Autodesk
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I'm sure many of you will already have seen Autodesk's exciting new brand identity. To get a sense of what's behind it, I recommend heading over to our Brand Hub, where you can get much of the background. It's a very interesting read. Employees and partners have had some time to digest this change – and presumably start stocking up on black printer ink 😉 – and I fully admit that it took me a little while to "get" it. If you find it a bit too different, I do recommend giving it a few days/weeks to settle in. This…
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My friend and colleague Hali Larsen has joined the Autodesk Tandem team as a Product Manager focused on connected workflows and sustainability. This is huge news, for lots of reasons: for several years Hali played an absolutely instrumental role in Project Dasher – in many ways she was our de facto PM, but also worked through many gnarly issues related to bespoke configuration for various Dasher pilot projects. Hali has a wealth of experience working with customers in this space, and also knows where most of Dasher's skeletons are buried, so she is the right person to take on this…
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I've been getting quite a bit of unsolicited email of late. It started with this one, in late July: Hi Kean,Did you know that a QR code of your email address is currently beingcirculated all around the globe in a viral meme?Cheers, It came with a couple of images attached: Perhaps somewhat rudely I largely ignored it, as I thought it was some elaborate spam or phishing attempt. I did scan the QR codes and found some curious things encoded: my email address, the URL to blogs.autodesk.com, my old Autodesk office phone number, the location of said office, my contact…
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The count-down to Autodesk University 2021 continues, with registration for the event now open. I've gone ahead and registered, as I expect many of you will at some point during the remaining 54 days. It's free, after all, and I'm sure will have lots of great content, as usual. Be sure to put the dates in your calendar – October 5-7 for the Americas, October 6-8 for EMEA & APAC, October 13-14 for East Asia. The timing of this year's event – being several weeks earlier – means that it falls during our children's half-term break. This year – all…
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The latest update to Dynamo Core (which for now you can use via Dynamo Sandbox) has some really interesting enhancements, both in terms of usability and performance. Check out Sol Amour's two blog posts that introduce Dynamo Core 2.12. As it had been a while since I'd tried the MaRS graph in a new drop of Dynamo, I went ahead and loaded it. I immediately noticed a couple of things: it was referencing an old, now-deprecated version of the Solar Analysis package, so I updated to the latest & greatest version on my system and then reloaded the graph to…
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The big news on the Forge side of things over the last few weeks is probably the official release of SVF2. This is a more efficient streaming format the Forge viewer (from v7.25 onwards) can consume. We've been using SVF2 (which was previously known as OTG) for the last couple of years inside Project Dasher, and it's been brilliant. If you're interested in the technical details on SVF2, be sure to check the blog post that announced the SVF2 Beta from late last year. Just for instance, we've seen significant performance improvements from using SVF2 for our public demo using…
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San Francisco's Pier 9 has got to one of the coolest Autodesk office locations to work from. You have access to all kind of cool technology, and it's also full of pretty cool people, too. As a reminder, here's an old post that shows the office, and here's another that introduces the work we did there to prototype technology for the MX3D bridge. If this is the kind of work environment that gets you excited, then you may be even more excited to hear that our team is hiring for Senior Web Developer (someone with full stack development skills). Such…
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I'm a little late to the announcement party on this one – as I was busy gushing about the MX3D bridge, last week – but it does still feel like it's worth posting a reminder to people. While it may seem like a long way away – as the event itself is in early October – it certainly doesn't hurt to register early for AU, even when it's free, virtual and with no restrictions on the number of participants (at least none that I'm aware of). The Forge team, for instance, has a number of plans to engage with the…
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These are busy times in the world of digital twins at Autodesk! I'm thrilled to see the news that Autodesk Tandem has now officially launched. Head on over to the new landing page, intandem.autodesk.com, to find out more, or check out Bob Bray's recent article. A few people have either been congratulating me or asking how this relates to Project Dasher, so I think it's worth clarifying the situation. Tandem is not Dasher, although I'd love to think that the Dasher story at least in some way influenced or inspired Tandem's trajectory. Tandem solves a fundamental industry problem that we…
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If you're going to forget an anniversary, let it be the one for your first engagement with social media. The very definition of a victimless crime. I just remembered that it was back in June 2006 when I started this blog (the welcome post was on June 19th, 2006, so I didn't miss it by much). It's been quite the ride… 2021 posts over 15 years, at an average of about 2.6 posts per week, rain or shine. I always set myself the goal of 3 posts per week, but in recent years that's dropped back to 2 or so.…