Registration for Autodesk University (AU) 2015 Las Vegas is now open. This year, AU will be held at The Venetian hotel from December 1~3, 2015. As many of you already know, AU Las Vegas is the largest conference for Autodesk users. It’s a wonderful place to learn new technologies, meet... Read more →

There is a buzz in the construction industry about a new document management solution called Project Alexandria. So what is it and how does it change the construction workflows? Project Alexandria is a purpose-built document management system for construction. Stay tuned to the projectalexandria.io site where we'll be revealing more about it in the coming weeks. Read more →

Summer time fun at Waltham office. There was a workshop about robotic arm fabrication at Waltham office this week, led by Nick Cote, summer intern and researcher in residence. The robot we used is ABB IRB-120. It’s a small industrial robot with a shape of “arm”, the height of 70cm... Read more →

At BIM 360 our mission is to accelerate project delivery and reduce risk for our customers by enabling office to easily coordinate and connect while empowering the field to anticipate and act. A simple and powerful example is the Daily Updates feature that allows users to manager their jobsite performance details from the field itself. Today we are introducing the Daily Updates API. Read more →

If you are a BIM 360 Field account administrator, you may have received a notification e-mail titled: “Important information about your Autodesk BIM 360 Field account”. The Field product team is releasing updates with new features which require customer-by-customer-base updates. The changes are around administration feature. Account and Project administration... Read more →

While back, I wrote about A360 Collaboration for Revit (C4R), and shared my experience of setting it up for my team. At that time, I pointed out one of the differences from BIM 360 environment as each member being a hub or a site owner: “Note: Here is another difference... Read more →

There was an interesting question. /api/projects call returns a field named is_active with a value of true/false. This indicates which project is currently active in the given UI session. This could be easily mistaken as project status. Q. /api/projects call returns is_active, a value of true/false. But it is not... Read more →

In my previous post, we looked at how to attach a file to an equipment programmatically. In this post, we will look at how to upload a file to the library with tags. The code is actually simpler with uploading to the library as we don’t require a secondary level... Read more →

Programmatically uploading and attaching a file to a Field object is possible using the Field API REST call: POST /api/attachments This week, I got an inquiry about how to attach a file to an equipment. I thought a little more explanation with a minimum code sample beyond online document might... Read more →

I got a little surprise from New Hampshire Department of Education. I received a thank you card together with a small gift box. Along with printed words, in hand writing, it says: "Dear Mikako, Thank you for coming to Girls Technology Day and showing your experience with our students. Your... Read more →