Categories Autodesk Products

Autodesk Products for Free

If you are a individual student or faculty you can get most of the Autodesk products for free from the Autodesk Education Community. There is really no catch as these are the full Autodesk products and the software license is for 3 years. Included are AutoCAD, 3ds Max,…

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Categories Autodesk Products

Big Game Stadium Winds in Real-Time

Today is the big football game in the US where the Seattle Seahawks will face the Denver Broncos in an open stadium in the Winter cold of New Jersey. Fox Sports is using Autodesk Flow Design to determine where the winds will be blowing in the stadium in…

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Categories Autodesk

Happy 32nd Birthday Autodesk

On this day January 30th, 1982, 32 years ago a small group of people held an initial meeting in Marin County California to organize what became Autodesk. They risked it all including all the money they could scrape together and it paid off for millions of people from…

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Categories Announcements

Project Chronicle Google+ Hangout

Yesterday we held a live Google+ Hangout with Autodesk's Project Chronicle Product Manager Eric Stover and myself.It was a fun time with Eric and I in the Office of the CTO brainstorm room complete with lawn chairs on fake grass, but there was one big issue. We had…

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Categories Uncategorized

My Sweet Sixteen with Autodesk

I can’t believe I missed my anniversary at Autodesk. It was 16 years ago last week that I climbed out of the mechanical design seat as a customer and joined Autodesk. Time certainly flies when you love what you do, who you work for, and work with the…

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Categories Uncategorized

The New Autodesk 360 Technology Preview Launched

The new Autodesk 360 is here! Autodesk employees along with some customers have been testing and using the new Autodesk 360 for sometime now on real projects to make sure it was ready. You can now get early access to the project collaboration tool, the new Autodesk 360:…

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Categories AutoCAD

Viewing DWG Files

Do you need a free viewer for DWG files ? If you want to view the DWG/DXF files on a Windows PC you can use the free Autodesk DWG TrueView. Autodesk DWG TrueView 2014 is the same exact software code as AutoCAD 2014 but limited to viewing, converting,…

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Categories Autodesk

Project Chronicle Google Hangout Monday Jan 27th

Have you heard of Autodesk's preview technology named Project Chronicle? If not, Project Chronicle is a quick and easy way to record detailed steps automatically of what you are doing in AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit a swell as other things. Project Chronicle is not meant for highly polished…

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Categories Misc.

Your 15 Minutes of Fame (almost)

Are you flying into Salt Lake City over the next ten days, and want to have some fun? Today the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is starting in Northern Utah. In the past I have met several independent film producers, stars, and directors on the flights to Salt Lake…

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