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Autodesk University 2025

15 September 2025
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Autodesk University 2025

Symetri is proud and excited to take part in this year's Autodesk University as a Diamond Sponsor September 15 - 17th in Nashville, Tennesse.

Visit Symetri's booth, #321, to learn how to Work Smarter with Connected Solutions for AECO, Manufacturing and Process & Power industry professionals and you’ll be on your way to tackle every challenge like a true “superhero.” 

Let Symetri be your strategic "sidekick" for increased efficiency, reduced resource consumption, smarter data connectivity, and elevated work quality. Our team of experts will be sharing how Symetri’s technology, strategic support and focus on sustainability can connect every phase of a project and optimize your workflows. 

Plus, you can suit up with a custom AI superhero trading card to commemorate your time at our AU booth. 

For current registration, agenda and session information visit the Autodesk University website.

 

Technology Solutions

Take control, reduce costs, compliance risks and time spent maintaining business-critical engineering tools with licence management and software deployment solutions from Symetri. Learn more about CQ Flex and CQi.

Sovelia is a digital platform supporting design, engineering and product lifecycle processes. Ready to enable your team with the easiest and user-friendly tools to design quicker, reduce costs and enable your products faster time to market? Let's chat! 

Naviate provides best in class workflows and performance to accelerate Building and Infrastructure design and facilitate collaboration in Construction projects by helping all the stakeholders to access the same up-to-date BIM information throughout the lifecycle. Naviate for Revit, Naviate for Civil 3D and Naviate Cloud Manager streamlines project setup, model management and documentation.

Autodesk University Sessions

From Chaos to Configuration, Be the RULER of them All | Bookmark this session.

Tuesday, Sep 16th | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Chelsea Kastenek, Implementation Consultant, Symetri

Ready to reduce engineering time and get sales quotes and drawings to production faster. Come along for an unexpected but advantageous journey. Ruler is a CAD-neutral sales and design automation platform designed to streamline and enhance your product configuration and design processes. As one fellowship, Ruler maps the plan to CAD such as Autodesk Inventor and Revit to deliver pristine models and documentation. It offers a suite of tools that can be tailored to meet the needs of various industries, including CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote), CTO (Configure to Order), and ETO (Engineer to Order) business models. Embark on this quest with Ruler, and let it be the guiding light that leads your projects to triumph.

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of Ruler's capabilities and how it streamlines product configuration and design processes.
  • Learn how to utilize Ruler's quick estimates, 3D models, drawings, and ERP integration to enhance workflow efficiency.
  • Explore Config, Model, and Draw modules to boost speed and accuracy in Autodesk Inventor, Revit, and engineering workflows.
  • Discover how to tailor Ruler's tools to specific business needs & workflows, ensuring maximum productivity and customization.

Designing for Health Empowerment Leveraging Autodesk Forma to Reimagine Urban Land Use Though Community Land Trusts | Bookmark this session.

Thursday, Sep 18th | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CDT

Vickie Harris, Founder and CEO, QEC Partners | Community ConneXor

Geoffrey Tears, Emerging Technology Strategy - AECO, Symetri

 

This panel session explores how Autodesk Forma is being used in the feasibility phase of the Big Bold Bordeaux Vision—a community-driven initiative to transform a large parcel of land located in North Nashville through a Community Land Trust. Panelists, including local leaders and AECO professionals, will share how Forma supports early-stage analysis of zoning, urban density, and sustainability to inform equitable land use decisions. The session highlights how Forma enables transparent, data-driven planning that. Lastly, this session will focus on this process that facilitates the foundational communication between municipalities and community voices that supports long-term health equity goals.
  • Discover how Autodesk Forma is applied in the feasibility phase to analyze and visualize potential land use and urban density.
  • Learn how community leaders and planners can benefit from digital workflows to support inclusive urban planning.
  • Learn how early-stage modeling informs CLT development, aligning zoning and environmental/health equity indicators.
  • Explore the trust-building, transparent, tech-enabled engagement that connects AECO tools and community impact.

Bulletproof Your Inventor Workflow: Settings, Projects, and Beyond | Bookmark this session.

Wednesday, Sep 17th | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CDT

Edward Rose, Client Success Manager, Symetri

Allen Gager, WWS, Autodesk

 

Say goodbye to missing files, style clashes, and design rework. In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a bulletproof Inventor workflow—drawn from 20 years of technical support expertise—optimizing settings, project files, templates, styles libraries, and Content Center. We’ll craft a live design environment that’s fast, error-free, and scalable for solo or team projects. Test it against real-world chaos and see the difference: efficiency up, headaches down. You’ll leave with a proven cheat sheet distilled from decades of troubleshooting that will help make Inventor work for you. Whether it’s parts or assemblies, unlock a smarter way to design. Bring your workflow into the future—starting here.
  • Learn about Inventor configuration, including application options, project files, templates.
  • Learn how to eliminate common file and path errors.
  • Learn about boosting design efficiency using Content Center and Frame Generator.
  • Learn about ensuring workflow scalability, including by building a flexible, bulletproof framework.

Sustainability Simplified: Smart Ideas with Lasting Impact | Bookmark this session.

Wednesday, Sep 17th | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CDT

Luc Wing, Innovation and Performance Lead, Symetri

 

Sustainability often feels overwhelming, entangled in complex metrics and elusive goals. This session unveils how Symetri’s Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) transforms that complexity into clarity. By rethinking traditional sustainability workflows, COIL has developed streamlined, actionable strategies that empower design and construction teams to make immediate, meaningful changes.​Through select client success stories—including innovative collaborations with firms like BamCore and Bernheimer Architecture—you’ll see how simplified, data-driven approaches can reduce carbon footprints, enhance design efficiency, and meet regulatory demands without added complexity. Attendees will leave with practical insights into COIL’s methodology and a fresh perspective on integrating sustainability seamlessly into everyday practice.​
  • Break down complex sustainability concepts into clear, actionable strategies for design workflows.
  • Explore COIL's collaborative methods that drive sustainable innovation across design and construction teams.
  • Analyze real-world case studies demonstrating measurable outcomes from simplified sustainability approaches.
  • Learn to integrate Autodesk tools to support efficient, data-driven, and environmentally responsible designs.

Equip AI with Access to Your Design Data and Projects: Model Context Protocol & Autodesk Platform Services| Bookmark this session.

Tuesday, Sep 16th | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

Petr Broz, Sr. Principal Developer Advocate, Autodesk

Kevin Phillips, Director of AI Product Strategy, Symetri

Large language models are great at answering questions, and even acting on your behalf, but only if they have access to the right data and tools. In this session, you’ll learn how to give LLMs secure, structured access to your design data and projects using the Model Context Protocol and Autodesk Platform Services. We’ll give an overview of MCP, explore its growing ecosystem, and walk you through the process of building a custom MCP server connected to APS.

  • Understand the role of the MCP in enabling LLM access to design data and projects.
  • Learn how to build custom MCP servers that connect to Autodesk Platform Services.
  • Explore techniques for exposing design data and projects to AI applications.
  • See real-world examples of AI-enhanced workflows powered by MCP and APS integrations.

Digital Design Transformation from 2D to 3D to Collaboration to Coordination on ACC | Bookmark this session.

Wednesday, Sep 17th | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT

Thursday, Sep 18 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CDT

Dzan Ta, Autodesk Technical Specialist, Symetri

In this lab, you will learn how to use AutoCAD, Revit and Autodesk Docs to build an ACC Cloud based Revit model utilizing your 2D AutoCAD file stored on Autodesk Docs. It will then go in to how to collaborate your Revit model with other stakeholder models (MEP/Structure).
Learning Objectives
  • Lead your organization's design process with AutoCAD, Revit, and ACC while setting up an ACC project for this workflow.
  • Create/store files on ACC while managing your design project with Autodesk Docs in a common data environment.
  • Create a 3D Revit model from a 2D AutoCAD file. Then, Link your Revit model with other discipline models for coordination.
  • Collaborate the design with shared views in Revit/AutoCAD/ACC to connect your workflows, data, and teams using ACC.

Inventor: Frame Generator—Multiframe Design Setup Made Easy | Bookmark this session.

Tuesday, Sep 16th | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CDT

James Lodge, Applications Consultant, Symetri

In this class, you’ll discover multiple routes for generating Frame Generator Reference Files. And you’ll see how they can be integrated into top-level assemblies efficiently—where information from reference files can also be used to drive downstream design tasks where associativity between components and assemblies are important and change may occur throughout the design lifecycle. The class will also touch on new and updated workflows where model states and simplification tools can be used to manage assemblies and generate associative BIM-ready models, required by different or cross-industry design teams. This hands-on session is aimed toward the intermediate Inventor user. But it was developed for users who want to explore the Inventor Professional Frame Generator accelerator and its capabilities with high levels of associativity and parametric potential.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to create a top level assembly and reference master exploring bodies, sketches, and surfaces driven by named user parameters.
  • Learn how to create in-place subassemblies and derived reference parts, exploring associativity with the top level reference.
  • Learn about applying the Frame Generator workflow in place to subassemblies and manage with Model States and BOM overview.
  • Learn about the new BIM Content Enhancements, Simplify Substitute, and Export Building Components workflows.
Events
AIA 2026

AIA 2026

10 June 2026

Symetri always looks forward to attending AIA!  The AEC industry’s premier event—the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design will take place on the West Coast this year in San Diego. 

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