Between the Lines

Portland Adult Soapbox Derby 2019

Two weeks ago I had one of the coolest volunteer jobs as a Course Marshall for the 22nd annual Portland Adult Soapbox Derby held in Portland's beautiful Mount Tabor Park. I spent all day with a bullhorn and a radio... Read more →

3ds Max 2020.2 Update Available and 3ds Max Roadmap

The Autodesk 3ds Max 2020.2 was just released and includes: Chamfer modifier improvement New SketchUp importer Synchronize With Display Mode Read More about the Update and learn about future feature plans in the road map: 3ds Max 2020.2 and Public... Read more →

My Office View the Past Few Days

I took off to the Mt Hood National Forest to camp, enjoy the beauty, disconnect from screens, spend time with my girlfriend and her young kids, breathe in the fresh mountain air, escape the heat wave in Portland this week,... Read more →

Kids at Autodesk Day – Portland 2019

This is always one of my favorite days of the year and it was held in the Autodesk Portland office yesterday. We had over 60 kids of our employees show up for a day filled with fun activities, snacks, food, and even robot rides. Read more →

Throwback Thursday - AutoCAD Helps View Solar Eclipses История по четвергам - AutoCAD для наблюдения за солнечным затмением

While those old 5.25 inch floppies may not be of much help these days other than memorabilia, the Autodesk Moscow office made good use of them as lenses to view a solar eclipse.а первый взгляд, сейчас трудно найти применение 5.25-дюймовым дискетам. Может только как экспонаты в музее! Но сотрудники московского офиса Autodesk нашли им применение для просмотра солнечного затмения. Read more →

Revit 2020.1 Is Released

Just in case you weren't aware, Revit 2020.1 has been released and the Revit Blog has all the details in great detail as usual. If you do MEP work in Revit, you MUST go get this. ”A new version of... Read more →

16 Years of Between the Lines Blog

Two years ago on this day there was an solar eclipse, this year just me saying thank you sincerely for reading between the lines and Autodesk who gave me the freedom to speak freely with support and encouragement in speaking... Read more →

Learn How XR May Impact Your Work in a Portland XR Workshop

My awesome Portland XR startup friends are running a very limited workshop next month. I believe XR (AR,MR, and VR) will be a common platform for delivering information, experiences and visualizations in the future. This 2 1/2 hour workshop and... Read more →

Behind the FX - Bifrost Aero Solver Masterclass

If you love to learn more about why FX work and are so awesome and not scared of math and complex algorithms? If you didn't run away and are curious then I have an awesome article for you on the... Read more →

Hard to Believe but Between the Lines Blog Turns Sweet 16 Tomorrow

Sixteen years ago tomorrow I started this blog as a fun side project after a couple Autodesk employees Bill Johnson and Eric Wright approached me about this new thing called Blogs and I have been throwing words and photos up... Read more →

Portland Autodesk Employee Mass Timber Field Trip

Almost Two weeks ago I arranged a special tour for Autodesk Portland employees with two of our customers a field trip of a mass timber building designed by Skylab Architecture constructed by Anderson Construction and located a block from our... Read more →

Mondays

Realizing how hard work life is when my laptop hardware fails and I'm down to using an external keyboard on a laptop and it fails to boot at times. Our Desktop Services is on this to get me a new... Read more →

Its Back to School Time

Here in the US many children are getting ready for the school season to begin or starting imminently. In addition to all the supplies like paper, pens, glue, laptops, and backpacks we have one more thing that students and their... Read more →

Weekend Adventure Rewind – Timberline to Paradise Park on Mt Hood

This weekend I did some solo adventure hiking up on beautiful and iconic Mount Hood, an extinct volcano with an elevation of 11,161 feet. My route in the 58 degree cloud covered weather was from Timberline Lodge to Paradise Park... Read more →

Autodesk University 2019 Registration Just Opened

Get in on the classes and presentations you want before the seats fill up. Start planning your AU schedule and be sure to consider joining hundreds of us Tuesday morning at 6am including Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost for the annual... Read more →

Autodesk Forge Accelerator in NYC September 9-13

A Forge Accelerator is an opportunity for cloud developers to spend one week with the Forge team, with one-on-one help building applications. Apply to attend the #Accelerator in NYC from September 9-13: https://autode.sk/2GCGhCz Jim Quanci Senior Director, Autodesk Developer Network... Read more →

Autodesk Portland Office and Our Changing Neighborhood

The Autodesk Portland is surrounded by an ever changing Central Eastside Industrial District neighborhood of Portland. This neighborhood has historically been fruit and produce wholesalers and manufacturing shops but that has been changing over the years. While a great deal... Read more →

Tinkercad Classroom in YOUR Classroom This Year

This school year, use our new Tinkercad Classroom feature to get your students up and designing in under a minute. Learn more on the Tinkercad blog. https://blog.tinkercad.com/2019/08/05/introducing-tinkercad-classroom/ “Teachers, we heard you needed a faster way to get your students started... Read more →

AutoCAD 2020.1 Update is Now Available

Check your Autodesk Desktop App to see if the AutoCAD 2020.1 Update is now enabled for you as there are some good feature enhancements as well as fixes for reported problems. AutoCAD 2020.1 Update Release Notes New Feature and Feature... Read more →

The Biggest Welcome Flying Back Home to Portland

It is the view of Mt Hood welcoming me home when landing. I get excited viewing it our the aircraft window seeing all the trails, lakes, and memories of adventures I have had there, and those I will have in... Read more →

Important Autodesk Update - Take Action Now!

Autodesk Identity Services will move to TLS 1.2 on August 3, 2019. That means you need to update today to avoid interruptions. To find out if you need to update your software, check the list of affected product versions by... Read more →

Throwback Thursday 1975 Drafting Standards Point 8

Awhile back I found these in my old CAD and Drafting standards boxes and thought I would share another on this Throwback Thursday. The following was from a Drafting Standards Manual from Ralph M. Parsons Company in 1975 and were... Read more →

Autodesk and Esri Partnership Results in BIM Data Going More Places

Recently, I reached out on Twitter (@ShaanHurley) to connect with people that were Esri or Autodesk customers and making use of the Autodesk & Esri Collaboration to better understand this by my team. One Esri customer Greg Jameson a GIS... Read more →