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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

Points have many settings that can help import, create, and manage through style formats, description keys, label components and even layer controls. As we work in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, we all start to find ways we can optimize our point data whether it's by importing, exporting, or creation. In this class, you learn tips and tricks that will help you in your process of working with your Civil 3D points by display through styles. You learn ways to manage these points through groups and examine settings as you manage your point drawing. We also dig deeper into a Civil 3D template to help you manage points through styles and settings. I'm excited to show you options to control your points via a style through layers, text styles, and options using tips I've learned in the industry and from training others.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to ArcGIS GeoBIM and the Construction Cloud

Get on the road to cloud-cloud integration between geographic information system (GIS) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) with ArcGIS GeoBIM and Construction Cloud software. This instructional demo will showcase customer examples of the benefits gained from the fusion of geography and BIM data for project portfolio management, collaboration, and construction project insights informed by geography. By following best practices for geolocating intelligent models, AutoCAD software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Revit software, users can help ensure effective integration of these models in GIS. This reduces the cost of integration by ensuring upfront data quality. To facilitate this, ArcGIS GeoBIM provides analytics to identify documents with geolocation errors. Managing and visualization issues during the design, construction, and handover of BIM projects is crucial for financial and operational performance. We will show how the integration of GIS and BIM with project and issue performance dashboards significantly improves insights into these critical aspects of project management.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Optimizing Drainage Design Workflows

InfoDrainage for Civil 3D software is a tool designed to support the requirements of delivering BIM (Building Information Modeling) compliance with optimized drainage design workflows. Civil 3D pipe networks and surfaces can be created from InfoDrainage networks or vice-versa and kept up to date via Parts Mapping. With InfoDrainage providing the tools to design, optimize, analyze, and compare drainage designs, gaining approval can be easy. Including traditional drainage and green infrastructure elements as 3D objects, the design remains true to site, helping to better communicate and support sustainable design approaches. Drainage designs involve iterative changes, which can be a painful and time-consuming process. Round-tripping is supported from InfoDrainage to Civil 3D networks, which can help to reduce data errors during required model updates. Using InfoDrainage for Civil 3D, engineers can efficiently represent their designs, giving greater confidence in the validity and accuracy of design information.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Elevating Multidisciplinary Transportation Projects Through BIM 360

Transportation engineers work every day to keep cities and people connected. But how do we keep transportation engineers connected so they can help successfully deliver projects? This class will focus on providing a workflow for hosting multidisciplinary transportation projects in BIM 360 software. We will start with project setup, including cleaning inherited files, folder structure, and drawing and model creation. We'll discuss the steps teams need to take to collaborate through effective data shortcut management, markups, issues, and model coordination. We'll examine collaboration techniques between roadway, utility, and structural designers working in Civil 3D software and architects working in Revit software. In addition, we will show how LIDAR data can be used using Navisworks software to complete the 3D model. Finally, we’ll summarize best practice tips and tricks that can aid design teams in the efficient management of projects. We'll use examples from a successful BIM 360 transportation project located in Toronto.

Panel / Virtual 2021

The Road (and Rail) to BIM Success Begins with GIS

The road to digital transformation in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) requires interoperable, accessible, and accurate streams of information to enable digital twins, smart assets, and smart cities. The complexity of linear infrastructure, the environmental impact, and the sizes of projects require the talents of design and geospatial experts. This session will highlight how Skanksa’s geographic information system (GIS) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) teams successfully integrate Autodesk and Esri solutions, bringing value to all teams and stakeholders. This class will introduce an integrated approach to GIS and BIM for rail and highways, showing how together they improve digital delivery and productivity. Using specific project examples, Skanska’s leaders will explain how streamlining workflows between Revit software, Civil 3D software, and Esri ArcGIS provides a coordinated and enhanced experience to all end users. You will leave this session understanding how maximizing GIS and BIM expands value to all technical and non-technical teams throughout the lifecycle of the infrastructure.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Under Pressure: Pressure Networks in AutoCAD Civil 3D

Modeling water distribution systems has always been a tedious process. AutoCAD Civil 3D offers tools that will greatly assist you with this process. For horizontal and vertical layouts, AutoCAD Civil 3D can model just about any situation you’ll run into. In this class, we see how to create a 3D model of a water distribution system, edit the system to account for those design changes, and analyze it for design errors. Note that this class does not get into hydraulic analysis.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2015

Facility Models and Data Integration: Denver Airport's BIM / GIS / Asset Management Data Hub

Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Revit software are big in design and construction, but if maintenance and asset management aren't part of the lifecycle data process, then are we really doing BIM? Or is it simply virtual design and construction? The most important component in the BIM process for maintenance and asset management is the facility model and its connection to an asset management system; it may also be the easiest element in the process to overlook. In this class we'll discuss the evolution of Denver International Airport's efforts to integrate their Revit software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, BIM 360 software, geographic information system (GIS), and Maximo Asset Management programs to create the Holy Grail of BIM—a single source of truth for facility data.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

Connecting the Dots Is for Kids: Advanced Survey Workflows in AutoCAD Civil 3D

Collection and processing of survey data is a crucial foundation to any transportation project. Management and use of this data can be a tedious, segmented, and error-prone process. This is where AutoCAD Civil 3D software comes in. Come and learn about developing your own custom survey workflow and setup in Civil 3D. Learn about the automatic linework functions in Civil 3D, cutting down your post-survey processing time to a fraction of what it was before. Understand the integration of all the background elements, such as the figure prefix databases and description key sets. This class sends you on your way to truly efficient survey workflows. Once your setup is in place you will see monumental changes in your production, standardization of your surveying processes, and flexibility with your survey data like never before.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2018

Civil 3D Pipe Networks Under the Hood

In this class, we will pull back the curtains on the Civil 3D Pipe Network API using C# programming language within Microsoft Visual Studio. Learn how to enhance the design and production capabilities of Civil 3D software's gravity pipe networks. Basic knowledge of Visual Studio, C#, and Civil 3D gravity pipe networks are prerequisites for this class.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

What Do You Get If You Cross 1 Engineering Consultant and 9 Architecture Practices?

The answer? A large development project. Coordinating large projects is always a challenge, much of the challenge coming from the coordination of people and not always from the technical complexity of the design. The basis of this class is the speaker's experience at the sharp end of the process on a �1.1 billion mixed-use development comprising 15,000 residential units; 150,000 square meters of commercial and academic research space; and associate shops and community facilities. As part of this class we will look at the whole workflow, from receiving data, collating data, and building infrastructure models in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, through reviewing and federating models in Navisworks project review software and resolving coordination challenges. The class will step through the processes and workflows, highlighting the critical milestones when processes need to be set. We will then look at ways to improve coordination, and we'll point out the pitfalls that can stop effective coordination.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

Let's Jump to a Higher BIM Level—a French Vision and Experience

Is your firm, office, or department Building Information Modeling (BIM) compliant? Good question! In this class, we will introduce and embrace the concept of BIM levels. Actually, without a structured method for managing projects, it’s difficult to enhance your BIM maturity. You’ll learn how to integrate BIM process within your organization. There will be a presentation of some standards, requirements, and protocols to set in order to reach BIM level 2, according to our vision of French users. To go further, we will outline full collaboration between all disciplines and Open BIM based on our experience. We will illustrate this class with some French case studies. This BIM-maturity analysis will cover the use of the following software systems: Revit software, Navisworks software, and AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This session features Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2017

Riding the Giant—BIM Implementation at the Orlando International Airport Construction Project

By its very nature, construction is an ever-changing dynamic environment; schedules, lead times, contracts, personnel changes, logistics, weather-all of these variables and more are in constant flux during a construction project. This lecture will cover the lessons learned from applying Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology to the Intermodal Terminal Facility Construction Project at the Orlando International Airport, which is a part of a $3.1 billion expansion. We'll review how BIM was used to cut costs and increase productivity in the field, as well as where BIM fell short of expectations and what was learned from those experiences. We'll cover the skill sets, techniques, and, most importantly, the attitudes and mindsets that are needed to "ride the giant" so that BIM will be referred to as the "Bible" and "The Money Maker" by the contractors and peers on the job site. Hope to see you there.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017

Breaking the Code Set Style

Ugly. That's the only way to describe the default AutoCAD Civil 3D corridors. Or, you could say a crazy Technicolor spider drew them. Either way, they don't look like roads. Most AutoCAD Civil 3D users simply switch between the various default Code Set Styles and then turn off the layers they don't want. In this class, we'll learn how to create and apply link, point, and shape styles to a corridor. This will let us shade the pavement, hatch the sidewalk, and show grass in the grading, while at the same time hiding those unsightly projection lines. Additionally, we'll take a look at how the Code Set Styles control the labels applied to corridor cross sections, and even how to use expressions to display only the information we need, while hiding what we don't want (such as the vertical grade of a curb face).

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2019

Tips and Tricks Using Feature Lines in Grading with Civil 3D

This class will cover using feature lines to create a surface in Civil 3D software, including do’s and don’ts. The class will also cover tips on how to use the grading tool to create the feature lines you’ll need for grading. This type of grading is good for site plans and detail grading for walls, headwalls, ponds, ADA ramps, curbs, and ADA paths.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2016

A Tale of 2 Coordinate Systems: Bridging AutoCAD Civil 3D and Revit Together

The lab will provide a hands-on approach of best practices for how to combine civil site designs in AutoCAD Civil 3D software with foundation designs in Revit software to ultimately collaborate with architects. The discussion will give guidelines for where utility modeling for building should transition from Revit MEP software above grade to AutoCAD Civil 3D software below grade, and how to use Navisworks software in this review process. A key concept to review will be the difference between local coordinate systems that building designers work in and the state plane coordinate system that civil engineers typically use. The discussion will consider civil/structure interaction and the new BIM Forum Level of Development (LOD) specification, and how it relates to setting up projects in AutoCAD Civil 3D software and Revit software. This session features Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D. AIA Approved

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Buildings and Infrastructure—Together at Last!—With BIM Collaborate Pro

Are you interested in using BIM Collaborate Pro (formerly BIM 360 Design software) for multidisciplinary projects? This class is for you! Following a quick product overview, we'll dive into a live project for a whirlwind tour. We’ll start in the authoring tools—working with files from Revit software, Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software—and show you how to share those files to the cloud. Next, we'll jump into design collaboration, where each design team will create and share its work packages. We'll then move over to model coordination and review any 3D clashes that have popped up. From there, we’ll visit BIM 360 Docs software and see how all project stakeholders have roles to play in model viewing, sharing, markups, issues, and more. Finally, we'll wrap up our journey in Insight building performance analysis software, where we’ll track the health of our project at a glance. This fast-paced course will help you in your decision about whether to adopt BIM Collaborate Pro within your own firm.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

3D Modeling with the Best: AutoCAD

In this demo, you’ll learn how to create 3D geometry using AutoCAD software’s Solid, Surface, and Mesh tools. You’ll also learn how to create 3D assets for Revit families, Civil 3D and InfraWorks models, Inventor software, and game engines. You’ll edit the 3D objects using multiple editing tools, and export the 3D objects to various software. This class is designed to expand your AutoCAD 3D modeling knowledge.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2014

Getting Started With AutoCAD Civil 3D .NET Programming

Have you ever wanted to program and customize AutoCAD Civil 3D software but couldn't seem to make the jump from Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications Module)? We will walk through a real, live project idea from start to deployment using VBA, Microsoft .NET, and the AutoCAD Civil 3D software .NET API. In the process we will learn about proper referencing, object structure, transactions, and the loading of our built application into AutoCAD Civil 3D software.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2017

Planes, Trains & Automobiles with Vehicle Tracking - How to use Vehicle Tracking

Autodesk Vehicle Tracking is much more than just vehicle swept path analysis. Come join us in this hands-on lab to find out for yourself how Vehicle Tracking in Civil 3D and InfraWorks can improve your project decision making. Vehicle Tracking allows even beginner users to make educated decisions concerning their individual projects. During this lab, we'll explore all the functions of Vehicle Tracking and design the following: starting a project in InfraWorks and then importing it into Vehicle Tracking to design a parking lot ; ensure our project design meets city standards; utilize the Vehicle Tracking information for detailed grading design; create a roundabout within the project; and much, much more. After this hands-on lab, you will have gained new skills that you can take back to the office and show others the many different ways to use Vehicle Tracking software, Civil 3D and InfraWorks. This session features Vehicle Tracking, AutoCAD Civil 3D and InfraWorks

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018

Deliver a Plant Project: Utilize AutoCAD Plant 3D, Civil 3D, and Revit with BIM 360 Team and BIM 360 Glue

In this class, you will learn how to implement a workflow that enables collaboration between multiple geolocation and cross companies. You’ll learn about the workflow that actively engages different stakeholders, including engineers, designers, and modelers. You’ll gain tips and tricks on how to get Revit software, AutoCAD Plant 3D software, and Civil 3D software to work seamlessly in BIM 360 Team and BIM 360 Glue software. This class is designed to help you build a new workflow for collaboration in your organization.

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