Today marks a big blog milestone—21 years of "Between the Lines Blog." What started as a simple idea has grown into a fun and trusted source for those in the AEC and manufacturing design technology industry. It’s wild to look back and see how much has changed, not just in the technology itself but also in how we communicate and share ideas. Staying connected has never been more important.
Twenty-one years ago, I started this blog as a fun side project after a couple of fellow Autodesk employees, Bill Johnson and Eric Wright, approached me about this new thing called blogs and how I could provide more help and information that would be indexed by search engines and shared in social than I ever could in a discussion forum post that gets lost in the threads. Since then, I’ve been throwing words and photos up here ever since.
Over the last 21 years, this blog has tracked the evolution of technology in our industry. From the early days of 2D/3D CAD to the rise of BIM and digital…