Hali Larsen is a Design Research Engineer at our Ontario office. Hali recently shared some information about the work that Autodesk Research is doing by building upon Autodesk Forge. It’s another example of Autodesk eating its own dog food, so with Hali’s permission, I thought I would share it with the It’s Alive in the Lab readership. For the unfamiliar, Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Forge provides Autodesk customers and partners with the ability to develop their own custom solutions particular to their particular workflows. Give a man a product, and he’ll work for a day. Give a man a platform, and he’ll work for a lifetime.
Here is Hali’s story:
For the relaunch of Autodesk’s Advanced Manufacturing Facility (AMF) in Birmingham UK, the Toronto-based Complex Systems Team from Autodesk Research collaborated with our Digital Manufacturing…