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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 →

There are 3 Autodesk Community Conversations This Week

Community Conversations are live, virtual events designed to allow you to gain expertise, connect with leaders and grow your community network. Understanding Remote Work Capabilities with Autodesk Software in Today's Industry Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET (1 hour) Expert Elite member Dzan Ta In this session, Expert Elite member Dzan Ta will lead a discussion about the challenges and trends on how all stakeholders work in such a disconnected, remote environment due to current... 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 →

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 →

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 →

Autodesk Community Conversations - Computational Geometry- Geometry Modifications in Dynamo with Sol Amour and Jacob Small Thursday, May 6, 2021

Continuing our excellent series on how to use and understand Dynamo from two Dynamo experts that answer your questions live as well as show you fundamental and powerful concepts. Join Jacob Small and Sol Amour as we take a journey through Dynamo’s geometry modification nodes; learn how to best leverage these modifications, explore how you can derive interesting and new geometry from intersections, and touch upon some best practices to get your Dynamo geometry singing. This series is part of... Read more →

What a Garden!

Last weekend I attended a small gathering for a bonfire and party. I was taking some aerial photos of the event and the most amazing private garden I had seen, and in my neighborhood. I hope to get a nice tour in the near future of this amazing and peaceful and uniquely designed space. The small building located in the center, is a greenhouse. Several birdhouses around the garden, a pond that was covered, and small houses on the peripheral.... Read more →

Collaborative Future at the Reimagined Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building

How will we design sustainable communities in the future? Debuting this November, take a first look at the new interactive exhibit from Autodesk and Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building “Future Communities” highlights the benefits of automation in how we work. http://autode.sk/32KLSkR Quote from Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost “Proud to be part of an experience that highlights the benefits of automation in how we work” ”Design shapes billions of lives. What if we could invite everyone to create, together, almost every... 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 →

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 →

Autodesk’s Drive Towards DfMA

Here is a nice article AECMAGAZINE’s Martyn Day featuring Autodesk’s Amy Marks, Autodesk’s Head of Industrialized Construction Strategy & Evangelism a,so known as “Queen of Prefab.” “Everybody’s talking about Design for Manufacturing and Assembly. While very few firms are actually doing it, the concept is attracting advanced BIM users, fabricators and software firms to try it out. Martyn Day looks at Autodesk’s efforts and future vision.” ”Out of all the major AEC software firms that we cover, Autodesk has been... 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 →

Happy 10th Birthday Tinkercad!

Tinkercad turned 10 years old today. This free cloud-based 3D creative design tool is used by students to retired makers and 3D print hobbyist, and loved by millions from 5-100+ years old. Reflecting on 10 Years of Tinkering as Tinkercad Turns Double Digits Check out what people have made: https://www.tinkercad.com/search?q=tinkercad10 Read more →

Learn About Revit Automation and Generative Design

There is a free Autodesk eBook now available on learning about how automation and generative design can empower you to meet new challenges and shape the built environment of the future. The Future is a Design Challenge eBook ”Solving tomorrow’s challenges with automation and generative design “ autode.sk/2W3H6f0 Read more →

Generative Design in Revit - Have You Tried?

Learn how to use Generative Design to develop a restaurant layout. What is Generative Design ? Generative Design in Revit allows you to leverage Dynamo graphs to explore outcome-based solutions for your designs. You define criteria and constraints for the design problem. Then Generative Design uses this information to iterate many possible solutions, presenting them to you for further evaluation. When you decide on the optimal solution, click a button to integrate it into the model for further development. Why... 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →