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Hali Larsen: Visualizing Machine Data at Autodesk's AMF

Technology Center in Birmingham, UK The Autodesk Technology Centers in San Francisco (Pier 9), Boston (BUILD Space) and Toronto (MaRS), and Birmingham (Advanced Manufacturing Facility) help Autodesk explore the future of manufacturing, building, design, and making overall. These facilities have... Read more →

Autodesk's Philippe Leefsma Presented the Autodesk Forge AR/VR Toolkit at FITC Amsterdam 2018

image source: Philippe Leefsma from his FITC class "I know the script I'm in I'm only thoughts of heaven trapped in flesh and skin And from the world of men I try to tighten up the code again And the... Read more →

The World Needs More Stuff, Better Stuff, Made in Better Ways

The time to get busy is now. The world needs more stuff, better stuff, that is produced in better ways. At Autodesk, one of our interest areas is sustainability: By 2050, there will be 10 billion people on the planet.... Read more →

Manufacturing Leadership Council: A Future of Making Things Connected

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our... Read more →

Autodesk Pier 9 Welcomes New Residents to its Residency Program

Autodesk has several technology centers around the world, and one of them is located at Pier 9 in San Francisco. At its onset, Pier 9 provided opportunities for Autodesk employees to use our software to design, make, and use various... Read more →

Happy President's Day

Andrew Anagnost is Autodesk President and CEO. Throughout history, Presidents of the United States have recorded some famous quotations. On this day, President's Day, we poke some good-natured fun at Andrew and imagine what he might have said, had he... Read more →

Mark the day via Marca Via

I am an Autodesk employee today because I interviewed with Carl Bass in June 1990 to work for Ithaca Software on his HOOPS (Hierarchical Object-Oriented Picture System) platform-independent 3D graphics software package. After Ithaca Software was acquired by Autodesk in... Read more →

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! Fusion 360 is our 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool that connects entire product development processes in a single cloud-based platform that works on both Mac and PC. In the spirit of the day, here are some... Read more →

Happy Mardi Gras

As a Catholic from New Orleans, Happy Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras (a.k.a., Fat Tuesday) is the day before Lent. Lent is a solemn religious observance that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately 40 days later, before Easter Sunday. During... Read more →

Xinaps Tackles AEC Industry Challenges with Autodesk Forge

Xinaps empowers design professionals to design more efficiently by minimizing manual work and utilizing building data. Their tools are the first to validate elements within a building model and visualize the outcome directly within the 3D design software. Founded in... Read more →

The Rock Boat XVIII was music to my ears… (part 1 of 3)

My wife, Sheryl, and I took our seventh Rock Boat cruise in as many years. Once a person attends, they become part of The Rock Boat family, so there are lots of repeat voyagers. As always, we attended with my... Read more →

The Rock Boat XVIII was music to my ears… (part 2 of 3)

...continued from Part 1. Wednesday, January 31 Sixthman Sessions, Stardust Theater Sixthman Sessions is a songwriting retreat where Rock Boat artists partake in creation, collaboration, and camaraderie of composing songs. A handful of artists, strangers to each other before the... Read more →

The Rock Boat XVIII was music to my ears… (part 3 of 3)

...continued from Part 2. Saturday, February 3 Yoga with Barenaked Ladies, Sports Court The title, Yoga with bare naked ladies, is not as provocative as it might sound. Sheryl and Marie took a yoga class led by Barenaked Ladies' bassist,... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Powers of Design Redux

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our... Read more →

Have you ever wondered why the water pressure in some hotels is much better than that in others?

image source: grundfos.com "Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Am I right? Am I... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Church of big data Exhibit

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our... Read more →

Request for Help: Are There Any Mail Merge Experts Out There?

Recently I blogged about of Community Emergency Response Team efforts: Our Community Earthquake Emergency Response Plans I even submitted the content to our local Alameda Patch: Crown Harbor Community Emergency Response Team plans in place Because our CERT has divided... Read more →