Between the Lines

Autodesk Founder John Walker’s GPTs on Autodesk History

Autodesk founder John Walker published his own GPT last week. This GPT is for learning about the startup History of a Startup and is based on his Autodesk File publication. Read more →

Happy 41st Birthday Autodesk

Today, I celebrate and acknowledge the 41st anniversary of Autodesk's founding on January 30, 1982. Over the past 41 years, Autodesk has established itself as a leader in the design and engineering software industry, and has played a significant role in shaping the way professionals in architecture, engineering, construction, and media and entertainment industries work. Read more →

Fun Finds

In packing my house up to move, I am going through boxes of my technology and Autodesk history items and having a blast remembering all the tech and fun times. There is a slew of my phones and PDA, from... Read more →

Making your voice heard as an Autodesk Inventor User

If you are a user of Autodesk Inventor, the Autodesk Inventor Team wants to hear from you in many ways as well provide some information on what their plans are in future releases of the product. Inventor Team member Loren... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – Autodesk CAD Camera

Here is a very rare one from my Autodesk historic collection. CAD Cameras 1.0 was a utility to convert paper drawings “digitizing to AutoCAD using a flatbed or fixed-distance scanner in 1985. I actually have the entire package with the... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – Revit R1

This BIMalicious historic entry is from my Autodesk history collection after I received every physical release of Revit from longtime Autodesk Research employee now Rick Rundell. Rick was with the Revit startup before Autodesk acquired them in 2002. I even... Read more →

Project Egress 3D Model

The Apollo 11 Command Module CM-107 Columbia Egress hatch in Autodesk Fusion 360. They will assemble a replica made from machined and 3D printed parts next week at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with Adam Savage. Anyone can now... Read more →

Spotted a Wooly Mammoth and You Can Too

Last week I was working in Washington DC meeting with some customers and partners including my longtime friends and digitization heroes at the Smithsonian Digitization Program Lab. While there catching up on all the cool projects for the Smithsonian and... Read more →

Revit Timeline from 1.0 to 2019.2

Every since I began documenting AutoCAD history and codenames, AutoCAD Command history, and Autodesk history I have been asked to also do the same and publish other products. Today I am adding Revit to that list and reached out to... Read more →