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Autodesk Foundation Impact Speaker Series: Andrew Schroeder of WeRobotics

In the middle of a night's sleep, have you ever had that dream that you're falling? Well, some mosquitos do. Read on... Sustainability is ingrained in Autodesk's vision of helping people imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk launched... Read more →

Let Everyone Know You're Attending #AU2018

If you're like me, you're eager to get to Las Vegas on November 12-15 to attend Autodesk Forge Devcon and Autodesk University. You can let your Twitter followers and Facebook friends know that you'll be there by temporarily updating your... Read more →

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 →

The Future of Work and the Future of Learning

A user's skillset can be assessed and validated by the tools themselves. In my previous blog post reference to Marco Annunziata's Forbes Blog post, "Universal Basic Income: A Universally Bad Idea," I noted that companies need to provide toolsets for... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: 3D Printed Ceramics 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 →

Things, Making, and Work: It's all about the Future

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 More Words About Buildings and Food More of the... Read more →

Autodesk's Role in the Future of Making

In one form or another, I have been associated with Autodesk since 1990. Originally known as the AutoCAD company that had a female CEO and allowed employees to bring their dogs to work, today we are so much more. Here... Read more →

List of Autodesk San Francisco Gallery Exhibits by Industry Served

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 →

More of the Why Regarding the Future of Making

In a recent blog post, I shared part of Autodesk's vision for the future of making to make the case that we need to help our customers do more and better with less. I cited housing for our growing population... Read more →

Boys and Girls Club of Alameda Students Get Started as Designers with Autodesk Tinkercad

It's never too early to become a designer. Tinkercad is an Autodesk cloud-based application used by designers, hobbyists, teachers, and students, to make toys, prototypes, home decor, Minecraft models, jewelry — the list is truly endless. Geared towards the non-professional,... Read more →

Summer Intern Jessy Escobedo: Worldbuilding for the Future of Work

This story comes to us from Radha Mistry who is a Story Maker on our Corporate Strategy team. She and other team members (including a summer intern) considered how Autodesk customers will work in the distant future. This summer Jessy... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Operable Wall Partition Exhibit

Wall partition Wall partition in its lowered position (image courtesy of Erin Bradner) to separate the meeting space from the partying Wall partition in its raised position (image courtesy of Janice Wong-Perez) to open up the meeting space for as... Read more →

Building Information Model Maturity Levels Defined

In the beginning, there was AutoCAD. Though the functionality in AutoCAD has grown over the years and continues to be a popular and important part of the Autodesk portfolio of products, its original appeal was based on its: ability to... Read more →

The Ocean Cleanup will launch its System 001 Tomorrow Morning

"Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar. Play for free, I play for me and play a whole lot more, more! Singing about the good things and the sun that lights the day. I used to sing... Read more →

D-Rev Design Engineering Internship: Andy Zhang on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"

Bobbie Casey is our Engagement Coordinator for the Autodesk Foundation. The Autodesk Foundation believes that design can change the world and supports the design and creation of innovative solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges. Bobbie manages... Read more →

Autodesk Forge: Asked and Answered

Sam Nseir is a designated support specialist in our Worldwide Field Operations team. A while back, Sam created some sample code with Autodesk Forge that I blogged about: Recently, a question came in regarding that code: Hi Sam: I saw... Read more →

Autodesk Intern Showcase - Summer 2018

As usual, the Office of the CTO (OCTO) hosted interns for the summer. We have our interns work on real research projects rather than just create busy work. One of our favorite aspects of the program is that our interns... Read more →

Student Advocacy Helps Today's Students and Cultivates Tomorrow's Customers

Bjørn Wittenberg is a Global Program Manager on our Autodesk Educational Experience team. Recently he shared some information about our student advocacy program. As happy as I am that Autodesk's vision is to help people imagine, design, and make a... Read more →

Eutech Cybernetic uses Forge for BIM-powered Visualization and Data Management in its iviva Smart-building Solution

Headquartered in Singapore and with additional operations in India, Dubai, Sri Lanka and Sydney, Eutech Engineering Pte. Ltd. and its subsidiaries (the "Group") develop and implement proprietary software solutions for workplace management, smart buildings, and healthcare. Eutech has accumulated domain... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Making A Cardboard Head Exhibit

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

More Words About Buildings and Food

At Autodesk, the Office of the CTO creates stories about the future and helps Autodesk make them come true. Here are a few excerpts from Autodesk's take on the future of making coupled with a story from the Autodesk Foundation.... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Dress to Impress Exhibit

Autodesk makes software for people who make the world around us. 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... Read more →

Thank You for Being Late - fun fact about IBM Watson

I am reading Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman. IBM Watson is a cloud-based computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's... Read more →

BBC News: Video Lego-building robot aspires to bigger things

The Office of the CTO explores stories about the future and makes them come true. One of these stories involves robots working side by side with humans in construction and manufacturing. After our Brickbot project was unveiled last month, Artificial... Read more →

Registration for Forge DevCon / Connect & Construct / AU is now Open

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

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Irregular Elegance 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 →

Hydrous Happy Hour was a Huge Success

It's Friday, so let's talk about a happy hour instead of technology. The Autodesk Foundation threw its annual Hydrous Happy Hour celebration on Thursday, August 16 at the Autodesk Gallery in our downtown office in San Francisco. I was honored... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences 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 →

Caduceus Forge Application Aids in Asbestos Abatement Planning and Management

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 developers to be able... Read more →

Join us for Design Night in the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco on September 6

Design Night: Rosie and the Robots At each Design Night, we take a new and unexpected theme and explore how tech is transforming it — all with a bar, food, music, and activities. Design Night events are held quarterly in... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco: Delcam 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 →

Autodesk Employees among Multiple Buildings in San Francisco

I work at our offices in San Francisco. Our team is part of the Office of the CTO, but our offices worldwide are a mixture of employees from various divisions. Business Strategy and Marketing Design and Creation Products Digital Platform... Read more →

Marco Annunziata on Forbes.com - Universal Basic Income: A Universally Bad Idea

I am part of the Corporate Strategy Team at Autodesk whose purpose is to assist the CEO and senior executives in developing and implementing company-level strategy to help Autodesk operate intentionally as an integrated, coordinated system. Further, it is to... Read more →

CPL Creative Labs 3D Prints a Larger than Life Sharpie

It's Friday, so let's have some fun. Danny Jones, AIA/NCARB/LEED AP BD+C Associate from CPL in Woodstock, Georgia shared this with me: Something fun we’ve drummed up in our LABS (CPL Creative Labs) — a 6’-6” tall thin Sharpie marker... Read more →