In this case study, we will show how we used Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler software to visualize a 450–500 kilometer double-track railway in Norway. We will show how we were able to use the data that we already had to quickly bring up a model of southern Norway and then add the 450–500 kilometers of railway routes. We will also show how we further used the model to create a movie in AVI format of the railway line. We modeled some of the 180 bridges in more detail. We will show how we easily exported the parts of the Infrastructure Modeler model over to Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software and a third-party application for more detailed visualization.

This session covers the QA, handover, and live tracking procedure developed by John SISK using BIM 360 with the integration of QR codes and augmented reality system. The idea behind the process developed in our project based in Wembley (London) is to link each of 743 flats to a unique QR code. Using BIM 360, we were able to link an unlimited amount of information to each flat. The first segment of information linked to each of the flats includes all the related drawings produced by each of the consultants. We developed an integration system between For Projects (our CDE) and BIM 360 Field so we are able to access the most up-to-date drawings on-site. This integration has generated a reduction of 44% of paper used, whilst giving certainty to the use of only Status A drawings. We have linked all the QA checklist that currently we carry out for each flat, in total 17 different types. The iPad used to carry out these checks has been modified with a proprietary software and deep sensor lens which enables the augmented reality (AR) to be used on-site. In all the MEP related checklist we added a mandatory check for AR, and each site engineer/manager used the system to live check if the installation is conforming with the 3D model produced by the MEP contractor. Any issues spotted will be documented in BIM 360 and raised as issue to the subcontractor. SISK is currently working in partnership with the AR company to develop a direct link, which will enable the issue to be raised directly from the AR app. The final categories of information that we have linked include the handover forms for each status of the flat. This makes it possible to automatically inform the next subcontractor of when they will be able to start to work in a particular flat. If not issues have been found, the handover form will automatically inform the flooring contractor when they'll able to start to work in that flat. All the above information is cross-related to our handover program, where each flat has the information of the proposed handover date as well as the actual handover date. This gives us the opportunity to be able to monitor the handover status. The information stored inside BIM 360 has been linked to Excel and Power-BI, so we can have a live tracker of each flat. Using this integration we are able to customise the output information as we desire, for example, from the Project director (who receives high level information), to the block manager who will only receive information re

As a Computational Design Specialist, Oliver spends much of his time handling Revit data. However, this data needs to be represented visually and contextualised in a report to have the maximum impact on key decision makers. Using Dynamo, Oliver has automated the production of a full range of reports: room data sheets, model analysis dashboards, clash detection visuals and visual coordination reports. Packed with engaging graphics, this talk will demonstrate quick and effective workflows for generating high-impact reports using Dynamo, Excel and InDesign. Subjects covered include:An in-depth case study of AHMM's Revit model warnings template and Dynamo definition.How to build a template file to receive data and auto-generate graphics.How to build a database resource and cross-check this in your Dynamo definitions.Using in-built Python libraries to enhance your analytics; automatically carry-out file operations, analyse files, and apply timestamps to your generated data. How to achieve beautifully-formatted reports in Excel.An overview of InDesign's Datamerge tool and benefits of database publishing. Oliver will cover best practice on visual report design and an overview of different approaches to data visualisation. The talk will conclude with an overview of helpful resources.

Minworth is a ﾣ40 million upgrade to the sludge treatment facility that Stantec Treatment are delivering for Severn Trent Water to enhance the production of renewable energy at the site. Digital delivery has been applied extensively to realise benefits and mitigation risks. The presentation will capture these and also quantify other benefits realised through the digital delivery approach.Specifics covered include: 1) project brief and drivers; 2) governance; 3) risk and delivery principles: Minworth Board and workshop; 4) client relationship: kickoff workshop, video blogs from CEOs; 5) DfMA ambition; 6) supply chain and stakeholder engagement; 7) programme and collaboration planning: P6/plan/sigma; 8) digital tools: scanning, VPI, Glue, Synchro, 4D, Field, AV & VR, mobile devices, visualisation; 9) communication and access of data by all, feedback, and tracking; 10) construction and commissioning rehearsals; 11) HAZOP and safe to operate; 12) inspection and test plans; 13) handover experience; 14) realised benefits: cost, cost avoidance, programme, SHEQ, stakeholders, well-being, risk, comparison with other THPs; 15) case study; 16) awards, commendations, and sector papers and articles; 17) future development: asset dand-over; 18) ongoing learning into future projects.

In the class, you'll learn how to use your FormIt 360 data for high-end presentations in the product and with other software from Autodesk, Inc. We will cover several exporting file formats (including FBX, OBJ, and DAE) and demonstrate how these work best with other applications such as InfraWorks software and 3ds Max software. You will learn best practices for working with materials, lighting, and cameras across each software platform, and we will review different rendering engines for stills versus animations. By the end of this class, you will be able to present and animate your FormIt 360 data for high-end presentations. This session features FormIt 360 and InfraWorks 360. AIA Approved

Nowadays available parametric modelling techniques allow for easy generation of geometrically complex faﾍade elements. Evaluation of aesthetical quality of created design variants is often performed using 2D representations whereas physical 3D models are costly. Combining parametric design with design visualisation in virtual reality (VR) allows for aesthetical evaluation, review, design, and optimisation of unlimited alternatives on a full scale without the need for physical mock-ups. Speeding up design process and lowering potentially costs for mock-ups. This combination of virtual reality and parametric modelling has been applied in the design of the eye-catching faﾍade for the new Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, in 3 alternative workflows. One part of the facade consists of 'bone'-shaped elements. Their complex 3D geometry was generated using a Grasshopper model. This parametric model was live connected to a VR model of Revit through an automatic cloud connection using Flux.io, Dynamo and Enscape. Design modifications in Grasshopper were synchronised within seconds to the VR world. This allowed the design team to assess dozens of variants per hour to optimise the faﾍade for transportability of elements while remaining aesthetical pleasant. Combining parametric design with VR allows for quick iteration of design variants while experiencing the performance and aesthetics of the design, not limited to a fragment but for the complete building. This increases the speed of design iterations which may increases efficiency or may allow for a more sophisticated design. Potentially, a costs and time reduction for physical models can be realised. Although physical models will still require for the 'feeling of the design' and as a test of the production process, now the most likely variant can be selected for the mock-up.

Learn how to utilize InfraWorks 360 cloud service for conceptual master planning and visualization. This class will show you how to get started with the creation of a city from various data sources and how to speed up your conceptual design process. Learn how to reuse various data types from Revit software, Trimble’s SketchUp modeling program, and 3ds Max software, which can be used to develop multiple design proposals within a city context while also using native InfraWorks 360 tools to develop roads, water, and coverage areas. See how this new software can help you improve your productivity and reduce unnecessary hours spent on conceptual design visualization for master planning in your organization.

Learn how to utilize InfraWorks 360 for Conceptual master planning and visualization. This class will show you how to get started with creating a city from various data sources and how to speed up your conceptual design process. Learn how to re-use various data types from Revit, Sketchup and 3ds max (fbx,DAE), which can be used to develop multiple design proposals within a city context, whilst also using native InfraWorks 360 tools to develop roads, water & coverage areas. See how this new software can help you improve your productivity and reduce unnecessary hours on conceptual design visualization for master planning in your organisation.

Using Autodesk Forge API, manufacturers, engineers, architects and designers will learn how to build a collaborative ecosystem to address the lighting design process/industry efficiently. This class focuses on interior design lighting and deeply analyzes its settings to prototype an automated system that understands the photometric light preferences, and compute the level of lighting and proper structure to select the suitable options set. Our class will show how we can enhance the BIM collaboration level and tackle how Generative Design can support manufacturers to produce more efficient luminaries with less resources, energy and time. We will learn how to integrate IES files with any rendering software to achieve accurate visuals that can be adjusted and updated at real time. Using Forge design automation API, the chosen design will be automatically translated into BIM data from which we can generate electrical plans and simultaneously calculate the amount of light fixtures.

Behind every great immersive technology experience is a team that spent way too much time destructively preparing their projects for augmented or virtual reality. Well, my friend, come and find out how you can save (gobs of) time by automating common data preparation tasks in 2 ways. First, we'll look at automatically preparing Revit files and Navisworks files in a local 3ds Max environment. In the second part of the class, we'll look at how to use Forge Design Automation Services to automatically prepare data from BIM 360 software.

For a number of years, the cloud has been a topic of acute interest for collaborative working and storage. But over the past 2 years, it's become much more than that. Now a mature, integrated system, the cloud presents a viable option for businesses that need additional compute capacity. At this moment in time the cloud, facilitated by a new integration tool from Escape Technology, offers an alternative to CAPEX spend for short-term projects or requirements. Whether you're rendering a building fly-through or the latest Hollywood blockbuster, there are always points in the project lifecycle that get tight on time. This is where burst capacity comes in. In the past the only option was to purchase or rent additional machines and licenses, but the cloud gives us a new facility. Spinning up virtual workstations, storage, and even render can give studios the extra resources they need without having to worry about purchase prices, space, cooling, and power. In this talk, delegates will learn about how the cloud has developed as a practical concept and is now being leveraged by major production companies and architects around the world. Lee Danskin, CTO at Escape Technology, will explore how cloud workflows can be used to augment - or entirely replace - an existing one. He will investigate the future of cloud working, including so-called ?born in the cloud? studios, and discuss the complexities of adding cloud burst capacity to an existing pipeline.

Verkís Consulting Engineers has gained various benefits from using BIM 360 Glue software. Before taking on BIM 360 Glue, coordination and clash detection of models was a time-consuming process that delayed project delivery. Project managers had less overview over the design process in BIM (Building Information Modeling) projects, and involving stakeholders in the BIM process was often unsuccessful. With BIM 360 Glue, Verkís has streamlined coordination and clash-detection processes involving designers in the cloud environment, shortening coordination meetings and delivering better-coordinated models in less time. Project managers have better overview and are more involved in the design authoring and coordination process. The use of BIM 360 Glue and virtual reality (VR) for design review has opened a new market sector for Verkís. In this class, we will present different benefits of using BIM 360 Glue with different design projects. Verkís is an Icelandic engineering firm that provides services in building, energy, industry, and infrastructure sectors.

In this class, we will cover how to accelerate the transition to connected BIM (Building Information Modeling) for infrastructure with improved efficiency and project approvals through an end-to end design approach using InfraWorks software as the aggregator and design data visualizer. We will walk through one of our road projects and demonstrate the data collection solution we’re using in our data flow solution. Our techniques and workflow include high-end existing modeling conditions, road design representations in InfraWorks combined with built-in road and bridge design tools, ArcGIS Data collection and presentation in InfraWorks, Ramboll Risk Management data representation in InfraWorks, BIM 360 as collaboration tool for InfraWorks, InfraWorks data flow for 3ds Max software or Forge in the future, advanced visualization—virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR)—and more. We will expose attendees to leading practices using InfraWorks for data visualization and aggregation, and they will get inspired about how to improve design efficiency and reduce risk on the projects.

In this roundtable session, we discuss how Okaloosa Gas uses InfraWorks software for 3D visualization, conceptual design, and analysis. We present some of the business problems that any gas utility faces and explain how InfraWorks is helping to solve them, driving extra value and benefit from more efficient workflows. We demonstrate how your existing 2D CAD and GIS data can be easily converted into 3D and how to incorporate other data sources, such as LIDAR and bore hole data. We use case studies to explain how the software was used to analyze impacts on the utility from a planned bridge infrastructure project. The objective of this session is to enable you to incorporate 3D modeling and to optimize your workflows based on the lessons learned at Okaloosa Gas.

Are your subdivision layout exhibits flat and boring? Do you ask stakeholders to imagine key design features because your 2D plans and Photoshop software renderings do little to differentiate your design from those denied by your municipalities planning commission? Do you avoid generating 3D models of your proposed layouts because of the time involved? Add some depth to your proposals by combining AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software to quickly generate and present 3D subdivision layouts in the context of their surroundings. This session will focus on establishing efficient workflows for generating subdivision layouts using AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and then we will visualize those layouts in 3D using InfraWorks software. You will learn how to use the automated parcel layout tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, exchanging layout information between AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software. Then you'll learn how to build a complete 3D model of your subdivision ready for an expedited approval at your next planning commission meeting.

Generative design, Internet of Things, deep learning, advanced visualization, and cloud-based collaboration are all technologies that Autodesk, Inc., is pioneering to facilitate its customers in the imagining, designing, and creating of a better world. But how can these technologies disrupt the current education model? This session will facilitate an energetic and informational discussion among industry experts and educators.

Join us for a bite of cinematic innovation as David Vickery, Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, shares how their team brought dinosaurs back to life in this summer’s blockbuster film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. This session showcases the combined efforts of the ILM creature effects and visual effects teams and how they used data and leading-edge technology to build the real SFX models to breathe life into the dinosaurs.

This class will show you how InfraWorks 360 software is used as a design tool rather than just a visualization tool. Multiple examples will demonstrate how InfraWorks 360 software is used as a unique design tool in real-life projects on all kinds of unimaginable areas, such as telecommunications, architecture, mining, oil pipe layout, geographic information systems, and port engineering—clearly thinking outside of the box! This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Don’t we all want to get the most out of InfraWorks 360 software with a goal of minimizing effort and time, cutting down overall project costs, and going beyond what we ever imagined doing? This session will show you 10 ways you can realize this. Discover powerful advanced techniques for creating, editing, and analyzing models; advanced tips for rendering and visualization, creating custom schemas, and representing transportation features like roundabouts, bridges, and overpasses; or techniques for creating custom scripts that create new or enhance existing capabilities of InfraWorks 360 software. This is a must-attend course for anyone wanting to take InfraWorks 360 software to the next level.

It's one thing to model up a bridge or building to make compelling images and fly-around animations. But what about showing it being built? This class will demonstrate several animation techniques in 3ds Max software to move objects and equipment in a construction or demolition environment.