Categories Autodesk University

Happy 34th Birthday Autodesk!

It was 34 years ago today on January 30th in 1982 a small group of people held an initial meeting to organize what became Autodesk. On April 26th 1982 Autodesk was incorporated in the State of California. Since that date there have been hundreds of products, thousands of…

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Categories 3D Printing

3D Printed Shells Help Tortoises Survive

Here is an amazing story combining Autodesk Memento software and 3D printing to help save endangered tortoise lives in the American Southwest. 3-D Printed Shells Help Tortoises Survive Hostile Desert Life –FastCo Conservationists are using new technology to study what eats the slow-moving critters—and then tricking those predators…

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Categories 3D Printing

Kids Design Their Own 3D Printed Prosthetics

This is such a great story and well worth spreading far and wide. I remember speaking with one of the volunteers working on this and just humbled by the use of simple 3D printed parts making a difference and creating so many smiles. Autodesk and Bay Area non-profit…

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Categories Autodesk Products

Autodesk Inventor Answer Day is Here

If you have questions about Autodesk Inventor, today is a great opportunity to get them answered with the Inventor Answer Day. For 12 hours today from 6am to 6pm Pacific the Autodesk Inventor Team members from 15 cities and several countries will be answering your questions. Go ask…

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Categories Announcements

Autodesk Gallery Feb 1st to 5th

In honor of the big NFL football game between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers in the Bay Area on the 7th of February and the Super Bowl City event being help literally just outside our doors, we are welcoming visitors all week long to the Autodesk…

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Categories Uncategorized

The Hive at Autodesk University 2015

The Hive was designed and constructed over the course of 3 days by the a collaboration of robotics and Autodesk University attendees to create a architectural structure with computer controlled LEDs. The project was designed by the Office the CTO (OCTO) including my colleagues Maurice Conti, Evan Atherton,…

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Categories 3D Printing

Meshmixer 3.0 Released at SIGGRAPH

Meshmixer is one of the most helpful software tools to help modify, repair, and prepare 3D geometry for 3D printing. This new Meshmixer 3.0 update from Autodesk Research’s Ryan Schmidt was released January 19, 2016 at SIGGRAPH and adds a major new toolset for designing discrete-region multi-material objects,developed…

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Categories AutoCAD

Throwback Thursday – AutoCAD at COMDEX 1984

This 5.25” floppy represents the very early days of AutoCAD where the introduction of the 2 year old AutoCAD version 2 was being exhibited at the FALL COMDEX 1984. AutoCAD 86 was first shown publicly at COMDEX 1982. It is amazing how far technology and Autodesk has come…

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