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Autodesk closes out a successful fiscal 2021 widens its ambitions

Autodesk says it has made good progress toward digitizing AEC, advancing its design and manufacture workflow, and pushing into the Enterprise. One of Autodesk’s key fundraising strategies is to convert “non-compliant users” into paying customers and to upgrade all subscribers to user-identified subscriptions. Autodesk says this program has been a big success, and also, they’ve raised their full-year subscription revenues … Read more

USD gets major support from Autodesk and partners

This week, Autodesk announces its latest updates for Maya, 3ds Max, and MotionBuilder. In addition, Autodesk says it’s supporting USD, the Open Source format originally developed by Pixar with strong industry support from customers and software developers. Support for USD is more complex than it might seem at first, and that’s because its purpose is to enable disparate companies to … Read more

Autodesk knitting together the Construction Cloud

Since its debut in 2019, the Autodesk Construction Cloud has been growing and a structure has been developing. The company has been adding on to its Construction portfolio with small affordable basic capabilities and complex management tools. This month, the company announces the availability of several new tools and services after last month’s rollout of BIM Collaborate and BIM Build … Read more

Lightmap introduces the Xenon Drop 2 update for HDR Light Studio

The HDR Light Studio interface offers multiple controls for adding, adjusting, and finetuning a variety of lights in a scene. (Source: Lightmap) Rendering is one thing, but lighting can be another. Lightmap, based in Nottingham, England has been helping artists, engineers, and designers fine-tune their lighting since 2009. The company’s product HDR Light Studio works with the leading 3D modeling … Read more

Autodesk Q3 results show continued gains

It’s not news to anyone that cloud-based workflows are booming, but it’s good news for Autodesk that its customers are buying into SaaS models. In addition to riseing revenues, the company says it’s becoming more engaged with its customers as strategic partners. In his call to investors, CEO Andrew Anagnost says the company has signed some of its largest deals … Read more

Architects demand more from Revit and from Autodesk

Source: energepic.com The open letter to Autodesk landed on the desks of editors, analysts, and interested observers with a thud—if a digital letter could land on a digital desk at all. The letter, signed by major architectural firms, complained about the state of Autodesk’s Revit development and was evidence of fraying relationships within the Autodesk community. Basically, the complaints … Read more

Autodesk further expands its construction portfolio

The Union Project in Oakland California is nearing completion. Holliday Development and Factory OS were able to stack the five floors on site in 10 days. The components of the building were built in a factory a few miles away in Vallejo before being trucked to the site. Autodesk has been hell-bent on its plan to build out its … Read more

Autodesk teams with Aurigo

Autodesk is continuing its work to expand its footprint in construction. The company has announced an alliance with Aurigo. Founded in 2003, in Austin, Texas, Aurigo works with public sector agencies and facility owners with tools to plan, deliver, and maintain capital projects and assets. The company says its tools, including Aurigo Masterworks Cloud software, offer full construction lifecycle management. … Read more

CAD business is stable business

We finished the 2020 CAD report, just in time to be wrong. The report was completed at the end of 2019 just before word of the Coronavirus washed up on our shores. Early enough that I might not have even been able to understand its impact. After all, SARS wasn’t universally bad. Likewise, MERS attacked a region, mostly, but not … Read more

Autodesk adds on to Fusion 360 with electronics design

Electronics is becoming a check-off capability for companies comparing CAD capabilities. Among cloud CAD competitors, most notably Autodesk and PTC (after its acquisition of OnShape), electronics design is needed to fill out the capabilities of online CAD in comparison to its older, more earth-bound competitors. Onshape added electrical design in 2018. SolidWorks teamed with Altium to offer a collaborative tool … Read more

The stage is set for continued CAD industry growth

CAD market shipments increased 9% sequentially from 2018 to 2019

Autodesk’s bets for the future

The dogs of Autodesk; AU features a petting park for conference attendees. Maybe they relieve stress, and maybe they provide entertainment but they're also darned fine little marketers. (Source: JPR) Over the years, Autodesk’s messaging has not changed much. The company has underlined its commitment to sustainability. It has steadily advanced its technology for cloud-based computing and SaaS, and … Read more