Here is a very handy change to AutoCAD 2016 made after customers requested the functionality to change properties of Layers in an AutoCAD XREF. When the AutoCAD System Variable XREFOVERRIDE is set to 1, you can change the Color, Linetype, Linewidth, Transparency and Plot Style of objects in…
Read MoreDid some work in Lawrence Kansas this week and took these two photos while doing some approved research at the University of Kansas home of the Jay Hawks..
Read MoreOn May 7th, 2015 a small team of us descended on the city of Atlanta Georgia to perform some research comparing terrestrial laser scanning of the exterior of a building to the results of photogrammetry using UAV and ReCap 360 and then the combined model from both processes.…
Read MoreThe popular and powerful mechanical and industrial design tool for both Mac and Windows Autodesk Fusion 360 has been updated. Many new features, functions, and fixes have been included including CAM turning functionality and also a two rail sweep. If you are a current user just select the…
Read MoreFor those of us in the Northern hemisphere I hate to break the news but we are half way through Summer and heading towards Fall and Winter again. Have you ever wanted to know how to make something or do something? Check out Autodesk’s Instructables community to learn…
Read MoreOn this Throwback Thursday I share with you a scan I just did of one of the most important floppy disks in Autodesk’s over 30 years of history besides the original AutoCAD 1.0 floppy disks that I also have, This floppy contains the demo drawing files shown at…
Read MoreJust read a great article in the Harvard Business Review highlighting some of the Autodesk #3DRV tour last year by TJ McCue. The 3DRV spent almost a year on the road crisscrossing the United States meeting amazing people and seeing amazing companies and technologies. To TJ’s point I…
Read MoreI noticed an experiment yesterday in a Portland area park located atop a dormant volcano where an adult and a child had drawn their designs for a future home. Mind you this is in no way scientific, but does match other examples I have heard. Dr. Saul Griffith…
Read MoreSome of my Autodesk colleagues sent me into a daytime nightmare feeling simply with a URL to a web page in my email. On the web page in Google Chrome of browser with WebGL you see a 3D shaded head model and as you move you curser the…
Read MoreJust seen a great example on Twitter of using Autodesk’s ReCap 360 to auto-magically convert photos into a 3D textured model. Video of the Apollo 14 Command Module autode.sk/1K4AGz6 by Mathew Byrd (Twitter @MatthewCbyrd)Bravo Matthew!
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