Back by popular demand—this timeless class will guide you through the essentials of creating a stunning image. Nowadays it’s not enough to just know how to create a rendering; to sell your image it’s important to know the vital rules and principles of photography. This class will break down the principles of well-known architectural photographs and renderings and translate them to creating renderings using 3ds Max software. This class will also highlight photographic elements and demonstrate how to apply them to 3D renderings. So, whether you want to create better renderings or learn more about photography, this class is for you. This session features 3ds Max. AIA Approved

A typical approach to teaching computer-generated imagery (CGI) is through lectures and a series of homework, then reviewed by teachers. This approach is highly ineffective, requiring additional educational materials and help from teachers during all practical exercises. The most effective learning method is through in-class training with a teacher’s guidance. Meanwhile, using old teaching methods leads to a longer and steeper learning curve, and to an inability to solve practical problems during everyday work. In this lesson, we will tell you about a new approach to teaching CGI based on the Heuristic teaching model. We will reveal how to build a training system that empowers students to learn from zero all stages of photoreal rendering creation in 23 days. As a result of that training program, students learn to create a room 3D project in six hours.

Do you want to create professional-looking renderings? Learn how to convert your 3D AutoCAD models into finished, photorealistic renderings using tools already built into AutoCAD software. In this class, you learn how to use lighting, material, and rendering tools in AutoCAD to place and control lights, add and adjust materials and textures, and control the surrounding model environment to produce eye-catching images. You see how to take real-world objects and quickly create custom materials, and produce reusable models of light fixtures that behave like real-world lights. You also see how to take full advantage of the Autodesk® 360 cloud-based rendering service to create beautiful renderings quickly and easily, and even produce rendered animations entirely inside AutoCAD.

This session has been developed due to requests from clients and describes the process of using a Revit model, the ease of transferring to Revit Live, and the capacity to enhance this with animation in 3ds Max and then move to VR with 3ds Max Interactive. The session, in collaboration with John Lewis, will encompass this workflow as part of their immersive experience for the refurbishment programme of their retail outlets. The course will look at how spatially the existing stores can benefit from using VR to enhance and optimise their space. The session with John Lewis was originally developed over 4 days, with this session outlining how to get existing data from Revit or CAD into VR. The principle development flow of how to use the Revit model and CAD data, with Revit Live, will be outlined and how to get a basic understanding of spatial awareness of the store and then move this model and information into 3ds Max to enhance with animation and effects. We'll also look at representation of this in 3ds Max Interactive (Stingray) to have additional interactive capacity; for example, picking up certain objects and changing the texture of carpet and wall surfaces.

Autodesk 360 is a cloud-based platform of services such as file storage, viewing, collaboration, rendering, and much more. In this class, you will see what services are included for any Autodesk 360 account holder, as well as what extra perks are available for Subscription customers.

Come and see a demonstration on how to use the Forge Viewer to visually control and program a real robotic arm. Using cloud technologies, this is possible from any part of the world where you have an Internet connection. We'll go through all the steps necessary to achieving this, including modeling a real robotic arm into the 3D world using Fusion 360 software; preparing the 3D model for in-web-browser visualization; and connecting the real robotic arm to its 3D model. Using the Forge Viewer, we can customize the experience with controls necessary to manipulate the robot (both the real and the virtual one). This proof of concept could be easily transferred to industrial robots and other machine types for visualization, remote diagnostics, and even manipulation.

This presentation will introduce the making of the concept car project ETRAXX, and show all of the project’s steps. We’ll go from concept modeling in virtual reality (VR) to SubD modeling in Alias software, including many different technologies and new features used. We’ll go from Alias concept creation to detailing in Autodesk Fusion 360, and from the first VR reviews to GPU ray tracing for final rendering.

When using immersive systems such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) for design review, a key attribute of the system is a seamless interaction with at-scale, realistic digital models. VRED software is a well-accepted, manufacturing design-review application offering close-to-truth photorealism and a highly immersive extended reality (XR) interface. Using artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled speech control with VRED software can increase the level of immersion, allowing a user to have direct interaction with the digital model without the need for scene-occluding graphical user interfaces (GUIs)—and also allowing the user to naively interact with VRED, enabling more users to perform unassisted design reviews in XR. Project Mellon is NVIDIA's internal speech-enablement project that uses the innovative Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) software with a prototype dialogue manager and 0-shot learning natural language processing (NLP) to achieve a developer-friendly integration of AI-enabled speech. In this session, we’ll show Mellon and VRED, and we’ll discuss how Mellon is used to easily update command lists without the need for extensive NLP training.

The industries you work in have evolved dramatically as technology has advanced, as have expectations for more-connected and more-customized products, buildings, and experiences. Moreover, you and your customers’ businesses are under pressure to move faster, reduce costs, and eliminate waste. Software has pioneered many of those changes, developing powerful tools for different parts of your workflows: design, simulation, visualization tools—you name it. But, we’ve created silos for those apps and the data that comes out of them. It’s still a pain to work with more-complex data collaboratively. Latency drags on processes, version control becomes a collaboration nightmare, data noise leads to confusion—the list goes on. Join us for this road map session, where we—the Autodesk Forge Data team—will cover how we’re tackling these challenges so you can work better with data across your apps and teams. Explore how you can use, and contribute to, the cloud data tools and APIs we’re developing.

This talk will capture the success story of digitizing the merchandising strategies that maximize computer-generated imagery (CGI) for retailers like Lowe's, leading to savings in the millions of dollars. This talk will discuss the story of how 3ds Max software as main DCC for product visualization and V-Ray for Maya software was interleaved with in-house, developed, proprietary pipeline tools to achieve these results. The hyper-real, reusable images and assets transformed the merchandising efforts into affordable, inspirational outputs with the far shorter turnaround time, eliminating the huge logistics costs of material, space, and skilled photographers. Today’s COVID-19 situation of social distancing and constraints in physical mobility of people and material makes digitizing-of-merchandising initiatives a very compelling business strategy for all retailers around the globe. In summary, this is a proven story of innovative software maximized to achieve a direct impact on critical business parameters.

Working with less-than-ideal 3D CAD models is par for the course. This class will cover workflows and techniques to help users prepare and clean up 3D models for downstream use in simulation, rendering, CAM, and protection of IP.

Maximize the power of Pixar's USD with Arnold software in production scenarios. We'll show examples of exporting and importing USD assets—including full shading, material assignments, and render setup—from any of the applications that Arnold supports, such as Maya software, 3ds Max software, Houdini, or Cinema 4D. We’ll also demonstrate how you can take advantage of the power of USD's composition and variants to address common scenarios in modern studio pipelines. All of Arnold software’s effort for USD is open source. You'll learn what's out there and how you can contribute.

This industry talk will focus on a new perspective on integrated project delivery (IPD) of sustainable, high-performing buildings. They can only be achieved through a building with integrated building systems, which can only be produced through an integrated process. An integrated process depends on the right people and an integrated team, which needs integrated information—that is, BIM+—to function effectively and efficiently. Simulation and visualization are the primary ways in which BIM+ informs the integrated team. Collaboration and colocation are the primary ways that enable the integrated team to integrate processes. Production management methods enable the productive design, fabrication, and construction of the integrated building system. Outcome metrics define the performance of the building and validate the integrated building system. All of this is supported by the appropriate agreement or framework. This session features BIM 360 Glue. AIA Approved

Industrialized construction is becoming more important than ever, considering current housing shortages and a decline in skilled labor. Optimizing factory processes is thus essential for productivity; however, changes to lines can be both expensive and disruptive. In this presentation we will demonstrate how a process-based digital twin can help to analyze and optimize a factory. First, a factory information model is created using discrete event simulation and virtual reality. This model is then updated using a variety of sensors that can measure baseline performance. Together, the model and sensors produce a digital twin of a factory that serves as a virtual test bed for evaluating the manufacturing process and optimizing factory layout and resource allocation to mitigate any adverse effects. We’ll share preliminary results from an ongoing project to integrate energy efficiency technologies into modular buildings with little or no additional lead time and first cost.

In this class, you will learn Autodesk CFD Simulation workflows for fire and smoke simulation, which is important for evaluating life safety in the design of buildings. You will learn how to define fire source and smoke generation, and to explore results visualization and extraction tools. You will discover how to highlight and measure important results from smoke simulation to evaluate life safety. You will also understand the "critical to approvals" aspect of smoke simulation results. We will demonstrate the importance of geometry simplification, meshing, and simulation processes in Autodesk CFD relevant to producing a reliable smoke simulation. We’ll also discuss useful tips, tricks, and best practices.

Both mechanical and architectural design rely on visualization technologies to showcase designers’ ideas. Increasingly, that relies on generating highly realistic materials and lighting. This class will look at the speaker’s pick of the top-seven OSL shaders that you can apply to your scenes in 3ds Max 2021 software to render photorealistic images and animations. Learn where to find and download OSL shaders that you can use in a visualization, and how to customize your own OSL shaders. Use multiple shaders to create a unique material for your models. Get ahead of the competition by learning to create visually compelling photorealistic renderings using these top-seven OSL shaders in a streamlined workflow.

This class will concentrate on how 3D model data from Autodesk Inventor can be consumed within Autodesk VRED Design. The main areas of focus will include: 1) basic principles for import and scene setup; 2) how material definitions can be automatically mapped; 3) using the capabilities of VRED to run successful design reviews and drive a point of sale configurator; 4) how model changes can be managed; 5) creating simple animations and importing complex mechanism clips via 3ds Max; 6) how the information can then be interacted with using the native support for virtual reality.

This class will showcase the Stingray gaming engine's augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) pipeline, and demonstrate how we can use Forge software to power collaborative AR/VR experiences on various platforms. We'll give an overview of how to implement efficient stereo-rendering pipelines in modern real-time renderers to use with today's AR and VR devices, as well as how to work with these devices in Stingray. Finally, we will showcase a demonstration using Forge to load models in an AR application on the fly.

Digitization of creative design workflows has unleashed creators’ capabilities and allowed them to experience the designed product earlier. But it has some downsides. Back in the day, one could go down to the shop floor and walk around clay models having an instant update on the project progress and design evolution. Today, it can be challenging to find the right visualization file aggregating the latest modeling data, unless you know who’s working on the visualization data and you get over their shoulder to have a quick look on the latest evolution. What if the shop floor was digital too? What if anyone could go to a web site and walk through the latest design updates. Find out how you can serve visualization streams using a cluster of VRED Core instances managed through a simple web server.