I am volunteering as a design and Autodesk Inventor mentor with local Portland Oregon high school FIRST Robotics (FRC) Team 1540 of Catlin Gabel. This weekend Our team hosted the 8th annual BunnyBot event where local teams are invited to compete with robots while preparing for the big…
Read MoreIn the Autodesk Office of the CTO (OCTO) I have the absolute pleasure of working with amazingly smart, creative, talented, fun people. A few years ago our team had an intern Heather Kerrick join from Stanford University. Heather worked with us long enough for her to graduate and…
Read MoreI am in the San Francisco Office this week and got up early for a run.. I love running in SF as there are so many things to see, routes to run, and comfortable chilled air. This morning I started from near the Autodesk One Market office and…
Read MoreThis is a pretty cool video showing a student doing some cool research at the Autodesk Pier 9 during her residency in my team’s Robotics Lab. https://vimeo.com/148982525 “During her residency at Pier 9, Madeline Gannon developed a project called Quipt – a gesture-based control software that gives industrial…
Read MoreHeads up for those registered at the Autodesk University website as the sessions that were recorded just a mere two weeks ago have now been posted. Now you can watch and learn from the classes you weren’t able to attend. Grab a coffee and go learn some cool…
Read MoreAutodesk Memento beta is now available natively for the Mac platform! This is big news as popularity grew fast about Autodesk Memento several Mac users were anxiously awaiting to use it natively on their OS. In addition to the addition of Mac supported version there has been a…
Read MoreNotable statistics about AUGI’s Wish List this year Number of open wishes: 6933 Total Votes: 88,057 % of Votes for AutoCAD/AutoCAD-based products: 46% % of Votes for Revit-based products: 45% Total Rankings: 191,592 https://www.augi.com/wishlist Thank you to AUGI and their members who participated! Drumroll or actually we step…
Read MoreThank you to all of you that attended the annual Blogger and Social Media Meetup, and those that could not attend Autodesk University 2015 but blog and participate in social media and forums about Autodesk products and technologies, The meetup wass a big succcess and have many of…
Read MoreSmithsonian and Autodesk employees conduct a 3-D scan of the spacecraft. (Matt McFarland/The Washington Post) Some of my Autodesk colleagues and the Smithsonian laser cowboys are capturing the Apollo 11 lunar module in 3D this week. Current Reality Capture and Computing technologies allow us to preserve and…
Read MoreToday our Autodesk office in the Portland area was selected as a stop for the Snuggle Express by the Oregon Humane Society. What this meant was we had a room filled with puppies and kittens to snuggle with. What a great idea to get people interested in adopting…
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