Autodesk
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I've been heads-down on a side project to integrate a C++ library into Forge using Web Assembly (hopefully I'll share more on this sometime soon). Thankfully while I've been busy on that, the Hyperion team has been beavering away on some changes to their core shader. Last week I realised – now that we have controls to adjust the confidence and power settings in the shader – that rooms with just one sensor have a uniform shading style. This was a deliberate choice we made, back when we initially implemented the shader, as we felt it would help highlight the…
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Summer has finally started kicking in, here in Switzerland, which is wonderful. I saw this field of poppies, yesterday, which was simply stunning: the majority of the field was purple with a small border of red ones near the edges (although this doesn't really come across in the photo). I hadn't seen these poppies before, so did 30 seconds of Internet research to find out they were Papaver somniferum, commonly called the opium poppy. (It seems more likely that the field is being used for edible poppyseeds than being a hotbed of Swiss opium production, though.) Anyway, as the summer…
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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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The big news of the last week or so – although I'm well behind the curve, given prior announcements by the AU and Forge teams – is that the dates for Autodesk University 2021 have been fixed, and announced along with the event's pricing. As anticipated from the somewhat early CFP process, this year's AU will be held in early October. It wasn't so long ago that AU was in December, so this is a significant shift for many – and will mean that speakers are likely to have to spend some time this summer getting their material together, given…
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It's a holiday in most of Central Europe (including Switzerland), but I thought I'd quickly highlight a couple of interesting opportunities at Autodesk. I posted about one of these, a few weeks ago, but there's another position that has come up, since then. The Forge viewer team is looking not just for a Senior Product Owner (as mentioned before) but also a Principle Software Engineer. Both roles are SF-based, but I suspect this is probably more a question of timezone than anything, given the way the world is changing. The successful applicants are likely to have involvement in the core…
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The big news from this week (for me, anyway, aside from a very enjoyable Star Wars Day, yesterday) is that Project Hyperion has been released officially to the public as the Forge Viewer's Data Visualization Extension. All you need to do is to use it is to start making use of the Forge Viewer from v7.42 (it is available in earlier versions, but this is the most complete version) and then take a look at the extensive online documentation. Congratulations to the Hyperion team for this major milestone! The work that has been done by that team to engineer and…
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On Friday I went ahead and submitted my one and only class proposal for the all-digital Autodesk University 2021. Let's hope it gets selected. In case you're interested, here's the content of the proposal: Title: Dasher and Hyperion: using Data Visualization in a Forge viewer application Class ID: SD500020Product(s): ForgeTopics: Building Information Modeling (BIM), Building Operations, Internet of Things (IoT), Software Development Session Description Autodesk Research started Project Dasher in 2009 to explore the possibilities around integrating IoT data with BIM. In 2016 it was ported to work on the Forge platform, to understand the feasibility and potential for such…
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It's come around quickly, I know. At the end of next week the CFP closes for Autodesk University 2021 – it's really time to submit! This year's AU is being held a touch earlier than usual: I don't believe the specific dates have been shared, as yet, but given the timing of this year's CFP I'd expect it to be a month or so earlier than last year. I'll be putting the finishing touches on my own class proposal over the coming days, and will share it early next week. This quick post is really just a quick reminder to…
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The Forge viewer team is seeking to hire a San Francisco-based Senior Product Owner for Project Hyperion, the technology being made available as the Data Visualization Extension. (If you're not familiar with the term Product Owner then in fairness you're probably not a good fit for this position – the successful candidate will have PO experience – but here's a link that may be of interest to you if you want to understand more about what's involved.) This team is part of our Engineering organisation, but there are certainly connections to the work we're doing over in Research: they took…
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It's that time of year, where our engineering teams release the primary annual updates to our products. AutoCAD 2022 was released a couple of weeks ago, and Revit 2022 dropped yesterday. I unfortunately spend very little time in our products, these days, so I'll leave others to extoll their various benefits. Aside from working with the Forge platform, the product (or perhaps feature-set) I spend the most time with is Dynamo. I'm always happy to see Sol's public release announcements on the DynamoBIM blog, both for his unique writing style and the velocity of improvements the team is making to…