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Throwback Thursday - The Very First AutoCAD Logo from 1982

Free Autodesk Software for Students and Educators

It is that time of the year when many are returning to school whether online or in–person, and several of those students and faculty will need or want Autodesk software. Good news, Autodesk provides our software to students and educators... Read more →

Autodesk Vision Series 2020

If you are in the film, tv, 3D animation, or the design visualization world using products like Maya and 3ds Max, then you should check out the free sessions and consider attending this online event in September. ”3 days of... Read more →

Happy 17th Birthday to Between the Lines Blog

17! Seventeen years ago 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... Read more →

Zoom Backgrounds from Autodesk Construction

Are you one of the many out there living in Zoom meetings . why not spice up your Zoom backgrounds for some change, and some fun. The Autodesk Construction Cloud team posted some nice backgrounds including my favorite... Read more →

Inside The Factory With People that Make Revit – Performance Matters

I always enjoy seeing who are working hard behind the scenes of most anything I use or admire, and that goes for Autodesk product teams as well. In this first Inside the Factory episode posted to the Revit Blog Inside... Read more →

Saturday Cooling Off

I got away on Saturday this past weekend escape my house, 104 degree weather in Portland (rare we get that hot) and go hiking on the Oregon Coast which was also unseasonably warm but was only 82 degrees and the... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – Mining Data from Old AutoCAD Floppies

If you read the word “Floppies” and scratched your head, you might be less than 30 years old and never seen what we had to work with to store data and install products back in the early days. There were... Read more →

Autodesk Technology Centers Request for Proposal - Applications for Mixed Reality Using HoloLens 2

The Autodesk Technology Centers are working with the Microsoft Mixed Reality team to provide HoloLens 2 headsets for teams developing mixed reality (XR) solutions that impact the future of Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Manufacturing. Accepted teams from all over the... Read more →

Congratulations to AEC Hackathon Teams

Recently, over the course of two weeks there has been the AEC hackathon that for the first time after over AEC industry hackathon just had to resort to go in digital since we cant meet in person safely. There were... Read more →