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Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
From Reality Capture to : Integrating ReCap Meshes for Enhanced Efficiency in Construction Cloud
In today’s fast-paced construction industry, bridging the gap between real-world conditions and digital-project environments is key to achieving accuracy, minimizing errors, and streamlining project delivery. Reality capture technologies, such as laser scanning, allow teams to document site conditions with precision. However, turning that raw data into actionable models and coordinating them across disciplines can be a challenge without the right tools and workflow. This lab will help you to set up a practical workflow that integrates ReCap Pro 2026, Revit, and the module in Construction Cloud to enable efficient scan-to-BIM and processes. It will demonstrate how point cloud data can be used not just for modeling, but also for coordination and clash detection, using mesh representations and cloud collaboration.
39p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Converting Unused Commercial Space into Modern Offices with Revit, Construction Cloud, and Tandem
Renovation projects are on the rise, with digital methods like reality capture, model-based collaboration, and Digital Workplaces proving essential. AFRY Switzerland's “AFRY Bellinzona regional hub” is a prime example. Located in a historic Swiss town of Bellinzona, the 2,000 m² space was transformed from an unused commercial site into flexible, modern offices. Autodesk tools were used throughout: Recap for reality capture, Revit for model authoring, ACC for clash detection and coordination, AR visualisation, site reporting, and a Digital Workplace prototype with Tandem. was a top priority—repurposing the existing space helped meet initial goals, with recycled materials and 90% reused furniture from previous offices.
58p
Panel / Nashville 2025
Reality Capture Unfiltered: How Industry Leaders Are Using AI to Reshape AEC with Digital Workplaces

As AEC leaders race to digitize the built world, three forces are accelerating how projects are delivered - reality capture, artificial intelligence, and . This panel brings together technology leaders like Autodesk and Matterport, alongside industry leaders from Colliers Engineering & Design and DPR Construction, to explore how these technologies are converging to drive measurable impact across design, construction, and operations. You’ll hear how Digital Workplaces are being used to automate site documentation, support goals with accurate asset data, apply AI to flag issues, accelerate decision making, and improve coordination through cloud-based collaboration. Walk away with a clear view of how these companies are helping AEC teams future-proof their workflows and reduce environmental impact with data-driven insights.

9p
9p
Nashville 2025
Hollywood Without the Travel: Building Virtual History with Digital Twins, SCAPEs, and Prop Scans
When Fox Nation’s Revolutionary War docuseries called for A-list performances in historic American locations, GO delivered the future. Instead of flying talent across the country, GO recreated the Boston Tea Party and Mount Vernon as immersive SCAPEs using LiDAR, NeRF, and photogrammetry. In this panel, we’ll break down how GO brought Rob Lowe to a virtual Boston Harbor and Kelsey Grammer to a digital Mount Vernon—without ever leaving LA. From sustainability and cost-savings to creative flexibility, this is a case study in digital twin production, Autodesk integration, and the new blueprint for high-end, low-impact filmmaking.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings
Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.
2p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
“Scan to Factory” with ReCap Local Meshing
Step into the future of design with our class on using point clouds to create segmented meshes, transforming them into powerful design elements that can be extracted using only the data you need. Leave behind the tedious method of 2D planning, and begin using more-immersive and clear 3D factory images, taking all the guesswork out of layout design. Imagine scanning facility backgrounds and production equipment without existing models, and effortlessly converting those scans into usable layout and design elements. Welcome to the world of ReCap 2026 software—where your scans become fully used assets. This revolutionary tool enables you to transform large point clouds into local segmented meshes, extracting only the design elements you need. With ReCap 2026 as your guide, you'll learn to how to conduct quick design reviews capturing existing conditions, create factory layouts, or transform your meshes in layout assets. Use these meshes to get quick clash-able results on your layout proposals.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Exploring Visualization of 3D Objects in USD Format: Transform Designs with Sensor Data Insights
In this session, we will present a research prototype featuring a web app add-in for Autodesk Fusion software that visualizes 3D objects in USD (Universal Scene Description) format using NVIDIA Omniverse. The use case involves an innovative product design process that integrates sensor-collected performance data into the design, setting the stage for a novel performance-aided design approach. This session will begin with guidance on downloading the Omniverse libraries from public NVIDIA repositories, and will cover how to develop a custom Autodesk Fusion add-in capable of presenting a streamed Omniverse application running on the cloud. You’ll gain comprehensive understanding of the potential and step-by-step guidance for this innovative approach, which enables designers to go beyond traditional Digital Prototyping visualization dashboards and optimize designs using actionable insights from sensor data to ensure products perform as designed in the real world.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Eaton’s Digital Prototyping Journey: From Descriptive to Predictive (Preventative Maintenance and Energy Management)

Facility Management operational requirements for data are higher than ever with energy efficiency targets and new maintenance focused industry standards. To solve these fundamental challenges, Eaton is deploying Digital Energy Twins for simplified, contextualized building system integrations. In this case study, learn how Eaton started by implementing a Digital Prototyping of its own facility (Houston Power Experience Center) to improve insights and operational outcomes. What’s next: Eaton will share how Tandem and Bright layer are partnering to deliver additional value in Preventative Maintenance & Energy Management.

25p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Digital Prototyping Summit | Bridging Industry Tools for Advanced Factory Planning: A Digital Process Engineering Approach
This session will explore how Stellantis is continuously advancing factory planning through a holistic approach that integrates a diverse range of digital tools and methodologies. By merging industry tools—from architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC); product design and manufacturing (PDM); and the entertainment industry—Stellantis is broadening the ways factories are industrialized, from early concept through construction changeover. This session will highlight how democratizing data and promoting cross-functional collaboration—among core manufacturing teams, suppliers, and construction stakeholders—enables more-efficient planning, streamlined construction, and smoother ramp-up to production, all while reducing unforeseen issues. Learn how nontraditional tools for automotive—such as Autodesk Construction Cloud, Vehicle Tracking, and Navisworks plug-ins or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integrations—are powering advanced visualization and enabling proactive factory planning.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Generative design meets Digital Prototyping:Transforming Semiconductor Facility Planning
Samsung Electronics plans to leverage Autodesk's cutting‐edge technologies to digitalize the construction process for semiconductor manufacturing facilities. While we have strong expertise in semiconductor production, the construction of semiconductor factories involves a vast array of specialized fields—such as architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical systems—that are difficult to integrate and manage effectively. To overcome this challenge, we aim to introduce a data-driven construction digital solution by incorporating Autodesk technologies, including BIM, Digital Prototyping, Generative Design, and Explainable AI (XAI).
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Empowering Tomorrow's Factories with Seamless Autodesk Integration

By 2027, the Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization market will surpass $400 billion. This isn’t a trend, it’s a transformation. Rising shipping and raw material costs, plus geopolitical instability, are driving manufacturers to reevaluate global strategies. Labor-cost-driven models are giving way to nearshoring and supply chain optimization, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and 5G. Digital factories offer real-time data, autonomous decision making, and unmatched efficiency. Autodesk is uniquely positioned to lead this shift with end-to-end cloud solutions—from factory design to construction, simulation, Digital Prototypings, and asset management. With tools like Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk ensures seamless data flow and collaboration across every phase. This talk will explore how Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization is reshaping global manufacturing—and how Autodesk empowers businesses to build smarter, faster, and more resilient factories.

15p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Product Design-Make-Use: Integrating Sensor Data and Digital Prototyping Technology
Digital Prototypings, powered by real-time data, AI, and IoT, are poised to revolutionize product design and manufacturing workflows within the design-make-use lifecycle. By enabling data-driven, predictive processes, Digital Prototypings transform how products are conceived, iterated, and validated. What if IoT sensor data embedded in a product can detect stresses during its operation, which can be derived to automatically redesign a stronger and more efficient iteration? What if IoT sensor data embedded in a 3D printer can detect defects on a layer-by-layer basis to make real-time, in-situ adjustments to prevent manufacturing failures and scrap? Questions like these are not only being asked but explored and tested at Autodesk Research. Through a performance-aided design approach, we are harnessing sensor data to drive real-time optimizations, using a flying vehicle as a cutting-edge testbed to redefine the future of design and manufacturing.
46p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Twins

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

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Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
From Reality to Resolution: Precision Clash Detection with ReCap Pro
As construction projects grow in complexity, achieving precise coordination is more important than ever to minimize rework and keep teams aligned. This course will focus on using ReCap Pro software’s ability to generate high-resolution mesh files and use classification tools to drive detailed clash detection. Participants will explore how integrating segmented meshes into Navisworks software and Autodesk Construction Cloud enhances the accuracy of project coordination by aligning models with real-world conditions. Through this session, you’ll learn how to use classified mesh data to identify and resolve clashes with greater clarity, facilitating more-informed decision making across project teams.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Model Conditioning in Autodesk BIM Collaborate? When Did That Happen!?
Modeling is NOT just a clash tool anymore! Discover the rapidly expanding model conditioning feature set in the Autodesk Construction Cloud Modeling API, now a full-data workbench for reviewing aggregate model data across formats like RVT, IFC, DWG™, and anything Autodesk Docs software can support. This session will guide you through creating object table configurations to restructure and pivot model properties, enabling rapid identification of key elements during review sessions. Learn how to export data for further analysis and visualization in tools like Microsoft Excel and Power BI. Additionally, get a sneak peek at the upcoming Custom Properties feature, built on the AEC Data Model. This session is perfect for BIM managers, BIM coordinators, engineers, and designers who are existing users of Modeling, Navisworks, and Assemble. Join us to enhance your model review process and elevate your data analysis capabilities!
15p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
A Mesh Made in Heaven: Turning Chaos into Models
Ever stared at a massive point cloud and thought, “Well, this is a beautiful mess”? You’re not alone. But fear not—ReCap Pro software’s new scan-to-mesh functionality is here to rescue your sanity (and your storage space). In this lighthearted yet practical session, we’ll show you how to tame the wild world of reality capture and turn all that on-site chaos into clean, gorgeous 3D meshes. You’ll learn how to go from raw scan data to a usable, sharable mesh model without pulling your hair out—or launching another “scanpocalypse” in your file directory. We’ll cover: When to mesh (and when not to), how to prep your scans for heavenly results, tips to avoid common meshing mishaps, and how these shiny new models play nice with Revit software, Navisworks software, and beyond. Whether you’re modeling existing conditions or just trying to impress your BIM manager, this session will have you saying, “mesh yeah!” by the end.
15p
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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Bringing Monsters to Life in Universal’s Dark Universe: Workflows for Cross-Discipline Collaboration
This case study will follow the creation of the attraction Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment for the new theme park Universal Epic Universe. It will illustrate how Universal Creative, as both designer and owner, is using the full range of Autodesk software and construction cloud suite to collaborate between teams and bring to life groundbreaking attractions. Creating innovative theme park attractions necessitates the blending of disciplines. Attraction designers incorporate mechanical system animation with digital media, lighting, and visual effects using 3ds Max software—while architects and engineers design and document facility systems in Revit software to meet operational needs. During ride and show manufacturing and general construction, teams constantly monitor installation quality with reality capture methods like LiDAR using ReCap and Navisworks software, validating real-world conditions against the creative intent models and federated BIM, thereby completing the project lifecycle.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Reality to Results: How Robotics, Reality Capture, and AI Transformed Construction Progress on a Mega Project
Imagine a construction site where robotic dogs autonomously capture every detail overnight, and when your team arrives in the morning, the data is providing real-time insights. In this session, Exyte, a leader in the delivery of high-tech facilities, will share their experiences of how they used robotics, reality capture and computer vision AI to transform progress tracking on a mega-project into a seamless, automated workflow. Integrated with Faro, Leica, Boston Dynamics, Field AI, CupixWorx, Autodesk Construction Cloud, they created a live Digital Prototyping accessible to all stakeholders. This approach reduced risk, boosted quality, and allowed field teams to focus on skilled tasks. They will show how smart data drives smart construction. The result: a live Digital Prototyping with accurate, timestamped visuals that made schedule adherence easily visible. We didn’t just track progress; we made the timeline actionable, reliable, and truly data-driven.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Zero to Build-Ready: How We Automated Project Setup with Autodesk Construction Cloud Templates
One click of “Create Project” in Autodesk Construction Cloud, and, like magic, folders auto-populate, design workflows activate, and dashboards light up—all before you can even finish brewing your coffee. Join us to unpack how our virtual design and construction (VDC) and design teams built an Autodesk Construction Cloud template that cuts setup from weeks to hours. Learn how we preconfigured Modeling rules (clash detection on the cloud!), embedded structured folders, and auto-populated Assets settings. We’ll demo how designers now sync Revit models to Autodesk Construction Cloud sheets with one click, while on-site teams track steel installations via prebuilt Assets dashboards with no Python PhD required. “This way, teams can focus on the important aspects of designing,” says our lead design manager. Discover how Autodesk Construction Cloud templates auto-invite team members, assign permissions, and deploy build settings, not admin work. This is perfect for general contractors, VDC pros, and design managers expecting to leave with actionable steps to replicate our framework.
27p
38p
Panel / Nashville 2025
Innovators Stage | Out of the Shadows. Into the Light: From Experience Designer to Architect—Success Stories of Women in AEC.
Throughout history, women have pioneered innovations that have shaped the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, laying the foundation for groundbreaking technologies and radical transformations. We’ll explore the powerful impact of women driving change across the industry, and look ahead to the future of how we design and make. Hear from Autodesk Expert Elites and influential product designers at the forefront of transformative technologies. These women have adopted AI-powered generative design solutions. They’re using Digital Prototyping technology to create climate-resilient architecture. And they’re driving the successful integration of cloud-based platforms across large-scale organizations. Whether you're a woman in AEC or an ally, this session will provide actionable insights, inspiring stories, and an opportunity to connect and ask questions with the trailblazers shaping the future of design, construction, and technology.
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