Former Autodesk Research Employee Jos Stam was awarded an Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 3D subdivision surfaces among other technical giants such as Edwin Catmul of Disney / Pixar and brothers Thomas Knoll and John Knoll of ILM and co-creator of…
Read MorePlease help my Autodesk colleague Sasha Crotty of the Revit product team gather some feedback data on your needs for Revit and building design products. It only takes a moment and can help the Revit team better understand your future needs for Revit. “’Are you an architect/architectural designer? …
Read MoreWhat a great space, mission, community, and awesome local panel speaking last evening at Portland’s WeWork Labs official opening. The WeWork Labs will work with other local startup accelerators, incubators, mentors and communities to share resources in which to successfully help local startups succeed. The PIE Shop incubator…
Read MoreMy group within the Autodesk organization is changing its name from Office of the CTO (OCTO) and will now be known as Autodesk Research. OCTO for a group name is super geeky and reflects reporting structure but not what we do. We will be named Autodesk Research because…
Read MoreIn Marin County California, a small group of people got together January 30, 1982 and formed Autodesk. The design industry hasn’t been the same since.As founder John Walker stated “the game has changed.” 37 years later, Autodesk is a rare technology company that is still around, innovating, evolving,…
Read MoreIf you have wanted to read, write, and modify data from Revit without installing Revit from within the the Forge cloud platform, then today is your lucky day. The Revit Design Automation API was just launched as a public beta. “Today we’re announcing the availability of Design Automation…
Read MoreWell, this is Portland Oregon and yes we are weird or uniquely creative including the placement of small toy ponies attached to old city horse hitching rings and yarn or knit bombings of local statues. In the Autodesk Portland office some of the weird fun culture crept in…
Read MoreHere are some great ways to find out what the future of Revit has planned, and how you can help shape it. One is to check out the Public Roadmap which a new one was just published on the official Revit Blog. Revit Public Roadmap – January 2019…
Read MoreThere is a newly posted build of Autodesk Inventor for those participating or those wishing to participate in the beta testing. Our customer beta testers are a critical member of our product teams and success by providing real-world feedback and requests to help shape the future of our…
Read MoreUpdates were made the reality capture API on Forge that not only dramatically improves the resulting quality and speed to produce a mesh or view point clouds, but also adds geolocation for InfraWorks. For example you can use this Forge API to generate a 3D textured mesh from…
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