Between the Lines

Throwback Thursday - AutoCAD Helps View Solar Eclipses История по четвергам - AutoCAD для наблюдения за солнечным затмением

While those old 5.25 inch floppies may not be of much help these days other than memorabilia, the Autodesk Moscow office made good use of them as lenses to view a solar eclipse.а первый взгляд, сейчас трудно найти применение 5.25-дюймовым дискетам. Может только как экспонаты в музее! Но сотрудники московского офиса Autodesk нашли им применение для просмотра солнечного затмения. Read more →

Revit 2020.1 Is Released

Just in case you weren't aware, Revit 2020.1 has been released and the Revit Blog has all the details in great detail as usual. If you do MEP work in Revit, you MUST go get this. ”A new version of Revit in August? Now that we release features as soon as they are ready, subscribers don’t need to wait for the annual release to access the latest Revit. The product team is happy introduce this latest Revit point release, bringing... Read more →

16 Years of Between the Lines Blog

Two years ago on this day there was an solar eclipse, this year just me saying thank you sincerely for reading between the lines and Autodesk who gave me the freedom to speak freely with support and encouragement in speaking to our awesome customers. I started blogging 16 years ago this day after two Autodesk employees Eric Wright and Bill Johnson suggested it in response to me being the top answer poster in the Autodesk discussion groups and answering the... Read more →

Learn How XR May Impact Your Work in a Portland XR Workshop

My awesome Portland XR startup friends are running a very limited workshop next month. I believe XR (AR,MR, and VR) will be a common platform for delivering information, experiences and visualizations in the future. This 2 1/2 hour workshop and networking event will be held on Thursday September 26th at 52 Limited in NE Portland. This is an interactive workshop that gives attendees a clear understanding of how XR may impact your work. XR Foundations for Business Presented by The... Read more →

Behind the FX - Bifrost Aero Solver Masterclass

If you love to learn more about why FX work and are so awesome and not scared of math and complex algorithms? If you didn't run away and are curious then I have an awesome article for you on the Area by Autodesk Senior Principal Research Scientist Robert Bridson on the math behind the Bifrost Aero Solver including the Improved Time Integration. If you are a Maya user and have not yet tried the new Bifrost…oooooh prepare to get your... Read more →

Hard to Believe but Between the Lines Blog Turns Sweet 16 Tomorrow

Sixteen years ago tomorrow I started this blog as a fun side project after a couple Autodesk employees Bill Johnson and Eric Wright approached me about this new thing called Blogs and I have been throwing words and photos up here ever since. Its amazing since my daughter just turned 18 and this blog started when she was barely two years old. I need to think about what I'm going to say on the Sweet Sixteen anniversary of a blog... Read more →

Portland Autodesk Employee Mass Timber Field Trip

Almost Two weeks ago I arranged a special tour for Autodesk Portland employees with two of our customers a field trip of a mass timber building designed by Skylab Architecture constructed by Anderson Construction and located a block from our Autodesk Portland office. Following the building tour, we loaded up on a shuttle and went to Northwest Portland for a tour of CutMyTimber’s NW Portland shop with Hundegger Speed-Cut SC-1, Hundegger K2, and Kuka automation which was used in making... Read more →

Mondays

Realizing how hard work life is when my laptop hardware fails and I'm down to using an external keyboard on a laptop and it fails to boot at times. Our Desktop Services is on this to get me a new working laptop. via GIPHY At least I have two sweet hairy 4 legged colleagues in the Autodesk Portland office today that make everyone all better on this Monday. Daphne and Cali Read more →

Its Back to School Time

Here in the US many children are getting ready for the school season to begin or starting imminently. In addition to all the supplies like paper, pens, glue, laptops, and backpacks we have one more thing that students and their teachers can benefit from for free. It is Instructables and their new Teachers Notes feature to share lessons on hands on topics. Even beyond the new Teacher Notes feature Instructables is an absolutely invaluable resource for budding young makers, creatives,... Read more →

Weekend Adventure Rewind – Timberline to Paradise Park on Mt Hood

This weekend I did some solo adventure hiking up on beautiful and iconic Mount Hood, an extinct volcano with an elevation of 11,161 feet. My route in the 58 degree cloud covered weather was from Timberline Lodge to Paradise Park Loop and then the Paradise Park Loop at 14.5 miles and 5900 feet elevation climb. I got rained on but mostly covered in clouds and cool temperatures, but still amazing and without the sun and heat it limited the sunburn... Read more →

Autodesk University 2019 Registration Just Opened

Get in on the classes and presentations you want before the seats fill up. Start planning your AU schedule and be sure to consider joining hundreds of us Tuesday morning at 6am including Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost for the annual AU 5K run walk crawl and networking while getting some fresh non casino air. For those that really like a good fun run, try the Rock n Roll Marathon ran in the past the Sunday before AU. https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/conference/las-vegas/overview Check out... Read more →

Autodesk Forge Accelerator in NYC September 9-13

A Forge Accelerator is an opportunity for cloud developers to spend one week with the Forge team, with one-on-one help building applications. Apply to attend the #Accelerator in NYC from September 9-13: https://autode.sk/2GCGhCz Jim Quanci Senior Director, Autodesk Developer Network announced today that this event will be held at the big New York City Amazon AWS offices making room for more participants. From Twitter https://twitter.com/jimquanci ”Just teamed up with @awscloud- to hold the Autodesk Forge Accelerator in their large NYC... Read more →