In this instruction demo, we’ll explore the built-in Fusion Lifecycle App Store. We’ll take an in-depth look at what apps are available, how to preview their contents, and what needs to be done to make them work in your tenant. Once you select install, the journey just begins, and we’ll walk through the steps of configuring the workspace(s) installed in your tenant. From setting the roles and permissions, to understanding the scripts, to reverse engineering the workflows, we’ll cover everything you need to know and do to make these out-of-the-cloud workspaces work in your tenant. We’ll also cover how to remove App Store workspaces, if you decide to not use one.

This will be a technical step-by-step presentation showing you how to set up, maintain, and use Vault Professional data outside of your firewall. Topics covered will include shared views, shared data, and project sync using Autodesk Drive and Fusion Team. We’ll cover real end-user customer experiences and use cases.

AutoCAD Plant 3D software and Vault data management software have been able to work together for some time now, but there have been a lot of improvements since the early days. Have you wanted to increase the level of security of your AutoCAD Plant 3D projects, add versioning and check-out; and in workflow, make it easier for other offices to work on your AutoCAD Plant 3D project with you seamlessly? If you have thought about this but thought Vault was too difficult or too hard to send AutoCAD Plant 3D projects to, then this class can show you how easy it can be. We'll look at how incorporating Vault into your AutoCAD Plant 3D project workflow can secure the data, make collaboration seamless, and make design work faster.

Join us to explore methodologies and workflows to collaborate.In this roundtable discussion, join your fellow users and tell us your success stories on how you overcome these challenges or share your failures and the issues you encountered.

This class demystifies the PLM implementation process and shows through a case study that Autodesk PLM 360 cloud-based software enables you to be up and running in a matter of months. We focus on giving attendees an overview of the steps involved in a PLM 360 implementation and the steps that are necessary to plan for integration with other software including Vault Professional data management software, CRM, ERP, and MES. This class also explores the use of PLM 360 to improve cross-functional teamwork and global collaboration, as well as process and data optimization with innovative implementation use cases. If you are considering implementing Autodesk PLM 360 or are just about to begin, this class helps you prepare for your experience and gives you the knowledge to prepare ahead and accelerate the process.

LAIKA is a stop-motion feature animation studio in Portland, Oregon. Autodesk’s Shotgun project management software has been used to organize and automate aspects of the production of all its feature films over the past 10 years, from Coraline to the forthcoming Missing Link. In this talk, we will present how LAIKA tackles the design and manufacturing of the assets that show up on the big screen, how we use Shotgun software to track our production data (from scheduling to final delivery and beyond), and how we have built an efficient production pipeline using Shotgun as a platform. LAIKA exists at an interesting junction between visual effects and manufacturing, producing physical assets for a digital final product. As we go through our workflows, we will also reflect on the commonalities we have seen in how to create both physical and digital assets efficiently.

All too often the sharing of product and project-related information from product/project development teams into manufacturing is a very manual and inefficient activity, typically driven by people creating, searching for, and chasing data and then relying on individuals to pass the right information to the right people at the right time. As we hear on many occasions from manufacturers, this can be fraught with delays and errors which ultimately impacts delivery time and cost. There is a better way. In a first of its kind, this class will bring together the worlds of product development and product execution to provide examples of how these two disciplines can actually take advantage of each other to reduce the risk of late delivery, increased costs, poor quality etc through poor information, data and processes. Whether it be 3D models, 2D drawings, Bill of Materials data, specifications, procurement, quality management, change management, project management etc we want to show you how you can share and re-use that information to downstream users.Adam Freeman from UK-based CRM & ERP vendor The Access Group has been working with manufacturers for more than 15 years on how they can streamline and remove waste within their make, buy and resource transactions. Autodesk Solutions Specialist Steve Bedder has been doing a similar thing with manufacturers but within the product/project development processes. Together Adam and Steve cover pretty much the complete value stream of how information, data and processes are created, managed and shared and in this class will share some of the best practices on how you can improve the way your business integrates from product development to product execution.

This class is a case study on the integration of Revit by a small to mid-sized engineering firm working in building construction. The class will explore the implementation of Revit by delving into a few BIM projects. The study will show that Revit is not restricted to large projects; rather it is well suited to the “everyday” buildings, such as housing, schools, offices, and more. The focus is on experiences the firm had along the way from CAD to BIM such as detailing, coordination, and standardization. Those experiences are lessons that will increase any firm’s proficiency using Revit without sacrificing production. The class will also show the collaboration between architectural and engineering companies on multi-disciplinary Revit projects. In the end, we hope to show architects and engineers of any sized company for any sized project how to integrate Revit into project delivery and how new technologies such as Autodesk A360 will further increase the efficiency of the BIM.

Key to the successful implementation of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning is the development and implementation of innovative strategies that will support students in thinking across disciplines. This class highlights how the “design thinking” process, a methodology that has been successfully applied in business and multiple fields of design, can serve as a powerful tool for operationalizing STEAM learning in secondary education by promoting 21st-century skills related to creativity, critical analysis, collaboration, communication, and content mastery. The class will draw connections between design thinking and new research in the area of cognition and learning that challenge traditional educational policies and practices. Examples from the Digital STEAM workshop will be used to illustrate the potential of technology enhanced design thinking to support the successful integration of STEAM learning in secondary education.

Autodesk Inventor 2016 software introduced a new and exciting way to work in multiple CAD programs to accomplish your design needs with associative AutoCAD DWG™ software files. This update to the Inventor software core programming has opened more avenues for design and workflow methods involving collaboration with outside parties as well as in-house layout techniques. In this class we will explore the new functionality in different scenarios involving the associative DWG™.

Think Vault software is only for manufacturing? Think again. You know working in Revit software creates a lot of information. Much of that can be managed within the model environment. But Vault adds additional data and project management support to the iterations, changes, and data created throughout your project’s life. In this class, you’ll learn how to marry Revit with Vault Professional software to create a secure single source of truth. You’ll learn configurations and workflows that Vault Professional provides to assist your organization’s current process. We’ll even explore how to integrate BIM 360 software with Vault (and Revit) to learn how to sync the designs to your team site for distribution.

This class will examine the challenges and the most efficient practices to effectively implement a comprehensive Data Management Solution for capital projects. We will explore the various components of data management and the different roles in these projects. Covering both Vault software and Microsoft SharePoint software, we will reveal how to most effectively utilize both tools. We will touch upon document control, master document register management, transmittals, model management, deliverables, progress tracking, and much more.

Vault software is the best tool for managing your CAD data, particularly for those involved in the design and engineering process. Once a design is completed, people outside the design team—clients, fabricators, manufacturers, and installers—will need to see your drawings. This class will show you how to use BIM 360 Docs software as your published documents portal, and how to get your approved drawings from Vault Professional software to BIM 360 Docs—where external consumers can access it through the BIM 360 Docs web portal or a mobile device. We’ll walk through configuring Vault Project Sync to publish files to BIM 360 Docs, as well as configuring BIM 360 Docs to ensure that only the right people get access to the files. We’ll also discuss the markup capabilities in BIM 360 Docs, and how to get the design team to see those markups.

Vault product data management (PDM) software helps designers and engineers better organize design data, enhance documentation management, and streamline revision processes of their product data. Product data is not exclusively used by development teams, but should also be available outside the engineering department. On the other hand, the engineers require data from upstream processes such as sales orders and specifications. And that's where a product lifecycle management (PLM) system like Fusion Lifecycle software comes into the play. Fusion Lifecycle serves as a companywide information source for activities before, during, and after development actions, supported by automated processes. In this class, we will have a look at how both worlds (PDM and PLM) can be tied together to streamline the workflows throughout the whole product development cycle.

In 2015, IMI Precision launched a 5-year mission, FIX8, to fix, focus, and grow. It comprised 8 strategic enablers, including investing in group-wide IT and infrastructure, and working together as a single simplified organization. To support the FIX8 mission, there was a need to standardise our workflows globally to remove waste and increase productivity, to meet the aggressive innovation targets we had set. To achieve our goals, we partnered with Autodesk to implement Vault Professional globally, replacing our disparate systems, to create a backbone for effective data management and collaboration. This industry talk will explore the steps taken and lessons learned, through managing and implementing a global data migration program comprising of 31 sites, across 20 countries, involving a dedicated IMI Global Engineering Applications Team, Autodesk Consultancy, and 5 Autodesk Partners.

You’ve been using AutoCAD software to produce your drawings for some time, and you have a huge library of details. Now that you’re moving to Revit software what happens to all these details? You don’t what to just trash them, and you don’t want to recreate them in Revit software. In this class, we'll look at the next step in your transition to Revit software. We'll see how you can still use those details right in your Revit projects straight from AutoCAD software. We’ll explore how we can bring those existing details into Revit software and have them be referenced correctly in our projects just like they were created there. We’ll even look (when you have time) at how to Revitize your AutoCAD details to start building a true Revit detail library. So, if not being able to use your details is holding you back from switching to Revit software—or you're just not sure how to do it—don’t let that stop you. You don’t have to throw them out—they’re still good. This session features Revit, AutoCAD, and Collaboration for Revit. AIA Approved

Vault software helps customers to manage construction data in a worldwide, collaborative environment. This class is designed to assist you in defining and implementing Vault software in a worldwide collaboration context with PLM and DMS systems. We share experiences, approach (Governance Methode), and advice from an ongoing customer project that will help you identify tasks and tools to implement business processes between Vault and PLM and DMS systems.

Creating a fully attributed 3D model to satisfy the BIM requirements of a project has become a requirement for many projects due to the BIM Level 2 government mandate. Current BIM software is primarily focused on architectural applications and overlooks the specific requirements of complex and large-scale landscape architecture (LA) and master planning (MP) projects. The talk will outline how we developed a script for Civil 3D to add additional attributes to C3D and AutoCAD objects; Surfaces, Blocks and Solids, the challenges we faced, and how we approached them. The class will follow our workflow on a 200 ha site for a major event, where we used C3D to create a BIM model for LA, lighting, and signage elements, importing them into Navisworks for clash detection and collaboration with other disciplines, such as civil engineers and architects. We will also cover the fundamentals of what attribute data was required, the rationale behind the choices, and how we managed data drops.

This lecture will cover planned functionality for Autodesk’s product data management software. This session will feature Vault Professional software.

Civil infrastructure projects involve a large amount of collaborating disciplines with as much software applications to support the engineering and construction tasks. A lot of different applications produce a lot of data related to each other, and have to be managed with a reliable solution. During this class, we will take you on a journey of how to support the demands of the project teams based on collaboration and data management, and how to pick the right direction for your project needs. We will share this information based on the experiences at the largest lock in the world (OpenIJ), which is now in the construction phase in The Netherlands.