Categories Misc.

Found my Lost Phone

A little over two weeks ago I lost my new iPhone and it didn’t even show up on the Find My iPhone app meaning a clever thief disabled it, it was run over and dead, or it didn’t have cell service. I panicked as the mobile phone has…

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Categories Reality Capture

Captured in First FARO LiDAR 3D Photo Booth

Last week at Autodesk’s Design Night Sheffield, FARO had their first ever LiDAR 3D Photo Booth for good fun. The booth setup used multiple FARO Focus LiDAR scanners to scan from various positions. LiDAR is generally used to capture buildings, bridges, equipment, terrain, but at Design Night Sheffield…

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Categories Autodesk

Halloween in Lake Oswego

The Autodesk Lake Oswego office held our annual Halloween lunch put on by the 5 member Ministry of Mischief of which I am a proud loud member. We had food, candy, beverages, and costume and pumpkin contests. We all had a great time for the final Halloween spent…

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Categories Autodesk

The Future of Autodesk Forge

Happy Halloween! Just a treat, no trick today. If you are interested where all this talk of the Forge platform is going then you shouldn’t miss the keynote events at AU in the Forge DevCon event. Visit the Forge DevCon Village Monday Forge DevCon Keynotes Forge pumpkin was…

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Categories AutoCAD

Clean your AutoCAD DWG and Kill Zombies

Are you receiving bloated unruly DWG files from someone that are a suspected zombie apocalypse and walking dead? Here is a good solution good solution and timely for Halloween. Slay those zombies bloating your DWG files. “Ready to purge the zombies? These three apps will help you clean…

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Categories Design

LEAP Design Competition 2017

For the past week local PNW high school FIRST Robotics teams have been designing and entry for a new vision for OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science & Industry) and the turbine room to attract and educate youth in STEM.The competition is named LEAP for Linking Engineering and Philanthropy…

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Categories Autodesk

Autodesk is 14th in the World

Being 14th among companies around the world is nothing dismiss, especially when the ranking is for being among the most  innovative, caring, and inclusive workplaces. We’ve been named #14 on the World’s Best Workplaces. http://autode.sk/2xretdW

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Categories Autodesk

Design Night Sheffield Was a Smash

Tuesday evening I participated in Sheffield’s first Design Night held at Sheffield Institute of Arts. The evening was kicked off by Lee Mullin, Construction Technical Specialist at Autodesk. Design Night Sheffield was also a great occasion to acknowledge the 20 year anniversary of Navisworks which Autodesk acquired 10…

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Categories Events

Back Online

For the past week I have taken some time off while traveling to our Sheffield UK office for Autodesk Design Night Sheffield and some Autodesk customer and partner meetings. I spent a couple days in Iceland on a stopover finding out I could save the company over half…

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Categories Autodesk Products

The Future of Making at Autodesk University

Normally at Autodesk University you attend to see and learn from great speakers, but in this case you get to make an awesome custom speaker. In the Product Innovation Platform track you will get to go through each step from the beginning electrical design in Autodesk Eagle to…

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