Autodesk explained the rationale for its new separate cloud services at its user conference, while a number of the company's technology partners unveil new integrations for their services.

Autodesk announced Tandem, its digital twin coordination tool, at Autodesk University last year. That tool entered public beta this month, allowing anyone to start building out digital twins of their projects.

At its first all-virtual Autodesk University conference, software vendor Autodesk announced three new construction cloud products, a partnership for electrical design and a new digital twin offering for owners and operators.

In an effort to create a common environment for design visualizations across multiple platforms, Autodesk has partnered with Nvidia to bring its broad suite of design software to Nvidia Omniverse, a recently launched collaborative 3D environment that allows users of different software to see their 3D designs in one shared online space.

More than 100 architecture firms are now requesting more development of Revit as Autodesk admits it hasn't been investing in building out the platform in recent years.

Preparing multiple potential designs around narrow requirements is seen as some of the most tedious work in design and engineering. But some of that effort can now be automated with the new generative design scripting built into Autodesk Revit 2021.

Earlier this year, AECOM Hunt completed construction on Walnut Grove Elementary School near Indianapolis, building on an otherwise undeveloped green site.

The opening of a new technology training center at Folsom State Prison’s Women’s Facility in California this October marks a milestone in a three-year-old program that is the only authorized Autodesk-certified CAD training in a state prison.