You can use Autodesk’s generative design technology in Fusion 360 today to assist you in the design process. You will be assisted in finding design options beyond just shape and material optimization as you can consider strength, cost, and materials.... Read more →

For those in the US that have access to a TV with the History Channel, there is a television series named Project Impossible that Autodesk helped sponsor showing our customers as well as some Autodesk employees on some large projects.... Read more →

I will be presenting next month at the Design Reality meetup event in Portland on using VR/AR in AEC Construction. While many think of a 3D immersive experience and walkthroughs for the design phase, the really valuable sweet spot to... Read more →

The West coast of the United States has seen smoke filled skies for what feels like weeks now from massive forest fires up and down the coast. Today we have a beautiful sunny day here in sunny warm Portland today... Read more →

I would call this more a viral marketing, literally viral.. I personally seen this sticker at Portland’s Hawthorne Street Festival last weekend. We had a great time at the street festival with all the local artists and vendors but the... Read more →

A free Portland Sneaker Week Tech Talk event is being held in our Autodesk Portland office this evening. Portland is ground zero for footwear with big names like Nike, Adidas, UnderArmour, Keen, Columbia, and many others with headquarters or a... Read more →

15 years ago today I started this Between the Lines blog. I won’t be able to celebrate as epically as last years 14 year blog anniversary where there was a total solar eclipse, but this is a big one nonetheless.... Read more →

I was thinking last night about how technology has changed over the years, and how Moore’s Law has apparently been broken as computer CPUs are not doubling computational power each 18 months. We have not seen the transistor density and... Read more →

15 energetic high school interns led by two college interns and working with Autodesk Portland employees worked on a real product that is open source and added new features for FIRST Robotics FRC teams to simulate their competition robot designs.... Read more →

Last Thursday our Portland office held a traditional beer bust celebrating the opening of the incubator space on our second floor that i currently hosting 5 startups and 2 organizations. We had beer, wine, food, cookies, and of course pie.... Read more →

The west coast of the United States has been in a building boom from Los Angeles to Seattle. Seattle has been leading the way for the last 3 years, but Portland is up there and high in the tower crane... Read more →

A funny Throwback Thursday looking at what life was like before we had AutoCAD assisting in drafting and design. 18 Amazing Vintage Photos That Show How Life Before AutoCAD Looked Like https://www.vintag.es/2018/08/life-before-autocad.html Read more →

Join us in Toronto next month for a nice intimate Autodesk hosted event named Autodesk Accelerate. It is being held in the creative MaRS Discovery District where Autodesk has its office. Technically you could tell colleagues that you were visiting... Read more →

If you are registering for Autodesk University 2018, you can also sign up for the official AU5K which has doubled in size each year due to popularity and the fun getting fresh air and making new friends. 231817 - AU... Read more →

I hope to see you this November at Autodesk University 2018. The registration just opened today. Some classes and sessions fill up extremely fast due to their popularity. I will provide some details on special events and meetups as we... Read more →

Kick the tires of the latest version of AutoCAD released just this April.You can download and run a full version of AutoCAD for 30 days – free at https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad/free-trial While there were many updates including 200+ dialog boxes and other... Read more →

Come see our open source simulator Synthesis that takes your FRC robot designs and lets you dynamically test them on virtual fields. Join us in Portland Oregon on August 7th for our in-person workshop, or join our online webinar on... Read more →

Although I was still checking in from time to time, I have been enjoying a 6 week sabbatical. Now I am just trying to get back into waking up early, commuting, and booting up my work laptop for the first... Read more →