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We're getting ready to launch a new Ask Autodesk Google+ Hangout series, showcasing Autodesk subject matter experts answering your questions, and want your input!
Is this something that you would be interested in viewing and or possibly participating in?
What would you want to see? What would you not want to see?
If you had the opportunity to sit down and question anyone, or number of individuals at Autodesk, who would they be and what would you ask them? General positions / questions will work.
First 5 responders win a high five!
Philip Schmelzer
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Dynamic Blocks. Future? Enhancements?
Oft asked for additions.
Multi Vis states.
Attribute driven parameters.
Constraint issuesRegards, Charles Shade
CSHADEDESIGN | AUTOCAD LT | LT-KB | DYNAMIC BLOCKS
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we need to get the Inventor and Vault teams talking together with customers more. Not independantly.
definitely some of the UX people along with product managers, there are some relatively simple UI stuff that needs to happen across autodesk products which seems to keep falling by the wayside.
I think the number of people involved in the hangout should be limited, some smaller groups more of the time to ensure equality of feedback. Maybe 10-12 max so its still enough to get a good dialogue/debate going.
Scott Moyse
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RevOps Strategy Manager at Toolpath. New Zealand based.
Co-founder of the Grumpy Sloth full aluminium billet mechanical keyboard project
Hi Jessica,
There will definitely be a schedule put in place and we'll notify you all of the agenda for each particular hangout, so you'll know what products and product teams (or other topics and groups) will be featured beforehand. We don't want you spending time watching something that isn't of value to you!
Teresa Basich
Community Manager
Autodesk, Inc.
@Anonymous wrote:
Ask Autodesk....OK,...can I get a job?
I'll gladly be a demo jock, travelling wherever. I'm single, kids are grown....Inventor and/or Vault Workgroups.....oh, sorry. That's not what this is all about now is it? 😞
Oh well, feel free to pass along the info though.
I been asking too. 😞
I think once you hit old age they overlook us. 🙂
Murph
Supporting the troops daily.
Supporting the troops daily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riytk96ARlM
Yea, I should be making a mint by now too. 
Regards, Charles Shade
CSHADEDESIGN | AUTOCAD LT | LT-KB | DYNAMIC BLOCKS
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@Anonymous wrote:Tell me about it, I'm finding that to be the case out in the non-AutoDesk world as well.
It's like no one will touch me due to my vast years of experience and knowledge being too costly for them.
But then again, how much is it costing them to NOT employ me or those of us out here with the experience?
Truth.
We had the hardest time finding an experienced Mechanical Engineer for our office. Maybe some people would think my boss crazy for hiring someone who is so close to retirement age, but, we need his brains for as long as we can have them.
The existing ME (been here for nearly 20 years) is going to be retiring not too long after the new guy, and I know my boss already dreads trying to fill their experienced shoes.
😉 Luckily they had no luck with keeping experienced people in my positition, so they finally got desperate enough to hire a noob into it.
Of course, that was 13 years ago this month, so I guess I'm not a noob anymore. Just a friggin saint. 
I see that attitude in a lot of our Civil consultants. They've dumped most of the experienced Engineers and CAD Techs. They rely on a bunch of younger designers who technically know the work. They know how to follow the rules. But experience is what tells you when to violate the rules or when the rules aren't enough.
We had one job where (among many other things) the consultant designer put a pair of catch basins at the point of curvature of the curbs that would be coming out of a side street on to the main street we are rebuilding. That's what is supposed to be done. However, in this case, that was also the high point of the road profile. So all those catch basins would be catching is raindrops and there would be a puddle formed on the side street.
You can teach a chimp to drive a car and stop at red lights and go at green. But you can't teach him not to go on green if someone is standing in the middle of the intersection. Because green always means go. I'm not trying to compare anyone to a chimp. But this is a good parable to demonstrate the difference between being able to follow the rules and being able to use experience to make decisions.
I now this thread has been a little sidetracked by this. But it's the Break Room so I don't feel too bad about it.
Allen
Allen Jessup
CAD Manager - Designer
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