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Changes After 25 Years

Some may have heard, but after 25 years at Autodesk, my current role was eliminated this week. I’m considering open internal roles at Autodesk or venturing back into the outside world. Still processing it all and disappointed, but it is forcing functions like this that always make for the best opportunties and growth. I only planned to be at Autodesk 2-3 years and then go back to the design world so it has been a bonus 22 years and amazing friends from customers, partners, industry, and colleagues. Read more →

New Autodesk Account Usage Report Available for Admins

A new Usage Report will be available for Admins on all subscription plans, making it easier to view and understand users’ usage data. Read more →

Happy 41st Birthday Autodesk

Today, I celebrate and acknowledge the 41st anniversary of Autodesk's founding on January 30, 1982. Over the past 41 years, Autodesk has established itself as a leader in the design and engineering software industry, and has played a significant role in shaping the way professionals in architecture, engineering, construction, and media and entertainment industries work. Read more →

Roadmap AMAs and Handling Multiple Updaters in the Revit API

Recordings of the roadmap presentations are now available to help us all see and understand where things are headed, and updaters and worksharing help us monitor what is happening right now: Community conversation roadmap AMAs Platform Services Parameters API Handling multiple updaters WorksharingUtils help check element status Chuong Ho is featured Speckle developer via Jeremy Tammik thebuildingcoder.typepad.com Read more →

Three Autodesk Community Conversations This Week

Join us for one or more of the sessions, bring your questions. Read more →

AEC Product Roadmap Ask Me Anything Series Recordings

Last week we held 5 live events on the future roadmap of AEC products, and hundreds attended and asked their great questions using Slido. The annual event was to learn about highlights from recent releases, including Revit and the AEC Collection Ask product managers and experts about the future roadmap of the Autodesk AEC products. Thank you to all that participated and here are the recordings for those unable to attend. We will be posting a list of questions asked/answered very soon. Read more →

25 Years - A Quarter Century as an Autodesker

On January 19th, 1998 I was a Mechanical Designer in Portland Oregon and just joined Autodesk and moved to the SF Bay area, thinking sure, I could work on the AutoCAD and Beta teams for a couple of years, then move back to the customer side and designing large equipment. Autodesk was such a good fit for my passion for design, customers, colleagues, and technology Autodesk that it is 25 years since joining and I am still excited. Read more →

AEC Product Roadmap Ask Me Anything Series This Week

Join us and learn about highlights from recent releases, including Revit and the AEC Collection and ask the Product Managers and experts about the future of Autodesk AEC products such as Revit, Dynamo, InfraWorks, Civil 3D, ReCap, Structures, and MEP. Join the conversations! Read more →

Autodesk Excellence Customer Awards 2022 for AEC

The Autodesk Excellence Awards celebrate groundbreaking customer projects driving innovation and impact across the world through the power of technology. A round of applause is due to ccelebrate theAutodesk Excellence AEC Customer Award winning customers. Read more →

A Canine Singularity Event

A dog walking a dog. My silver lab named Coho enjoys walking my friend’s 12 year old little dog named Boots. Coho will run to get the leash then walk the Boots down the driveway and the sidewalk with us. The only issue is sometimes because Coho is much larger, he turns corners a little faster than the little guy. Read more →

Catch up on the Autodesk Community

If you haven’t seen the Autodesk Community for a while. Here are a few things you might have missed and what’s coming soon. The Autodesk Community is our place for people who are building a better tomorrow to connect and inspire each other. You can find answers to your product questions, share your knowledge, build your network, and learn something new. Read more →

Happy Holidays

Most Autodesk employees and offices will be closed starting Monday starting, December 19th, for our annual Week of Rest for the holidays. This break is actually longer than a week, but it allows our employees to spend time with their family, friends, and rest. We then come back after the New Year refreshed and ready to make an amazing 2023 for our customers. Read more →

AEC Product Roadmap Ask Me Anything Series

Join us for the Autodesk AEC Public Roadmap AMAs in January 2023! Register to learn about the road ahead for Autodesk’s solutions from a panel of Autodesk product managers in an Ask Me Anything format live broadcast event. Have questions about the public roadmap for architecture products? We've got answers! Join us for a Community Conversation about the future of Autodesk AEC solutions. •- Learn about highlights from recent releases, including Revit and the AEC Collection •Ask product managers and experts about the future of Autodesk AEC products •Check the roadmap and join the conversation! Read more →

Autodesk Gabe Paez of The Wild on Evan Troxel's TRXL Podcast

“Gabe Paez of Autodesk’s The Wild joins Evan Troxel popular podcast TRXL to talk about the intersection of humans and immersive technologies, the magic of experiencing ideas together, shared reality, the difficulty of change in relation to new tools and workflows, the value of working in different ways, the (controversial) notion of having fun at work, Extended Reality (XR) as it relates to remote work, shortening the distance between an idea and an experience, experiential tools, the value of collaboration, synchronous and asynchronous work on projects, interactive and manipulatable environments, persistence of virtual environments, and more.” Read more →

Learn About the Autodesk AI Lab

Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic, and Autodesk is also looking into how we can intelligently utilize AI and machine learning to solve customer challenges. Find out about the new Autodesk AI Lab from theDirector of AI Research at Autodesk Tonya Curtis, and what they are researhing and papers they have submitted. Read more →

Interesting AI Possibilities from OpenAI Using ChatGPT

Last Wednesday, OpenAI released their ChatGPT for free and is based on GPT-3.5. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ ChatGPT is like a smarter search engine as a bot with the ability to create results including code or text in response to natural language queries. What I find interesting and the possibilities exciting as well as spooky is the ability to not only get really interesting returns to text questions but also write code including Autodesk product customization like ObjectARX, Lisp, Forge, Dynamo, or mel for Maya and Maxscript for 3ds Max. simply by asking the ChatGPT. ”ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. Read more →

Three Autodesk Community Events Week of December 5th 2022 and One December 15th

We have the final Autodesk Community Conversation events for 2022 coming up including some non-English events. These are not just a live webinar, they are a conversation where you can ask questions as a more personal and connecting event with the experts and the attendees. Join us for Autodesk Community Conversations: https://autode.sk/CommunityConvos Read more →

Autodesk University 2023 - Viva Las Vegas

People that attended Autodesk University 2022 received a nice email today with some exciting news from Autodesk Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Blum. “Thank you again for attending Autodesk University 2022 in New Orleans. I wanted to share some important information regarding our 2023 event. Autodesk University will take place at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada between Monday 13th and Wednesday 15th November, 2023. Read more →

Swipe Right – For the Autodesk Construction Cloud Relationships API

Learn how the Relationships API runs as a shared API component under the hood Read more →

Surprise – It is Surgery Time

Last week I was out a great deal, not only due to the US Holiday but also because I had an unplanned surgery on Tuesday morning. I went in for my annual physical check-up, and while I passed with flying colors, there was one issue noted, my doctor found out I had a hernia. I’m all good now, but one thing I would suggest is not being overly-optimistic about how easy a surgery may be and keeping plans to fly... Read more →

How to Make Furniture for Revit Using Fusion 360

Using Autodesk Fusion 360 to create content for Revit. A nice instructable by Michael Hidalgo. A reminder that there is still a free Fusion 360 version: Fusion 360 for Personal Use – Still FREE Read more →

Autodesk Revit 2023.1

Revit 2023.1 was made available last week and introduces Twinmotion for Revit, upgrades to MEP modeling tools, more analytical to physical model automation for structural analysis, and so much more. Read more →

AEC Cloud Information Model API Beta

”Autodesk Platform Services – the platform formerly known as Forge – has a brand new service that’s soon going into beta: the AEC Cloud Information Model API. This API will allow you to access design parameters in Revit models hosted in the cloud with no need to pass by an instance Revit.” Read More from Kean and get involved in the Beta Join the beta for the AEC Cloud Information Model API Read more →

Upskill Using Free Autodesk Industry Courses

Just taking 15 minutes a day to go through Autodesk courses could make you far better prepared for your current role or advance yourskills for a new role. These curated courses cover Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Design and Manufacturing, Cross-Industry. Search over 500 available courses developed by the best in the industries. Read more →

Autodesk’s Digital Builder Insider

With rising pressure to deliver projects on time and on budget, construction firms are looking for new ways to achieve certainty. Enter the promise of Industrialized Construction (IC). Approaching construction from a manufacturing mindset is not only smarter; it’s imperative to meet the demands of a growing global population. Read more →