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AEC Product Roadmap Ask Me Anything Series Recordings

Last week we held 5 live events on the future roadmap of AEC products, and hundreds attended and asked their great questions using Slido. The annual event was to learn about highlights from recent releases, including Revit and the AEC Collection Ask product managers and experts about the future roadmap of the Autodesk AEC products. Thank you to all that participated and here are the recordings for those unable to attend. We will be posting a list of questions asked/answered very soon. Read more →

AEC Product Roadmap Ask Me Anything Series This Week

Join us and learn about highlights from recent releases, including Revit and the AEC Collection and ask the Product Managers and experts about the future of Autodesk AEC products such as Revit, Dynamo, InfraWorks, Civil 3D, ReCap, Structures, and MEP. Join the conversations! 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 →

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 →

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 →

Tech.autodesk.com - See How Engineers Empower Architects, Artist, and Engineers to Create Amazing Things

There is a new Autodesk site just launched: tech.autodesk.com. This site isn’t about Autodesk products as the focus, but stories from the voice of our global Autodesk technologists. This new site will highlight our technology as well as the employees in order to attract new tech talent. Check it out. Autodesk is a great place to work building platforms, technology, and products for the greatest customers in the world who use them to design and make the most amazing things. If you know someone in tech looking for a great role at a top-ranked company to work for, then consider Autodesk to shaoe the world, and shape your future. http://careers.autodesk.com/ Read more →

Health Check for Autodesk Cloud – What's Up?

You can check health the status of Autodesk Cloud Services such as BIM 360, InfraWorks, FormIt, Fusion 360, AutoCAD Web, and a few others quickly by going to https://health.autodesk.com/. Read more →

XR For Engineering Design Reviews

Live Webinar - How XR Revolutionizes Engineering Design Reviews “Coordinating design reviews with multiple parties and colleagues is a complicated and messy endeavor. Particularly difficult is collaborating and presenting iterations to clients who lack the knowledge or training to read 2D schematics effectively. By using XR, you can bring stakeholders inside Revit and Navisworks BIM models inside a collaborative VR environment. This immersive collaborative workspace makes the review process simpler and more effective, reducing the risk of concepts being lost in translation—and cutting down on costly errors at the same time.” Read more →

Recent Blog Posts on the Autodesk Community Voices Blog

Community Voices is a blog by the Community, for the Community. You'll find product tips and workflows, career stories, and industry insights, all shared by members of Autodesk’s global community. Subscribe to keep up to date with the latest content from Community members. Check out the most recent posts by the awesome Community Voices authors. Read more →

Revit Database Explorer - RevitLookup

Jeremy Tammick posted on his blog The Building Coder about the initiative to improve the RevitLookup including a link to a first build of the RevitDbExplorer. Read more →

XR Technology Opportunities at Autodesk

Kean posted open roles seeking candidates with a passion and experience in XR. If you are that XR person, or know someone please look into this opportunity to join Autodesk in an exciting new role and mission. Read more →

Construction Doesn’t Need to Be Filled With Mixups

Here is a humorous video from Autodesk Construction Cloud highlighting a not so funny construction industry reality that isn’t so funny. Read more →

Autodesk Vision Series August 3rd and 4th

Register for free to attend the Autodesk Vision Series Aug 3 & 4 to be inspired and hear from creative minds like Playground Games Lead Technical Artist, Dan Wulczynski, on how he and his team used 3ds Max to create fire environments for the ideo game Forza Horizon 5. Read more →

Down the Melting Neon Rabbit Hole of AI-Generated Art

I have recently been experimenting with a new technology, I know, I'm a techy geek and your are not shocked that I'm geeking out on something new. There are many new technologies harnessing AI to generate images based on words and instructions you feed it like Dall-E, Dall-E Mini aka CrAIon, and Midjourney. I got on the beta of Midjourney. Midjourney runs using Discord (desktop or mobile) as its interface using the bot to send the commands to their trained... Read more →

Autodesk Forge Digital Twin Example Using Data Visualization API

The Forge team has provided a reference architecture example of a digital twin application using the Forge platform data visualization APIs, complete with some documentation and code samples. | The live web browser based reference architecture will demonstrate the type of applications you can build using the available Forge APIs. You could build your own custom digital twin application customized for your business or industry needs. Documentation https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/dataviz/v1/developers_guide/quickstart/ Read more →

More June Community Conversations

We have two more Autodesk Community Conversations events this month before our annual summer event break in July. Join us for the fun and informative sessions that are also very fun. Wednesday June 22nd 08:00am PDT Fusion 360 Ask Me Anything: Electronics Design Join Richard Hammerl, a Fusion 360 Community Specialist in Electronics to ask questions on Electronics in Fusion 360 as well as share helpful tips. Register now to attend https://autodesk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdeirrDsqHdTGh0yq5XbDq6_0ybv-ZIBe Thursday June 30th 10:00am PDT Dynamo Office Hours:... Read more →

DAISY AI in Toronto Collaboration with Autodesk Research on Using AI for Sustainable Structural Design

DAISY AI in Toronto collaborated with Autodesk Research team in London to produce residential construction designs using artificial intelligence. Read more →

Many Live Events in April

Community Conversations are virtual meetups featuring expert speakers from across Autodesk Community. Sessions range from deep dives, tips and tricks, and live demonstrations on products such as AutoCAD, Revit, Dynamo, and Fusion 360, to roundtables on industry insights, emerging trends, career stories, and more. All experience levels, from beginner to expert, are welcome. The month of April has many events whether you are looking for AEC or Design & Manufacturing expert live conversations you will find something in our Autodesk... Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversations for April 2022

Our Autodesk Community Conversation schedule for April is up. Join us for some Revit Hints and Hacks with Donnia, Dynamo with Sol & Jacob, Civil3D & InfraWorks collaboration tips with Tony, Fusion 360 with Phil, or some AEC Ask Me Anything AEC Roadmap events. And much more! Register for free: http://autode.sk/CommunityConvos Read more →

Tune Your Autodesk Software and Graphics Card

A very common issue that impacts the stability of highly graphics and GPU intensive applications like Autodesk design software and even the stability of the OS. Many times the issue at the core of a crash can be the display drivers and graphics cards. This support article will help you tune your graphics card to get the most stable environment possible. Issue:How to configure Autodesk software to use the high-performance graphics card (GPU) on systems with dual video (integrated and... Read more →

2022 Autodesk Design & Manufacturing Showreel

Autodesk Design & Manufacturing customers push the boundaries of change and transform industry processes and procedures in exciting and inspiring ways. Our annual Product Design & Manufacturing showcase highlights their incredible work: https://autode.sk/3L80KOJ . Read more →

Autodesk 2022 Showreel Video

Each year Autodesk releases a series of industry short highlight videos called showreels and then one main compilation version. Here is the Autodesk 2022 Showreel of all the industries to watch, share, and enjoy seeing all the inspiring creations that our customers create using Autodesk technology and products. ”Don't Wait for Progress Make It” https://youtu.be/rAezZ0_tHvk Read more →