Between the Lines

Upcoming Autodesk Community Conversations & Two Recordings

Community Conversations are virtual meetups featuring expert speakers from across Autodesk Community. Sessions range from deep dives, tips and tricks, and live demonstrations on products such as AutoCAD, Revit, Dynamo, and Fusion 360, to roundtables on industry insights, emerging trends, and career stories, and more. All experience levels, from beginner to expert, are welcome. Join a session to delve into product features, discover innovative workflows, learn tools and techniques, and make connections in the Community. We are adding more and... Read more →

Autodesk Open-Sources Web-Based USD Viewing

My Autodesk colleague, and friend, Kean Walmsley wrote a great post explaining how Autodesk open-sourced our USD web-based viewer implementation and some details on it. Read more →

On the Mend

On Friday February 18th, 2022, I had, surgery to repair a tear in my left knee meniscus. I’m doing great, and even walking short distances now. Read more →

Metapup in the Metaverse

Coho my 5-month-oldlver labrador puppy wanted to go to the park for a walk, and I have a busy work day. Oculus Quest 2 + dog = problem solved! Thanks, Technology! #metaversedog #VR #metapup #woofVR I'm kidding, of course , I didn’t really send him to the virtual dog park, I just put the Oculus on his head as he was very iinterested in seeing and sniffing it in my home office. Read more →

Autodesk Open Source

Autodesk Open Source provides the global community of innovators an opportunity to learn, contribute and grow. Visit our Open Source site and see how you can get involved in our latest projects: opensource.autodesk.com Read more →

Bizarre Weather Year

Thursday was a record high temperature at 74 degrees in Bend Oregon on February 10. It is normally a high of 30-40 degrees for the high temperature. We have had geese migrating back north, honeybees out, trees blooming, and even a few hungry mosquitoes biting us humans. Bizarre weather for early February, and two months ahead of when the weather and nature’s spring activity would occur. I had a few feet of snow at my house just three weeks ago... Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversation - Dynamo inside a Host February 3rd, 2022

Come join Sol Amour & Jacob Small as they jump into "Dynamo Inside a Host", exploring how Dynamo functions inside the host environment; Revit, Civil 3D, FormIt, and all your favourite integrations. We will explore what it means to have Dynamo in or out of process, how the Library changes, dive into application specific data, content locations and package management and discover how nodes show up from different hosts. We will then touch upon how to re-use graph content across... Read more →