APS (Forge)
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There's a lot of change going on, over in the Forge Partner Development team. This is the team of talented individuals who help customers and partners working with Forge – as well as members of the Autodesk Developer Network, of course. One of the team's Senior Managers, Stephen Preston (who took over many of my former responsibilities when I left them in their pre-Forge days back in 2012, as well as doing a lot of other important work besides) is moving into the Forge Business Development team. Yes, so his new title will have just a one word difference from…
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Many of you have been using Forge services to good effect, whether the Forge viewer or the Data Management, Model Derivative and Design Automation APIs. There's lots of really cool stuff you can do with Forge – we use it heavily in Dasher 360, for instance – but the existing services are largely engineered to deal with data created by existing desktop technology, i.e. they're file-centric. The next generation of Forge web-services will help you and your customers move beyond files. Here's a class from last year's Forge DevCon that gives an introduction to two key technologies in this new…
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Those of you who have followed the progress on Dasher 360 will be aware that it currently works with a single building (or other) model. It's always been our intention to go "Beyond BIM" (both in terms of addressing the needs of other industries but also scaling up to look at sites and cities) but over the last few weeks we've made a big push, making our first real forays into this new territory. Here's a sneak peek at a campus view in Dasher 360 that integrates an additional Forge viewer control (this might also use a 3D mapping control…
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For those of you who (like me) missed this year's in-person DevDays – or perhaps have colleagues who would benefit from seeing sessions you managed to attend yourself in Las Vegas or elsewhere – you'll be interested to hear that DevDays Online will be disseminating all that DevDays goodness over the wire during the month of February. The great news is that this isn't being limited to ADN members: anyone can sign up and attend. The sessions will also be recorded, in case any are at times that don't work for you. You can register to attend the various sessions…
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For those of you who – like me – weren't able to travel to Las Vegas for this year's Forge DevCon, I thought I'd do a quick round-up of the major news that I could extract over the wire. I'm sure there will be further blog posts from the Forge team summarising more of things I couldn't see – not being there in person – but this will hopefully be of some use to people, at least. To kick things off, I suggest reading this blog post. It talks about some high-level items, such as additions to the platform, the…
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If my calculations are correct, I'll be in Singapore during this year's Autodesk University in Las Vegas. It's the first I'll have missed for many years – and it's going to feel more than a little strange, when that week comes along – but this trip (and my family) will be taking precedence, for once. While I'm not going to be there myself, my good friend and colleague, Simon Breslav, is stepping in to deliver the class I would be giving if I were there. Although as Simon is the person who developed a great deal of the code being…
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I have to admit it's a little bittersweet to be talking about this year's Forge DevCon: I've been involved in helping schedule some great classes for the AR/VR track, but I won't be presenting myself – or even present at the event, at all – this year. But it's all in a good cause: our big trip is progressing well, and – in any case – I've had enough time in Las Vegas for the year. 🙂 For those of you attending, you can now go ahead and register. If you want to attend just the DevCon, you will be…
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If you're working in the BIM space and are thinking about developing a cloud-based application that works with BIM 360 and Forge, there's an online hackathon that may be of interest to you. In fact it may well be of interest even if you're not thinking of building such an app in the immediate future: these events are a great opportunity to learn about Autodesk platform technology and consider whether it might be useful at some point down the line. The hackathon kicked off a week ago on August 1st and runs until September 30th. You have until then to…
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For most of the week – while at the Forge Accelerator in Barcelona – I sat next to an acquaintance (I'm happy to now call a friend) from Amazon Web Services: Tom "Elvis" Jones. Tom is a solution architect at AWS and has been to a number of Forge-related events over the last year or so. Autodesk has tightened its relationship with AWS in recent years, one of the reasons for Tom's presence at Forge events. From talking to Tom, it's clear he's interested in helping Forge developers get started more quickly with the AWS platform, something that's going to…
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As always, the annual football tournament – this time in Barcelona – was a complete blast. The Neuchatel team was as strong as it's ever been, in my opinion, and played really well. We were in a tough group (yes, the proverbial "group of death"), but managed to qualify for the knock-out stage with 3 wins, 2 draws and a loss. The weather was scorching… a beautiful early summer's day. We had a few great games in the knock-out phase, eventually losing (again) in the quarter final on penalties to the UK team (who went on to win the whole…