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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Community Conversations - AutoCAD Electrical with Tiffany Bachmeier

If you are using AutoCAD Electrical and are curious what else it can do, if you have questions about tools within AutoCAD Electrical, and/or if you’re looking to meet with other professionals utilizing ACADE’s awesome tools, please join us for AutoCAD Electrical Office Hours. We will feature new Tips & Tricks at each meeting and we will have open Q & A with ACADE SMEs to address any questions/suggestions you have. This session will be presented by expert Tiffany Bachmeier... Read more →

How Innovators Are Exploring Emerging Technologies

“Innovation and collaboration are at the heart of the Autodesk Technology Centers, which provide a platform for exploring new possibilities of designing and making. With a global network of innovators from the industry, academic, and entrepreneurial communities—and physical workshops in San Francisco; Boston; Toronto; and Birmingham, England—the technology centers provide support for residents as they seek new ways of designing for impact.” Read More and get the free eBook Here: https://redshift.autodesk.com/designing-for-impact/ Read more →

The Engineers Guide to Drinks in Fusion 360

One of the top Autodesk Fusion 360 users and presenters, Scott Moyse, Manufacturing & CAM Technical Specialist of CADPRO Systems Limited, recently presented a Fusion 360 tips and tricks class at Autodesk University 2020 and moved the evolution of The Engineers Guide to Drinks to a new level in Fusion 360 all along teaching you great tips and techniques in a creative and fun way. Autodesk University is free this year, go learn something valuable to build more skills and... 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Volunteer Design and Make Projects to Help People Breathe

Yesterday an acquaintance I know Gui Cavalcanti was recognized for participating in a volunteer open source effort to design breathing ventilators for those that may need them due to the COVID-19 virus. Its a blend of makers and engineers creating mechanical designs and the 3D printing parts. The Futuristic Solutions the Internet is Crowdsourcing to Cure Coronavirus – Newsweek “A Facebook group called Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies, which consists of over 13,000 members, is trying to find solutions to... Read more →

Manufacturing and AEC Construction Industries are Starting to Converge

“For years, architects, engineers, and contractors have talked about converging manufacturing and construction processes. AECOM is working to make it happen.” This is a good article detailing a customer case and how AECOM is working in the converging industries of manufacturing and AEC construction. Creating the Conditions for Convergence Read more →

Learn How to Create Electrical Schematics in Fusion 360

There is a free webinar next week that will teach you how to harness (pun intended) the new ECAD feature in Fusion 360. My first schematic with Fusion 360 The building block of every successful circuit board is it's schematic. The Schematic editor is engineered to save design time by providing access to thousands of components. In this webinar you will learn how to design your first schematic. February 11, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register Now Read more →

Electronics Design Now Included in Fusion 360

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 →

The Autodesk Group Network – Find Your Group

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 →

Fusion 360 Roadmap and More

Autodesk’s Fusion 360 has turned 6 years old and I remember when it was a little conceptual baby incubating in the former Autodesk Labs for people to download and provide their feedback. It has come a long ways in the past 6 years and become a real product and thousands of daily users and amazing products that have been designed by customers using it. If you are interested in where Fusion 360 is going in the future, here is the... Read more →

Happy 20th Birthday Autodesk Inventor and Vault

Yesterday in the Autodesk Portland office we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Autodesk Inventor, and partied like it was 1999, when Autodesk Inventor was born in our. A flashback to 1999 Autodesk Inventor R1 codename Rubicon We even got Inventor R1 running for people to try their old school Inventor modelling skills. It was amazing to have all the fun conversations, wear old Inventor shirts, enjoy food and drink, and celebrate a big milestone of 20 years. The first customer... Read more →

Job Posting - Workshop Manager for Autodesk Technology Center

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 →

3D Printed Titanium Solid bike in Portland

The SOLID bike is now proudly on display in the city that inspired it, and in the office of the software used in the design, our Autodesk Portland office. SOLID bike: The first connected, 3D printed titanium bike by Ti Cycles Design & engineering software: Autodesk Fusion 360 and Autodesk Alias For most of us, buying a bicycle means picking out a stock model that best fits our size and style. But, that comes with trade-offs, since mass-manufactured bikes can’t... Read more →

Got My Bags Packed for My Mars Condo!

A great story of smart young minds tackling a challenge put forth by NASA helped AI SpaceFactory Win NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge for additive constructed habitats. NASA awarded AI SpaceFactory $500,000 for the successful construction of a 15 foot Mars habitat with three windows named MARSHA. Read more →

More Power in CAM Operation with the Launch of Autodesk PowerMill 2020

Read about all the faster calculation, simulation, and verification with PowerMill 2020 CAM in the Manufacturing Lounge blog post from Clinton Perry. Autodesk Launches PowerMill 2020 http://www.manufacturinglounge.com/autodesk-launches-powermill-2020/ Cheers, -Shaan Read more →

Fusion 360 Stump the Chump in Stumptown

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 →