Accessibility is more than a checkbox—it’s an ethical design priority that starts with your site layout decisions, which drive your entire grading design. As civil engineers and designers, we shape how people interact with and experience the built environment. Prioritizing accessibility ensures spaces are inclusive, functional, and welcoming for all. This session will focus on using feature lines and grading objects in Civil 3D software to design accessible areas such as ramps, landings, and walkways. We’ll explore key accessibility considerations—like slope, cross-slope, and elevation transitions—while maintaining flexibility and precision in your grading model. You’ll learn how to apply Civil 3D tools and surface styles to create accurate, construction-ready designs that meet technical and regulatory standards. Whether working on a small site or large development, this session will equip you with strategies to confidently integrate accessibility into your grading design.

Can you handle the pressure of inventing for civil? This is a down-and-dirty course in Inventor software and Inventor LT software for civil engineers, civil designers, and civil CAD managers. We'll cover the skills needed in Inventor software to create parts and assemblies specifically for infrastructure projects. We'll then add those parts to Parts Editor and export them to gravity or pressure networks in both AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software. During the class, we'll design a curb inlet in 3 parts, import it into Parts Editor, and place it into an assembly. From the assemblies and families in Parts Editor, we'll create an AutoCAD Civil 3D Parts catalog. Lastly, we'll import the new catalog into AutoCAD Civil 3D and apply the new part to a storm drainage system. As a bonus, we'll repeat all these steps and show you how to import the new part into InfraWorks and apply it to a storm drainage system there. If the gravity of your infrastructure designs is serious enough that you need to reinvent parts, this class is for you!

Ground data is key to constructing safe, cost-effective, sustainable infrastructure. As an Autodesk strategic partner, Fugro developed GeoDin Ground app for Civil 3D software to transform infrastructure design by providing designers and civil engineers with contextual and comprehensive ground data through an integration with GeoDin, a leading geotechnical data management, analysis, and reporting software. The GeoDin Ground app allows designers to see into the ground. How does this work exactly? We’ll show and teach you all the major insights in this session. We’ll import geotechnical data directly into Civil 3D, visualize boreholes, and create surfaces and volumes with GeoDin Ground. Finally, we’ll analyze geotechnical data between surfaces and create volume reports. And we’ll demonstrate the benefits of visualizing and analyzing infrastructure in combination with ground layers. You’ll leave the session with a bigger picture of the impact of GeoDin Ground and a practical understanding of the app.

The cities of Fargo, ND, and Moorhead, MN, are divided by the Red River of the North because of major yearly flooding. To address this, a new six-mile earthen levee system that includes five separate interior drainage systems, five 100-year regional storm water retention basins, and five 5,000 GPM storm water pumping stations was designed. Due to the large scale of project and the issues that arose, Ulteig Engineers asked for the assistance of their current reseller, Managed Design. The issues pertaining to this project were file size, slow drawings, and issues around being able to have more team members help with the project. Managed Design was hired to come in during the project to help identify bottlenecks in the process. What will be shown and discussed are the results and the final product of implementing both composite surfaces and data shortcuts into their design process. You will be able to ask your questions to both the prime civil tech designer on the project and the corresponding application engineer from Managed Design.

InfoWorks ICM assists engineers and designers in understanding the impacts projects have on the environment. Extreme events continue to stress local and regional civil infrastructure, and our tools and techniques must change as we design projects in our communities. InfoWorks ICM enables team collaboration and empowers engineers to reach beyond single-purpose tools to evaluate various options against a multitude of rainfall events within the context of the entire watershed. This technical instruction class will help users through a number of considerations to preserve Civil 3D designs in evaluation of possible flood damages across the wide range of flood scenarios.

The presentation will provide an in-depth discussion of effective practices regarding how to combine foundation designs in Revit Structure Suite software with civil-site designers in AutoCAD Civil 3D software to ultimately collaborate with architects in Revit Architecture software. The discussion will give guidelines on where utility modeling for building should transition from Revit MEP software above grade to AutoCAD Civil 3D software below grade and how to use Navisworks project review software in this review process. Key concept to review will be the difference between local coordinate systems that building designers work in as compared to the state plane coordinate system that civil engineers typically use. The discussion will then consider the new American Institute of Architects' BIM Protocol Exhibit E202 that defines the Level Of Detail (LOD) in models on a scale of 100 to 500. The presenter will demonstrate these LOD concepts with case studies from projects in 3 different project phases: design, construction, and facilities management.

Vehicle Tracking software is a comprehensive Transportation Analysis and Design Solution for vehicle swept path analysis. The software enables engineers, designers, and planners at government agencies and engineering consulting firms to predictably evaluate vehicle movements on transportation or site design projects. This hands-on lab will teach attendees how to utilize Vehicle Tracking software's swept-path tools and use them within a 3D environment in AutoCAD Civil 3D software.

Engineers and designers often have minimal existing data when they are asked to provide preliminary designs for roadways, utilities, and infrastructure. An advantage of using AutoCAD Civil 3D software for preliminary design is the software's ability to access and use data available through geographic information system (GIS). Before ground survey is available, you can retrieve surface data, political boundaries, roadways, and water feature information directly from GIS and reference it into AutoCAD Civil 3D software. When the preliminary design is complete and the ground survey and other data becomes available, you can move straight into production by swapping out the GIS data and using the design information generated in AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Complete the "round trip" by exporting design and record data from AutoCAD Civil 3D software back into GIS, making it available for the next project.

This course details some commonly used workflows that will help the typical AutoCAD Civil 3D software user adopt InfraWorks 360 software for daily uses. You will impress your project managers, partners, and clients with these easy-to-implement workflows that demonstrate the power of InfraWorks 360 software combined with the dynamic AutoCAD Civil 3D software design model. InfraWorks 360 software is a great starting point for civil engineers who are looking to visualize and analyze not only detailed design, but also conceptual proposals—all in the same environment. From geographic information system (GIS) data management to Trimble's SketchUp modeling program, this course is a great introduction for CAD designers looking to expand their skill sets beyond 2D documentation.

Come to this session to build on your existing InfraWorks knowledge and get more value from your Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. Learn how you can take advantage of the new Esri Data Connector in InfraWorks to visualize geographic information system (GIS) shape information from connected Esri databases. Learn new creative ways to use InfraWorks styles and theming to present geospatial information to stakeholders and the public. Where does the Esri Data Connector get data? How is it accessed for use within your organization? What can you do with it once you’ve got it? You might be a city planner, designer, technician, or civil engineer working on a proposed capital improvement project. You might be a private industry land developer, or land-use planner, or civil designer getting ready to locate a new commercial or residential development. You could be planning a mine or an electrical substation. See new possibilities for cost-effective efficiency in the feasibility, design, and engineering phases of development.

With our post-pandemic industry emerging into a new normal, our designers and engineers are now looking to technology to enhance collaboration and improve efficiency. With Civil 3D software we now have functionality to provide users with standards to drive consistency in workflows. We’ll review the process GHD developed to restructure Civil 3D templates, providing its teams with the necessary standardization and functionality—from small sites to large building information modeling (BIM) megaprojects. We’ll show you how to rethink template deployment, and what content to distribute. Learn how to restructure your templates using the best practice uses. We’ll share some of our tricks to maximize the benefits templates can offer. Using Dynamo and reference templates, we’ll demonstrate how we used property sets to automate the way GHD enriches the metadata in our intelligent models. We’ll cover the initial challenges, solutions, and ways we improved efficiency and realized more project cost savings.

Although InfraWorks software was created for designers and civil engineers to plan and design infrastructure projects in the context of the real world, it is useful as a site logistics planning tool. This class will cover workflows on how to use InfraWorks 360 software to create professional 3D site logistics plans. We will use InfraWorks 360 software’s model builder to create the site background, use ReCap Photo software to import a 3D model created from site photos, use Bluebeam to create annotated terrain overlays, and show how to import 3D models from several sources such as SketchUp and Revit software to create equipment libraries. We will use the proposals tab to model the different phases of construction, enabling phased site logistics. And we will review how to use coverage areas to model excavation in the 3D terrain. We will also show how to export professional graphics using the storyboard, and we will discuss how to import these models for use in virtual reality.

Now, now, children, let's all play nice together. Remind you of your childhood? Yeah, mine too. But what we're talking about is architects and civil engineers playing together, specifically when it comes to coordinating Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D data on the same project. This class is directed at both Revit and Civil 3D software users. That's right, architects and civil engineers in the same room. We work in both Revit and Civil 3D, showing you proper importing and exporting of data, so it lands in the correct place automatically. We teach you how to ask for the correct data, as well as a good understanding of one another's software. We cover how to create good topo in Revit, and how that compares to topos in Civil 3D. The tools for smooth collaboration exist in both Revit and Civil 3D, and there's just a communication breakdown preventing truly streamlined BIM workflow between the 2 disciplines. So join us and take your projects to the next level.

In this class we will discuss the use of intelligent and informative design applications and 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) in a multiple-discipline project environment. These methods enable the rapid creation of project reports, bills of material, and additional supporting project documentation for both design review and procurement support. Discussion topics include the collaboration capabilities and conflicts between AutoCAD P&ID software, AutoCAD Plant 3D software, Revit software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Navisworks project review software. We will also cover referencing models from various design software, export and import methods, and real-time design review. These capabilities are not only beneficial to engineers and designers, but they also provide substantial benefit to the client, the contractors and the construction managers. We will look at the limitations and advantages to working in a multiple-discipline, real-time environment, and we will touch on some of the most effective practices and work-arounds.

In this class you will learn how to capitalize on scan data collected from a scanner to help validate existing-conditions data and provide the basis for your design process. Incorporating scan technology and total station, see how the raw scan data is registered in ReCap software utilizing geolocation control points from the field. We will then evaluate the data and prep it to be passed up to InfraWorks 360 software for further analysis, such as placement of roads, bridges, and surfaces. After completing the analysis, see how you can extract actual design data from the InfraWorks software model to further the design process within AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Finally, see how designers and engineers can begin to capitalize on this data for surfaces, alignments, and site planning.

In this session we’ll discuss why Hazen chose to implement the Design features of Autodesk Forma for Civil 3D, Plant 3D, and Revit after extensively testing a variety of other Document Management Systems (Nasuni, Panzura, ProjectWise, BIM 360). Things covered will be: How testing was performed and over what time frame. The key factors that led to Hazen to choose ACC. What our experience was with each DMS. How Hazen is transitioning to ACC from other Document Management Systems. What the positives and negatives are of utilizing ACC Design. What our internal feedback has been from both Designer, Engineers, and Project Managers. What improvements Autodesk can implement to make ACC even better. Along the way we’ll provide details on ACC workflows Hazen has developed and their resulting project efficiencies. We’ll also touch on the possibilities of future ACC implementation around the Takeoff and Build features.

Airport projects don’t fit into the typical AutoCAD Civil 3D software corridor workflows. And yet airfield designers require Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows just as much as, if not more than, conventional road designers. Designs have tighter tolerances, quantities are larger, and cross sections more complex. The challenge is in utilizing creative and sometimes unconventional corridor modeling methods, as well as configuring AutoCAD Civil 3D software appropriately. Led by a civil engineer with professional aviation design experience in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, this class will cover advanced strategies for modeling aviation projects with Corridors. We’ll look at unique assemblies, including the use of “reverse assembly modeling,” complex targeting, and atypical corridor baselines to model portions of runways, taxiways, intersections, and aprons. If you’ve struggled to get AutoCAD Civil 3D software to work for your aviation projects, this is the class for you!

Automation in Civil Engineering, especially in the BIM space, is becoming a major revolutionary step in the new digital era. What was a job of core software developers is getting mainstream every day with easier programming languages (Visual & Text) and more and more engineers finding ways to achieve complex results using automation. Automation thinking for Civil Engineers is a basic level discussion on how to think in Automation terms. This topic covers how we can spot opportunities, how we, designers can ideate and what it takes to become an Automator. It talks about the questions designers should ask themselves, how to structure your automations, how to validate its scalability among other topics.

Often engineers and designers are asked to provide preliminary designs for roadways, utilities, and infrastructure with minimal existing data. An advantage of using AutoCAD Civil 3D software for preliminary design is its ability to access and use data available through geographic information system (GIS). Before ground survey is available, you can retrieve surface data, political boundaries, roadways, and water feature information directly from GIS and reference it in to AutoCAD Civil 3D software. With the preliminary design complete, move straight into production once the ground survey and other data becomes available by swapping out the GIS data and using the design information generated in AutoCAD Civil 3D software.