Cliff’s Notes on The Future of Making

The Autodesk vision is to

• help people imagine, design, and create a better world.

In this pursuit, our mission is to

• deliver products and services that enable the Future of Making Things.

Autodesk customers imagine, design, and create a better world via places, things, and media (films, TV shows, commercials, video games). Our software helps them design, make, and use their creations. Over the last year or so, many of our employees have collaborated to coalesce what we mean by the Future of Making Things. Mark Tricarico is one of our Senior Writers. He created a nice summary of our thoughts on the Future of Making Things. I am sharing it with It’s Alive in the Lab readers because I think it is an excellent encapsulation of how Autodesk is approaching the industries we serve. I like clear and concise — the Cliff’s Notes¹ of the Autodesk story.

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