Autodesk
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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!
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Back in May I pre-announced a couple of webinars that I thought to be of interest to readers of this blog. The first was about ReCap, the second was about posting apps to Autodesk Exchange. The ReCap webinar was actually the beginning of series: at the time of writing five have now taken place (recordings are available for the first four) and two are remaining. Tomorrow's webinar on "Capturing 3D reality data by flying a camera on a UAV" looks very interesting: after eventually managing to catch up with the edX class I signed up for on "navigation for autonomous…
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The Autodesk Technical Summit is an annual, internal, 2-day technical conference for members of Autodesk's engineering staff. I've been lucky enough to attend since 2011 (the first was held in 2010), and have seen the event grow both in breadth and attendance, over the years: this year there were 500 attendees from around the world and some really excellent presentations. Most years I've been at the event as a presenter (I talked about F# in 2011, Kinect in 2012 and then both Kinect Fusion and Leap Motion in 2013): this is the first time I was there purely as an…
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I'm nearing the end of my trip to Toronto: our annual internal Technical Summit was a great success – there were 500 attendees, this year, and as always is a really good opportunity to find out about other parts of the organisation and to meet new people – and today I've been hanging out at a specially hosted open house at Autodesk's King Street office. To mark the end of the summit, last night there was an event at the Ontario Science Centre, where we had lots of fun experimenting with some interesting "reality capture" technology. They had a special…
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There's been an interesting project on Autodesk Labs for some time, now, called Project Chronicle. It allows you to document use of Autodesk software, whether to provide support, training or – for that matter – to blog about it. Anyway, this technology has now graduated from Autodesk Labs and is available as Autodesk Screencast. It seemed like a good time to take it for a spin. Autodesk Screencast is about both creating recordings but also the hosting mechanism required to serve these up. If you go to the web-site you can download the recording tool but also see a gallery…
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I attended a student event in Montreux last week, where students from the "Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale" from various sites in French-speaking Switzerland congregated to visit and find out about prospective employers. We talked to students about the importance of checking the Autodesk careers site, of course, but also the fact that students can download and use pretty much the full range of Autodesk software for free* from the Education Community site. Many of the students I spoke to knew about this already – which was very encouraging, especially as the public announcement was made just a few…