"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
How the Wrong Metrics Derail Digital Thinking (and What I Tell My Students About It) One of my students once proudly told me their Revit family—a window—had 42 parameters. They had worked hard on it, tuning and nesting constraints, adding types, and connecting dimensions to carefully labeled...
Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it was mostly inspired by the 1986 movie, it...
A few days ago, I encountered a situation in which a group of very wise and very big companies promised a client to deliver practically everything you can do with a digital model (and frankly, beyond). The problem? In their original statement, the client was...
Che io non sia una fan del formato Ifc è cosa nota e risaputa ma purtroppo, per parafrasare una nota massima quantomai attuale riguardante la democrazia, per quanto possa fare schifo è ancora il formato migliore che abbiamo (principalmente perché è l’unico). E siccome avere...
Yesterday, we took a look at a brief introduction to the new AEC Data Model API, which targets data within files on your Autodesk Construction Cloud instead of drawing all of them and sifting through them later (which isn't half bad when a system is...
Autodesk announced lots of news during last October's Autodesk University and, though some of them weren't really new, we do have some interesting development, especially on the cloud services. You can find the full list here. Since I am bound to forget to look into it...
Well, it's a wrap! Autodesk University consolidated my career in BIM back in 2016, and I hadn't participated in it in seven years. Much has changed since then. I've changed, and the world has, but one thing has stayed the same: the convention is still...
Ok, so, my phone died after the last day of Autodesk University, which means I lack some of the resources to craft this post properly, but I don’t want to leave some awesome things unmentioned, so you’ll get this for now and then I’ll do...
Just my top 3 from my Day 2 here at Autodesk University, in chronological order. We can dive in later. 1. Diverse Subcontractors and Where to Find Them With a focus on subcontractor selection, Wissam Akra started off by highlighting how, at least in the US, supplier...
Well, my class came and went and it was awesome. Not the delivery, I mean — I’ll leave that judgement to the participants — but I had a blast delivering it and my audience was wonderful. I think I was really able to articulate the...
