Embark on an insightful journey into the do's and don'ts of publishing on Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), covering the entire process from Docs to Design Collaboration to Model Coordination. From creating and managing project documentation to collaborating with design teams and coordinating models effectively, we'll cover it all. You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the ACC publishing workflow, including the importance of Publish Sets in organizing and managing your project data. Whether you're a seasoned ACC user or new to the platform, this session is designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to optimize your publishing efforts on ACC. By the end of the session, you'll have a clear roadmap for success in ACC publishing, equipped with actionable strategies to streamline your workflow, enhance collaboration, and ensure the integrity of your project data. Don't miss this opportunity to master ACC publishing and elevate your design projects.

In this case study, we'll follow up on a previous session where we explored the transformative impact that a powerful content management system had on design processes. Our organization has achieved substantial benefits by adopting a cloud-based digital asset management solution: Autodesk Content Catalog—notably, saving thousands of dollars and countless work hours by consolidating our building information modeling (BIM) content into a single centralized repository. During this session, we'll showcase examples of how our chosen platform significantly enhances efficiency and productivity. From content sourcing and approval to seamless distribution for end users, we'll demonstrate the profound impact. Our secret lies in the seamless connection of teams, data, and workflows throughout the entire project lifecycle. Regardless of geographical boundaries, this approach empowers greater creative freedom and design flexibility. The future of design lies in collaboration, and our journey with Autodesk Content Catalog exemplifies this vision.

DLR Group anticipates that more than 80% of its workforce will need upskilling in the next two years. Sound familiar? During this session, DLR Group will present its approach to learning and development, featuring a comprehensive skills matrix that aligns skill levels—both technical and other critical ones—with specific tasks and functions performed. DLR Group will illustrate its journey that began four years ago with new-hire skill assessments and evolved into a program that ensures all employees, regardless of their roles or departments, possess essential skills and customized career paths. Learn how DLR Group used Power BI, along with learning management tools such as Pinnacle Series and KnowledgeSmart by Eagle Point Software, to build a program that supports its key focus areas and future business needs. Leave with ways you can help your firm facilitate mentorship opportunities, identify potential software cost savings, improve talent recruitment, and impact overall employee satisfaction.

Some consider AutoLISP, like Latin, to be a "dead" language. Nothing could be further from the truth! AutoLISP is an API built into AutoCAD software that's highly accessible, easy to write, and easy to debug. It provides comprehensive access to the underlying AutoCAD engine, allowing you to create new commands that can automate many tasks and change the way you interact with the program on a daily basis. We will demonstrate how to write a series of small, useful programming examples that provide examples of solid coding techniques—combined with unique, purpose-driven functionality for production drafting and design—which you can build upon after the session into larger and more complex routines. Even with little programming experience, participants will gain a wealth of knowledge about how to use the AutoLISP API to automate daily tasks, and how to use AutoCAD and its associated applications to increase productivity.

In this class we are going to look at how we can create and model geological data with the Geotechnical Module in AutoCAD Civil 3D software. The class will cover how to import and generate boring holes and surfaces in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and then we'll go on to cover the essential techniques in modeling the subsurface data. The class will see how to use Feature Lines and Break Lines to mold and manipulate AutoCAD Civil 3D software surfaces to model geotechnical features. We will then learn how to convert the AutoCAD Civil 3D surfaces into AutoCAD software 3D solids ready for use in other software systems like Revit software and InfraWorks software. This class is designed to assist you in your understanding of the techniques used to model and visualize substrata in order to better understand and present information.

Ever wish you could visualize real-world data without leaving the comfort of your own office? Sound too wonderful to be true? Well, it isn't. Sending crews into the field to measure and collect information about assets is time consuming and costly. But when you have street-level spherical imagery and colorized LIDAR (light detection and ranging) data at hand, you have the freedom to quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively create photorealistic 3D models for planning, design, emergency and disaster management, regulatory compliance, and asset management. We'll explore the collection process and business implications for street-level reality capture and examine 2 alternatives, such as Google Street View and CycloMedia. We'll also discuss practical workflows for municipal governments using this data, including design and visualization, with a focus on water asset management and pavement surface markings. Finally, we'll describe how to effectively integrate these data sources with AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software.

If you have any queries regarding the functionality and operation of Vault software, or if you would like to learn more about a specific feature, this session will offer an excellent opportunity to engage with the Vault team. The team comprises both the Engineering team and Product Management, and they will provide candid and insightful responses to any inquiries you may have about Vault.

In this class, a panel of Autodesk experts will share productivity tips and tricks, and answer audience questions about real-time challenges. Attend this class for expert AutoCAD advice. The class will start with a brief presentation to introduce the support organization, the speakers, and the current customer support options. This is a real-time question-and-answer session, so please come prepared with questions about AutoCAD software. If you'd like to submit a question beforehand, please email it to volker.cocco@Autodesk.com so that it can be researched and answered during the session. A computer will be in the class running AutoCAD 2024 software for any attendees who need to demonstrate their issues. Panel experts will include members of the Technical Support, Quality Assurance, and Licensing teams.

*This is not a sales session* In addition to any general IT questions, we will be sharing how we deploy Autodesk software, manage our desktops, and share best practices for security postures within MS 365. If time permits, we'll give some tips and tricks on how to maximize your Microsoft investment. We're also happy to answer any questions at our booth!

Our industry is changing, and the way we collaborate and deliver must change with it. This change is having disruptive effects on how infrastructure is planned, engineered, and constructed. Digital twins (or virtual representations of the real world, including physical objects, processes, relationships, and behaviors) are promising to be a solution to creating deliverables that provide centralized, purpose-built access to stakeholders along the design and construction supply chain. We are at a time when the distance between building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) is shrinking, and emerging workflows require sharing new system engagement views with more collaborators, including asset owners. Although some customers are seeing the benefit of a digital twin, others wonder how best to modernize their approach to reduce risk, increase transparency in infrastructure asset delivery, and bridge information gaps between project and operator participants.

Schueco—the German aluminum facade industry giant—is an Autodesk technology and product specific reseller. In this session, Schueco will show—along with customer examples—how the firm is using Autodesk technology in tandem with its own developments to give its franchise-like partners know how and access to Schueco technology. From AutoCAD to Inventor to Autodesk Construction Cloud, from desktop to the cloud: design, make, and collaboration.

Are your clients demanding you move from AutoCAD to Revit, but you have no idea where to start? Join our class and learn the essential steps from the award-winning Rockwell Group, which recently started the transition from a Rhino-to-AutoCAD workflow to a Rhino-to-Revit workflow. Get an overview of what it takes to move from CAD to building information modeling (BIM), identify the strengths of your team, and learn what to look for when hiring a BIM manager. We'll also cover the critical building blocks for the conversion, highlighting the Revit template and its key ingredients—families, view templates, view types, and more. Finally, discover the plug-ins that can help boost your productivity, such as Ideate and pyRevit. By the end of the course, you'll be well-equipped to make a successful transition to a Revit workflow.

This session will explore how, compared to concrete and steel, engineered timber can be one of the best construction materials, given its low carbon footprint.

Autodesk Fusion 360 software is a fantastic and affordable tool to add to our dusty workshops! In this talk, we'll do a deep dive into many examples of people productively applying Fusion 360 to common and uncommon production problems in furniture and millwork, with lots of tips and tricks for all levels of Fusion 360 users. Whether coming from AutoCAD, an AutoCAD plug-in, or Inventor, you'll discover the advantages and limitations of using Fusion 360 for production woodworking. We'll also get into the fantastic CAM and manufacturing toolsets that are built right into Fusion 360 that will greatly accelerate your production, whether you're CNC-empowered or not!

Come and have some fun in a class that will focus on deciding which is your favorite AutoCAD command. Using the World Cup format, we'll determine group winners to qualify for knockout stages through interactive voting. Let's discover some hidden and unknown command gems. Is OVERKILL your favorite? Or maybe MOCORO? It's time to decide once and for all. If you want to attend something a bit different and interactive, this is the class for you.

As a mechanical engineering student in Finland and a CNC machine operator in the metal industry, Muluken Admassu has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities in design, product development, and manufacturing. With his work and studies, he puts sustainability at the forefront. In this session, Admassu will share his journey from Africa to Finland and beginning his engineering work before ever seeing technology advancements. Admassu will also discuss the incorporation of sustainability considerations in his projects and unlocking new technology to go beyond the unexpected.

Shaun Bryant (CADJedi), a LinkedIn Learning [in]structor, comes from a military family. His father served in the Royal Navy and taught him to keep all things shipshape! This includes his AutoCAD drawings. A crucial part of your daily drafting is managing your drawings to known standards, and ensuring that your blocks are on the correct layer, your text has the correct style or size, and your dimensions are using the appropriate dimension style. You must often face numerous (and sometimes onerous) issues with standards in your AutoCAD ?les, but taking the time to ?x these issues can be a massive timesaver in the long run. In this class, Shaun will take you through several AutoCAD techniques that speed up these processes and allow you to make your drawings open quicker with reduced ?le sizes and reduced risk of crashing—making you a much happier AutoCAD user!

Web 3.0 is here, and industries and organizations need to be prepared to upgrade their existing content to 3D at scale. Many brands have already invested in 3D design to improve manufacturing, but haven't yet scratched the surface on the potential scalability with game engines to create interactive training, run simulations for better planning, or create more dynamic sales materials. How should organizations be thinking about their 3D strategies? Join Ashley Crowder, a pioneer in 3D and spatial computing technology, who will demo how 3D assets can be interoperable and used across the metaverse, e-commerce, product lifecycle management (PLM), and more to improve employee training, increase speed to market, and boost sales. She will present case studies—including Kohler, Merrell, and Michael Kors—that provide real-life examples on best practices for 3D designs from AutoCAD, Maya, and 3ds Max software to Unreal Engine, Unity, and web viewers. From design to e-commerce to B2B sales, learn how build a winning 3D strategy.

Civil 3D software has dominated infrastructure and renewable energy sectors for many years. Industry has both adopted the native functionality but also expanded it with custom applications over the years, which has created cross-interoperability challenges. Currently moving toward digital-twin efficient data flows beyond design and constructions phases is becoming increasingly important. In this class, we will showcase how—with the help of Autodesk Data Exchange—we can break the silos and enable the transition toward digital twins.

Our industry's current reliance on interoperability workflow hacks—such as app-specific import/export plug-ins, file formats with varying support across tools, and limited point-to-point translators—results in inconsistent data-sharing experiences that suck up time and require rework. Autodesk's Data Exchange app moves your disconnected workflows toward more-seamless cloud interoperability between the design tools you use every day, whether they be CAD tools or building information modeling (BIM) and 3D modeling apps (like AutoCAD software, Revit software, Tekla, Rhino, and Inventor software). In this class, you'll learn how you can use Data Exchange to curate, securely share, view, and manage design data across these apps and multiple stakeholders—with specific focus on AutoCAD and Revit interoperability. We'll explore how Data Exchange can simplify BIM/3D model-to-drawing sharing and generation, can move data more selectively and effectively from 2D to 3D, and can open the door to more-streamlined model audits and quantity takeoff (QTO).