Categories Misc.

First Year Back in Oregon

A year ago today, I made my journey back to Oregon. Autodesk hired me from Oregon 18 years ago and I moved to the San Francisco Bay area for many years followed by a couple years working remotely in Utah before moving back to Oregon last year. I…

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Categories Misc.

Apple Watch Unlocked my House

Last night I left for yoga in a hurry without my phone or house keys as the yoga studio is only a short walk from my home. When I returned home I realized my predicament of not having my phone or house keys. After checking all my locked…

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Categories Announcements

New Autodesk ReCap 360 Pro

The new ReCap 360 Pro an all in one reality capture solution is out. If you are doing reality capture then you should look at the new features like Fly features for UAV/drone photos, Auto-Cleanup tool, Scan-to-Mesh (converting point cloud data into 3D textured meshes) in addition to…

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Categories Autodesk

Autodesk PNW FIRST Robotics Championship was this Weekend

Autodesk sponsored the recent Pacific Northwest FIRST Robotics Championship for high school students held from Thursday to Saturday last week at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in sunny and unseasonably warm Portland Oregon. There were 64 high school teams participating from the Pacific Northwest states of Alaska, Oregon, and…

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Categories Design

Model Mania Challenge

Lucas Prokopiak is a colleague of mine in the Office of the CTO and wrote a great post on using Autodesk Fusion 360 to re-create and go beyond some public SolidWorks 3D model challenges. Lucas used Autodesk Fusion 360 which he is still fresh at using and documented…

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Categories Autodesk

Forget the Consumer Internet of Things

This is a great article by Autodesk VP of Corporate Strategy Jon Pittman on a topical tech subject the Internet of Things (IoT). Our team and Autodesk has been doing a great deal of thinking about a connected world and how it relates to the products you design…

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Categories Misc.

Mylar Balloons

Balloons are nice and fun, but do you ever think about where they go when you set them free up into the air? I have found them at mountain tops sitting in the in pristine vegetation and in alpine lakes where they can cause problems for the wildlife.…

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