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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…
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Last week Autodesk's Developer Advocacy and Support team organised their second Forge Accelerator where developers could prototype Digital Twins using the Forge viewer's Data Visualization Extension (codenamed Hyperion). The first of these Accelerators was back in December: while these virtual Accelerator events are currently held monthly, the Hyperion team needed some time to integrate the feedback from that event, so this was really only the second opportunity to focus on this new capability. I was a little busy last week (mainly with attending and speaking at the AI in AEC 2021 conference, which I found very interesting), so I wasn't…
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I've just heard that the Call for Proposals for Autodesk University 2021 goes out next week on March 30th. The CFP period is short – it runs until April 30th – so it's already time to don your thinking caps and consider what topic or topics you'd like to talk about at this year's AU. Community voting will be possible as soon as the CFP starts, and will run until May 12th. I'm probably going to submit something related to Dasher and /or Project Hyperion, but I need to plan out what that would look like over the coming weeks…
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A few weeks ago I came across an internal link to a new Chrome extension that greatly simplifies the act of working with the Forge viewer (which we refer to inside Autodesk as LMV, or the Large Model Viewer). Earlier this week its developer, Amit Diamant (who some of you may remember from the Big Room Hackathon project) reached out to let me know it was being made public. This was really good news, as these Developer Tools contain some features I know will benefit the community (as I'm already using them myself). The first killer feature is the "Hit…
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I'm currently up in the mountains with my family, enjoying the annual school closure for the kids' "ski week". I recognise we're especially lucky, this year, given that a) Swiss ski resorts are open and b) our kids are at school physically rather than remotely. Spring seems to be hitting early, this year, but even if the snow's a little soft, the sun is very welcome. Here's a shot where we're sitting at the top of a run as a rescue helicopter takes off (this is never good to see, but it is often impressive): Yesterday we went to another…
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At the beginning of March our Developer Advocacy and Support team will be running its annual series of DevDays Online events. The first week will focus on public information – mainly news related to the Forge platform – while the second week will be for Autodesk Developer Network members, and focus mainly on our desktop products and APIs. You can find more complete information here, and register via the links below: For everyone March 2 – DevDays Keynotes – Jim Quanci March 3 – Forge API update – Augusto Goncalves March 4 – Autodesk Construction Cloud and API update –…