AutoCAD 2018 was just released, but did you know it was the 32nd release of AutoCAD and that its beta codename was Omega? I maintain a list of all of these and a few more at: http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/autocad-release-history.html AutoCAD Release History AutoCAD 1.0 December 1982 (Release 1) AutoCAD 1.2…
Read MoreAutodesk colleague Tom Wujec gave a popular TED presentation in 2010 about team building and a Marshmallow Challenge that has received over 3.5 million views. The Marshmallow Challenge is a great team building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. In the past…
Read MoreAVA is the Autodesk Virtual Agent that can assist with many issues and requests from downloads to licensing to product registrations. She is very helpful and never sleeps. I’m not even sure if the artificial intelligence is really male or female, but that doesn’t really matter. Managing…
Read MoreMy Autodesk colleage Maurice Conti Director, Applied Research and Innovation in the Office of the CTO was just featured in a Bloomberg Technology video piece talking about robots. Maurice and team have been researching solutions to solve the challenge of robots and humans getting along. Part of the…
Read MoreSome of the Autodesk 2018 products have been released from beta and available for download now. The two main ones I am aware of are AutoCAD 2018 and Autodesk Inventor 2018. AutoCAD 2018 (beta codename Omega):Many changes under the hood including major performance improvements but some also required…
Read MoreLast week Autodesk invited several customers and social media from around the world to the San Francisco office for more than some amazing Spring weather. During the day we enjoyed a nice Autodesk Gallery tour by Autodesk’s power Gallery Ambassador Scott Sheppard. Following the amazing tour by Scott…
Read MoreA nice way to begin the first day of Spring in the Northern hemisphere and also a Monday is with a cool video. Autodesk Design and Manufacturing show reel video showing what our design and manufacturing customers and researchers make using our technologies.https://youtu.be/R_aT_xzqFVk Now the count down to…
Read MoreIn August of 2016, a team of Autodesk employees including myself Shaan Hurley and led by Autodesk’s Pete Kelsey along with Autodeskers David Dreffs, and Carlos Orona and a team from the US Bureau of Reclamation took on a very large infrastructure project to capture the second largest…
Read MoreCongratulations to the 40 high school teams that participated Thursday to Sunday in the FIRST Robotics FRC PNW District 3 competition in Wilsonville Oregon. What an amazing event and gracious professionalism everywhere as well as really delicious homemade ice cream from middle school students jr Scoop to support…
Read MorePublic tours are offered by appointment to Autodesk’s new Boston Build Space. See cutting edge architecture, engineering, and construction innovation in a collaborative environment with technology like robotics, CNC, and VR in use. More details on the Build Space: http://www.autodeskbuildspace.com/Free tour booking : http://www.autodeskbuildspace.com/tours
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