Autodesk
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This one did the rounds over the holiday and so I expect many of you will have missed it (unless you also happen to read Jeremy's blog). I'm still finishing up some work that I'll hopefully be able to unveil during the coming weeks, and I thought I'd post this in the meantime. Autodesk Research has published a pretty amazing visualization of Autodesk's organizational evolution over a period of four years, from May 2007 to June 2011. Like many nodes in the tree who remained static during that particular period, it can come as a bit of a surprise to…
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Congratulations to fellow Autodesker, Jeremy Sawicki, on claiming first prize in the ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) Programming Contest 2012. In his day job, Jeremy is a fellow software architect on the Revit team, although to win this prestigious competition Jeremy clearly functions at a much higher order (yes, that was actually a functional programming joke, right there ;-). To find out more about the task and Jeremy's solution, watch this video (Jeremy's team – Frictionless Bananas, of which Jeremy was captain and sole member – is introduced at around the 24m mark and talks about his implementation from…
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There is big news from the Autodesk Developer Network team: there's a new membership tier in town, and it's free! ADN Open is designed for people who are interested in developing with Autodesk software, but can't justify the expense of $1,000+ dollars per year in membership fees. Over the last year or more, we've been investing significant resources to put in place the infrastructure to support this free tier of ADN: Publishing a significant portion of our DevNotes – which were previously only available to ADN members – via our public DevBlogs. The only exceptions will be deprecated or confidential…
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I registered for AU 2012, yesterday. I had originally thought it was opening early for speakers, but apparently not: anyone can now register to attend and receive an early bird discount of $500 (before October 15). If you're interested in seeing what classes are scheduled for this year's AU – which will be held from Nov 27-29 in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas – you can browse the class catalog online. Here are the classes I'm scheduled to deliver or participate in, for instance: As you can see, there's more detail on the class timings than I provided in…
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This year's Autodesk football tournament was excellent – congratulations to the IPG 1 team, this year's well-deserving winners! (I've included a picture from their 2-1 quarter-final victory over us, below.) Towards the end of our last game of the day (thankfully) I managed to sustain a thigh injury after a collision with Fenton (he was playing for the GS-ISM team, while I was playing for Swiss 2). This made walking around pretty painful for the next few days, and certainly made the drive up to Brittany (with an overnight stay at a fantastic guest-house in Blois to break up the…
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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…