Autodesk
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Last week, I received confirmation that I'll be presenting a few different classes at AU 2012, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas from November 27-28. My main sessions, this year, are in some way focused on cloud & mobile technologies. The subject matter of the first lecture is the recently completed cloud & mobile series, where we'll look at moving desktop functionality to the cloud and using it from a variety of mobile environments: CP1914 – Moving code to the cloud – it's easier than you think! It has a companion roundtable session –…
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In the last few posts on this topic, we saw some examples of getting information from and controlling AutoCAD via its Bindable Object Layer. In this post, we're going to look at a way to find out when changes are made to AutoCAD's layer table: when layers are added, changed or removed. There are certainly other ways to do this: you can use Database.ObjectAppended(), ObjectModified() and ObjectErased() to find out about changes to LayerTableRecords, for instance, but this is an alternative approach that may be interesting to some people. In this implementation, we attach some event handlers to keep an…
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As Cyrille has announced over on his blog, the following API wishlist surveys are now live for two of our Media & Entertainment products: Autodesk Maya Autodesk 3ds Max The surveys will stay open until July 25th, 2012.
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To complement the DevBlogs for AutoCAD, Infrastructure Modeling, AEC and Manufacturing (and in case you missed them, here are their respective announcements), the ADN team has now launched a DevBlog focused on Cloud & Mobile development. You might consider this another "horizontal" blog, in the sense that over time it will prove to be a valuable resource for people using our products (and, I suspect, many people who don't) in all the industries we serve. I'll drop a note to Gopi, to suggest he adds a link to my own cloud & mobile series, for future reference. It seems like…
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This year's API wishlist surveys for AutoCAD Civil 3D, Inventor, Navisworks and Revit are now live: AutoCAD Civil 3D Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Navisworks Autodesk Revit Our Engineering teams use the results from these surveys to help steer their ongoing API development priorities, release on release. If you have feedback or specific requests regarding our APIs, this is a great way to get them in front of the right people inside Autodesk. I'd been holding off posting these links – with the hope I could also include AutoCAD's – but as the deadline is here it seems prudent not to delay…
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I've spent the best part of the last two weeks in the Bay Area, which has been fantastic. It was great to attend Autodesk's annual, internal Tech Summit, both to network with colleagues and to find out about some of the really interesting projects being worked on within the company. It was also really good to reconnect with members of the AutoCAD Engineering and ADN teams. While there's been quite a lot of work over the last few weeks, there has also been some time for play: The evening social event at San Francisco's TechShop. Renting bikes in Napa Valley…
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Some time ago I mentioned the launch of ADN's DevBlogs, and followed up, last week, with the announcement that the AEC version had launched. Now that we have DevBlogs covering AutoCAD, Infrastructure Modeling and our AEC products, it's only natural that we launch a Manufacturing DevBlog. Brian has mentioned it, over on his blog, too. Those of you working with Inventor, in particular, should be sure to bookmark Brian & Wayne's Mod the Machine blog as well as the Manufacturing DevBlog (after a period of relatively low activity, things have definitely picked up over at MtM). It's great to see…
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As announced previously on this blog, the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team is in the process of launching a series of DevBlogs, publishing material publicly that would previously only have been made available to ADN members. I see some fantastic material being posted there: more than I can keep up with, personally, but I expect that will settle down once the team has created posts from the bulk of the DevNotes published on the ADN web-site. Following the availability of those for AutoCAD and Infrastructure Modeling, I'm pleased to announce the AEC DevBlog is now live. If you're [considering] developing…
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It's been a while since I've talked about our "reality capture" (or 3D reconstruction) technologies, but I still like to play around with them, when I get the chance. My previous projects have all been with the PC version of 123D Catch (previously known as the Photo Scene Editor for Project Photofly), but I've just spent a few hours messing around with the new web and iPad versions of this tool (Shaan has already spent some time talking about these new versions over on his blog, in case). Thinking about it, these two new versions have been made possible by…
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This is all very exciting: given the recent launch of a number of "360" products by Autodesk – including Autodesk 360, Autodesk PLM 360 and Autodesk BIM 360 – it looks as though we're about to enter a strategic relationship with Microsoft to make Autodesk products interoperate seamlessly with their industry-leading games platform, the Xbox 360. It's as yet unclear exactly what this means for the two companies and their respective 360 products, although I'm hopeful that some of the work I've been doing to prototype the use of Kinect and Metro with our products is going to be relevant…