It's a given that your Revit template should be oriented to your company standards and workflows. But wouldn't it be great if your Revit template could also guide project staff in their daily tasks, and provide some model checks and model management workflows? We'll share our goals and methods, what should be in the template, and what and how to store outside. We'll explore the process of cyclical template rebuild in a small or large multistudio company. We'll demonstrate creative use of colors and patterns with view filters to produce accurate documentation and QA model checks. We'll dive into practicalities of clean rebuild, tools, and workflows. We'll discuss commercially available tools, and share our in-house scripts and code. We'll speak from more than 12 years of experience improving Revit templates and their practical implementations multiplied by many experts who worked on our templates during that time.

A new metro Line, with 19 kilometers and encompassing 15 stations, a maintenance yard, and 2 primary substations, represents a landmark achievement in utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM). A large-scale infrastructure project has set a new benchmark for the industry by implementing a comprehensive BIM (Building Information Modeling) approach, encompassing all disciplines, including geotechnical engineering and laser scanning for connection stations with existing lines. The project has also standardized data using IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) and introduced a new standard for contractual items, including a new contractual measurement method. Automated analyses have been integrated into robotic processes, and a train dynamic models to ensure equipment installations has been utilized and with data management. These innovations have significantly enhanced project quality and established the project as a national reference.

Join us as we explore the heart of rail alignment design. Turnouts are not just critical components of heavy rail; they also form the backbone of all rail projects, including light rail, metro, and high-speed rail systems. Our session is designed to empower you with the necessary skills to create your configuration file for turnout creation in Civil 3D software. Moreover, we'll guide you through the process of translating your geometrical requirements into a comprehensive turnout catalog. This presentation is your ticket to mastering the dynamics of rail alignment design, challenging conventions, and setting new standards in railway infrastructure.

In 2018, HMC Architects created a dedicated digital practice to support the firm's digital transformation. A major pillar of HMC's digital practice is technology training, which serves to develop the "digital IQ" of team members in their adoption of the latest technologies and methods. As the leader of this division of digital practice, the speaker has developed technology training regimens to increase HMC's project teams' technical abilities, implementation of cloud-based collaboration, and other advanced building information modeling (BIM)-based workflows. Today, our technology training has merged with all of HMC's learning and development training with the implementation of a unified learning management system. From here, we'll have the ability to integrate more of the firm's business data and gain insights into how our people make the greatest impact on design outcomes.

Join us to explore strategies for accelerating Autodesk Platform Services adoption within your organization. Learn how to maximize Autodesk Platform Services benefits and efficiency while ensuring correct and safe implementation. We'll guide you step by step, from raising Autodesk Platform Services awareness to creating guidelines, building essential skill sets, and ensuring safe adoption across your organization.

This session will walk through how catchments or watersheds can be automatically generated using a surface model and assigned to drainage networks as part of a concept design in Civil 3D software. Ultimately, with the Civil 3D InfoDrainage integration tool, we'll show how you can bring all the data across to InfoDrainage and use its more extensive runoff routing methods and rainfall generation tools to set up and simulate hydrology, and accurately size up the drainage network.

University College London (UCL) Mechanical Engineering faces the challenge of teaching 200+ new students each year—95% of whom have never used a CAD package before. By using both Autodesk learning content and self-paced learning for Autodesk Fusion software, a student's educational journey can be tailored to their individual experience levels. Working with Autodesk Academic Partners, such as Fabrio, the educational feedback loop can be scaled by developing interactive courses that integrate learning, feedback, and live assessment. This case study will detail UCL's unique experience of training the next generation of engineers: from complete beginners to national design prize winners. At its core, Autodesk Fusion software acts as a catalyst to inspire students to teach themselves and each other, outpacing traditional classroom-based learning. Join us to explore the best tools to teach CAD in 2024.

Bifrost is a powerful graphical programming environment for creating procedural visual effects simulations, geometry, rigging, and animation. In this session, we'll showcase new, modular, deep-learning workflows in Maya software using Bifrost. We will demonstrate how to use Bifrost for procedurally generating training data for AI systems, as well as how to deploy trained AI models in Bifrost using new Bifrost nodes designed for deep learning. The session will include practical examples of industry problems that are suited to a media and entertainment audience, such as using AI for complex rigging kinematic solvers.

You've seen how iLogic automation can tame tedious and error-prone tasks and make you and your fellow Inventor users more efficient. Now it's time to explore some of the often-overlooked tips, tricks, and tools that can assist you as an Inventor automation developer. Are you still using message boxes to debug? Would you like to learn a better way? Would you like to better understand how to navigate Inventor software's API? Would you like to present your iLogic rules as buttons on the ribbon menu? Join me and other Inventor automation-focused users like you to explore these productivity-enhancing tips and tricks.

Railway systems have complex rules to follow during the design phase, and their automation is highly required due to the massive and systematic work that needs to be done, and the very detailed list of materials necessary. The catenary system is one of the most complex systems in railway. Using Civil 3D, Revit, and Dynamo software, we can automate the design process and create the best workflow—which we'll demonstrate in this session, including complex parametric families, and automatic section views for each mast with dimensions. We'll also demonstrate some other systems' design automation, like CCTV and the automatic creation of camera field-of-vision 3D views for the train driver and metro station platform cameras to achieve the best installation criteria and avoid rework during construction phase. Plus, we'll explore how to convert all of these scripts to plug-in buttons with pyRevit.

Despite the proven benefits of using industrial construction (IC), it still only accounts for a small share of the U.S. construction market. This session will briefly review the benefits of IC and how it may be critical to tackling some of the most entrenched challenges in the construction industry today, including skilled worker shortages and safety concerns. We'll examine how the wider use of IC will impact the existing workforce—both negatively through displacement of workers, and positively through job creation, different working conditions, and younger and more diverse populations being drawn into the industry. We'll also look at what is needed to prepare the workforce to benefit from this transition, including training in needed skills. Steve Jones, Senior Director of Industry Insights Research at Dodge Data & Analytics (Dodge) will present findings from a recent study commissioned by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and conducted by Dodge and WSU.

When it comes to construction management, safety is our number one priority. This is because people are our most important asset. The time and energy we invest in keeping people safe will always pay dividends. With Autodesk Construction Cloud, we can document safety required by OSHA and generate issue tracking for following up. Autodesk AI technology will also allow for data tracking and trend analysis. Attendees should leave this class understanding how we can make an impact with tracking via forms and issue. The ability of Autodesk AI technology to track safety and make predictions over time should get you excited about the future and what Autodesk can bring to the industry moving forward.

In this technical session, we'll go through the entire corridor workflow using the new corridor interface. Here we'll look at creating a corridor with multiple baselines (alignments and feature lines). We'll also add corridor transitions to the model and review best practices. We'll also incorporate several custom subassemblies into the model. This will be an in-depth look at ways these new tools can improve our corridor model.

Heathrow Airport is the fourth-busiest airport in the world, serving more than 80 million passengers annually. To improve every journey for our passengers, we need to constantly maintain and produce new assets and related digital asset information. Heathrow's goal is to create a digital ecosystem to harness the value of the data throughout the lifecycle of our assets and become a data-driven organization. We will share how to achieve digital change in a large functioning airport by harmonizing the challenges, technology, people, and processes to attain the expected outcomes and benefits. We'll show how digital transformation and our digitalization approach is minimizing rework, making delivery of our designs safer and faster. Our digital road map will reveal how to use a common data environment (CDE) supported by advanced technology, standards, and a solid training framework. Discover how we create a digital community where we can test new ideas in a real-world setting and help change to be embraced.

This session will provide hands-on instruction in the use of the Grading Optimization extension in Civil 3D software. We'll explore the product features and put the software to use on a commercial/retail development project. The instruction will use many of the included grading objects (i.e., building pads, curbs, drain lines, ponds, and more) to quickly develop a proposed surface, and import the results back to Civil 3D.

Are you using Revit software for your structural steel design? In our hands-on lab, we will explore in depth the powerful capabilities of Revit software's structural steel workflows—including structural connections—to ensure precise design-intent modeling for estimations and coordination. This session will provide insights on configuring custom connections to clearly display design intent through geometry modeling for accurate results. We'll also provide guidance on setting up schedules for quantities of steel members and steel connection elements, and demonstrate how to make the most of visibility graphics, tags, and dimensions to create anchor plans.

Technology is transforming every aspect of our lives. 79% of companies say their future growth depends on digital tools but 2 in 3 are struggling to find the skilled workers they need. All of this is placing considerable pressure on educators to adapt their education programs to meet these needs. In this panel session, a group of educators leading the charge will share how they are reimagining their education programs to meet the needs of the future workforce. From secondary schools to vocational training programs to higher education, this session will showcase best practices and success stories from those who are breaking boundaries and transforming design, engineering and manufacturing education with Fusion 360. This session is a must-attend for educators who want to learn how to prepare their students for the future of work along with an unmissable opportunity for industry attendees to see how the leading minds in education are rising to the challenge.

Do you design injection molded parts? How do you know if they are manufacturable? Are they cost effective to produce? Will they be high quality? Learn how Fusion 360's can help you answer these questions in this Hands-on-Lab.

Are you a CAD manager who is responsible for maintaining and managing numerous software applications, one of which is AutoCAD Civil 3D software—even though you might not consider yourself an AutoCAD Civil 3D software power user? AutoCAD Civil 3D software is much more than just AutoCAD software for civil/survey users. It has many traits and features that not only make it powerful, but can also bring unique needs and challenges to the CAD manager. The great news is that these challenges are not hard to overcome once you understand the reasons behind them. In this class we will discuss managing templates, styles, and settings, which can be the biggest obstacle to success with AutoCAD Civil 3D. The class will also explore data compatibility and translation, output options, and different approaches to training. Don’t miss this chance to learn ways to more effectively manage AutoCAD Civil 3D software within your CAD system.

Are you a CAD manager where AutoCAD Civil 3D software is only one of the many software applications you are responsible for maintaining and managing, even though you might not consider yourself an AutoCAD Civil 3D power user? Even if you have an extensive background with AutoCAD Civil 3D software but you just want to learn more from a CAD management perspective, you won't want to miss this class. AutoCAD Civil 3D software is much more than just AutoCAD software for civil/survey users. It has many traits and features that make it powerful, and it can also bring unique needs and challenges to the CAD manager. The great news is that these challenges are not hard to overcome once you understand the reasons behind them. In this class we will discuss managing templates, styles, and settings—which can be the biggest obstacles to success with AutoCAD Civil 3D software. The class will also explore data compatibility and translation, output options, and different approaches to training. Don't miss this chance to learn ways to more effectively manage AutoCAD Civil 3D software within your CAD system.