Categories Autodesk

On This Day January 30, 1982

In Marin County California, a small group of people got together January 30, 1982 and formed Autodesk. As founder John Walker stated “the game has changed.” 36 years later Autodesk is a rare technology company that is still around, innovating, evolving, and helping our customers imagine, design, and…

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Categories Design

Instructables Minecraft Challenge 2018

Perfect contest for kids and young adults to win a 3D printer! “Pack up your torches, swords, pickaxes, and loaves of bread to get yourself ready for the Minecraft Challenge! Demonstrate your Minecraft mastery with intuitive gameplay tutorials or show how your gaming talents translate into the real…

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Categories Fusion 360

Modify an STL file in Fusion 360

Have you ever needed to import geometry from other software but weren’t quite sure what was the optimal method to do this and be able to edit the geometry?  Lars Christensen shows us how to quickly import and modify a STL file in Fusion 360. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxC-kwuksug Be sure…

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Categories Cloud

Jumpstart Your Cloud solutions with the Forge Team

Join the Forge team for deep dive assistance at a Forge Accelerator this year, for free. “Attending a Forge Accelerator is a great opportunity for your software development team to learn and work intensively on a Forge-based project with one-on-one support and advice from Autodesk Forge API experts.…

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Categories Autodesk University

AU5K Run Results

It has been only 2 months since Autodesk University 2017, but many of us will never forget it. I especially won’t forget the first year my AU annual run was made into an official event and a huge hit with well over 100 runners participating. I can’t wait…

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Categories AutoCAD

An Epic Piece of Autodesk History –The Nozzle

An amazing surprise as I walked into the office this morning, Kevin Schneider presented me with the historical original nozzle used in many sample files and demos of AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor over the past 34 years. AutoCAD 2.6 included a sample drawing of a nozzle that has…

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Categories Autodesk

On This Day 20 Years Ago

On this day a much younger version of me left a design seat as an Autodesk customer and started with Autodesk in San Rafael California. Here is Autodesk customer Shaan Hurley, Mechanical Designer of Oregon Iron Works Portland Oregon in 1997. I was interviewed for the AutoCAD R14…

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Categories Design

Bespoke Bodies

An Autodesk BUILD Space Residents Outradius is featured in the Design Museum Foundation exhibit Bespoke Bodies. Outradius is using Autodesk Fusion 360 to advance designs for a low-cost, form fitting, upper limb socket which can be used with more complex upper limb prostheses in the future. One of…

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Categories Events

Portland Winter Light Festival

Friday not only did we hold our office holiday party, but afterwards I got to be a guest at the VIP reception for the Portland Winter Light Festival that Autodesk is a proud local sponsor of. I met the organizers of the event as well as some of…

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