The word is out today on many new Autodesk new products including the new AutoCAD 2015! I spent the early part of this crazy busy week with several AutoCAD bloggers and Autodesk employees. The press release was just announced: New Autodesk 2015 Design Suites Drive Unsurpassed Value for…
Read MoreGuest post by Paul Munford of the blog CAD Setter Out blog. We all love Autodesk Inventor‘s smooth and clean user interface – but it can make some of Inventor’s powerful surfacing tools tricky to discover. In this post we’ll take a look at five surfacing tools you…
Read MoreAfter Janet Echelman's TED presentation three years ago "Taking Imagination Seriously", between sessions she met Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski. Janet mentioned she had reached the limits of what she could design due to software limitations on scale and assuring the sculpture design could…
Read MoreThe Autodesk Show Reel 2014 video has just been released showing the amazing work created by customers and Autodesk using Autodesk software and technology. Check It Out! In the video I spotted my awesome Office of the CTO team mates Evan Atherton, Arthur Harsuvanakit and Scott Sheppard. Evan…
Read MoreThis week was a tough one for me and my laptop. On Tuesday my machine started acting wonky where Windows explorer would not show previews of files and then Microsoft Outlook would not allow me to type in the body of an email.. I decided what most people…
Read MoreIn AutoCAD there are in most cases multiple methods to do something but this one is a super simple way to rotate an object. You could use the ROTATE command, select the object then in the properties palette change the rotation, or use the grips and right-click menu…
Read MoreThe free Autodesk MeshMixer has been updated with tools for 3D printing. I love this software as it allows a great deal of creativity much like a lite version of Autodesk Mudbox. Where else could I take my 3D head captured with 123D Catch or Recap Photo and…
Read MoreLast weekend I went down to Southern California to do some scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean unfortunately a huge storm hit while I was there cancelling some of the dive boats myself and my friend Will had arranged to dive for some spiny lobster. On Sunday early…
Read MoreThe Autodesk Foundation (autodesk.org) has just launched! The Autodesk Foundation is focused on investing in design-driven organizations delivering scalable solutions with a measurable impact and in designer’s solving the epic challenges using the power of design. Using the power of design, Autodesk is helping people imagine, design, and…
Read MoreThe Autodesk Beta and Autodesk Labs projects on the Autodesk Feedback Community will have short maintenance window coming on Tuesday March 4th. Start Time: Mar. 4, 2014 at 18:00 PST (Tuesday at 6:00 pm) Estimated End Time: Mar. 4, 2014 at 18:30 PST (Tuesday at 6:30 pm) Duration: …
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