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A Bold Proposal: Solar Plans for My Home Energy in Cypress, Texas

They say everything's big in Texas and that includes air conditioning bills. As Alameda, California residents, we didn't have an air conditioner in our home. The climate was mild enough that we did not need one. In fact, I chronicled... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at Autodesk University in Las Vegas: Automated Construction on the Moon or Mars

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 Gallery at Autodesk University in Las Vegas: IndyCar Design Simulation

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 Gallery at Autodesk University in Las Vegas: Custom Construction Components on Demand

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 →

Science Fiction as Foresight for Science Fact

Today's guest blog post comes to us from two of my colleagues: Radha Mistry, Story Maker in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) Jessica Escobedo, summer intern in OCTO Finding value in stories isn't new. Our histories, creeds, and technologies... Read more →

Happy Thanksgiving

Today and tomorrow are Autodesk holidays for employees in the United States. We are thankful for many things in life. Today is a day to celebrate them — most notably family and friends. My wife and I will be spending... Read more →

How Long Do People Live in One Place?

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! With our pending move to split my time between San Francisco and Houston, I wondered how long do people live in one place? According to Quora, on average, Americans live in the same house for 9 years... Read more →

Blockchain and AEC from an Expert

It's not every day that I get a business card in Gaelic. As I have blogged a little about Autodesk's investigation into blockchain for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, I was happy to be introduced to Malachy Mathews... Read more →

Three Autodesk Forge Partner Booths at #AU2018 that I Visited

On the heels of a successful Forge DevCon developer's conference, it was great to stop by a few of the Forge partner booths in the AU Expo Hall at Autodesk University 2018. HoloBuilder's motto is that they are the "street... Read more →

Storytelling as a way to Reinforce Company Culture

Since today is Wednesday in the middle of Autodesk University (AU), and we're all fully immersed in AU activities, I can safely say "...and now for something completely different." We work in the Office of the CTO (OCTO). OCTO's mission... Read more →

Check out the Gallery Exhibits in the AU Expo

At Autodesk, we make tools to help people with design challenges every day. We help our customers design and make anything, from skyscrapers and smart cars to bridges and blockbusters. We automate how things are designed in the digital world... Read more →

Autodesk University and Forge DevCon - the Lay of the Land

Autodesk University (AU) is a set of events in various countries where Autodesk customers come to learn about technology and take classes on how to use Autodesk products and services. We have an upcoming event in Las Vegas on November... Read more →

Buying a Lennar Home Designed with AutoCAD

image source: lennar.com After 9 wonderful years at Crown Harbor in Alameda, it’s time from my wife, Sheryl, and I to relocate. Our plan was to select a lot and have a new home built with an in-law unit so... Read more →

Autodesk Forge: Another 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, another question came in regarding that code: Hi Sam: Would you... Read more →

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 →