Category Autodesk Products

Autodesk University 2017 Call For Proposals

It is that time of the year again, time for veteran and newbie speakers to pitch their proposals for a class at Autodesk University in Las Vegas November 14-16th, 2017. The bar is high since so many proposals are submitted…

FIRST Robotics World Finals

This weekend hundreds of teams from around the world will descend on Houston Texas for the FIRST Robotics World Finals. This year the finals will be split into two cities, Houston this weekend and St Louis next weekend. The team…

Revit 2018 Released – What’s Ahead on the Revit Roadmap?

Revit 2018 released this week with many new enhancements and features. Congratulations to the Revit product team for another great release and to the awesome beta participants that are integral to the quality and success of our products by kicking…

Enable Preview Functionality in Fusion 360

Have you wanted to test out new Fusion 360 features and functionality before they make the main release? You can turn on feature previews in your profile by selecting preferences in Fusion 360. Select Preview and then simply check the…

Autodesk 2018 Products

Some of the Autodesk 2018 products have been released from beta and available for download now. The two main ones I am aware of are AutoCAD 2018 and Autodesk Inventor 2018. AutoCAD 2018 (beta codename Omega):Many changes under the hood…

Fusion 360 Meetup in Portland Oregon this Week

If you happen to be in beautiful Portland Oregon this week, want to meet some of the Fusion 360 team and see some cool things then sign up for the free meetup. Michael Aubry of Autodesk has organized this meetup…

Autodesk AEC Answer Day March 8th English and Deutsch

The next Autodesk Answer Days series is this Wednesday focusing on AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) products. Have questions that you’ve always wanted to ask? Come to the Autodesk Community to interact directly with the product teams responsible for the…

Academy Award for Mechanical Running Horse Design

The 89th Oscars are under a week away on February 26th, but I already know a recipient and it is not one of our traditional film tools like Autodesk Maya. This Academy Award was a Technical Award and the design was created in Autodesk Inventor for a mechanical running horse by longtime Inventor power user Scott Oshita of Datum3. The design is purely mechanical, elegant, and seen more big screen appearances than many Hollywood actors. The design was made into a physical prop. Perhaps you seen it recently in the HBO series Westworld.

It Slices, It Dices, Its Autodesk Fusion 360!

Autodesk Fusion 360 keeps on adding functionality and this time a long lost tool friend of mine. The 123D Make functionality has been added to the capabilities of Fusion 360 as an free app Slicer for Fusion 360 for both…