Kean Walmsley from our Autodesk Research Team wrote a great blog post on space analysis using Dynamo and Refinery. “For Project Discover we used 2D space analysis to calculate various metrics that scored the individual layouts: Adjacency Buzz Productivity Views to outside Daylight The first two are largely…
Read MoreFor the past 3 years I have been mentoring a high school robotics Team 1540 Flaming Chickens in Portland at Catlin Gabel who compete in the FIRST Robotics FRC. For the past 6 weeks the students have been designing in Autodesk Fusion 360, fabricating, and programming this years…
Read MoreNot quite yet, but things are continuing to move that direction with this weekends announcement of the new Microsoft HoloLens 2 augmented reality (mixed reality) headset. The ability to have more portable compute power as a heads up display overlaying information like construction drawings or a BIM model…
Read MoreA big update release to FormIt is now available on the web or for Windows. Enjoy a new Dynamo experience, BIM 360 Docs, Meshes, Plugins, Orthographic Views, more Visual Styles, Material placement adjustment, Non-Uniform Scale, and more!https://formit.autodesk.com/blog/post/introducing-formit-v17 Give the web version of FormIt a try, there nothing to…
Read MoreYesterday I attended the 2019 Industrialized Construction Forum held by Stanford University Center for Integrated Facility Engineering. This was a packed event attended by by not only academia, but industry. The presentations, panel discussions, and conversations with attendees were very good and thought provoking on the impact and…
Read MoreAutodesk’s AutoCAD API guru Lee Ambrosius just pointed out a great AutoCAD learning resource. “Have You Tried” is an article series written by the AutoCAD CXD team that takes a look at forgotten and underutilized AutoCAD features. Check out the 18+ months worth of articles to learn about…
Read MoreAlexander Oster is the Director Additive Manufacturing at Autodesk and was the CEO of Netfabb which Autodesk acquired in September 2015. Alexander is an authority on 3D printing and additive manufacturing and gave a good interview to 3Dprint.com shedding a lot of light on where additive manufacturing and…
Read MoreSharing this funny graphic from one of my favorite comedians and Autodesk University presenter who understands our engineer world, Don McMillan. https://www.youtube.com/user/donmcmillancomedy/videos
Read MoreThis weekend there was a scrimmage for Pacific Northwest FIRST robotics FRC teams held in Corvallis Oregon . My team 1540 Flaming Chickens of Catlin Gabel were there with their 2019 competition robot named, Phineas. FIRST Robotics FRC Teams started designing, fabricating, and programming for this years challenge…
Read MoreFAA Makes Major Drone ID Marking Change The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) posted a rule in the Federal Register requiring small drone owners to display the FAA-issued registration number on an outside surface of the aircraft. Owners and operators may no longer place or write registration numbers in…
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