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Panel / San Diego 2024
Drawing from Experience: How CAD Managers Survive the Digital Transformation
New tools like AI are automating tasks and giving us ways to analyze big data in new ways. But what does this mean for the CAD manager? Is the role more important than ever? Or is it outdated and headed for extinction? This award-winning panel is back to share insights on the digital transformation and important lessons learned from decades of experience. Learn from this panel of diverse CAD managers that are widely respected as leaders in their field. Hear their unique perspectives and solutions to challenges facing CAD managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. The panel will discuss how new tools can make you more effective, while sharing where you need to enhance the human element. Hear how they've worked to embrace the future, while not forgetting the past and being productive today. Join us for a panel discussion that has become an anticipated AU tradition. Take this opportunity to learn from four CAD managers who have been there and done that.
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10p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
CIMIC brings your largest ACC AEC models into Unity and Esri ArcGIS
Using open source tools and open formats, CIMIC is federating their largest 3D architectural models, directly from ACC and into the Unity game engine. They show record loading times and record rendering speeds with the largest of federated scenes, while keeping ACC versioning, filtering and coloring, of single elements. This case study compares different pipelines that were explored before choosing the final result. Topics include ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity, IFC, I3S, OBJ, USD, FBX, 3D-Tiles and glTF. Learn how you can integrate ACC 3D models into your own game engine using APS, open source tools and open formats.
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Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Autodesk Construction Cloud Data Exchange and Power BI in Action: Achieve Real-Time Synchronized Updates
As a cost consultant, do you struggle to visualize quantities and models together? As a designer, do you value getting real-time design data? As a project manager, do you need key data on time? Whether you're a model creator, or part of costing or a project management team, this class can offer techniques to reduce your model analysis efforts. In the dynamic realm of architecture, engineering, and construction, seamless integration and automation is the key. This session will take a deep dive into the integration of a live Revit model hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud by using the Data Exchange feature. It will involve visualizing quantities along with the live model within a Power BI interface. Empower teams with real-time synchronization of data, prioritize technical and engineering aspects, and understand quantity and design variations. Project Teams can extend the software's application to analyze aspects such as carbon footprint, cost, and other model-based analytics. Join us to unlock the potential of Data Exchange.
65p
Panel / San Diego 2024
Meet the Leaders Behind Autodesk Data Model: The Foundation of the Autodesk Design and Make Platform
About USD$2 trillion—that's the amount of money the architecture, engineering, and construction industry has lost due to bad data. Bad data is data that's inaccurate, inaccessible, and incomplete. In the industries Autodesk serves, data is a critical lifeline for project decisions and automations. But all too frequently, that data is not easily accessible, or, even worse, the available data is simply bad. Across the globe, the ability to use data in an insightful manner is no longer a "nice to have"—it has become a primary source of competitive advantage. Furthermore, with the acceleration of AI, the need for data is increasing exponentially. Those who use their data to make informed decisions and gain performance insights will ultimately emerge as leaders in their industries. Meet the leaders behind the industry data models to learn more about how Autodesk will help solve top customer problems.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Case Studies in Data Verification and Data Management: Leveraging the AEC Data Model API and Understanding Its Difference from Data Exchange API
The AEC Data Model API enables access to data that is more detailed than anticipated, significantly enhancing possibilities for data verification and data management. In our session, we will present several case studies on data verification using the AEC Data Model APIwith Excel and Power BI, as well as data management using the AEC Data Model API and the Revit API. Additionally, data verification is also possible with the Data Exchange API,and we will briefly explain the differences between the Data Exchange API and the AEC Data Model API.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Data Extraction Made Easy with AEC Data Model APIs: An HDR Use Case
Imagine a world where building data is not only scattered but also hard to access. Imagine the challenge of harnessing this data to fuel AI, streamline quality control, and, ultimately, create smarter, faster, and more-sustainable buildings for the future. Now, picture a company that's not only envisioning this future but actively shaping it. HDR Inc is spearheading such a digital transformation. Recognized as the sixth leading design firm in the United States by Engineering News-Record in 2023, HDR's doing it by harnessing the immense possibilities of the AEC Data Model API to meticulously extract granular design data, feeding it into the HDR data lake. Join HDR team members as they unfold their compelling business case and demonstrate how they've used the Data Model API as a powerful tool to extract design data so that you can draw inspiration to do the same for your own business.
6p
25p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Adapt, Innovate, Thrive: African Manufacturing's Resilience Journey with Autodesk's Digital Disruptors
This session will delve into the transformative journey of African manufacturing, focusing on resilience, innovation, and sustainability. We will explore how Autodesk's digital tools, including BIM workflows with Revit, have empowered African manufacturers to overcome challenges, innovate their processes, and thrive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Additionally, we will highlight the critical role of sustainable practices in ensuring long-term success for manufacturing in Africa.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Digitalization Isn't a Track Meet, It's a Marathon: The METL Digitalization Journey
Advanced nuclear is challenged to design and construct on short timelines, with smaller budgets and fewer workers. Digitalization can help companies overcome these constraints. Unfortunately, a digital twin (DT) is often presented as a monolith. This results in organizations abandoning DTs as having benefits that are minimal or unrealized in time. Many perceive DTs as too large an undertaking to even begin. However, digitalization isn't a track meet; it's a marathon of incremental milestones. And, like all races, it has a starting line. This session will summarize a journey that Argonne National Laboratory and Implexus Lab made to digitize the Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop (METL), a test facility for advancing sodium fast reactors. Components were designed with Inventor software and assembled in Navisworks software, and AutoCAD software generated construction documents. Integrating with Revit provided a DT foundation. Ultimately, the suite of Autodesk tools enabled the creation of a DT boasting live data visualization within a virtual reality (VR) environment.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

SSEN must expand its transmission infrastructure to meet growth in offshore wind generation by 2030, with an expected project spend of £1 Billion/year. To meet the challenges, a few key individuals, empowered by their leadership team, embraced Autodesk design & collaboration tools to develop new digital ways of working on in-flight pilot projects. With a mantra of "fail fast and fix," the teams delivered quick wins during live projects focusing on efficiency and re-use of data. The result was scalable project solutions for project delivery across the organisation worth in excess of £4 billion. The case study will discuss how a practical people-focused approach took SSEN on a journey from 3D modelling on pilot schemes to delivering multi-billion pounds of infrastructure project work using a detailed set of BIM protocols and a well developed in-house design team. They will share lessons, successes, and tips for quick wins all while delivering the day job.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Innovating with Digital Twins: Strategy and Application in BAM's Construction Projects

In this class, we'll explore the importance of a digital-twin strategy, discuss strategic takeaways, and demonstrate how we used Autodesk Tandem software to realize a digital twin for risk reduction during a construction project. Digital twin technology is a vital solution for BAM and its clients, helping to address societal challenges and accelerate the execution with digital solutions. Recognizing the diversity of our projects, we've developed a digital-twin strategy to unify our vision and approach. This strategy, along with proof of concepts with Tandem, offers a clear understanding of the digital twin for BAM, and details its benefits for BAM and its employees, partners, and clients. This has helped BAM to further enhance its organizational readiness for digital-twin deployment, enhanced understanding of digital-twin technology, and increased market competitiveness. Join us to discover how to strategically incorporate and test digital twins into your operations for a future-ready approach.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Five Advanced Mechanical Analysis Techniques in Revit for Sustainable Space Design
Mechanical modeling in Revit software entails creating graphical information in 2D and 3D. However, the efficacy of mechanical systems lies in comprehensively analyzing the nongraphical information within the model. This session will showcase how to analyze every duct and pipe segment in mechanical systems to meet design constraints. We will demonstrate how to ensure that every part of a mechanical system is logically and physically connected for optimal performance. We'll illustrate system flow and engineering inspections within mechanical intelligent models in Revit. And we'll showcase how to size mechanical equipment to overcome every system pressure standing in the way of best performance. The session will also demonstrate the extraction of information from intelligent models for optimal performance and design improvements.
25p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Design, Technology, and Craft: How Olson Kundig Integrates Technology Within a Design-First Practice

This presentation will explore Olson Kundig's approach to technology from the perspective of design-first thinking, as well as how we use technology to shape our methodology, practice, workflows, and tools across a wide range of projects. We'll look at how the office has used its culture of innovation and curiosity to experiment and explore new technology, as well as ways Olson Kundig implements these new tools through structured play and applied research.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Cast a spell! From vision to Autosolve daily Revit tasks with our self developed C# Plugin
It all began with a simple Dynamo script displaying a popup window to users with some useful information about the document. As the script development advanced, we transitioned to a Revit macro. The tool grew and even more features were added to assist users in managing their model's quality. Eventually, our team reached a point where the macro wasn't practical enough. That's when we created an installable C# add-in, turning the former model health check into a comprehensive wizard with an Autosolve function. Now, many common errors are automatically resolved when Revit starts or syncs, leaving only more complex issues for users to review. Dedicated windows within the tool have been designed to help users evaluate logical errors, such as area analysis. The wizards toolkit is complemented by a robust automatic classification function. This course guides you through our development journey, unveiling the wizard button's magical potential and the insights gained along the way.
14p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Get Started with Revit API Using Python
The goal of this presentation is to help Revit users who are looking to use code to improve their workflows. Revit API might sound impossible to learn, but it's not that complicated if you follow the right road map. The speaker has created hundreds of Revit add-ins, made about 100 video tutorials on Revit API, and taught hundreds if not thousands of people how to do the same. And this presentation will show you where you should start and which basics you should focus on. This will be a great brief introduction to Revit API basics, and will demonstrate how to apply it to create a custom Revit add-in.
342p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Quality Control from Design Through Installation
Keeping your projects on schedule, addressing issues promptly, and staying within budget is a significant challenge. This session will explore our strategies and tools for effectively achieving these project goals—from the design phase to field installation.
47p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Futures Briefing: Autodesk Informed Design
Join Ryan McMahon, general manager of Autodesk Informed Design to gain insights on how this platform tool enables Industrialized Construction. Roadmap and feature highlights as well as industry imact will be covered in this talk.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
From Vision to Reality, The Hands OFF Configure to Order Experience
Imagine that you're manufacturing or construction company is operated through a completely automated, hands-off, Configure to Order digital end-to-end process. This empowers your employees to focus on their strengths, add value to specific projects where it is most needed, leading to a significant reduction in workload and time to market. Your most challenging projects and technical obstacles will see faster progress thanks to the time saved and the concentrated efforts of your skilled team. By standardizing processes, the service and spare-part business will experience an exponential growth. This session shows a fully automated end-to-end process build on solutions like CPQ, Inventor Design Automation, Vault, ERP and a Spare-Part Portal. A cloud-based Low-Code integration platform, with standardized application connectors, orchestrates the digital processes seamlessly. This will enable companies to eliminate application customization and regaining ownership on their business processes.
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69p
Panel / San Diego 2024
Empowering Progress: How Client and Contractor Digitally Evolve with Autodesk Platform Services to Connect People and Business
This session will involve Mercury Construction—European leader in construction, delivering projects for the world's leading corporations—and SSEN Transmission, owner and operator of the electricity transmission network in Northern Scotland. Working on either side of the client/contractor fence, Mercury will discuss its respective digital journey and how it embraced the power of Autodesk Cloud Services to deliver excellence and galvanize collective expertise across its teams. Working in different industries, with different targets, you'll learn how these two organizations developed similar tools and practices to overcome challenges. They will debate the strategies used to achieve success and what may work for one, but not the other. The panel will show the importance of engaging with people outside traditional digital and engineering roles to maximize the impact of digital transformation and ensure everyone is represented, showing that organizations from different industries, with a different outlook, find solutions for similar challenges.
10p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Parametric Design in a Highway Expansion and Reconstruction Project
In the design process of highway projects, applying building information modeling (BIM) technology, using parametric design methods, and delivering complete project models is a challenging task. During the design process, issues such as efficient design workflow, data exchange, model segmentation, WBS info, and digital delivery need to be addressed. With parametric design tools like Dynamo software, engineers can automatically create models and complete property assignments based on project requirements, significantly reducing repetitive work and allowing them to focus more on the design itself. This case study will show you the complete parametric design workflow and data exchange for this highway expansion project, with a focus on parametric modeling using Dynamo and Python. Through parametric modeling via programming, stakeholders can achieve efficiency gains of two to three times compared to manual modeling methods for roadbeds, pavements, bridges, and tunnels.
6p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
One-Stop Shop in the Cloud: Integrate Our Mobile App with Autodesk Tandem to Monitor and Manage Your Assets and Make Data-Driven Decisions
Our team created a digital twin of retail store located in the shopping mall complex using Autodesk Tandem software–reducing missed inspection time by 90% By combining laser scanning, intelligent modeling, and asset element and IoT sensor data in Tandem extended through our mobile app, we empower plant management to monitor assets and make more-informed business decisions. Dawood integrated our native mobile application—built with Flutter, Supabase, and BuildShip—to record equipment inspections. Elements are tagged with QR codes, enabling rapid information access. This allows for data exchange between the mobile app and digital twin using the Tandem API—making it the single source of truth. This allows on-site engineers to access information on the go to complete daily inspections and send inspection data to the digital twin so that management can assess and respond to events in real time. Automated reminders reduce incidents.
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