I asked fellow Autodesk and Portland office colleague Chris Mitchell who manages our very successful Autodesk Inventor pre-release beta programs like the alpha and beta programs for our DLS division a series of 11 questions about the beta. Why 11, because 10 is just so average. My questions…
Read MoreAutoCAD 1.4 circa 1984. The floppies believe it or not are still readable provided you have a floppy drive.
Read MoreJust a few minutes ago Autodesk’s own AutoCAD 360 was just shown on stage at the Apple event running on the new iPad Pro. Looks great on the new larger and higher resolution iPad Pro and described as “buttery.”
Read MoreBack in May Autodesk employees in teams of 7 started the competition in step counts internally among 406 teams and tens of thousands of other teams from other companies in the Global Corporate Challenge. This was the second year for me as team leader for the OCTO (Office…
Read MoreMy good friend Dr. Louise Leakey has launched a new site to allow you to join in the exploration of fossils and be part of the most important scientific discoveries. They have developed a site that crowd sources the review of all the photos. It is simple and…
Read MoreThe world is moving to the Cloud. And mechanical design and manufacturing apps are going there too. Are you ready? Autodesk is taking mechanical design to the Cloud with Fusion 360. Tens of thousands of engineers that are Cloud friendly early adopters and aggressive users of new technologies…
Read MoreA colleague in the Lake Oswego Oregon Autodesk office Ryan McMahon (Senior Product Manager for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Simulation) is experimenting with my Autodesk Ember 3D printer and some reverse engineering of consumer goods. The original part is on the left and the part reverse engineered on…
Read MoreRead more about the event being held September 8th, 2015.“I Love DWG” meetup in Prague Working with DWG files using third party libraries? Querying? Viewing? Editing?Wrestling with how to expand your solutions to mobile and the web? And really want to avoid having to build different/new code bases…
Read MorePeople purchasing hardware from some of Autodesk’s partners will be finding a very nice and shiny surprise benefit inside. Inside many packages, including Autodesk’s very own Ember 3D printer is a metal card good for free commercial subscription of Autodesk Fusion 360 of various lengths. I saw these…
Read MoreIt is now September and rapidly approaching Autumn/Fall which is the time of the year kids return to school. This is also the time pumpkin spiced everything is thrust upon us including the infamous pumpkin spice lattes that I believe started all this. This is a great time…
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