Categories Design

Modeling Gig in LA

Last week was spent with some Autodesk Fusion 360 rock stars Mike Aubry and Curtis Chan along with some awesome customers modeling some 3D parts for a special project in the LA area. One of the evenings after a long day we had more part modeling to do so…

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Categories Autodesk Products

Enable Preview Functionality in Fusion 360

Have you wanted to test out new Fusion 360 features and functionality before they make the main release? You can turn on feature previews in your profile by selecting preferences in Fusion 360. Select Preview and then simply check the available functionality you would like to preview. Keep…

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Categories Photography

Beautiful Spring Landscape of the Columbia Gorge

It’s always nice to see the beauty round us rather than the depressing news on the Internet and televisions. This last Sunday I escaped the city and drove into the Columbia Gorge about 80 miles East of Portland Oregon looking for less clouds and some spring wildflowers. I…

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Categories Autodesk

Autodesk Design Night Portland

Attention Portland Oregon readers! You may have heard about one of the top event tickets in San Francisco being Autodesk’s Design Night, but we are now branching out to several more cities including Portland later this month. If you want to learn about the latest in Virtual Reality…

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Categories Announcements

Pergunte ao AutoCAD Especialista (Ask the AutoCAD Expert in Portuguese)

Pela primeira vez em português os Expert Elite e colaboradores da Comunidade Autodesk da língua portuguesa responderão a todas as suas perguntas sobre AutoCAD. Data: 18 de abrilHorário:  Das 15:00 hs às 22:00 hs – (Horário de Brasília)Local: Forum de AutoCAD. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-portugues/bd-p/313 Você tem perguntas que sempre quis fazer?…

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Categories Uncategorized

Autodesk Fusion 360 Roadmap

The Autodesk Fusion 360 team has posted a glimpse into their future plans for the product. It is rapidly adding more and more powerful features. I am in LA with Mike Aubry and Curtis Chan working with some amazing customer this week working in Fusion 360 and loving it.…

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Categories Misc.

I’m a Grandpa!

On the drive home to Portland Friday night from a Field Innovation Team boot camp I received a text that I was now grandpa to a beautiful healthy granddaughter. Charlotte Paige Hurley born 3/31/17 10:09 PM at a healthy 8lbs 6oz and 21in to my oldest son Chris…

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Categories AutoCAD

32nd Release of AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2018 was just released, but did you know it was the 32nd release of AutoCAD and that its beta codename was Omega? I maintain a list of all of these and a few more at: http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/autocad-release-history.html  AutoCAD Release History AutoCAD 1.0 December 1982 (Release 1) AutoCAD 1.2…

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Categories Autodesk

Impressive Marshmallow Challenge Result

Autodesk colleague Tom Wujec gave a popular TED presentation in 2010 about team building and a Marshmallow Challenge that has received over 3.5 million views. The Marshmallow Challenge is a great team building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. In the past…

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Categories Autodesk

Have a Autodesk License Issue, Ask AVA

  AVA is the Autodesk Virtual Agent that can assist with many issues and requests from downloads to licensing to product registrations. She is very helpful and never sleeps. I’m not even sure if the artificial intelligence is really male or female, but that doesn’t really matter. Managing…

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