Autodesk
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Now that registration is open for Autodesk University 2014, people are busy signing up for classes. For those of you who are curious about the classes I'm delivering/hosting/attending at this year's event, here they are. I'll break things down day-by-day, in case you're interested in finding an opportunity to meet up but can't attend one of my sessions. Monday (Dec 1st) I'll be attending the ADN DevDay, all day. Always lots of great information to absorb there, of course (jetlag permitting ;-). Tuesday (Dec 2nd) I'll be hanging out at the ADN DevHack for most of the afternoon, although I…
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In the last post we saw the process for getting content uploaded to Autodesk storage and translated into the format required by the Autodesk 360 viewer. In this post we're going to show the steps to take that data and embed it in a "simple" HTML page. (Any complex capability in this page it's due to the UI code that Dan Wellman kindly allowed me to borrow for the sample: otherwise what it does is very simple indeed.) There are, of course, more complex samples that the ADN team has developed to demonstrate the richness of the new View &…
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Over the next few posts we're going to take a look at the steps needed to build the Steampunk Morgan Viewer, my first sample using Autodesk's new View & Data API. In today's post we're going to look at the steps needed to host content to be served up to instances of the viewer. In a subsequent post we'll look at the client-side implementation, connecting to and streaming down content and controlling how it gets viewed. So let's start with some basics. The first thing you need to do when working with the new View & Data API is to…
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Some of you are probably aware of this activity from Shaan's and Scott's blogs, but I thought it was overdue a mention here, too. Autodesk is sponsoring the mother of all road trips: over the course of 8 months, TJ McCue is travelling the length and breadth of the United States in a brightly decorated recreational vehicle (RV), spreading the word about 3D technology. TJ is talking to people around the country about reality computing – capture, processing and fabrication processes such as 3D printing – as well as the availability of low-cost design tools. TJ is documenting his travels…
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After the initial Autodesk Exchange Apps Portathon was held last year, the ADN team is running a similar – but expanded – event, the Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon, on September 20-21. There's more information available on both Jeremy's blog and the ADN DevBlog, but here's a quick summary of the salient points: Free to attend Open to anyone, anywhere (it's a virtual event) Lots of great presentations on app development The ADN team will also be available to provide support You earn money for apps you get published $50/$100 for published free/paid apps, up to 5 per company Additional Cloud/Sustainability…
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The next few posts may seem a bit anomalous – yes, I more commonly write about programming with AutoCAD – but then I've been sitting on a variety of beaches on the Greek island of Andros for the best part of the last two weeks, so for now it's all I have to write about. 🙂 In today's post I'm going to introduce Andros, one of the islands in the Cyclades island chain, while in the next post I'll talk about its beaches. Here's a quick Autodesk-centric anecdote, though. I wore a pair of flip-flops with the Autodesk logo during…
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As mentioned last week, I've been having fun with Fusion 360 to prepare a model to be displayed in the new Autodesk 360 viewer. The sample is now ready to view, although I'm not yet quite ready to post the code directly here, mainly because the API isn't yet publicly usable. Here's the app for you to take for a spin, as it were. The Autodesk 360 Viewing & Data API is currently being piloted by a few key partners, and hopefully we'll soon be broadening the scope to allow others to get involved (we first have to iron out…
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A quick reminder – as I already posted on this topic a few months ago – about the "early bird" $600 discount that's available now – and until August 19th – for this year's AU. It's a great way to get first dibs on the classes of your choice, as you get to register a week before people who don't hold advance passes (such as Autodesk employees, sniff-sniff ;-). It's already shaping up to be a hectic AU for me, again: both the classes I submitted got accepted (thanks, developer track leads!) and it turns out I'll be participating in…
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Most of this week I've been heads-down trying to finish a sample demonstrating the API that's coming for the new Autodesk 360 viewer (of which we saw a sneak peek in this recent post), so today I don't have much to talk about. The sample is pretty cool and involves my favourite car. But hopefully you'll be able to see it in action before too long, so there's really no need to say more about it, for now. 🙂 A good portion of this blog's readership is currently grilling meat and celebrating the 4th of July, so I won't beat…
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Just a quick post to finish up the week: over on ProgrammableWeb, there's a nice article talking about the new ReCap Photo Web API and how a number of developers are making use of it to drive interesting new categories of application, such as products creating designs for custom hearing aids or automating the 4D capture of construction sites. Really cool stuff. We'll be talking more about web APIs over the coming weeks. Watch this space!