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Holy Alternate 3ds Max Particles Batman

I seen a 3rd party plugin by Tyson Ibele for 3ds Max 2017-2020 named tyFlow that amazed me, and I know that the Max community had been anxiously awaiting a beta to try it. The open public beta announcement was posted Monday April 1st and of course some thought it might be a cruel April Fools joke, but it was no joke. This is pretty amazing stuff! https://youtu.be/ct3vWWl86f8 “tyFlow is an unofficial replacement for 3ds Max’s Particle Flow. It is... Read more →

At the Heart of Travel

A little 5 year old girl snuck a heart she colored in my luggage 12 years ago that I only found when I was tired and far from home in Europe. It was one of the sweetest gifts a dad could ever receive from his daughter. I take that same little art everywhere I travel ever since. The heart went to Washington DC with me last week. Its been a little weathered from the travel and I placed in a... Read more →

Autodesk 2019 Official Media & Entertainment Showreel

Our Media and Entertainment (M&E) group whip up the most amazing and believable pixel candy for movies, games, and visualizations of designs. Check out what our customers create using our M&E products! Hold on and hang on, its going to be a wild ride for your eyes! https://youtu.be/bUwbe7oIMxU Read more →

Whats New in AutoCAD 2020

Several 2020 releases of Autodesk products are making news today from Inventor to 3ds Max. Also making its public unveiling is the new AutoCAD 2020. Read what is new in AutoCAD 2020 and then give it a spin by downloading it. when it becomes available for subscribers and trial download. What's New in AutoCAD 2020 Tour the AutoCAD UI (Video) What's New in AutoCAD 2020 AutoCAD 2020 New Features Overview (Video) The following is an overview of the changes made... Read more →

Autodesk Make Anything

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. A great show reel was just released showing what our amazing customers Make using our software. Check out the Autodesk Official Show Reel 2019. Watch until the very end –squeal. What do you Make, show me in the comments... Read more →

Attention Portland Oregon Area FIRST FRC and FTC Students

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 →

Introducing Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU Public Beta

So many updates to the Arnold renderer that all add up to realistic 3D renderings and eyeball melting graphics. Arnold now brings artists the power and flexibility of CPU and GPU rendering in a single renderer! Introducing Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU in public beta Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU in public beta will be available for download on March 20, 2019 as of 12 noon PT / 3pm ET. Arnold is available as a standalone subscription or with a... Read more →

Autodesk Generative Design Beta for AEC - New Version of Project Refinery Beta

“Project Refinery is an Autodesk generative design beta for the architecture, engineering and construction industry that gives users the power to quickly explore and optimize their Dynamo designs. Project Refinery not only lets you create design options, but it also allows you to set goals and optimize for those goals. When you choose to maximize or minimize designated outputs, Refinery will return the best options. Refinery allows users to leverage the power of the Dynamo package manager and run custom... Read more →

Autodesk Technology Center in Boston is Holding a Design Night March 28th

Are you a design and make enthusiast in the Boston area? Join the Autodesk Technology Center for Design Night on 3/28! Get your tickets: https://autode.sk/DNboston Read more →

Are You in the Washington DC Area and Want to Meetup

I will be in Washington DC next week Thursday and Friday March 28 and 29th and would love to meet with DC area based customers, partners, and people. I have held several casual meetups over the years to meet with readers and see friends and make new ones over a beverage. I can also meet privately with you. Just let me know if you are interested! Email Me I’m also looking forward to seeing the cherry blossoms on the National... Read more →

FIRST FRC PNW District Clackamas Academy Event 2019

FIRST Robotics FRC Team 1540 the Flaming Chickens placed 1st ranking again this weekend in Oregon City, but lost out in the quarter final alliance competition match. They are heading to the Pacific Northwest FIRST District Championship in Tacoma Washington April 3-6 and then hopefully onto the FIRST FRC World Finals in Houston Texas. I am so inspired and impressed by team 1540 and their design created using Autodesk’s own Portland non-GMO, organic, free range mechanical design software Autodesk Fusion... Read more →

PIE Demo Day

What a great and inspiring event where local Portland startups presented on their products with passion and energy. It was also nice to see such an inclusive and diverse event with most of the presenters being women founders and Latina and people of color represented. One of the nice things is all of the early stage presenters are using the PIE Shop incubator in Autodesk’s Portland office and we are so lucky and grateful for them. PIE Demo Day 2019... Read more →

See Some Portland Startup Pitches Today on Pi and PIE Day

On this Pi day (3.14 etc.) I hope you will join us on the PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day livestream at 2PM Pacific Time on March 14, 2019. Tell everyone there is plenty of room on our livestream from Aladdin Theater in sunny Portland Oregon. https://bit.ly/PIEDD2019 We love Pi and PIE! Update: PIE Demo Day 2019 replay is already available. Just in time for some weekend binge watching. https://bit.ly/PIEDD2019 Read more →

Do You Want an Intern Position at Autodesk

At Autodesk, we view our interns as real world employees and start them doing inspiring research and meaningful work collaborating with our teams. Ultimately we want to develop the interns into employees and they want to return after they graduate. Many of our employees started as interns in all of our business divisions including Autodesk Research where our interns typically work on research projects such as design, robotics, AI, machine learning, generative design, additive manufacturing, future casting and story telling,... Read more →

AUGIWorld March 2019 Issue with Autodesk Portland on the Cover

Look what made the cover of Autodesk User Group Intl “AUGIWorld” magazine for March 2019! The photo on the cover is of the Autodesk Portland office stairs constructed of reclaimed lumber and the design by MacKenzie that was inspired by CAM cutting paths that some of our software generates. In addition to the awesome Autodesk Portland office on the cover, there is some great content. https://www.augi.com/augiworld/issue/march-2019 Tips ‘n’ Tricks – Shawn Herring uncovers some AutoCAD Civil 3D tools that are... Read more →

Autodesk AEC 2019 Showreel

Are you ready for some AEC design and construction inspiration? Look no further than this link for a showreel highlighting some of our amazing customers and partners. https://youtu.be/vBJX5e2NEkQ Read more →

Startups in Autodesk's Portland Office

Autodesk has provided space and resources to a local Portland startup incubator organization named PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) to run a startup incubator in our Portland office named PIE Shop. Read more →

Robotics in Construction Intern Position in Boston BUILD Space

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 →

Autodesk Design & Manufacturing Official Show Reel 2019

Autodesk just published a new video showing some amazing and inspiring highlights for our Design and Manufacturing industry products, partners, and customers. Enjoy! Read more →

Autodesk Launches Construction IQ – AI to Reduce Construction Risk

Increase your project’s intelligence and reduce risks by using some artificial intelligence trained using machine learning models from data from over 30,000 projects. Autodesk just introduced Construction IQ in a public preview where an artificial intelligence service works with Autodesk’s BIM 360 project management platform. ”Formerly known as Project IQ, Construction IQ for quality and safety analysis started in private preview in 2016. Altogether, the algorithm was developed with 150 million construction issues and checklist observations. Subcontractor assignments and historical... Read more →

Signs of Change

It is a great sign to see in the construction industry. I seen this inclusive sign yesterday during a visit to Factory_OS in Vallejo California. "Men and Women at Work" . when I posted this photo to Twitter @shaanHurley I got some replies saying it should have been now People at Work. I think People at Work would be great, but I personally believe this sign was intentionally including Women included in the sign wording. Read more →

Interested in AEC Space Analysis for Dynamo and Refinery – Meet Project Discover

Kean Walmsley from our Autodesk Research Team wrote a great blog post on space analysis using Dynamo and Refinery. “For Project Discover we used 2D space analysis to calculate various metrics that scored the individual layouts: Adjacency Buzz Productivity Views to outside Daylight The first two are largely about calculating paths between various locations, while the last three are implemented by ray-casting. These approaches are definitely connected, though: you need to specify boundaries (and barriers) that the various algorithms will... Read more →

Robots by High School Students

For the past 3 years I have been mentoring a high school robotics Team 1540 Flaming Chickens in Portland at Catlin Gabel who compete in the FIRST Robotics FRC. For the past 6 weeks the students have been designing in Autodesk Fusion 360, fabricating, and programming this years competition robot and just released their reveal video for their robot named Phineas that will compete in this years competition Destination Deep Space. Pretty amazing robot and design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7DZsimjpo Read more →

Augmented Reality - The End of Paper Drawings on the Construction Site

Not quite yet, but things are continuing to move that direction with this weekends announcement of the new Microsoft HoloLens 2 augmented reality (mixed reality) headset. The ability to have more portable compute power as a heads up display overlaying information like construction drawings or a BIM model in context will change construction and manufacturing as well as other industries and things in daily life. Microsoft HoloLens 2 hands-on: A giant leap closer to mixed reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqFqtAJMtYE This AR is... Read more →

Introducing Autodesk FormIt v17

A big update release to FormIt is now available on the web or for Windows. Enjoy a new Dynamo experience, BIM 360 Docs, Meshes, Plugins, Orthographic Views, more Visual Styles, Material placement adjustment, Non-Uniform Scale, and more! https://formit.autodesk.com/blog/post/introducing-formit-v17 Give the web version of FormIt a try, there nothing to install. https://app.formit.autodesk.com/ https://formit.autodesk.com/page/release-notes/#release-notes-web Enhancements Significantly improved app loading time, especially when the app was run previously in the browser and a cache from the previous session exists. A new geometry type:... Read more →