Check out the just released Autodesk 2016 AEC Showreel. It is always amazing to see what our customers design and build using our software and technology. Enjoy! http://youtu.be/cEdOIKrSGu8 Read more →

Yesterday many big hearted employees in the Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon office took time to assemble 3D printed Phoenix prosthetic hands designed using Autodesk’s own Fusion 360 in the e-NABLE Buildathon. The hands are destined with a personal card for... Read more →

It is the first day of summer and coincidently the first day of my sabbatical. Autodesk is one of the top employers in North America and recognizing employees work life balance and providing us the time to relax, reflect, recharge... Read more →

Don’t miss the chance to meet two BattleBots, Bronco and Mega Tento, in person(robot) at Autodesk’s First Annual BattleBots Watch Party! On the heels of last year’s wildly successful TV reboot of BattleBots, the world’s premier robot sporting event, bots... Read more →

If you were unable to attend the Autodesk Forge Conference this week, you can still watch the keynote on YouTube. Forge is powerful set of cloud services, APIs, and resources for developers to quickly create the data-centric apps, experiences, and services that power the future of making things. Read more →

Recently I edited a 3D model and created a quick video in Autodesk ReMake (formerly Autodesk Memento.) The 3D model was generated using Autodesk ReCap 360 Pro from photos taken last month using an UAS/drone in the hot windy Trona... Read more →

This week 9 of us from the Lake Oswego Autodesk office went and volunteered to sort food at the local Oregon Food Bank. We sorted 6872 pounds of chilled goods which is the equivalent of about 5727 meals. Autodesk strongly... Read more →

I absolutely love seeing Mt. Hood on my flights back home to Portland Oregon. I took this photo Sunday evening with my iPhone after returning from surprising my mother in Idaho on her 70th birthday. If you look closely you... Read more →

Autodesk has released a new eBook on the future of design. Disrupting giants of industry: The advantage of small engineering teams Future of design Smaller engineering teams have the advantage of being more agile, due to necessity. Their lack of... Read more →

Have you ever struggled to look at ways to innovate and used the same old process or the lack of a process? The Innovation Genome is used by Autodesk and many others and may be just what you are looking... Read more →

There is a free online virtual event next week that will help manufacturers and product designers capitalize on the disruptive trends impacting manufacturing. This event will feature great content and keynotes by some amazing speakers. When: Friday, June 17, 11:00AM... Read more →

The lakes and mountains have thawed. The smell of burnt hot dogs and hamburgers waft through the air in the evening followed by smores. The smell of bacon fills the campgrounds in the morning which combined with the sunrise and... Read more →

The United States is facing an infrastructure crisis as our roads and bridges are aging and exceeding capacity. “Last December, US Dept. of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Foxx launched the Smart City Challenge in response to the Beyond Traffic draft report,... Read more →

I wanted to share and highlight one of our amazing tech previews for Revit users that is getting great feedback in our Autodesk Feedback Community where Autodesk pre-release alpha/betas and Autodesk Labs projects are managed. Project Expo brings Revit models to life in an interactive real-time environment on desktop, mobile, the web, or VR. “Project Expo is expected to upend the visualization world for the entire AEC industry – giving you a new tool to wow your clients and to help make informed decisions – together – in real-time. Project Expo uses the Autodesk Stingray game engine, which was released in August 2015 to incorporate a recent acquisition of a gaming engine to move Revit models to this environment via Autodesk 3ds Max rendering software. With Project Expo technology under the hood, Autodesk’s cloud platform, and a truly simple one-button rendering in Revit, what more could you ask for? The experience is immersive, real-time and far more intimate between your firm and client. “ Read more →

Working in Autodesk Fusion 360 today I created a simple concept for a flower vase. The idea was for two separate chambers to join at the top, like joining two lives or mixing two things together. I used two different... Read more →

Autodesk colleague Maurice Conti the Director of Strategic Innovation recently visited my special Pacific Wonderland of Portland Oregon to speak at the TEDx Portland event on “The Future of Human Augmentation.” Maurice explains how design and interaction with computational systems... Read more →

BabyBe, brings the mother’s heartbeat, voice, and breathing right into the incubator of premature infants. “Premature babies often spend the first weeks of their lives in incubators – a necessary precaution to prevent infection and keep them stable, but one... Read more →