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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 →

Opensource CivilConnection and CivilPython

Autodesk’s Global Delivery Consulting (GCD) employees create innovate and impactful tools and solutions for our customers. Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery employees – Paolo Serra, Ian McGregor and Mohamed Ahmed – turned a manual and error-prone process for transferring data from Civil 3D to Revit into an efficient and scalable solution that enabled real-time information exchange using Dynamo. Over the course of several years, the solution evolved into a popular product feature and eventually moved to open source. CivilConnection and CivilPython... Read more →

Setup BIM 360 Projects Programmatically – Open Source Release

There is a new Open Source Tool from our Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery to address a common request from our customers requiring a way to automate setting up BIM 360 environment users and projects. The BIM 360 project setup tool sample was first created by Oliver Scharpf from our Global Consulting Delivery team to solve this need. The tool was released by Autodesk to Open Source for everyone to use. Use this command line tool to setup BIM 360 projects,... Read more →