Sasha Crotty

AEC Design Data Team Lead

Autodesk

Bio

Sasha Crotty leads Autodesk’s AEC Design Data team, focused on building an open & extensible data platform connecting AECO teams in their tools of choice. Since joining Autodesk in 2005 has taken on multiple roles from writing code for Revit Structure to product management for the Revit platform & services. Sasha holds a BA in Architecture and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an MBA from Boston University. In her spare time Sasha enjoys growing miniature orchids and traveling around the world.

NXT DEV Talk

Panel discussion: What can the AEC industry expect from USD?
Universal Scene Description (USD) is best known as Pixar’s lightweight data format for transferring scenes between their animation teams. It’s worked extremely well for that intended purpose. Over the last few years USD has been championed by NVIDIA as a seamless solution for CDE data wrangling and collaborative working on the web. USD has since been adopted by firms such as Autodesk and Siemens as a possible data format for internal and external data sharing. Pixar has agreed to let the industry advance USD’s development to better cater to other vertical markets, including Mechanical CAD (MCAD) and AEC. This result in the creation of the AOUSD – Alliance for Open USD, which will extend USD to better serve AEC with relevant metadata and capabilities and expand its architecture to suit streamed cloud environments. While the AOUSD was created last year, the number of firms supporting this initiative has been rapidly expanding and looks set to be a core AEC format in the future, with a targeted aim of ISO standardisation. AT NXT DEV we will quiz the key firms behind the AOUSD on what kinds of capabilities we can expect to see added to USD with regards to the AEC community, how they envisage it being used? How will it compare to IFC?

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