Design Night Sheffield Was a Smash

Autodesk Design Night SheffieldTuesday evening I participated in Sheffield’s first Design Night held at Sheffield Institute of Arts. The evening was kicked off by Lee Mullin, Construction Technical Specialist at Autodesk. Design Night Sheffield was also a great occasion to acknowledge the 20 year anniversary of Navisworks which Autodesk acquired 10 years ago. The Sheffield Autodesk office is the main location for Navisworks and BIM 360.
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The main speaker for
Design Night Sheffield was Elliott Crossley who is a Technologist in the Building Information Modeling, Generative Design field. Elliot has worked on iconic projects like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. His presentation was fascinating as I can’t do his talk justice in a summary and will post the entire talk soon.

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We had Sheffield themed drinks, lots of local beer and wine, as well as great local foods like canapies and a another new one to me, the “:toad in a hole”.

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There were excellent activities like the making of a custom laser cut key chain using…

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