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Dynamo Office Hours: Getting Civil with Dynamo
Thursday 03 March
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET (1 hour)
Presented by Sol Amour and Jacob Small
Come join Sol and Jacob as we dive into the Dynamo for Civil 3D connection; exploring how this relationship is a two way street, the differences in UI that support a smooth DynamoCivil experience, dive into the Library and additional nodes that Civil 3D brings to the table, and then traverse how to get data into Dynamo from Civil 3D, and push data back into Civil 3D from Dynamo.
AutoCAD Electrical Office Hours
Thursday 10 March
8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour)
Presented by Tiffany Bachmeier and Tifani Weisbrod
If you have questions about ACADE, want to learn new tips and tricks, or are curious about what else you can do, join experts Tiffany and Tiffani for this month's office hour.
Autodesk Inventor: What do you want to know about Inventor
Wednesday 16 March
8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour)
Presented by Johnson Shiue
Live discussion, Q&A about Inventor with Autodesk Inventor expert Johnson Shiue.
Dynamo Office Hours: Hosts of the Dynamo Party
Thursday 17 March
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET (1 hour)
Presented by Sol Amour and Jacob Small
Come join Sol and Jacob as we dive into the Dynamo for FormIt/Alias/Robot Structural Analysis and Advance Steel connections; exploring how their relationships are a two way street, the differences in UI that support a smooth host experience, dive into the Library and additional nodes that these hosts bring to the table, and then traverse how to get data into Dynamo from these hosts, and push data back to these hosts from Dynamo.
Fusion 360 Ask Me Anything: Electronics Design
Wednesday 23 March
8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour)
Presented by Richard Hammerl
Join Richard Hammerl, a Fusion 360 Community Specialist in Electronics
to ask questions on Electronics in Fusion 360 as well as share helpful tips.
Revit Hints & Hacks – Schedule Families with Donnia Tabor-Hanson
Thursday 24 March
8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour)
Presented by Donnia Tabor-Hanson
Tips & Tricks are too blasé for me that is why we do Hints & Hacks. This will be about making schedules work for the project. We will discuss working verses print schedules. Get Filters to help get things in or out of schedules. How about color coding a cell if there might be missing information? Use schedules for making notes that stay aligned or need to be broken into sections. Track what views are on sheets, what their view template is and how it is named? Sheets list with parameters to put them in an order not based on sheet number can be useful and so can grouping them by type.
Fusion 360 Ask Me Anything
Wednesday 30 March
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET (1 hour)
Presented by Phil Eichmiller
Bring your questions on Fusion 360 to Phil Eichmiller. This will be a live question and answer session about Fusion 360 use and workflows.
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I hope you are either planning to attend at the National Air and Space Museum or watch the live stream of the #ProjectEgress build with Adam Savage.
Read more here https://airandspace.si.edu/events/project-egress-build and https://www.tested.com/science/space/880604-announcing-project-egress-project-national-air-and-space-museum/
This event should be live streamed tomorrow by the Smithsonian and/or Tested.com.
Jen Schachter and Andrew Barth worked into the evening to get as prepared as they can get for this complicated build of many parts some 3D printed, some machined, and some sourced.
Autodesk’s employees Jonathan Odom and Joe Jastreboski fabricated the ‘plunger’ part of the hatch at Autodesk’s Technology Center in San Francisco. Using high resolution 3D scans of the hatch captured inside the National Air and Space Museum, engineering student Andrew Barth was able to reverse engineer and model the functioning components that make up the various intricate mechanics of the hatch using Autodesk Fusion 360 (free for students). Andrew Barth used data from a 3D LiDAR scan done a few years ago by Autodesk and the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office.
Its going to be an action packed build of hundreds of parts requiring precision which will make for creative solutions on the fly.
Want to build your own hatch? Click to view a 3D model of the Apollo 11 Command Module Hatch and make your own! autode.sk/Apollo11
I hope to see you at the event tomorrow morning in person or in the livestream.
Update 3:59am PST 6:59am EST (need coffee so bad):
The #Apollo50 #ProjectEgress Build at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will be streamed live in just over 4 hours at 11am EST at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/8j3ZHU7kdge/pop-out Join Adam Savage, Jen Schachter, and Andrew Barth as they build the hatch live. This is going to be fun!
The Apollo 11 Command module was captured in 3D a couple years ago by Autodesk and the Smithsonian Digitization Project Office. Recently the hatch was reverse engineered from the scan data in a detailed Autodesk Fusion 360 3D model.
-Shaan
Autodesk has provided space and resources to a local Portland startup incubator organization named PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) to run a startup incubator in our Portland office named PIE Shop.
PIE has mentors in residence as well as visiting and staff on site to help local early stage startups succeed. Autodesk employees love the interaction with the startups and assisting where needed such as design software (for free of course). I personally share a popular believe that any large company can learn from lean startups as well startups learn from established companies so it is a win win. Among the startups are amazing local organizations like PDX Women in Tech. This is such a innovative and inspiring community and we are so grateful to have them in our building. See the PIE startups on PIE Demo Day 2019, Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 2:00 PM.
Here is a list of some of the full and part time inspiring mentors and residents of PIE Shop:
Offers a push button 3D printing solution for the healthcare industry
Provides insights on the comfort and accessibility of public places for plus-size people
Black Founders Matter Fund An early stage venture capital fund focused on supporting black entrepreneurs
Uses a variety of connected devices and other tools to gather data from physical environments to identify efficiencies and improve usability for everyone.
Empowers Latinas to live healthier lives
One of the most popular and well attended Design Weeks in the world is working to add an additional 51 weeks to its schedule, every year
Developing the AdaptiveSpine™, a spinal exoskeleton and supportive device that transfers weight and stress to the hips.
(Mentors in Residence)
Features the team who built the Adidas connected ball reimagined as a product consultancy
Enables the commercial design community to find materials and solutions for projects that match their values
A digital marketplace that enables consumers to buy groceries online, directly from hundreds of farmers and producers
Nexgarden
Using sustainable design innovation and unique technology strategies, we’ve changed the rules of high-efficiency vertical farming.
Crafts the systems your brand needs
Designing a reusable and more efficient rocket to make commercial space more accessible
PDX Women in Tech (Mentors in Residence)
Strengthening the Portland women in tech community by offering educational programs, partnerships, mentorships, resources and opportunities
Portland Innovation Quadrant
Public-private partnership among entities large and small designed to foster innovation and collaboration in Portland’s urban core
Helps companies create resilient cultures that scale
Created a unique heating element that turns any pipe into a vaporizer by toasting the product instead of burning it
A news outlet designed provides news and insights designed specifically for the Spanish speaking community
Enables consumers to shop with brands that adhere to the values they cherish
A social network connecting student athletes to community
Hosts the largest database of alternative workspaces for remote professionals and travelers around the world
I'm in the final edit stage of a video of interviews of some fellow Autodesk Portland office employees for something fun and unique. When we say Make Anything as a tagline of Autodesk, we embody that with our employees. We moved into this renovated Portland building downtown last April, and some employees realized we needed something fun and unique in our game room area. It was an organic grassroots volunteer project, but a group of employees decided “hey, lets make our own arcade console.” They used Autodesk products including generative design for the design, 3D printed some parts, programmed an Arduino, installed some LED lights, painted, and then using one employees home shop, they built an amazing arcade game that many employees and visitors love to play in the office. It is a remarkable story of create employees taking the “Make Anything” quite literally and made an arcade.
Stay tuned for this story and video of this project and the back story from the employees. Make Anything!
I have another fun project with our Portland office that I could use some help on. Do you live in the Portland region, and have a pet goat we could pamper for an afternoon and place a GoPro camera on it? email me
Keep Portland Weird
-Shaan