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4 Easy Tips To Save Time and Work More Efficiently in AutoCAD

Today is a guest post by Brandon of CADintensions with some great AutoCAD Tips to make you more efficient. You can follow Brandon on Twitter at @cadintentions and visit his blog http://cadintentions.com/ for many more great tips like these. If you would like to guest author a blog post on Autodesk product tips and tricks email me. Thank you, Brandon! -Shaan 4 Easy Tips To Save Time and Work More Efficiently in AutoCAD 1. Setup and Use a Drawing Template:... 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 →

Content Creators Can Collaborate in Real-Time Using the NVIDIA Omniverse Platform

Autodesk’s Christopher Young, VP Autodesk Entertainment Creation Products announced: ”To allow customers to create without limits, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Inventor & Revit are integrated in the platform along with USD open source format.” NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Open Beta, Letting Designers Collaborate in Real Time — from Home or Around the World bit.ly/2F9DNy5 ”Photorealistic, 3D Simulation and Collaboration Platform Open Beta Follows Early Access Program with Ericsson, Foster + Partners, Lucasfilm, 40+ Others GTC – Tens of millions of designers,... Read more →

Autodesk Forge Design Automation Tutorial

Have you ever wanted to automate AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, 3ds Max tasks in a nearly headless way using the power of the cloud and some limited code calling APIs? Design Automation is the critical secret method. The Design Automation API allows you to access the automation capabilities of Autodesk’s core products as cloud services. Almost any task you can automate on your desktop application can now be automated at scale using the Design Automation API. A common and extremely popular... 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 →

Teaching Kids with Tinkercad including Free Tinkercad Lesson Plans

Attention teachers, join a free webinar on Thursday October 1st at 4:00 PM PT to learn how to get set up and get started using Tinkercad for distance learning. “We are excited to announce a series of free webinars called Teaching with Tinkercad that will run over the next few months. This series was designed to help you successfully integrate Tinkercad into your class and utilize the great resources we have available to help make learning STEM even more fun.”... 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 →

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 a free one-year educational access to Autodesk products and services, renewable as long as you remain eligible. There are other benefits such as some curriculum, certifications, cloud storage, and some cloud credits. Autodesk is committed to equipping you with tools... 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 the Factory, it is of candid conversation that focuses on Performance with Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, and Aaron Vorwerk. Harlan, Sasha, and Aaron are working hard to continually improve the products Revit customers use day in and day out to... 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 →

AutoCAD Web App Program - Free For a Limited Time

Due to the ongoing need and importance for remote work, and in recognition of the ongoing challenges our customers continue to face, we are launching a new program called the Web App Program. Autodesk is offering the new Web App Program beginning July 1, 2020. This program enables anyone to access all the tools and commands of the AutoCAD web app from any computer for free, including free for commercial use, for an extended period. How do I access the... 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 →

Autodesk Help Today and Every Tuesday for Autodesk Office Hours

Today!! Ask our Autodesk Experts about working remotely and collaboration with our products during Community Office Hours, every Tuesday, learn more: https://autode.sk/2R5eSOY Read more →

Autodesk Customer Success Learning Hub

With the new Customer Success Learning Hub you can learn best practices and key workflows in only 15 minutes a day, and for free. Have a look at what is there and how you might improve your skills or those of your colleagues and partners. The format and design of the learning paths are for professionals and to fit learning in their busy schedules and go beyond basics with Autodesk design tools they have access to. 6 disciplines to choose... Read more →

Fusion 360 Extended Access Program

Autodesk has recently announced a special program for Fusion 360 in the Extended Access Program which gives free commercial access to Fusion 360 until June 30, 2020. Find out more on the free Extended Access Program: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/extended-access-program Read more →

Requesting a Home Use License for Remote Work

As part of our ongoing effort to assist our customers who are now working remotely, we sent an email communication on Tuesday, March 31 to customers who rely on network servers for software access to remind them of our Home Use license policy. A Home Use License allows you to use your software from home as long as your subscription or maintenance plan is active, and until they return to the workplace. For subscriptions with single-user access (named user) Install... 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 →

Making your voice heard as an Autodesk Inventor User

If you are a user of Autodesk Inventor, the Autodesk Inventor Team wants to hear from you in many ways as well provide some information on what their plans are in future releases of the product. Inventor Team member Loren Welch Sr Product Manager for the Inventor product line at Autodesk wrote a nice blog post on all the ways you can get your feedback to the product team and participate with others on future Inventor needs. There is also... 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 →

Opportunity to Ask Autodesk Experts - Every Tuesday

Ask Autodesk Experts about working remotely and collaboration with our products during Community Office Hours, every Tuesday! Learn more about Autodesk Office Hours: autode.sk/2R5eSOY Read more →

What's New in 3DS Max 2021

Autodesk 3DS Max 2021 is now released, see what's new. Bake to Texture Installer Scripting with Python 3 Arnold as the Default Renderer Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Improved Viewport Quality & Settings OSL Shaders File I/O Chamfer improvements Weighted Normals Modifier SketchUp Import Substance Update ProSound Improved audio support FBX Improvements 3rd Party Developer Tools Read the details and roadmap. http://makeanything.autodesk.com/3dsmax http://cganimator.com/unofficial-3dsmax-whats-new/ 3ds Max 2021 Help: What's New in 3ds Max 2021 Check out the 3DS Max 2021 launch video.... Read more →

AutoCAD 2021 Is Here - See What’s Inside

The new AutoCAD 2021 is here and the AutoCAD Team has released the details on what is inside. AutoCAD 2021 Is Here: See What’s Inside Automatic Insights Into Drawing History Quick Identification of Changes with Xref Compare Enhancements to Blocks Palette Improvements to Graphics Performance AutoCAD Web App and Google Drive Integration Take a Tour of AutoCAD 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yK7vyJlM0&feature=youtu.be Download AutoCAD 2021 Today! Check out the new features in AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021 by logging into your Autodesk... Read more →