The optimization of injection molding process parameters and part designs is usually a manual process, utilizing ad hoc methods and dependent on user expertise. OmniQuest’s Iliad Design Exploration and Automation Studio now features a dedicated interface with Moldflow Insight software, bringing enhanced optimization and design automation capabilities to injection molding simulation. This interface creates the opportunity for design space exploration through studies such as 1) optimization, 2) response surface modeling to establish mathematical relationships between process parameters, 3) design of experiments, and 4) reliability analysis. By using Iliad’s integration capability and direct interfaces to Ansys Workbench, Python, and other CAE software, you can also control the complete design cycle using a single platform, including running macros and additional stress analysis. We will showcase how Iliad delivers real cost benefits to Moldflow Insight users through multiple case studies.

Customers created a Building Information Modeling (BIM) automatically analyze, to develop a technology that can quickly and lighting design and visualization, you can promote your architectural design. It uses an API of Revit, first, extract the building information needed for lighting design. Then it will automatically place the lighting in individual rooms within the building. Further, through the illumination analysis, to render automatically create a photographic image. In addition, it provides dynamic control design of individual lights that are arranged. This enables you to control the lighting in the actual space. These technologies are also applicable to other facility designs.

This class covers the basics of the Autodesk 360 Structural Analysis for Revit service. We will provide a basic orientation to the service and take you through it to productive results.You will be introduced to tools that can help you to become productive in expanding your collaborative reach for successful projects.

Buildings are highly complex and dynamic systems. As such, determining the most effective ways to reduce energy use can be very challenging. This is especially true in design when there are many different factors to consider—unknowns will reveal themselves and things will change rapidly, all in a compressed time frame. In this class you'll achieve greater ease, continuity, confidence, and flexibility with a range of energy analysis, from concept to detailed modeling in the FormIt mobile app to Revit software. This is all made possible through recent and ongoing advances being made in automatic energy analytical model creation; use of cloud computing for parallel simulation processing of simulations; and more intuitive, interactive, and customizable reportage. This class will comprise largely of live demonstrations that will show the ease and possible depth of energy analysis, what to focus on when, and ultimately how you can trust the data in order to make better design decisions sooner.

FormIt 360 software is a fairly new player to the Autodesk, Inc., field. FormIt 360 is a powerful design-visualization and simulation software that parties nicely with Revit software. Its mobile application and cloud storage make it easy for users to modify designs, whether they’re in the office or on the go. In this session, we will show you how to develop and use a FormIt 360 model for analysis. We will discover how FormIt 360 building models interact with Revit software and its materials. FormIt 360 software’s applications within the Building Information Modeling (BIM) realm, along with its built-in energy analysis functions, are sure to become much-used design tools. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll win over some other “sketchy” application users! You’ll want to RSVP to this design party! This session features FormIt 360 and Revit. AIA Approved

Lightning Motorcycles has been breaking records in the world of e-bikes since the company entered the market. The LS-218 is pushing electric and gasoline-powered motorcycles to be the fastest production bike on the market. But pure performance is not the only goal; Lightning is focused on providing consumers with the best quality and value in every product it creates. Key to meeting these goals and staying ahead of the competition are new technology and ways of thinking. Lightning was an early adopter of generative design. Collaboratively, we produced a part-consolidation and lightweighting workflow that saved 30% of target component mass. In this class, we’ll show you how developments within generative design can be used to gain these benefits, while ensuring cost-effective manufacturing. This talk will cover workflows used within Fusion 360 software, maximizing the integrated simulation, generative design, and manufacturing tools to better understand the part and its performance.

Understanding building data and its application to design thinking requires seeing beyond analytical information. Placing simulation data—the analytics—requires placing the data within a context capable of informing designers, building collaboration with the design team, and educating project stakeholders. Capitalizing on virtual reality (VR) to visualize energy use, daylighting, solar radiation, wind, and relevant design options lets decisions be made with context and an understanding of cause and effect. This class will establish a strategic and replicable workflow methodology to build relevant building simulations (energy, sun, wind) in the design discovery phase, and visualize that data in a VR space with respect to multiple design strategies. Once in VR, the simulation data can then be used to educate the design team, clients, or students to help build an understanding of the role that analytics can play in forming design strategies.

FormIt architectural modeling software connects 3 elements of the design process that are relevant to every project: contextual information, building performance simulation, and parametric modification. Learning to connect these pieces quickly and efficiently in the architectural, 3D sketch-style environment of FormIt enables quick iteration opening new modes of design thinking. This session will illustrate a process that we're teaching architecture design students: first, how to quickly build design context (both from data acquisition sites and the creation of custom models) of buildings and topography; second, how to develop predesign simulations to inform decisions and create a baseline for building performance; and, finally, how to develop formal strategies by using parametric processes with Dynamo software connecting design ideas and simulation data. In closing, the session will cover predesign visualization beyond FormIt, pushing the file to prototyping and virtual reality.

The AEC industries hardware needs are changing, and this session aims to share some quick insights on what you need to look for to create tomorrows office of the future. Your Design and CAD workflows have always depended on a powerful CPU, but tomorrows challenges of larger projects and rapid deadlines have meant you are now more reliant than ever on great hardware. To meet these challenges AMD is ensuring you have the CPU designed for the software you love. In this session, AMD shares it’s vision for the future, but also offers tips and tricks on changes you can make today to rapidly speed up your existing workflow. The challenges of tomorrows AEC and rendering needs resulted in AMD delivering some of the world’s fastest CPUs. This year’s arrival of 2nd Generation AMD Epyc “Rome” and 3rd Generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper has brought an unprecedented new level of cost-effective, high performance CPU compute power to the data center and your desktop. The capability of these platforms is challenging the notion that GPU compute is necessary to effectively reach new levels of interactivity and productivity. In this session, learn how this dramatic increase in CPU power accelerates high quality rendering, simulation and other applications; how high core count CPUs offer the ultimate in multi-tasking capability; and how future applications can use both CPU and GPU together to offer even greater performance gains. This session is aimed at all levels of knowledge, and no pre-requisites on hardware experience is needed to get the most from this in depth class.

Learn about the Inventor Professional software features for advanced mechanical engineering design, finite element analysis, motion simulation, data management, routed system and mold design, and enhanced CAD productivity.

This class presents a workflow for effectively using the simulation tools in the new Sim 360 cloud-based services, which are similar in terms of ease of use and workflows to the Inventor® Simulation. After this class, you will be able to confidently apply this technology to your own workplace. The class focuses on the additional benefits to be gained on top of the simulation features that are available in Inventor® Professional software, including cloud computing, Fusion 360™, and fatigue analysis. We demonstrate real-life customer examples and show how Sim 360 can be effectively used to set up and run analyses to help you make innovative products.

Come hear how leading designers are interconnecting design, optimization and fabrication to support new ways of working.

Dave Fano of WeWork (previously of CASE) will give us his view of where the AEC industry is today in its application of BIM, computational and data-driven design. Dave was the CEO of CASE over the past 7 years and now is part of WeWork, giving him a unique point of view on the AEC industry’s current state and future possibilities.

Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of Nervous System with discuss the design philosophy and fabrication process used to create their amazing work. Nervous System is a generative design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, they create computer simulations to generate designs and use digital fabrication to realize products.

Add the Design Computation Symposium Part 2 to your schedule.

Learn how to make a realistic flood assessment using the immersive 3D design environment of InfraWorks 360 software and Hydronia RiverFlow2D flood-simulation model. Even if you’re not a fully versed hydraulic engineer, you will learn to set up a flood simulation—from building the topographic model to generating a flood animation of water depths and velocities in a few minutes, and with effective communicational impact. See how you can make infrastructure design evaluations based on flood hazards while improving your hydraulic-simulation workflow and producing graphics and animations that greatly enhance your presentation to decision makers. In this class, you will learn the latest advances of the InfraWorks 360 flood-simulation plug-in, you will understand the tools available to define flood hazards in any location, and you’ll export your simulation results to AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

With the announcement of Autodesk Generative Design, we take one of the most common structural engineering problems and turn it on its head. This class will teach you how to use AGD to discover unthought-of designs for a structural aerospace bracket. Learn how to go from seed geometry definition in Fusion 360, to problem definition, design generation, and results exploration in Autodesk Generative Design. Select from generated designs of different materials, safety factors and build constraints. Next, we use detailed non-linear finite element analysis in Fusion 360 to verify the selected Generative Design solution. Learn how to input non-linear properties for AM metals and correctly interpret finite element results. Once verified we will discuss AM (metal powder bed) build preparation with the help of Autodesk NetFabb. Finally, we will compare the performance of our new Generatively Designed bracket with that of the baseline (subtractive manufactured) bracket by physically breaking both of them!

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." Autodesk Generative Design (formerly Dreamcatcher) is Autodesk's amazing and innovative standalone application for generative design. With this revolutionary software, we can design products with the influence of nature and the power of computing. These generated designs are something you could only dream about. This instructional demo will cover basics of the Autodesk Generative Design software. We will demonstrate the steps needed to get your data loaded, constraints added and objectives set. After that, we will then show what definitions are required to process the information and how easy and informative it is to view the computed results. Sample parts will be used for the demo and shown for reference. Other topics will include subscription information, technical specifications and more. Only released Autodesk software made available to the public will be demonstrated.

Join the Autodesk Generative Design team to discuss the future of Generative Design. In this class, participants will interact with AGD leaders to shape the future of Generative Design. Participants will be presented with high level thinking about Autodesk's vision of Generative Design and interact with the AGD team to help shape the future of the technology and workflows. Participants will be guided through strategic thinking exercises, problem identification, and workflow definitions for the future of design.

This industry talk will provide attendees with an inside look at how Innovation Forge is utilizing Generative Design to break barriers in engineering problem solving. Often times, there are additional engineering criteria other than mass and mechanical loading which must be included in the overall development of a design. Aesthetic qualities, surface area, flow characteristics (both internal and external), and manufacturing methods are just some of the additional criteria that will be explored in this course. Attendees will be presented with tips and tricks to achieve the best results for the given design requirements and follow through multiple real-world examples of how Autodesk Generative Design is able to contribute to a much larger design process. To round out the session, attendees will be presented with areas of research to further aid in problem setup and generation.

Pressure for improved top line and bottom line results is relentless. Manufacturers must reduce time to market and improve product capabilities for generating revenue growth, while manufacturing efficiency, material cost optimization, and warranty improvement are key factors that impact profitability. Successful manufacturers are increasingly adopting simulation to simultaneously spur revenue growth and reduce costs. Learn how simulation can improve your business results by making it an integral part of your development process.

We’ve all seen the Dynamo extension used for twisting dramatic towers, and we’ve even seen it used to recreate some of our favorite Star Wars characters. But if you’re a general contractor or work in the construction industry, you may be wondering if Dynamo can do anything for you. In this class, we will demonstrate real construction problems that were solved with the Dynamo extension. You will see demonstrations analyzing slab flatness, cut-and-fill volume calculation, and installation simulation. With the skills and examples taught in this class, you will learn ways that Dynamo could be a game changer for your business too. This session features Dynamo Studio and Revit. AIA Approved

Learn how to use direct modeling in Fusion 360 software to heal imported geometry using the "wound and heal" method. See how easy it is to defeature models for 3D printing or finite element analysis. Need to make a change that would bring a history modeler to its knees? See how easy it can be done with direct modeling methods. Finally, see how to design models using direct editing methodologies.