This is huge news for those in the design and manufacturing world as you can now do your industrial and mechanical design but with this months update you get professional electronics design. This makes Fusion 360 an end to end design tool for designing and manufacturing products. Read more →
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One of my favorite events filled with innovative thinking and ideas combined with collaborative fun and technology are the AEC Hackathons held around the world. The next big AEC Hackathon is being held next month in one of my favorite cities in the world, Copenhagen Denmark. ] Feb 21 2020 18:00 - Feb 23 2020 20:00 In a nutshell, the hackathon starts with a group of people from industry, academia, tech, architects, and programmers that for the most part don't... Read more →
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This past November I gave a tour to a team from the local Portland magazine Portland Monthly. The current January 2020 issue has Autodesk featured as one of the best Portland offices to work in.We moved into this renovated 1913 building almost two years ago, and absolutely love it. Autodesk has had a office in the Portland area for over 25 years and this is where Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, Autodesk Inventor, and Fusion 360 products were born. Now the office... Read more →
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If you weren't able to attend Autodesk University 2019 in Las Vegas last month or missed a class in your busy schedule here is an amazing resource and opportunity. There are over 700 hours of recorded AU 2019 sessions are now online for free, from labs and keynotes to instructional demos and panels. The learning is just getting started. https://autode.sk/38yDkiK Read more →
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The opportunity for Better starts with learning from the best sessions at the recent Autodesk University 2019. The video recordings, handouts, slides and more are now available. Just sign in and let the learning begin. View 2019 Sessions Read more →
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There are currently 70+ groups around the World and growing of thousands of Autodesk product and technology users just like you. Go have a look and find your group or enter your existing group (add a group) to the growing list. Local groups are an invaluable resource and network as I remember running the Portland Autodesk Users Group years and years ago and many awesome local people looking to share ways of using the software and back then it was... Read more →
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We are now less than four weeks from Autodesk University 2019! Autodesk University is the premier Autodesk customer event held yearly where several thousand creative design and visualization experts descend on Las Vegas. They arrive wide eyed, craving knowledge from the best in the industry. They leave tired and full of valuable knowledge to make them more productive back at work. After attending every Las Vegas based Autodesk University, I have compiled and published this annual long list of tips... Read more →
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Immersive computing is revolutionizing the world around us. What started as a spark of imagination decades ago has ignited an inferno of technology-driven creative opportunity today. Nowhere is this more apparent than the automotive industry, where augmented reality and virtual reality technology (AR/VR) continues to deepen and expand its impact on the creative design process.So it is my absolute pleasure to announce the availability of Alias Create VR – a VR based conceptual design toolset as part of the Alias... Read more →
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I hope if you are in the Portland Oregon area, that you plan to attend this second Media and Entertainment Showcase. The event is free with some food and refreshments with the highlight being amazing local speakers who use Autodesk Media and Entertainment products like 3ds Max and Maya. See how people are using Autodesk products to create amazing VFX and animations and how technology can be used in incredible ways to unleash creativity and save time. You will also... Read more →
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Check out the free Revit courses created in partnership with expert trainer and author Paul Aubin. Learn how to navigate the Revit interface and your model, how to layout the building plan, add and customize walls, floors, roofs, add construction details & much more. https://autode.sk/2kEHq4Y ”Learn the basics of what you need to know to navigate the software efficiently.” Read more →
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If you have questions about Autodesk’s AEC products and AutoCAD, today is your day with the AEC Answer Day event going on. How The Day will work in the ENGLISH Community: Our team of experts will be in the following Community categories from September 24th, 2019 from 6:00am to 2:00am on September 25th PST ready to answer your questions. Just pick your product category, select a forum and click the “Create a New Post” button to ask your question. AutoCAD... Read more →
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Every year at AU we invite active bloggers, social media participants and other “friends” to join us for a little food and drink at AU – a chance for us to meet some of these people face to face and to thank them for their (typically unpaid) efforts around Autodesk products. Read more →
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Plan to attend this second Media and Entertainment Showcase. The non-sales event is free with some food and refreshments with the highlight being amazing local speakers who use Autodesk Media and Entertainment products like 3ds Max and Maya. See how people are using Autodesk products to create amazing VFX and animations and how technology can be used in incredible ways to unleash creativity and save time. You will also network with other local Portland people in media and entertainment. Last... Read more →
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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 →
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This school year, use our new Tinkercad Classroom feature to get your students up and designing in under a minute. Learn more on the Tinkercad blog. https://blog.tinkercad.com/2019/08/05/introducing-tinkercad-classroom/ “Teachers, we heard you needed a faster way to get your students started in Tinkercad. For this new this school year, we’ve simplified the process of getting students up and running with a new feature we call Tinkercad Classroom. Now, students can start designing the moment class starts.” Read more →
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Autodesk Identity Services will move to TLS 1.2 on August 3, 2019. That means you need to update today to avoid interruptions. To find out if you need to update your software, check the list of affected product versions by copying and pasting this link into your browser : http://www.autodesk.com/tls-upgrade-enu “Issue:Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0/1.1 is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack that can compromise data exchanges. This applies to single-user subscribers using the software versions listed below; customers using software... Read more →
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There is a lot going on at SIGGRAPH this week, but two items were big for Autodesk with the release of Bifrost for Maya and then the Indie versions of 3ds Max and Maya. Read more →
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Autodesk Technology Center Workshop Leadership Role Exciting shop leadership role in Autodesk’s Technology Center in San Francisco, formerly known as the Pier 9 Workshop. The 35,000 sq./ft. waterfront facility houses workshops for precision machining, additive manufacturing, large format 5-axis milling, robotics, electronics, laser and waterjet cutting. These workshops support a resident community from across industry in an open innovation environment. I think of this much like being given the keys to an amazing chocolate factory by Willy Wonka. For more... Read more →
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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 us this weekend in Portland Pride parade where we are in the ninth position, visit our booth and say “hi”, and see our Autodesk derby cart that will compete in the Portland Adult Soapbox races this August. We are Proud... Read more →
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Autodesk is hosting an immersive event in Toronto to help students and professionals acquire expertise in state-of-the-art AI methods and techniques. autode.sk/2PUKipw Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Engineering Summer School 2019, hosted by Autodesk, is a two-week event that brings together a talented group of engineering graduate students and industry professionals to acquire expertise in state-of-the-art AI methods and techniques, with the focus on deep learning and reinforcement learning. While there has been a significant resurgence of AI technologies, other scientific... Read more →
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Got stumped using Fusion 360? Don't worry, you're not alone. Lucky you, Paul Sohi, our Fusion 360 Evangelist extraordinaire / chump will be in our Autodesk Portland office, so we've decided to host a Fusion 360 meet-up and put him on the spot to answer you questions. Meet fellow users in our Portland community, as well as the folks behind the software. Paul may even show off some of his own workflow tips for making the most of Fusion 360!... Read more →
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Starting tomorrow, another (41st actually) AEC Hackathon will be held this time in beautiful Seattle Washington and I will be participating. The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. It has quickly become a community of innovators that include all elements of the built environment, not just AEC all around the world. Please join all of us... Read more →
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In addition to Revit 2020 being released, Civil 3D 2020 and InfraWorks 2020 are now released. Check out what has been enhanced. Civil 3D brings improved performance and scalability, and design automation with Dynamo for Civil 3D. New InfraWorks enhances BIM and GIS integration. https://autode.sk/2UqmkI6 Read more →
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Would you like to intern for the summer at our cool Autodesk Portland office working on a real software project? The internship application was just posted by the Synthesis team for all local FRC and FTC team members. Here was our 2018 High School Interns: Calling all FRC and FTC students! The 2019 Synthesis Summer Internship applications are now open. Be sure to apply before midnight of April 30th! http://synthesis.autodesk.com/internship.html Internship Details When: 10 weeks (end of June through August)... Read more →
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This is a great Autodesk intern position (for an amazing human) in our Boston BUILD Space. Intern: Robotics in Construction Location: Boston, MA -United States Job ID: 19WD31487 Position Overview Autodesk seeks an experienced intern to work with our Autodesk Technology Center team in the BUILD Space to envision and demonstrate novel applications for robotic fabrication in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. The Autodesk Technology Center in Boston is a research and development workspace where Autodesk invites startups,... Read more →
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