Categories Autodesk Research

Generative Design Makes a Great Design Assistant

You can use Autodesk’s generative design technology in Fusion 360 today  to assist you in the design process. You will be assisted in finding design options beyond just shape and material optimization as you can consider strength, cost, and materials. We looked at a design inspired by the…

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Categories Announcements

Project Impossible

For those in the US that have access to a TV with the History Channel, there is a television series named Project Impossible that Autodesk helped sponsor showing our customers as well as some Autodesk employees on some large projects. The series celebrates the engineers, builders and construction…

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Categories Photography

Finally Sunny Without Smoke

The West coast of the United States has seen smoke filled skies for what feels like weeks now from massive forest fires up and down the coast. Today we have a beautiful sunny day here in sunny warm Portland today and enjoying lunch on our Autodesk office rooftop…

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Categories Misc.

Bad Marketing

I would call this more a viral marketing, literally viral..  I personally seen this sticker at Portland’s Hawthorne Street Festival last weekend. We had a great time at the street festival with all the local artists and vendors but the stickers for the selfie contest were cringe worthy.…

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Categories Design

Portland Sneaker Week Tech Talk

A free Portland Sneaker Week Tech Talk event is being held in our Autodesk Portland office this evening. Portland is ground zero for footwear with big names like Nike, Adidas, UnderArmour, Keen, Columbia, and many others with headquarters or a major presence here. This evening, a Tech Talk…

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Categories Blogs

15 Years of Between the Lines Blog

15 years ago today I started this Between the Lines blog. I won’t be able to celebrate as epically as last years 14 year blog anniversary where there was a total solar eclipse, but this is a big one nonetheless. 15 years… The purpose of this blog was…

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Categories Cloud

Moore or Less

I was thinking last night about how technology has changed over the years, and how Moore’s Law has apparently been broken as computer CPUs are not doubling computational power each 18 months. We have not seen the transistor density and computing power doubling for a couple years now.…

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Categories Design

We Hope They Come Back

15 energetic high school interns led by two college interns and working with Autodesk Portland employees worked on a real product that is open source and added new features for FIRST Robotics FRC teams to simulate their competition robot designs. Synthesis an Autodesk technology that was solely developed…

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Categories Hardware

PIE Shop Opens in Autodesk Portland Office

Last Thursday our Portland office held a traditional beer bust celebrating the opening of the incubator space on our second floor that i currently hosting 5 startups and 2 organizations. We had beer, wine, food, cookies, and of course pie. About the PIE Shop”Autodesk have launched an ambitious…

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