Its a new year, and another exciting year of the impact of generative design with our customers using Fusion 360. Here is a great article by Mike Smell reviewing the past year of 2019 and providing some context for the... Read more →
13 posts from January 2020
This morning was amazing with the sunrise in Portland Oregon. My jaw dropped seeing it at my house and in all the posted photos. Here are photos I captured from my home as I left for the office. Here are... Read more →
Autodesk was founded on January 30th, 1982. Today marks the 38th birthday of Autodesk becoming a legal U.S. corporation. Read more →
Electronics Design Now Included in Fusion 360
23 January 2020
This is huge news for those in the design and manufacturing world as you can now do your industrial and mechanical design but with this months update you get professional electronics design. This makes Fusion 360 an end to end design tool for designing and manufacturing products. Read more →
This book is about 8 pages making the irony not lost on me. Learn AutoCAD Without Reading the Manual. Here is the tough AutoCAD History trivia question: Who is Kelvin R. Throop, the author of this book? Read more →
I have used Snagit for over 20 years as a customer on an almost daily basis for work and images for this blog. This software is one of my most essential tools and I am always finding out powerful features... Read more →
Autodesk is looking for videos of our customer's best building, infrastructure, and construction projects created using Autodesk software for our new AEC showreel. Learn more and submit today: autode.sk/2srwA67 Examples of Past AEC Showreels Autodesk AEC Showreel 2019 – YouTube... Read more →
We’re hiring a senior software engineer for the Autodesk Inventor Platform team. This position is based in sunny Portland, Oregon in our awesome award winning building. Autodesk Portland is One of the Best Places to Work in Portland Oregon The... Read more →
Innovations Are Coming to Disrupt the Construction Industry
14 January 2020
“You’re on the construction site, outfitted in your Terminator-like robot suit that gives you exponential strength, letting you effortlessly lift hundreds of pounds as integrated sensors send your vitals and atmospheric data to the cloud. Meanwhile, your augmented-reality glasses superimpose... Read more →
I hope by now everyone reading this has already moved on from Windows 7 machines, and if not hopefully this causes you to consider that move. Today Microsoft set the End of Life support for Windows 7 meaning security updates... Read more →
One of my favorite events filled with innovative thinking and ideas combined with collaborative fun and technology are the AEC Hackathons held around the world. The next big AEC Hackathon is being held next month in one of my favorite... Read more →
This BIMalicious historic entry is from my Autodesk history collection after I received every physical release of Revit from longtime Autodesk Research employee now Rick Rundell. Rick was with the Revit startup before Autodesk acquired them in 2002. I even... Read more →
This past November I gave a tour to a team from the local Portland magazine Portland Monthly. The current January 2020 issue has Autodesk featured as one of the best Portland offices to work in.We moved into this renovated 1913... Read more →