Categories 3D Printing

Reverse Engineering with the Autodesk Ember 3D Printer

A 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…

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Categories Announcements

"I Love DWG" Meetup in Prague September 8

Read 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…

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Categories Autodesk Products

Autodesk Fusion 360 Metal Subscription Cards

People 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…

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Categories Autodesk

Free Autodesk Software with Pumpkin Spice

It 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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Categories Technology

Pixar Animation Behind the Scenes

Have you ever wondered how the amazing animated movies such as Up, Cars, Finding Nemo, Toy Story and many more are created from beginning to end by Pixar? We at Autodesk are always amazed at what customers like Pixar do with our technologies and tools. Pixar uses many…

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Categories Reality Capture

Autodesk ReCap and Leica Webinar Sept.1

Just a heads up and reminder for those that use laser scanning and heard of the Autodesk Leica announcement and how they may be working together. Accurate by Design: Learn How to Streamline Point Cloud Workflows with Leica ScanStation P16 & Autodesk ReCap Register Now: https://us.gep.autodesk-services.com/registration/41909   There…

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Categories Misc.

Throwback Thursday – SolidWorks 95

SolidWorks 95 from the mid 1990’s and developed for the mighty Windows 95 platform. I have this package and CDROM in my collection of classic computer design tools. While this is not an Autodesk developed tool it is a classic for some in the mechanical engineering and design…

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Categories Announcements

Autodesk University 2015 Registration Open

Start your AU engines get making your pitches to your management and register early for discounts and the best class selections. In only 97 days Autodesk University Las Vegas will kick off and over 10,000 will descend on Vegas to learn, network, and be inspired and blown away!…

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Categories Design

Engineers Guide to Drinks on Display in Everhart Museum

The Everhart Museum currently has an exhibition on Prohibition and has included the infamous Engineers Guide to Drinks Drawing framed on the wall. I will be releasing the 3D DWG version of this drawing very soon thanks to the hard work of a volunteer named Robert Lupo. The…

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