Automation — it’s already having powerful and unmistakable effects on our lives...

How to make virtual reality (VR) a reality in your design firm — with a small hardware investment and some inspired team members...

This article presents the initial planning, pre-execution, and execution stages of a BIM-driven project...

When the original Paris metro system was built more than a century ago, it connected all the most vital parts of the city...

Communities of practice (CoPs) have existed for a long time, helping users share knowledge by exchanging best practices...

Picture this: an Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team — the real-life version of the guys from The Hurt Locker ...

If you were at AU Las Vegas in 2014, you likely remember Pete Kelsey, part of the Autodesk Strategic Projects team. He spoke during an Innovation Forum about creating a 3D model of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Combining photogrammetry, LIDAR scanning, and SONAR for the first time, he and his team mapped both... <a href="https://live-pantheon-au.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/article/Virtualizing-Glen-Canyon-Dam">Read more</a>

Discover how the field of construction is well placed to benefit from the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).

With nearly everything you need to make an animated film, Maya Entertainment Creation Suite software enables animators and directors to do some real guerrilla filmmaking. This article will walk you through some of the techniques we are employing to bring the feature film Dog Eat Dog to life.

When the concept itself or the concept designer cannot convey the idea or design to the engineer or manufacturing, it becomes the industrial designer’s job to walk the line between concept and engineering in order to convey the challenging concept to engineering and manufacturing.

Discover how BIM can reduce risk and improve health and safety in construction, from clash detection and visual communication to scenario planning and more.

The Smisto Hydropower project is a new hydropower project currently being constructed in Norway. It has become one of the first projects challenging the traditional use of 2D drawings as a design basis in a project.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) not only has an impact on designers, but it also impacts suppliers...

Capturing what your employees know, and then formatting and presenting it to the company, has become a huge need as the amount and value of knowledge, along with the efficiency of getting to it has become increasingly important. The amount of internal knowledge is growing exponentially...

This article will show designers, architects, and engineers how to make more appealing animations for visualization, architecture, and design. I’ll take the basic principles of animation and use them to demonstrate ways to make your animations more visually appealing and easier to understand.

Commercial buildings are on the verge of the biggest transformation in history. The Internet of Things (IoT) is making connected buildings a reality, and adoption is on the rise across the architecture, engineering, building technology, real estate, and construction industries. The use of IoT data...

Optomec uses Autodesk products to translate CAD designs into printed features on existing parts or surfaces. This article covers specific additive manufacturing challenges that relate to Aerosol Jet printing and how we have used Autodesk technologies to address our needs. We will further explore the subtle differences... <a href="https://live-pantheon-au.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/article/Additive-Manufacturing-New-World-Design-Possibilities">Read more</a>

The circular economy aims to create closed-loop cycles of materials that continuously recapture the embodied energy and resources for a return to future products.