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How to Plan a Dynamo Graph

Join me as the host in this weeks Autodesk Community Conversation along with Dynamo experts Jacob Small Designated Support Specialist:Generative Design and BIM and Sol Amour Dynamo Product Manager to dive into this topic and taking your questions along the way. You will learn how to map out the graph to accomplish something like creating a complex framed architectural form in a fairly easy to understand and always fun method. Thursday, June 17, 2021 10 AM PT | 1 PM... Read more →

Livestream Ask Me Anything: Revit Roadmap for Generative and Computational Design Monday June 14th, 2021

Have questions about the future of Generative Design and computation in Revit? Join a panel of Autodesk product managers as they take on your questions and share what's in the development pipeline. Check the Revit product roadmap: https://trello.com/b/ldRXK9Gw/revit-p... Get your questions ready, and set a reminder to join the livestream on June 14, 2021 8am PT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIm1Fyf00Y Read more →

The 3ds Max Support and Learning Center

The 3ds Max support and learning center is where you can find documentation, tutorials, videos, and troubleshooting resources. If you use 3ds Max, you should bookmark this resource in case you need to learn about something new or look into an issue you run into. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/troubleshooting Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversations - Dynamo Graph Annotations with Jacob Small and Sol Amour – Recording of Fun Session Posted

The recording from yesterdays Dynamo Community Conversation is now posted on the session page and YouTube. The training content by Jacob Small and Sol Amour and conversations are top notch, free, and it was such a fun time aside from my Zoom telling me my Internet is Unstable” while I was talking. We also had a very special guest, Jon Pierson who blew my mind talking about his journey with Dynamo and his Dynamo custom packages like Rhythm for Dynamo... Read more →

Two AEC Focused Autodesk Community Conversations Tomorrow June 3rd, 2021

Join us tomorrow for two Autodesk Community Conversations. Building the muscle for a Revit Family Thursday, June 3, 2021 8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour) Expert Speaker Donnia Tabor-Hanson Donnia Tabor-Hanson continues her Revit Families series to discuss how to start building some muscle for a Revit family once the bones and ligaments (reference planes and parameters) are set. We'll talk about extrusions, sweeps, blends, and such, both solid and voids with overall best practices for building... Read more →

Let's Talk AEC - Join the June Autodesk Community Conversations

Community Conversations are live, virtual events designed to allow you to gain expertise, connect with leaders and grow your community network. Read more →

The Revit – Have You Tried This List

Jeff Hanson, Senior Content Experience Designer on the Autodesk Revit team posted a great blog post highlighting some great features and tips using them that many may be able to benefit and pick up a tip or try something out. Check it out, I bet you learn something! Have You Tried? Investigating Revit features and workflows. Read more →

Let's Talk Design & Manufacturing - Join the June Autodesk Community Conversations

Community Conversations are live, virtual events designed to allow you to gain expertise, connect with leaders and grow your community network. Read more →

Historic Preservation is a Digital Gift to the Future

In honor of Historic Preservation Month, Nicolas Magnon Vice President of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Business Strategy and Marketing at Autodesk has wrote a nice article on the importance of preservation. Read the Article and learn more how Autodesk and Autodesk technology has been involved in several historic presentation projects including the Apollo 11 Command Module, the USS Arizona, the 3,000-year-old medieval city of Volterra, and the Notre-Dame de Paris. Read more →

Get the most out of Revit Families – Expert Series from Donnia Tabor-Hanson

If you haven't joined for a session with one of our favorite Revit trainers and a Revit Family Counselor, Donnia Tabor-Hanson, you should. You can watch the recordings or join for the next in the series on Thursday June 3rd this week for valuable Revit tips and tricks and bring your questions. June 3, 2021 Building the Muscle for a Revit Family Once your bones and ligaments (I mean, your Reference Planes and Parameters) are set in a family it... Read more →

AutoCAD Facebook Live Event - AutoCAD with Dan on Wednesday May 26, 2021

There will be a Facebook Live event with AutoCAD Team member Dan Kuhmann. Dan is a very knowledgeable member of the AutoCAD core product team as well as all around funny and nice human.Dan will be going over new features and tips and tricks within AutoCAD 2022. Please join AutoCAD Community Manager Tiana Dame and Dan Kuhmann to learn something, ask a question, and get to know the others in the AutoCAD Facebook Community. The Autodesk AutoCAD Facebook Community group... Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversations – Ask the Expert with Expert Elite Mike Thomas on Autodesk Inventor

We are excited to announce that Ask the Experts will be happening again, in a new LIVE format, throughout the upcoming year! Expert Elites from different industries will be answering your questions during these special meetups to help you with technical issues, workflows, and to help you get the most out of your product. Don’t have a question, but want to participate? We’d love to hear how you are using the products, any feedback that you may have, or how... Read more →

Create VR for Maya

Create VR is an immersive conceptual design tool that empowers artists and designers to start their creative process directly in 3D. Using simple curve and surface tools designers can explore form and shape while being fully immersed in virtual reality alongside their design. Sketches and models can then be easily exported to Maya or other content creation applications for the final realization. Features Create and edit models using NURBs and SubD surface tools. Freeform sketching and NURBs curve tools to... Read more →

Two Autodesk Community Conversation Events this Week

This week there are two great Community Conversation events to join and learn great tips or get your questions answered. These session are recorded for those unable to attend. Revit Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting with Paul Aubin AutoCAD Electrical with Tiffany Bachmeier For more Autodesk Community Conversation Events see the Community Conversations Calendar Read more →

Community Conversations – Geometry Modifications in Dynamo Recording Posted

If you were unable to attend last weeks Community Conversation “Computational Geometry: Geometry Modifications in Dynamo with Dynamo experts Jacob Small, Sol Amour, and myself as the host last Thursday, we have you covered with the recording now posted. Note all the Community Conversations are recorded for your benefit and schedule. Go watch the Recording “Now that we understand all geometry types in Dynamo, let’s explore how we can modify them! Join Jacob Small and Sol Amour as we take... Read more →

Learning Pathway for Autodesk Certification

Did you know there is learning content, free, and available to all? Choose the Learning Pathway that’s right for you, then choose to get certified. https://www.autodesk.com/certification Read more →

Community Conversations - Revit Family Types and Templates with Donnia Tabor-Hanson Thursday, May 6, 2021

This session will be presented by expert Donnia Tabor-Hanson and hosted by Autodesk Community Manager, Kimberly Fuhrman, as part of Community Conversations - live, virtual events designed to allow you to gain expertise, connect with leaders and grow your community network. Let’s review the various types of families that Revit has including system, component, annotation, details, and datum. What is edited inside of a project? What is editable outside of a project? How do you choose the right template for... Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversation - Model / Physical types with Dynamo

Thank you to all that attended last Thursdays Community Conversation titled “Computational Geometry: Model / Physical types with Dynamo” with Jacob Small, Sol Amour. Sol and Jacob took several Dynamo questions, explained model geometry types, and walked through how to design a complex slat wall using Dynamo. Visit the event page to see the recording and continue the conversation in the comments area. The next session in this series will be May 6, 2021. Computational Geometry: Geometry Modifications in Dynamo... Read more →

The Autodesk Inventor Team Acted on Your Feedback

If you have tried out the Autodesk Inventor 2022, and found the feature Model States a favorite, you can thank a fellow Autodesk Inventor user Curtis W. and 767 people that voted, and 90 who commented on it. The request was in the Inventor Product Ideas board where people share and vote on ideas for future product releases.. Level of Detail for Parts Level of Detail for Parts The ability to suppress features and create Level Of Detail representations in... Read more →

Community Conversations- Computational Geometry: Model/ Physical Types with Dynamo

I'm hosting a free Community Conversation online meetup event this week, come learn Dynamo. Thursday, Apr 22, 2021, at 10:00 AM PDT With Dynamo experts Jacob Small and Dynamo Product Manager Sol Amour. After exploring Abstract geometry types in depth, come learn all about Model geometry types in Dynamo with Jacob and Sol. We’ll dive into all of the physical aspects of geometry, such as points, curves and surfaces, exploring how they function, what their relationships are and how to... Read more →

The Smarter Way to Exchange DWG Across Disciplines

Autodesk has released the new Design Collaboration Module that provides a means for easy cloud collaboration with DWG files in Revit. “What’s the Design Collaboration module? Design Collaboration is a web-based product module included in our cloud offerings BIM Collaborate (for project reviewers) and its Pro version (for design authors). Our Revit-reliant customers have been using Design Collaboration to manage the exchange of design data between teams ever since BIM Collaborate Pro, formerly “BIM 360 Design”, was launched.” Read more... Read more →

AutoCAD Electrical and Dynamo in This Weeks Autodesk Community Conversations Events

Register now for this weeks two separate Autodesk Community Conversations. What are Community Conversations? Community Conversations provide opportunities for engineers, designers, artists, and makers to meet in a safe, live, virtual setting to share expertise, get to know leaders in your field, and grow your community network. Community Conversations speakers will be Autodesk employees, customers, partners, and students. You’ll hear from someone with special expertise, have a chance to ask questions live and get to know fellow participants who share... Read more →

What's New in Revit 2022

This YouTube playlist highlights 37 new features for design productivity, interoperability, documentation efficiency, and developers in Autodesk Revit 2022. Revit 2022 Playlist Some Direct feature video Links: The Shared Views feature makes it easy for you to share 2D and 3D views and sheets of your Revit project across the project team. Improve your conceptual design workflows with seamless FormIt Pro integration. Revit 2022 helps structural engineers place steel connections quickly and accurately using automated tools and predefined ranges of... Read more →

Autodesk Inventor 2022 Released

The new Autodesk Inventor is available and has several key updates, enhancements, and as usual a bunch under the hood for usability and fixes and attributed to customer feedback in the pre-release customer betas, Inventor Idea board, and user sessions. One of my own highlights, because I'm passionate about DfMA workflows which are based on converging AEC and Manufacturing is the Revit inoperability such as saving native Revit project files for allowing collaboration on BIM projects. The Inventor team, many... Read more →

Revit 2022 Sneak Peek –Today

Jeremy Tammik provided a heads up on his Building Coder blog to a session with Revit Product Managers Harlan Brumm and Sasha Crotty today at 12:30 Pacific Time and another full what's new session on April 13th. Link: Sneak Peek, Automatic Column, Arc Angle, Career Read more →