Categories Announcements

Worlds Oldest Tools Discovered

The oldest stone tools known to man were found in remote Northern Kenya. The tools date back 3.3 million years. My friend Dr. Louise Leakey documented the excavation and tools using Autodesk technology to share the discovery with the world. These historical findings are detailed in an article…

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Autodesk’s Pier 9 Artist in Residence 2015 Reel

Autodesk’s Pier 9 is a SF office space where many resident artists and Autodesk employees make some amazing creations, products, and some teams do futuristic research. Check out Pier 9’s Spring 2015 Artist in Residence Reel Video, it’s truly amazing! Pier 9’s Spring 2015 Artist in Residence Reel…

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Meet the Robot that Draws

  My Autodesk Office of the CTO colleagues Evan Atherton and David Thomasson were just featured in a Forbes story on research projects in robotics and teaching robots to draw.  It is fascinating to watch the robot in person interpreting the images and instructions. It is still safer…

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Categories 3D Printing

Autodesk Open-Source Ember 3D Printer Design Files

Autodesk posted the open-source design files under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license for the Ember 3D printer this week. You can freely download the complete assembly in Fusion 360, Inventor, DWG, STL and more formats to create your own 3D printer design or modifications for Ember. If you…

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Autodesk Dynamo Studio and FormIt 360 Pro Announced

Autodesk announced this week at the AIA show the new Dynamo Studio and FormIt 360 Pro releases of new products. For more on these conceptual Architectural design tools check out the announcement posted on the Autodesk PR blog In the Fold. Autodesk Launches Dynamo Studio and FormIt 360…

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New Release of Autodesk Recap

At the recent SPAR Conference Autodesk announced the new release of ReCap and the Reality Computing workflows that solve customer problems in various industries. Here are the highlights from that announcement. After more than one year of extensive usage of our first ReCap product line by thousand users,…

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Coffee Please – Social Media Experiment

I am sitting in a new space in Autodesk’s San Francisco Steuart and would like a cappuccino. Let me rephrase that, I need caffeine please. I am located near the 2nd floor forest scene aka “The Park” at the picnic bench near the hammock, and complete with trees…

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Categories 3D Printing

Autodesk Spark integration for 3D printing in Windows 10

At Microsoft’s Build 2015 developer conference today, Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft vice president of developer and platform evangelism, announced new 3D printing features in Windows 10. More specifically, Autodesk Spark is being integrated into Microsoft’s latest and greatest operating system. –VentureBeat Microsoft Announces Autodesk Spark integration for 3D printing…

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