If you weren't able to enjoy beautiful London England and Autodesk University 2019 London last week, here is a a video from the general session. Lots of good information as well as entertaining making it a worthwhile watch and you also get to find out what is behind doors 1 & 2. You know you want to find out what is behind the doors. Watch the opening General Session from Autodesk University London 2019. With a focus on automation across... Continue reading

A User Interface (UI) can impact your use of a product and if done right can increase your productivity making it logical and intuitive and reduce steps or provide insight on where you are. The new preview for the Fusion 360 provides and checks all those boxes with a well needed update. In the past a software UI update might just the cheese or includes style changes to icons and causes a lot of re-learning by users, but in this... Continue reading

I took a road trip last week from Oregon to Utah to visit my kids and camping along the way. It was a good way to clear the head and also catch up with my kids. Here are a few photos of the beautiful and dramatically contrasting landscape in the western US. I camped at Clear Lake Oregon in Central Oregon where the water is of course crystal clear, but really cold due to being fed by a natural spring... Continue reading

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/conference/las-vegas/schedule Are you preparing to attend the biggest Autodesk event coming this November? Time management, mental prep, business cards and in some cases physical training is a good idea as AU is a massive event with so much going on. Look at Tuesday alone, it kicks off with the AU65K run which hundreds including our CEO Andrew Anagnost ran last year and still had time to grab food, change, and get to the classes and then was onstage for the... Continue reading

Are you a 3ds Max user, and want to know what is in the future and to be involved? While I am on a roadtrip this week, you can have a good read of what our 3ds Max team is looking at down the road. 3ds Max 2020.1 and Public Roadmap You can also apply to participate to test and provide active feedback on the future products like 3ds Max. We listen and need your input and feedback to be... Continue reading

What an amazing weekend of Portland Pride, with Autodesk as a sponsor again. We have a booth all weekend and in the parade Sunday. We had or Autodesk soapbox derby car for pride that was designed and built by employees and then will race at Portland Adult Soapbox Derby August 17th. Everyone loved climbing in the derby car for photos and also making bracelets and notebooks at our booth. Continue reading

Autodesk University London is this week and if you are attending or thinking of attending you need to know what is going on to plan to make the most of the action packed days and evening events. http://bit.ly/2XEalEh Autodesk University “AU” is the conference for those who design, create, and make the world around us. AU London 2019 is your chance to connect with the best in the business, share technical knowledge, solve unique business challenges, and gain a deeper... Continue reading

Autodesk is proud to sponsor Portland Pride for a third year. This is our second year walking in the parade and will be featuring our Pride Derby Cart made by our employees in 2019! We hope you will come see us this weekend in Portland Pride parade where we are in the ninth position, visit our booth and say “hi”, and see our Autodesk derby cart that will compete in the Portland Adult Soapbox races this August. We are Proud... Continue reading

In the just released 3ds Max 2020.1 update for subscription customers, in addition to fixes to reported issues we added the ability to tear off viewports to leverage multi-monitor setups, and a new keyboard shortcut manager. On top of this, we have made additional improvements to the chamfer modifier, and standardized double-click selection. Additionally, we’ve improved the out-of-the-box auto-complete experience in MaxScript. 3ds Max 2020.1 update is available via the Autodesk Desktop App and for download on your Autodesk Account.... Continue reading

A great story of smart young minds tackling a challenge put forth by NASA helped AI SpaceFactory Win NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge for additive constructed habitats. NASA awarded AI SpaceFactory $500,000 for the successful construction of a 15 foot Mars habitat with three windows named MARSHA. Continue reading

Autodesk Portland office took 5th place in the 200-499 staff category for the Bike More 2019 challenge for May in Portland Oregon. Most of us are still biking to work most of the time with all the great bike lanes, dedicated bike paths, awesome views and great weather. I logged 100 miles for the month of may on my bike mostly commuting to the office. Cumulative stats for the Bike More 2019 which as a challenge in the month of... Continue reading

Hoje estamos em festa! Celebramos os 25 anos de presença da Autodesk no Brasil! http://bit.ly/2WB5Wpa 25 year anniversary of Autodesk Brazil! I hope to once again visit the office and speak in Brazil as its been far too long. Obrigado -Shaan Continue reading

The free Autodesk TrueView is built on the same core code as AutoCAD and as such has 100% DWG viewing and plotting like AutoCAD. It also has some really nice features besides just viewing a DWG file and that is measuring, plotting with plot styles, and also a batch conversion ability to batch convert drawings to the latest format and even replace plotstyles in that process. I wouldn't highlight it as a viewer as there is the free and premium... Continue reading

Today, the awesome fi9ne folks at Unity announced the collaboration with Autodesk for a Revit importation product named Unity Reflect. Unity provides a platform for all sorts of immersive 3D possibilities in AR/VR and more that have bent my mind at times. Now with Unity Reflect you can import your Revit BIM 3D model in one click. Get a hands on look at Autodesk University London in just two weeks! https://unity.com/event/au2019 “Announcing Unity Reflect, a new product for architects, building... Continue reading

The potential speakers have worked hard this spring, the team and group have reviewed them, now its your time to vote for your favorites that you want to see at Autodesk University in Las Vegas this November. We have to reduce the 2228 class proposals down unless we want to extend AU 2019 to 24 hours a day or a 7 day event so now it is up to you to help us by voting on your favorites. Use the... Continue reading

Privacy is an important issue for all of us as consumers and Autodesk fully supports your privacy and data. Read more about our policy and why there needs to be rules covering privacy and data from Autodesk’s Pascal Di Fronzo - Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary. The U.S. Needs a National Privacy Law http://bit.ly/2QFDGMh “We are committed to protecting the privacy of the personal data our customers entrust to us and to using this... Continue reading

Here is a great article about thinking about things differently and how engineers can help create a better world and future. 3 Ways Heroic Civil Engineers Can Save the World Through Resilience Planning https://autode.sk/2EFfBAg Continue reading

There are some big changes coming in the United States to people flying UAS (drones) recreationally, especially in cities and controlled airspace. I am writing this blog post from an area of class c airspace in downtown Portland Oregon. It basically levels the field for recreational and commercial part 107 UAS operators. There were times where I as a commercial operators couldn't fly in a controlled airspace without 3 months of an airspace authorization and waiver requests or more recently... Continue reading

“At an event in Paris’ City Hall this week, Gustafson Porter + Bowman was named the winner of a competition to redevelop the Eiffel Tower’s “grand site”—an area which includes the Trocadéro Gardens and Champ de Mars, as well as the Tower and its esplanade. The announcement was made by Paris’ mayor, Anne Hidalgo, along with Jean-Louis Missika, and Jean-François Martins, Deputy Mayors of Paris.” “Autodesk worked closely with the teams over the last year to help them visualize their... Continue reading

Machine learning has been a growing in this ever growing world of growing data. It has been in your hands surfacing tips and reducing tasks on your phones, in your bank statements, everyone and now in construction. Autodesk has released a preview of Construction IQ after several years of research and testing to help customers identify risk, Construction IQ Preview available for Quality and Safety for customers using BIM 360 Field. Using machine learning can surface insight into your construction... Continue reading

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with a panel of Smithsonian employees of the Digitization Program Office and they let me know of an amazing reality capture project that went live just yesterday. It is stunning in detail and fascinating information. You can also download the 3D model data and then 3D print your own although at a smaller than life size. Tyrannosaurus rex This T. rex skeleton was unearthed in Montana beginning in 1988. It is posed over... Continue reading