My group within the Autodesk organization is changing its name from Office of the CTO (OCTO) and will now be known as Autodesk Research. OCTO for a group name is super geeky and reflects reporting structure but not what we... Read more →

In Marin County California, a small group of people got together January 30, 1982 and formed Autodesk. The design industry hasn't been the same since. As founder John Walker stated “the game has changed.” 37 years later, Autodesk is a... Read more →

If you have wanted to read, write, and modify data from Revit without installing Revit from within the the Forge cloud platform, then today is your lucky day. The Revit Design Automation API was just launched as a public beta.... Read more →

Well, this is Portland Oregon and yes we are weird or uniquely creative including the placement of small toy ponies attached to old city horse hitching rings and yarn or knit bombings of local statues. In the Autodesk Portland office... Read more →

Here are some great ways to find out what the future of Revit has planned, and how you can help shape it. One is to check out the Public Roadmap which a new one was just published on the official... Read more →

There is a newly posted build of Autodesk Inventor for those participating or those wishing to participate in the beta testing. Our customer beta testers are a critical member of our product teams and success by providing real-world feedback and... Read more →

Updates were made the reality capture API on Forge that not only dramatically improves the resulting quality and speed to produce a mesh or view point clouds, but also adds geolocation for InfraWorks. For example you can use this Forge... Read more →

Every time they mention their team “EDM”, I think of DJ and dancing cats with loud electronic dance music, but it is really the Enterprise Data Management and an important company function. The team sits near me in the Autodesk... Read more →

What a long name, but an amazing and rare lunar event combination that won happen again for many years. I hiked up wearing show shoes on Oregon’s Mount Hood and sat up near the Palmer Glacier and cooked a dinner... Read more →

Thank you pdxRUG (Portland Revit Users Group) members and BilT team Bob Bell and Phil Read for visiting Tuesday night to see the new Autodesk Portland office, some good local pizza, networking, and learning about the upcoming BiLT conference in... Read more →

Read about the release: Introducing Autodesk Maya 2019! | The Maya Blog | AREA by Autodesk https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/introducing-autodesk-maya-2019/ Here are the highlights: · Fast animation – Cached Playback gives animators serious speed improvements in the playback of animation in the viewport.... Read more →

Join Autodesk Jan 17th in Toronto to learn about Project Refinery and the Autodesk Technology Centers. The Future Is At IDS https://youtu.be/znG1w8RB6Iw Read more →

Access many of the AutoCAD objects in an API on the Forge platform as a Design Automation Beta. Automate repetitive and time intensive tasks and save time. Design Automation API (Beta)v3 https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/developers_guide/overview/ “Imagine you have thousands of DWG files stored... Read more →

Making Dreams Happen. The future of designing + making is here. If you are in Dublin Ireland, please join us at the first ever Autodesk Design Night in Dublin Ireland We are bringing our global event Design Night series to... Read more →

I'm in the final edit stage of a video of interviews of some fellow Autodesk Portland office employees for something fun and unique. When we say Make Anything as a tagline of Autodesk, we embody that with our employees. We... Read more →

If you are located in the Portland Oregon area next Tuesday January 15th at 5:30pm-6:30, then RSVP to attend the Portland Revit Users Group “pdxRUG” meetup hosted at the Portland Autodesk office. The special meeting will be covering: Some pdxRUG... Read more →

I read a startling research item by Mashable that may not have been apparent to everyone. It wasn't apparent to all of us Autodeskers who have a long tradition with Beer Busts at special events and Autodesk University. There is... Read more →

Make sure to check out the Autodesk Make It Real challenge. This challenge gives students and educators in the US and Canada a chance to win a makerspace for their school. It is open until 2/4/19. Please spread the word to schools that you know located in the US or Canada. Read more →

The Inventor Design Automation API for Forge is in public beta. This can allow you to harness the power of the cloud for repetitive tasks. Design Automation API (Beta)v3 autode.sk/2LXv6FX “The Design Automation API (V3 Beta) provides the ability to... Read more →

Today is mentor day celebrating volunteer mentors for FIRST Robotics teams. I can speak as having been mentoring a FIRST FRC Team 1540 Flaming Chickens of Catlin Gabel in Portland Oregon for the past few years on why YOU should... Read more →

There is great article just published on possible ways LA could lead the way in hosting the 2028 Olympics and provide the model for future host cities to have less negative impact short and long term. “So what if LA... Read more →

Congratulations to the winners of the Speaker Awards for Autodesk University 2018! These awards are hard earned peer awards based on votes where the speakers stood out from the 850 AU 2018 speakers. https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/blog/Announcing-Winners-AU-2018-Speaker-Awards-2018 Top Autodesk Speaker Steven Dennis of... Read more →

Employer review website Glassdoor wrote a post and listed 7 new offices that are incredible. Hint: I'm writing this blog post from one of them. Autodesk Portland was named in this list of new incredible offices. https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/companies-new-offices/ See some great... Read more →

I hope you had an amazing end of 2018, and are starting 2019 with a renewed energy an excitement for what will come this new year. I spent my end of 2018 the same as last year solo hiking and... Read more →