My colleagues over at the Geospatial division asked me to help them spread the word about their council, and what they are doing at AU. The Autodesk Geospatial Customer Council (AGCC) is a web panel that consists of hundreds of Geospatial product users. It is designed as a forum that the Autodesk Geospatial team uses to elicit feedback on any number of subjects. Council feedback is received directly by the Geospatial product teams and provides valuable insight on new product concepts or developments. From time to time council members will hear from Autodesk on any number of topics. Autodesk ma... READ MORE >

Industrial and Architectural Designers Will Go Head-to-Head in Live Competition in Las Vegas December 3 and 4. The nation's top designers are entering a new dimension—a third one, to be exact. Cut&Paste (www.cutandpaste.com) is bringing its live, on-stage competition to Autodesk University, the world's largest gathering of designers, engineers and Autodesk customers worldwide, in Las Vegas this December, but this time around, competing teams will be working in 3D. Contestants in the AU Design Slam, powered by Cut&Paste, will use the latest in 3D software, including Autodesk Maya, Alias... READ MORE >

Listen as Doug Eberhard, Autodesk Industry Evangelist for Digital Cities, and Pete Southwood, Geospatial Solutions Evangelist at Autodesk, discuss infrastructure modeling, its application, and examples of cities that are using these models to better plan design and deliver proposed infrastructure and urban development projects. Doug will be presenting "Digital Cities—A Model of the Future," the Geospatial keynote at AU 2008. [9:19 mins] READ MORE >

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If you watched this week’s AU primer with Lynn Allen and the rest of the AU team, you may have learned that your schedule will not be printed as part of your check-in. Although you will be able to print your schedule onsite, you may run into long lines. Early next week, registered AU attendees will receive a direct link to their schedule so they can print it out before leaving for Vegas. This will also be a good opportunity to review the classes you signed up for—and perhaps change. You may want to take a look at the labs still open (as of Nov 12), class changes and additions that happened si... READ MORE >