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Happy Halloween

As we do on every October 31, we celebrate Halloween here in the United States. Halloween is an annual holiday that originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of... Read more →

Autodesk Knowledge Transfer Graph: Just in time for Halloween - The Haunting of Hill House

I was watching a new Netflix series and I couldn't tell one character from the other... Autodesk is working to help solve some of the world's most complex design problems, from pressing ecological challenges to the development of scalable smart... Read more →

Forge DevCon as a Prelude to Autodesk University Las Vegas

Got data? What codes in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas! 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... Read more →

You Can Participate in an Autodesk Research Effort and Help Shape the Future of Our Technologies

Autodesk Research is conducting research and developing technology as part of: Reimagining Construction Reimagining Manufacturing Reimagining Design Reimagining Work If you are attending Autodesk University in Las Vegas in November, you can participate in our research efforts and make a... Read more →

The Autodesk Gallery Experience can be Remembered in a Variety of Ways

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 →

Robots As Assistants Will Garner Our Affections

Though there's hype that robots will take our jobs, many like me at Autodesk believe that robots will become our assistants. We see robots moving from the factory floor to the construction site as the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry... Read more →

The VueOps Facilities Management Solution is based on Autodesk Forge

image source: VueOps Today's blog post story comes to us from the Forge team. 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... Read more →

Consistent Themes? Fun with Major League Sports Team Naming

It's a Saturday, so this blog post is not about Autodesk technology, it's just for fun. Some investors think the stock market will go up. Others think it will go down. They're referred to as Bulls and Bears. You can... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Beginning at the end 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 →

The Autodesk Foundation is hosting TechWomen Emerging Leaders

Women make up about half of the population. Their ideas demand to be heard. TechWomen is an Initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. TechWomen empowers, connects, and supports the next generation of women... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: The Autodesk Version of the Green Map of San Francisco 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 →

Book Review: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

"What would we do with time off our backs? We would make this world a perfect place. We would make our lives a perfect thing, if not for time. But I tell you now, time is an illusion. Time is... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Elevator overhead traction 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 →

How do I make thee? Let me count the ways...

THE FUTURE OF MAKING is Autodesk's follow-up book to IMAGINE DESIGN CREATE. THE FUTURE OF MAKING tells remarkable stories of how emerging technologies are changing how we make things, who makes things, and the very nature of the what we... Read more →

Autodesk Research: Teaching a Computer to Understand Objects just like an Artist

Here's a problem: Although machine learning and artificial intelligence have almost approached human-level performance at recognizing and identifying objects in images, there is a gap in a computer's ability to produce images. Here's a possible solution: When a painter gazes... Read more →

CADshare uses Autodesk Forge to develop a better way to sell, find, and buy Spare Parts for Mission-critical Machines

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 developers to be able to... Read more →

The Future of Making as applied to the Automotive Industry

In a series of blog posts, I have shared some of Autodesk's vision for the future of making: THE FUTURE OF MAKING is Autodesk's follow up book to IMAGINE DESIGN CREATE What technologies are customers excited about for the future... Read more →