Learn how clients such as Yokogawa Corporation of America and other firms have used the cloud to drive ROI and accuracy. In this presentation, you’ll learn how modern cloud technologies use systems such as Microsoft SharePoint and BIM 360 Docs software for powerful solutions around automated security, governance, document control, and reporting. The challenge is bringing all those data points together in a single process that’s easy for end users to engage with. With platforms such as SharePoint Office 365 and Microsoft OneDrive now supporting CAD drawings and DWG™ files, and the powerful BIM 360 Docs and a host of systems all moving to the cloud, there are real choices for the AEC to take advantage of the incredible value of the digital transformation of the enterprise that the cloud represents.

The Fusion 360 platform is an extremely powerful tool for design and manufacturing, and with the inclusion of an easy-to-use API, it can become even more powerful to automate user workflows. This class will cover a basic overview of the Fusion 360 API and how to get started. We will introduce students to a simplified method of creating and distributing Fusion 360 scripts and add-ins. Focusing on actual customer problems and sample applications, attendees will learn how to quickly write simple Python scripts to automate tasks and create useful utilities and workflow enhancements.

While companies try to adapt BIM 360 software to their projects and integrate with their existing workflow, one of the challenges is setting up projects in scale. While using a product’s web user interface may be enough for a few projects, tasks involved in setting up projects—such as adding users and building a standard folder structure with appropriate user permissions—can easily become time-consuming, tedious, error-prone manual labor. In this class, we will show you a tool that helps you set up projects in bulk by importing from CSV files. The tool consists of a collection of commands that you can run in combination. The features include: creating projects, populating users and company, setting up services, adding users to projects, and creating folders with user permissions. The tool is a desktop application written in .NET using Forge APIs. For those who wish to further customize the tool to integrate with their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, we will share the source code and explain implementation detail.

Out of the box, the Vault job processor is a great way to keep your data updated. The job processor can update visualization files, create PDF files, and synchronize properties. The job processor also has many limitations. This course will show you how to hack your job processor through custom jobs to enable more-granular control of your design automation tools. Learn how to create a custom job-processor job, interact with the jobs by setting priorities for different job types, query the job queue, and add or remove jobs to the queue. With this additional functionality, you'll be able handle different types of files separately and take control of your Vault.

Os projetos, independente de sua área, sempre tem alterações, se a equipe não for muito bem organizada e orientada, isso pode trazer sérios prejuízos, pois tempo é dinheiro. Como encontrar alterações entre as versões dos projetos rapidamente? Como saber quem fez as alterações, e quando? Como padronizar as bibliotecas para toda a equipe de uma forma mais rápida e livre de erros? Essas e outras questões são os desafios que muitas equipes de projetos enfrentam, então venha aprender como diminuir em pelo menos 50% o tempo que você e sua equipe perdem tentando resolver essas questões!

Do your documents suffer from a lack of coordination? Learn how to use the Sheet Set Manager in AutoCAD software to manage and automate the creation of complete, organized sets of drawings. In this class, you’ll learn how to use the Sheet Set Manager to manage existing drawings, plot and publish using sheet sets, create new drawings with title block data that populates automatically, and also add sheet labels, view labels, and callouts with everything linked together to create fully coordinated sets of documents.

Many of the design applications we use today are platform agnostic; they can run on Windows or Mac OS without issue. However, most of these applications have differences or variations that can make loading one version versus another a bit jarring. In this class, we’ll focus on three different ways of running your design applications on an Apple computer: natively, virtually, and through disk partitioning. We’ll look at using native applications like AutoCAD for Mac software, using virtualization options like Parallels to run Windows as an application inside Mac OS, and dividing a hard drive into multiple sections that will run Windows as a separate operating system on your laptop or desktop. There are many factors to consider with any of these options, and we’ll review the pros and cons of each, as well as best practices.

AutoCAD for Mac software has always been a little jarring for users coming from the Windows version. The interface is quite different, with just enough familiar notes here and there that you can recognize the familiar AutoCAD beneath the surface. The tools are there, but organized a little differently. Come take a look at the latest version of AutoCAD for Mac, including the revised interface and all the new tools, and see how they can improve your current workflow. This class will take a spin through all of the latest features in the current release of AutoCAD for Mac.

Imagine replacing your physical workstations with GPU-accelerated virtual workstations in Azure. Allow your engineers and designers to work from the office, home, hotel or job site. Deliver virtual workstations in Azure to your team anywhere in the world, with the level of performance that exceeds that of your physical workstations. Learn how Andy Knauf, CIO, Mead & Hunt has done just that - using Workspot Workstation Cloud to deploy virtual workstations in Azure to his design team, while connecting multi-terabyte data sets across 30+ locations across the country, and all at a flat rate fixed subscription fee. Andy will share his experience each step of the way on his amazing journey to ultimate business agility while reaching the highest levels of end-user experience.

How much do you know about cloud workstations? Have you tried virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for your remote BIM users? If you’re familiar with VDI or have tried it, you know the performance isn’t great for power users and the complexity of maintaining VDI is unsustainable for IT. With cloud workstations, all that has changed. A panel of technology visionaries includes AEC experts Andy Knauf, CIO of design/build firm Mead & Hunt and Israel Sumano, Senior Director of Infrastructure Services at MEP firm Southland Industries. Joining them is cloud computing expert Harry Labana, Chief Customer Officer for Workspot. They’ll share the collective wisdom they’ve accrued through deep, hands-on experience with virtualization technologies and how cloud workstations are transforming the AEC industry. Join us to learn more about how industry-leading AEC firms are using cloud workstations to deliver outstanding performance, strengthen IT security, and simplify joint venture projects.

While Inventor software’s VBA and iLogic provide a convenient and easy way to add custom functionality to Inventor, there are limitations to what you can do with VBA macros and iLogic rules. This class will introduce you to VB.NET and Inventor add-ins and the pros and cons of add-ins compared to VBA and iLogic. In this class, you'll learn the technical differences between VBA, iLogic, add-ins, and external EXEs, and some of the reasons you would choose one over the other. The class will also cover how to create an add-in using an easier-to-use custom VB.NET template. We'll also look at the differences between VBA code and VB add-in code and how to convert your existing VBA macros and iLogic rules into add-in commands. We'll also cover how to debug your add-in. Finally, we'll look at how to package and distribute your add-in to make it easy for others to use. This is an intermediate level class and you should have a basic understanding of the Inventor API.

Have you been trying to implement AutoCAD Electrical software at your company, but some things just are not working? Most likely, some things are working, but you’re getting frustrated with the subjects that aren’t working. This group discussion will dive into the most-common subjects that derail AutoCAD Electrical implementation. Having the opportunity to discuss AutoCAD Electrical with other companies will let you share what’s worked for you, and you’ll see what’s worked for them. Additionally, there will be an AutoCAD Electrical expert there to help solve the items that no one in the group has been able to resolve.

This session will cover the ways that Inventor software and AutoCAD Electrical software interact with each other for a much better workflow. When you use Inventor, you can see an actual representation of a component such as transformers, regulators, breakers, and so on. This lets the designer have better judgment for clearances, footprint, connections points, and more. When you incorporate AutoCAD Electrical, you can use the Inventor components converted from 3D to 2D format in order to have a more realistic representation. This will help the designer determine the correct wiring points on a device, as well as clearances and bend radius.

In this roundtable, staff from Perkins Eastman will discuss the unique challenges of being a multiple-practice-area firm. While all firms of all sizes must continue to evolve and maintain their standards and practices, there are unique challenges for architecture firms that routinely operate in multiple practice areas. Content management, standards curation, and workflow documentation are all-important, ongoing tasks in a design firm. When multiple teams are working in multiple practice areas, what can firms do to reduce duplication or forking of standards? How can you have standards that produce consistency where required, while also responding to the unique needs of different practice areas?

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a powerful workflow that's often sold as a massive time savings versus a comparable CAD workflow—but many firms jumping into it see an increase in their project time rather than a decrease. There are a lot of CAD practices that, while very efficient in AutoCAD software-based projects, are a terrible idea to maintain in a Revit software-based project. This class will look at some of those common pitfalls, and examine ways to maintain the intent of that workflow and yet harness the "smart" features of BIM. This class is targeted at smaller to mid-size architectural practices that may not necessarily need, or be ready to have, everything smart and optimized in the offices, but are hoping to see some of the time savings and improved accuracy that BIM promises—and doesn't always deliver.

Presentation Focus is on live successes and challenges in the overall VDC delivery process on a major Project: -$240Million Project / 8 Buildings / Over 23 Acres / 30+ Design & Construction Professional Firms Learning Objectives: 1). The role BIM-enabled tools and the VDC process plays in the delivery process of 8 buildings, extensive sitework reconstruction across 23 acres within a 2-year construction schedule. 2). How early BIM Execution Planning set expectations, and peaks and valleys we endured as a team that followed. 3). The tangible value of BIM deliverables to enhance effective self-perform concrete installation. 4). The evolution of “standard” 3D Trade Coordination from “just a requirement” to really “trusting the model”. 5). Point of Attack “BIMing” to center BIM as the “Circle of Trust”. 6). Enhancing visual communications and decision-making on an Owner level through BIM-enabled concepts such as Virtual Mock Ups, 3D Virtual Walk-thrus, and 4D Model-Based Scheduling.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud has been used primarily for collaboration and connectivity of Revit projects. While the Civil 3D-using industry still relies on other methods for storing project files, Autodesk Construction Cloud offers faster and more efficient working experiences by allowing you to download only the files you need and providing the latest files to collaborators. Autodesk Construction Cloud is beneficial for large-scale projects involving multiple firms, but even our small to mid-size land development projects at Kimley-Horn have found value in using Autodesk Construction Cloud. While it's now fully functional for Civil 3D, you may still be wondering: What's in it for me? Does it really help with collaboration? What's the risk in putting my files in Autodesk Construction Cloud? To address these questions, we invite you to join Jaime Castillo and Jeremy Rogers from Kimley-Horn, as they explain why they use Autodesk Construction Cloud on certain projects, and discuss the benefits and risks associated with it, as well as provide valuable insights to help you make an informed decision.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly affect our industry. How can we use AI to improve our programming skills and make us more efficient? In this session, we'll go over the creation of a program using LISP to copy files from one location to another. Once created, we will use AI to convert a portion of that code into a visual basic script (VBS) so that the user can continue to work while files copy in the background.

With today's rise in construction, design costs, and extremely tight budgets for CAD work, we must ensure we are using the most-efficient methods in Civil 3D software to meet project demands. We can easily go over budget by overmodeling in Civil 3D. Conversely, when we fail to properly use Civil 3D tools, we can waste time and money. So herein lies the question: When do I fully model and design something, and when do I draw some polylines? When do I hold, and when do I fold? Let's take a journey into how a complex corridor model may not be best for a site plan where a feature line is sufficient. A simple polyline can represent and benefit more than a full creation of a pipe or pressure network system. As we look at keeping some things simple, there are times to make all the abilities of Civil 3D work for us. Longer roadway projects may require conditional corridors and complex targeting. How much is too much? There comes a time to think through all scenarios—or just simply show the cards.