On-Demand Webcasts

Discover how Autodesk Fusion transforms design and manufacturing with its integrated cloud platform, enabling enhanced collaboration, efficiency, and streamlined workflows.

Take Your NASTRAN Simulation Skills to the Next Level
Uncover the key strategies for accurately sharing and refining your simulation results in both Linear Static and Non-Linear Static scenarios with our expert guidance.

We explore the seamless integration of BIM Collaborate Pro within the Civil 3D design environment.

Are you facing challenges aligning your design and controls teams? Explore how to seamlessly integrate innovative 3D models with electrical automation controls using Autodesk's cutting-edge solutions.

Autodesk Revit® has some very powerful tools to help designers collaborate with others. This short but informative webcast will showcase some of these tools, including Phasing, Design Options, Linking External Files, and Worksharing. These tools allow you to effectively convey information to Building Owners, Consulting Engineers, Architects, Contractors, and Plan Reviewers. These tools will also help streamline your internal workflows for more effective collaboration, especially when multiple users work on the same Revit model. These topics are integral for any Revit user, but if you have taken a new user course or equivalent and are ready for next steps, you will not want to miss this presentation.

We explore the seamless integration of BIM Collaborate Pro within the Civil 3D design environment.

Learn more about how Electrical Environment Connection can optimize your AutoCAD Electrical experience.

Supercharge your productivity with these valuable AutoCAD® tips and tricks that cover a wide range of topics, including the setup, configuration, and management of drawing templates, specialty drawing commands, and clever ways to enhance your workflow with existing commands. We'll reveal time-saving techniques to help you complete your tasks faster.  Our AutoCAD expert uncovers a wealth of insights, drawing from both recent AutoCAD commands and workflows, as well as some lesser-known gems that may surprise you.

Have you explored the newly released Autodesk® Forma yet?  Forma offers cloud-based software for early-stage planning and design for AEC professionals. If you have an Autodesk AEC Collection subscription, you now have access to Forma! Learn what Forma can do, the future vision for Forma, and how it can positively impact your business.

Introducing PLM: Your Gateway to Optimized Business Operations

PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) encompasses industry-leading best practices designed to refine and enhance your business workflows. While the technology aspect is often straightforward – as simple as checking an online account or filling out an e-form – the real power lies in its transformative effect on your end-to-end business processes. From concept and design to sales and support, PLM streamlines everything.

Finding archival or active data/documents within Meridian easily depends on the quality of your metadata. If metadata entered manually on a document wizard is incorrect (such as a spelling error), that document will be difficult to find or virtually invisible, which could cause the consumers of the information to distrust the system as a whole and start saving documents outside of Meridian.

The Bridge tool provides additional functionality to Autodesk® Docs and BIM Collaborate Pro, allowing teams to seamlessly share files, folders, and shared packages between projects. Both Autodesk Docs and BIM Collaborate Pro are widely used for project coordination and information sharing, facilitating the exchange of project files, from uploads and sharing to design collaboration within hosted projects. With the introduction of Bridge, multiple hosted projects can now be interconnected, enabling the flexible creation of individual projects by stakeholders and project connectivity.

Autodesk Fusion 360® enables the comprehensive evolution of your designs, spanning from initial concept to the fabrication stage. With its robust array of CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB design tools, Autodesk Fusion 360 empowers you to transform your ideas into tangible reality.

In this webinar, we will explore the following topics:

• 3D Modeling Tools for Parts and Assemblies, accompanied by comprehensive manufacturing drawings.
• Sheet Metal Components for fabrication alongside efficient nesting tools.
• Collaboration Tools to facilitate seamless communication among all stakeholders involved.

In this webinar we demonstrate how to effectively merge an existing Autodesk® Inventor® Factory layout model into Autodesk® Revit®, followed by a comprehensive walkthrough of model collaboration through Autodesk® Navisworks®.

Presentation Agenda:

• Inventor Factory Utilities Layout
• Export/Import Process of Models to Revit and Inventor
• Import Models in Navisworks
• Walkthrough of Models in Navisworks
• Animation of Models in Navisworks

Learn how to configure Inventor for iLogic, understand the difference between internal and external rules, and explore the world of parameters and properties. We show you how to create automation rules and develop best practices for iLogic, resulting in smoother and more efficient rule creation and testing.

Whether you're looking to streamline your design workflow or ensure adherence to standards and requirements, iLogic is a powerful tool that can help. Join us for this insightful webinar and discover how to make the most of iLogic in your Inventor designs.

Unlock the power of Autodesk® Advance Steel as you learn how to effortlessly create and share custom connections, making your projects more efficient and impressive.

Are you looking to streamline your document management workflows and achieve your business goals more efficiently? This webcast, "Meridian's Additional Modules: Enhancing Your EDMS Workflow," will demonstrate how you can take your document management to the next level. Our document management specialist, Jeremy Clay, will be discussing the various modules available to help you automate processes, improve compliance, and enhance collaboration. From workflow automation to audit trail tracking, Meridian's additional modules have you covered.

Are you struggling to digitize your processes? A well-defined, efficient change process is vital to deliver products on time, under budget, and with high customer satisfaction.

We discuss how Autodesk software can ensure changes are handled properly and efficiently.

Topics include:

• Requesting Changes
• Reviewing Requests and Initiating Changes
• Identifying and Resolving Systemic Problems
• Using Reports to Identify and Eliminate Bottlenecks

Note: Hover over the time stamps marked on the timeline playback bar to view specific topics.

This webcast is for Autodesk® Advance Steel users who have worked with the Drawing Styles and are still mystified and frustrated. Maybe you've wasted time trying to locate a setting. Or perhaps you've repeatedly changed a setting, watched it not work, and wondered why. We'll help you work more efficiently and spend less time on the styles, allowing you to focus on finishing the drawings.

We highlight one significant feature - the Signal Arrows update - in AutoCAD Electrical 2023.

The 2023 Electrical toolset is included with AutoCAD® and will help you boost productivity with electrical design features that help you create, modify, and document electrical controls systems.

You can synchronize all source and destination arrows using the same signal code. The source and destination arrows with the same signal code in any drawing can be updated with the click of a button.

You can synchronize all source and destination arrows using the same signal code. The source and destination arrows with the same signal code in any drawing can be updated with the click of a button.

We explore the following commands:

• Source Arrow
• Destination Arrow
• Fan In Source
• Fan Out Destination

We discuss the basics of managing your BOM, adding virtual components, additional columns and BOM export capabilities within Autodesk Inventor®.

Here we discuss the basics of managing your BOM, adding virtual components, additional columns and BOM export capabilities within Autodesk Inventor®.

Discover how Dynamo can assist building designers with schematic design ideas in Autodesk Revit®. It can help model many elements driven by mathematical calculations, leaving the designer to ponder the results and make changes rather than obsess over minor details. Did we mention changes? Dynamo allows you to quickly make changes and tweak designs with the click of a button or a simple adjustment on a slider. Things that would have previously taken hours to re-model will appear on your screen in seconds.

Some of the topics we cover:

• Examples of what you can do with Dynamo out of the box
• Use Dynamo to flex geometry
• Use Dynamo to calculate Complex Geometry
• Use Dynamo to adjust and tweak your design ideas quickly
• And much more!

Autodesk Fusion 360® is the first 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool of its kind. It connects the entire product development process in a single cloud-based program.

Fusion 360 extensions unlock advanced capabilities, tailored to business needs in a single platform so customers can customize and enhance their workflows.

In this webinar we discuss:

• The tools and capabilities of each of the eight extensions that can be added to Fusion 360
• How to access the extensions and begin trials for testing the functionality
• The daily use cost and the options for purchasing tokens on a monthly or annual basis

Over the past few years, University Facilities Management groups have had to shift how they work. Fully remote and hybrid work has become the standard model for many positions. Our IntelliWizards for Meridian has evolved in the same way – moving towards the future of how work gets done.

Meridian Cloud, the first SaaS-based and CAD-integrated engineering document management solution, brings you all the advantages of a full SaaS-based solution

• Pre-configured and ready for quick use in the plant, facilities, and campus environments
• Server hardware/software and management, including upgrade deployments provided by Microsoft and Accruent
• Enhanced up-time and data security to meet all customer requirements
• Additional Meridian Cloud options and functionality can include:
• Full support for iOS, Android, and Windows-based mobile devices
• Integrated project-centric collaboration with outside suppliers and consultants
• 21 CFR Part 11 functionality and validation for the life sciences industry

See why more and more companies are moving to SaaS-based solutions and Meridian Cloud for their engineering document management needs!

In this webcast, we discuss the importance of accurate BOM transfer and how Hagerman can help reduce the risk and unknowns of BOM integration projects.

Automating Bill of Materials integration between Autodesk® products like Inventor® or Vault Professional and other business systems is a simultaneously tempting and daunting idea. All too often, the promises of efficiency gain and the elimination of costly mistakes are dashed as the scope of the potential integration project spirals hopelessly out of control. While integration needs can sometimes be complex, that’s not always the case. Many times some very simple and reliable automation can dramatically improve BOM transfer from Engineering to the rest of the business.

In this introduction to Innovyze webcast, we learn about the customers that Innovyze serves and how we’ve been able to deliver over 40 years of solutions to the water industry. We then take a closer look at InfoDrainage, Innovyze’s drainage design solution, and discuss how it can address common workflow challenges to provide sustainable, optimized, and safe drainage design solutions.

Attendees should walk away with:

• Basic comprehension of who Innovyze is, who we serve, and our core product families
• An understanding of how InfoDrainage can address common drainage design workflow challenges
• An understanding of how InfoDrainage can offer best-in-class LID design solutions

For decades, machined parts have been made using conventional 3-axis milling machines, and using these machines' traditional X, Y, and Z movement is still the most popular way to produce parts in the machining industry. Later, fourth and fifth-axis capabilities were added. While adding two new axis capabilities to a conventional 3-axis machine technically creates a machine with five axes, not all five-axis machines have the same capabilities.

This webcast covers everything you need to know about the differences between 3+2 and 5-Axis machining using Autodesk® Inventor® CAM and the Fusion 360® Machining Extension.

Topics covered:

• 3-Axis Machining
• 3+1 Positional Machining
• 3+2 Positional Machining
• True 5-Axis Machining
• Swarf Machining
• Flow Machining
• Multi-Axis Contour Machining

Watch as we explore the new product enhancements and issues resolved in the latest point release of Autodesk® Revit®. Autodesk has made some great enhancements, including improved routing solutions for MEP systems, multiple workflow improvements for Sheets, MEP Fabrication Parts improvements, and many Structural upgrades. Another huge addition is the integration with Twinmotion. With this enhancement, you can click one button and virtually explore your fully rendered model in real-time.

Some of the topics included:

• Integration with Twinmotion
• Swap views on Sheets plus many more sheet enhancements
• Tag updates
• New Paste Aligned Options
• Slab Improvements
• Selection Updates
• and More!

This webinar shows you how to customize your workspace for your needs, making the user interface a little more user-friendly.

When it comes to efficiency with CAD workflows in AutoCAD®, Custom AutoCAD workspaces can be your best friends. Have you ever struggled with the “as built-in box” default ribbon, spending time switching between tabs or pull-down panels hunting down the one elusive command you are looking for? This webinar shows you how to customize your workspace for your needs, making the user interface a little more user-friendly.

Topics covered:

• Creating/saving custom Workspaces
• Configuring Palettes
• Create New Ribbons / Panels
• Enabling ‘hidden’ Panels
• Exporting/Importing Customize workspaces

An AutoCAD® Electrical project can contain data to help with downstream reporting. By entering that data into your drawings, you can extract it into reports, such as a Bill of Materials, Wire Labels, To-From, Drawing Lists, etc. Knowing where that data originates and configuring the reports to meet your organization’s needs may seem impossible, but we will show you the way!

In this presentation, we explore these reports through an AutoCAD Electrical project. Topics will include:

• Schematic Reports
• Panel Reports

This webinar illustrates the basic use of 3ds Max to create a simple assembly sequence.

Autodesk® 3ds Max® provides easy-to-use tools for animations, motion, materials, rendering, and more, allowing you to produce professional-grade renders with complete artistic control. This webinar illustrates the basic use of 3ds Max to create a simple assembly sequence.

Topics Covered:

• Link and Import settings for an Advance Steel model
• Adding/Updating materials to animation components
• Adding motion to model components
• Creating an assembly animation
• Exporting an animation to a video file

To design an efficient factory, you need efficient design tools. Quickly create Factory Design Layouts using default system assets provided by Autodesk®, or publish your own assets for quick design layouts amongst your design team.

In this presentation, we tour the Autodesk Factory Design Utility Tools inside of Autodesk® Inventor® 2023.

Topics covered:

• Quickly add equipment layout using System Assets
• Utilize any 3D CAD format file in your layouts
• Sync between Inventor and AutoCAD for bi-directional updates

High staff turnover in the last few years has brought to the forefront two unfortunate facts of managing an Engineering department: it's hard to find good people, and it's risky for your product knowledge to be locked up in people's heads.

Design Automation can solve both of those problems in one go. If your design process is automated, increasing productivity doesn't necessarily rely on finding and onboarding new engineers. In addition, the very act of automating your design process ensures your product knowledge is captured and safe, even if Bill wins the lottery.

Join us as we discuss how you can begin automating your design processes, likely with the tools you have today. Topics will include:

• An overview of Autodesk® Inventor® design automation with iLogic
• Using Autodesk Vault Professional to automate design deliverables
• Supercharging your design and deliverable automation using Autodesk Vault and coolOrange powerJobs

Are translation errors or geometry repairs taking up too much of your time? The product development process involves collaboration between multiple teams, often with data shared from various software applications. Reduce frustration and improve collaboration with robust CAD interoperability.

In this presentation, we discuss some of the concerns related to file translation, the functional differences within the translation tools within Inventor, as well as a brief demonstration of the Navisworks® tool for reading data across multiple design platforms.

Topics covered:

• A rundown of the AnyCAD tool and how it works with 3rd Party software and neutral format files
• Differences between importing and referencing files

• Process for editing imported files, as well as converting them to sheet metal
• Navisworks and how it can assist in viewing large-scale designs

Autodesk Fusion 360® is the first 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB tool of its kind, connecting your entire product development process into one cloud-based software. Join us as we discuss the core capabilities available in Fusion 360 for complete design from concept through manufacturing. We will review the methods and benefits of connecting existing designs with Fusion 360 and explore some of the product extensions that enhance productivity and extend the capabilities of the core software.

Topics to be covered:

• Review the design environment and tools
• Overview of the available machine tools in the manufacture environment
• Examine the available analysis tools in the simulation environment
• Discuss Cloud base processing and storage

Autodesk Construction Cloud®, BIM Collaborate Pro, BIM 360® Docs, and Autodesk® Docs - what does it all mean?

Join us as we explore & explain the current Autodesk cloud offerings for the AEC industry and show you which tools can help your workflow!

• What is Autodesk Construction Cloud?
• What is the difference between BIM 360 Docs and Autodesk Docs?
• What are Autodesk BIM Collaborate and BIM Collaborate Pro, and why would I need them?
• Which modules come with the different Autodesk cloud offerings for AEC?
• Design Collaboration
• Model Coordination
• Insight / Home

This webcast highlights the process for customizing a Branch Table in the Plant 3D project Spec.

Most products and equipment these days incorporate both mechanical and electrical components. While eventually, both halves must come together to form a whole product, those responsible for designing those halves often operate on islands. This divide means that when changes can have the most beneficial impact – early on before the design is finalized – is often plagued by poor communication, mismatched data, and disjointed processes.

These early-stage woes can be eased by using a solid data management system that can manage all aspects of the design, and Autodesk® Vault Professional is a perfect candidate. Join us as we explore how Autodesk® Vault® can manage both Mechanical and Electrical CAD data and help you deliver a better quality, unified design in less time.

Topics include:

• Managing Mechanical Bills of Material from Multiple Sources
• Managing Electrical Bills of Material
• Producing a complete Engineering Bill of Materials
• Managing Change

Repeated symbols, notes, and markings are typical in CAD drawings across all industries. Any one industry could have several hundred common characters to choose from. Such an extensive range takes time to sort through to find the correct symbols.

AutoCAD® Blocks allow users to group objects to build those symbols but filing them away is another challenge. Grouping like symbols together into one parent or Master Symbol streamlines the operation. AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks can help build a Master Symbol with multiple variations within it to fit various documentation purposes.

In this webinar, we cover:

• Blocks vs. Dynamic Blocks
• How to Create Dynamic Blocks
• Types of Dynamic Block functions
• Attribute & Property Mapping with Dynamic Blocks

Are you an engineering-based company still using AutoCAD® for your design plans? Are you tired of revising several objects instead of just one and letting the software dynamically update the rest? Are you tired of mistakes in labels from one drawing to the next? Are you worried about training?

It's about time you looked into the capabilities of Civil 3D® and what it can bring to the table that AutoCAD can't:

• Built on the AutoCAD platform: AutoCAD knowledge still applies, making training easier
• Superior organization
• Standardization/styles
• Intelligent objects
• Efficient, dynamic revisions

We cover these and more topics showing that Civil 3D can save you hours of design/revisions over AutoCAD.

After all, it's about time.

Data security is top-of-mind for many of us today, but not necessarily for the same old reasons. Random attacks by external actors are a growing risk, and as a result, those responsible for Information Security in companies of all sizes are looking to move as much data off-premise as possible. By its nature, mechanical CAD data is traditionally one of the last types of data to make that transition, if it ever does. And when it does, it often leads to a poor experience for the end-user.

Autodesk Upchain is here to change all that. In this webcast, we discuss how Upchain can deliver a quality PDM experience while keeping your data safe regardless of location.

Topics included:

• The benefits of moving data off-premise
• A review of Autodesk's cloud security
• How Autodesk Upchain allows users to stay productive even when working with data stored in the cloud

We review Autodesk Fusion 360® Preference settings, Project set-up, Fusion Team, and other aspects of the Fusion interface.

Topics discussed:

• Navigate the data panel and Fusion Team in Fusion 360
• Collaborate within and outside of your organization's projects
• Administration of a Fusion Team
• Defining settings and preferences within Fusion 360

Autodesk® Revit® 2023 was recently released and contains many great new and improved features and functionality. Please join us for an in-depth look at all of these enhancements to an already robust platform. This webcast is for all Revit users, covering topics related to Architecture, MEP, Structural, Interiors, Contractors, Facilities Managers, and more. We will cover six key themes: Design Productivity, Simulation & Analysis, Interoperability, Cloud & Data, Design Optimization, & Document Efficiency. 

Topics Included, but not limited to:

• Filtering Schedules by Sheet
• Multi Leader Tag Enhancements
• Measuring in 3D
• Demo Improvements for MEP Systems
• Customizable Page Order for PDF Exports
• New Swap Views on Sheet Feature
• Additional Cuttable and Taggable Categories
• Rebar Enhancements
• Revamped Analytical Model workflow
• Performance Enhancements
• Project Browser Icon for Views on Sheets

Design collaboration between architecture, engineering, and construction disciplines using Plant 3D® software and Revit® software is possible with the proper workflows. This webcast explores best practices and tips for referencing models between AutoCAD Plant 3D software and Revit software, managing design changes, and optimizing models in the Autodesk Construction Cloud.

Topics covered:

• Overview of project files in Document Management
• Overview of Design Collaboration between Plant 3D & Revit
• Version tracking
• Creating packages
• Sharing and linking between Plant 3D & Revit

If you are new to the AutoCAD® Electrical Toolset, this webinar is for you!

We focus on building intelligent ladder diagrams and panel layouts and demonstrate how to leverage this intelligence. This webinar provides an overview of AutoCAD Electrical (ACADE) utilities designed to allow the end-user to quickly build and manage an electrical controls drawing set.

If you are an Autodesk® Vault Workgroup customer, you have probably already heard that your specific level of Autodesk Vault is being discontinued. Don't worry! Autodesk Vault as a product line is still going strong, but all Vault Workgroup customers will eventually need to transition to Vault Professional.

During this webcast, we'll cover everything you need to know, including:

• Important dates regarding Vault Workgroup new subscription purchase and subscription renewal
• When and how Vault Workgroup users can transition to Vault Professional
• A review of the new features available after the transition from Vault Workgroup to Vault Professional.
• For more information about the End of Sale, see this blog post. The last day for purchase of new subscriptions for Vault Workgroup is July 6, 2022.

Autodesk® Inventor® 2023 is packed with user-requested enhancements to help streamline the design process, reduce repetition, and speed up the connected engineering workflows.

Updates covered:

• Fusion 360 Interoperability
• Revit Data Exchange
• Part Environment
• Assembly Environment
• Documentation

Keep your designs up to date with Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2023 software enhancements! Please join us as we explore the newest functionality.

Topics to be covered:

• Markup Import and Markup Assist
• My Insights: Macro Advisor
• Trace
• Count
• Floating Drawing Windows
• Sheet Set Manager for Autodesk Docs
• Drawing and Layout Tabs
• CUTBASE
• Polyline Extend
• MLEADER Enhancement

Leveraging Shared Parameters in Autodesk® Revit® is a great way to customize your Revit content. Shared parameters allow you to create custom information displayed in tags and schedules across multiple projects and families, which is helpful for Revit users, especially MEP or Structural Engineering, Interior Design, and Architecture. This webcast will demonstrate creating and implementing Shared Parameters for each discipline. This topic will deal heavily with the Family Editor, so we plan to discuss other relevant topics, including where to find vendor-provided Revit Families and how to implement them into your projects.

Topics Include:

• What are Shared Parameters?
• Examples of Shared Parameters in use
• Demo of how to create a Shared Parameter File
• Demo of how to add Shared Parameters to Projects and Component Families.
• Demo of how to leverage Shared Parameter Data in Tags and Schedules
• How to find and implement Vendor created Revit Content

We highlight the newest improvements and enhancements found in Autodesk's latest release of Advance Steel 2023.

Topics Covered:

• Create beams from single segment polylines
• Independent grips for camera viewports
• Search queries for camera object selection
• AISC Shape Type Tables to 15th Edition
• Performance enhancements with the AutoCAD Graphics Engine (GFS)
• Modeless document manager
• Grid display enhancements
• Bolt label leader line enhancement
• Automatic drawing deregistration improvements

We present our annual review of the new features in the latest release of Autodesk® Vault®. This webcast covers features introduced in the 2022.1, 2022.2, and 2023 releases.

Topics include:

• User Interface enhancements, including Dark Mode and integration of the Autodesk Viewer in the Thick Client
• Improved support for Inventor Model States
• Markup Improvements
• Vault 2023 Professional's killer new feature: Vault Gateway

Autodesk® Inventor® has tools for creating sheet metal-specific features that follow a manufacturing standard, ensuring your ability to flatten your 3D model, allowing manufacturing to cut the flat patterns accurately. Here we explain the process of converting parts using Inventor.

Topics covered:

• Using Inventor to open Standard IPT's and imported Parts
• Convert to sheet metal and flatten
• Modifying the flat pattern environment

Our Higher Education Team at Hagerman & Company offers a thoughtful approach to discovering and outlining your organization's document management needs. Our team provides recommendations and guidance for best practices through a needs assessment, which investigates your big picture goals and drills down into document and data needs. Various stakeholders in your organization are included in discussions covering: big picture goals, Organizational/Functional Departments and Groups, current systems, current challenges, etc.

During this webinar, we discuss:

• What is a Needs Assessment?
• Why is it so important?
• Deliverable (Report) and its uses

Do you struggle with managing your organization's standards? Are you experiencing frequent issues surrounding any of these topics:

• Templates - Incorrect or missing layers, wrong dimension standards, annotation, table styles, etc.
• Standard Blocks - Missing, unable to locate, scattered in multiple locations, non-compliance to standards, etc.
• Title Blocks - Scattered in various places, or too many of them exist, incorrect title blocks used, etc.

In this webinar, we'll share ways AutoCAD® can help your organization manage these standards utilizing built-in functionality and tools.

Meridian's maintenance connection module is designed to significantly improve the maintenance processes for a company. With this module, the maintenance team has direct access to the engineering documentation required for completing their daily tasks. Everyone has access to the same information and can be confident that the documentation is the most current version. Let's review the ways the Meridian Asset Manage Model can help improve the cost and safety of your daily maintenance project.

Topics we will cover:

• What is the Asset Management Model of Meridian?
• With what CMM systems can Meridian communicate?
• How can improved document management cut costs?
• How improved document management can minimize risks?
• The benefits of a single point of truth for document management

Viewing and marking up files without editing software can help all members across a project collaborate and communicate updates, changes, and other information that may otherwise be difficult to convey.

Topics covered:

• Viewing files in the BIM viewer
• Comparing versions of files in the BIM viewer
• Marking up files in the BIM Viewer

Many of you manufacture items that are similar in design or have a “base” design that you tweak slightly from project to project. You may use one drawing containing a table for the variations, or maybe you use “Save as” for each variation. If this sounds familiar, this webcast may provide a better solution for you. We will review Autodesk® Inventor® iPart and iAssembly authoring.

Topics we cover:

• Create and manage iPart and iAssembly tables
• Using Excel to edit tables
• Managing factories and members
• Custom and standard iParts

If your organization struggles to collaborate and quickly access accurate, comprehensive information, we can help. Connecting processes, data, and people can give you the edge you need to compete for resources, deliver your products on time, and stay profitable while doing so.

Join us for a webcast to learn how to easily manage your Solidworks data in the cloud with no additional IT requirements.

Benefits of a cloud-based solution:

• Convenience: Store, retrieve and share information quickly and easily in the cloud
• Flexibility: Work safely and securely whether working in the office or remotely
• Cost: Deploy without any need for IT infrastructure or support
• Scalability: Cloud solutions easily scale up or down with your business

Topics will include:

• The business case for Cloud-Based PDM and PLM
• Overview of PDM and PLM functionality, including:
  • CAD Data Management
  • BOM Management
  • Project Management
  • Change Management
  • Supplier Collaboration

With AutoCAD® Electrical, you can generate reports to extract the intelligence from the project drawing, format it, and display it on the screen, producing a standard set of schematic and panel reports. Schematic reports extract intelligence from schematic components only. In contrast, panel reports extract intelligence from the panel components, except for the panel bill of materials, including any schematic components not referenced on a panel layout.

During this webinar, we will cover:

• How to generate schematic and panel reports
• How to change the report format
• How to save a report to a file and place a report on a drawing

This webcast will illustrate the basic workflow between Autodesk® Revit® and 3ds Max® with a focus on materials and rendering.

Topics:

• Differences between presets when importing/linking
• Differences between linking and exporting to FBX
• Using the Scene Converter for use with the Arnold Renderer
• Material Basics in the Slate Material Editor

Sloped piping is used in gravity-based piping to avoid accumulating substances in the pipeline. It is commonly used in various types of drainage systems or other piping runs that do not have a pumping system or pressurized components. The pipe is sloped downwards away from the source and toward the destination so that the substance flows from the high to the low point due to the force of gravity. In AutoCAD® Plant 3D, you can set the rise and run for the slope when routing pipe or modify the pipe slope in existing runs.

This webcast highlights the process for creating Sloped Piping within a Plant 3D project.

Topics include:

• Rise and Run
• Drawing Sloped Pipe
• Horizontal Runs
• Vertical Runs
• Existing Equipment Runs
• Pipe Slope Editing on Existing Pipe
• Tee Time
• Adding and Moving Branches
• Vertical Connections
• Slope & Offset Tolerance

Component roads in InfraWorks® are assemblies, much like in Civil 3D®, that represent different parts such as lanes, gutters, etc. Using these assemblies, you are able to create and save custom roadway configurations to your library, allowing you to use them over again without re-creating.

In this webinar, we cover:

• Different types of assemblies
• Where to place the assemblies/components
• How to create a custom component road
• How to save these roads for future use

Autodesk® Inventor® has iPart & iAssembly configurations, which allow for design variations when sizes change. But there are hurdles when the design needs to change more than size increments. With Inventor 2022 Model States, not only can sizes be adjusted, but features can be included or suppressed to vary the design intent, which allows for 1 IPT to be used for both Left-Hand and Right Hand configurations.

This ability does not stop with only IPT's but works in the assembly IAM as well. Model States allow designs to be streamlined and simplify the file structure necessary for multiple configurations. See what Inventor 2022 Model States can do and how they could increase your design's flexibility and file structure simplifications.

Topics covered:

• Intro to Model States
• How they differ from Design View Rep's
• How to create Model States in IPT's
• How to use Model States in IAM's
• How to document Model States in drawing views

You know Meridian as a secure document repository with workflow capabilities to manage approvals and changes, but the real power of Meridian is the ability to FIND documents! During the life of your buildings, multitudes of project documents are generated. Quickly finding the latest and greatest information can save time and money. During this webinar, we will take a look at the search capabilities within Meridian Power.

Topics will include:

• Basics of metadata
• Simple search
• Advanced search
• Saved searches and collections

Generate PLC drawings automatically from a spreadsheet, database, or comma-delimited text file!

Learn how the PLC information, including PLC modules and connected components, can be read from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, Access database table, or a comma-delimited text file. A single data file can generate multiple drawings, taking your AutoCAD Electrical skills to the next level!

We use Autodesk® Inventor® CAM to explore a variety of 4-axis machining operations. In addition to rotary machining techniques, we will also present different modeling design concepts that can impact your machining operations.

In this webcast we cover:

• Design considerations for 3-Axis machining
• Design considerations for 4-Axis machining
• Properly using the Inventor Emboss Command
• Technique to use an Inventor Toolbody in the sweep command
• Using the Wrap Toolpath & Wrap Cylinder in Inventor CAM
• How to avoid surprises when the machined part does not match the Inventor model

The word “Validation” is often used but not truly understood. Watch as we review what it means to “Validate” your Meridian system and the benefits that come along with it. After watching this video, you will understand what validation is and how you and your company can benefit from Validating your Meridian system.

Topics Covered:

• What does “Validation” mean
• What is a Meridian System “Validation”
• What is required in a “Validation”
• Are there levels of “Validation”
• What is the benefit of system “Validation”

We are pleased to introduce Upchain, the new Autodesk solution for SaaS PLM and PDM. That's right – Upchain is cloud-based!

Please join us to learn about Upchain's capabilities and where it fits into the existing Autodesk data management environments. Topics will include:

• The business case for Upchain
• Overview of Upchain functionality, including

1. CAD Data Management
2. BOM Management
3. Project Management
4. Change Management
5. Supplier Collaboration

• How Upchain fits with Autodesk Vault and Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage

We outline the top 6 ways that having an engineering document management system for your plant or facility will pay for itself, including:

• Finding correct files faster
• Reducing facility downtime
• Improving project completion and handover
• Safeguarding your intellectual property
• Streamlining compliance
• Better enabling collaboration with outside parties

We demonstrate each of the above capabilities utilizing Autodesk Vault, Synergis Adept, and Accruent Meridian.

In addition, we use an ROI spreadsheet to calculate how much each of these items can provide in annual payback for your organization! A copy of this spreadsheet will be made available to all attendees.

Watch as we go through the process of opening non-native CAD files inside Autodesk® Inventor® using the functionality of AnyCAD to convert those files to Autodesk Inventor files. File types to include, .step, .sat, .iges, and more.

Topics to be covered:

• Utilizing the geometry in 3D Models and 2D Drawings.
• Files from other CAD systems can be imported for use in Inventor and exported to other CAD system formats.
• AnyCAD for Inventor allows you to reference a part or assembly file that is one year newer than the Inventor version you are on.
• The Reference model option maintains a link to the selected file which enables you to monitor and update Inventor as the model changes.
• If changes are made to the file in its respective product after import, the Inventor file reflects the changes and downstream references update as well.

Whether you're a new user of Autodesk® Vault or a grizzled veteran, you've probably encountered some situations where Vault did something confusing or just plain wrong. Why did that happen?

There was likely a method to the madness, but it may have resulted from specific Vault behaviors that are commonly misunderstood. During this webcast, we'll take a deep dive into some intricate Vault behaviors that can leave users confused and angry.

Topics will include:

• A detailed review of Vault File Revision behavior and why it can lead to unexpected results
• A review of Vault Job Processor behavior
• The Get command and how it works with Vault history
• Obscure but important Vault configuration settings

Revit® Families are the backbone of almost all of your Autodesk® Revit® projects. Join us for an informational webcast where we will discuss the three main kinds of Revit Families. We will elaborate on Component Families and discuss some basic terminology and features that can be included in these models.

This webcast is intended for all disciplines including, but not limited to Architects, MEP & Structural Engineers, BIM Managers, Drafters, Building Product Manufacturers, and more. New users will find this very helpful, and intermediate users might pick up a tip or two.

Different kinds of Revit Families:

• Component Families
• System Families
• In-Place Families

Component Families:

• Parametric Framework and how this opens the door for Family Types
• Geometry Options
• Family Types
• Type Catalogs
• Categories and implications
• Family Templates
• Visibility Options
• Materials Parameters
• Nested Families

AutoCAD® Plant 3D stores all of the data for your P&ID's and 3D Models in a live SQL database running in the background. The Data Manager in Plant 3D lets you see all of this intelligent information in a user-friendly interface, enabling you to modify the data as needed. There are also tools for exporting and importing the data utilizing Excel, plus additional tools for configuring how you view the data and what specific data you would like to export or import. Setting up these configurations will enable users to maintain accuracy while lessening the chance of error within the information used in your project reports and bill of materials.

This webcast will highlight the process of using, configuring, exporting, and importing data in a Plant 3D project.

Topics will include:

• An Overview of the Data Manager
• Using the Data Manager Out-Of-The-Box
• Data Manager Project Reports
• P&ID and Plant 3D Data Manager Configuration
• P&ID and Plant 3D Export and Import Settings

Watch as we explore some great tips & tricks for the AutoCAD Electrical User!

First, we cover how to move beyond the Catalog information furnished with your default AutoCAD Electrical toolset installation with added tables that can expand and modify to meet your specific needs. Use the Catalog Browser to edit the catalog database, or use a database program to read/write the Access or SQL file format.

We also show how the Mark/Verify tool can help you track changes made to a project drawing set during any phase in the engineering process.

Hagerman's IntelliPort Tool is a bulk upload application that provides metadata validation in Meridian. This tool is used in conjunction with our IntelliWizards for Project Documents.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• The importance of metadata validation
• The use cases for using IntelliPort
• Live demonstration

There are two key roles when working with BIM Collaborate Pro - Admin and Project Members. In this presentation, we will focus on the different workflows for Project Members invited to a project by the Project Admin and look at the three common modules used in the design workflow, Autodesk Docs, Model Coordination, Design Collaboration.

We will take a look at a Project Members workflow in the following key areas:

• Project members that are working in the Autodesk Docs module
• How to view files, review and markup files, assign issues to other project team members, and finally creating a submittal package
• Project Members that are working with the Design Collaboration module
• We will look at automatic versioning and compare versions of a file in Autodesk Docs.
• For Revit users, we will discuss the three options available for sharing files with other disciplines within your project environment
• Project Members that will be working with the Model Coordination module
• If you are the project member tasked with checking models for clashes, we will look at that workflow

We explore some best practices for implementing and managing a document management system. Following these practices will allow any company to maximize the benefits of their Meridian system while creating a solid foundation for operation throughout the life of the software.

Topics covered:

• Understand your Meridian
• Design a Project Charter
• Perform Back Up
• Follow a Validation Plan
• Clear & Consistent Communication
• Avoid Customization, Promote Standardization
• Tips/Tricks

In this presentation, we discuss how to create custom Frame Generator profiles in Autodesk Inventor.

Topics covered:

• Managing the initial sketches
• Working with parameters and component settings
• Publishing to the Content Center Library
• Utilizing the frames in an assembly
• Publishing table-driven profiles to the Content Center for use within the Frame Generator

Autodesk's Product Design & Manufacturing Collection is an integrated set of professional-grade applications that can take your designs from concepts through manufacturing and streamline your product development process. We discuss how this powerful collection of tools can benefit you and your company.

Topics covered:

• Collection Overview
• Benefits of Collection
• Mechanical Design
• Design Automation
• Manufacturing Capabilities
• Generative Design

With the release of AutoCAD® Plant 3D 2022 comes several new features that will enhance your software's working environment and the efficiency of your drafters and designers. This new version includes one of the most sought-after features: the ability to copy and transfer project properties, symbols, and settings from an existing project to your current project.

This webcast highlights the new features of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2022

Topics include:

• Project Compare
• Project Sync
• Ortho Offset Location
• Extended Isometric Dimensioning
• Iso Style Editor
• Review Of Additional New Features & Enhancements

The idea of Design Automation is not new. For years, businesses have been using it to capture engineering intent to automate the creation of engineering deliverables, reduce errors, and remove repetitive and tedious CAD tasks.

What is new is Hagerman Automation Connection. This new software product will help you take your existing Design Automation efforts to the next level, with minimal deployment and configuration effort.

Join us as we discuss the functionality and implications of this exciting new software. Topics will include:

• The general benefits of Design Automation
• Why attempts to expand the use of Design Automation within organizations often fail
• How Hagerman Automation Connection works and what it can do for you
• How Hagerman & Company can help with your overall Design Automation efforts

Do you know what Project Managers, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Operations, Customer Service, and Shop Floor Personnel all have in common? The need to search, retrieve, view, and print CAD files and documents stored in your data management system.

Hagerman QVP Connection provides a web-based search form for all your employees and integrates with popular viewing software.

QVP Connection advantages:

• Allows data management document access for non-CAD users
• Multiple search forms can be configured for different groups of users and/or types of documents
• Settings are controlled at the server level by system administrators

You've determined that a document management solution is necessary for your organization, but which product is a good fit for the way you do business? What options are available to provide the most benefit across the organization? We can help you determine the right Meridian product suite that aligns with your business processes and goals.

In this webinar, we discuss:

• The Meridian product suite(s) and options we offer
• Determining the right product fit
• Configuration methodology
• Implementation success

Learn more about working with Hagerman & Company to improve your document management processes.

This webinar covers recent changes and advances in Accruent's full Meridian product line, including Meridian Enterprise, Meridian Cloud, and Meridian Portal.

Items discussed in this webinar include:

• Meridian Power User and Power Web client directions
• Future support for work areas, custom extensions, and AutoVue
• Support for advanced CAD applications such as Autodesk Revit, Plant 3D, and more
• Meridian Publisher, Explorer, Mobile, Site Cache, and Shared Workspace
• Recent enhancements to the SaaS-based Meridian Cloud product
• Migrating from Meridian Enterprise to Meridian Cloud
• New automated PDF publishing of drawings submitted to Meridian Portal

The recent release of Autodesk® Revit® 2022 includes many new features and improvements. As usual, there are a large number of really great general platform improvements, and Autodesk has taken great care to provide plenty of enhancements for all individual disciplines. Therefore, this presentation is for all Revit users; whether you focus on Architecture, Engineering, or another specialty, you won't want to miss this webcast. Some favorite updates so far include the integrated PDF writer, Revision Numbering Enhancements, and new parameters to add a prefix and suffix to dimension types.

Other new features we discuss include:

• New Categories including, Fire Protection, Audio Visual, Food Service, and many more.
• Wall Enhancements including Tapered Walls and Slanted Wall enhancements
• Rebar enhancements
• Steel Connections
• MEP Fabrication improvements
• File linking Improvements for IFC, 3DM, FormIt Pro, and Inventor
• Share 2D views for markup
• Tags enhancements
• API improvements

With AutoCAD® Electrical, you can insert smart footprint outlines of electrical components and devices onto layout drawings. This webcast will show you how to pick the insertion point and orientation for the footprint and assign values on the footprint such as tag, catalog assignment, location, installation, descriptions, ratings, and miscellaneous values.

We cover several different options for inserting Footprint Symbols into your Panel Drawing(s). Those options will include:

• Insert from Icon Menu
• Insert a Copy
• Insert Manually
• Insert from Schematic List
• Insert from Vendor Menu
• Insert from Equipment List
• Insert from User-Defined Pick List

Join us as we explore various techniques that will help you program smarter and faster using Autodesk® Inventor® CAM. We demonstrate time-saving solutions for a wide variety of repetitive tasks, which can add up to considerable savings to you and your company.

In this presentation, we cover:

• Contour Selections – A necessary tool for just about every machining operation
• Containment Boundaries – Keep the tool from reaching areas you don't want to machine
• Check Surfaces – The ultimate control for your 3D toolpaths
• Patterns – How to repeat machining the easy way
• And many more!

Join us as we explore the interoperability between Autodesk® Inventor® and Fusion 360®. We will demonstrate how to send Inventor models to Fusion 360 and then use AnyCAD features to open Fusion models in Autodesk Inventor 2022.

We will demonstrate:

• Autodesk Inventor's new “Send to Fusion” panel
• Reviewing and Manipulating Inventor Models in Fusion 360
• Opening models created in Fusion 360 with Autodesk Inventor

For years anyone working in the automation industry knows that one of the biggest bottlenecks in design is the communication between mechanical engineers and controls engineers. Some of the issues that come into play are late design changes that effect the build and test of equipment, the owner of the BoM, and obviously the fit of electrical and fluid power components and cables into the actual assembly.

Attend this webinar to hear from industry experts on how AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor can share a single parts database to insure communication from the concept design phase through build and test.

The hits keep coming – Autodesk® Vault 2022 has been released, and it's better than ever! Between the 2021.1 updates and the full release of Vault 2022, Autodesk has brought some very impactful changes that you won't want to miss. Here we review the changes and what they can do for you.

Topics will include:

• Improvements to the Vault Inventor add-in and Vault client UI
• Duplicate Search improvements
• User Management enhancements
• Inventor Model State support
• Fundamental changes to Vault database replication
• Fantastic updates to the Vault Thin client

Customers are successfully using Autodesk® Vault for Plant and Facilities Engineering in healthcare, utilities, pulp & paper, primary metals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other similar industries.

In this webinar, we will share some features that serve users exceptionally well in these industries. Join us to learn more about these features and how you can use them to boost your productivity.

We will cover:

• Creating transmittals using Vault's Pack ‘n Go and Project Links
• Automatic PDF Publishing
• Custom property pages via Vault Data Standard
• Enhanced searching using Vault's Query Builder
• Integrating with BIM 360 Docs for project collaboration

Autodesk® Inventor® 2022 is packed with customer-driven updates and enhancements to help you speed up your design workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and improve experiences so you can focus more time on design and innovation. Please join us for this webinar as we go over the highlights included with Inventor 2022, including:

• Model States
  • For Parts and Assemblies
• Assemblies
  • Constraint Status Enhancements
  • New Simplify Command
  • iProperties For Instances
• Parts
  • New Fillet Command (Property Panel)
  • Extrude | Surface Mode
• Drawings
  • Shaded Views Enhancements
  • Retrieve 3D Annotations on Drawing Views
  • Centerline Enhancements
• Interoperability
  • Export to Revit
  • Inventor to Fusion 360
• Performance and Productivity Enhancements

AutoCAD® has been around for almost 40 years, while Plant 3D and P&ID were initially released roughly 13 years ago. As a result, it is not uncommon for companies to have a large number of P&ID drawings that were created in Vanilla AutoCAD. However, if you search the internet for a method to convert these AutoCAD drawings to a Plant 3D P&ID, you will find links that state, “There is currently no Autodesk tool to convert plain AutoCAD drawings to AutoCAD P&ID drawings,” as well as blogs and videos that show methodology with less than desirable results, limited capabilities and time-consuming techniques like tracing the drawing.

While there is no magic button to instantly convert an unintelligent AutoCAD drawing into an intelligent Plant 3D P&ID, there are things you can do on both the AutoCAD side and the Plant 3D side that will enable a faster, more accurate conversion. You can't mass-convert multiple drawings in one click, but you can convert a single drawing relatively quickly and accurately without redrawing everything.

This webcast will highlight the process for Converting a Plain Vanilla AutoCAD Drawing of a P&ID into an Intelligent Plant 3D P&ID Project Drawing.

Topics include:

• Understanding Pipe Line Segments and Pipe Line Groups In AutoCAD
• Prepare the Pipes
• To Scale or Not to Scale
• Bye ByLayer, Hello ByBlock
• Plant 3D
• Prepare the Project
• Converting Linework to Pipe Line Segments & Groups
• Converting AutoCAD Objects to Equipment
• Converting AutoCAD Blocks to P&ID Inline Assets
• Complete the Conversion with Additional Tips & Tricks

Available only as part of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, Autodesk® Inventor® Nesting helps to optimize yield from flat raw material and easily compare nesting studies to maximize efficiency and reduce costs.

In this presentation, we will cover:

• how to effectively set up your nesting tools
• running a sample nest
• the various ways to export data

Pharmaceutical companies continually face challenges concerning managing documents and engineering information. These can include:

• Staying compliant with FDA 21 CFR Part 11
• Seamlessly managing both master documents and project files
• Ensuring access to technical documentation to complete work orders faster
• Enabling multiple departments and locations accesses the same set of documentation
• Managing complex CAD data
• Collaborating efficiently with outside parties

In this webinar, we outline how and why 100% of the Top 10 largest pharmaceutical companies use Accruent software to meet these challenges and much more!

Whether you are just now exploring working with projects in the cloud or if you are already leveraging Autodesk® BIM 360®, join us as we delve into the new cloud offerings for AEC design. We will navigate between projects on the BIM 360 platform and the Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) platform, discover how the tools can help your team stay connected, co-author your design, and leverage data to make better-informed decisions on your projects.

We will review:

The three new cloud offerings for AEC design

• Autodesk Docs – a centralized document management solution for all team members on Autodesk Construction Cloud
• BIM Collaborate – a new offering that enables any team member to follow along in real-time design progress and annotate design clashes
• BIM Collaborate Pro – The next evolution of BIM 360 Design enables you to work anytime from anywhere in Revit, Civil 3D, and Plant 3D on both the BIM 360 and the Autodesk Cloud unified platforms. Also, it includes model coordination and project analytics tools.
• How to activate your BIM 360 or ACC cloud hub if you are new to the cloud or if you are an existing BIM 360 cloud user

This webcast will illustrate the basic use of Autodesk® 3ds Max® to visualize a variety of building models. While other Autodesk products are used for authoring, 3ds Max can enhance your workflow by enabling smooth walkthroughs and flybys. This webcast will also provide an overview of materials and how they can be leveraged in 3ds Max.

Topics Covered:

• Linking/Importing a Revit® project
• Linking/Importing an Inventor® assembly
• Linking/Importing an AutoCAD® Plant 3D project
• Adjusting Materials
• Creating a Basic Walkthrough/Flyby

While Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are often discussed as two different business applications, the different concepts they describe are really part of a single, holistic approach to managing information and processes. That said, it's useful to understand those concepts and capabilities, and how implementing them can help your business.

In this fifth and final entry in our 'Using PLM' series introducing the concepts of PLM we'll discuss Supplier Management. Topics that will be covered in this webcast are:

• Integrating with CRM and ERP to leverage enterprise information
• Auditing suppliers and maintaining "Do not Use" lists to avoid future problems
• Linking BOM components to supplier information for compliance standards
• Tracking compliance to regulations like RoHS, REACH, ISO9000
• Providing secure, direct participation to suppliers in the procurement processing

While Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are often discussed as two different business applications, the different concepts they describe are really part of a single, holistic approach to managing information and processes. That said, it's useful to understand those concepts and capabilities, and how implementing them can help your business.

In this fourth of a five-part series introducing the concepts of PLM we'll discuss how PLM can accelerate the process of bringing new products to market. Topics that will be covered in this webcast are:

• A general NPI/NPD workflow
• Using phase-gate milestone tracking to anticipate and avoid delays
• How reporting can provide real-time views into development status
• How PLM can provide unique insights into your product portfolio

While Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are often discussed as two different business applications, the different concepts they describe are really part of a single, holistic approach to managing information and processes. That said, it's useful to understand those concepts and capabilities, and how implementing them can help your business.

In this second of a five-part series introducing the concepts of PLM we'll discuss Change and Quality. Change Management is one of the most important and challenging aspects of delivering quality products on-time and under-budget. Topics that will be covered in this webcast are:

• Closing the loop on the change process, from the first discovered nonconformance to the last ECO
• Linking the various change-related activities for transparency and productivity
• How reporting can help you be proactive instead of reactive

While Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are often discussed as two different business applications, the different concepts they describe are really part of a single, holistic approach to managing information and processes. That said, it's useful to understand those concepts and capabilities, and how implementing them can help your business.

In this third of a five-part series introducing the concepts of PLM we'll discuss Bills of Material (BOMs). BOMs are the primary vehicle for describing a product. They typically serve as the foundation for various fundamental business processes, which makes their proper management vital. Topics that will be covered in this webcast are:

• How you can configure, manage, and share BOMs across the organization
• Comparing BOMs to facilitate the change process
• Incorporating suppliers and customers directly into your processes
• Managing supplier qualifications and approved parts (AML/AVL)
• Releasing BOMs and design information to manufacturing

Electrical schematic drawings contain control references to components that may also be shown on different system drawings. In AutoCAD® Electrical, the drawings and the relationship between them and the electrical schematic are referred to as peer-to-peer linking and drawings. Peer drawings contain nonschematic and nonpanel components that need to be linked to schematic components. Typical components displayed on different types of drawings include solenoids, motors, and meters.

Join us as we discuss peer relationships between drawings and attributes required for peer-to-peer symbols.

While Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are often discussed as two different business applications, the different concepts they describe are really part of a single, holistic approach to managing information and processes. That said, it's useful to understand those concepts and capabilities, and how implementing them can help your business.

Join us as we embark upon a five-week journey to better understand the key concepts of PDM and PLM, using Autodesk's Vault PLM product offering as a guide. The first webcast will serve as an introduction to the series and cover the following topics:

• Where PDM and PLM fit in the overall product lifecycle
• The key concepts of PDM and PLM
• How PLM differs from ERP/MRP/CRM
• A review of the Autodesk Vault PLM product offering

The Drawing Styles and Processes in Autodesk ® Advance Steel® do an excellent job out of the box of labeling assemblies and parts. However, they may not do this per your company standard. Therefore, you might need to modify the styles and/or processes or create new ones to meet your needs. Join us for this webcast, in which we will explore an out of the box Drawing Process example, which creates an assembly drawing that labels all of the single parts except for the main part. The goal will be to have the main part labeled in the same manner as the rest of the assembly components.

Topics Covered:

• Determining the Drawing Style(s) used in a Drawing Process
• Creating a custom Drawing Style
• Creating and using a custom Labeling Strategy
• Creating a custom Drawing Process
• Using the custom Drawing Process to create an assembly drawing that labels the main part with its single part mark

Autodesk Fusion 360® contains Manufacturing functionality built around the InventorCAM (HSM™) technology. All stages of your manufacturing process can be found in one cloud-based environment. Support for milling, turning, mill/turn, and fabrication, including lasers, waterjets, and plasma, can be found in an easy-to-use interface.

During this presentation, we will review the following:

• Tour the Fusion Manufacturing Workspace
• Postprocessors and tool libraries
• Generative Design for manufacturing
• What is subtractive and additive manufacturing

Creating an AutoCAD Electrical toolset symbol includes adding the necessary attributes based on the symbol type and selecting an appropriate file name for a schematic symbol. Symbol builder uses attributes templates to facilitate adding the attributes. If you select a schematic symbol type, symbol builder suggests a file name based on the AutoCAD Electrical toolset naming conventions.

Join us for this free webinar to learn how to:

• Create an AutoCAD Electrical schematic symbol from scratch using the Symbol Builder command
• Create an AutoCAD Electrical schematic symbol from an existing AutoCAD block using the Symbol Builder command
• Create an AutoCAD Electrical panel footprint symbol using the Symbol Builder command

Project Management systems are not usually an effective archive system for documents. Once a project has been closed, it may become very difficult to find those documents again. What options do you have to keep important documents accessible to staff after closeout? Meridian is your answer to this common problem.

In this Webinar, we take a look at the tools we utilize in conjunction with Meridian and our IntelliModules:

• Leveraging project information directly from the Project Management System
• Direct connection from the Project Management System for document download into Meridian

One of the more common requests from users involves dealing with bolt lengths. In a previous webcast entitled "Connections That Really Class Up A Joint," the topic was loosely touched on but not tightened up. In this much-requested sequel, we will fasten down all the adjoining parts within the software that make up each connection's bolt lengths.

This webcast highlights the process of managing Bolt Lengths within a Plant 3D project. Topics included:

• How Bolt Lengths Are Calculated
• Controlling Bolt Lengths in Spec Parts
• Bolt Length Round Up
• Using Multiple Bolt Length Mappings
• Bolt Mappings, EndCodes, Components & Connection Settings

Note: Please watch our previous webcast, "Connections That Really Class Up A Joint," which covers EndCodes and Pipe Connection Settings, in preparation for this webcast.

The ability to simplify and share Inventor designs to Revit, making it possible for manufacturers to design their products in Inventor and later simplify and insert them into Revit projects, has been around for a decade. As BIM has evolved, we see more of our customers looking to open Revit models directly into Inventor. Autodesk Inventor's AnyCAD technology allows you to reference Revit files directly into your Inventor design.

With AnyCAD, you can work with colleagues who are using Revit without translating their files—giving you the confidence that you can create references to geometry knowing that the linked file will update when you receive a new version.

If you use Autodesk Vault with Autodesk Inventor, you probably know you can use your Vault Server to manage Inventor Content Center libraries. But should you? We'll do our best to help you answer that question, as well as other questions you may have about managing Inventor Content Center libraries and files in Vault. Topics will include:

• The difference between Inventor Content Center files and libraries
• Pros and Cons of local versus network versus ADMS Console-managed Content Center Libraries
• New functionality in Vault the 2021.1 update that could impact how Content Center files are managed in Vault

The traditional 2D drawing print, while adequate for nearly all designs, does leave some room for misinterpretation. The traditional 2D view of an object is limiting, and things can be misunderstood during the manufacturing process. Enter Model Based Definitions. MDB aims to refocus annotations onto the actual 3D model geometry, displayed in a 3D space, that allows the user to change view orientation to understand better the annotation and where it is applied. This webinar will introduce MBD and its impact on design lead times and areas of use and features.

Topics to be covered:

• MBD Environment Access
• Traditional Annotations in 3D
• GD&T Abilities
• 3D PDF Output

Today, there are multiple ways to perform interference checking, also known as clash detection, across Autodesk's product catalog. While some users leverage cloud services such as BIM 360 to do this, it can still be achieved even if you have little or no experience working with building models in the cloud. In this webcast, you will explore a way to accomplish this task using only Revit®.

Topics to be covered:

• Comparison to Navisworks®, BIM 360® Coordinate
• Revit's Interference Checking Tool
• Ways to Find Specific Clashes
• Reports

BIM 360 is a cloud-based solution that integrates seamlessly with Civil 3D and is designed specifically with Civil 3D collaboration workflows. Being project focused allows you a straightforward way to organize, navigate and view multiple projects. BIM 360 decreases communication time and project decisions, increasing the productivity of your project team.

During this free webinar, we will begin to introduce you to the process of sharing Civil 3D design data using BIM 360.

This webcast discusses the transition from multi-user licenses to named user licenses and what users and Autodesk Contract Managers can expect when making this change.

Questions we answer during this webcast include:

• Can you run both named user and shared network licenses during the transition, and how long do you have to make the switch to single-user licenses?
• Are users required to log in every time they launch AutoCAD?
• What should happen on the end-user's desktop to transition from multi-user licenses to named user licenses?
• How do you assign licenses to users via the Autodesk Accounts portal?
• What type of prep-work can be done before the licenses go live?
• Will we need to reinstall the software after we switch from multi-user to named-user?
• Register today for this important webcast to get all of your questions answered!

Hagerman Lifecycle Connection (HLC) adds automatic email notifications for all transitions into Vault WG and Vault Pro lifecycle states. With this addition, the shop floor manager can receive email notifications when files are released to manufacturing. Project managers can receive email notifications when files transition into the review or approved states. CAD managers and/or engineers can receive emails when files are sent back to engineering. The connection app can help create email notifications and send them to a pre-defined user list.

In this webinar, we will look at the email settings, lifecycle settings, and different options for utilizing the Hagerman Lifecycle Connection software.

BIM 360 Design's integration with Civil 3D (2020.2) is created specifically for better collaboration workflows. With seamless sharing across both functions and locations and a central platform for all of your project data, you spend less time making decisions and developing workflows—and more time getting the job done.

This webcast introduces the online deployment tool that is now available in your Autodesk Account. While still at an early stage of development, please join us as we explore the first wave of tools made available by Autodesk in this online environment.

Topics to be covered:

• Overview of the online Deployment interface
• Adding and configuring products
• Adding extensions

Fusion Team is a cloud-based collaboration tool provided by Autodesk. Fusion Team offers a centralized workspace for your projects.

Learn how to collaborate with users, whether in your company or outside vendors.

Some of the topics we will cover in this webinar are:

• Getting started and initial setup
• Hubs
• Projects
• Roles and Permissions
• Collaboration examples

To surface or not to surface? That is a legitimate question today considering the level of complexity of some designs. Surfaces can offer a unique modeling approach that solids would struggle to create with excessive clean-up or workarounds. Advanced surfacing tools are extremely powerful but seem to be some of the least understood tools of Autodesk Inventor. Join us as we explore the potential benefits of the surfacing toolset within Inventor.

Topics to be covered:

• Sketch types
• Surface vs Solid
• Surfaces for solid modeling edits
• Pros & Cons to using surfacing

Eliminate your disconnected product development process. Unify design, engineering, electronics, and manufacturing into a single platform. Autodesk Fusion 360™ solves the bottlenecks created by traditional CAD, CAM, data management, and simulation solutions by eliminating the disconnected development process that you encounter every day. In this free webinar we will review Fusion 360, explore the interface, work processes and provide an overview of the various capabilities.

Topics to be covered:

• Autodesk Fusion 360 interface
• Creating, constraining, and dimensioning 2D sketches
• Documenting a design in drawings

Dynamo is a brilliant tool that comes with your Revit software. This presentation will give a brief overview of what it is and how you and your team can use it to increase productivity and accomplish tasks you could only previously imagine. The possibilities are infinite with this piece of software.

However, if you prefer to stay inside the Revit User Interface, there is great news for you. Many workflows created in Dynamo can be implemented from within Revit by the click of a button via the Dynamo Player.

Looking to do even more? With the newest releases of Revit 2021, there is a new feature called Generative Design. With Generative Design, we can give the tool a few parameters to work with and let the software calculate the best possible scenarios for us to explore. Once we choose the best option, we can let the software update our model accordingly.

Did you know that companies that invest in smart factory initiatives report as much as 10-12% gains in areas like manufacturing output, factory utilization and labor productivity?

Join us for a free webinar that will detail 5 focus areas that must be considered in any smart factory initiative. You will also meet our Manufacturing Consulting team and learn how our consulting services can streamline your operations.

Topics to be covered

• Safety assessments and solutions
• Industrial network design and security
• Controls system design, upgrades and integrations
• Controls retrofit and upgrades
• Control panel design & layout

Meridian Cloud is the new hosted version of the popular on-premise Meridian Enterprise system and provides the same benefits as Meridian Enterprise but in a SaaS-based environment.

Like all SaaS-based software, Meridian Cloud offers several advantages, including:

• Never needing to perform application software installations or updates
• No need to buy or maintain Windows and database servers in your environment
• Simpler and more streamlined software configuration

In addition, Meridian Cloud offers the same basic engineering data management capabilities as Meridian Enterprise including 2D CAD integration, workflow, easy search-view-print, management of engineering projects and files, maintenance integration, collaboration with outside engineering firms and contractors, and much more!

While Meridian Cloud and SaaS-based software, in general, may not be a fit for all customers, we encourage you to learn more about this exciting new Meridian option.

With Plant 3D, you can create isometric drawings based on your 3D models. Out of the box, the isometric functionality is very robust and impressive. However, like most features in Plant 3D, you may want to tweak it to match your company standards and personal preferences. Many of these changes can occur within the Isometric DWG Settings of the Project Setup, but not all. For those more advanced customizations, you must modify the isoconfig.xml file and enter a world of schemes, themes and brackety things. You can fine-tune and configure the isometrics in a more detailed manner than you might have thought possible.

This webcast picks up where our Isometric Title Block Configuration webcast ended and will highlight Advanced Configuration of Plant 3D Isometrics within the isoconfig.xml file. All examples are the direct result of support cases, training questions and webcast surveys that have been encountered and requested by end-users of Plant 3D.

Topics will include:

• An Overview of the IsoConfig.xml Structure
• Themes, Data, Groups and Aggregated Lists
• Annotation Styles and Annotation Schemes

Examples Addressed In Webinar:

• Advanced Formatting of Isometric File Names and Drawing Name (DWGNAME)
• Changing Fonts To Line Numbers Without Effecting Other Annotations
• Adding Instruments to BOM's And Balloon's To Instruments
• Modifying Insulation And Tracing Annotation
• Calculated Properties Manager (PlantDefineCalcProperties)
• Additional Examples Will Be Addressed As Necessary

AutoCAD Plant 3D projects with multiple users, until now, have been configured on a company server in a networked environment. As long as all designers were physically located in the same location, that was ok. When a project was in one location, and users were working remotely, a VPN was required to access it, or a remote desktop application was also needed. Unfortunately, Plant 3D is not designed to work that way effectively. Remote users experienced lengthy delays and latency issues, no matter how fast the Internet connection. You need a tool that will enable true collaboration with Plant 3D. The solution is BIM 360.

What will be covered:

• A brief review of traditional methods and issues
• Comparison between the traditional and new methods
• Requirements for Plant 3D Collaboration
• Getting started with a project in BIM 360

For years, Inventor has had some great functionality to publish BIM Content for use in Revit. However, sharing the resulting Revit families with customers and collaborating on design changes continued to pose a challenge. With the recent introduction of sync capability between Autodesk Vault Professional and BIM 360, that problem is largely solved. During this webcast we'll explore the capabilities of this new functionality, including:

• A brief overview of Inventor's BIM Content publishing environment
• Explanation of the Vault to BIM360 sync functionality
• Demonstration of an end-to-end workflow between design of equipment in Inventor and efficient placement of that content in Revit, using BIM 360 and Vault as the bridge

The Project File is critical to proper operation and stable workflow when using Inventor. Few new users understand the importance of this file, and few seasoned users appreciate its impact on daily workflows. This webinar will endeavor to break the Project File down to its simplest form. We'll outline initial setup, required settings such as template & Content Center paths. We'll identify which areas of the project file work best when kept to a local computer versus which areas can be referenced to a network share.

Topics to cover:

• Initial Setup
• Default vs. Custom Named
• Paths for: -Templates -Content Center Files -Styles & Standards
• Library paths
• Global Project vs. Project Per Design

We believe Design and Manufacturing should be part of one seamless workflow.

In this presentation, we show you how to use your existing designs, and generate Computer Aided Machining (CAM) toolpaths, without the hassle of changing software. By utilizing Inventor CAM for manufacturing, there is always direct toolpath associativity with your design model.

Since you already work inside Inventor, you can easily fill holes and pockets as needed for manufacturing. You can also model work-holding components and create fixtures as needed for collision avoidance. When you add this together, you will quickly realize the benefits of working directly inside your modeling environment, not to mention the benefits of a reduced learning curve.

We will introduce you to Inventor CAM and the benefits of CAD-embedded 2.5-axis to 5-axis milling, turning, and mill-turn capabilities.

In AutoCAD Electrical, you can annotate panel footprint symbols after you add wire numbers to your schematics. You can build panel footprint symbols with target attributes used for the wire connection information. If these attributes are not present on the panel footprint, a new or updated MTEXT entity displays the wire information.

You just spent days or weeks carefully refining the design for your latest project. Now comes the best part: clicking Open, then Save Copy As, then PDF. Not just once, but dozens - maybe hundreds - of times. Perhaps you have a list somewhere, and you cross each drawing off the list as you convert them. Maybe you don't, and you try not to remember what happened the last time you missed one. Meanwhile, the next project is still in the queue, waiting to get started.

It doesn't have to be this way – and it shouldn't be this way. If you have Autodesk Vault Workgroup or Professional, the publish of PDF, DXF, and even more specialized non-CAD file formats can be published automatically, as part of your standard document workflow. Join us for a brief webcast as we discuss both the benefits and the importance of automating the publish of your Engineering deliverables. Topics will include:

• The pros and cons of automating the publish of Engineering deliverables
• The importance of automating the publish process
• Why your past auto-publish efforts may have been unsuccessful
• How Hagerman can make auto-publish of PDF and DXF documents in your environment a reality

Although Autodesk Navisworks is a desktop application, more and more users are sharing projects with extended teams. Uploading, downloading, and emailing project files has become an inefficient method for sharing. However, BIM 360 has enabled project stakeholders to accomplish this. Luckily, you can still leverage Navisworks while taking advantage of BIM 360 for model coordination. This webcast will give you an overview to show how Navisworks and BIM 360 work together.

What's covered:

• Connecting Navisworks to BIM 360
• Using Navisworks in the cloud
• Using BIM 360 Model Coordination instead of Navisworks
• How to share a Navisworks model when BIM 360 is not available

Knowing whether or not your design will fit together is vital, but knowing if your design ranges work together is even more critical. If parts are all made to the minimum or maximum tolerance values, will they still fit together? The Inventor Tolerance Analysis utility tests stacked dimensions, allowing for proper fit and clearance under both min and max tolerance conditions.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• Parameter evaluation vs. the Tolerance Analysis Utility
• Demonstrate general workflow & utilization
• Utility reporting Cpk, Sigma, DPMO

Dynamo is a brilliant tool that comes with your Revit software. This presentation will give a brief overview of what it is and a deeper look at what you can do with it and how you can use it. Some of the things we will demonstrate are code-driven design modeling, pulling data from Excel, and pushing it into Revit, as well as how to make it simple and easy for the average Revit user via the Dynamo Player. Dynamo has something to offer users of all levels and abilities. Whether you need to run a script from time to time, identify as a hacker and prefer to automate everything, or just want to see what Dynamo can do, this live webcast is for you.

Some topics we will cover include (Time Permitting):

• Adaptive Components (Structural)
• Room Area Compliance (Space Planning)
• DynaMaps
• Sheet List from Excel
• Batch Upgrade
• String to Upper
• Dynamo Player (Click and Run)
• Dynamo Player (User Input required)
• XY and maybe Z grid
• Random Trees

The AutoCAD Electrical Environment File (WD.ENV) can be a critical path to successful implementation and deployment. This is especially true when dealing with a multi-user or multi-standard environment.

The AutoCAD Electrical environment file (.ENV) is a text file that contains settings and paths that direct the software to look for specific files and actions.

This file can include:

• Catalog and footprint lookup databases
• Slide libraries
• Templates
• Symbol Locations
• Report Templates

The Electrical Environment Connection is an application that allows for easier creation and editing of the .ENV file by providing a graphical user interface and help topics so that you can understand the purpose of each variable.

This webinar will include:

• Understanding the purpose of the AutoCAD Electrical Environment File
• The use cases that should include the creation of the Environment File
• Demonstration of the Electrical Environment Connection

In Plant 3D, Orthographical Drawings are 2D representations of the Plant 3D models that include the intelligent data within the source file. These drawings are made up of multiple Orthographic Views that display plans, elevations, sections and details which can then be annotated using the source data to create the construction documents. These Orthographic Views are created using the Ortho Cube in an Orthographic View Selection drawing. Understanding how to use these tools to create custom views, as well as advanced techniques for rotating views and the removal of unwanted objects in a view, can help improve project accuracy, clarity and efficiency.

This webcast will highlight the process of creating Orthographic Views within a Plant 3D project. Topics will include:

• The Orthographic View Selection drawing and the OrthoTemp.dwt
• Creating Plans with the Ortho Cube
• Using the Ortho Cube Library
• Creating Elevations, Section Cuts and Offset Sections
• Creating Adjacent Views
• Rotating Ortho Views and Advanced Cube Techniques

AutoCAD Electrical uses the footprint database to map catalog information from a schematic component to a specific panel footprint library symbol. There is a table for each manufacturer code.

This webinar will include topics such as:

• Inserting a footprint symbol from the Icon Menu
• Inserting a footprint symbol from a schematic list
• Creating a footprint symbol
• Footprint Symbol attribute requirements
• Footprint Symbol Type
• Footprint symbol naming convention
• Footprint Lookup Database Editor
• Footprint Database tables
• Linking a footprint symbol to a catalog number in the parts database

In this webinar we discuss the tools used to create sheet metal components. We will also review the default rule options for material thickness, sheet metal bends and corners.

Topics to be covered include:

• Sheet Metal Face and Flange
• Sheet Metal Bend and Corner
• Sheet Metal Unfold Rules
• Sheet Metal Flat pattern options

Autodesk Advance Steel for structural steel design detailing software gives structural engineers and detailers a large library of intelligent parametric structural elements, steel connections, and plates.

This presentation will provide an overview and cover the following topics:

• Beginning a project and best practices for creating structural elements and connections
• Automatically create shop and fabrication drawings with the software's document manager
• Overall workflows between Revit and Plant 3D

Whether you are new to Inventor Frame Generator or already a user, we can help get you on the fast track with this free informative webinar. Join us and learn how to create a skeleton part as your reference for adding frame members and many other helpful tips and tricks to help you in your work.

Topics to be covered:

• Skeleton parts
• End treatments
• End caps (new for Inventor 2020)
• Miter
• Trim/Extend
• File Naming
• Reuse

With the 2020 release, Autodesk rebranded Inventor HSM as InventorCAM. During this presentation, we will explore the helpful features within InventorCAM that you may not be aware of. This session will be beneficial to current users and also those new to the product.

Topics covered:

• Ways to change the display of your CAM Browser
• How to manipulate the defaults and expressions
• Customizing the Inventor “Marking” menu for CAM
• Touch Surfaces (i.e. Check Surfaces)
• Manipulating the Tool Orientation (turning & milling)
• What is the Spun Profile in Turning

Finite Element Analysis is no longer a specialty tool only for PE's but is now a design tool for everyday use. This means more interaction with your design intent and possible design failure. Inventor Nastran In-CAD delivers a wide range of analysis tools within Inventor's familiar interface design. The distinction between which test to run is simple and results are delivered quickly.

Items to be covered:

• Material Library
• Meshing and local mesh control
• Applying loads and constraint conditions
• Viewing results 

Piping Connection Settings can be found in the Project Setup of Plant 3D but are generally overlooked. However, these settings control the behavior between pipes, nozzles, valves, and many other components used in a 3D Piping Model by maintaining continuity between the connected components such as diameter, pressure class, facing and other selected class properties. Most connection types are included out-of-the-box, but they can be modified to fit unique project requirements or even personal preferences. New types of joints can also be created and setup to work with custom catalog components that require an end type that is not included in the software.

This webcast will highlight the process for managing and creating various types of Joints in the Piping Connection Settings within a Plant 3D project. Topics will include:

• Overview of Simple and Compound Joints.
• Modifying Pipe Connection Settings.
• Creating Custom End Types (Endcodes).
• Creating Custom Simple and Compound Joints.
• Piping Connection Settings for Pipe Segments, Weld Gaps, Weld Dots & Wafer Bolts.

Navisworks is commonly used for model review, coordination, and clash detection. In our previous webcast we showed how to use two more features; the Timeliner and Animator. In this webcast you will see how you can add and configure Lighting and produce renderings. While these tasks are typically performed in other products like Revit, Inventor, and 3ds Max, it is helpful to know how to do it in Navisworks too, in case you are not familiar with the other products.

What will be covered:

• Introduction to the rendering features (materials, lighting, environments)
• Creating Lights (point, spot, distant, web)
• Ray Trace Rendering
• Cloud Rendering

AutoCAD Blocks enable users to reuse groups of objects such as lines, arcs, circles etc. as one object. Blocks such as bolts, walls, doors and enclosures are very similar except for their lengths and widths. Instead of using many separate blocks to represent each size or variation of an object, you can define a single Dynamic Block to manage all of the sizes and variations.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Reduce the number of blocks in a library by using dynamic blocks
• Insert and modify the visibility of dynamic blocks
• Create a dynamic block
• Add parameters and actions to objects to objects in a block to make it dynamic

We explain the best applications for Autodesk Inventor Studio, as well as what it is NOT for. This important distinction can save you a lot of time and headaches by determining the best software for your design application. Autodesk offers various software options, many included with the latest 2020 Product Collections, and it can be difficult to know which product to use for your particular job. Let us help!

Items to be covered:

• Still image rendering vs Animations
• Inventor vs AutoCAD
• Inventor vs 3DS Max
• Dressing up the model….how much is too much?

This presentation will focus on exploring the enhancements and changes to the BIM 360 platform, Document Management and Design collaboration features.

Autodesk is working on unifying the tools available in the Project files and Plan folder and we will look at some of the tools now available for the Project file folders.

We will also discuss Account and Project Administration improvements and new features for the BIM 360 Project Team members in the web viewer session.

Topics to be covered:

Account Admin:

• Expanded list of Roles and the ability to create custom roles

Project Administration:

• BIM 360 Docs General- Consuming a license of BIM 360 vs assigning a license of BIM 360
• Issues Service
• Expanded list of issues as well as ability to create new issue types
• Document management Service
• Design Collaboration service

Document Management Module

• BIM 360 Place Me Navigation
• Document Viewer control enhancements

Project Home Module:

• Project Landing Page

Mobile Apps:

• Overview

AutoCAD Electrical comes with an extensive catalog database and library of symbols & manufacturer footprints commonly used in the industry. However, it is not all-inclusive for every available component. Many manufacturers are not included out of the box and the included manufacturers are frequently updating and adding to their product lines. For this reason, it becomes necessary for users to add custom content to AutoCAD Electrical.

In AutoCAD Electrical, there are five areas of the software that need to be addressed when customizing the content: Catalogs, Symbols, Footprints, Footprint Lookup and the Icon Menu. This webcast will highlight the process for creating custom content and related data using AutoCAD Electrical.

Topics will include:

• Catalog Data:
  • Creating New Family Codes
  • Using A Secondary Catalog
  • Creating and Modifying Data
• Using The Symbol Builder:
  • User Defined Templates
  • Creating Schematic Symbols
  • Creating Footprints
  • Using The Footprint Database File Editor
  • Using The Icon Menu Wizard

In this webinar, you will learn how Accruent's Meridian software offers a suite of flexible engineering data management solutions that can be:

• Installed on-premise or in an Amazon or Microsoft data center
• Utilized as Software-as-a-Service (Saas)
• Accessed via installed desktop client software or your web browser
• Used as an internal company solution and/or collaboration with your outside suppliers
• Used to solve a host of challenges including document control, CAD integration, workflow, project management, maintenance/asset management and much more
• Utilized by organizations in virtually any industry

Please join us for this webinar highlighting the flexibility and broad capabilities of the Meridian product!

The rendering feature in Revit has been streamlined in recent releases and is quite straightforward to use. But what do we do when a light fixture doesn't work? While this webcast will not cover an introduction to rendering, it will show how to modify the family when a light fails to illuminate a room or lacks the appearance of a functioning light. Also, you'll see techniques to render scenes quickly whether you're doing it in Revit or the cloud.

Topics Covered:

• Performing quick test renders
• Checking lighting operation and appearance
• How to fix a light fixture that's not working as expected (i.e., manufacturer's content)
• Comparing the quality and time differences between Draft, Medium, High, and Best settings

Inventor 2020 software for mechanical design is here and better than ever before. Inventor 2020 improves workflows with increased performance, better collaboration, and new professional-grade design tools. Please join us for this webinar as we explore some of the new features and functionality inside Inventor 2020.

Topics will include:

• Design Enhancements
• Performance Improvements
• Frame Generator Enhancements
• Customer-Driven Improvements
• Translation and Interoperability
• Inventor Experience

Autodesk Vault lifecycles provide a great way to keep track of the status of documents or part numbers and control the revision process. However, they are primarily for tracking status and revision; Vault lifecycle functionality lacks some key features that often limit their usefulness as true workflow engines.

In this webinar you will learn:

• How powerEvents can place additional restrictions on lifecycle change events (e.g. four-eyes review)
• How powerEvents can automate actions across lifecycle transitions, including update of User Defined Properties
• How powerEvents can work in conjunction with powerJobs to enable smart job queueing
• How Hagerman Lifecycle Connection can introduce email notification to file lifecycle behaviors

Learn how Brown University achieved fast, secure, and reliable access to their vital Facilities Documentation! Is it difficult to find documents in your archive/plan room and is the room taking up precious space?

Are you one disaster away from losing your vital facilities documentation?

Have you scanned your archives, but now stakeholders can't quickly and securely find the documents they need?

Have you “stopped the bleeding” and effectively addressed the onslaught of documentation being created and received?

You're not alone.

Hear from Monty Combs, Director of Systems & Services, on how Brown University reduced the time it takes to provide Architects and Engineers full sets of plans and manuals from hours or days to minutes.

During this presentation, you will learn:

• The importance of creating a single point of truth for documents & drawings with one central repository while leveraging other applications such as IWMS, Project Management, CMMS, GIS & CAFM
• How Brown's approach differs from the more commonly used Shared Network Drives, BOX, or SharePoint
• A way to store files that span multiple Buildings or Campus areas, allowing documents to be found without duplicating them in multiple folders
• How to allow staff to find the most relevant documents from their desktop or mobile device in seconds without depending on others.
• A proven approach to support existing processes, such as reviewing close-out documentation or notifying stakeholders when critical documentation is added or updated.

Engineering doesn't operate in a vacuum. Passing information downstream, especially Bill of Material information, can be a tedious, error-prone process. While most organizations understand the benefits of automating communications between departments, the complexity of full-scale integration often prevents such implementations.

In this webinar you will learn:

• The power of using powerJobs to automate creation of input data for ERP systems, even without using Vault Professional Items.
• Real world examples showing update of SQL Server database tables with BOM information in response to Vault file lifecycle changes.
• How powerJobs can enable communication of Vault-originating design information to cloud-based PLM systems

Autodesk Vault provides the capability to automatically publish and share PDFs of drawings during the release process. For many organizations, the Vault out-of-the-box PDF capability doesn't fully meet their needs. In addition, some consumers need neutral CAD data such as DXF, DWG, or STEP. Customization is possible through the Vault API but can be too complex for many Vault customers.

In this webinar you will learn:

• The power and flexibility of using powerJobs to automate creation of PDF and other file types that can be customized for your unique workflow requirements.
• Real world examples that show the benefit of automating the time-consuming error-prone manual process of creating PDFs, and other file types from drawing files.
• How multiple related drawings can be collated into a single PDF print pack
• How watermarks can be added to PDF documents, allowing critical drawing status information to be clearly communicated

AutoCAD Electrical software, which is included in the AutoCAD Toolset, is the leading application built specifically to create and modify electrical control designs. It delivers the tools you need to design and modify electrical controls systems quickly and accurately with significant cost savings.

This webinar will cover:

• Automatic Wire Numbering and Component Tagging
• Automatic Project Reports
• Real-Time Coil and Contact Cross-Referencing
• Create Smart Panel Layout Drawings
• Electrical-Specific Drafting Features

A Process Flow Diagram (PFD) is a type of flow sheet that illustrates the relationships between major equipment within the project. PFD's specify flow rates, temperature, pressure and other information of interest. Plant 3D is not setup to create PFD's out of the box, but it can be customized not only to create the PFD's but to build a relationship between the PFD's and the P&ID's. In turn, any relationships between the P&ID's and the Plant 3D Model will also be maintained within the PFD's.

This webcast will highlight the process for creating Process Flow Diagrams within a Plant 3D project.

Topics will include:

• Adding compatible equipment symbols for PFD's
• Assigning matching Equipment Tags between PFD's and P&ID's and maintaining data
• Creating a per-drawing line numbering system for multiple PFD case studies
• Creating unique Pipe Line Segments and Tags for PFD's
• Custom PFD Annotations and Symbols
• Setting up Process Flow Diagram Reports
• Export/Import of PFD Reports

Navisworks is commonly used for model review and clash detection. What else can it do? This webcast will show how to illustrate the construction sequence of adding and removing model elements based on a schedule. The models used were authored with Autodesk Revit, Autodesk AutoCAD Plant 3D, and Autodesk Inventor.

What will be covered:

• Setting up Selection Sets and Viewpoints for use with the Timeliner
• Using the Timeliner to show demolition/removal equipment, then construction of new equipment
• Using the Animator with the Timeliner to include a fly-by in the sequence

We will take a look at how to activate your BIM 360 Design Account and more importantly how to find the required information needed to process renewals and orders for new seats. We will discuss the initial activation and how to overcome any possible speed bumps along the way. We will then talk about how to find the required information needed to process orders. Finally, we will do a brief overview of the best features of BIM 360 Docs, Design, & Glue. After this webcast you will have a great understanding of how to setup your account and how these products can help your team provide the best design services possible.

Topics to Be Covered:

• Account Activation
• Finding Basic information for New Orders and Renewals
• Introduction to BIM 360 Docs
• Introduction to BIM 360 Design
• Introduction to BIM 360 Glue

Designing has always been a visual process. From the earliest sketches of Leonardo da Vinci to the latest VR engineered bicycle, the depiction of a design can make or break an idea with the target audience. Inventor offers the Studio sub-environment to simplify the task of generating still images, animations and fly-throughs of your design in either static or 3D immersive “landscapes”. Join us for a brief look at how to setup and generate high-resolution still images, component motion animations, lighting animations and camera movement animations of your designs. The ROI of one hour spent in Inventor Studio might be the make or break of your design idea.

Items Covered:

• Still image rendering
• Animation setup
• Animating Cameras
• Animating Components
• Lighting setups/animation

For years anyone working in the automation industry knows that one of the biggest bottlenecks in design is the communication between mechanical engineers and controls engineers. Some of the issues that come into play are late design changes that effect the build and test of equipment, the owner of the BoM, and obviously the fit of electrical and fluid power components and cables into the actual assembly.

Attend this webinar to hear from industry experts on how AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor can share a single parts database to insure communication from the concept design phase through build and test.

The Project Navigator is a drawing management system that both AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP share. While many of the tools within the two AutoCAD toolsets can be used in a standalone drawing environment, in order to utilize the full functionality of the software as a BIM platform you will need to work within a project environment. Using the project navigator enables multiple drawings to share information making it a valuable resource in your building information modeling tool chest.

This webcast, AutoCAD Architecture & AutoCAD MEP: The Project Navigator, will include:

• Creating new projects and the Project Browser.
• Copying project properties, categories, drawings and support files.
• An overview and explanation of projects and the Project Navigator.
• Defining and managing the parameters of a project.
• Creating and connecting Elements, Constructs, Views and Sheets.
• Managing external references (xrefs) with the Project Navigator.

In this two-part series, you will learn more about the workflow between Inventor and 3ds Max. In Part 2 you will continue learning basic skills for animating an Inventor assembly such as linear motion and camera movement.

We will cover:

• Linear motion
• Animating the camera
• The ins and outs of setting keys on the timeline to get what you want
• Assembly sequence for a machine or product

Revit's out-of-the-box visualization tools offer many useful benefits to users. Turn detailed models into impressive Renderings with just a few simple steps. In this webcast, we will take a look at how to create Renderings in Revit. We will also discuss and show other techniques like Walkthroughs and enhanced Camera Views that can also be used for very quick and effective visualizations of your designs.

Topics to be covered:

• Local vs. Cloud Rendering
• Materials
• Artificial Lighting and Day Lighting
• RPC Content
• Working with Camera Views
• Saving Renderings

The capabilities and features of Autodesk's Vehicle Tracking software have expanded. It is no longer a single program but a suite of transportation-related programs that include vehicle swept path prediction for steered vehicles, light rail vehicles and aircraft, parking layout design, and roundabout design.

During this webinar, we'll cover the following:

• Swept path analysis - animate vehicle paths directly within the CAD environment. Create 2D or 3D animations, using multiple camera angles and even a Record function
• Parking lot design - lay out vehicle parking areas in minutes instead of hours.

• Quickly place rows, custom bays, etc. Use grips to easily edit design alternatives
  Roundabout design - uses intelligent objects to help create and edit roundabout geometry

Note: Vehicle Tracking is only available in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction collection.

Factory Design Utilities software helps you plan and validate factory layouts for efficient equipment placement to improve production performance. Join us as we examine the asset tools included in the Autodesk Factory Design Utilities available in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.

Topics to be covered:

• asset overview
• creating custom assets for factory layouts
• options for sharing assets with a design team

When design project teams have the right information at the right time, work happens faster. BIM 360 Design lets you co-author shared Revit models, and curate, coordinate, and manage deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.

Learn how to connect your entire design team and project data in one place so that you spend less time fighting with files and more time designing.

Topics to be covered:

• BIM 360 Docs and BIM 360 Design: the next generation of BIM 360 Team and Collaboration for Revit
• Coordinate and Collaborate projects with multidiscipline design teams in the cloud
• Centralized Project Information
• View and redline project files
• Version tracking and project model comparisons

Meridian is the industry leader in data management for plant engineering and operations and is widely used throughout the primary metals, chemicals, pharma, oil & gas, utilities, pulp & paper and other process-based industries.

In a single integrated environment, Meridian allows you to:

• Manage and share CAD data along with other design, operations and equipment files
• Streamline engineering projects
• Provide easy 24/7 search-view-print access
• Collaborate on projects with suppliers
• Link with asset management systems

If you are an existing Meridian user, learn about the latest features and additional modules that can take your productivity to the next level. If you are not yet a Meridian user, you will learn about all the ways that Accruent can make your engineering and plant operations safer, more efficient and more cost effective.

Join us for this informative webcast that will cover the basic workflow for importing an Autodesk Inventor assembly into 3ds Max and animating it.

We will cover:

• Preparing materials for Inventor parts

• Creating a simplified view of an assembly

• Setting up a simple driving animation

• Importing the assembly into 3ds Max for further visualization

With the introduction of the industry-specific toolsets included in the AutoCAD 2019 subscription, identifying the right toolset for your business can be overwhelming. Many companies work with multiple disciplines and need to work with a variety of AutoCAD software applications, and now thanks to One AutoCAD, they can!

In this presentation we will focus on the Mechanical toolset and will cover:

• 2D content Center library
• Advanced construction line, hole, and hidden line generation
• Parts list and Hole Table creation

Autodesk's recent release of the new Inventor Nesting Utility can be used in conjunction with Inventor HSM to quickly nest and manufacture sheet metal parts. In this presentation you will see an overview of the Inventor Nesting Utility and then we will take that data to Inventor HSM to quickly generate toolpath and G-Code.

We will cover:

• The Inventor Nesting Utility user interface and workflow
• Inventor HSM toolpath generation on your nested sheets
• How to post process to generate G-Code

The AutoCAD Map 3D toolset is the leading engineering solution for creating/managing spatial data, bridging the gap between geographic information systems (GIS) and computer-aided design (CAD). Integration of GIS functionality in your design processes allows for more efficient workflows. Map 3D provides direct access to the leading data formats used in mapping and design, resulting in better data quality, better designs and increased productivity.

This webinar will touch on the following topics as time permits:

• Create and Assign Geographic Coordinate Systems
• Combine Geospatial Features and Drawing Objects
• Create and Edit Features and Drawing Objects
• Search and Filter Data

With the introduction of the industry-specific toolsets included in the AutoCAD 2019 subscription, identifying the right toolset for your business can be overwhelming. Many companies work with multiple disciplines and need to work with a variety of AutoCAD software applications, and now thanks to One AutoCAD, they can!

In this series we will focus on each toolset so that you can easily choose which one is best for your application. This webinar is intended for AutoCAD users who are new to the toolsets.

We will cover the following features available in AutoCAD MEP:

• HVAC components (duct & equipment)
• Electrical components (conduit, wire, cable tray, etc.)
• Piping/plumbing concepts
• Views and schedules

With the introduction of the industry-specific toolsets included in the AutoCAD 2019 subscription, identifying the right toolset for your business can be overwhelming. Many companies work with multiple disciplines and need to work with a variety of AutoCAD software applications, and now thanks to One AutoCAD, they can!

You now have access to the AutoCAD Architecture Toolset with AutoCAD 2019. If you are wondering what it can do for you, please join us for a short informational webcast all about AutoCAD Architecture. We will show how this product can help Building Designers not only model their buildings but also generate 2D views to help create a sophisticated set of Construction Documents.

Topics include:

• What is the difference between AutoCAD and AutoCAD Architecture?
• Where to find the software
• Highlight modeling and drawing features of the software
• Construction Documents

With the introduction of the industry-specific toolsets included in the AutoCAD 2019 subscription, identifying the right toolset for your business can be overwhelming. Many companies work with multiple disciplines and need to work with a variety of AutoCAD software applications, and now thanks to One AutoCAD, they can!

In this series we will focus on each toolset so that you can easily choose which one is best for your application. This webinar is intended for AutoCAD users who are new to the toolsets.

We will cover the following features available in AutoCAD Electrical:

• Project Manager
• Intelligent Schematic Design
• Automatic Component and Wire Numbering
• Circuit Design and Reuse
• Symbol Libraries
• Real-time Error Checking
• Catalog Browser
• Automatic Report Generation
• Smart Panel Functionality

With the introduction of the industry-specific toolsets included in the AutoCAD 2019 subscription, identifying the right toolset for your business can be overwhelming. Many companies work with multiple disciplines and need to work with a variety of AutoCAD software applications, and now thanks to One AutoCAD, they can!

In this series we will focus on each toolset so that you can easily choose which one is best for your application. This webinar is intended for AutoCAD Users new to the toolsets.

We will cover the following features:

• Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID's)
• Plant 3D Structural Steel & Access
• Plant 3D Equipment
• Plant 3D Piping & Specifications
• Orthographic/Construction Documents
• Isometric Drawings
• The Data Manager & Reports

Do you want to see what your Civil 3D design looks like in context? Do you need to make a presentation to shareholders, municipalities, the public, etc. using a 3D model that clarifies new construction, instead of causing more confustion with a 2D plot? InfraWorks can handle that! Once your detailed design and documentation have been completed, Civil 3D can hand-off the project to InfraWorks to create a detailed visualization of your on-going project.

Topics to be covered:

• Referencing Civil 3D design information in an InfraWorks model
• Updating the Civil 3D design information as the project changes
• Displaying materials in InfraWorks related to the Civil 3D design

Freeform shapes surround us every day, from the support of our lower back in a chair to the comfort grip of a push mower handlebar. Today's designs are becoming more organically shaped and Autodesk® Inventor® can support this design workflow with surfacing and the recent introduction of freeform modeling. Using either workflow alone can get you far in a design, but combining the two provides a powerful set of tools to model as fluidly as possible. Inventor combines the rigid form modeling approach with freeform modeling to deliver the entire design, in one easy to use modeler.

The plant engineering industry has special data management needs, including:

• Managing data and documents of all types
• Integrating with the latest CAD software
• Providing easy 24/7 search-view-print access for operations and maintenance
• Collaborating on projects with outside engineers and contractors
• Linking drawings and documents to specific assets and equipment
• Seamlessly managing both as-built and multiple project copies of documents

Learn how all of the above can be achieved with a combination of Autodesk Vault and unique Hagerman tools, services and experience.

Using real-world examples of work our Hagerman Simulation Specialists Division has performed, we will demonstrate how our simulation group can become an extension of your engineering team to optimize and validate product design and building performance. We will describe work from both manufacturing and AEC industries. We'll also have a guest client share their experience in working with the Hagerman team and how it has benefited their company and bottom-line.

If your company designs, develops product, or is concerned with airflow in buildings, you will benefit from this free webinar.

AutoCAD Electrical drawings are designed to work within a project as a set of interrelated electrical drawings. The Title Block used on these drawings can be automated making it easier to manage both project and drawing information. Any existing AutoCAD block with attributes can be setup to be used as an AutoCAD Electrical Title Block. AutoCAD Electrical Title Blocks can be setup globally for all projects or as a project specific title block.

This free webcast, Part 2 of the series, will highlight the process for working with an Electrical Title Block and will include:

• Setting up an AutoCAD block with attributes and fields.
• Adding an AutoCAD block with attributes to an AutoCAD Electrical Template.
• Setting up an AutoCAD block with attributes as an AutoCAD Electrical Title Block.
• Mapping attributes to AutoCAD Electrical project and drawing information.
• Using multiple Title Blocks (B Size and D Size) within a Project.
• Using a Project Specific Title Block while maintaining a Global Title Block for other projects.
• Using Title Block Update and Update/Retag.

Project managers play an integral role in ensuring the success of a Revit implementation.

This presentation will discuss the key ways that a Project manager can assist their team, identifying the tools and processes that best benefit the project and entire team.

Topics to be covered:

• Considerations before entering into a BIM Project
• BIM Expectation Management
• Project Phase Impact
• Types of Models
• BIM Contracts
• Return On Investment
• Methods of Checking models for Quality Control
• Making use of BIM Consultants
• BIM Education
• Sharing your Model/Data with others
• BIM Software Solutions

AutoCAD Electrical drawings can be organized and managed using the Project Manager. Having the ability to define a folder structure for each project makes it easier to manage default settings for new drawings and apply new settings when necessary. Working with a project also enables multiple drawings to share information by linking components so that the software understands the relationship of each representation within the entire set of drawings.

Part 1 of this two-part webinar series will highlight the process for working with an Electrical Project and will include:

• An Overview and Explanation of Projects and the Project Manager.
• Creating new Projects and Copying project settings and drawings.
• An overview of tools available for project management.
• An overview of the WD.ENV file and a few important settings.
• Project support files and setup.
• Surfing components within the project.
• Publishing a Project to an Interactive, Surfable PDF

How do the experts approach an FEA or CFD problem? Are there practical steps that can be taken to increase the likelihood of good results, and minimize frustration and wasted time?

Join us as we discuss some fundamental best practice concepts that should be of use to the new simulation user, or the veteran user.

Nastran In-CAD is a very powerful, full-featured FEA tool that is now available within Autodesk's Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (PD&MC). This versatile application is aimed squarely at the design engineer who wants to quickly assess product performance prior to building physical prototypes or manufacturing.

To learn how to use the software, there are basic tutorials available; however, in order to maximize the power of this software and get accurate results quickly, professional training is highly recommended.

This free, unique online event will take you through a condensed training session with one of our professional simulation instructors. We'll cover:

• A review of the Finite Element Analysis theory as it is applied in Nastran In-CAD
• Launching the Nastran In-CAD Environment
• Assigning materials and understanding their properties
• An overview of meshing and geometry considerations
• Interpreting the most commonly used result outputs
• Managing changes to a design

These concepts will be presented in the context of static stress and steady state thermal analysis.

For anyone who does not yet have the software, but is curious about its capability, we'd also encourage you to attend this session to find out more.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the frame that supports the picture might be worth a million. Framing support is everything in a structural design. Whether that structure is a small appliance or a larger, multi-stage process machine, without the framing structure, the design would fail. Inventor has framing tools to aid in the design and changing of a framed project and those tools can work within the active design so that you never leave the familiar Inventor interface. The Frame Generator can utilize many different modeling techniques to place and align frame members, including model edges and 3D sketches. While there are similarities between 2D & 3D sketches, there are some key differences that we'll discuss in this presentation.

Topics to be Covered:

• Frame Generator options
• Framing to sketch geometry
• Framing to solid or surface geometry
• Custom frame member shapes
• BOM display of framing structures
• General 3D Sketching workflow

You can now experience the revolutionary power of full design automation without custom programming! Hagerman & Company is proud to introduce our new ETO (Engineered to Order) Connection software that can help you do just that. Building on our 20+ years of success in design automation and engineered-to-order software, ETO Connection takes design automation to new levels of productivity and accessibility.

Capabilities include:

• Full automation for 2D and 3D AutoCAD and Inventor automation and design outputs (with future support for Revit)
• Allows for easy forms-based capture of all design inputs with automated generation of 2D and 3D designs to save time, money, mistakes and improve customer satisfaction
• Support for a multitude of flexible user interfaces and platforms including web browsers, Excel spreadsheets, .NET forms, your existing CAD software and other existing in-house customer systems

If your company is involved in engineered or configured-to-order design work, you won't want to miss this free informative webinar.

The AEC Collection has gotten bigger and better AGAIN! Join us for this free presentation and learn about the latest changes to this set of tools and how they work together.

Topics to be covered:

• Software included in the AEC Collection
• Latest additions
• How to leverage them in your workflow

Most Autodesk Inventor workflows can benefit from some level of automation. Whether you design one-of-a-kind equipment or engineer a configurable product, there are undoubtedly a few repetitive tasks you'd like to eliminate. Fortunately Autodesk Inventor provides a way.

This presentation will focus on how to get started with iLogic in Autodesk Inventor.

Topics include:

• Example tasks that can benefit from Automation
• The basics of part and assembly iLogic rule creation
• iLogic best practices

The Project Manager has asked the designer (you) to add the site to the project, but you're not a Landscape Architect or a Civil Engineer. You don't have time to learn how to model it in Revit, so how are you going to pull this off without simply underlaying a CAD file of the site plan and calling it done?

This webcast will focus on a method using data extraction from a 2D or 3D AutoCAD drawing to create a site in Revit in very little time without having to model it.

AutoCAD Electrical has built-in functionality for creating Single Line Diagrams. However, most users do not realize that these drawings are easily integrated with components on schematic and panel drawings. Maintaining these relationships and sharing data between the Single Line Diagrams and other project drawings will result in greater consistency, fewer errors and the ability to surf all instances within the entire project.

• Developing a Single Line Diagram
• Creating a Custom One-Line Component
• Adding a Custom Symbol to the Circuit Builder Database
• Using the Circuit Builder to Create a One-Line Circuit
• Using the Icon Menu to Add One-Line Components
• Integrating Single Line Diagrams with other project drawings
• Surfing the Results

Sheet Metal designs require a different mindset than traditional modeling and therefore also require different tools. Autodesk® Inventor® 3D mechanical design software includes the tools that you will need to rapidly create accurate designs and documentation for your sheet metal needs.

In this presentation we will cover:

• Sheet Metal rules and styles
• Face and Flange generation
• Rolled Contour and Lofted Contour features
• Bends, Folds, Unfolding and Refolding feature utilization
• Drawing view generation and DXF output controls

Finite elements have rules that govern what loads and constraints they can support. We call them degrees of freedom. In this webcast, we'll shed some light on what degrees of freedom are and why they matter.

Autodesk's Geotechnical Module (GM) is an extension to AutoCAD Civil 3D which allows the user to display subsurface materials, i.e. borehole location and geology data. The GM is a starting point to understand a project's geology and its effect on surfaces, design, etc. within a typical Civil 3D project.

This webinar will introduce you to the functionality of the Civil 3D's Geotechnical Module:

• Import geological data
• Visualize boring holes in project context
• Create multiple strata surfaces
• Utilize profile views showing borehole log strips

When out-of-the-box templates do not contain the exact design and dimensions for a new component in the AutoCAD® Plant 3D catalogs, one available option is to add the component using Python scripting. In this free webinar we will demonstrate this technique by adding a nozzle with a slip-on flange to replace the out-of-the-box weld neck nozzle flange.

Some of the topics to be covered include:

• Concept, Design and Dimensions for the Custom Component
• Basic Python Scripting and Required Images
• Registering and Deployment of the Component with AutoCAD® Plant 3D
• Adding the Component to the Catalog
• Using the Custom Component in AutoCAD® Plant 3D

(Files used in this webcast are available for download and included in a link near the end of the webcast.)

Exciting news from Autodesk puts advanced Simulation and CAM technologies in your hands today! You can now use your Inventor design data for virtual performance testing and CNC machine programming with tools you may already have. How do you access this technology and who can help you adopt it?

Join us as we discuss the newly announced Product Design and Manufacturing Collection, Nastran In-CAD, Inventor HSM and more:

• What is the Product Design and Manufacturing Collection?
• What is Nastran In-CAD and what is it for?
• What is Inventor HSM and what is it for? How can you adopt these technologies into your Inventor design process?

Have you ever wanted to model a street in your Revit Model and have your site topography automatically adjust to match the street? Have you ever wanted to automatically generate a set of hundreds of randomly placed trees in your model?

In this webcast, we will show you how this is now possible with a little help from The Site Designer and Dynamo Plugins for Revit. Site Designer is free for subscription customers and Dynamo is free for everyone. We will also show some of the pros and cons of Site Designer and discuss the endless possibilities Dynamo opens up.

We will also:

• Generate a street and automatically
• Re-Grade the topography to match the new street
• Discuss the pros and cons of Site Designer Plugin
• Discover the endless possibilities with Dynamo
• See how to automatically generate a forest of randomly placed trees using a Dynamo Script

As an interior designer, you have probably spent time wondering whether Revit software with BIM processes is the right fit for your firm. In this informative webcast we will be discussing some of the reasons why it is so important for interior designers to utilize Revit and how to seamlessly implement BIM into the design process.

In this hour-long presentation, we will discuss:

• Why BIM is a more effective approach for interior designers than 2D CAD
• The current trends in BIM technology for Interior Designers
• How Interior Designers can effectively use BIM for presentations and construction documents
• Rendering capabilities as well as scheduling, cost estimating and specifications capabilities
• Ways to implement BIM to minimize risk

In this free webinar, we will demonstrate and discuss the available software tools for companies involved in the large-scale production and processing of steel, aluminum, and other metals, and how they can help you meet challenges specific to your industry.

Companies involved in the large-scale production and processing of steel, aluminum, and other metals face similar challenges and require a data management tool that allows:

• State of the art integration with the latest 2D and 3D CAD solutions
• Support for engineering projects including separation of as-builts from project copies and support for overlapping or concurrent projects
• Easy 24/7 search-view-print access to drawings and critical documents for operations and maintenance staffs
• Integrated collaboration with outside engineering firms and contractors
• Asset management and maintenance integration, including linking maintenance/equipment records to associated drawings and documents

In this free webinar, we will demonstrate and discuss the available software tools and how they can help you meet the above challenges.

Plant 3D has built-in functionality for creating equipment from basic 3D modeling shapes. When it comes to more complex designs, Inventor has advanced tools for creating accurate models. Adding nozzles at angles or coming off the tangent of a cylinder is almost impossible to accomplish in Plant 3D, while Inventor can perform these tasks with ease. However, getting those Inventor Models converted into a usable error-free piece of Plant 3D equipment is not as easy as clicking a button. There are steps to perform in Inventor to prepare your model for Plant 3D, as well as steps to finalize this equipment once it has been converted to Plant 3D.

This webcast will highlight the process for creating compatible Inventor models for conversion into Plant 3D equipment. Topics will include:

• Preparing your Inventor model for Plant 3D.
• Using the BIM Exchange environment to setup connections.
• Converting From Inventor to Plant 3D. T
• he differences between converted Inventor equipment and Plant 3D equipment.
• Using Plant 3D to setup connections.

Transform the entire process of developing, executing and managing infrastructure projects by using initial surveying and data collection, environmental review, public participation, design and documentation, bidding, construction, and operations and maintenance. The model-centric approach enables planners, engineers, and designers to explore and validate innovative design ideas and what-if scenarios with project investors.

Before ground is broken, all parties have a better understanding of scheduling (4D) and cost (5D), environmental impacts are assessed and understood, and the public can visualize what the project will look like at various stages of completion. Once the model is sighted, you can export back to Revit so the model can be geo-referenced for conceptual planning. This workflow provides you an accurate model for elevations, building position, sun studies and ability to coordinate with other softwares (i.e. Navisworks) and other disciplines.

Join us for this informative webcast and learn how you can:

• Increase clarity of project intent for all stakeholders—better informed decision making and risk reduction
• Ensure data fidelity and continuity across the lifecycle of a project— improving quality and productivity
• Provide the critical foundation for business agility—utilizing technology enablers to maximize profit and growth opportunities

Examining the flow of air in and around buildings and water movement in civil structures using CFD provides designers with insight into some of the common challenges faced in these industries.

This webinar will describe the procedures and techniques used to effectively simulate each of the major types of applications that AEC and Civil designers encounter, such as:

• Understanding temperature distribution through an occupied zone to ensure interior comfort and maintain operational efficiency
• Examining diffuser throws and flow patterns to evaluate effectiveness in custom HVAC installations
• Considering the effects of water moving through civil structures

Understanding how air and thermal energy moves within occupied spaces is key to predicting and optimizing the performance of a building design. CFD, or Computational Fluid Dynamics, is increasingly utilized by industry leaders to control energy use in new building designs, and in retrofitting existing buildings. In the past, CFD was the realm of the research scientist, but advancements in CFD and computer technology in recent decades has put its power in the hands of generalist engineers, designers and even architects.

Join us for this free webinar that will include a demo of CFD in action using Autodesk CFD. Topics to be covered:

• Optimizing the effectiveness of HVAC solutions for new design and structure renovations
• Maximizing airflow performance by understanding it's behavior with 3D color visualizations
• Improving occupant comfort and air quality

Autodesk Storm & Sanitary Analysis (SSA), included in AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD Map 3D, provides users accurate data to fully address growth and urbanization efficiently and sustainably.

Join us for this overview of SSA and see how it can effectively support the refurbishment and replacement of aging storm and sanitary sewer systems, address water conservation, water quality, and smart water initiatives.

Topics will include:

• User Interface
• Sharing data with Civil 3D
• Supported Hydrology Types

With Autodesk A360 Collaboration for Revit, project teams collaborating on AEC projects can simultaneously co-author models across companies or locations. Revit Collaboration includes tools that enhance communication and better connect the entire project team, including those who need access to project models without installing Revit software or exporting to PDF.

In this presentation we will cover:

• What you need to get started with using Revit Collaboration
• Signing into to Revit Collaboration and navigating the site
• Accessing Projects through Revit for project collaboration
• Using the real time editing features of A360 Collaboration for Autodesk Revit

Autodesk Industry Collections offer convenient and flexible access to a wide selection of essential Autodesk software used in your industry, while enjoying a steady stream of new releases and product enhancements for improved workflows. While Autodesk Industry Collections simplifies the software purchasing process, you may still have questions about the benefits for you and your organization. If you are wondering whether switching to Industry Collection is right for you, join us for this informative webinar.

We will cover:

• The fundamentals & benefits of Autodesk Industry Collections
• Switching a current subscription program to an Industry Collection
• The Software Coordinator's role in setting up or switching to an Autodesk Industry Collection

Project Connection is a Hagerman & Company exclusive product for Autodesk Vault. It is primarily designed for organizations involved in industries such as utilities, primary metal production, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, oil and gas, and pipelines. Using Vault, they make as-built drawings and other documents available to engineering and maintenance staff, as well as engineering and design projects involving the construction or modification of plant facilities and equipment.

Project Connection allows these organizations to:

• Keep as-built and current design documents for engineering and construction projects separate from one another
• Allow maintenance and other staff to access the latest as-built's while design projects are in progress
• Assign the same drawings and other files to multiple engineering projects if necessary
• Automatically update related as-built's when the engineering projects are complete
• Track all relationships between current as-built and project copies of documents

Project Connection is a Hagerman & Company exclusive product for Autodesk Vault. It is primarily designed for organizations involved in industries such as utilities, primary metal production, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, oil and gas, and pipelines. Using Vault, they make as-built drawings and other documents available to engineering and maintenance staff, as well as engineering and design projects involving the construction or modification of plant facilities and equipment.

Project Connection allows these organizations to:

• Keep as-built and current design documents for engineering and construction projects separate from one another
• Allow maintenance and other staff to access the latest as-built's while design projects are in progress
• Assign the same drawings and other files to multiple engineering projects if necessary
• Automatically update related as-built's when the engineering projects are complete
• Track all relationships between current as-built and project copies of documents

This webcast will provide an in-depth look at the set of tools Autodesk Vault Professional provides to deliver a complete Engineering BOM. Your engineering department does not exist in a vacuum. Solid communication with other departments, especially BOM information, is vital to delivering your products and projects on time and under budget.

This webcast will provide an in-depth look at the set of tools Autodesk Vault Professional provides to deliver a complete Engineering BOM. Topics will include:

• Overview of the Vault Item Master
• Creating Items from Autodesk Inventor Assemblies
• Creating Complete Engineering BOMs
• Communicating with Other Business Systems

Many designers struggle to find a CAD package with hardware that is specific to his/her needs. Attaining this level of specificity usually requires manually creating the hardware and keeping track of it all. In some cases, customers are able to use the geometry of the pre-built hardware libraries, but the part numbers, file names, or materials are all wrong for their industry. Customizing a CAD package hardware library can be a difficult task, leaving users feeling frustrated and overwhelmed.

In this webinar, we will break it down step-by-step so that you can make the Inventor Content Center work for you! Topics we will cover:

• Inventor Project path options
• Creating writable Content Center libraries
• Copying existing component libraries to customize
• Customizing the library fields to match company standards

Solving real-world FEA engineering problems is often thought to be the domain of the Simulation specialist. During this webinar we will show you how Autodesk® Inventor® Professional and Autodesk® Nastran® In-CAD are used early in the design and development process to virtually test products, improving performance and reducing service failures.

Join us for this free webinar in which we will explore the following topics:

• The importance of considering non-linear behaviors when making design decisions
• How quickly and easily even non-linear analyses can be performed
• The speed with which design alternatives can be explored
• The practicality of advanced simulation types such as fatigue analysis

A major challenge in the electronics industry is to ensure components operate at temperatures below their mandated limits. The challenge is further compounded by the relentless drive to reduce device size while increasing device power. As component power increases and packaging sizes decreases, designing to ensure adequate cooling becomes increasingly critical and challenging. By using CFD early in the design process to incorporate an in-depth understanding of the air flow as a part of the design, many of these challenges can be managed effectively.

In this presentation, we will show the process of taking a 3D CAD design and examine key performance criteria that will help maximize operational efficiency and temperature control.

Holy Interoperability! Civil infrastructure professionals face challenges to support transportation, land development, utilities and energy infrastructure. We need to find new ways to design in context, i.e. more economical, practical, resilient and attractive. AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and InfraWorks 360, Autodesk's BIM for Infrastructure solutions, will allow engineers and designers to optimize design alternatives quickly to work through “design issues” before they happen.

Topics to covered, but not limited to:

• Interoperability Best Practices
• Import process for both types of software
• Utilizing Civil 3D objects in InfraWorks
• Utilizing an InfraWorks 360 model in Civil 3D

Revit MEP family creation. This webinar will walk you through some innovative methods for making your Revit MEP software families more powerful and easier for your teams to use. We will implement a simple VAV (Variable Air Volume) box with dimensions and connectors that are fully parametric. The VAV will have two duct connectors for supply and return along with two hydronic pipe connectors for reheat functionality.

Topics to be covered:

• How to set up reference planes, geometry, parameters, and all connections
• Testing of all connections by loading the box into a project and connecting duct and pipe to it

It is vital for designers and engineers to stay current by adopting software standards as they evolve. Transferring custom settings to a newer release is important but can feel tedious.

Join us as we review how to set-up Autodesk Inventor Standard templates, Styles Libraries and Material Libraries in a network setting for use with multiple users.

We will look at the best practices for migrating these files to a new release. Topics to be covered:

• Default files to keep and custom files to migrate
• Project settings Vs Application options Pro and Cons
• Custom Material Libraries
• Clearing Style Conflicts

Manufacturers frequently receive customer files in a variety of formats, which can complicate the import process. With the Inventor® AnyCAD feature and Inventor® HSM this import workflow is dramatically simplified. During this presentation we will import a non-Inventor format and create a toolpath quickly to get your machine tool in motion. We will then experience a change to the non-Inventor file and show how rapidly the revised program can be generated for your machine.

You will see:

• Importing a SolidWorks file into the Inventor environment
• Toolpath creation on the native SolidWorks file inside of Inventor
• Implementing a change to the native SolidWorks file
• Updating the Inventor HSM toolpath for quick turnaround

Automate your title block when creating Isometrics in AutoCAD® Plant 3D for a click and done process. This webcast will focus on the setup and configuration of your custom isometric title block in order to minimize user input by maximizing the available project, drawing and pipe line data available.

Some of the topics to be covered include:

• Iso Themes including annotation styles and layer setup Attribute setup for project, drawing and pipe line data
• Configuring an isometric line designation table (LDT) file and mapping P&ID line data
• Drawing area, plot area and north arrow setup
• Tables, such as bill of materials, cut piece list, weld list, and spool list
• Column widths, row heights fonts, text heights and header labels

Autodesk® CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) gives engineers the ability to see the invisible within their product designs. Applying this capability to electronics cooling delivers amazing results. With the ability to visualize and analyze the airflow and thermal conditions of products, you can optimize the design accordingly.

Using CFD Simulation, you can overcome common electronics design challenges including the following:

• Reduced product size
• Increasing performance
• Reducing cost
• Extending product lifespan
• Circuit board optimization

This webcast will demonstrate how you can predict performance, optimize designs, and validate design decisions before manufacturing begins. This webcast will include:

• Applying materials, thermal conditions and heat generation to common circuit board components
• The use of Heat Sinks and Fans within an enclosure
• Examining and visualizing the air flow and air velocity inside an enclosure
• Examining and visualizing the temperature distribution inside an enclosure
• Examining air flow and temperature together for a full visual analysis
• Determining the temperature on critical components inside an enclosure

Join us and see how Autodesk® CFD will enable you to see the invisible.

Examining the flow of air in and around buildings and water movement in civil structures using CFD provides designers with insight into some of the common challenges faced in these industries.

This webinar will describe the procedures and techniques used to effectively simulate each of the major types of applications that AEC and Civil designers encounter, such as:

• Understanding temperature distribution through an occupied zone to ensure interior comfort and maintain operational efficiency
• Examining diffuser throws and flow patterns to evaluate effectiveness in custom HVAC installations
• Considering the effects of water moving through civil structures

All too often, designers spend hours keying in the same critical information in multiple locations to document their designs. This process lends itself to error due to keystroke mistakes and wasted time due to repetitive entry. Autodesk Inventor incorporates the ability to reuse data across multiple files as well as incorporate it into data management packages to further increase efficiency and accuracy.

In this webinar, we will show you the basics of setting up these parameter and property relationships and how to customize the process for incorporation into Autodesk Vault.

Have you ever wanted to use the Stress Analysis Environment within Autodesk Inventor Professional to help you make a design decision, but didn't know where to begin? Or are you using Inventor's FEA capability today, but you're not confident in the results? Yes, FEA can be challenging, but it doesn't always have to be. Inventor Simulation is purpose built to solve relatively basic engineering problems.

Join us as we go through some of the fundamentals of FEA set up using Inventor Professional. We'll also show you what FEA looks like, and the benefits, when you take it up a notch, using Autodesk Nastran In-CAD.

Understanding how air and thermal energy moves within occupied spaces is key to predicting and optimizing the performance of a building design. CFD, or Computational Fluid Dynamics, is increasingly utilized by industry leaders to control energy use in new building designs, and in retrofitting existing buildings. In the past, CFD was the realm of the research scientist, but advancements in CFD and computer technology in recent decades has put its power in the hands of generalist engineers, designers and even architects.

Join us for this free webinar that will include a demo of CFD in action using Autodesk CFD. Topics to be covered:

• Optimizing the effectiveness of HVAC solutions for new design and structure renovations
• Maximizing airflow performance by understanding it's behavior with 3D color visualizations
• Improving occupant comfort and air quality

Collaboration for Revit and BIM 360 Team can provide your project teams with supreme cloud work-sharing capabilities. Extend viewing, commenting, and mark-up capabilities to every team member, even non-Revit users. Share and view models instantly from anywhere and from any device plus review designs together in real-time.

With Collaboration for Revit plus BIM 360 Team, there's no need to co-locate your Revit project teams or to create costly and complicated IT work-arounds to share models, solicit feedback and track the design process.

Learn how to easily and efficiently:

• Centralize project information.
• Communicate as a team in one location, helping you stay connected and organized, at all times.
• Connect the entire design team.
• Extend the ability to view, comment and markup design models to all team members, not just design authors.
• Accelerate decision making.
• Easily provide or solicit feedback with comment and markup tools.
• Review in real-time.
• Hold live review sessions with built-in browser sharing. - Track the design process.
• Version history and control ensures that every design discipline has access to the latest information.

Autodesk Inventor 2018 brings new features, expanded interoperability, performance enhancements, and exciting updates.

Autodesk Inventor 2018 brings new features, expanded interoperability, performance enhancements, and exciting updates. From the model/drawing browser enhancements to new 3D annotations to the new measure tool.

Join us for a live walkthrough of the new and exciting enhancements to Autodesk Inventor 2018. Enhancement/Update Topics will include:

• 3D Annotations
• AnyCAD Updates
• Browsers
• Chamfer Feature
• Drawings
• Extrude Feature
• fx Parameters
• Measure Tool
• Translators

And more…

Providing Engineered-To-Order (ETO) and Configured-To-Order (CTO) solutions is a great service for your customers, but how do you do it quickly and profitably? Using Autodesk Inventor's inherent parametric design capabilities is a good first step, but to meet increasing customer demand and shrinking deadlines it's often not enough. Autodesk Inventor provides various means to take your ETO and CTO capabilities to the next level, including iLogic and direct interaction via the Autodesk Inventor API.

This webcast will discuss the various methods used to automate Autodesk Inventor model and drawing creation, including:

• Capabilities of iLogic
• Pros and Cons of using iLogic
• The API: when iLogic isn't enough
• Using iLogic and the API in concert to deliver a complete ETO/CTO solution

Autodesk CFD is available in 3 levels: CFD, CFD Advanced, and CFD Motion. The CFD Design Study Environment must be paired with a CFD solver, but the various options may leave you uncertain about which way to go. You may be wondering what all of the features on the CFD Comparison Matrix actually mean.

Join us as we explain the differences between the CFD solver licenses and help you identify what will work best for your analysis.