APS (Forge)
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I've been part of Autodesk's open source committee – responsible for driving and approving open source contributions by the company – as the representative for Autodesk Research for the last few years. One of the most interesting projects to come through the committee – at least from my perspective – has now been released into the wild: Autodesk's Visualization team (who also develop the Forge viewer) has open-sourced an implementation of the USD toolkit that targets the web. For those of you unfamiliar with USD – and I'm talking about the file format, not the currency – it stands for…
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There's a great opportunity coming up in March to learn about building software that works with Autodesk Construction Cloud: the ACS Integration Partner Summit 2022 is being held on St Patrick's Day, March 17th. Here's some information on what to expect from this event: Autodesk Construction Overview Hear about Autodesk's construction platform vision, including recent business updates and a technical overview of the breadth of supported construction workflows. Autodesk Construction Cloud Platform, product, and Forge API updates A large focus will be on Forge APIs. We will discuss recently released APIs that allow you to deliver new features and workflows,…
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Colleagues in Autodesk Research have been working with Dar Al-Handasah on a project to 3D print a series of footbridges with integrated sensors. It's similar in some ways to MX3D's Smart Bridge Amsterdam, but printing with plastic rather than steel. I've talked about the bridge at a couple of events, now, so I thought it was time to share some more information about this fascinating project. My role in the project is, once again, fairly minor: I've been helping with the visualization of sensor data from the bridge inside Dasher (more on that later on), but it's been fun to…
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Our friends at BIM Fórum Brasil have now posted the recording of last week's event on Digital Twins. (If the last link says "We Couldn't Find This Page", just click on the Brazilian flag in the page header.) A big chunk of the session is in Portuguese, but my piece was in English. If you only understand English, I suggest skipping forward to the 20-minute mark. If you've heard me talk about this topic before, you might still want to check out the section on the Dar Smart Bridge project at the 35-minute mark. (Be ready to crank up the…
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I've been asked to talk about our work on Digital Twins (or Gêmeos Digitais) at the BIM Fórum Brasil event, on Wednesday of this week (January 26th, 2022). The event starts at 10am in Brasilia, which is 2pm in Central Europe, so the timing should work well for Asia, Europe and early birds on the east coast of North America, too. I'll be sharing information on our older projects, as usual, but I'm also planning to showcase some of our more recent (previously unseen) projects. So there's likely to be new information even for people who have seen me talk…
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In the last post we looked at how it's possible to take temperature data from a thermal image and use the Data Visualization Extension to connect that information to locations in a 3D Forge viewer scene. In this post we look at how we can use the events from the same extension to display a simple tooltip showing the temperature when one of these locations is hovered over. Let's start by looking at what we get from the thermal image. It's pretty simple: we have colour. As we're averaging a number of pixels it's likely to be on a gradient,…
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I work in the Research Engineering team at Autodesk, a centralised pool of software engineering talent that contributes to research projects across our various industries. Organising this way allows us to explore commonalities (and efficiencies) that would otherwise be hard to achieve. Every year or two we have an internal "Innovation Days" event, which is essentially an internal team hackathon. (Lots of other teams at Autodesk do this, of course, we're far from being unique in that regard.) Our latest Innovation Days took place on Thursday and Friday of last week, with the theme of sustainability. I met with the…
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Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R13688 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 I'm really happy to see that the Tandem team is hiring. And they're hiring into a really varied set of roles, so hopefully there's something in this list for everyone. 🙂 Customer Adoption Specialist Principal Software Developer Senior Software Developer UX Designer Senior UX Designer Technical Program Manager I'm pretty sure that all these positions are "remote-ready", although I believe from a timezone perspective the Eastern US is strongly preferred for at least the engineering-centric roles. I may have that wrong, of course, and I'll be sure to come back and correct…
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The subject is basically a perfect description of my own situation, today, but I thought there might be others out there in the same boat (as it were). I have a feeling that more people will end up being stuck at home over the next few weeks, whether they like it or not. From my side I was very much looking forward to a trip to the UK, next week, where I'd have had the chance to catch up with my UK colleagues for the first time in-person in probably 2 years. And to join for the team Christmas Dinner,…
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Recently Mayur Mistry from Engineering ArchiTECHure asked me to join him for a YouTube livestream. Mayur often holds his interviews over the weekend, but he very kindly accommodated my schedule and held the session during the week. So while it was "live", it wasn't at the usual time for Mayur's subscribers and the discussion remained very much between the two of us. I've seen some really good sessions on his channel – several of his guests have prepared extensive material to show – so my apologies if you're expecting something more formal: we just chatted for an hour. Many thanks…