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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Structural Simulation for Architects: An Introduction to Structural Thinking for Design Students
Teaching structural design to architecture students is a bit like teaching a bowling ball to float. Both design students and bowling balls require a change in their core states to be successful in their relative tasks. Visual thinkers, like most architects, struggle with the analysis and calculation process of structural design. As a result, they rarely gain comfort with the iterative requirements of designing compelling structures that are additive to design expressions. By introducing architecture students to structural simulation in Autodesk® Revit® software, the learning process is modified to work with visual thinkers—developing a stronger connection to the design process and improved direct feedback (visual in nature) to the ramifications and potentials of design decisions. This class will outline the opportunities and pedagogy of structural simulation as a predesign effort and design development strategy in the architectural education studio course.
Las Vegas 2026
Revit Structural Connections for Design Engineers
The Revit Structural Connections tool brings steel connections into the design environment, and using it as a structural design consultant might require borrowing strategies from detailing and fabrication workflows. This session will share lessons learned from developing connections for the Revit 2027 Snowden Towers Sample Project, focusing on how engineers can effectively use the tool in a design workflow. Through practical examples, we'll explore approaches to connection modeling, as well as key considerations and ways to get useful results without overcomplicating the process. The goal is to help structural engineers understand where the tool fits, how to use it efficiently, and how to make it work within their projects.
22p
26p
Hands-on Lab / London 2017
Dynam(o)ite Your Structural Design
This lab is designed for structural engineers and designers who struggle with non-economic and unsustainable structural designs. It is a cliché that in the world of structural engineering, too often we have to face lack of time and impossible design changes that negatively influence the sustainability of a construction. We are challenged in making several structural analysis models, finding the best solution, leading in design of economic structures. In this class you will discover a whole new way of modelling and analysing your structures. You will learn how to create complex structural steel models with Autodesk Dynamo and Autodesk Revit. You will discover how to rewire your analysis system using Autodesk Dynamo and Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional. And finally you will get surprised how easily you can handle almost any complex rebar design in Autodesk Revit with Autodesk Dynamo.
New Orleans 2022
Sustainable Structural Design: Answering the Global Environmental Challenge
Although the structure of any design is its backbone, it is also one of the top areas in construction that adversely impacts the environment. But with the technology available today, we can reduce this environmental impact. Whether it’s eliminating wastage or minimizing embodied carbon, we have the means to reduce both short- and long-term environmental impacts and make structural design and engineering sustainable for our planet. This class will focus on the technologies available to structural designers and engineers today to work on connected and collaborative workflows and reduce waste, optimize material use, and make decisions to minimize embodied carbon. This class will also look at one of the top examples of using alternate structural materials in a commercial building, heavily reducing the environmental footprint of production and manufacturing.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Structural Design to Fabrication with AEC Collection—Part II
This class is the next level up from the “Structural Design to Fabrication: Revit and Advance Steel—Buddies for Life” class at Autodesk University 2020. Once you have designed, simulated, and generated the fabrication drawings, the next step is making them available to the field teams. On top of that, tracking the changes and ensuring the site teams have access to the latest documentation is one of the main challenges. This class will focus on the various office-to-field workflows you can use to share the latest and greatest structural BIM (Building Information Modeling) data and fabrication drawings with the extended teams in the field. You will learn about the Forma Data Management workflows that come in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection that you can use to share and compare different versions of structural BIM data and fabrication drawings for effective decision-making processes in the field. This class will also cover the process of creating and managing issues related to structural field workflows.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
BIM-Driven Engineering: Structural Design Without Redundant Workload
Structural engineers are quite familiar with the disconnect between design and documentation tools. Construction documents have our engineering analysis in their DNA. Despite this connection, we create these documents using tools that don't share information. The impact of this disconnect ranges from mild inconvenience to profit-crushing time sinks. What if our tools could "talk" to one another? Imagine structural modeling, interdisciplinary coordination, engineering analysis, design, and final documentation creation on a unified platform. Given today's powerful BIM (Building Information Modeling) environments, this workflow isn't a dream. This class will examine real-world collaborative tools for a BIM-driven structural-engineering design process inside the Revit environment. What should structural design look like without the burden of parallel workflows? Case study: Revit-driven design of steel structures with real-time model updating using ENERCALC Structural Engineering Library design calculations.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019
Design Automation for Structural Engineering
In the structural engineering industry, one of the challenges is to reduce manual and tedious design tasks. Computational design tools such as Dynamo give structural designers, engineers, and detailers the possibility to automate the creation of their deliverables to build structures with minimal energy. That way, they spend less time on the repetitive tasks and more energy on the important parts of the design. In this class, you’ll learn how Dynamo can support design automation and computational modeling workflows for structural analysis and design of concrete and steel structures. You’ll learn about the appropriate packages to perform automation in your own daily workflows, and you’ll receive a set of teaching examples.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020
Design Automation for Structural Engineers
In the structural engineering industry, one of the challenges is reducing manual and tedious design tasks. Computational design tools such as Dynamo software give structural designers, engineers, and detailers the possibility to automate the creation of their deliverables to build structures with minimal energy. By doing so they spend less time on the repetitive tasks and more energy on the important parts of the design. In this class, you’ll learn how Dynamo can support design automation and computational modeling workflows for structural analysis and design of concrete and steel structures. You’ll learn about the appropriate packages to perform automation in your own daily workflows, and you’ll receive a set of teaching examples.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2017
The Structural Design Workflow Based on Revit as a Core Platform with Dynamo
This class will present the new structural design workflow based on Revit software as a core platform. It improves your work dramatically. This workflow makes it easy to manage all the data together, such as data sharing with other industries, drawing, structural analysis, and so on. You can connect the acquire information from Revit to others (for example, other industries and software) through Dynamo software. We'll focus on the design workflow across the departments-Revit Structure software and Revit MEP software. We'll look at some utilizations of Dynamo to connect Revit with other Autodesk products, like Robot Structural Analysis Professional software. We'll show how to interconvert Revit data to and from existing structural analytical tools such as Microsoft Excel and in-house development programs. And we'll cover how to draw a structural drawing and how to manage it with Revit and Dynamo. This session will explore the above techniques as they have been used for actual building projects.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018
Value Enhancement in Optioneering Through Computational Structural Design
Computing power is increasing exponentially, however, structural engineers are only starting to realize its power for design automation. This talk will focus on how this can be used to provide optioneering in early project stages, and investigate a computational scheme design tool. The talk will deconstruct the tool and its logic to demonstrate the integration between the various Autodesk packages and how this is formed into a cohesive product to provide valuable information for design teams. The tool provides metrics such as material cost, embodied C02, and program implications, while utilizing the Atkins Human-Centered Design toolkit to ensure a holistic appreciation of project requirements. The talk will feature exemplar uses of the tool on pilot projects and will quantify the increased value achievable over conventional design approaches. We will then discuss future improvements to the tool and how computational design could be used in other ways to improve structural design.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Structural Engineering BIM: Project Success Via Best Practices and Innovation
The steady ascent of powerful building information modeling (BIM) environments has made 3D modeling the unrivaled industry standard for building design professionals. But how do you critically evaluate whether your structural engineering team is keeping pace with industry standards? In today's rapidly evolving landscape, BIM usage for structural engineering production intersects with analysis and design, interdisciplinary coordination, documentation, construction administration, and beyond. Awareness of both current mainstream practices and emergent technologies is critically important for structural teams to remain competitive and vibrant. This class will take you inside the daily BIM workflows of an industry-leading structural engineering firm. In this session, we'll cover practical use of Revit software for structural projects, we'll explore use of innovative structural design tools that integrate with the Autodesk BIM ecosystem, and we'll examine actual case studies of successful projects using these approaches.
58p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Rule-Driven Building Design: Connecting Structural Analysis, Autodesk Forma, and Informed Design
Learn how to automate decision making in type 5 designs by connecting structural analysis, product data, and off-site construction workflows across the Autodesk platform. This class will demonstrate how to integrate a Structural Analysis Design Engine (SADE) with Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) to automate shear wall placement, then propagate those requirements through Informed Design to drive product behavior. Using the Informed Design API and parametric logic authored in Inventor software, we'll embed structural intelligence into configurable wall panels assigned to Autodesk Forma masses enabling consistent, data-driven outcomes from early design through fabrication.
19p
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2014
Computational Logic in Structural Design
The visual programming interface of Dynamo is enabling structural engineers with the tools to build optimized structures with minimal energy, and subsequently make their own design tools. Based on the Revit Platform, we can use our creativity to develop optimized structural systems using computational logic in an advanced building information modeling environment. This lab will teach participants how to create and iterate computational space frames with native Revit Framing elements and Adaptive Components, and how these can be used in structural analysis.
Hands-on Lab / London 2018
Optimisation of Structural Designs with Dynamo
The design and engineering of steel structures is getting increasingly complex. Changes are difficult to handle and curvatures are becoming more challenging. Do you want to get inspired by the power and dynamics of parameteric and computational design? In this hands-on class you will learn some tricks for optimising structural frame and panel designs, using computational design techniques. Besides modelling, you'll discover ways to involve fabrication data early in the design process. And finally you'll learn about fabrication optimisation techniques. This class uses Dynamo, Project Fractal, Revit, and Advance Steel.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018
Structural Dynam(o)ite: Optimized Design and Fabrication Workflows with Dynamo
In the world of structural engineering, we are challenged to consider many design options, to find the fittest solution in the shortest time, and to be leaders in economic structure design. In this class, you will discover how computational design techniques can help automate this process in design and fabrication workflows for building structures. You will be blown away by several structural engineering workflows that you can use to optimize your designs with Dynamo. All kinds of techniques and computational design approaches will be considered to generate, evaluate, evolve, and cycle through structural design processes. You will understand how to perform your own design automation for repetitive structural tasks.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2016
Precast Building Design Using Revit, Robot Structural Analysis, and Dynamo

Precast structures are a prime example of why Building Information Modeling (BIM) is so crucial to engineering professionals. In a typical precast project, there are hundreds of pieces and parts that need to be tracked, ordered on time, and assembled correctly. Revit software offers the perfect medium to do that; however, Revit software by itself cannot yet perform a complete structural analysis and design, but offers some tools to help in doing so. In this class, we will explore the process of creating an analytical model of a typical precast residential building, exporting and running the structural analysis in Robot Structural Analysis software, and then transferring the reinforcing back to Revit software. Revit software and Robot Structural Analysis software are not specifically tailored to tackle all things precast, but the .NET framework and the Dynamo extension make it easier to streamline workflows. We will also look at how to use Dynamo to automate precast drafting and design. This session features Robot Structural Analysis and Revit. AIA Approved

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019
Robot Structural Analysis API Add-Ins as Benefits for Structural Design Modeling
Custom-tailored software has never been easier to achieve in Robot Structural Analysis software. If you’re writing, or willing to write, add-ins for Robot Structural Analysis to expand its capabilities, this is the perfect place to get to know the subject and meet the people who use the Robot Structural Analysis API.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017
Optimize Your Structural Design Using Revit and RISA
This class will take a full building model from Revit software into RISAFloor, RISA-3D, RISAFoundation, and RISAConnection for an optimized structural design. We will focus on the newest addition to the RISA-Revit link with RISAConnection. The RISAConnection link can transfer your steel connections between Revit and RISA, and RISAConnection will do all the design checks and send the design details back to Revit. Now you can bring the entire structure into RISA, including the connections from Revit, and round-trip a full design back to Revit. This class will demonstrate the workflow from the perspective of the structural engineer between Revit and RISA.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
How Automated and AI-Powered Structural Engineering Accelerates Building Design
Recent news of artificial intelligence (AI) advances have us all wondering how our professions will change. Committed to driving future-ready innovation, WSP Digital Solutions engaged with Autodesk Research to explore the potential of AI-assisted automated structural design after seeing a prototype at Autodesk University 2019. In this class, you'll see how we worked together to understand the technology's promise and how to use it effectively. We'll describe the possible benefits we identified, from more-meaningful, agile engagements with architects in early design phases through assistive technology that automates away tedious tasks and helps explore more options ("rapid optioneering"), to surfacing sustainability trade-offs when most impactful decisions can be made. We'll also address the fears around this digital transformation. Finally, we will share how our unique collaboration came to be, and how you too can engage with Autodesk to prepare for and shape the future of work and the world of tomorrow.
12p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Robot Structural Analysis, but Were Afraid to Ask
If you’ve already used calculation programs in structural design, it’s time to get to know the Robot Structural Analysis Professional software better. You’ll learn how to use its strengths, design codes, advanced analysis, and data exchange. If you don’t go forward, you go back—and the Robot Structural Analysis software doesn’t stand still....
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