Categories Misc.

Happy Holidays

Its that time of the year for many Autodesk employees to spend time with their families and friends for the holidays and take our annual week of rest off. I will be back to work January 6th after my time with friends and family including my new granddaughter…

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Categories AEC

Architecture, BIM, and Mechanical Community Meetups

Architecture Community Virtual MeetUp Do you work in the architectural field? Do you have questions about tools within AutoCAD, Revit, or another Autodesk architectural software platform? Are you looking to pick the brains of talented professional engineers in your field? If so, please join us for our Architectural…

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Categories Announcements

Over 700 Hours of Training for Free

If you weren’t able to attend Autodesk University 2019 in Las Vegas last month or missed a class in your busy schedule here is an amazing resource and opportunity. There are over 700 hours of recorded AU 2019 sessions are now online for free, from labs and keynotes…

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Categories Travel

Amazing Scandinavia

I'm currently on a brief couple day trip for some meetings in Copenhagen Denmark and Gothenburg Sweden. Being of Danish heritage it was an amazing experience even if briefly to be in Copenhagen among all the amazing culture, food, people, architecture, Christmas markets, and Danish design. Did I…

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Categories Portland

Keeping Portland Weird

I’ve talked previously about the fun of finding the weirdness and fun of Portland creeping into the stairwell of our Portland office (Rats in Autodesk Portland Office). I wanted to give a quick update that the spontaneous and quirky fun continues – thankfully. This is a small example…

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Categories Autodesk Products

Maya 2020

Maya 2020 is here and it has some big changes. Read all about it on the Maya blog and check out the video.https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/introducing-maya-2020/ “Maya 2020 adds new tools that empower artists throughout the production pipeline. Whether you’re focused on animation, rigging, modeling, or effects, we’ve packed a lot…

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Categories 3D Printing

Create a 3D Model or 3D Print of Terrain

Have you ever wanted to create a STL model or 3D physical print of a mountain range, a valley, or something from the topology of our earth? I found a way using a website that generates a 3D STL file of any area. Make sure you exaggerate the…

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Categories Events

XR Party

I attended a great XR Party (Extended Reality (AR & VR) last evening in Portland at Open Signal PDX , the Open Signal: Portland Community Media Center. It was a gathering of the XR community and showed a short in XR  no longer being just a cool fringe…

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Categories AEC

Step Inside the Jobsite of the Future

Allison Scott Director, Head of Construction Thought Leadership & Customer Marketing recently gave a great talk on the big stage at Autodesk University 2019 with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Keynote and recently published this great article on the the Autodesk Construction Blog. I’m a big fan of…

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