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MI can safely say that this was my most enjoyable (and exhausting) Autodesk University so far. This post contains a "blow by blow" account of my involvement in this year's event, to give a feel for what it was like (from my perspective, at least). Monday Before AU proper I attended two great events: our ADN conference - attended by upwards of 400 people - and Autodesk's inaugural Design Computation Symposium. I found it very interesting to see some of the capabilities of algorithmic design, an area I've started to get involved in and a theme that continued during the…
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Here are a few clips I took last night, just before and during the closing party at Autodesk University 2008. In the lobby at The Venetian... The closing seconds of the Design Slam at the AU 2008 party. The Design Slam is an event where designers - in this case industrial designers - compete live on stage to solve a particular design challenge using Autodesk software. All in front of several thousand people with pumping tunes... And what party is complete without trampolining snowboarders?
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I just spent some time talking to Brandon Peters from m-six, an Autodesk software partner working on some cool cloud-based visualization technology. Brandon also has an interest in F#, and will be attending one of the classes I'm delivering tomorrow, "AutoCAD® .NET - Developing for AutoCAD® Using F#".
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It was a busy first day of AU 2008, for me, at least: after internal meetings - and the AU keynote - in the morning, I participated in the "AutoCAD APIs - Meet the Experts" panel session this afternoon, and then attended a number of events in the evening, one of which was the AU Blogger Social, where I spent some time chatting with Jose from Cadkicks.com: Tomorrow I deliver the first of my three classes at this year's AU, "There's more to .DWG than AutoCAD®".
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After all, I arrived safely in Las Vegas, only a few hours late - people travelling in any later were apparently not all so lucky - so I managed to attend our ADN Developer Day here, today. In the queue for the evening's party I managed to take a quick video of some members of the ADN team (most being current, one - Albert - being previous). I've been asked to do more of these posts during the conference proper, so watch this space! By the way - in case the end of the video cuts short, the…
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It looked like the perfect trip across to AU: the train connection was good, so even though I had a 9am flight from Geneva to Newark I could leave my house at 6am and still make it (even after dinner at friends' the night before, but that's another story). The flight itself went well: I'd managed to snag a bulkhead seat - the first row in economy - and had an empty seat next to me. I even slept for a few hours, which is really rare for me on a flight. I got off the plane really quickly, got…
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There's just one week to go before this year's Autodesk University. If you need more accuracy than this Shaan's here to help. 🙂 I'm going to be pretty busy with last-minute (well, last-week) preparation for the event, but will try to post the odd item of interest. For those of you who won't be in Vegas for AU 2008, please do keep checking this blog: I expect to keep posting during the course of the week which will hopefully prove to be of interest whether you were able to attend or not. One month ago I mentioned an AU Unplugged…
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This post continues on from Part 1 of this series. You'll find much of this content has been used before in these previous posts, although post does include content updated for F# 1.9.6.2 (the September 2008 CTP). The first thing we need to do is – as with any AutoCAD .NET project – add project references to AutoCAD's managed assemblies, acmgd.dll and acdbmgd.dll. With F#'s integration into Visual Studio 2008 you do this in exactly the same way as you would for a C# or VB.NET project, by selecting Project -> Add Reference... from the pull-down menu or right-clicking the…
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AU Unplugged is the unconference component of Autodesk University. The sessions have been submitted and the voting is now on: based on external feedback the event organizers will schedule the most interesting classes at this year's event. Last year I held a poorly publicized (and therefore poorly attended 🙂 session on comparative AutoCAD development tools/technologies, but I've decided not to repeat that this year, and hang on the coat-tails of one of my team... Stephen Preston, the manager of DevTech Americas and our worldwide platform products technical lead, is planning the following session: AutoCAD .NET: Help Us to Help You…
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As mentioned in my previous post, I've been beavering away on the handout for a new class I'm delivering at this year's Autodesk University. Here is the first part of this handout. Introduction F# is a new programming language from Microsoft, due to become a first-class .NET citizen (joining its siblings C# and VB.NET) and fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010. In this class we'll introduce many of the concepts behind the F# language, and look at examples where we use it to create applications inside AutoCAD. At the time of writing, F# is available as a Community Technology Preview…
