Autodesk
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Last week I mentioned the effort to update Dasher 360 to use v4.2 of the Forge viewer (the most recent version, at the time of writing, and a fairly big jump from our previously-used version, v3.2.1). Here's how Dasher 360 is now looking after these various changes: In this post I'm going to give more details of what specifically was involved in refreshing Dasher 360 to the latest Forge viewer, in the hope it'll help people make decisions around their own use of the viewer and hopw/when they migrate their applications. Background As we've developed Dasher 360, we've done our…
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Here's some fun memorabilia from Autodesk's Neuchatel office: T-shirts from a couple of different events held in recent years. Both are brand-new and have never been worn. The first comes from an internal event that was held back in 2015 to highlight the importance of taking security (particularly product and information security) seriously. The T-shirt is red and of size XXL: The second comes from the first Design Night Switzerland held at the end of 2016. The theme for this event was robotics, so there's a picture of a robot on the back. the T-shirt is white and of size…
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This year will be the 3rd edition of the Forge DevCon. Once again it's being held in Las Vegas on the Monday before Autodesk University 2018 starts, which for this year means November 12th, 2018. The "call for proposals" website is now live, and will remain open until June 11th. If you're interested in submitting a class for this year's DevCon then head on over: we'd love to hear from you! This year's event will have the following tracks: Forge Platform and Roadmap Getting started with Forge and Forge APIs Community stories and case studies General web programming Complementary technologies…
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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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It's been a quiet week on the blogging front, mainly because of the May 1st holiday on Tuesday, but also because I've been heads-down on projects I can't really talk much about. One thing that does seem worth sharing is an approach we've been using to take geometry from Dynamo into Revit. The project itself relates to the use of Generative Design for urban planning. I can't yet talk about the generative aspect – which is extremely cool – but once the design is basically finalised there's a need to bring the geometry into Revit. The ideal scenario would be…
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There's a lot of change going on, over in the Forge Partner Development team. This is the team of talented individuals who help customers and partners working with Forge – as well as members of the Autodesk Developer Network, of course. One of the team's Senior Managers, Stephen Preston (who took over many of my former responsibilities when I left them in their pre-Forge days back in 2012, as well as doing a lot of other important work besides) is moving into the Forge Business Development team. Yes, so his new title will have just a one word difference from…
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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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Many of you have been using Forge services to good effect, whether the Forge viewer or the Data Management, Model Derivative and Design Automation APIs. There's lots of really cool stuff you can do with Forge – we use it heavily in Dasher 360, for instance – but the existing services are largely engineered to deal with data created by existing desktop technology, i.e. they're file-centric. The next generation of Forge web-services will help you and your customers move beyond files. Here's a class from last year's Forge DevCon that gives an introduction to two key technologies in this new…
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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…