AutoCAD 2018 was just released, but did you know it was the 32nd release of AutoCAD and that its beta codename was Omega? I maintain a list of all of these and a few more at: http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/autocad-release-history.html AutoCAD Release History... Read more →
Autodesk colleague Tom Wujec gave a popular TED presentation in 2010 about team building and a Marshmallow Challenge that has received over 3.5 million views. The Marshmallow Challenge is a great team building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. In the past few years I have seen 20-30’ish inch towers created and heard of ones a little higher and some a little lower but Tom received an email from Mike Barron with a photo of an impressive tower. The tower created stands 55 inches in an office cubicle. This is the largest tower ever seen with photographic evidence. Read more →
AVA is the Autodesk Virtual Agent that can assist with many issues and requests from downloads to licensing to product registrations. She is very helpful and never sleeps. I'm not even sure if the artificial intelligence is really male or... Read more →
My Autodesk colleage Maurice Conti Director, Applied Research and Innovation in the Office of the CTO was just featured in a Bloomberg Technology video piece talking about robots. Maurice and team have been researching solutions to solve the challenge of... Read more →
Some of the Autodesk 2018 products have been released from beta and available for download now. The two main ones I am aware of are AutoCAD 2018 and Autodesk Inventor 2018. AutoCAD 2018 (beta codename Omega): Many changes under the... Read more →
Last week Autodesk invited several customers and social media from around the world to the San Francisco office for more than some amazing Spring weather. During the day we enjoyed a nice Autodesk Gallery tour by Autodesk's power Gallery Ambassador... Read more →
A nice way to begin the first day of Spring in the Northern hemisphere and also a Monday is with a cool video. Autodesk Design and Manufacturing show reel video showing what our design and manufacturing customers and researchers make... Read more →
In August of 2016, a team of Autodesk employees including myself Shaan Hurley and led by Autodesk’s Pete Kelsey along with Autodeskers David Dreffs, and Carlos Orona and a team from the US Bureau of Reclamation took on a very... Read more →
Congratulations to the 40 high school teams that participated Thursday to Sunday in the FIRST Robotics FRC PNW District 3 competition in Wilsonville Oregon. What an amazing event and gracious professionalism everywhere as well as really delicious homemade ice cream... Read more →
Public tours are offered by appointment to Autodesk’s new Boston Build Space. See cutting edge architecture, engineering, and construction innovation in a collaborative environment with technology like robotics, CNC, and VR in use. More details on the Build Space: http://www.autodeskbuildspace.com/... Read more →
FIRST Robotics FRC competition season has started with week 2 competitions happening this week. Here in the Portland Oregon the Pacific Northwest District 3 has have 40 teams competing from the Pacific Northwest including the team I volunteer with Team... Read more →
If you happen to be in beautiful Portland Oregon this week, want to meet some of the Fusion 360 team and see some cool things then sign up for the free meetup. Michael Aubry of Autodesk has organized this meetup... Read more →
The next Autodesk Answer Days series is this Wednesday focusing on AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) products. Have questions that you’ve always wanted to ask? Come to the Autodesk Community to interact directly with the product teams responsible for the... Read more →
For almost two seasons I have have had the pleasure to work with an amazing and inspiring group of young high school students involved in the FIRST Robotics competitions at Catlin Gabel in Portland Oregon. The FIRST Robotics Team 1540... Read more →