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Fusion Friday

I will be posting an Autodesk Fusion related post every Friday to get the word out on this great mechanical and industrial design tool for both Windows and the Mac. Last Friday I featured the first Autodesk Fusion Friday Design an Automobile in 27 Minutes. If you have…

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Categories Misc.

Amazing Weather for a Meeting

I organized a meeting yesterday in Northern California with my team. What was amazing was the weather in addition to being with my team. It is usually not 74 degrees on the beach just North of the Golden Gate Bridge and it felt like Summer in February.  I…

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Categories Events

REAL 2016

Meet me March 8th and 9th in beautiful San Francisco at REAL where you will see the very latest in 3D and Reality Computing. There is will be some great presentations by some speakers like Adam Metallo and Vincent Rossi (the Laser Cowboys) who will present on the…

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Categories Reality Capture

Graffiti Found Scratched Inside Apollo 11

Autodesk and the Smithsonian have been working together on a reality capture project of historical significance. The team are capturing for the first time the complete inside and outside of the Apollo 11 command module where the astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin sat during the historic mission…

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Categories 3D Printing

Imagination Powered Toy Factory

Mattel and Autodesk partner to create a childs very own imagination powered toy factory with the ThingMaker Design app and a $299 3D printer. The 3D printer goes on pre-sale on Amazon today and ships this Fall. autode.sk/1Qcbu0k

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Categories AutoCAD

Nozzle DWG for Throwback Thursday

AutoCAD 2.6 included a sample drawing of a nozzle that has been one of the iconic sample drawings in AutoCAD release history. While it may seem trivial today to draw this, back in the early 1980’s it was really challenging for the creator of the drawing Don Strimbu…

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Categories Announcements

Autodesk Community Maintenance

Plan your Friday night doing something other than posting in the Autodesk discussion forums as they will be read-only during some maintenance. As of 9:00 pm PST on Friday, February 12 through 12:00 pm PST on Saturday, February 13, the Autodesk Community Forums (not affecting the Beta &…

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Categories Design

Forze Hydrogen Racing Team Student Project

A full scale race car which will compete against regular combustion engine powered cars. This car will be one of the first hydrogen fuel cell powered cars with this size and power. The Forze Hydrogen Racing Team partnered on a student project with Delft University of Technology in…

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