Today in the Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon (aka Portland) office we have costumes, food, and a pumpkin contest. I think already found my current creative pumpkin “I'm Here for the Boos” complete with a tap and pours wine. Some cleverly... Read more →

Survey Says, Autodesk University 2016 will be a lot of Fun! I am really looking forward to this fun event at Autodesk University this year. I get to go against my good friend, colleague, and fellow Portlandia resident Lynn Allen... Read more →

On a received flight from Portland Oregon (PDX) I noticed while walking from terminal B to C there was now a restroom area for dogs named Pet Relief. How interesting, funny, thoughtful, and so Portland. At Autodesk we are still... Read more →

If you have done a lot of 3D laser scanning or LiDAR you know how waiting to see if the scan is done can be sometimes a hide and seek game to not get caught in the scan and photo.... Read more →

Just over a week ago I hosted a Bad Poetry Slam at Autodesk’s Lake Oswego Oregon office during the Fusion 360 Teams Beer Bust for some fun. We had several last minute entries and all bad bad bad. Several employees... Read more →

Over the Summer the Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon (Portland) had some smart and fun high school interns developing the next version of BXD. BXD was developed to test FIRST Robotics robots complete with a physics engine. Many new features are... Read more →

Yes, back in the late 90s there was a creepy Dancing Baby “Baby Cha Cha” that seemed to be all the rage on the young growing Internet. Jon Bell a colleague here in the Autodesk Lake Oswego office has been... Read more →

I am hosting another fun Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon office event as a follow up to the fun PowerPoint Karaoke we held a couple months ago. This time it is a Bad Poetry Slam August 24th at our Autodesk Lake... Read more →

Fort those that have done a fair bit of laser scanning, what do you do while the scanner is rotating 360 degrees and you try to stay out of the beams view and pass time? My laser scanner shuffle moving... Read more →

I posted some of these these pages from old drafting standards on a Throwback Thursday two weeks ago, and people loved them, so I will share more of the timeless words of wisdom from the Drafting Time Machine. This is... Read more →

PowerPoint Karaoke is where a person volunteers (or volunteered) to get in front of a group of people to speak for 3-5 minutes to 10 PowerPoint slides they have never seen before. Sounds fun for the audience right? Believe it... Read more →

The Everhart Museum currently has an exhibition on Prohibition and has included the infamous Engineers Guide to Drinks Drawing framed on the wall. I will be releasing the 3D DWG version of this drawing very soon thanks to the hard... Read more →

OK the jury might still be out if I am an alien life form, or not. Last night I had a funny out of this world experience while practicing and testing flight control technologies with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)... Read more →

This will surely brighten anyone's day! Some of us take our love of Autodesk products to the extreme in fact I have seen wedding proposals and invitations made in AutoCAD. It was great to see my friend Donnie Gladfelter (aka... Read more →

I noticed an experiment yesterday in a Portland area park located atop a dormant volcano where an adult and a child had drawn their designs for a future home. Mind you this is in no way scientific, but does match... Read more →

Who remembers the good old Autodesk 3ds Max and Character Studio product Dancing Baby from the late 90s that even made the Ally McBeal television show? I thought the dancing baby and all of the many versions had faded into... Read more →

I am sitting in a new space in Autodesk’s San Francisco Steuart and would like a cappuccino. Let me rephrase that, I need caffeine please. I am located near the 2nd floor forest scene aka “The Park” at the picnic... Read more →

A friend texted me the following image this week: "You see that camera button next to where you type? Hold it down and slide your finger up to the other camera button above your finger, and then let go. A... Read more →

The Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing or Infographic as it is now called in reality was really just a test drawing was originally created by someone that was very creative or very bored in order to test pen plotters back... Read more →

Friday confession: I have started playing the game the "Goat Simulator" game by Coffee Stain Studios. How is this somehow related to Autodesk, well the Goat Simulator is using Autodesk Gameware's Scaleform technology to propel the super twisted fun gameplay.... Read more →

TGIF! I prefer to not have my shaving cream in a tube, let me explain... This morning when waking up I did my normal routine of going to brush my teeth while still half asleep. I grabbed my trusty toothbrush,... Read more →

This AutoCAD drawing has long roots back to the day of the pen plotters when it was a sample drawing for Calcomp I believe. I posted the DWF file awhile back and a link to my Autodesk 360 but several... Read more →

Do you use AutoCAD or other Autodesk design tools to create your Valentines cards? I am am not quite sure whether to congratulate you, or suggest that you seek help. Happy Valentines Day! -Shaan Read more →

Thought I would share my funny and a bit embarrassing story from last week for everyone to have a midweek laugh at my expense. Last week at Autodesk University in Las Vegas I got caught speechless while getting my shoes shined before a reception. I figured I needed to look my best. I should have done it earlier before a lunch with Carl Bass or sitting on a technology panel in front of a crowd and I will tell you why. I went to AU with two pairs of dress shoes and both were similar in looks. I would have shined them myself but I did not have a shoe shine kit and a very nice guy was in the convention center so it just made sense to sit down for a couple minutes and get a shine and some great conversation. So I sat down and was getting a nice shoeshine done and the nice guy shining my shoes looks to me and said "sir, do you have two pairs of dress shoes". I thought "this is amazing, Vegas is full of magicians and psychics". So I asked him how did he know, he said "well you have one of each on your feet." My brain went Pffffft..... And at just that moment of panic an Autodesk colleague Severin Wille pops in and captures a photo of me. Read more →