Categories Autodesk

Autodesk’s 33 Year Anniversary

On this day January 30th, 1982, 33 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 Misc.

Winter Weekend Outdoors

I had an amazing time this weekend, and hope you did too. I was practicing my radio controlled quad copter piloting skills on my new UAV quad copter a DJI Inspire 1 in preparation for future flights to capture 3D models using Autodesk Recap Photo and Project Memento.…

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Categories AutoCAD

AutoCAD Save (Three Different Ones)

SAVE is one of the most common AutoCAD commands; we all know what it does, but did you know there’s more to save than just the little floppy disk icon? Here’s a look at the ins and outs of saving files, and pass the savings on to others!

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Categories 3D Printing

Autodesk 123D Sculpt+ for iOS and Android

Create anything from fighter jets to frogs by sculpting using the new Autodesk123D Sculpt+ for Android and iOS tablets. This is a great way to pass time, improve your creativity, or even give your kids something constructive on their tablets. I can even create semi-cool looking things using…

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Categories AutoCAD

3D Engineers Guide to Drinks

The 3D Engineers Guide to Drinks collaboration project started this week with a handful of talented and energetic AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Fusion 360, and 3ds Max users. I will provide more details on the team and progress in the future. One team member has already started constructing all…

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Categories Funny

iPhone Photo Prank this Week

A friend texted me the following image this week: "You see that camera button next to where you type? Hold it down and slide your finger up to the other camera button above your finger, and then let go. A bunch of new picture filters will pop up.…

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Categories AutoCAD

Making Property Selection Filters in AutoCAD

When you have a large drawing to work it becomes necessary that you act smart in order to remain productive and reduce your drawing edit time there are many tools in AutoCAD which will help you in becoming more productive and efficient one such tool is Quick Select…

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Categories Announcements

REAL 2015

If you are involved in 3D reality capture, 3D computing technologies or a 3D creative you want to be at this REAL 2015 event being held in beautiful San Francisco at the historic waterfront Fort Mason on February 25th  and the 26th, 2015. There will be many industry…

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Categories Blogs

Congratulations to CAD Notes and All CAD Bloggers

Its been well over 12 years since CAD Blogs became kind of a big thing and grew as a valuable resource for people to share information and tips and tricks, as well as add real faces to the CAD community. Many friends and relationships have developed and Autodesk…

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