The past two days almost a thousand have attended the REAL 2015 event here in San Francisco California at the historic Fort Mason. The conference covered everything dealing with Capture Compute and Create. There was everything from laser scanning systems, structured light scanners, infrared, photogrammetry, software like point…
Read MoreThe Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing was really just a test plot drawing was originally created by someone to test pen plotters back in 1972. This drawing has gone crazy viral ending up in online magazine, named a top infographic of 2014, and even as a physical print…
Read MoreIn 30 some odd years Autodesk has had literally hundreds of products, and currently just over 100 active products. In those years we have seen many a creative name for a product. So for some fun, which product name/s were not actually a released Autodesk product?
Read MoreThe very first bound AutoCAD Manual and Command Reference.
Read MoreTo my friends and colleagues in China: Gong Hey Fat Choy! 恭禧發財 It is now the Year of the Goat! I seen remnants of firecrackers in San Francisco Chinatown during my morning run. I do hope the firecrackers and alcohol are plentiful again tonight.
Read MoreWe all want to get more done in less time so that we can go home early, Sorry – so that we can concentrate on value added tasks, such as Designing or Engineering 😉 The trouble is, experimenting with different ways of achieving the same task with AutoCAD…
Read MoreThe Wave – Sandstone Lines, a unique story told by nature. I know of only one other thing in my life with as much red beauty, style and grace. A photo posted by Shaan Hurley (@shaanhurley) on Feb 15, 2015 at 11:31pm PST The Wave – Coyote…
Read MoreI love love love this free utility to modify, repair, and and work with 3D scanned data and even create 3D models from photos and a new bug release has been posted. Go check out Scott’s blog post on what is in this update and how to get…
Read MoreIt may be Friday the 13th today but its only superstition and for those paranoid there is another Friday the 13th in March, In any case tomorrow is February 14th Valentines Day for most. For those into mathematics here is a clever set of math formulas in honor…
Read MoreIt's Thursday (Throwback Thursday), the day after hump day when you show photos or info from history and the wayback machine. Today I proudly present you a screen capture I took from AutoCAD 2.18 circa 1985 showing all commands it supported. Now contrast that with the hundreds of…
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