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3D Printing in the Final Frontier!

Check out all the buzz being made about Made in Space sending a 3D printer via SpaceX to the International Space Station for 3D printing in space and the unique microgravity environment. Astronauts To Make Spare Parts From 3D Printer NASA flying first zero-gravity 3D printer into space…

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Modeling 3D printable coral reefs

Modeling 3D printable coral reefs with Autodesk ReCap and an underwater camera: http://autode.sk/1oh88Vn This was an amazing project to be part of. It will help scientist better understand the changes our oceans are experiencing, and how coral reefs are responding over time by documenting in 3D the changes…

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Where is the Autodesk 3DRV Next Week

Join Autodesk on the road for the 3DRV Tour at more than 100+ stops to visit students, companies, and over the course of eight months. Autodesk is sponsoring a RV tour of the United States that celebrates the future of how things are designed and made. Led by…

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3D Prints with a Powerful Purpose

With all of the hype surrounding 3D printing it is sometimes difficult to hear about the true promise of 3D printing like artificial limbs and many more life changing examples in addition to the powerful transformational changes it will do for manufacturing. Here is one example of a…

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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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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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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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Virtual Lab AfricanFossils.org Updated

If you love to learn about fossils and human ancestors then this is the perfect resource. A couple years ago Autodesk (including myself) and Dr. Louise Leakey of the Turkana Basin Institute started this project of placing the lab and some of its amazing fossil discoveries online for…

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USS Arizona in 3D

Just had the most amazing and emotional Memorial Day experience ever. Rode out to the USS Arizona with one of 10 remaining survivors Don Stratton and the project team from NPS and Autodesk I have been working with. Two photos from today at World War !! Valor in…

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