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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 intersting and the possibilities exciting as well as spooky is the ability to not only get really intersting returns to text qusastions but also write code including Autodesk product customization like ObjectARX, LiSP, Forge, or mel for Maya and Maxscript for 3ds Max. simply by asking the ChatGPT. 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 →