The Autodesk Imagine Tour Speaker Biographies

In this session, we will introduce you to Autodesk® 2010 manufacturing design and engineering software. From popular mechanical and electrical engineering tools built on the AutoCAD® platform to technologies that enable you to integrate all design and engineering data into a single digital model of your completed product, to tools for visualizing and validating your designs. You will learn how the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, with Autodesk® Inventor® software as its foundation, is bringing it all together and helping manufacturing companies go beyond 3D to gain critical business advantage.

Get a first look at the new features and functionality of Autodesk's architectural and design visualization solutions: Autodesk Revit® Architecture 2010, AutoCAD® Architecture 2010, AutoCAD 2010 and Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010.  This session begins with a demonstration of how Revit Architecture, the premiere design software for building information modeling (BIM), keeps designs and documentation coordinated, consistent and complete. You'll see how AutoCAD Architecture streamlines the creation of accurate drafting and construction documents, and learn about the many drafting features in AutoCAD 2010. We'll conclude the session with a demonstration of how design visualization with 3ds Max Design lets you explore, validate and communicate your designs early in the design process.

Be among the first to see Autodesk's latest building information modeling (BIM) solutions for Civil and Structural Engineering in action. In this session you’ll learn how AutoCAD® Civil 2010 and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010 allows you to deliver your projects faster and with reduced errors. See the latest capabilities of new Revit® Structure 2010 at work to design civil structures more efficiently and with more accurate construction documentation. You'll also hear about new Autodesk® Navisworks and learn how you can improve productivity even more through dynamic simulations, accurate analysis, and powerful clash detection capabilities. You'll also learn how AutoCAD 2010 delivers groundbreaking new capabilities to tackle the most challenging design problems with ease.

Get a first look at the new features and functionality of Autodesk's solutions for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering: AutoCAD® 2010, AutoCAD® MEP 2010 and Revit® MEP 2010. In this session you'll learn how to create construction documentation more efficiently, increase accuracy and accelerate design with AutoCAD MEP. And, with Revit MEP, the building information modeling (BIM) solution for MEP engineers and designers, you'll find out how to minimize design coordination errors between the teams working on an integrated project and how to support better design decisions for more cost-effective and sustainable designs.

Join this session to learn about AutoCAD® Map 3D 2010 software for infrastructure design and data management. AutoCAD Map 3D 2010 is built on the strengths of the AutoCAD platform and especially designed to better integrate engineering and GIS data – in a single environment for more efficient workflows. Learn how to build data intelligence during the design process, integrate design information with GIS data, and quickly distribute completed design and geospatial information with users throughout your organization.

Join this session to see how Autodesk Media & Entertainment Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) tools accelerate the workflow of creative professionals in games development as well as the post-production facilities. Whether you are using 3ds Max, Maya or Autodesk Softimage join us to see some real life examples of how you can improve your production development process. Discover how Autodesk DEC tools give you a competitive advantage. Featuring: Autodesk 3ds Max 2010, Maya 2009, Softimage 7.5

Product and industrial designers should join this afternoon session to see how the new Autodesk 2010 manufacturing solutions make it even easier to create more themes and concepts, iterate designs faster, visually collaborate, and convey your vision. Learn about Autodesk® Alias® Design 2010 and Autodesk® Alias® Surface 2010. Get a better understanding of how Autodesk solutions connect the conceptual design phase to the manufacturing process to get more innovative products to market faster.  You will see how you can improve the collaboration between design and engineering and help ensure that designs meet aesthetic, ergonomic, and functional requirements before building any physical prototypes. Using Autodesk® Alias® and Autodesk® Inventor® tools to share models easily using a common file format industrial design data can be incorporated into a single digital prototype used throughout product development.

In this session, you will learn what is new and exciting in the Autodesk 2010 manufacturing tools. See powerful new capabilities and tight integration with other Autodesk manufacturing software of AutoCAD® 2010, including AutoCAD® Electrical 2010 and AutoCAD® Mechanical 2010 software. Learn about the latest technologies for plastic part design, FEA and simulation, industrial design, data management, assembly design, and sheet metal design.

A Story for Architects, Engineers, and Construction Professionals:
In January, 2009 Autodesk moved into its new Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Solutions Division headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The headquarters building project was an opportunity for Autodesk to implement several new trends in the building industry, including integrated project delivery (IPD), sustainable design, and the technology underpinning all of them – building information modeling (BIM). This session will highlight this real-life, Autodesk project. You'll learn how Autodesk used BIM principles and an integrated project delivery process to realize a consistent, coordinated exchange of information among all project stakeholders, resulting in a final design that is both efficient and sustainable. We'll demonstrate how Revit helped the Architect to update design changes and reflect them throughout all design views. You’ll learn how AutoCAD Civil 3D enabled Civil Engineers to deliver their projects faster and with reduced errors, and hear how using our integrated BIM model and Navisworks software allowed the project team including Civil, MEP, Structural Engineers, and Contractors to visualize their designs and communicate more efficiently and accurately. We'll also show how the Owner and Developer benefited from early design decision making with BIM, and discuss the in-process design visualization tools that helped to leverage BIM quickly and effectively.

This session is geared to AutoCAD or AutoCAD Architecture users looking for simple ways to begin implementing Revit Architecture in their workplace. Even if you're already using Revit Architecture, you'll learn new, cost-effective ways to get the most out of this robust software. We'll show you tips on creating families and templates, working with consultants, training strategies and much more! Whether you're just beginning to explore Revit Architecture or currently working with Revit, you'll learn new ways to shave time and effort off of the implementation process. Join us and learn how the latest release of Revit Architecture can be implemented easily, and make your office more productive than ever!

Design visualization plays an integral role in improving AEC efficiencies by allowing architects, designers, engineers, and contractors to better convey design intent, analyze various project scenarios, present photorealistic project renderings to owners and the public, and even implement sustainable design and building elements earlier in the process when changes are easier to make. In this session, you'll learn about the various Autodesk products that comprise design visualization solutions for architects, designers, engineers, and contractors, including Autodesk 3ds Max Design and new products such as Autodesk Navisworks, Autodesk Stitcher, and Autodesk ImageModeler, to discover which tools are right for you. We'll also demonstrate design visualization as part of a BIM workflow, from design through construction, and applications for sustainability with features such as shading and lighting analysis.

A complete, precise, and accessible infrastructure model is the basis for many of today's key utility initiatives: infrastructure renewal projects, smart grids implementations, asset management, and knowledge transfer.  This session will show you how the Autodesk utility products will help you create, manage, and share this infrastructure model in an open, standards-based environment. 

Get an insider's look at the 3D power of AutoCAD 2010. Cadalyst columnist and Autodesk Technical Evangelist Lynn Allen will show you the exciting new features in AutoCAD that will get you started down the road to creating innovative 3D free-form designs. You're also sure to leave with some powerful tools and techniques to use the new parametric drawing tools and the enhanced documentation commands (think PDF inside of AutoCAD!). And as always, you'll expand your AutoCAD skills with a great set of new tips and tricks regardless of the release of AutoCAD you are currently using.

Accelerate your production pipeline with Autodesk's superior pipeline toolsets. Solve real-world production challenges using Autodesk tools that make you more proficient, productive and competitive. Common processes such as modeling characters and set extensions will be explored. In addition, character rigging and animation exchange will also be featured. Last but not least, rendering tools that culminate in the finishing of shots via Autodesk compositing solutions will be demonstrated. Featured products include: Autodesk Mudbox 2009, Autodesk Motionbuilder 2009, Autodesk Toxik 2009, Autodesk Imagemodeler 2009, Autodesk Softimage 7.5, Autodesk Maya 2009, Autodesk 3ds Max 2010.