AU
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Yesterday I was reminded that 200 sessions from Autodesk University 2013 were recorded and have been made available on-demand – for free! Many great classes are available as well as the keynote and innovation forum sessions. I believe you need to create a free Autodesk account to view them, if you don't already happen to have one. In fact, here's a screengrab from the closing keynote which happens to include a photo (taken by Shaan Hurley, of course) of me with Scott McFarlane (love the sweatshirt 🙂 and Owen Wengerd at the Blogger's Social. I did a quick search for…
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Robots have been on my mind quite a bit, lately. They were everywhere at last month's Autodesk University, for instance, whether the 3D scanning robot wandering around the conference – and even showing up at the Blogger's Social – Bot & Dolly's impressively choreographed robot at the opening keynote or LEGO Mindstorms in the Exhibit Hall. And Google has been on a crazy buying spree picking up robotics companies – they've apparently acquired at least 8 during the past 12 months, including Bot & Dolly (announced while AU was still in progress, curiously enough) and the maker of the more-than-a-little-scary…
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Here's a fun one that came up as a question during the recently "AutoCAD APIs: Meet the Experts" session at Autodesk University. I promised during the session that I'd address it in a blog post this week, so here we are. But I'm splitting the post into two parts, so the more complete solution will only be available next week. The problem is as follows: we want to be able to disable osnap on specific AutoCAD objects by tagging them in some way. The solution proposed by the panel during the session (I forget by whom: it could have been…
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I've been sick in bed since returning from AU2013 – the fever I experienced on Thursday morning, before travelling home in the evening, was apparently due to bacterial bronchitis, and I've been coughing really badly over the last few days. At least the fever has passed, but I did have to cancel my plans to travel to the Munich DevDay. It would have just been too much for me to be on a series of trains for a total of 7 hours each way. Next year. Anyway, here's a quick post I've had sitting around that I've just augmented with…
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I'm sitting in Heathrow Terminal 5, waiting for my connecting flight to Geneva. A good time to reflect back on another intense week at Autodesk University. I arrived in Las Vegas for this year's AU last Saturday evening, flying via the UK on a flight that seemed full with AU attendees (even if Autodesk employees were limited to 20 per flight). Among others I bumped into Tilo Pfliegner from kubit and the CAD Professor himself, Sunith Babu. I've really found that having the extra day in Las Vegas – which I usually spend shopping for the family and hanging out…
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I was planning to post about Autodesk University 2013 today, but things have just been too hectic. I have a 3-hour layover in Heathrow on the journey home – which starts this evening – so I'll try to use that to post a summary of this year's AU as experienced by yours truly. In the last post we saw some code to move an entity – any entity, with text as the primary requirement – in a block. Here's a version of the C# code that shows the entity as it's being jigged across the screen to its new position.…
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I was hoping to get the Kinect for Windows 2.0 pre-release developer kit in time for AU – so I can talk about it intelligently, even if I don't end up demoing it – so when the UPS delivery man showed up, yesterday, I was very happy. As always, it started with a simple box: Which, once opened, revealed some nice monochrome graphics: And the device itself, of course (tripod is model's own ;-). The addition of the tripod screw-hole on the bottom is very welcome: I ended up buying…
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For those of you unable to attend AU 2013 in person, the keynote sessions and a small number of this year's classes will be streamed live. And they're free to attend: you just need to be registered with AU Online. I'm lucky to be presenting one of only 11 classes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the web as well as having a live audience: it seems my Kinect Fusion session is the only developer-centric class that's been selected for this year's AU Online, which is quite the honour. Hopefully I'll do it justice! A good piece of related…
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Over the weekend I managed to complete the BerkeleyX Foundations of Computer Graphics class. This was really an excellent class, both in terms of the structure of the lectures and the homework assignments, which actually scaled in a non-linear way (the last assignment took as much time to complete as the previous three combined). But you were eased into it and didn't strictly need to do the last piece of homework (which was to write a ray-tracer from scratch) to get a "pass" on the course. What's nice about these MOOCs is that – in order to scale, putting the…
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I've been involved at some level in Autodesk's annual Developer Days tours for as long as they've been happening (at least in a coordinated, worldwide fashion), although for the last few years it's been purely as an attendee (and last year only in Las Vegas). This is the first year I can remember the event being publicised more broadly than to our existing ADN members: many non-ADN (or ADN Open) members may not realise that this tour is a benefit available to Standard and Professional members, so we're helping spread the word. DevDays is a great way to get a…