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Generatively Designed Pumpkin

Thanks to Autodesk’s Zack Kron for this Halloween fun! Read more →

Getting Tipsy with Fusion 360 at Autodesk University 2020

Want to learn how to use Fusion 360 better and more efficiently all while having some fun? This will be a informative and fun class with my friend down under teaching some great tips with Fusion 360. Scott is a... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – Email Cloggage in the 90s

How a one person stopped all email communication by accident as a new employee in the 90s. The Great Email Cloggage Incident of 1998 Back in the 1990’s email was a rare and new communication tool and the technology behind... Read more →

Learn the Autodesk Forge Platform

My friend and colleague Kean just posted on his blog an excellent PDF resource that will help you learn the Forge platform. You can use the Forge platform to enable you to do things with design automation, viewing design data,... Read more →

Autodesk GCD at Autodesk University

Autodesk’s Global Consulting Delivery (GCD) is the organization within Autodesk that works with large customers on custom solutions, advising on new technologies & workflows, and training. It is almost a secret group of industry and technology experts to solve most... Read more →

AU5K Growing and Moving– Join Us!

We have broke the 100 members so far running, walking, biking, swimming getting ready for the AU 2020 5K Walk Run or Cycle in a couple weeks. See the activity just this week as we are over 800 miles just... Read more →

Launching the Community Dojo – People Knowledge Tools

Rachel Hartley an Autodesk Customer Community Program Manager, recently announced the new community called the Community Dojo. “Defined as a “place for immersive learning,” the Japanese word “Dōjō” was perfectly adopted for a new immersive learning site launched August 24,... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – Early Revit CD-ROMs

Here are the early Revit release packages in the historical collection that I maintain from 2000 and 2001. Revit 1.0, Revit 1.01, Revit 2, Revit 2.01, Revit 2.1, Revit 2.11, Revit 3, Revit 3.1, Revit 3.11, Revit 4 Read more →

A New Podcast by Autodesk Construction

Announcing a new Autodesk Construction podcast named Digital Builder: Some of the key episode themes include: An inside look at what’s in store for this year’s Autodesk University, including emerging technologies and trends to help you achieve your new possible... Read more →

AEC Excellence Awards 2020 Winners

Congratulations to all of the inspiring winning projects, and all of those companies and projects that were nominated. AEC Excellence Awards 2020 Winners: Reimagination During Extraordinary Times INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR Wajdi Mereb, BIM Manager, RTA, United Arab Emirates Infrastructure... Read more →

AU 2020 5k Walk Run or Cycle

Want to get moving before Autodesk University 2020? Join us from Nov. 9-16th for the AU5k! The Autodesk University 5k has gone virtual! Join us in the lead-up to AU 2020 and complete your 5k from November 9-16th, 2020. You... Read more →

4 Easy Tips To Save Time and Work More Efficiently in AutoCAD

Today is a guest post by Brandon of CADintensions with some great AutoCAD Tips to make you more efficient. You can follow Brandon on Twitter at @cadintentions and visit his blog http://cadintentions.com/ for many more great tips like these. If... Read more →

Autodesk 2020 Showreel Videos

Every year Autodesk produces videos to showcase our products and most importantly what our customers produce using our products. The showreel videos are produced to feature our major industries and also one main Autodesk themed one featuring a video combined... Read more →

Top of the World

Congratulations to Hill Fang, Software Engineering Manager at Autodesk. Hill Fang summited Tianhaizi Shan with its peak 6070 meters high in Sichuan Province on Oct-06! Of course he also took his AutoCAD flag with him to the summit. This wasn't... Read more →

AEC Hackathon Online 2.0 – Attend the Opening and Lightning Rounds

I hope you will join me and the many others attending the kick off of the AEC Hackathon Online 2.0 Friday October 9th. It is online and open to people around the globe. Come see what it is all about,... Read more →

Content Creators Can Collaborate in Real-Time Using the NVIDIA Omniverse Platform

Autodesk’s Christopher Young, VP Autodesk Entertainment Creation Products announced: ”To allow customers to create without limits, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Inventor & Revit are integrated in the platform along with USD open source format.” NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Open Beta, Letting... Read more →

Get Ready for the Annual 5K

This is a heads up to start preparing for the annual 5k run, walk, and now bike ride all while being remote from each other. We have held a Autodesk University based run for the past 6 years and made... Read more →

Autodesk Forge Design Automation Tutorial

Have you ever wanted to automate AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, 3ds Max tasks in a nearly headless way using the power of the cloud and some limited code calling APIs? Design Automation is the critical secret method. The Design Automation API... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – AutoCAD-80 version 1.2 Circa 1982

I may have found someone with the oldest AutoCAD release software outside of Autodesk. Of course internally we had early 1.0 alphas, betas, and development copies that were never released. In fact AutoCAD-80 and AutoCAD-86 version 1.0 was never commercially... Read more →