Enough ink has been spilled over the open letter to Autodesk that I don’t have much to add. However, having spent the last two days working with the Revit API I am reminded...

Autodesk never had to build an API for Revit. They could have dribbled out new Revit features every year, enough to keep people paying. Then Dynamo would never have been created, nor would any of the amazing workflows that people have developed with Dynamo...

They didn’t have to invest in Dynamo either. Dynamo was a project that several inside Autodesk rallied around because they wanted to innovate on top of Revit. Without Dynamo there probably wouldn’t have been a push to get Grasshopper in Revit, again enabled by the API...

It’s a fair argument to say that you are unhappy with the price of Revit, but I take exception with the expectation that Autodesk should innovate on our behalf. We should not so easily cede the future of our industry to one company’s development timeline...

It is unrealistic to expect that one company, which has grown by developing tools that automate ages old techniques of building delivery should pivot and imagine a completely new future for building. That’s our job. Now more than ever the tools are there for us to do this...

Powerful real time engines. XR capabilities on every device we own. Access to infinite compute and storage. A growing, hungry class of AEC software developers. Believe it or not, it is the most exciting time to be involved in new technology in AEC...

I hope and expect that my former colleagues still have some great products to deliver, but my expectations are even greater for all of you.