Year 2016

Categories 3D Printing

Meshmixer 3.0 Released at SIGGRAPH

  • By Shaan
  • January 21, 2016

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

  • By Shaan
  • January 21, 2016

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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Categories Misc.

18 Years at Autodesk Today

  • By Shaan
  • January 19, 2016

Autodesk has since it’s founding been a well known dog friendly workplace in the Bay area so I think it is fair to say I have worked for Autodesk 18 years or 126 dog years (18 x 7.) I joined Autodesk back in 1998 after being an Autodesk…

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Categories Technology

UAV/UAS Registration in the United States

  • By Shaan
  • January 19, 2016

The deadline is approaching and on this Wednesday January 21, 2016 at midnight when the mandatory registration will no longer free and be $5 and they must be registered by February 19, 2016. We all knew that the FAA would at some point start addressing the fast increasing…

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Categories Autodesk

Dynamic Drawings on the Web with Project Draco

  • By Shaan
  • January 13, 2016

Bring you art to life using the Technology Preview of Project Draco developed by Autodesk Research.  Project Draco is different and much better and makes animation as easy as sketching. Project Draco aims to bring the power of intricate animation effects and interactive graphics to the creative hands…

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Categories Autodesk University

Run a Half Marathon Before AU 2016

  • By Shaan
  • January 13, 2016

I received a great deal of good feedback about running early mornings at Autodesk University 2015 with over 20 AU attendees each day running up to 4 miles. Ron Nightingale who ran mornings with us at AU 2015 said “it was the healthiest thing I did at AU”…

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Categories Hardware

FIRST Robotics 2016 Kicked Off this Weekend

  • By Shaan
  • January 11, 2016

The start of the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) 2016 was revealed Saturday with the new game challenge named STRONGHOLD by FIRST Founder Dean Kamem. This years revealed game field is one of the most challenging for the robotics competition of high school students according to the many experienced…

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Categories Misc.

Nikola Tesla Helps You with Math

  • By Shaan
  • January 8, 2016

Not only was Nikola Tesla one of the most brilliant inventors in history so many scientific fields, he also figured out an interesting way look up solutions to mathematics. Reads More Long lost Nikola Tesla drawings reveal genius map for multiplication  

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