Attend this class to learn how to map, build, and implement your own custom apps in Autodesk PLM 360. This class starts from scratch on workspace, workflow, and data creation. We will cover mapping business processes into Autodesk PLM 360; creating and implementing workspaces; creating custom workflow maps, lifecycles, and revisions; and customizing your reports and dashboards. This class builds on the first two classes in the Autodesk PLM 360 PowerTrack.

We face misunderstandings, confusion and blame on a daily basis due to poor project planning in the construction industry. Why are we always behind on our tasks and why do we not make our deadlines? Why are our protocol documents volumes of pages that nobody ever reads? This session provides an introduction to better BIM Execution Planning – Contracting for the right BIM at the right time for the right people and for the right reason, all in promotion of better collaboration, coordination and communication. This session includes a case study of how we can integrate our BEP's with our 3D models using Autodesk BIM 360.

This class is based on FATHOM’s experience using Fusion 360 software to design a complex, functional, 3D-printable piece of lab equipment—a cloud-connected microbiological culture incubator called Crucible that’s capable of simulating extremophile environments. After a brief introduction to the project and its challenging requirements, we’ll dive into structuring designs that have powerful timelines, yet are conducive to successive design revisions by a large distributed engineering team. We will also explore how the final look of the product relates to the constraints of 3D printing and the importance of self-supporting geometry. Finally, we’ll discuss why and how we created a slicer for fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers inside of Fusion 360 software. This session features Fusion 360.

If you can model it, you can schedule it. Using schedules in Autodesk® Revit software is a powerful way of viewing the information in your Building Information Modeling (BIM) projects. Most users create basic schedules and have a good understanding of how to create schedules. What most users do not know is some of the more powerful features of schedules. This class will explore some of the lesser-known aspects of creating schedules, such as creating embedded schedules, using conditional formatting in schedules, and understanding key schedules. We will also dive into shared and project parameters and how to use them in calculated formulas.

Why have we committed ourselves to using Autodesk Software for planning and operating our Factories? Autodesk provides toolsets with unique capabilities, driven by users and the market – but most important: They can collaborate. After an introduction towards a shared understanding, challenges and showing facts in using Autodesk's tool chain for Building- & Building Infrastructure and Production Facilities, I will showcase how to set up an Integrated Factory Model within an datamanagement environment and how to implement "next generation" tool like BIM360 and more... Additionally I've prepared this teaser to better understand the content and purpose of this presentation: https://a360.co/3urmPzm

Infrastructure projects are increasingly adopting BIM in design and construction delivery, frequently driven by owner demand. Contracts are specifying BIM deliverables, adoption of standards and asset data obligations that can be daunting for inexperienced as well as more capable suppliers. This class will review example BIM obligations in infrastructure contracts to understand what is being asked, its complexity, its suitability and appropriateness, in order to consider ways of meeting the requirements. A range of strategies to deliver requirements will be discussed that will include BIM tool selection, interoperability considerations, information standards such as ISO 19650, open BIM usage and techniques for meeting data handover obligations. The value of adopting a platform approach will also be explored where organizations can leverage consistent technologies and processes between projects whilst offering flexibility to meet varying requirements and participant capability.

Engineer-to-order (ETO) configurators offer a powerful way to capture engineering and business rules and generate reliable and timely engineering drawings, 3D models, and product data. The challenge is to harness this capability within sales, order, and other managed workflows. Join experts in the design and development of solutions around Inventor ETO and Autodesk PLM 360 cloud-based product lifecycle management products and services to review the challenges and opportunities for meeting this challenge. In this class, we review the workflow management requirements of ETO solutions and consider configuration management architectures and tools that can support this need.

Join our session to learn more about how Lenovo, TGX and NVIDIA make remote collaboration seamless. No matter your location, software application, or data set, the TGX remote solution has you covered using 30-50% less bandwidth. Additionally, TGX gives the Remote Worker the same experience they get at the office including support for multiple high-resolution displays and responsive keyboard and mouse control. So, whether it is connecting to a virtual machine in the data center or to a workstation, our solution is what you've been waiting for.

Universities set up relationships with companies as a way to bring real-world experience to the students. The students get a better understanding of production needs, practical working experience, and production credit prior to graduation. The university gets support from a production house and a connection to benefit future students. For the production company, this provides an increased labor force, an opportunity to share work practices, and potential employees after graduation. There are opportunities to make a successful connection and provide students great hands-on experience while in school, along with some pitfalls. During this class, we will talk about how to work effectively with production houses in a university setting and cover some of the pitfalls you may encounter along the way.

This presentation goes back to the basics and looks at the value and cost drivers of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in 4 main economic categories: users' experience and skill level, the BIM policies of the project or firm, scalability, and level of utilization. The session will introduce many subtopics of these categories, each of which is its own lever or driver of costs. Some will be abstract, others concrete-but if a firm studies them, it can identify drivers to prioritize if they increase value, or control if they raise costs wastefully.

Arkio is a new collaborative design tool that enables designers to work together on buildings, interiors and urban plans using VR, AR, PCs, tablets and phones. In this session we will demonstrate Arkio live and show how it can be used to quickly sketch various design options on top of Revit and BIM 360 models and how the resulting designs can be exported back as native Revit geometry and families. During these live demos we will show examples of how Arkio is being used by architects, urban planners and educators. We will talk about how features like designing with parametric shapes, real-time program calculations, sun studies, sections and shared views are helping our users streamline their design process.

This class helps you explore the actual application of industry BIM standards, such as Industry Foundation Classes, COBie, and Levels of Development. How do these standards affect professional services agreements and deliverables? How will they affect design team collaboration? How will they support healthy competition while increasing quality and reducing costs for owners? We demonstrate examples of IFC and COBie exporting from Revit®-based software as well as samples of levels of development for use in model-sharing agreements. Extended discussion explores the actual application of industry BIM standards and the effects they have on professional services agreements, project delivery, and collaboration.

Arkio is a new collaborative design tool that enables designers to work together on buildings, interiors and urban plans using VR, AR, PCs, tablets and phones. In this session we will demonstrate Arkio live and show how it can be used to quickly sketch various design options on top of Revit and BIM 360 models and how the resulting designs can be exported back as native Revit geometry and families. During these live demos we will show examples of how Arkio is being used by architects, urban planners and educators. We will talk about how features like designing with parametric shapes, real-time program calculations, sun studies, sections and shared views are helping our users streamline their design process.

Everyone knows that Autodesk Revit software is a Building Information Modeling program and it has intelligence when modeling. However this intelligence is sometimes lost when you create details. In this class, we will show how to create intelligent details using detail components and nested detail components. By doing this, we will be able to keynote these elements to maintain a consistent noting procedure and be able to send this information out to our spec writer so even the detailed items are not missed in the specs. If keynoting is not your choice, we will also cover how to tag these elements so that you achieve consistent notation of the details on every project.

In this hands-on lab, we demonstrate how to build a workflow in Autodesk PLM 360 cloud-based software. We cover planning the workflow and building and defining simple condition scripts, action scripts, and validation scripts. After the initial presentation, attendees work with PLM 360 to build out their own workflows.

Advance2000 Cloud Computing Platform User Group. This panel will consistent of actual industry experts that currently use the Advance2000 private AEC Collaboration Cloud. This panel will discuss the reasons why they each migrated their practices to the Advance2000 cloud, other options that were explored, their experiences in migrating to the cloud and how their firm has benefited by partnering with a cloud provider.

In today's fast-paced world it is becoming increasingly important to know how to utilize the design information received to create the most efficient and accurate plan for the construction of the designed systems. We'll talk about how we work with design models outside of Building Information Modeling (BIM) coordination to get more accurate information to estimators, foremen, and electricians. There will also be a brief overview of how we approach the subject of prefabrication from an electrical view.

Learning is a continuous journey, but there are times when you just need answers: soon, immediately, and eventually. Soon: You took training a while ago but want a quick refresher before you dive into your next project. This type of learning is often put off or just skimmed because it needs to be brief and high-level Immediately: You're in the middle of designing and need one more component to complete your task. You might be able to do a web search for what you need, but how can you be sure it is the correct information? Eventually: You want to learn more about a product or delve into something completely new in a comprehensive way. You need substantial information presented in a way that is digestible for your style of learning. This type of training can be the hardest to justify and get supported. In this session, we look at how progressive organizations use eLearning and technical support to address their team’s common needs, keeping them focused on their goals.

This class will cover guidelines, best practices, and workflows to capitalize on the time spent modeling in Revit software. Attendees will learn how to generate various types of visualizations that will lead up to rendering in the cloud, and then how to use them for virtual reality (VR). They will learn best practices on proper modeling techniques, workflows, and some of the tools available in the cloud render service. Topics covered will include the various types of visualization available, A360 rendering (what it is and why use it with Revit), what it takes to get a great render, best practices for loadable and system families, light fixture use, setting up scenes, materials overview, preparation of the view, render settings, cloud tools, benefits, and tips and tricks.

Attend a panel discussion led by Autodesk, Inc., subject-matter experts and architectural firms that are using the Dynamo visual programming language extension. Leave with an understanding of how the Dynamo extension is extending workflows based in Revit software and is helping architects to drive Computational Building Information Modeling (BIM) from the earliest stages.