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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Fabrication at the Design Phase: Is Using Fabrication Tools a Better Way to Model for Designers?
Why continue to struggle with outdated design tools when a more efficient approach is within reach? Embracing fabrication tools—like Fabrication Parts in Revit software—P&ID Modeler for Revit allows engineers to focus on engineering rather than spending excessive time on modeling. By starting with fabrication, designers can model faster and seamlessly transfer design intent Mechanical systems that actually work! This “backward” process significantly enhances efficiency, enabling engineers to dedicate more time to engineering rather than laborious modeling. The approach also accelerates the design-to-construction workflow and proactively resolves MEP coordination challenges—even before trade partners are onboarded. As its adoption grows, this strategy is proving to be a game-changer for speeding up the engineering design process and optimizing project delivery.
34p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
MEP Engineering and BIM: Connecting Teams and Workflows in Revit and Autodesk Forma
This class is all about actually getting the (promised) benefits of building information modeling (BIM) by connecting and integrating MEP engineering and Revit BIM data and workflows. We'll build on our 2022 session, and provide more insights into the actual benefits our colleagues have experienced and how we take on this challenge, as well give the specific technical details that make these integrations work. We'll share the lessons we've learned about how to take on the challenge of developing connected workflows, who you should include in the process, and how you can make it work. We'll cover the whole spectrum, from idea to testing to global rollout, also highlighting the benefits that our colleagues have shared with us. We'll also focus on the technical side of the implementation, to make sure you get some useful tips when creating the tools to facilitate connected workflows. You'll gain an understanding of how this connected and integrated way of working can positively benefit your business outcome.
66p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Beyond the Blueprint: Linking Factory Design and the Outside World Through Hybrid Data Management
The process of managing factory design layout data and fostering collaboration between the design team and external reviewers using Vault software and Autodesk Forma to handle clashes in Navisworks software is an integrated procedure. The design team can use AutoCAD software or Inventor software to develop the factory design layout, which is then stored in Vault. Vault acts as a secure, centralized storehouse for design data, enabling the team to access the latest information, reducing potential mistakes and rework. It also tracks version history and documents updates, offering clear accountability. Once the design is finalized, it can be disseminated to external reviewers through Autodesk Forma. Autodesk Forma serves as a shared data environment, allowing teams to collaborate and exchange design data in real time. It also supports model coordination, document management, and design review, augmenting collaboration between the design team and external reviewers.
40p
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Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Best Way to Collaborate with Industrial Piping Design: Advanced Strategies with AutoCAD Plant 3D
This session will dive into an effective workflow using AutoCAD Plant 3D software tailored for the plant industry. From project preparation to integrated management through Autodesk Forma, we'll explore a series of processes, including managing specifications and libraries with Inventor software, and we'll culminate in the creation of final piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) drawings. This approach ensures efficient project management and heightened quality, leading to successful project outcomes and streamlined data integration management.
11p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Bridging the Gap Between iLogic Automation and Inventor Add-Ins

You've seen how iLogic automation can tame tedious and error-prone tasks and make you and your fellow Inventor users more efficient. But have you also run up against the limitations present within the automation tools offered with iLogic? Have you struggled to take things to the next level and create Inventor add-ins? Are you concerned about having to start over? You're not alone. Making the transition from iLogic is a difficult transition for many busy professionals who want to take their automation further but find themselves sticking with what is known, what is familiar, and what is already in place. Join this session and other Inventor automation-focused users like yourself, and you'll discover a path forward that allows you to capitalize on the familiarity of your existing automation, while learning the landscape of the Inventor add-in.

123p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
DfMA Rules and Rails for Building Construction
Design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) principles play an integral part in the development of prefabrication and modular building construction projects. In this class, we'll discuss specific lessons learned in applying DfMA to building construction for designers, construction managers, and trade partners. Using examples from recent projects, we'll explore the processes and tools used to make DfMA successful. We'll highlight the best practices and strategies for implementing DfMA to projects all along the spectrum of prefabrication, from single trade assemblies to full structural volumetric modules, and how we're pushing the boundaries in utilizing Revit, Navisworks, and Autodesk Forma in the design of industrialized construction projects. By the end of the presentation, you will have a deeper understanding of the DfMA rules and rails for building construction and how to apply them to your own projects.
29p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Schüeco: Cross-Industry Usage in the Facade Industry Around the Globe
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 Forma, from desktop to the cloud: design, make, and collaboration.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Transforming MEP Design: Bringing Plant Room Configuration to the Web with APS
Explore the MEP Plant Room Configurator, a transformative tool we developed that's reshaping the ways that our MEP engineers design. This web-based application provides a centralized platform for engineers to automatically design and configure their plant rooms without leaving their browser. The tool harnesses the power of the Autodesk Platform Services Design Automation API and its integration with Autodesk Forma to automate the modeling process, generating 3D layouts for Revit software or intelligent models from any computer. This session will showcase the capabilities of the Configurator and its significant impact on building services design, facilitating improved design outcomes, earlier embodied carbon assessment, and seamless integration with building information modeling (BIM) workflows.
41p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Breaking Through the Cloud: Vanderlande's Baggage Handling Revolution at LAX
The airports construction industry is undergoing a significant transformation, shifting from historically paper-based projects to fully integrated, cloud-based modeling and coordination. Vanderlande, a leader in future-proof logistics process automation for airports, is at the forefront of this change reshaping the future of airports! This case study of the Los Angeles (LAX) Tom Bradley International Terminal explores Vanderlande's transition to fully cloud-based projects showcasing our adoption journey with Autodesk Forma for project coordination and BIM management in this large-scale, multi-phase, brownfield design-build project. We will show how we are delivering this project with our AutoCAD/Navisworks based workflow, while transforming the way we, and our industry works by increasing coordination issue creation efficiency by up to 75%, reducing clash report generation by up to 90%, and increasing coordination efficiency by up to 50% using Autodesk Forma.
12p
49p
Panel / San Diego 2024
Seamless BIM-to-Fabrication-to-Field MEP Workflows: It's Not Just a Dream
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) subcontractors are critical stakeholders in the AECMO built environment. We face a combination of cost pressures, skills and materials scarcity, and a journey toward digitalization. While the convergence of construction and manufacturing challenges us with new ways of working—including industrialized construction, building product componentization, and informed design—our building information modeling (BIM)-to-fabrication workflows must adapt. New Revit integrations and cloud-based fabrication workflows on a common data environment (CDE) for outcomes of connected construction and sustainability are critical. This panel of MEP contractors and experts will discuss insights of transformational BIM-to-fabrication-to-field workflows. The panel will show how streamlined workflows enable factory automation, data matrix tracking, and innovative remote machine operation using AR/VR technology. Learn how to make this your reality, not just a dream.
4p
18p
Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024
Get Informed with Informed Design Codeblocks

You've heard about how Autodesk Informed Design software lets Inventor users push product configurations to Autodesk Forma for quick and easy specification by Revit end users. Are you wondering how to get started with Informed Design and its use of Codeblocks, though? Here's your chance to roll up your sleeves and get your hands on the Informed Design tools. Focusing on iLogic and Codeblocks, we'll walk through four targeted lessons to provide you with the confidence and familiarity you need to create Informed Design configurations that align with your daily work. We'll provide you with written and recorded tutorials, as well as detailed companion data sets so that once you've returned to the office, you can revisit what you've learned at AU 2024. This class is aimed at Inventor users who have some familiarity with iLogic, and who want to understand how iLogic and Informed Design Codeblocks fit together to provide a solution to inform the Revit world about manufactured designs.

35p
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Цифровые двойники подвижного состава. Стратегия реализации.
Сегодня цифровизация и построение цифровых двойников представляют интерес для компаний, стремящихся быть в авангарде технологий и ищущих возможности для расширения бизнеса. В данном обсуждении будет рассмотрен подход компании ТМХ к формированию цифровой стратегии и реализации цифровых двойников подвижного состава. Будучи одним из самых крупных машиностроительных холдингов России и СНГ, особенностью компании является работа на всех этапах жизненного цикла продукции, поэтому необходимо определить границы ЦД для всех участников процесса. Является ли ЦД необходимостью для бизнеса? Что необходимо предпринять компании для успешной реализации ЦД? Что такое цифровой макет изделия, цифровая тень, цифровой завод? В чем их отличия? Следует ли цифровизовать бизнес-процессы компании или сосредоточиться на инженерных данных? Эти и другие вопросы мы обсудим на примере реализации цифровой стратегии ТМХ и построения единой платформы управления разработкой, производством и обслуживанием.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Accelerating iLogic Development in Inventor with ChatGPT
ChatGPT can support engineers who lack formal programming experience in writing and refining iLogic rules for Inventor software. In this session, you’ll learn how to create effective prompts, evaluate AI-generated code, and build a repeatable workflow that blends engineering knowledge with AI assistance. The session will include real examples of code generation, debugging strategies, and lessons learned from real-world use.
23p
6p
22p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Mastering Assemblies in Fusion: Foundations, Best Practices, and the New Assembly Experience
If there were ever a “required class” for Fusion at Autodesk University—this would be it. In this interactive session, we’ll demystify assemblies in Fusion by grounding you in the core concepts every user needs to build confidently: top-down vs. bottom-up design, internal vs. external components, and finally clear up the confusion between components and bodies. Then, we’ll take a deep dive into Fusion’s brand-new assembly experiences, a transformative shift in how everyone will interact with Fusion design. You’ll learn how these changes simplify best practices, improve collaboration, boost performance, and make Fusion more intuitive—especially for those transitioning from other CAD tools. Whether you're just starting with assemblies or are a seasoned pro, this session will leave you with a clear mental model and the insight into what’s coming to the product.
Meetup / Nashville 2025
Autodesk Design & Manufacturing Community Meetup

The design and manufacturing industry is experiencing rapid advancements, driven by cutting-edge technology and evolving market demands. Join us for a meetup where industry professionals come together to explore how designers and manufacturers are navigating, innovating, and excelling in this dynamic landscape. Tailored for designers, engineers, and other industry professionals, this event offers a unique opportunity to network, share insights, and discover the latest trends shaping the future of design and manufacturing. Be part of the conversation and engage with fellow experts to collectively push the boundaries of our industry.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Circuit to Sky: A Mechatronic Drone Design with Autodesk Fusion
Designing a drone is more than just assembling parts—it’s about bringing together electronics, mechanics, and performance into one seamless system. In this session, we will explore how to create a fully functional mechatronic drone using the all-in-one capabilities of Autodesk Fusion software. You’ll learn how to integrate a complete 3D mechanical assembly, and run simulations to validate both thermal performance and structural integrity. Whether you’re an engineer, product designer, or educator, this session will show you how to take your ideas from circuit to sky with efficiency, precision, and confidence.
30p
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Bulletproof Your Inventor Workflow: Settings, Projects, and Beyond
Say goodbye to missing files, style clashes, and design rework. In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a bulletproof Inventor workflow—drawn from 20 years of technical support expertise—optimizing settings, project files, templates, styles libraries, and Content Center. We’ll craft a live design environment that’s fast, error-free, and scalable for solo or team projects. Test it against real-world chaos and see the difference: efficiency up, headaches down. You’ll leave with a proven cheat sheet distilled from decades of troubleshooting that will help make Inventor work for you. Whether it’s parts or assemblies, unlock a smarter way to design. Bring your workflow into the future—starting here.
9p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Blueprints at the Speed of Thought: Fast-Tracking Engineering Drawings
In the world of engineering and design, speed and precision are crucial. Whether you’re working on complex mechanical systems, architectural plans, or intricate product designs, the time it takes to create and modify engineering drawings can make or break a project. This session will address both efficiency and faster, accuracy-creating engineering drawings in Autodesk Fusion software. We’ll explore the following innovative solutions/workflows and time-saving best practices that will help you accelerate your drawing process in Fusion: The power of Drawing Automation, Integration, & Customization, smart usage of drawing templates, techniques to speed up dimensioning and annotation, the magic of “shift” button in the Fusion Drawings, hidden gems “osnaps,” cut-copy-paste in Fusion Drawings, more than “just” a sheet bar, reusing title blocks across drawings, and many more. The goal of this session is to empower you with the knowledge to work smarter, not harder, and make your engineering drawing process more efficient and effective using Fusion.
23p
28p
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Inventor: Frame Generator—Multiframe Design Setup Made Easy
In this class, you’ll discover multiple routes for generating Frame Generator Reference Files. And you’ll see how they can be integrated into top-level assemblies efficiently—where information from reference files can also be used to drive downstream design tasks where associativity between components and assemblies are important and change may occur throughout the design lifecycle. The class will also touch on new and updated workflows where model states and simplification tools can be used to manage assemblies and generate associative BIM-ready models, required by different or cross-industry design teams. This hands-on session is aimed toward the intermediate Inventor user. But it was developed for users who want to explore the Inventor Professional Frame Generator accelerator and its capabilities with high levels of associativity and parametric potential.
94p
52p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Mastering Design and Engineering in Autodesk Fusion: Expert Techniques to Make Consumer Product Design Far Less Time Consuming
Autodesk Fusion software is one of the most powerful design and engineering tools available. It enables industrial designers, mechanical engineers, and product design engineers to design, analyze, and even manufacture ideas quickly and easily. Because of this, the Fusion userbase is growing faster than ever. Thankfully, there are plenty of learning resources to help those new users get started. However, it can be challenging to find advanced content that shows users how to "level up" from an intermediate or even an advanced level. In this technical session, you'll learn the most-effective techniques to take your product design and engineering skills to the next level and beyond. You'll learn how to get the most out of Fusion so you can design the best products possible and get them to market before the competition. If you're interested in becoming a Fusion design and engineering expert, or you simply want to make consumer product design less time-consuming, this class is for you!
48p
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