AU
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Much in the same way as I felt a little tired last Monday – something I suggested on Twitter might be Pavlovian, as it wasn't due to jetlag or travel-based fatigue – today has been another low energy day. (Typically the week after AU – and sometimes even longer – is a non-event for me, but this year there's no good reason for it to be. I expect I'll be back on top of things tomorrow.) Anyway, it is a good opportunity to reflect back on last week's "first of its kind" (and many of us are hoping "one of…
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I wasn't sure I'd find the time to record this week's episode – what with Autodesk University 2020 being in full swing – but I also thought it might be a nice way to wind down after a hectic week. I hope all of you who attended this year's AU found it useful (and even fun!) despite the constraints imposed by it being fully online. I'll post something about how I personally think it went on Monday. Anyway, this week's Floppy Friday starts with a Star Trek graphic and theme tune, and then looks at a number of games found…
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Yesterday evening was the Q&A for my Autodesk University 2020 class, Lessons from Project Dasher: Building a Digital Twin Using Forge. People registered for AU you can use the above link to access the recording for the next 30 days. Just click on the Join Now button: I really wasn't sure what to expect from this session – having a full hour dedicated to questions! – but I think it went OK. There were a few speedbumps: the assigned moderator for my class was busy elsewhere and so only arrived partway through. It's AU week, so I understood, and did…
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And so it begins: today is the first day of Autodesk University 2020 (at least in the US), to be enjoyed (most probably) from the comfort of your home office or living room. We are now at well over 100,000 registrations, which is simply unbelievable. Many on Twitter are lamenting (or more likely relishing) the fact they're not travelling to Las Vegas, dealing with jetlag, dehydration, cracked lips (viva los chapstick), lack of daylight (not good when dealing with the aforementioned jetlag), passive smoke inhalation, slot machine noise pollution and, yes, alcohol poisoning. I do miss the in-person contact with…
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At our in-person Autodesk University events, it's common for our R&D teams to interview customers and to brief them on ongoing research projects and upcoming product features. This is a really valuable part of our R&D process: this feedback helps us make sure that our products and services help the industry move forward by addressing real customer pain. This year is a bit different, of course: rather than hanging around the Idea Exchange – which I know many of us struggle to find time for – you can sign up for sessions via the AU website (or the links in…
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It's time: the full, interactive schedule for this year's all-digital Autodesk University is now online. You can go ahead and start bookmarking your favourite classes today. Assuming you're one of the 85,000 (and counting!) people who have registered for the event. If you haven't already registered, don't worry: you can still do so for free. (There are still plenty of tickets left. 😉 So to get things rolling, here's a link to my AU 2020 class for you to bookmark and watch from November 17th. You can expect some interesting news to be announced (or at least repeated) in this…
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'Twas the week before AU, when all around the globe, developers began coding, into Forge did they probe. Unknown Before Autodesk University kicks off, next week, our Developer Advocacy and Support team is running the inaugural Forge Hackathon. I talked about this event a month ago: hopefully some of you saw that and decided to sign up. By all accounts it's well subscribed, either way: I see 45 team channels in Slack, and people have started talking about their various hacks. We started today with an introduction for Asia and Europe. Cyrille Fauvel kicked things off and introduced – among…
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This year has been strange at so many levels that it seems a bit petty to highlight one particular area. But preparing material for Autodesk University 2020 has certainly been one such area, and it's very fresh in the mind of AU speakers around the world. With this year's event being all digital, it's clear that the AU team had to find a way to get classes delivered remotely: one option would have been to live-stream them all, but at some point the decision was made to get everything pre-recorded for on-demand delivery. (On-demand classes are not the only way…
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Our children have been off school for the last two weeks, so I've been alternating between preparing my Autodesk University 2020 material and going on excursions with the family. We had planned to visit Kosovo during this break, but as it was on Switzerland's quarantine list we chose to cancel our flights. Somewhat frustratingly – just the week after – the Swiss Confederation added 15 new countries to the quarantine list and removed only one: Kosovo. So we could have gone, after all. Argh. That said, when we'd planned the trip back in July, I hadn't realised the timeframe for…
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If you enjoy hackathons – and have the time to spare – then you could spend the next month hacking, should you so desire! Last Friday the 2nd online AEC Hackathon kicked off with its lightning round. The event is about now a week in: it started officially on October 5th, but it really only started in earnest with Friday's kick-off and lightning round. The event will run until October 25th, so you still have time to find or build a team and participate. It was fun listening to the recording of the lightning round – which was short and…