Categories Autodesk Labs

Best of Autodesk Labs

Autodesk Labs has been a long passion of mine here at Autodesk since starting it in 2006. Scott Sheppard has made Autodesk Labs the polished success it has grown into over the years launching many of Autodesk products you know and love today. Engineering.com wrote a nice online…

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Categories Autodesk Labs

Autodesk ReCap 360 on an iPad

The Autodesk ReCap team is looking for iPad users who want to actively participate in the ReCap 360 Mobile preview project using reality computing tools on a mobile device. The projects pre-release iOS application will be delivered to participants using Apple’s TestFlight platform. The team has a limited…

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Categories Announcements

Autodesk Inventor 2017

Autodesk Inventor 2017 was just released today and those who provided feedback and tested it during beta testing it are free to discuss the product publicly. Autodesk Inventor 2017 Arms Customers with Enhanced Design, Interoperability, and Communication Capabilities Ketiv posted a nice video of the new enhancement for…

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Categories 3D Printing

Ember 3D Printer 24X Faster

Some recent software optimizations were updated on the Autodesk Ember 3D Printer resulting in it 3D printing 24 times faster and because it is open source it could be used on a host of other 3D printers. “True to the open-source nature of their 3D printer, Autodesk reveals…

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Categories Misc.

Wonderful Weekend in the Columbia Gorge

I hope you enjoyed your weekend, I certainly did enjoy mine. It has been almost a year since I moved back to Oregon. I am certainly enjoying the outdoors and being back here after 18 long years away. Yesterday I spent the day hiking up Eagle Creek just…

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Categories Events

Bring your Autodesk Fusion 360 Questions April 6th

Mark your calendar now, the next Autodesk Answer Day is coming up on April 6th, 2016, from 6am to 6pm Pacific Time and will be on Autodesk Fusion 360. This is a live Questions & Answers online event where you can get all those burning questions answered by…

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Categories Events

DEVELOP3D LIVE

The fine folks over a DEVELOP3D have their annual conference coming up on March 31, 2016. They will be broadcasting live the main stage presentations including Autodesk’s own Scott Reese VP of Cloud Platform. Scott will present on the main stage as well as in a panel discussion…

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Categories 3D Printing

AMF in Orbit

The Atlas V launch vehicle lifts off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA Congratulations to NASA,  Orbital ATK, and Made in Space for launching the new 3D Printer Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) into orbit last night. It will soon arrive and be installed on the International Space Station and…

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Categories AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2017 System Requirements

So the new AutoCAD 2017 version has been released this week and you want to know if your current computer is up to the task? The published system requirements will help you determine this. One thing to be aware of is something’s like the Operating System are set…

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Categories AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2017 is Release 32 or 31

I am in the process of updating my AutoCAD History page after we just released the new AutoCAD 2017 Monday March 21, 2016. AutoCAD 2017 was codenamed Nautilus in alpha and beta testing prior to being officially released publicly. Update: My good friend Vladimir Michl of http://www.cadforum.cz spotted…

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