Categories Announcements

Autodesk Feedback Community Outage Tonight at 7:00 PDT

This is the final reminder that we will be upgrading server hardware and rolling out a new version of our Autodesk Feedback Community platform tonight.  The Feedback Community hosts both Autodesk Beta and Autodesk Labs for over 125,000 users around the world. Planned Maintenance: Wednesday July 9th 7pm…

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Categories 3D Printing

3D Prints of USS Arizona Artifacts

Autodesk partnered with the US National Park Service to undertake the most complete study of the USS Arizona in 30 years both above and below water using many 3D capture technologies. Two of the artifacts captured using photos and Autodesk ReCap Photo were iconic and historically significant as…

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Categories Events

The Future of Our Past – Tatjana Dzambazova at TEDx

My good friend and Autodesk colleague Tatjana Dzambazova (Technology Whisperer, Senior Product Manager of the IPG – Reality Solutions Group) recently presented at TEDx on technology and reality capturing (digitizing the analog world)  including many of the amazing projects I have mentioned on this blog,  and many more.…

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Categories Autodesk Products

AutoCAD 360 GPS Feature Is Back!

An update in Apple iTunes was published today for the free & awesome AutoCAD 360 for iOS returning the GPS feature that allows you to orient yourself in the drawing based on the iOS device GPS. This feature was released in AutoCAD 360 awhile back but a couple…

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Categories 3D Printing

New Autodesk Memento Build Available

Do you need an application to repair, heal, and fix 3D geometry or even create 3D textured geometry using photos for fabrication projects like 3D printing? Project Memento is free Autodesk Labs technology preview of an end-to-end solution for converting any reality capture input (photos, scans) into high…

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Categories Misc.

Just What I Needed

I just returned late last night from a week in Southern California with my kids where we attended a memorial horse race held in honor of my late grand father. We also fit in a visit with a friend and Hollywood car man Eddie Paul where my kids…

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Categories AutoCAD

Disable Cursor Badges in AutoCAD 2015

In AutoCAD 2015 a new User Interface element named Cursor Badges was added. Cursor badges showed a graphical tip next to the cursor on what you were doing. While many appreciated the graphical tip, some users preferred to not have the cursor badges displayed. We have acted on…

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Categories 3D Printing

USS Arizona in 3D Project Behind the Scenes

On Memorial Day 2014 the US National Park Service and Autodesk announced for the first time in over 30 years that a scientific survey of the USS Arizona had been competed using the latest in technology. I wanted to share my personal experience and stories behind the scenes…

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Categories Announcements

AutoCAD 2015 Service Pack 1 Released

We have released a AutoCAD 2015 Service Pack 1 and Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2015 Service Pack 1 to improve the quality of the products by addressing issues found and reported. Please make sure to read the important details in the ReadMe document about what has been addressed and…

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