Mechanical modeling in Revit software entails creating graphical information in 2D and 3D. However, the efficacy of mechanical systems lies in comprehensively analyzing the nongraphical information within the model. This session will showcase how to analyze every duct and pipe segment in mechanical systems to meet design constraints. We will demonstrate how to ensure that every part of a mechanical system is logically and physically connected for optimal performance. We'll illustrate system flow and engineering inspections within mechanical intelligent models in Revit. And we'll showcase how to size mechanical equipment to overcome every system pressure standing in the way of best performance. The session will also demonstrate the extraction of information from intelligent models for optimal performance and design improvements.

Data-driven design in architecture has the potential to drastically enhance the quality of projects. It's not solely focused on enhancing the end result; data-driven design also streamlines the architectural process itself. It goes further than just streamlining tasks; it's about improving the quality of living environments and assuring sustainability. In this session, we'll tell the story of the journey involved in designing a residential building. By combining data from various sources, we looked at the most-optimal options for a case we studied in Warsaw, Poland. Among these sources are passive solar design, green roofs, wind analysis, building materials assessment, energy use efficiency, resource conservation, and waste reduction—reducing carbon footprint. Additionally, we incorporated some urban-scale geographic information system (GIS) data. All of that would not be possible without Autodesk Forma software, which played the critical role. For us, the role of an architect will never be the same after this journey.

Join Miguel Elizardo, Daniel Stine, and Autodesk Forma Representative Andrés D'Silva for an engaging case study and industry talk on sustainable architectural design. This session will spotlight Lake|Flato Architects' application of Autodesk Forma in competing for commissions and achieving WELL Pilot Credits and WELL Platinum Certification on its own office remodel. With a focus on outdoor thermal comfort and wind pattern analysis, participants will explore how data-driven insights from Autodesk Forma help inform Lake|Flato's approach to sustainable design, leading to successful project outcomes and enhanced client presentations

We delve into the transformative power of Autodesk Forma beyond its role as a microclimate simulation tool. Through harnessing the capabilities of its API, we've seamlessly integrated Forma with other essential programs in our toolkit. This integration empowers architects to extend the advantages of design and information insights to all stakeholders within our ecosystem. By leveraging the synergies of Forma, Revit, Speckle, and Power BI, we've crafted a workflow devoid of information loss, offering a comprehensive project overview accessible and beneficial across the entire value chain.

Explore Artelia Denmark's innovative journey using Autodesk Forma software to win a new project amid stiff competition. Learn how the firm used Forma software's sustainability analysis capabilities to create multiple iterations of its project design, testing variations for optimal sunlight, daylight, and noise conditions. Artelia's client had a keen interest in exploring several architectural possibilities before settling on the final design. With Forma, the firm was able to meet this need, demonstrating its commitment to sustainable, outcome-based design. This case study shows not only Artelia's innovative approach to design, but also how the right tools can provide the flexibility to test, analyze, and optimize designs to meet client expectations and gain a competitive edge.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. The past is the foundation for our present—and our potential. Whether you're talking about existing structures that we can repurpose for the future, historical artifacts that can inform our understanding of ourselves today, or circular approaches to managing finite resources, learn how we can redefine concepts of waste, combine experience with current data to create new possibilities, and use new technologies and approaches to do more with what exists—and what existed long ago.

With new technologies emerging, we're always on the road to explore the digital factory. In this class, we'll share the best practices and approaches regarding the digital factory. First, drive increased efficiency of the factory design and optimization based on CAD workflow and FlexSim process simulation, which is essential for the digital factory. Next, ensure the objects can be tracked throughout the whole lifecycle; we built a "Factory Object TAG Rules" system for digital delivery. Finally, connected IoT devices help realize digital twins to streamline, automate, and predict tasks. And we explore AI to reinforce human intelligence so that it can achieve more.

ECOFACT is a €12 million Horizon 2020 project aimed at developing an ECO-innovative energy FACTory management platform for four demo sites: Arçelik (white goods industry), Athenian Brewery (Heineken brewing company), Gullón (biscuit factory) and Tofaş (a body painting plant of Stellantis vehicles). This platform features a dashboard that includes an LCA/LCCA module based on SimaPro and an Energy and Resource Management System (ERMS) built on Autodesk Platform Services. The ERMS consists of a Digital Twin Platform (DTP) that combines industrial digital twin models of production lines and machines with simulation and optimization tools into a single web environment. Using an advanced IIoT infrastructure, each digital twin streams real-time field data to ensure user-friendly monitoring. Managers and operators can run simulation and optimization applications integrated into the DTP for improved factory management in terms of energy, resources, and costs.

This session will showcase a new workflow of creating a factory layout in Autodesk Factory Design Utilities software and using FlexSim to validate the throughput of the layout, identify potential bottlenecks, and balance resource use. We will also discuss the product roadmap for Factory Design Utilities and FlexSim, as well as the vision for Autodesk Fusion digital factory. Learn how Autodesk is paving the way to connected data and seamless workflows in the Autodesk Fusion industry cloud, as well as enabling factory designers and industrial engineers to validate factory layout designs.

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion that dives into the pivotal role of discrete event simulation in modern factory design. Our expert panelists will explore how this technology is transforming the way organizations visualize, analyze, and optimize their production processes. Simulation offers invaluable insights by modeling complex factory operations, allowing users to identify potential bottlenecks, balance resource use, and discover opportunities for increased efficiency and productivity. Our speakers will share their valuable experiences in using tools like FlexSim, revealing how simulation can be used to validate factory layout designs and throughput, its potential in creating digital twins of production environments, and the future of factory design. Don't miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the transformative potential of discrete event simulation in factory design.

Have you ever attempted to transfer your machining process to another machine, only to find yourself dealing with lost CAD and CAM associations and wanting to start over from scratch? In this session, we will explore using Autodesk Fusion Configurations to build robust assemblies of your work-holding systems that will elegantly repair CAD and CAM associations when you need to change course. Through this course, attendees will develop powerful CAD frameworks capable of supporting various computer numerical control (CNC) workflows for both milling and turning that empower the new machine simulation environment. Building on these frameworks, we will explore the potential of Geometry Features to automate the machining process for common part families using toolpath templates, ultimately streamlining routine cutting operations.

This abstract outlines the development of an MSC add-in for Autodesk's Fusion 360, aimed at elevating productivity and efficiency for metalworking manufacturers by integrating advanced digital solutions that embody Industry 4.0 innovations while embracing Industry 5.0's focus on human centricity, sustainability, and supply chain resilience. The platform features advanced simulation and predictive machining tools for optimal tool selection and process parameters, using MSC's proprietary data to enhance operational forecasts. It seamlessly integrates with Fusion 360 for streamlined process planning and analysis, creating a unified manufacturing experience. Additionally, the add-in offers robust data analytics to generate actionable insights, improving productivity, tool performance, and operational efficiency. This initiative represents a transformative approach to manufacturing, combining technological advancements with a commitment to sustainable, people-focused processes.

The industry is responsible for a significant part of the global GHG emissions from energy. It is crucial that modern organizations understand energy use in their production facilities. Energy-use planning should consider not only the total amount consumed, but also timing—taking into account intermittent renewable generation, dynamic pricing, and variable CO2 intensity. On-site generation and energy storage cannot be evaluated without a model of the production process. FlexSim is a simulation product that has been used in manufacturing applications for more than 20 years. Flexcon Helios extends general-purpose FlexSim and can specify power requirements for different phases of any process modeled in FlexSim. The simulation can predict a realistic power curve, and the Flexcon Helios module allows users to define a dynamic policy on how energy sources are used. If coupled with an intermittency model, dynamic pricing, or CO2 intensity data, this approach can assess the total costs and carbon footprint of the process.

How efficiently are your products getting from production to warehouse to shipping docks? As you consider new factory designs to improve these material-handling processes, it's critical to have a complete understanding of how your resources and processes interconnect. When Cardinal Glass wanted to optimize its material handling to minimize shipping delays from the factory, the company used simulation with FlexSim to validate its proof of concept and discover new improvement opportunities. The simulation helped to rebalance the workload and identify a reconfiguration that led to a 29% decrease in shipping operation time. This also formed the basis for a digital twin that enables real-time optimization of warehouse goods storage and dock assignments, with daily assignment, location, and maintenance recommendations.

Learn how to build a rocket reaching the altitude of more than 100 kilometers using Autodesk Fusion software! Welcome to Elara Aerospace, a team of ambitious students who ignite innovation and take aerospace exploration to new heights. Our mission? To build the first student rocket with a bi-liquid methalox engine capable of reaching an altitude of more than 100 kilometers. Through collaborative, agile, and rapid product development, we are designing highly complex aerospace parts to build a rocket that has the ability to conduct experiments in the upper atmosphere. Using the Autodesk Fusion platform—which seamlessly combines design, simulation, rendering, and manufacturing in one accessible platform—we've accelerated our workflow and made collaboration easier than ever. With a unique blend of skills and passions, we push boundaries and break new ground in the industry alongside different backgrounds and cultures. Boundless curiosity and unwavering determination are working together to shape the future of aerospace.

In this session, we'll equip attendees with practical skills and tools to facilitate the integration of sensor data and analytics into InfoWater Pro software's water distribution models using Info360 Insight software. Our primary focus will be the underexplored strategy of dynamically coupling hydraulic models with sensor data, a key aspect in deploying digital twins. These connected models have the potential to save utilities substantial resources through improved operational decision making. We'll discuss the data types suitable for hydraulic models, the preprocessing steps required, and various integration strategies, such as the automatic scaling of customer demands to meet forecasts. The aim is to provide a thorough understanding of digital twins' application in hydraulic modeling, offering attendees valuable insights into this intricate domain.

Aging infrastructure combined with limited funding and tightening regulations are causing great stress on water networks. Water assets are considered critical based on their likelihood and consequence of failure. The consequence of a critical pipe failure could lead to outages, severely disrupting daily activities and access to drinking water—in addition to the financial implications associated with property damage, road closures, and manufacturing disruptions. The path toward mitigating such risk starts with hydraulic modeling in conjunction with sound asset-management practices built into Info360 Asset software. In this session, we'll showcase InfoWorks WS Pro software's critical link analysis to automate criticality simulations, where areas of the network are isolated, and the corresponding level of service impacts are reported. Next, we'll make this data available in Info360 Asset to perform risk analysis, develop rehabilitation decision trees, and ultimately prioritize capital spending.

Join our session to discover how Revit software transforms structural engineering by seamlessly integrating rebar design with structural analysis, tailored for both North American and European engineering and detailing practices. Learn how to import and manage structural analysis data exclusively within Revit, enabling the creation of precise engineering schedules and detailed 3D reinforcement models. This session will demonstrate the transformation of these models into comprehensive rebar-detailing instructions for fabricators, ensuring adherence to project specifications and reducing waste and errors through automated reinforcement-cage generation. Key features such as design reports will be explored to streamline workflows. By adopting these engineering practices, firms have reported a 50% reduction in coordination times and significantly enhanced project outcomes, leading to increased stakeholder satisfaction.

In this hands-on lab class, you'll learn how to make the most of the structural analytical modeling tools available in Revit 2025 software. You'll gain valuable insights into various structural analytical modeling techniques, including tips and tricks for modeling automation. Additionally, you'll discover effective methods for synchronizing information between analytical and physical models, learn how to effectively work with structural loads, and explore bidirectional workflows between Revit and analysis software.

The next generation of Autodesk Insight software provides a simple collaborative workspace for project teams to target, trade off, and track total carbon throughout the design process and building lifecycle using open and extensible data and analysis. In this session, you'll join leaders from Autodesk Product Development and Impact (Sustainability) teams, as well as customers and partners, to learn about new capabilities available today in next-generation Autodesk Insight——and where it's going in the future. This will build upon the product vision and strategy shared in previous AU classes of the same title, and now we'll provide real-world examples to learn from, reuse, and adapt to meet your needs.