
For those of you who don’t know, Fusion 360 is a 3D design and manufacturing tool-it’s a cloud-based platform designed for the entire product development process. It’s still very much a work in progress and you probably won’t see it until 2017.īut what is it? Quantum is a crucial part of Autodesk’s attempt to build something like Fusion 360 for the AEC market. It’s not in beta, or even alpha–Hanspal says it’s in pre-alpha. 2. Moving BIM to the Cloud with Project Quantumĭuring his product update keynote, Senior VP of Products Amar Hanspal announced a new project called Quantum, despite people at Autodesk “throwing their bodies in the way” to stop him. Once those people are safely ensconced in the Autodesk processing ecosystem, wouldn’t it make most sense for them to start using Autodesk design software, too? I’ll be interested to see how this plays out for Autodesk, but signs are good. Looks like Autodesk just positioned themselves to have the most widely adopted point cloud processing software in the market. The new ReCap 360 Pro mobile software will be an obvious choice to any newcomer who shells out the bucks for Leica’s LiDAR-and that’s going to be a lot of people. That’s because the partnership sees Autodesk supplying the control and processing software for Leica’s new $16k scanner, the BLK360. The biggest news item at Autodesk University this year was the announcement of the company’s partnership with Leica Geosystems. This partnership is set to put Autodesk into a very enviable place among 3D software providers. So, without further delay, here are some highlights: 1.

Autodesk has its hands in many different industries, so the conference and expo always offers a great opportunity to see the state of 3D technology as a whole.

I’ve just returned from Autodesk University, one of those conferences so expansive that it’s easy to get lost.
