Category Reality Computing

Autodesk Community Conversation – Geolocating Models Using Drones and ReCap Pro, ReCap Photo, InfraWorks, Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks, and BIM 360/ACC

Join expert Matt Wunch for a fun and informative demonstration of using a drone to get accurate geolocations for your models, with Autodesk software used across several disciplines.  Matt will walk us through the process of uploading photos to ReCap…

Availability of Photos API in Autodesk Build

Autodesk Forge announces the availability of Photos API, another Autodesk Build specific Forge API.

Photos is one of the modules in Autodesk Build. It provides a single, unified place to view and manage photos and videos in Autodesk Build. This is useful, such as for documenting progress photos, informal communication, and material tracking. Everyone on your project can upload photos and videos. These files will all be available in the Photos gallery, but they can also be attached as a reference to issues, RFIs, submittals, and forms in UI.

Historic Preservation is a Digital Gift to the Future

In honor of Historic Preservation Month, Nicolas Magnon Vice President of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Business Strategy and Marketing at Autodesk has wrote a nice article on the importance of preservation.

Read the Article and learn more how Autodesk and Autodesk technology has been involved in several historic presentation projects including the Apollo 11 Command Module, the USS Arizona, the 3,000-year-old medieval city of Volterra, and the Notre-Dame de Paris.

3D Laser Scanner in My Pocket

I’ve been using my Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max and it’s built in LiDAR to scan some ancient old growth trees up to 1000 years old. Preserving the trees digitally in 3D point clouds & meshes and I will talk…

Capturing the World in 3D Using my Phone and Autodesk ReCap Photo

Last week I was attaining events in Washington DC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. While there I snuck to a few Smithsonian Museums because they are amazing, free, and have awesome air conditioning when…

RawR See a T-Rex in Stunning 3D Detail – without being eaten

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with a panel of Smithsonian employees of the Digitization Program Office and they let me know of an amazing reality capture project that went live just yesterday. It is stunning in detail and…

AEC Hackathon This Weekend in Seattle

Starting tomorrow, another (41st actually) AEC Hackathon will be held this time in beautiful Seattle Washington and I will be participating. The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the…

Spotted a Wooly Mammoth and You Can Too

Last week I was working in Washington DC meeting with some customers and partners including my longtime friends and digitization heroes at the Smithsonian Digitization Program Lab. While there catching up on all the cool projects for the Smithsonian and…

Rats in Autodesk Portland Office

Well, this is Portland Oregon and yes we are weird or uniquely creative including the placement of small toy ponies attached to old city horse hitching rings and yarn or knit bombings of local statues. In the Autodesk Portland office…

Updates to Reality Capture API on Autodesk Forge

Updates were made the reality capture API on Forge that not only dramatically improves the resulting quality and speed to produce a mesh or view point clouds, but also adds geolocation for InfraWorks. For example you can use this Forge…