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3D Printed Titanium Solid bike in Portland

The SOLID bike is now proudly on display in the city that inspired it, and in the office of the software used in the design, our Autodesk Portland office. SOLID bike: The first connected, 3D printed titanium bike by Ti... Read more →

Meet Project Discover for Dynamo

My colleague Kean Walmsley announced on his blog Through the Interface on the new Project Discover for Dynamo out of Autodesk Research and is ready to be tested. It is a tool that we used to perform generative design in... Read more →

Throwback Thursday 1975 Basic Drafting Rule 2 Don't Repeat Identical Details

This is from an old Ralph M. Parsons engineering and drafting manual from 1975. It is about drafting but many of the principles still apply to drawings from 3D models today. I will post more in the future. Enjoy! Read more →

Autodesk University London 2019 General Session Recording

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... Read more →

Change Fusion 360 User Interface for the Better

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... Read more →

Last week

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... Read more →

Get Ready for Autodesk University 2019 Las Vegas

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.... Read more →

3ds Max Public Roadmap

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... Read more →

Autodesk University London 2019 Overview

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... Read more →

Proud by Design in Portland

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... Read more →

Autodesk Portland Sponsoring Pride 2019 This weekend

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... Read more →

The 3ds Max Team Released 3ds Max 2020.1 Update Today

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,... Read more →

Got My Bags Packed for My Mars Condo!

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. Read more →

Portland Bike More Challenge 2019

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,... Read more →

Autodesk Brasil faz 25 anos!

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... Read more →

Free 100% DWG File Viewer that Includes Measure and Convert

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... Read more →

Realtime Revit BIM Models in Unity in Just One Click

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... Read more →