Autodesk Revit: Integrated Modeling Helps You Shine

Learn about what you can achieve with the new releases of Autodesk® BIM solutions. In this webcast we will highlight the new features of the 2013 version of Autodesk® Revit® and show how these can improve your design productivity and workflow. Autodesk experts and The Revit Kid will be on hand to offers tips and answer your questions.

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Creating Compelling Visualizations and Renderings

Learn about the advanced visualization and rendering features in Autodesk® Revit® and Showcase. In this webcast we will explore how to create eye-popping views and visualizations in Revit and transfer your BIM models to Showcase for real-time rendering and to create interactive design presentations. Professor Ming Tang, from University of Cincinnati will highlight how he and his students create amazing renderings. Autodesk experts will be on hand to offers tips and answer your questions.

Optimization Using Engineering Standards and Analysis

Books of standard machine components are readily available and these items are based on time honored performance standards. For non-standard components engineers rely on Finite Element Analysis to determine if the components will meet their needs. This webinar will show how these tools make it easy to create chains, sprockets, and bolted connections and you will also see how to optimize a component’s design using analysis.

Sustainable Design Workshop

Design professionals the world over are using Autodesk technology to solve some of today's most complex environmental challenges. Attend this webcast to learn how you can apply sustainability strategies to engineering problems using the free resources at Autodesk Sustainability Workshop.

Design Strategies for Improving a Product’s Lifetime

Industrial designers and engineers have an incredible opportunity to diminish the e-waste problem. Attend this webcast and find out how to improve a product’s lifetime through design and get the most out of the materials and energy that products use throughout their lifecycle. You'll hear from fellow industrial design student, Domenico Colaprete of RIT, about how he used basic design strategies to optimize the life of a product, and leave with a better understanding of the role you can play in reversing the e-waste cycle.

Elevating Your Sustainable Design to the Next Level

Learn how to use the energy analysis tools an offered in the new releases of Autodesk® Project Vasari and Autodesk Revit to improve the sustainability of your designs. Explore how to perform whole building analysis, optimize energy efficiency, and work toward carbon neutrality earlier in the design process. Hear how student Ian Siegel used his knowledge of sustainable design to design and build a house worthy of the 2011 Solar Decathlon competition. Ian will explain about the process and workflow used as well as the lessons he and his team learned.

What You Need to Know about Engineering Building Systems as You Enter the Job Market

Hear about the exciting updates in Autodesk BIM portfolio that supports more accurate and efficient design of building projects including the architectural, structural, and MEP systems. In this webcast we will discuss how you can use coordinated 3D models throughout the design and documentation process to enhance collaboration between all the extended project team members. Two special guests from the Yale School of Architecture's Building Project -- Adam Hopfner, Director of the Yale Building Project, and Caroline VanAcker, architecture student and -- will be on hand to talk about this innovate hands-on design build studio for all Yale first-year graduate students and share their insights and experience about leading the student group through the design and construction process, as well as how integrated design helps students be better prepared for the job market.

3D Part Modeling and 2D Drawing Creation in Autodesk Inventor

The focus of this webinar is learning the fundamentals of sketching, constraints, parametric dimensions and creating a 3D solid model. Once a 3D model is created 2D drawings are critical to produce it in the physical world. The basics of creating these drawings will also be covered in this webinar.

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Improving Product Lifetime Through Sustainable Design

While some products should last a lifetime, improving a product’s life isn’t always just about making it last. Learn how to decide on the right strategies for optimizing a product’s life and end-of-life andhow to get the most use out of the materials and energy that your product uses throughout its lifecycle.

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Assemblies & Design Accelerators

Books of standard machine components are readily available and these items are based on time honored performance standards. This webinar will show how these tools make it easy to create chains, sprockets, and bolted connections. Assembly constraints will also be discussed.

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Frame Design

Creating complex metal frames is made simple with Autodesk Inventor’s large library of standard metal shapes and the Frame Generator tools. Once the frame has been created, Inventor can analyze it using efficiently using a Beam Element analysis rather than just using traditional FEA tools. This workshop will explore creating, editing, and validating a frame before a single part is cut.

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From Design to Construction Site: New Workflows for Better Planning and Coordination

Learn about the latest Autodesk BIM workflows for the construction industry and how they help improve visibility into building constructability, coordination, costs, and schedules. Hear about Autodesk BIM 360 Glue - the new cloud-based solution that supports collaborative, multidisciplinary workflows across authoring tools and project control applications.

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A New Way to Look at Statics and Kinematics - ForceEffect and ForceEffect Motion

We will look at the cool mobile tools of Force Effect and Force Effect Motion. We will show you different examples of how you can quickly draw a static diagram, add loads and solve. We will then move to Force Effects Motion and add the motion component to our diagram to see how it reacts.

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A "Behind-the-Scenes" Look at the Autodesk Green Building Certificate

Be among the first to learn about Autodesk's green building certificate program, now in development, that will help students learn the fundamentals of green design and analysis. In this webcast, discover how the fundamentals of building science and the strategic approach to building performance analysis taught in this certification program can help you optimize your building designs. Then sign-up to be among the first students to pilot this program and earn the Autodesk Green Building Certificate.

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Optimization of Manufactured Components - Inventor Parametric Optimization

Creating a solid model is only the first step in digital prototyping. Analyzing and optimizing your design are important and easier than ever. In this workshop participants will perform and standard Finite Element Analysis study on a part. Then they will leverage Autodesk Inventor’s Parametric Optimization capabilities to refine the performance of the part in a digital environment.

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Understanding Personal Fabrication for a Self-sustaining World

Join Autodesk "Maker Advocate" Jesse Harrington Au, and senior sustainable design program manager, Dawn Danby, as they discuss the manufacturing and sustainability implications and opportunities with the rise of personal fabrication. In today's world with easy-to-use software and 3D printing, everyone can be a maker. It also means that the need for mass production of wasteful items, such as disposal packaging, may be on decline. Join us for this lively discussion.

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From Design to Digital Fabrication: The PuriFlume Project at Carnegie Mellon University

With the use of CNC machines and 3D printers, you can produce custom parts to realize you most creative designs. Hear about the PuriFlume project created by Carnegie Mellon's Urban Design Build Studio - an innovative, self-contained water park - and learn about how digital models were used for design, analysis, and documentation and ultimately to digitally fabricate and build the design.

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Dynamic Simulation

Autodesk Inventor includes high performance static analysis but you can also use the function of a mechanism to establish the loads for that analysis using Dynamics. The combination of Dynamic Analysis and Inventor’s FEA capabilities give the workshop participant new insight on how to approach complex simulation in an easy to use application.

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Using Simulation for Sustainable Design

Simulation software can help with sustainable design by allowing designers and engineers to predict, optimize, and validate the performance of their designs. By understanding a design's performance in various real-world environments, you can optimize the design to meet both your physical requirements and environmental goals. Learn how in this free webcast.

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High Speed Design Visualization

Once you have a design created then next step is being present your design. We will look at leverageing the visualization tools in both Inventor and Showcase and show you how to create stunning imagery and animations.

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Sustainable Design with Intent: Strategies for Influencing User Behavior

In this mini virtual workshop, attendees will learn how design can inspire positive actions, prevent harmful ones, and provide real-time feedback for improved decisions. Based on researcher Dan Lockton's "Design with Intent Toolkit" you'll be taken through a series of exercises to help you discover how your intentions, as a designer, can lead to a more sustainable world by improving the environmental impacts of user behavior.

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Inventor Publisher

In this webinar, you will learn how to quickly create technical documents using Autodesk Inventor Publisher. Technical documents are typically used for assembly instructions, installation instructions, user manuals and process sheets. You can publish the documents to different formats including; videos, printed material and interactive 3D content. You will learn how to import an Inventor assembly, document how the components are disassembled or assembled, add annotations and publish the contents to a video, a Microsoft Word file, a 3D PDF and to a mobile device using Autodesk 360.

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A Whole Systems and Lifecycle Approach to Design and Engineering

Whole Systems and Lifecycle Thinking involves looking at the big picture to understand how products or buildings are made, used and disposed of. Both are critical to sustainable design and engineering. In this webcast you'll learn how to identify where environmental and social impacts occur, and how to make changes to improve your design.

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Winning Approaches to Smart, Sustainable Product Design

Join the winner of the Core77 "Design for (Your) Product Lifetime" Student Challenge, sponsored by Autodesk and iFixit, as they take you through their design of a smart product that can be easily repaired and will stand the test of time. Chosen from hundreds of submissions, this winning design represents the use of sustainable design strategies for improving a product's lifetime.

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