Inside the Factory

Web Update 1 Posted

This is update 1, build: (20090612_2115)

You can access the download links from the left navigation on the following product pages:

• www.autodesk.com/revitarchitecture
• www.autodesk.com/revitstructure
• www.autodesk.com/revitmep

This first update build contains over 300 fixes and enhancements - many identified from user feedback. Thank you to the many who participated in the beta and made comments here.

_erik

Factory Line Shutdown

Starting today the Factory is observing a company shutdown. With the exception of a few staff dedicated to critical systems, all United States employees will take the week off using vacation time.  Posts and responses will slow here during this planned break but we'll be back fully on-line July 6.  See you then.

A rare quiet moment on the line

Volunteering at Habitat for Humanity

To celebrate the newly minted 2010 Autodesk releases, the AEC User Experience Team decided to volunteer at a nearby house being built by Greater Worcester Area Habitat for Humanity. We split into two shifts and spent most of the day painting the exterior of the house. It was nice to get away from our desks and spend some time outside working for a good cause. Now it is back to work spooling up for the 2011 release...

^{The Autodesk AEC UX Team's afternoon crew}
_tom

Revit 2010 - First Customer Ship Today!

Well, here we are. After 18 months of intense research, design, development and evaluation, Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010, Revit Structure 2010 and Revit MEP 2010 are shipping today! Since this marks the tenth ninth anniversary of the first first customer ship, I thought it would be fun to take a drive in the Way Back Machine and explore the earliest UI concepts and screen-shots from the inception of Revit back in the heady days of the late nineties. These images come courtesy of David Conant, Senior Product Designer on our team and the first architect hired by the original Charles River Software back in 1998, which then become Revit Technology in 1999. The rest, as they say, is history.

_tom