Categories Funny

What Do You Do While 3D Laser Scanning?

Fort those that have done a fair bit of laser scanning, what do you do while the scanner is rotating 360 degrees and you try to stay out of the beams view and pass time? My laser scanner shuffle moving around the scanner instead of sitting underneath or…

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Categories Autodesk Products

Revit Guide to Drinks

Robin Deurloo from the Holland (Netherlands) took me up on the challenge to re-create the Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing using Autodesk products, and he nailed it. He researched the history of the about 40 year old drawing and started a Revit version complete with Revit formulas.

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Categories Design

2016 Autodesk AEC Showreel

Check out the just released Autodesk 2016 AEC Showreel. It is always amazing to see what our customers design and build using our software and technology.Enjoy! http://youtu.be/cEdOIKrSGu8

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Categories Autodesk

Giving a Hand

Yesterday many big hearted employees in the Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon office took time to assemble 3D printed Phoenix prosthetic hands designed using Autodesk’s own Fusion 360 in the e-NABLE Buildathon. The hands are destined with a personal card for children in war torn Syria by e-NABLE. Autodesk…

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Categories Uncategorized

Wanderlust Time

It is the first day of summer and coincidently the first day of my sabbatical. Autodesk is one of the top employers in North America and recognizing employees work life balance and providing us the time to relax, reflect, recharge ever 4 years is an amazing benefit. This…

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Categories Announcements

Autodesk Forge Developer Conference Keynote

If you were unable to attend the Autodesk Forge Conference this week, you can still watch the keynote on YouTube. Forge is powerful set of cloud services, APIs, and resources for developers to quickly create the data-centric apps, experiences, and services that power the future of making things.

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Categories Autodesk Research

Aerial 3D Terrain Mapping with a Drone

Recently I edited a 3D model and created a quick video in Autodesk ReMake (formerly Autodesk Memento.)  The 3D model was generated using Autodesk ReCap 360 Pro from photos taken last month using an UAS/drone in the hot windy Trona Pinnacles near Death Valley California. The ability to create…

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Categories Autodesk

Volunteering

This week 9 of us from the Lake Oswego Autodesk office went and volunteered to sort food at the local Oregon Food Bank. We sorted 6872 pounds of chilled goods which is the equivalent of about 5727 meals. Autodesk strongly encourages their employees to get involved in causes…

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Categories Misc.

Beautiful Mt Hood

I absolutely love seeing Mt. Hood on my flights back home to Portland Oregon. I took this photo Sunday evening with my iPhone after returning from surprising my mother in Idaho on her 70th birthday. If you look closely you can see Mt. Jefferson in the background.

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