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Autodesk University 2025 Thrive Guide – Your Playbook for Nashville

AU 2025: Your Thrive Guide By Shaan Hurley

Welcome to my annual Autodesk University Thrive Guide, compiled and written to help you thrive, not just survive the Autodesk Design & Make event of the year. Whether it’s your first AU or your 30th, showing up prepared makes all the difference.

AU 2025 lands in Nashville this September, bringing together thousands of professionals across AEC, D&M, M&E, and beyond. With AI front and center and 500+ sessions on the schedule, there’s a lot to take in, but also a lot of opportunity.

This guide will help you cut through the noise, prioritize what matters, and make the most of your time in Music City.

Shaan Hurley
August 7, 2025
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AEC, Autodesk, Autodesk Products, BIM, Construction, Construction Cloud, Design, Dynamo, Fusion 360, Generative Design, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Reality Capture, Reality Computing, Revit, Subtractive, Technology, Tips–n-Tricks, Visualization

Upskill Using Free Autodesk Industry Courses

Just taking 15 minutes a day to go through Autodesk courses could make you far better prepared for your current role or advance yourskills for a new role. These curated courses cover Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Design and Manufacturing, Cross-Industry. Search over 500 available courses developed by the best in the industries.

Shaan Hurley
November 18, 2022

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Introducing Maya Creative

Maya Creative, is a more flexible and affordable version of Maya with sophisticated animation, modeling, and rendering tools to bring your vision to life..

•Create lifelike animations with intuitive animation tools
•Build detailed 3D models with a powerful modeling toolset
•Render high-quality 3D images in fewer clicks
•Available now through Autodesk Flex

Shaan Hurley
November 4, 2022

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3ds Max and Maya Courses on AREA

New Courses have been added to Autodesk AREA. Each of these courses is focused on a community-requested real-world industry workflow.

Shaan Hurley
November 2, 2022

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3ds Max 2023.2 Released

The new 2023.2 Update for 3ds Max was released today, and it is packed with a lot of goodness.

Shaan Hurley
September 14, 2022

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Autodesk Vision Series August 3rd and 4th

Register for free to attend the Autodesk Vision Series Aug 3 & 4 to be inspired and hear from creative minds like Playground Games Lead Technical Artist, Dan Wulczynski, on how he and his team used 3ds Max to create fire environments for the ideo game Forza Horizon 5.

Shaan Hurley
July 25, 2022

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Autodesk 2022 Showreel Video

Each year Autodesk releases a series of industry short highlight videos called showreels and then one main compilation version. Here is the Autodesk 2022 Showreel of all the industries to watch, share, and enjoy seeing all the inspiring creations that…

Shaan Hurley
March 11, 2022

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Autodesk Open Source

Autodesk Open Source provides the global community of innovators an opportunity to learn, contribute and grow. Visit our Open Source site and see how you can get involved in our latest projects: opensource.autodesk.com

Shaan Hurley
February 14, 2022

AEC, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Products, Autodesk, Autodesk Products, Cloud, Construction, Generative Design, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Video

100 Plus Autodesk Apps

A fun and funny video created by Tech3D walking through most of our Autodesk applications, but not all. Fitting video walkthrough commentary since in just over a week, on January 30th, 2022, it is Autodesk’s 40th birthday “Autodesk have…

Shaan Hurley
January 21, 2022

AEC, Announcements, Autodesk University, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Technology

Congratulations to the 2021 Autodesk Excellence Awards Recipients!

Autodesk Excellence Awards celebrate the people, projects, and technologies behind exceptional contributions to the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction; product design and manufacturing; and media and entertainment.These customers will be spotlighted at Autodesk University 2021. Learn more about them…

Shaan Hurley
October 6, 2021