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Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

2022 Workflow for Revit, Inventor, Advance Steel, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional on Forma

In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn about effective Revit, Robot Structural Analysis Professional, Advance Steel, Inventor, and Dynamo workflows. You’ll learn how to link a Revit structural model to Robot Structural Analysis Professional for structural steel code check and optimization. You’ll also learn how to control the models using Dynamo. This class will cover how to set up and use Forma to share Revit, Robot Structural Analysis Professional, Advance Steel, and Inventor models. We’ll also cover working with the 2022 workflow between the manufacturing industry and construction industries through Inventor and Revit Interoperability.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

A New Hope: Using Autodesk to Improve Collaboration for Alliance and Framework Agreements

Alliances and frameworks are increasingly key procurement vehicles to facilitate large-scale delivery with multiple contractors supporting the delivery of a common goal. We'll discuss how our experience of alliance and framework contracts has been enhanced through using the Forma Build software and the integration possibilities enabled by the open API Forma Build Service. We'll demonstrate how Forma Data Management software enables contractors to share information, capture collaborative lessons learned, and use standardized details—and the program, cost, and quality benefits that this creates for clients. In this talk, we'll discuss transparency between contractors as well as the trust and confidence that Autodesk and OpenSpace can provide to clients. With one eye on the future, we'll also explore the potential game-changing impact that Autodesk Informed Design software could have on contractor collaboration through safe sharing of intellectual property in design.

32p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

How to Bridge the Gap

As a manufacturer and installer of structural glazing products, custom designed and assembled in an automated factory, Starline Windows is uniquely positioned to work with developers and architects directly within the Revit environment. This creates many advantages and challenges in working across organizations and various internal departments. I have worked extensively with Autodesk and their Partners to implement a design process at Starline Windows that represents our product to the highest level of excellence within our shop drawings, while simultaneously creating machine data files and material managment information. I will share my experience in identifying oportunities for digital transformation and process improvement, and I will speak to implementing change across organizational boundaries. I will discuss how to bridge from a modeling environment to a data centric solution while still maintaining a "data entry once" approach for efficient, agile project delivery.

10p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

A Transformational Journey on Rails: Better Outcomes for Passengers

Luxembourg railway owner began its digital transformation journey in 2017, improving quality and efficiency for construction projects through cloud-based project delivery. There are many main subjects for asset management, including maintenance building, earthworks platform, permanent way, overhead lines, signaling, and telecommunications. One specific aspect to the country is to have external project design offices and many subcontractors, using multidisciplinary design management based on Autodesk technologies, including Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, InfraWorks, and Forma Design Collaborationducts. The geographical aspect is taken into consideration through connected building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS). During this class, you will discover why a common data environment platform and products ecosystem save time and information for the delivery plan, and support supply chains, and how process owner mandates can be imposed on local markets, and what solutions are found to develop a business model dedicated to railway infrastructure.

225p

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.

New Orleans 2022

What If... Convergence of Desktop, Collaboration, Data, and Digitization

We are starting to see a convergence of different industries and disciplines like we have never seen before. Construction and manufacturing for modular construction and building product manufacturing coming further into design. Plant and power owners using these same methodologies to help meet deadlines and set quality standards. Owners using digital twin and integrated factory modeling for digitalization of factory building and production lines. Digitization in infrastructure for everything below or above ground. Along with GIS, the ability to explore locations, events, and trends so stakeholders can be better informed or create awareness of the environment. See how today’s current desktop and cloud technologies like Revit, Inventor, Forma, and Fusion are helping to bring a common data environment to multiple industries. Understand how Collaboration, Connected Data, and Digitization are bringing the “art of the possible” to a level that we have never seen before.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Maximizing the Power of Dynamo and Grasshopper for Data Exchange

Data Exchange is a powerful neutral format you can use to store a subset of your design models in the cloud. Teams can easily use Data Exchange to share design data between Revit software, Rhino, Inventor software, Civil 3D software, and other authoring software through Forma Data Management using connectors. This class will explore the capabilities of Dynamo and Grasshopper connectors to build interoperable workflows between applications and systems to share and receive graphical and metadata. You'll learn the step-by-step process of setting up connectors in Autodesk Forma, Revit, and Rhino. Using the connectors, users will be able to easily create, update, and manage data exchanges between authoring software to share the model geometry and property data. You can use Dynamo and Grasshopper Connector nodes to retrieve available data exchanges, receive and send data exchanges, and convert them to geometries and parameters via the DxData object.

46p

New Orleans 2022

Bridging Revit and Inventor Using Autodesk Data Exchange to Make Configurator

Data Exchange is a service developed by Autodesk. It acts as an access manager that protects your data. Data Exchange gives you the control to share the right information with the right person for a suitable duration without the concern of industry type or application. Using the Autodesk Forge Data Exchange service, we’ve developed a solar configurator by creating two plug-ins useful for solar designers. The architect uses our Revit plug-in to enter the solar load requirements which automatically creates a view that consists only of the roof elements. Then the solar designer uses our Inventor plug-in to load the Data Exchange of the roof, automatically creating an assembly relative to the required solar load. In this class, we’ll discuss the Data Exchange service and its Autodesk Forge APIs and their uses. We’ll demonstrate our application that will help viewers to think about other possibilities, solving their business logic by making effective use of the Data Exchange and related Autodesk Forge APIs.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Enabling Industrialized Construction with the Informed Design API

In this session, we’ll cover the new Informed Design API. Informed Design is an Autodesk offering aimed at connecting products created in Inventor or Autodesk Fusion software with project data in Revit software. This will improve project outcomes and increase productivity by bringing together the capabilities of our manufacturing software with our architecture, engineering, and construction software. The class will start with an overview of Informed Design and how the API can be used to extend and customize the offering. We’ll cover product creation in Inventor and Fusion. And we’ll look at how to create good BIM content by generating well-formed Revit families for use in a Revit project. Then we’ll show how to create outputs from a Revit project at scale. We’ll follow up with an overview of specific examples of how our customers and partners are using the API, followed by an example of how to use the API.

25p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Data Exchange Customer Spotlight: Interoperability in Action

Data Exchange has launched an Open Ecosystem of Connectors that enable interoperability between the myriad of apps you use every day. Imagine packaging a subset of your model in Revit software—and shipping it through Forma Data Management software to a colleague in another firm who uses Rhino software! Well, that's possible with Data Exchange. But Revit and Rhino are just the first two connectors we've launched—there are connectors for Inventor, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Tekla, Power BI, and many more! In this class, we'll provide an overview of Data Exchange capabilities today, and in the future. We'll explore case studies of how lighthouse customers are using this new cloud capability. And we'll talk about tips and tricks to get you started quickly! You'll hear directly from customers about workflow solutions for coordination, data validation, automation, and even native element creation. We'll quantify the steps reduced from preexisting workflows when customers move away from files toward a data-focused future.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

How Fusion Team Can improve Factory Design Utilities Workflows

As part of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, Factory Design Utilities can help plan and manage production facilities consisting of a wide variety of components in an efficient model or layout. Cooperation between suppliers and customers is often crucial. Therefore, with Fusion Team, stakeholders can set up a Factory Design project, manage library assets, and trace their creation process from different AnyCAD sources. All data is versioned, can be compared in terms of changes, and can be easily and quickly communicated with the team, even if they are not CAD or data management specialists. The ability to collaborate with the data on a web-based cloud service increases the availability and traceability of the data, as well as the ability to solve problems faster and with the appropriate decision makers.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Data-Driven: Digitally Share CAD Data Throughout the Product Lifecycle

CAD data is the most important intellectual property that a manufacturer has. Autodesk offers products that create, manage, and enrich this data. AutoCAD, Inventor, and Autodesk Fusion 360 software create this data while Vault, Fusion 360 Manage Extension, and Upchain help manage it. The cloud-based Fusion 360 and Autodesk Forma platforms facilitate collaboration within the field, while Prodsmart helps collaboration within production. Simultaneously, aspects of this data need to be shared with other enterprise systems like ERP. Ultimately, all these systems must be able to share aspects of this data throughout the lifecycle of a manufacturer's products. We'll demonstrate, via examples of Autodesk customer projects, how technologies such as Autodesk Platform Services and other third-party technologies make it possible to share this important data between these systems rather than leaving it siloed in different systems.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Modern Methods of Construction: Using the Power of Informed Design for Sustainable Industrialized Construction

The construction industry is facing multiple challenges, such as increased demand for buildings, as well as sustainability pressures and skills shortages. Add to that the risk of natural disasters and global events, and the industry is forced to look at efficient, replicable, and sustainable practices. Industrialized construction is one of the ways the industry is trying to resolve these challenges. But the question remains: Is industrialized construction a solution, or can we do something more? In this class, you'll learn how the Manufacturing Informed Design API takes industrialized construction to the next level by introducing productization into the solution. It provides for defining, designing, and building with customizable construction products that are manufacturable and can be assembled on-site or in the shop. You'll learn how informed design supports Inventor and Revit software through Autodesk Forma in delivering sustainable and replicable solutions for homes, schools, and health care.

10p

38p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Data Exchange and Informed Design: A Game Changer for PD&M and AEC

Autodesk Informed Design and Data Exchange are the platform technologies we use to connect plant design and construction, with the help of Autodesk Forma. It's never been so easy to share data and its configurations. Data Exchange makes it very easy to collaborate and share information in integrated factory modeling (IFM) within Autodesk software systems, but also with applications such as Tekla or SolidWorks. Autodesk Forma helps us store all information centrally and make it available to everyone involved in the project. Informed Design offers the possibility to provide configurations from Inventor software for various types of building equipment in Revit software as configurable families. This ensures that only predefined variants are installed and prevents cost-intensive special solutions. Last year, we talked about the possibilities of the beta versions. Now we would like to take a closer look at the solutions and share experiences from customer projects with you. It's going to be good!

34p

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.

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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

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Unveiling the AI Vision to Close the Digital Skills Gap and Confirm Project-Ready Teams

According to the 2025 Autodesk Design and Make Report, training is the #1 driver of technology adoption — and AI is set to lead that charge. Join the Global eTraining founding team and AEC industry leaders for the ribbon-cutting launch of GeT’s pioneering AI-driven platform, built to close the digital skills gap, accelerate technology adoption, and confirm project-ready teams. This revolutionary platform transforms corporate training into a powerful catalyst for adoption and retention, with AI capabilities developed directly from client needs. By turning company data into actionable knowledge, it bridges the gap between information and insight. More than a feature upgrade, this is a fundamental shift toward learning that is just-in-time, just-enough, and just-for-me — advancing GeT’s mission to “learn faster, retain more, and save time.”

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Automating Forma Project Management and Streamlining the Creation and Management of Families

This presentation will focus on using the integration between Autodesk Forma, Revit, Power Automate, and Power BI software to effectively manage projects and family creation. Using Power Automate, project management tasks in Autodesk Forma are automated, reducing team members' workloads. Power BI is then used to analyze data collected from Autodesk Forma, providing real-time insights into project progress and performance for swift decision making. Additionally, in family creation, collaboration with domestic equipment manufacturers facilitates semiautomated creation of families with manufacturer specifications. Integration with Inventor software streamlines the creation of equipment parts like support steel, further enhancing the efficiency of the family creation process. Finally, the created families are managed in a database within Power BI, contributing to improved project productivity.

31p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

Reinventing Autodesk® Revit®: Concept to Fabrication

Learn to take your conceptual designs beyond the marketing image through to fabrication. This class describes the solution that we implemented for one of our clients recently where we took an Autodesk Revit conceptual mass to fabrication using Autodesk® Inventor® software. The class will demonstrate the workflow developed to take us from the design brief (a marketing image and five sections), into the conceptual massing environment in Revit software. Here we defined, panelized, and optimized the façade design before coordinating with the proposed steelwork design. This coordinated design was then taken into Inventor to create the fabrication detail necessary for automated fabrication and delivery to site. The final stage of this workflow saw the panels transferred back into Revit to coordinate and design the final supporting bracketry. This class showcases the workflow from Revit to Inventor and back again and highlights the benefits of adaptive components and massing tools to realize your designs.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Legacy to Digital Prototyping: Scan. Model. Transform.

Elevating the digital maturity of our clients' factories, we aim to transform traditional manufacturing practices by transitioning from outdated paper-based drawings to the powerful concept of the Digital Prototyping. We start by scanning the facility to generate a 3D point cloud, which forms the base for architectural and MEP models in Revit software. These are imported into Inventor software, where we design and optimize the production line with machinery, conveyors, and robots. Factory Design Utilities software allows us to quickly build detailed layouts. With Navisworks software, we perform clash detection and offer virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. FlexSim simulates the workflow to ensure efficiency. For data management, we use Vault Pro software and Autodesk Forma, while Autodesk Tandem software improves operations. This journey helps clients move beyond outdated systems and embrace the Digital Prototyping and Digital Prototyping.

48p

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