AutoCAD
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The material for this year's online Autodesk DevDays is now live on YouTube. These sessions were held back in March, but now that the various products discussed have been released publicly, the information has been made available for everyone (i.e. not only covered by the Non-Disclosure Agreement signed by Autodesk Developer Network members, the famously palindromic ADN NDA). Here's the full playlist, if you want to watch it here: Here are links to the individual sessions: Autodesk DevDays 2021 keynotes Inventor, Vault and Fusion API update AutoCAD API update Revit API update Civil 3D update One interesting tidbit from the…
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Not everyone can make it to the Forge team's annual DevCon events, so luckily they also run a set of online webinars covering similar content. Here's a brief schedule of their upcoming webinars – for more specifics, please head on over to their blog post. Note that some of these webinars are only open to members of the Autodesk Developer Network (if they relate to our desktop products). All of the webinars are held at 8am PST (4pm GMT, 5pm CET, 11am EST), and will be recorded if the timing doesn't work for you. Tuesday February 25 - DevDays Keynotes…
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The Forge team has published details of a series of free webinars coming up over the next few weeks that take an in-depth look at the various Design Automation APIs for AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor and 3ds Max. Here are the dates and presenters for the various versions of the Design Automation API. All times are 8am Pacific. December 5th, 2019 | AutoCAD | Albert Szilvasy December 10th, 2019 | Revit | Sasha Crotty December 11th, 2019 | Inventor | Andrew Akenson December 12th, 2019 | 3ds Max | Kevin Vandecar For more details and to register, head on over to…
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There's a series of webinars starting next week that will help you get a grip on what's coming with various Autodesk platforms, both cloud-based and desktop. It's also a chance to catch up on some of the content that was presented at last year's DevCons. All the below webinars start at the same time: 8am PST | 11am EST | 4pm GMT | 5pm CET. Don't worry if that time's inconvenient, recordings will be made available soon after the webinars are finished. Please note that while some of the sessions (the last three in the below list) require Autodesk Developer…
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This isn't exactly new news, but it was to me. Today I found out we've made a very useful component, the Autodesk Reality Solutions SDK, available to the public. This is a C++ library that allows you to read and write Autodesk's RCP and RCS formats, as well as to create custom plugins for new point cloud definition formats. ADN members can log in today and download the SDK and accompanying samples. Non-members can send an email and get access to it that way. There's a particular reason I find this to be important news: it will enable developers to…
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After the previous day's excitement of seeing AutoCAD Web on mainstage at the Google I/O developer keynote, on Wednesday our very own Marcus O'Brien, Senior Product Line Manager in the AutoCAD team, took to the stage during another session at Google I/O – entitled "Building the Future Web with WebAssembly" – to talk a bit more about AutoCAD's history and the path that led to this latest incarnation of AutoCAD Web. Here's a video of the session. It's probably worth watching more of this one, but for your convenience I've set the below video to start with the AutoCAD segment.…
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As a great way to demonstrate the promise WebAssembly holds for software developers, AutoCAD Web was showcased during yesterday's developer keynote at Google I/O. This is well-deserved recognition of the important work done by the AutoCAD team on the Fabric project (and on AutoCAD Web itself, of course). Congratulations to all those involved!
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This is a slightly anomalous post in the "one man's trash" series, in that we've actually found something I can't bear to part with. This was nearly the case for The Autodesk File 3rd Edition, but I did bring myself to ship that one off to Oregon. Today's item, once again uncovered by Francesco Tonioni, is a boxed version of AutoCAD 2.6. It's probably too heavy and fragile to ship around the world, but if I'm honest that's only part of the reason. It's just too precious! It's the German edition, which for sure was localized from the English version…
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For the latest release of AutoCAD a new set of imagery was created. This is the first major evolution of the AutoCAD product brand in several years: our Brand Strategy & Design group recently shared some material about the work they do that I thought would be of interest to readers of this blog. Many thanks to Sabrina Humphreys and Bonnie Cha for contributing the content for this post. The last major redesign happened for the AutoCAD 2014 product family, and was used until AutoCAD 2018. Here's what the team said about this effort (I'll share their words verbatim in…
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Over the weekend I received an email from Jürgen Becker. It came with this image, which certainly brought back memories. The email referred to our recent trip down memory lane… I read your last post and remembered a poster. Do you remember that release, it was terrible? This is one of my favourite "chat over a beer" topics, and one that seems relevant to where we are today with Fabric, so I wrote Jürgen a quick note to say that I'd reply via my blog. Here is that reply. R13 was bad, but it had to happen I joined Autodesk…