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Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020

With next generation technology, much of the model coordination process has been transformed through automation and digital collaboration, democratizing the model coordination experience for VDC managers and trade teams. But a truly coordinated experience isn’t possible without connecting all parts of BIM data from design to plan to build. This session will show you how Autodesk is delivering on this new level of connected model coordination and how integrated workflows will deliver best-in-class coordination capabilities.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Enhanced Efficiency and Quality to Engineer Factories and Process Plants

This class will showcase groundbreaking advancements in the engineering process and project execution achieved through the seamless integration of Autodesk tools. Discover how our innovative approach utilizes Autodesk Inventor and Vault for factories and process plants, empowering users to select and automatically convert Inventor models into Navisworks for seamless integration into Forma (B360) projects. Additionally, we will demonstrate efficient Brownfield project capturing using Autodesk Platform Services (shared Views, B360) and the CINTOO platform, enabling us to create high-quality 3D planning by integrating precise laser scans into our designs. We will also explore the powerful simplifying and streamlining complex steel structure modeling to be used in Inventor.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Revolutionizing 3D Model Workflows with AI: APS Autodesk Assistant and Arcadis OTL Optimizer

Discover how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology is streamlining 3D-model workflows through joint development between Autodesk and Arcadis. This session will introduce the integration of the beta Autodesk Assistant API (in Autodesk Platform Services) with Arcadis’s OTL Optimizer tooling to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of design and construction processes. Learn how AI automates the identification, extraction, and tagging of data within 3D models, reducing manual effort by up to 90%. Explore advanced capabilities, including data and model quality validation, intelligent adjustments, and the generation of cost and Sustainable Design insights directly from your models. Gain valuable insights into how AI-powered Automation, Integration, & Customization is driving productivity, improving decision making, and fostering more-sustainable project outcomes. Join us to see how these innovations are redefining the future of digital workflows in the built environment.

42p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Digital Prototyping Summit | Bridging Industry Tools for Advanced Factory Planning: A Digital Process Engineering Approach

This session will explore how Stellantis is continuously advancing factory planning through a holistic approach that integrates a diverse range of digital tools and methodologies. By merging industry tools—from architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC); product design and manufacturing (PDM); and the entertainment industry—Stellantis is broadening the ways factories are industrialized, from early concept through construction changeover. This session will highlight how democratizing data and promoting cross-functional collaboration—among core manufacturing teams, suppliers, and construction stakeholders—enables more-efficient planning, streamlined construction, and smoother ramp-up to production, all while reducing unforeseen issues. Learn how nontraditional tools for automotive—such as Autodesk Forma, Vehicle Tracking, and Navisworks plug-ins or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integrations—are powering advanced visualization and enabling proactive factory planning.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Empowering Tomorrow's Factories with Seamless Autodesk Integration

By 2027, the Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization market will surpass $400 billion. This isn’t a trend, it’s a transformation. Rising shipping and raw material costs, plus geopolitical instability, are driving manufacturers to reevaluate global strategies. Labor-cost-driven models are giving way to nearshoring and supply chain optimization, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and 5G. Digital factories offer real-time data, autonomous decision making, and unmatched efficiency. Autodesk is uniquely positioned to lead this shift with end-to-end cloud solutions—from factory design to construction, simulation, Digital Prototypings, and asset management. With tools like Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Forma, Autodesk ensures seamless data flow and collaboration across every phase. This talk will explore how Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization is reshaping global manufacturing—and how Autodesk empowers businesses to build smarter, faster, and more resilient factories.

15p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Design to Fabrication: Streamlining MEP Models with Cloud-Based Collaboration and Automation, Integration, & Customization

Turning a design-stage MEP BIM model into a fabrication-ready (LOD 400) model using Fabrication MEP parts is one of the most critical and complex phases in the project lifecycle. Once IFC files and construction drawings are handed off, the responsibility shifts to general contractors and subcontractors to ensure constructability, meet engineering standards, and align with fabrication requirements. This session will demonstrate how Autodesk Forma , AutoCAD or Revit with Fabrication MEP parts, curated MEP database sets, custom scripts and powerful add-ins enhance model refinement. You’ll discover how early modeling decisions reduce waste, improve rerouting, and accelerate field installation. By resolving fabrication needs in the model, teams reduce material use and empower crews with ready-to-build content. Whether you're a GC or MEP subcontractor working toward high-detail prefab, this session offers the tools to bridge design and construction empower by the cloud base tools.

10p

46p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Build Smarter, Not Harder: A Coordination Case Study with Autodesk Forma

In a world of constantly evolving construction software where you have to manage multiple tech stacks on projects, imagine the relief of having a single source of truth for each project? Enter Autodesk Forma. This case study of an IPD health care project aims to showcase how we structured our virtual coordination into a 3-pronged approach. First, we used Autodesk Forma Locations to break a floor plan down into Rooms and TAKT zones. Second, we created Autodesk Forma Assets for each room to track. And, third, we tied .RCP and In-Wall Sheets for those rooms using the Autodesk Forma Sheets module. The value? Getting to look at the whole lifecycle of the room—from when the walls were in DD stage, through various stages of design and trade coordination, prefabrication, installation, and, finally, QC, punch-list, and wall-close. At every phase of the project, the team had all the information they need within one platform: Autodesk Forma. This enabled the end user to view the historical context of coordination in one place. A win for all stakeholders.

35p

74p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Optimizing AEC Workflows with Autodesk Forma and Workato Automation, Integration, & Customizations

This session will explore Autodesk Forma, and Workato’s Autodesk Forma Connect integration, enhancing project efficiency and accuracy through Automation, Integration, & Customization. Using a real-world example from Sener’s metro line extension project in Canada, custom Workato recipes streamline file sharing and deliverable management. Automation, Integration, & Customizations include batch file renaming, transferring files across complex folder structures based on metadata, and integrating SharePoint with Autodesk Forma. These innovations improve collaboration between Sener and its customer, leading to smoother workflows, time and cost savings, and better control over project data. The session will showcase Automation, Integration, & Customizations simplifying project management processes by automatically renaming and organizing files using custom attributes and internal review and bridge workflows. Autodesk Forma Connect (Workato) tools reduce manual effort and minimize errors. Notably, the savings in this project are estimated to exceed 5,000 hours per year.

43p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Noncoders and Nondevelopers: How to Create and Use Autodesk Platform Services to Access Autodesk Forma Data

Have you ever wanted to get into using Autodesk Platform Services to access your Autodesk Forma data programmatically, but didn’t know where to start? Perhaps you thought it would be too difficult. Well, Autodesk Platform Services is not just for developers! This class will show you how to get started and will start at level zero, assuming you have no code or developer experience. If you want to access, use, and automate your project data, or if you’re just looking for smarter ways to pull data from your cloud models, Autodesk Platform Services can help you do it more efficiently. By the end of the session, you’ll not only understand what Autodesk Platform Services can do, but you’ll also be ready to start creating and using it yourself.

21p

New Orleans 2022

Manufacturing Informed Design API On Autodesk Forge

Today, building design decisions are not informed by what can be made. Construction processes are iterative, manual, slow, and reactive, with high risk and uncertainty. Data and tools are disconnected and don’t allow processes to work at scale. In this session, we'll go over our Manufacturing Informed Design project. We’ll examine how it brings together our portfolio to inform the design process as early as possible, and we’ll look at how the Autodesk Forge API we’re developing for this will enable our customers and partners to extend our solution. The Manufacturing Informed Design API will be a simple way for customers to 1) publish product templates from Inventor software into Autodesk Forma or Fusion Team, 2) discover those product templates via the API or Revit, and 3) customize and insert variants from a simple API. We’ll also cover how we’re extending the Autodesk Forge Viewer for simple low- or no-code configuration workflows.