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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 master with Fusion 360. The Engineers Guide to Drinks is near and dear to my heart, and I love what Scott has done to utilize the historical guide in his class and interpreted in Fusion 360. CP468677 Getting Tipsy with... 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 it was archaic compared to today. Imagine there was just a single server back then handing all of the email for a large company. The email was managed using then Lotus Notes on what was a state of the art... 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, and even more on the web. Getting Started with Forge 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 any problem or engage on innovative cutting edge projects. At Autodesk University you can tap into these super heroes of tech and attend some of their classes learning their tips, techniques and valuable advise on a wide variety of topics.... 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 this week by members as I look at it this moment. 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 can walk, run, cycle, swim--... 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, 2020, for and by the Autodesk Group Network program. https://www.communitydojo.net/ As the name implies, the purpose of the Community Dōjō is to create inspiring learning opportunities for everyone—employees and customers alike—by connecting them with peers and group leaders; providing easy... 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 Roadblocks the industry is facing when it comes to diversity and inclusion Strategies on how to create a safe environment to discuss diversity in the workplace Details on finding Cliff Cole’s session on diversity and Allison Scott’s keynote construction presentation... 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 Design – Small Project (less than $100 Million) Winning project: Chandrawal Water Supply Project – 477 MLD Advanced Water Treatment Plant RWS & UWWM-EDRC, WWW SBG, WET-IC, L&T Construction, India Infrastructure Design – Medium Project ($100 Million – $500 Million) Winning project: Route... 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 can walk, run, cycle, swim-- however you like to stay active. Join the Strava club and come train with us! You can use a free Strava account and just join the group. http://strava.com/clubs/AU2020 I hope to see people share some... 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 you would like to guest author a blog post on Autodesk product tips and tricks email me. Thank you, Brandon! -Shaan 4 Easy Tips To Save Time and Work More Efficiently in AutoCAD 1. Setup and Use a Drawing Template:... 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 with a music background in a short format, usually around 2 minutes. These showreels are a great way to see what Autodesk customers produce around the world. Here are the Autodesk 2020 Showreels: Autodesk Official Show Reel 2020 Annual showcase... 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 his first summit with an AutoCAD flag, and I'm certain it wont be his last. 35 Years of AutoCAD Celebration Goes Way Up 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, or jump in and get involved in and pitch an idea in the lightening round or join a team that forms around an idea – you may change the AEC Industry. AEC Hackathon Online 2.0 Opening & Lightning Round Presentations... 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 Designers Collaborate in Real Time — from Home or Around the World bit.ly/2F9DNy5 ”Photorealistic, 3D Simulation and Collaboration Platform Open Beta Follows Early Access Program with Ericsson, Foster + Partners, Lucasfilm, 40+ Others GTC – Tens of millions of designers,... 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 many new friends and had fun, but this year AU is online, lets keep going and stay connected until we can again safely meet in person again. AU 2020 5k: Walk, Run or Cycle More details will be coming from... 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 allows you to access the automation capabilities of Autodesk’s core products as cloud services. Almost any task you can automate on your desktop application can now be automated at scale using the Design Automation API. A common and extremely popular... 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 released. I found a early AutoCAD customer with AutoCAD-80 version 1.2 from 1982 for the CP/M operating system on an 8” floppy disk. I recognize many may be younger than this floppy disk, and may not have ever seen one... Read more →