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Throwback Thursday – Early Revit CD-ROMs

Here are the early Revit release packages in the historical collection that I maintain from 2000 and 2001. Revit 1.0, Revit 1.01, Revit 2, Revit 2.01, Revit 2.1, Revit 2.11, Revit 3, Revit 3.1, Revit 3.11, Revit 4 Read more →

AEC Excellence Awards 2020 Winners

Congratulations to all of the inspiring winning projects, and all of those companies and projects that were nominated. AEC Excellence Awards 2020 Winners: Reimagination During Extraordinary Times INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR Wajdi Mereb, BIM Manager, RTA, United Arab Emirates Infrastructure Design – Small Project (less than $100 Million) Winning project: Chandrawal Water Supply Project – 477 MLD Advanced Water Treatment Plant RWS & UWWM-EDRC, WWW SBG, WET-IC, L&T Construction, India Infrastructure Design – Medium Project ($100 Million – $500 Million) Winning project: Route... Read more →

Autodesk 2020 Showreel Videos

Every year Autodesk produces videos to showcase our products and most importantly what our customers produce using our products. The showreel videos are produced to feature our major industries and also one main Autodesk themed one featuring a video combined with a music background in a short format, usually around 2 minutes. These showreels are a great way to see what Autodesk customers produce around the world. Here are the Autodesk 2020 Showreels: Autodesk Official Show Reel 2020 Annual showcase... Read more →

AEC Hackathon Online 2.0 – Attend the Opening and Lightning Rounds

I hope you will join me and the many others attending the kick off of the AEC Hackathon Online 2.0 Friday October 9th. It is online and open to people around the globe. Come see what it is all about, or jump in and get involved in and pitch an idea in the lightening round or join a team that forms around an idea – you may change the AEC Industry. AEC Hackathon Online 2.0 Opening & Lightning Round Presentations... Read more →

Revit 2020 - People Flow Toolkit

On Friday, Autodesk released the People Flow Toolkit, an add-in that helps you automate path of travel analysis with tools for social distancing. “The People Flow Toolkit extends Revit’s Path of Travel toolset to help you understand how people will move through your design. The People Flow Toolkit is available as an add-on with Revit versions starting at 2020.2. With the toolkit, building designers can automate, visualize, and analyze the routes within a model to understand the impacts of physical... Read more →

From Design Automation to Generative Design in AEC

Excellent article on Generative Design in AEC with an associated companion class from Autodesk University 2019 by Dieter Vermeulen Technical Specialist AEC Autodesk. “In the AEC industry, we're challenged to consider many design options, to find the fittest solution in the shortest time, and to be leaders in economic and sustainable designs. In this article, you’ll discover how to generate better design outcomes using computational and generative design techniques. You’ll get an overview of how ‘traditional" design improves with design... Read more →

People Mobility and Design Simulations

LIVE WEBINAR: Tuesday September 22 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET Return to Workplace: People Mobility and Design Simulations Get people moving with confidence. Health recommendations are changing the way people commute to work and move from their cars to their desks as they return to the workplace. Mobility Simulation in InfraWorks models people movement, bringing data-driven insight to physical-distancing needs and efficiency of travel. In this session, you’ll hear from Autodesk’s Technical Specialists as they explore tools that help... Read more →

Opensource CivilConnection and CivilPython

Autodesk’s Global Delivery Consulting (GCD) employees create innovate and impactful tools and solutions for our customers. Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery employees – Paolo Serra, Ian McGregor and Mohamed Ahmed – turned a manual and error-prone process for transferring data from Civil 3D to Revit into an efficient and scalable solution that enabled real-time information exchange using Dynamo. Over the course of several years, the solution evolved into a popular product feature and eventually moved to open source. CivilConnection and CivilPython... Read more →

AEC Hackathon Online v2 Join Me!

I hope you will again join the AEC Hackathon organized by an independent group of AEC technology and built environment superheroes.These events are normally held in person, but with the current COVID-19 they pivoted this summer with the first online version being a hit in light of all the quirks and challenges online live sessions and collaboration can bring they pulled it off. I really enjoyed being mentor and speaking with some of the teams. The speaker sessions were very... Read more →

Ask Revit Experts Anything this Thursday

Coming this Thursday is an Ask Me Anything session where you bring the questions and Sasha Crotty, Harlan Brumm, and Aaron Vorwerk deliver the answers. An AMA with the product people that make Revit. Join Autodesk product experts Sasha Crotty, Harlan Brumm, and Aaron Vorwerk as they take questions from you and the community about what goes on Inside the Factory. What happens to error reports? When will Revit have slanted walls? Ask Me Anything “AMA” Thursday: 12pm EST: https://youtu.be/hoinpQq1Gbo... Read more →

Customer Success Hub – Learn Valuable Autodesk Product Skills for Free

Visit our newly redesigned Customer Success Hub, which includes free connected learning content to get you started on new learning paths: bit.ly/33wteis 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 many teams from around the world competing in this global event and many presentations over the course of the two weeks with the final presentations and and the awards held on July 26th. It has been an absolute honor to... Read more →

Design & Construction for Mass Timber Event

Panel Discussion & Conversation on Thursday, August 13th, at 3:00 p.m. EST Recent trends in timber construction allow the world to imagine buildings as carbon sinks. Driven by this potential and other construction benefits, the AEC industry is evolving what it means to build with wood. Outsights will join together industry panelists to discuss how timber construction is re-shaping the design process towards an early convergence of trades and how this convergence can accelerate innovation across industries. Leading to the... Read more →

Prefabrication and Industrialized Construction Methods in MEP

Amy Marks, Head of Industrialized Construction Strategy & Evangelism, Autodesk wrote a great article discussing MEP subcontractors role in Industrialized Construction methods. “Subcontractors' investment and experience in prefabrication is driving the industrialized construction ecosystem There is growing recognition today that prefabrication represents an opportunity to transform the construction industry. By moving from onsite construction to industrialized construction, projects can benefit from improved safety, productivity and predictability. When we picture prefabrication in action, we often visualize whole modules of apartments or... Read more →

Using Generative design in Revit to Evaluate Social Distancing

In this day faced with the COVID-19 virus, architects and building owners have had to re-evaluate social distance in the programming of their building spaces. With Revit's latest release 2021 you get generative design to help accomplish this challenging task efficiently and fast. Read more and see the sample data sets in the Revit blog article. New studies for Generative Design in Revit offer approaches to social distancing ”Autodesk® Revit® 2021 debuted the ability to create generative design studies directly... Read more →

AEC Community Resource Center

Stay connected with community meetup opportunities, trainings, and more at the Autodesk AEC Community Resource Center: autode.sk/38GuzDI Read more →

Autodesk COVID 19 Resources and Projects

Many of of our jobs and industries are changing due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, with many looking for resources and information on how to change quickly, and safely. Autodesk has created a resource center to support you with details on special programs, remote working assistance, learning, industry resources and Autodesk Foundation information. Autodesk COVID-19 Resource Center If you are in the AEC industry, I would strongly encourage you to look at the Return to Workplace information and resources. https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/aec-return-to-workplace... Read more →

New Business Models and Business Model Transformation in Construction 4.0

I found this article from Olivier Lepinoy of Autodesk today on the Autodesk Construction Blog, and really enjoyed the points Olivier makes about how and why the time is now to change how we do things in AEC Construction. It may be the best 18 minutes you spend today if you are in he AEC industry and want to think ahead to transform your business, and how we build. ❌ Get ready. Forget your ordinary perceptions and beliefs, change your... Read more →

3D Printing Needs Brave New Building Codes

“Building codes have a storied history and largely have been established only after tragic events such as the Great Fire of London, which destroyed swaths of the city in 1666. Since then, codes have been enacted to make buildings more fire resistant, for example, or to increase public safety in dense urban areas (something especially relevant in this challenging time of COVID-19). In the United States, the first national building code was established in 1915, and a winding path of... Read more →

Global Architecture and Interior Design Student Competition

My local Portland VR collaboration friends over the The Wild are hosting the first annual Global Architecture and Interior Design Student Competition at the VR/AR Global Online Summit. Six student finalists will be selected to share their original 3D models in a live-streamed competition in virtual reality. Applications are due May 20th and the jury includes thought leaders Amy Peck (HTC Vive, EndeavorVR) and Aubrey Tucker (ETRO Construction). The design challenge: Design a space that encourages digital socialization or innovative... Read more →

Forge Partner Talks - Digital Twins

If “Digital Twin” was in your Technology Term BINGO card – this is your lucky day! Digital Twins were one of the top ten tech trends of 2019, according to Gartner and Deloitte. Learn about some of Autodesk’s Forge partners and their solutions around Digital Twin and understand the importance of this to the AEC industry and building owners and see how Forge was a great platform for their solutions. https://youtu.be/JJ64DKsX9v8 Forge Partner Talks web series Tune in every Wednesday... Read more →

COVID-19 Design Challenges – Call To Action

My longtime friend and Autodesk colleague Kean Walmsley and I have been talking about ways Autodesk technology might assist our customers, and even us at Autodesk in these changing times or the “new normal”. How might we evaluate social distancing, points where people could congregate or HVAC flows all based on best health and safety practices being publicly discussed in this potential new normal environment when many self isolated communities slowly phase back in public settings and buildings. I would... Read more →

Enter the AEC Excellence Awards 2020

Do you have an outstanding architecture, engineering, or construction project that deserves recognition? Showcase it to the world in the AEC Excellence Awards 2020. Enter now: autode.sk/34DBTOC Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your outstanding design and construction projects. The call for entries opens on April 15, 2020. Deadline for submission is June 10, 2020. https://youtu.be/LSC8yxbvJVQ Read more →

Setup BIM 360 Projects Programmatically – Open Source Release

There is a new Open Source Tool from our Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery to address a common request from our customers requiring a way to automate setting up BIM 360 environment users and projects. The BIM 360 project setup tool sample was first created by Oliver Scharpf from our Global Consulting Delivery team to solve this need. The tool was released by Autodesk to Open Source for everyone to use. Use this command line tool to setup BIM 360 projects,... Read more →

Revit 2021 - What's New

If you use Revit or considered it for your architectural design & BIM projects, you will be interested in the new release that dropped today. Long time user request of Slanted Walls generative design included with Dynamo 2.5 High fidelity PDF MEP enhancements New Europe data center And much much more Read and Watch all about Revit 2021 on the Revit Blog Students and Faculty also get most of our Autodesk products including Revit for 3 years free at https://education.autodesk.com/ Read more →