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Autodesk Forge Newsletter for November 2017

Newsletter | November 2017 Congrats Assemble Systems - New Forge Fund Investment We are pleased to welcome Assemble Systems to the Forge family. This is the fourth investment in a construction tech startup in five months. The startup, Assemble Systems... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Angling for a better view Exhibit

The Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco celebrates design — the process of taking a great idea and turning it into a reality. With about 60 different exhibits regularly on display that showcase the innovative work of Autodesk... Read more →

Book Review: Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter

John Schmier is my longtime colleague. We go as far back as Autodesk's WHIP! Plug-in for the Netscape Navigator browser to view Drawing Web Files (DWF). Today, John works as a researcher on generative design in the Office of the... Read more →

#AU2017 Sought To Unearth What Customers Love/Hate About Their Jobs

Most people have a love/hate relationship with their jobs. There are parts that they love, as in parts that they wish that they could spend more time doing. There are parts that they hate, as in parts that they would... Read more →

Happy Thanksgiving from Autodesk Forge

We have a great deal to be thankful for. Autodesk employees in the United States have today and tomorrow off to spend time with our families. On Monday, we'll get back to helping our customers make more things, better things,... Read more →

Updated: What's so hot about that Autodesk Forge thing?

Let's say you've been an Autodesk customer for a long time. You've got decades of your intellectual property captured in AutoCAD drawings. If you'd like to leverage that data to showcase your work to your customers, then Autodesk Forge is... Read more →

What technologies are customers excited about for the future of their work? The people have spoken.

What emerging technology will most impact the future of your work? We asked Autodesk University Exhibit Hall visitors which technology they are most excited about with regard to the future of their work? They voted. We heard them. Can you... Read more →

AU Theater at #AU2017 featured TED-like Talks

There was a new addition to Autodesk University (AU) this year — AU Theater. AU Theater featured TED-like talks throughout the week. Each session (either 1 hour or 1.5 hours long) focused on a separate topic and presented 3-4 speakers... Read more →

Autodesk Forge Data Management Now Features WebHooks

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party developers... Read more →

3DR Customers Use Autodesk Forge-based 3DR Site Scan to Complete Projects Faster with Better Accuracy

Autodesk CEO Emeritus, Carl Bass, and I have the same birthday: May 18. So I was invited to Carl's 60th birthday party where I met Chris Anderson. Though he has the same name, Chris is not the TED guy. Chris... Read more →

LimbForge Uses Autodesk Fusion 360 / Forge to Design and Make Customized Prosthetic Limbs

Millions of amputees around the world do not have access to prosthetic care. In the developing world, where poverty exacerbates the consequences of limb-loss, fewer than 5% of amputees have access to prosthetic rehabilitation. This situation is compounded even further... Read more →

Smartvid.io Adds Support for BIM 360 Docs Using Autodesk Forge

Smartvid.io is a Boston-based software company focused on leveraging machine learning to improve safety, productivity, and quality in the $10T global AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry. Their SmartTag Engine leverages deep learning to listen to (voice recognition) and watch... Read more →

Sam Nseir: Integrate BIM 360 data with PowerBI using R

Sam Nseir is an Autodesk Building Information Modeling Premium Support Specialist who supports the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction and Engineering, Natural resources, and Infrastructure industries. As part of our efforts to help Autodesk BIM customers leverage Forge capabilities, Sam developed... Read more →

At Autodesk University in Las Vegas This Week: Share Your Thoughts at The Future of Work Exhibit

They say that robots are coming to take our jobs. At Autodesk, we are hoping to help create new industries to mitigate the negative effects of the changing work environment. Just as people moved to factories when agricultural tools (e.g.,... Read more →

Hanging a Towel Rack Only Takes 38 minutes Now

My wife and I bought our first house in 1982, so I have been undertaking small projects for a long time. I can recall hanging my first towel rack and the mistakes I made. This weekend, I was able to... Read more →

Techonomy: Watch Andrew Anagnost Discuss The Future of Making Things

The way that we make things tomorrow will be different from the way that we make them today. Autodesk's aim is to help everyone make more things, better things, with less — less in terms of resources consumed, time spent,... Read more →

What You're Going to Miss at Forge DevCon If You're Not Going (it's not too late)

The Autodesk Forge Developer Conference (Forge DevCon) is the largest gathering of design and engineering software developers in the world. This year we are partnering with Autodesk University (AU). No longer do you need to choose between DevCon and AU.... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Gold Insecta Lamp Exhibit

The Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco celebrates design — the process of taking a great idea and turning it into a reality. With about 60 different exhibits regularly on display that showcase the innovative work of Autodesk... Read more →

Check Out the Autodesk Forge Technology Preview of an Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Toolkit #ARVRToolkit

Augmented reality (AR) is an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device such as a camera on a smartphone. When an Autodesk Gallery... Read more →

The Autodesk Approach is to Augment Desktop Applications with Cloud-based Services

As Chris Latimer noted in Bridging the Gap with APIs: "Moving to the cloud can be a daunting task for many companies. Often, the justifiable enthusiasm around a public cloud strategy might be tempered with concerns about how cloud solutions... Read more →

Countdown to @Autodesk Forge DevCon - 12 days to go...

Although coding with Forge doesn't require enrollment in a 12-step program, there are only 12 days left until DevCon. Now is the time to register. "Hi. My name is Scott, and I am a Forge programmer..." The Autodesk Forge Developer... Read more →