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Autodesk App Store Forge and Fusion 360 Hackathon September 1 - October 31

By Virupaksha Aithal

If you’ve been thinking about developing on the Autodesk® Forge Platform, Autodesk’s new cloud platform, or on Autodesk® Fusion 360™—or, if you’re just curious about learning more about these technologies and what they could do to help your business or your career—join us for our upcoming free online hackathon.  This is our fourth online hackathon and you are welcome to participate in all or any part of it.

The Autodesk® App Store Forge and Fusion 360® Hackathon is an online event which consists of two segments:

1. A series of web training and open Q&A sessions related to the Autodesk Forge platform and Fusion 360 - open to anyone interested in learning about these APIs.
2. An online hackathon where developers can develop new apps on the Forge platform or on Fusion 360 for submission to Autodesk App Store.

We know that learning and implementing something new takes time and often gets put off so we’ve designed this event to give you the support you need - as well as a financial incentive - to motivate you to learn the APIs and publish your app on the Forge platform or on Fusion 360 in the Autodesk App Store. It will make taking action to publish apps simple and feasible. 

The training webinars will help familiarize you with the Forge platform and in the open Q&A sessions you’ll have the opportunity to receive help in real-time from the Autodesk team answering your questions to help you develop your app(s). For all such new apps submitted to the Autodesk App Store by midnight on October 31, 2016 and accepted for publication in the store by November 30, 2016, each entrant of the Hackathon will receive US$ 500 for one eligible app per entrant.

 
You may attend the educational webinars without publishing an app. Click here for Webinar only registration or get full details and register for the Hackathon at http://autodeskforge.devpost.com. If you register for the Hackathon you will automatically be registered for the webinars.  They will be recorded so that you can view them at your convenience.

Visit the pages on the Hackathon website to learn more about the opportunities and resources for developing on Forge, Fusion 360 and publishing in the Autodesk App Store and if you have questions send us an email.

Pre-DevCon Workshops

By Adam Nagy

In case you did not spot this on the Forge DevCon site, the day before the conference we are also organizing workshops that you're welcome to attend - including a Fusion 360 API workshop with Brian and a few of us :)

See you there! :)

Inventor 2017

By Adam Nagy

In case you missed the news, Inventor 2017 has been available now for a couple of weeks.
There are articles covering the new features and even found a session about it on Lynda.com :)

There is also a webinar coming next week if you are interested:

I as well already mentioned one of the changes in the new release: Add-In security in Inventor 2017

Just a quick view of the amount of API changes compared to previous releases:

You can find a complete list of what changed in the "What's New in Inventor 2017" section of the Inventor API Help File at "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2017\Local Help\admapi_21_0.chm"

 

Forge DevCon Early Bird tickets ending this Firday! :)

By Adam Nagy

You might have heard by now of the biggest ever Autodesk Developer Conference coming this June, Forge DevCon

The Early Bird tickets are running out this Friday, so you'll have to hurry up if you want to use them! :)

At the conference you can learn everything there is to know about our Forge Platform and how you can build on top of it.

Brian will be there to talk about Fusion API, and I will be there too explaining how you will be able to take advantage of our translation services to get data out of pretty much any design file you have.

There will be many tracks with great topics: http://forge.autodesk.com/tracks-and-speakers/ 

The same week we'll also have our 2nd 3d Web Fest: http://www.3dwebfest.com

Then the following week we'll also hold a Cloud Accelerator, a program that we have run many times by now all around the world with great success. Here we work side-by-side with 3rd party developers to jump start their development on our cloud technologies.

It's looking to be a great couple of weeks that nobody should miss :) 

Next Accelerator in Barcelona

By Adam Nagy

We have organized quite a few accelerators already where we are working along with partners to jump start their application development.

The next one will be in Barcelona, Spain May 16 - 20.

If you are planning to build on top of our Forge platform and like the location then apply now! :)

http://autodeskcloudaccelerator.com/

 

Inventor Answer Day! :)

By Adam Nagy

Inventor Answer Day is coming and you're welcome to join :)

You'll find here all the info about it: 
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-answer-day/inventor-answer-day-january-27th-2016/td-p/5956903

Forge Accelerator is coming

By Adam Nagy

You might have heard of Forge which was announced during AU. As part of that we'll also organize a cloud accelerator March 14th to 18th inclusive in our San Francisco office that you can already apply for at http://autodeskcloudaccelerator.com/apply/.

You can find more info about the event here:
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/cloud_and_mobile/2015/12/apply-to-attend-the-forge-accelerator.html

See you there :)

DevDays and DevWeek

By Adam Nagy

DevDays is getting closer and closer. This time around it won't be just a one day event but will be combined with DevWeek where we will help developers create their solutions based on our technologies.

These events are not only for ADN members! Anyone interested in learning about what's coming in the next release of our products or needs our help with using our API's is welcome to join.

See you there! :)

http://autodeskdevdays.com

 

Fusion 360 Hackathon - Command and UI

By Adam Nagy

Here is the recording of the Fusion 360 Hackathon presentation from Thursday. You can either download the file or watch it on youtube.

#Fusion360Hackathon

 

Fusion 360 Hackathon - Introduction to the Fusion object model

By Adam Nagy

Here is the recording of the Fusion 360 Hackathon presentation from Tuesday. You can either download the file or watch it on youtube.

#Fusion360Hackathon