Autodesk
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Since starting up back in 2013, the AEC Hackathon team has organised 43 in-person events in various cities around the world. This year being "special", they've taken the plunge and set up a couple of online events, the first was held from July 6th-26th while the second will be held from October 9th-25th. I was on holiday for the first two weeks of the July event, so could only really participate by presenting a topic during the final week. Here are a couple of screenshots of me – taken from the session recording, which should still be available on-demand –…
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After being teased with some graphics improvements coming in Dynamo, I was excited to find on returning from my recent holiday to find a new release of Dynamo Sandbox was available for testing. There are a number of notable features available in Dynamo 2.7, whether the ability to run CPython3 code – rather than using IronPython, which is based on Python2 – or improved graphics preview performance thanks to an upgrade to Helix. I started by just loading v2 of the MaRS graph, without changing any of the code blocks to use CPython. Straightaway I found that the graphics performance…
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These days I belong to the Research Engineering team at Autodesk, headed by Tony Ruto. (Tony joined Autodesk with the acquisition of Within Technologies, back at the end of 2014, where he was CTO.) Tony's team is a shared resource for the various "Core Science" and "Industry Futures" teams within Autodesk Research: we help develop prototypes and platform capabilities that are used elsewhere in the organisation, and also have members of our team embedded within these other teams. The team is growing, which is quite exciting: there are a number of open positions that I'd encourage you to share or…
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This post is a bit of a grab-bag of various event-related topics. The first one (chronologically, if not in terms of the title above) is the availability of session recordings from the recent CanBIM event: "The Future of Work: Designing Resiliency and Building Work Safety Post-COVID". My own session was entitled "Using Generative Design and Digital Twins to Improve Occupant Well Being". As it was the first session of the day – with a new web streaming platform – there were a few teething issues for the sponsor's introduction (and the session auto-closed a little too promptly, which meant no…
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I've just realised that time is running out for people to submit their class proposals for AU 2020. The deadline is on June 22nd, which is this coming Monday. From my side I'm almost certainly going to submit a class to discuss the details of the work we've been doing on post-COVID return-to-workplace efforts. Essentially digging into how we've used the Space Analysis package to implement metrics that make sense for this type of analysis. If you're thinking of submitting something, but haven't yet put pen to paper (or rather fingers to keyboard), then I suggest giving it some thought…
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There's an exciting job posted for a key role in a new project (product?) team at Autodesk named Constructwin. Here's some information from the posting: Do you want the opportunity to be part of a startup environment and have a big impact on a brand-new product? Are you looking to be at the forefront of innovative new technology that will ultimately help people imagine, design, and make a better world? If so, come join the Constructwin team at Autodesk! Our mission is to create Digital Twin technology and solutions that will transform how buildings are designed, built, and operated. I…
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I've made some minor tweaks to a couple of my Dynamo packages, this week. One was to make sure Capturefinery – a tool that generates screenshots and animated GIFs for Refinery optimisation runs – works with the shipping release of Generative Design for Revit 2021 (it now does, but needed to look in a new directory structure). This is available from Capturefinery 0.9.11. The other was to add a feature to Warnamo – a tool that lists the warnings and errors in your Dynamo graph – to let you export the error list to Excel. This is available from Warnamo…
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Yesterday Lisa Campbell, Autodesk's Chief Marketing Officer, announced the decision to move all this year's Autodesk University events to a fully digital platform: this makes a lot of sense given the ongoing uncertainty around the duration and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's going to change the shape of AU for many of us, inevitably, but I'm looking forward to these events, nonetheless. For one thing it means I'm going to be able to attend – or even participate in – more of them, with less impact on my family and the planet. I'm also really curious to see how…
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No, that isn't a typo. As it's May the Fourth – yes, Star Wars Day – I thought I'd have a little fun and see what I could write using the venerable stack-based programming language, Forth. For those of you who aren't aware, Forth has a long history with Autodesk and , having been at the core of ATLAST, the Autodesk Threaded Language Application System Toolkit. ATLAST had noble intentions: to allow host applications to expose a common API or macro language that executed efficiently and with very low memory overhead. By the time I joined Autodesk it was unfortunately…
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For two of the last three weeks I've been lurking in virtual Forge Accelerators: as I mentioned last time, the Forge team has pivoted to virtual events after this year's Accelerator in Sydney was forced online due to a COVID-related office closure. (Incidentally I need to get used to the team's new name: they recently switched from Forge Partner Development to Developer Advocacy and Support. FPD is no more, the future is DAS!) The DAS team has since gone "all in" on these events, holding two during the month of April. The first one was codenamed Metropolis and ran during…