In Marin County California, a small group of people got together January 30, 1982 and formed Autodesk. As founder John Walker stated “the game has changed.” 36 years later Autodesk is a rare technology company that is still around, innovating,... Read more →

Perfect contest for kids and young adults to win a 3D printer! “Pack up your torches, swords, pickaxes, and loaves of bread to get yourself ready for the Minecraft Challenge! Demonstrate your Minecraft mastery with intuitive gameplay tutorials or show... Read more →

Have you ever needed to import geometry from other software but weren't quite sure what was the optimal method to do this and be able to edit the geometry? Lars Christensen shows us how to quickly import and modify a... Read more →

Join the Forge team for deep dive assistance at a Forge Accelerator this year, for free. “Attending a Forge Accelerator is a great opportunity for your software development team to learn and work intensively on a Forge-based project with one-on-one... Read more →

It has been only 2 months since Autodesk University 2017, but many of us will never forget it. I especially won’t forget the first year my AU annual run was made into an official event and a huge hit with... Read more →

An amazing surprise as I walked into the office this morning, Kevin Schneider presented me with the historical original nozzle used in many sample files and demos of AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor over the past 34 years. AutoCAD 2.6 included... Read more →

On this day a much younger version of me left a design seat as an Autodesk customer and started with Autodesk in San Rafael California. Here is Autodesk customer Shaan Hurley, Mechanical Designer of Oregon Iron Works Portland Oregon in... Read more →

An Autodesk BUILD Space Residents Outradius is featured in the Design Museum Foundation exhibit Bespoke Bodies. Outradius is using Autodesk Fusion 360 to advance designs for a low-cost, form fitting, upper limb socket which can be used with more complex... Read more →

Friday not only did we hold our office holiday party, but afterwards I got to be a guest at the VIP reception for the Portland Winter Light Festival that Autodesk is a proud local sponsor of. I met the organizers... Read more →

Are you an AEC professional and like to explore and perhaps compete in a challenge? These are fun and educational events. http://aechackathon.com/sf-bay-area/ Read more →

Next week I will celebrate and reflect on 20 years working at Autodesk, or 140 in dog years due to our dog loving culture at Autodesk. I am going to gather up some of my fondest memories and accomplishments for... Read more →

If you know a kid, then you should also know Tinkercad. Tinkercad is free and browser based with nothing to install. Tinkercad is the perfect exploration and fun tool to create things easily in 3D and even 3D print them... Read more →

One of the ways to improve the Autodesk products you use is by getting actively involved in the beta testing. Beta testing involves the early testing and providing feedback on unreleased versions of the software and is critical to improving the features and stability of the products. Read more →

This Saturday January 6th 2018, the new FIRST FRC 2018 season game and field will be revealed which will then set thousands of high school teams and they will begin work on their robot designs followed by the competitions. The... Read more →

Forge is the future platform for Autodesk where all applications and services can use a common cloud based platform to view and extract your design data – and more. Several Autodesk and 3rd party applications have already made use of... Read more →

I have just returned from the holidays and all rested and refreshed and ready for this fresh new year.I spent the past 2 weeks hiking, snowshoeing, shoveling snow and ice, playing with my dog, and relaxing. I hope you had... Read more →