Join us for an introduction to Autodesk Generative Design technology. In this class, we will cover the vision for Generative Design, provide technology demonstrations, and walk through customer problems that highlight the value of employing generative-design techniques in real-world applications.

The assessment of Generative Design in Fusion 360 software is based on the capability assessment model related to the key capability areas of generative design for general applicability and their associated criteria outlined in the intrinSIM Market Report entitled “A Vision for Generative Design,” which explores the potential of a shift enabled by generative design and what is required to enable that design shift. intrinSIM has developed a process with a quantified assessment for each key capability area in the capability assessment model and criteria outlined in “A Vision for Generative Design.” The same capability assessment model can be used for determining requirements for specific generative design applications, and the suitability of generative design workflows for specific applications.

This hands-on lab will allow users to get some hands-on time with generative design. We will cover how to define a generative design study from scratch, apply loads, constraints, and manufacturing methods. Once completed, we will explore the results and export an outcome and then use the innovate tools with Fusion 360 to adjust the design to suit the manufacturing method we would like to use. We will cover 2 example through the workshop, one focused around manufacturing products and the other around building products.

Project Refinery graduated in April to become Generative Design in Revit 2021 software. This new suite of tools enables generative design workflows that automate the creation and analysis of design options directly in the Revit context. This briefing will showcase the value that generative design brings to the design process, and show how analyzing more data-backed design options leads to an enhanced design process. We will cover a brief history of Project Refinery (now Generative Design in Revit) and show how customers are using the tools. We will cover the product principles that we use to prioritize new work and future direction. Finally, we will address the future of the product, where we will be investing, and our road map for achieving the future vision.

Generative Design is changing how designers and engineers bring new products to market. By leading with objectives and functional requirements, Generative Design allows users to rapidly generate and explore 100’s or 1000’s of higher performing design options that would have been previously unexplored. What’s new to many – is that the value of Generative Design is not exclusive to the aerospace industry and additive manufacturing. Generative Design now has the ability to explore options for traditional manufacturing techniques as well like CNC, and provide inspiration for casting. TB Wood’s is a recognized industry leader for highly-engineered industrial machinery applications. TB Wood’s has been producing commercial castings for over 160 years, while being a global leader in the design and manufacture of couplings and belted drive solutions. Join Autodesk & TB Wood’s for an overview on how to connect the benefits of Generative Design with the industrial machinery industry.

Generative design is the process of setting design parameters and then using computational analysis to come up with multiple solutions. It has been widely used in the manufacturing industry; it is also gaining more attention in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in space design, sustainability studies, and urban planning. However, the construction industry has not fully invested in the power of generative design. With more contractors using BIM (Building Information Modeling) to deliver projects, more data is available and can be used to generate and manipulate outcomes. This class will focus on applications of generative design that optimize construction processes. We will present a background on generative design as well as case studies. The class will also show how to get started with generative design for construction using current technologies, including Dynamo. The digitization of today’s projects, along with the power of computation, creates the potential to facilitate construction processes and build better buildings.

Generative design is changing the way we design, engineer, and manufacture the products of tomorrow. By capitalizing on cloud technology, hundreds or thousands of higher-performing design options can be generated based on objectives, enabling users to make trade-offs for different materials, performance, and production options. The benefits of generative design are also not restricted to the world of additive manufacturing, but can also be capitalized on with subtractive manufacturing—and even as design inspiration for traditional techniques. This presentation will show the benefits and workflow of Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360 software alongside Inventor software going seamlessly from your CAD workflows within Inventor, to generating a design in Autodesk Fusion 360, back to having the generated design in the context of your original assembly with Inventor. Join us to learn how to get started with Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360 alongside Inventor.

During Autodesk University 2019, we saw many applications of Autodesk’s generative design features. Most of them shared one common feature: the final model was heavily modified from the generated shape. Adapting the generative design outcome for production and meeting usage requirements—sometimes sophisticated—is the most time-consuming and problematic task. Although this topic raises doubts and ambiguities, it seems to be largely overlooked and insufficiently explained. It's like a bottleneck in a smooth generative-design workflow—like a gap between an excellent generative solver and many established manufacturing methods. We want to bridge this gap and comprehensively address this issue for anyone working with or interested in generative design. By better understanding the solver, knowing the restrictions in manufacturing, and discovering right techniques, you can not only post process an outcome faster, but even generate it smarter to have a production-ready model that meets all expectations!

This session is all about what's new and what's coming for Autodesk Generative Design technology. Join us to learn about the most recent developments, how you can try the technology, and what will be coming in the near future for generative design and automated manufacturing.

Join the Autodesk Generative Design team to discuss the future of Generative Design. In this class, participants will interact with AGD leaders to shape the future of Generative Design. Participants will be presented with high level thinking about Autodesk's vision of Generative Design and interact with the AGD team to help shape the future of the technology and workflows. Participants will be guided through strategic thinking exercises, problem identification, and workflow definitions for the future of design.

As more people return to the workplace, design decisions take on new significance. From the safe arrangement of desks, the width and spacing of aisles, to the density of seating – better data informs better decision making. Dynamo and Generative Design in Autodesk® Revit® bring the art and science of informed decision making to design exploration. In this class, we will walk through the creation of four different approaches to workspace layout using various Generative Design studies in Revit, including everything from “out of the box” sample studies to “built from scratch” Dynamo scripts that have been exported for use in generative design. This class will show you how to customize Generative Design workflows in Dynamo for Revit.

Generative Design technology in Autodesk Fusion 360 software is becoming a household name for those who want to achieve better engineering outcomes in less time. In this session, you'll get a look at how Generative Design technology in Fusion 360 has matured in 2023, and we'll take a deep dive into how these improvements will help enable your success in the future. In addition to our technology discussion, we will also review examples where Generative Design technology has played a role in helping customers achieve new levels of success.

Engineers and designers face an internal struggle when choosing between traditional design methods engrained through years of practice and new Generative Design workflows. Simply applying traditional design methods to Generative Design tools often leads to insufficient results which can be used for inspiration, but are not ready for manufacture. This hands-on lab will bridge the gap between traditional and Generative Design workflows, empowering users to complete the design process by leveraging Generative Design in powerful ways. Attendees will leverage Autodesk Generative Design alongside Meshmixer, Netfabb, Fusion 360, and Nastran to create a finished product, while exploring workflows which greatly improve productivity.

Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360 software continues to grow and expand to help you achieve better engineering outcomes. In this session, you’ll get a look at how Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360 has matured in 2022 and how our improvements will help enable your success. You’ll hear about the journey of one of our customers with Generative Design, all the way through manufacturing and physical validation. We'll also look at how we’ll be expanding the types of engineering outcomes that can be explored with Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360.

Much of the early work around generative design at Autodesk was focused on manufactured products. Increasingly, though, it is being applied to design problems in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). Autodesk Research—mainly through its New York-based architectural studio, The Living—is exploring how one can use generative design to solve a variety of problems in the AEC space. Recent examples include Project Discover, where survey data from Autodesk's Toronto-based employees was used to help choose the layout for our new office in the MaRS Discovery District. Generative design was also used in the design of the Autodesk University 2017 exhibit hall. During this session we'll take a look at the tools available from Autodesk to apply generative design in the AEC industry. And we'll show how to get started with generative design by driving Dynamo with Refinery, Autodesk's new optimization engine.

Autodesk Generative Design gives users the ability to analytically engineer component models that adhere to multiple design and manufacturing constraints, which are optimized for Additive Manufacturing Processes. To use this tool to its fullest potential, a sound understanding of how it fits into the overall workflow of initial design thru manufacturing. This class will give users the opportunity to explore these workflows, and in doing so gain a good understanding of a successful generative design process..

Generative design is changing the way we design, engineer, and manufacture the products of tomorrow. By capitalizing on cloud technology, hundreds or thousands of higher-performing design options can be generated based on objectives, enabling users to make tradeoffs for different materials, performance, and production options. The benefits of generative design are also not restricted to just the world of additive manufacturing, but can also be capitalized on with subtractive manufacturing, and even as design inspiration for traditional techniques. What you might not be aware of is that generative design technology is now available to any user of the manufacturing collections from Autodesk. This lets you go seamlessly from your CAD workflows within Inventor software, to generating a design in Fusion 360 software, back to having the generated design in the context of your original assembly with Inventor. Join us to learn how to get started with Generative Design in Fusion 360 alongside Inventor.

Generative design is often seen as a new design methodology. However, the key principles of the process mirror the fundamentals of design. In this class, we'll present a case study of how generative design is being used at University College London (UCL) to reinforce the core design curriculum through industrially relevant technology. During this class, you'll gain an understanding of the generative design process, see how you can apply it in an educational setting, and evaluate its use through a real-world example. We'll explore how we can use generative design for multiobjective optimization, and how this can be turned into a hands-on graded assignment that forces students to consider real-world requirements. This will include evaluations of student submissions and analysis of how effective this assignment was at teaching the principles of design, as well as course materials for you to take away and use while running similar teaching exercises.

Generative design has massively changed the role that architects and engineers play in the process of creating buildings and products. For hundreds of years, our role was to aim for the most optimal result through creating numerous iterations and rapid prototyping. Not only did this process require significant resources, time, budget, worker power, and so on, but it also almost always resulted in the "better" version—but not the "most optimal" one. Through generative design, our role has shifted from creating design iterations to creating algorithms that then are used by the machine—which has significantly more computing power—to generate design iterations, and, later, provide options from which we can choose optimal results. In this lecture, we will talk about the foundations of generative design, the latest tools and technologies, our role in this new ecosystem, and how to define a company culture that supports this new environment.

From those claiming that the tool will replace our jobs to those who speak of its impending demise, generative design has had a rocky start ... but what if we looked at generative design from a different angle? What if we took a co-authoring approach to generative design? We’ll look at a few case studies utilizing Generative Design for Revit with Dynamo—but where the session will get very exciting is when we demonstrate how you can use Generative Design for Revit as a co-authoring tool directly within the Revit project environment. This is where we believe the most value lies—where the tool becomes an extension of the designer, and where co-authorship gives you powers not known to be so intuitive. Join us as we enter this next chapter of building information modeling (BIM)—co-authorship through generative design.