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Autodesk Community Conversation - DesignScript(ing) All The Things

Join us next week Thursday, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:00 AM PDT for the next in the series focusing on Dynamo, DesignScript(ing) all the Things. Dive into DesignScript, the native language of Dynamo with Jacob Small and Sol Amour and explore where you can author DesignScript code and how nodal descriptions give you breadcrumbs to get there, jumping into DesignScript only awesomeness such as replication and features that help you in your daily Dynamo life, explore how to build definitions... Read more →

AEC Collection Essentials - Generative Design Workflows

There is a great AEC webinar tomorrow, free and also recorded for those that are unable to attend live. If you use Revit and are evaluating how to implement generative design, this is your opportunity knocking. August 10, 2021 at 10am PT / 1pm ET (1 hour) AEC COLLECTION ESSENTIALS: Generative Design Workflows Generative Design in Revit: Three workflow examples to jumpstart your practice. Exploration is key to the design process. In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how generative design workflows... Read more →

Community Conversation - DYN(er) with Friends

Do you make really cool things and want to share them with others? Are you excited about empowering your peers and exponentially leveraging your time? Then come dive into the worlds of Sharing Dynamo content and Dynamo Player with Sol Amour, Jacob Small and our awesome guest speaker and Dynamo master Dana De Filippi! You’ll learn how to bundle up your graph and share it with others, understanding what will ship with your graph naturally and what you’ll have to... Read more →

Looking Under Dynamo's Hood with Jacob Small and Sol Amour

If you currently use, or want to learn how to use Dynamo to automate, supercharge, and expand your Revit design process, this is one of the best free series from Dynamo experts Jacob Small and Sol Amour. We have had held over 12+ sessions, and this next one (mark your calendar now) is Looking Under the Hood of Dynamo. This is the mental image that pops into my head with Dynamo Looking Under the Hood, Jacob Small digging into an... Read more →

How to Plan a Dynamo Graph

Join me as the host in this weeks Autodesk Community Conversation along with Dynamo experts Jacob Small Designated Support Specialist:Generative Design and BIM and Sol Amour Dynamo Product Manager to dive into this topic and taking your questions along the way. You will learn how to map out the graph to accomplish something like creating a complex framed architectural form in a fairly easy to understand and always fun method. Thursday, June 17, 2021 10 AM PT | 1 PM... Read more →

Livestream Ask Me Anything: Revit Roadmap for Generative and Computational Design Monday June 14th, 2021

Have questions about the future of Generative Design and computation in Revit? Join a panel of Autodesk product managers as they take on your questions and share what's in the development pipeline. Check the Revit product roadmap: https://trello.com/b/ldRXK9Gw/revit-p... Get your questions ready, and set a reminder to join the livestream on June 14, 2021 8am PT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIm1Fyf00Y Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversations - Dynamo Graph Annotations with Jacob Small and Sol Amour – Recording of Fun Session Posted

The recording from yesterdays Dynamo Community Conversation is now posted on the session page and YouTube. The training content by Jacob Small and Sol Amour and conversations are top notch, free, and it was such a fun time aside from my Zoom telling me my Internet is Unstable” while I was talking. We also had a very special guest, Jon Pierson who blew my mind talking about his journey with Dynamo and his Dynamo custom packages like Rhythm for Dynamo... Read more →

Two AEC Focused Autodesk Community Conversations Tomorrow June 3rd, 2021

Join us tomorrow for two Autodesk Community Conversations. Building the muscle for a Revit Family Thursday, June 3, 2021 8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour) Expert Speaker Donnia Tabor-Hanson Donnia Tabor-Hanson continues her Revit Families series to discuss how to start building some muscle for a Revit family once the bones and ligaments (reference planes and parameters) are set. We'll talk about extrusions, sweeps, blends, and such, both solid and voids with overall best practices for building... Read more →

The Revit – Have You Tried This List

Jeff Hanson, Senior Content Experience Designer on the Autodesk Revit team posted a great blog post highlighting some great features and tips using them that many may be able to benefit and pick up a tip or try something out. Check it out, I bet you learn something! Have You Tried? Investigating Revit features and workflows. Read more →

Community Conversations – Geometry Modifications in Dynamo Recording Posted

If you were unable to attend last weeks Community Conversation “Computational Geometry: Geometry Modifications in Dynamo with Dynamo experts Jacob Small, Sol Amour, and myself as the host last Thursday, we have you covered with the recording now posted. Note all the Community Conversations are recorded for your benefit and schedule. Go watch the Recording “Now that we understand all geometry types in Dynamo, let’s explore how we can modify them! Join Jacob Small and Sol Amour as we take... Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversations - Computational Geometry- Geometry Modifications in Dynamo with Sol Amour and Jacob Small Thursday, May 6, 2021

Continuing our excellent series on how to use and understand Dynamo from two Dynamo experts that answer your questions live as well as show you fundamental and powerful concepts. Join Jacob Small and Sol Amour as we take a journey through Dynamo’s geometry modification nodes; learn how to best leverage these modifications, explore how you can derive interesting and new geometry from intersections, and touch upon some best practices to get your Dynamo geometry singing. This series is part of... Read more →

Collaborative Future at the Reimagined Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building

How will we design sustainable communities in the future? Debuting this November, take a first look at the new interactive exhibit from Autodesk and Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building “Future Communities” highlights the benefits of automation in how we work. http://autode.sk/32KLSkR Quote from Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost “Proud to be part of an experience that highlights the benefits of automation in how we work” ”Design shapes billions of lives. What if we could invite everyone to create, together, almost every... Read more →

Using Dynamo to Automate Leader Background Changes in Civil 3D

In Autodesk Consulting, there are many highly knowledgeable, creative, and skilled Technical Consultants and Solution Architects that have the capabilities in business and technology consulting, solution implementation, and custom development to help customers maximize the value of their investment in Autodesk technology. Paolo Serra is one of the amazing people in Autodesk Consulting who finds ways to solve challenges using automation like Dynamo. Paolo is a Dynamo expert and a truly innovative thinking person and one of the nicest and... Read more →

Dealing with Office Occupancy with a Dynamo Mega-Graph

My colleague, amazing developer, fellow blogger, and good friend Kean Walmsley published a timely and informative third article in a series on how to use Dynamo to evaluate safe office occupancy in the age of COVID virus. The latest in the series is Building a Mega-Graph. COVID Office Occupancy: Single-Objective Optimization COVID Office Occupancy: Multi-Objective Optimization COVID Office Occupancy: Building a Mega-Graph Read more →

Learn About Revit Automation and Generative Design

There is a free Autodesk eBook now available on learning about how automation and generative design can empower you to meet new challenges and shape the built environment of the future. The Future is a Design Challenge eBook ”Solving tomorrow’s challenges with automation and generative design “ autode.sk/2W3H6f0 Read more →

Generative Design in Revit - Have You Tried?

Learn how to use Generative Design to develop a restaurant layout. What is Generative Design ? Generative Design in Revit allows you to leverage Dynamo graphs to explore outcome-based solutions for your designs. You define criteria and constraints for the design problem. Then Generative Design uses this information to iterate many possible solutions, presenting them to you for further evaluation. When you decide on the optimal solution, click a button to integrate it into the model for further development. Why... Read more →

Revit 2020 - People Flow Toolkit

On Friday, Autodesk released the People Flow Toolkit, an add-in that helps you automate path of travel analysis with tools for social distancing. “The People Flow Toolkit extends Revit’s Path of Travel toolset to help you understand how people will move through your design. The People Flow Toolkit is available as an add-on with Revit versions starting at 2020.2. With the toolkit, building designers can automate, visualize, and analyze the routes within a model to understand the impacts of physical... Read more →

AEC Hackathon Online v2 Join Me!

I hope you will again join the AEC Hackathon organized by an independent group of AEC technology and built environment superheroes.These events are normally held in person, but with the current COVID-19 they pivoted this summer with the first online version being a hit in light of all the quirks and challenges online live sessions and collaboration can bring they pulled it off. I really enjoyed being mentor and speaking with some of the teams. The speaker sessions were very... Read more →

Customer Success Hub – Learn Valuable Autodesk Product Skills for Free

Visit our newly redesigned Customer Success Hub, which includes free connected learning content to get you started on new learning paths: bit.ly/33wteis Read more →

Using Generative design in Revit to Evaluate Social Distancing

In this day faced with the COVID-19 virus, architects and building owners have had to re-evaluate social distance in the programming of their building spaces. With Revit's latest release 2021 you get generative design to help accomplish this challenging task efficiently and fast. Read more and see the sample data sets in the Revit blog article. New studies for Generative Design in Revit offer approaches to social distancing ”Autodesk® Revit® 2021 debuted the ability to create generative design studies directly... Read more →

AEC Hackathon 7.0 Copenhagen

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 cities in the world, Copenhagen Denmark. ] Feb 21 2020 18:00 - Feb 23 2020 20:00 In a nutshell, the hackathon starts with a group of people from industry, academia, tech, architects, and programmers that for the most part don't... Read more →

Design Automation API Webinar Series - Register Now

Have you ever wanted to automate and process or create data or drawings using a cloud based API in an almost-headless configuration? Design Automation on Forge is most likely the answer to this need. There is still time to get hands on with the new Design Automation APIs. Four webinars are scheduled in December that will cover each of the Design Automation APIs in depth. Register Now and read more at the Autodesk Forge Blog https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/design-automation-api-webinar-series-register-now December 5 - Design... Read more →

Meet Project Discover for Dynamo

My colleague Kean Walmsley announced on his blog Through the Interface on the new Project Discover for Dynamo out of Autodesk Research and is ready to be tested. It is a tool that we used to perform generative design in the AEC design for our Autodesk Toronto office including predicting the natural light rays into offices to assist in office location based on employee preferences (video Generative Design for Architecture: Autodesk MaRS Office). Read Kean’s overview in his blog post... Read more →

Industrialized Construction Is Growing and Needed

Yesterday I attended the 2019 Industrialized Construction Forum held by Stanford University Center for Integrated Facility Engineering. This was a packed event attended by by not only academia, but industry. The presentations, panel discussions, and conversations with attendees were very good and thought provoking on the impact and changes to construction and our built world in the near term and long term future. Some of the technologies and considerations involved society, AI/ML, robotics, offside prefab, modular construction, skyrocketing costs from labor and materials, and sustainability. My big takeaway is that Industrialized Construction “IC” may be the best solution to solving the limited resources, reducing carbon footprint, addressing the global housing shortage, and overcoming the labor shortage in the construction industry. We at Autodesk couldn’t agree more in doing More, Better, with Less. Read more →

Inventor Design Automation on Forge Beta

The Inventor Design Automation API for Forge is in public beta. This can allow you to harness the power of the cloud for repetitive tasks. Design Automation API (Beta)v3 autode.sk/2LXv6FX “The Design Automation API (V3 Beta) provides the ability to use the core API’s of your favorite CAD engines, in the cloud, leveraging the scale of the Forge Platform to run automated jobs. These jobs could be highly repetitive or frequent, or could be larger problems that need large-scale processing... Read more →