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Happy Holidays

Most Autodesk employees and offices will be closed starting Monday starting, December 19th, for our annual Week of Rest for the holidays. This break is actually longer than a week, but it allows our employees to spend time with their family, friends, and rest. We then come back after the New Year refreshed and ready to make an amazing 2023 for our customers. Read more →

AEC Product Roadmap Ask Me Anything Series

Join us for the Autodesk AEC Public Roadmap AMAs in January 2023! Register to learn about the road ahead for Autodesk’s solutions from a panel of Autodesk product managers in an Ask Me Anything format live broadcast event. Have questions about the public roadmap for architecture products? We've got answers! Join us for a Community Conversation about the future of Autodesk AEC solutions. •- Learn about highlights from recent releases, including Revit and the AEC Collection •Ask product managers and experts about the future of Autodesk AEC products •Check the roadmap and join the conversation! Read more →

Autodesk Gabe Paez of The Wild on Evan Troxel's TRXL Podcast

“Gabe Paez of Autodesk’s The Wild joins Evan Troxel popular podcast TRXL to talk about the intersection of humans and immersive technologies, the magic of experiencing ideas together, shared reality, the difficulty of change in relation to new tools and workflows, the value of working in different ways, the (controversial) notion of having fun at work, Extended Reality (XR) as it relates to remote work, shortening the distance between an idea and an experience, experiential tools, the value of collaboration, synchronous and asynchronous work on projects, interactive and manipulatable environments, persistence of virtual environments, and more.” Read more →

Learn About the Autodesk AI Lab

Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic, and Autodesk is also looking into how we can intelligently utilize AI and machine learning to solve customer challenges. Find out about the new Autodesk AI Lab from theDirector of AI Research at Autodesk Tonya Curtis, and what they are researhing and papers they have submitted. Read more →

Interesting AI Possibilities from OpenAI Using ChatGPT

Last Wednesday, OpenAI released their ChatGPT for free and is based on GPT-3.5. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ ChatGPT is like a smarter search engine as a bot with the ability to create results including code or text in response to natural language queries. What I find interesting and the possibilities exciting as well as spooky is the ability to not only get really interesting returns to text questions but also write code including Autodesk product customization like ObjectARX, Lisp, Forge, Dynamo, or mel for Maya and Maxscript for 3ds Max. simply by asking the ChatGPT. ”ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. Read more →

Three Autodesk Community Events Week of December 5th 2022 and One December 15th

We have the final Autodesk Community Conversation events for 2022 coming up including some non-English events. These are not just a live webinar, they are a conversation where you can ask questions as a more personal and connecting event with the experts and the attendees. Join us for Autodesk Community Conversations: https://autode.sk/CommunityConvos Read more →

Autodesk University 2023 - Viva Las Vegas

People that attended Autodesk University 2022 received a nice email today with some exciting news from Autodesk Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Blum. “Thank you again for attending Autodesk University 2022 in New Orleans. I wanted to share some important information regarding our 2023 event. Autodesk University will take place at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada between Monday 13th and Wednesday 15th November, 2023. Read more →

Swipe Right – For the Autodesk Construction Cloud Relationships API

Learn how the Relationships API runs as a shared API component under the hood Read more →

Surprise – It is Surgery Time

Last week I was out a great deal, not only due to the US Holiday but also because I had an unplanned surgery on Tuesday morning. I went in for my annual physical check-up, and while I passed with flying colors, there was one issue noted, my doctor found out I had a hernia. I’m all good now, but one thing I would suggest is not being overly-optimistic about how easy a surgery may be and keeping plans to fly... Read more →

How to Make Furniture for Revit Using Fusion 360

Using Autodesk Fusion 360 to create content for Revit. A nice instructable by Michael Hidalgo. A reminder that there is still a free Fusion 360 version: Fusion 360 for Personal Use – Still FREE Read more →

Autodesk Revit 2023.1

Revit 2023.1 was made available last week and introduces Twinmotion for Revit, upgrades to MEP modeling tools, more analytical to physical model automation for structural analysis, and so much more. Read more →

AEC Cloud Information Model API Beta

”Autodesk Platform Services – the platform formerly known as Forge – has a brand new service that’s soon going into beta: the AEC Cloud Information Model API. This API will allow you to access design parameters in Revit models hosted in the cloud with no need to pass by an instance Revit.” Read More from Kean and get involved in the Beta Join the beta for the AEC Cloud Information Model API Read more →

Upskill Using Free Autodesk Industry Courses

Just taking 15 minutes a day to go through Autodesk courses could make you far better prepared for your current role or advance yourskills for a new role. These curated courses cover Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Design and Manufacturing, Cross-Industry. Search over 500 available courses developed by the best in the industries. Read more →

Autodesk’s Digital Builder Insider

With rising pressure to deliver projects on time and on budget, construction firms are looking for new ways to achieve certainty. Enter the promise of Industrialized Construction (IC). Approaching construction from a manufacturing mindset is not only smarter; it’s imperative to meet the demands of a growing global population. Read more →

Fusion 360 for Personal Use – Still FREE

If you meet the requirements as a non-commercial hobbyist, you can get the free Fusion 360 for personal use license. Read more →

Two Live Events Thursday November 16th

How to Respond to Changes Faster Using Civil 3D Project Explorer Understanding the File Linking Options for Cloud Workshared Revit Models Read more →

Introducing Maya Creative

Maya Creative, is a more flexible and affordable version of Maya with sophisticated animation, modeling, and rendering tools to bring your vision to life.. •Create lifelike animations with intuitive animation tools •Build detailed 3D models with a powerful modeling toolset •Render high-quality 3D images in fewer clicks •Available now through Autodesk Flex Read more →

Blog Issues Recently

November 4th, 2022 I am still having issues with the load times, content, and formatting after a week. Hopefully, Typepad gets this fixed asap. Read more →

3ds Max and Maya Courses on AREA

New Courses have been added to Autodesk AREA. Each of these courses is focused on a community-requested real-world industry workflow. Read more →

New Autodesk Community Voices Authors

We added 8 New Autodesk Community Voices Blog authors last week, check out the blog, subscribe, tell others, and bookmark it. Read more →

Two Live Events this Week

Wednesday ,October 27, 2022, 10am PDT Fusion 360 Ask Me Anything: Electronics Design Join Richard Hammerl, a Fusion 360 Community Specialist in Electronics, and Jorge Garcia a Fusion 360 Technical Specialist, Electronics to ask questions on Electronics in Fusion 360 as well as share helpful tips. Register free to Join us live! Thursday, October 27, 2022, 10 am PDT We have informative & fun Halloween-themed Dynamo Office Hours "Parametric Pumpkins". Are you all about the Spooky Season? Do you like... Read more →

400 Autodesk University 2022 Classes Now Online

You can now stream (free) many of the classes from the Autodesk University 2022. Read more →

My Autodesk University 2022 Photo Gallery – You Can Add to It

After several years of hosting a Flickr Photo and Video gallery for fellow Autodesk University attendees back to 1998, we did it again for 2022. Anyone can add photos from AU 2022 for free. Read more →

New Dynamo Office Hours Events Scheduled for October November and December

Join a great series on Dynamo where you will learn great tips, updates, and ways to accomplish automations and computational design from some of the best in the AEC industry such as Jacob Small, Sol Amour, Lilli Smith, Zach Kron and more for free. We always have time for you to ask your questions in this conversation format event. Read more →

Get Involved with Autodesk Community Conversations

Community Conversations are webinars led by Community members in their areas of expertise, and hosted by Community Managers. Join a session to delve into product features, discover innovative workflows, learn tools and techniques, and make connections in the Community. These are a conversation, not a 1-way presentation or sstereotypicalwebinar format. You can also get involved and host a session or series. Read more →