Architectural plans created with Revit software present a unique set of challenges when importing data into real-time interactive experiences using Unity or other game engines, whether targeting desktop, mobile, web, or XR—augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), or mixed reality (MR). This course will discuss different methods used to export 3D models and BIM (Building Information Modeling) data out of Revit and prepare it with 3ds Max software for importation into a Unity game running on the Magic Leap. We’ll survey various tools and techniques used to optimize and prepare the models for efficient experiences on low-power AR or VR devices, while maintaining access to the BIM data right through to the final Unity game experience. You’ll also learn how you can use the Forge Design Automation API to automate this process with very little programming.

The Forge Design Automation API is a cloud-based service that enables the automation capabilities of AutoCAD software, Inventor software, Revit software, and 3ds Max software. This presentation will explain and demonstrate two new features that increase the service’s capabilities. First, the preview feature of Open Network Access breaks down a longstanding barrier wherein the Design Automation API disallows network access during the running of a job. Letting customers add in access networks through HTTP(S) calls will solve some problems of workflows currently running in the Design Automation API, and will help extend the scope of work processes that the Design Automation API can support. WebSocket endpoints is another new offering that points back to client devices (desktop, mobile, or laptop), sending progress and completion responses so the applications don't need to make repeated Get requests—plus no callback for onComplete argument is needed to find the status of a job. We will also introduce and demo other small but peppy features that the Design Automation API has supported since last year.

From designing retrofits in AutoCAD to automating Revit workflows using Dynamo, and now exploring the many uses of Forge, Build Change has been using Autodesk products for 17 years to revolutionize the design of resilient infrastructure, particularly in the housing sector, and successfully reach national scale in many countries. By leveraging the latest Autodesk tools, Build Change is making home retrofits safe and possible in the COVID-19 era. In this session, we will explore Build Change’s 17-year history of using Autodesk products to impact 600,000 lives across 24 countries, providing an integrated solution for improving the resiliency of homes and communities and preventing loss of life in natural disasters. This session will feature a case study of the work Build Change is doing in Colombia, one of our largest country programs, and the Autodesk technology being used to scale housing retrofits there.

Today’s plant operations and maintenance processes require a highly experienced workforce to gather information from multiple sources while collaborating seamlessly across all stakeholders. Discover how the global operating company ANDRITZ has equipped their teams with an Information Hub which centralizes multiple data sources into an up-to-date Digital Twin of their plants. The class will highlight how 3D model data, 2D schematic diagrams, Equipment information, Documents, Maintenance tasks and even real time sensor information gets interactive linked together and provided to the stakeholders as an easy to use web application. Together with best practices how to build a sophisticated solution based on Autodesk Forge we will also share practical benefits the teams now experience by taking faster and better-informed decisions. The session will conclude with the various positive business outcomes companies can achieve by providing such a hybrid environment to their stakeholders.

Learn more about how Saipem has been working to create integrations that support Advanced Work Packaging implementations at any scale, realizing the “new possible”. Advanced Work Packaging methodology supports the work on an EPC project, from initial planning throughout detail design to construction execution; such methodology encompasses the overall process flow of all the detailed work packages (construction, engineering and installation). Saipem will give practical examples of their AWP implementation and how they have used Autodesk Forge development platform to solve their challenges. This session will show how a data-centric solution can integrate data coming from a variety of legacy systems, presenting opportunities never experienced before to the users. With this new solution they have access to a large variety of data from a single source of truth and the ability to access information from different point of views.

HAKI produces and delivers modular scaffolding systems and tailored temporary access solutions to clients and contractors worldwide. The customers achieve ultimate efficiency and safety when assembling and working at height during temporary works, in a variety of challenging industry sectors. The challenge for HAKI was how to go from a product-based business to a more service-based solution business. How to create more value for customers and be ahead of the competition? HAKI decided to invest in digitalization and to offer the customers more value by increasing their digital service offerings. The result is the "HAKI Design Tool" which consists of HAKI Configurator and HAKI BIM. The response from the market has been tremendously good.

Immersive technology in construction has largely been defined as the use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality or Mixed Reality tools to visualize proposed designs, identify and improve space planning, or to communicate design intent to a greater community. Unfortunately, disproven workflows during the construction phase on unproven hardware represent too great of a risk for construction firms to invest in either. As a result, most firms have been left with a fragmented, disconnected ecosystem where the vast majority of value added use cases have yet to be discovered. It’s frustrating. We hear you.   It makes sense that a potential solution would be collaborative, centered on the AEC industry, and focused on quantified value. Ideally, it would be cloud-based, have data at the center, and leverage Autodesk’s Forge APIs together with partner solutions to finally achieve VR scalability for AEC customers. Please join us and experience connected problem solving in a new and exciting way.

Autodesk, Inc., has developed a new platform to power the Future of Making Things. Autodesk is providing an unprecedented ability to capitalize on their years of “design and make” expertise though the computing revolution that is the cloud. In this lecture, I’ll demonstrate how you can capitalize on this revolution using your existing .NET skills. This session features Forge. AIA Approved

 Making and Learning coupled with academia’s culture of research and development has traditionally been the cornerstone of higher education especially at the graduate level. This tradition is however changing and the culture of innovation is beginning to spread across other levels of education ranging from secondary up through postsecondary. Students and educators empowered with cheaper and easily available digital technologies are inventing new computing solutions for various applications. Autodesk’s recently introduced Forge platform helps students and educators nurture innovative ideas and transform them into real and viable solutions. Forge offers academic entrepreneurs a network of experts, a rich community of practice, software development platform and resources to catalyze innovation.   Join this panel presentation and learn how educators and students have already benefitted from Forge’s features to enable the Future of Making.

We invite customers who have a need to simulate thermal management of electronics to attend this roundtable. We plan on discussing and discovering common electrical computer-aided design (ECAD) and mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) workflows, going from ideation, conceptual layout, and final design. Thermal management fits in this design process throughout and we will present some mockups on how we see the next generation of simulation fitting into the design process. We hope to gain insight from the roundtable regarding how participants currently manage the ECAD data and use it along with MCAD data to perform thermal simulation, where their struggles are, and what could be done to make everything easier. This session features CFD, Forge, and Fusion 360.

Beta customers for the new Inventor Design Automation API will demonstrate their Forge applications and share their experiences. Each customer will describe how they've been able to automate Inventor API and iLogic workflows in Forge.

In this workshop, we will review the path and journey from Microsoft .NET to the Forge platform, and the tools and techniques that were used in the development of ProjectReady, our product that integrates SharePoint with BIM 360 software. At the conclusion of this, attendees will learn the integration between C# programming language and Forge, the similarities and differences, and they’ll learn about the SharePoint API. Attendees should have a technical background and a basic knowledge of C#.

How should you manage your BIM 360 projects? Do you need to overview multiple projects—or 100 intelligent models in the same project? Or information spread in millions of objects? As a leading BIM construction company, VINCI Construction France is always looking to improve project management processes. In this class, we will present how a cloud-tools-based solution may arise to limit tasks that are time-consuming or have no brain value. This session will show the VINCI Construction France dashboard that was developed with the help of the BIM 360 API and the Forge platform to enable the models’ quality overview using data from the different bricks of BIM 360 software. This dashboard enables the firm to surface some insights from each BIM 360 component of a BIM project, and dive into that data to deliver better BIM quality through the firm’s BIM checking tools and methods. This class will present a custom Forge API development inspired by Sam Nseir's work: "Integrate BIM 360 data with PowerBI using R."

Bring your existing Inventor Add-in into Forge. In this class we'll go through step by step conversion of an Inventor Add-in into a Design Automationfor Inventor AppBundle.

In this class, we will cover the Construction Institute's best practice of Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and how Autodesk's project delivery platform supports the methodology. We will illustrate how platforms like BIM 360 and Forge support AWP workflows and increase project visibility, construction productivity, quality, and safety.

The aim of this roundtable is to gather individuals who are excited about how the future of making things is shaping the building and construction industry. We will look at how the industry has progressed from an age of 2D flatland data production, to the more advanced age of optimization of 3D digital data, to the present-day era of interoperability and collaboration in a new age of connection. We will focus on how we conceptualize, share information, collaborate, construct, and deliver smart buildings that can be analyzed, rated on performance, monitored, and maintained. The roundtable will look at how the present and future Autodesk, Inc., cloud technology—including Forge Platform—is set to radically change and revolutionize this process by making the transition from conceptual Building Information Modeling (BIM) to constructional BIM as smooth and seamless as possible. We will focus on how to optimally connect the digital data around designing, constructing, and managing buildings with reduced risk and improved outcomes. This session features BIM 360 Docs and Forge.

BIM 360 software is not just for models! You can use the tools built into BIM 360 to manage many different tasks in a collaborative environment outside of traditional BIM industries. In this class, we’ll explore classic collaborative issues that hamper productivity and limit the ability to transition to a BIM environment. We’ll take a look at how to implement a Level 2 BIM system to enhance collaboration and efficiency while maintaining consistency while also utilizing Forge to automate time-consuming tasks.

More and more jobs are requiring a prefabrication mentality. The ability to take a digital model and utilize advanced work packing to help manage, track, and procure is fast becoming a requirement in the industry. See how STRATUS, built on the Forge platform, can manage production in detailing, shop, and field workflows.

At Autodesk, we know there is a need for our customers to bring their work to the cloud for collaboration and automation at scale. If you’re a Revit API developer and would like to get started on Forge Design Automation for Revit, this class will cover the full basic workflow. We’ll walk through a simple example of a Revit add-in, turning it into a Design Automation application. We’ll go through all of the steps necessary to go from the desktop to Forge. This will include code samples as well as a working end-to-end example of both desktop code and Design Automation code. We’ll teach you the syntax for using Design Automation. We’ll show you common errors and how to avoid them. We’ll explain how to troubleshoot problems. You’ll walk away knowing all of the building blocks and have a solid starting point for automating your processes on Forge. Come learn from someone who is part of the team that built Design Automation for Revit.

AWS provides the right services you need to build secure, highly available and fault tolerant web applications with zero downtime, allowing you to spend more of your valuable time creating innovative solutions to your business problems. But AWS offers so many services that it can be hard to know where to start. Problem solved! In just 90-minutes, we will walk you through everything you need to know to be able to build your Forge-based web applications with the power of the AWS cloud.