It is Alive in the Lab

Updated: Learn More about the Autodesk Gallery exhibits

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 →

ORDERFOX.com uses Autodesk Forge to Increase Efficiency in Conducting Business

Here are two problems: Let's say you're a CNC manufacturer that is searching for new CNC jobs on short notice because you have excess capacity. On the other hand, suppose you are a CNC manufacturer that wants to outsource jobs... Read more →

Using the Day to Honor the Fallen

Today Autodesk employees in the United States have the day off for Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a day where we honor those who have sacrificed their lives in service to the country. This is not to be confused with... Read more →

RS Components: The Future of Space Travel

RS Components is a leading global distributor of electronic, electrical, and industrial components for engineers and has been supporting and inspiring generations of engineers since 1937. Heidi Weston reached out to me on behalf of RS Components with some interesting... Read more →

AI Lab Human + AI = Future of Design + Make

I recently received this report from our team at our Toronto Technology Center. At the Autodesk Tech Centers, we collaborate with industry, academic, and entrepreneurial communities to validate and test ideas about the future, inform our product and business strategy,... Read more →

Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, the Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge is supported by the Autodesk Foundation. In May 2017, the Bay Area Challenge launched with a regional call to action to proactively plan for... Read more →

Scott Sheppard is Too Big for his Britches

It's Friday, so let's talk about something besides Autodesk technology. According to my Fitbit, on February 12, 2018, I weighed 204.5 pounds. Aw-oh. For all of my adult life, the first number of my weight started with a 1 instead... Read more →

Autodesk Global Month of Impact: Assembling Durable, Portable Water Filters for Those in Need

May is Autodesk’s annual Global Month of Impact. This is an opportunity for everyone at Autodesk to do some great volunteer work. This initiative demonstrates who we are — a company committed to making a better world. The theme of... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Bionic builder 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 →

myAgro provides a Saving Account Platform and a Precision Planter Device to Help Farmers Out of Poverty

The Autodesk Foundation supports the design and creation of innovative solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges. Like all Autodesk employees, they believe design can change the world, but the Foundation goes the extra mile to champion... Read more →

SPINALCOM is Enabling Collaborative, Real Time BIM Level 3 Applications for All Stages of a Facility's Lifecycle

image courtesy of SPINALCOM Autodesk Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party... Read more →

Which Work of Fiction Should Our Interns Pre-read?

I don't read fiction. It's not real, so I consider it a waste of time. I read books like: Only Humans Need Apply by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance How We Got to Now... Read more →

At HOOPS Technical Summit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco

I sort of started my employment with Autodesk by moving to California in 1990 to work for Ithaca Software. Ithaca Software was in the process of relocating from Ithaca, New York. Ithaca Software was acquired by Autodesk in 1993, and... Read more →

The Airbus Foundation Discovery Space, in partnership with Autodesk, Officially Launched

Matthew Bell is a Global Strategic Partnerships Manager in Autodesk Education. Recently, Matthew shared some great news. The Airbus Foundation Discovery Space, in partnership with Autodesk, is now live. This includes an official press release with a launch video with... Read more →

Autodesk Foundation Hosts Techbridge Girls at the Autodesk Gallery

Techbridge Girls launched in 2000 as a program to expand the academic and career options for girls in science, technology, engineering, and math. Since its founding, they have worked with over 4,000 girls in grades 5-12 through our after-school and... Read more →

Autodesk Visiting Fellows Update: Colonel Zachary Miller meets AutoCAD expert, Lieutenant Aziz Mohammad

The Corporate Strategy team's purpose is to assist the CEO and senior executives in developing and implementing a company-level strategy to help Autodesk operate intentionally as an integrated, coordinated system. Further, it is to catalyze Autodesk’s long-term thoughts about the... Read more →

Autodesk is Investigating Blockchain for AEC

Enlarge R&D Director of The Future of Storytelling, Hilmar Koch, is my colleague in the Office of the CTO. Hilmar and I have been discussing the future of Autodesk technology and how it fits in with the futures of the... Read more →

Preserving the Lelu Historical Site for Generations to Come

May is Autodesk’s annual Global Month of Impact. This is an opportunity for everyone at Autodesk to do some great volunteer work. This initiative demonstrates who we are — a company committed to making a better world. The theme of... Read more →