewall. Topics covered will include shared views, shared data, and project sync using Autodesk Drive and Fusion Team. We’ll cover real end-user customer experiences and use cases.

Implementation of any new solution can be challenging, especially when you are changing the way people have been working for decades. Many see construction as an old-fashioned industry, but the fact that there is so much space for change is what makes it really exciting. The industry is seeing a huge increase in the use of cloud-based construction management platforms, and this class will show you how to introduce and implement Construction Cloud software from Autodesk across the business and inspire your team to use it. The presentation will cover our journey and the processes we implemented to roll Construction Cloud, as well as a case study that demonstrates the use of the platform for coordination and in the field. We were able to gain a 50% time savings on coordination and reporting by using BIM 360 Document Management and BIM 360 Model Coordination, and drive efficiencies on-site with Field Management, Assets, and Assemble. This class will be a great opportunity to learn how you can achieve this success too.

Whether its preconstruction, design, or construction, the process of manually creating projects can be time consuming and prone to errors. There are many moving parts, stakeholders, and tasks that need to be coordinated and executed seamlessly to deliver a successful construction project. With Autodesk Construction Cloud, these manual workflows can be a thing of the past. Barton Malow has implemented streamlined automations and integrations between Autodesk Construction Cloud, SAP, and other software to truly get the most out of its data. Through automations and the collaborative partnership with Autodesk, we can consistently drive standardization across our project teams, enabling us to capture as much data as possible, avoid hours of rework, and optimize our business for the future. Learn how Barton Malow is investing in Autodesk Construction Cloud to help project teams become more technology-enabled to make better business decisions.

Systra is known worldwide for its expertise in rail engineering, from light and mass transit rail to high-speed rail. This class will describe the evolution of Systra in terms of Building Information Modeling (BIM) adoption and internal organization over the last 3 years. We will take you through Systra’s BIM-adoption process and describe the different phases of the transformation: realize the need, define the vision and road map, and execute it. We will focus on the BIM vision and strategy definition (business value alignment—BVA), which has been a key action in order to structure BIM deployment. Last but not least, you will hear how Systra’s partnership with Autodesk, Inc., has matured during the process, and how Autodesk Services helped us accelerate the process with their expertise. AIA Approved

Building owners face growing requirements as well as cost-saving opportunities to improve building operational efficiency and accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, most buildings lack accurate as-built documents, let alone a digital foundation like CAD and building information modeling (BIM) that enable the in-depth energy analysis necessary for optimized capital planning. Connected technology can help answer these questions: Which upgrades will reduce operational costs? What decarbonization road map has the best ROI? How can my retrofit attract and retain quality tenants? Join us as we demonstrate a proof of concept that uses rich building data digitalized in an Autodesk Tandem model of an existing building, and that unlocks energy analysis capabilities via EnergyPlus using the Setmetrics platform to inform improved operational performance and a clear road map to decarbonization. We'll discuss both the technical integration developed for this real-world customer-driven opportunity and the user workflows undertaken to deliver these outcomes.