Autodesk
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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…
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For those of you who have signed up for the Autodesk 360 Technical Preview, you may well have already gotten a taste for its new viewing capability. Upload a 3D model of pretty much any format (the list is pretty exhaustive and goes well beyond Autodesk's own formats, but you might try with DWG, RVT, IAM, IPT, NWD and DWF, to name a few to get you started) and you'll see the viewer enabled for that model: Before we go on, please bear in mind that this is very much still in Beta: it's early days and the team is…
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My good friend and colleague, Christer Janson, was named 123D's Maker of the Day a couple of weeks ago. This post is to congratulate Christer but also to talk about Christer's background at Autodesk and the key role he plays in the AutoCAD team. I met Christer during the second round interview for my first job at Autodesk, back in 1995. I'd flown across to Switzerland for the interview, although the job itself was to be in the UK: it was a couple more years before I managed to move to Neuchatel for the first time. Back then Christer was…
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After a minor technical glitch, I've now been able to submit two class proposals for Autodesk University 2014. Both are currently planned as 90-minute lectures. The first is about AutoCAD's JavaScript API: Connect AutoCAD to the web with HTML5 and JavaScript AutoCAD 2015's JavaScript API enables a whole new generation of web-enabled applications. This session focuses on how you can use this API to connect web-based applications with AutoCAD. We'll look at how HTML5 can be used to implement user interface components inside AutoCAD – modal & modeless dialogs, palettes and new document windows – including calling into core AutoCAD…
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It's Good Friday, so much of the world will be offline today, but I thought I'd post quickly on some (good) news that may be of interest to people. The ReCap team has officially launched a new partner program. This provides access to a number of mechanisms for integrating with or harnessing Autodesk ReCap products and services. The Capture Codec Kit is primarily for importing custom point cloud formats – something important for hardware manufacturers, particularly – into Autodesk ReCap on the desktop. Embedded ReCap OEM allows generated or post-processed point cloud data to be brought into Autodesk's design products…
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As Jeremy has pointed out on his blog, in lieu of a dedicated AEC DevCamp – as has been run every other year for some years – Autodesk and the ADN team will be supporting the upcoming AEC Technology Symposium being held in New York on May 16-18. As with the DevCamps, this is a great opportunity to get to know the people behind our AEC products – whether product management or software engineering – so you can build relationships and get a better sense of where Autodesk is heading in the AEC industry. There will also be a Hackathon…