Categories AI

What is Autodesk Researching with AI and VFX

  Problems grow in complexity with time, what is Autodesk doing to solve this challenge for VFX? “From specialized image segmentation to AI-powered UV creation, and natural language art directing, see where Autodesk stands and is going with AI-fueled entertainment creation. Evan Atherton, Senior Research Engineer, kicks off…

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Categories AEC

Happy Labor Day

Many of my US based readers celebrated Labor Day yesterday, except for those preparing for possible hurricane in the Southeast US. Next door to the Autodesk Portland office is a new 17 story building 5MLK as been under construction for the past year by Hoffman Construction. In the…

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Categories Events

Portland Adult Soapbox Derby 2019

Two weeks ago I had one of the coolest volunteer jobs as a Course Marshall for the 22nd annual Portland Adult Soapbox Derby held in Portland’s beautiful Mount Tabor Park. I spent all day with a bullhorn and a radio clearing the course, heckling people who ignored the…

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Categories Misc.

My Office View the Past Few Days

I took off to the Mt Hood National Forest to camp, enjoy the beauty, disconnect from screens, spend time with my girlfriend and her young kids, breathe in the fresh mountain air, escape the heat wave in Portland this week, as well as reboot my brain. Now I’m…

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Categories Autodesk

Kids at Autodesk Day – Portland 2019

This is always one of my favorite days of the year and it was held in the Autodesk Portland office yesterday. We had over 60 kids of our employees show up for a day filled with fun activities, snacks, food, and even robot rides.

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Categories AutoCAD

Throwback Thursday – AutoCAD Helps View Solar Eclipses История по четвергам – AutoCAD для наблюдения за солнечным затмением

While those old 5.25 inch floppies may not be of much help these days other than memorabilia, the Autodesk Moscow office made good use of them as lenses to view a solar eclipse.а первый взгляд, сейчас трудно найти применение 5.25-дюймовым дискетам. Может только как экспонаты в музее! Но…

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Categories AEC

Revit 2020.1 Is Released

Just in case you weren’t aware, Revit 2020.1 has been released and the Revit Blog has all the details in great detail as usual. If you do MEP work in Revit, you MUST go get this. ”A new version of Revit in August? Now that we release features…

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Categories Announcements

16 Years of Between the Lines Blog

Two years ago on this day there was an solar eclipse, this year just me saying thank you sincerely for reading between the lines and Autodesk who gave me the freedom to speak freely with support and encouragement in speaking to our awesome customers. I started blogging 16…

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