Over the Summer the Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon (Portland) had some smart and fun high school interns developing the next version of BXD. BXD was developed to test FIRST Robotics robots complete with a physics engine. Many new features are coming to BXD from their work this summer,…
Read MoreYes, back in the late 90s there was a creepy Dancing Baby “Baby Cha Cha” that seemed to be all the rage on the young growing Internet. Jon Bell a colleague here in the Autodesk Lake Oswego office has been involved with the Autodesk 3d Max /3D Studio…
Read MoreI am hosting another fun Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon office event as a follow up to the fun PowerPoint Karaoke we held a couple months ago. This time it is a Bad Poetry Slam August 24th at our Autodesk Lake Oswego Beer Bust event hosted by the Fusion…
Read MoreFort those that have done a fair bit of laser scanning, what do you do while the scanner is rotating 360 degrees and you try to stay out of the beams view and pass time? My laser scanner shuffle moving around the scanner instead of sitting underneath or…
Read MoreI posted some of these these pages from old drafting standards on a Throwback Thursday two weeks ago, and people loved them, so I will share more of the timeless words of wisdom from the Drafting Time Machine. This is from a Drafting Standards Manual from Ralph M.…
Read MorePowerPoint Karaoke is where a person volunteers (or volunteered) to get in front of a group of people to speak for 3-5 minutes to 10 PowerPoint slides they have never seen before. Sounds fun for the audience right? Believe it or not It is even more fun for…
Read MoreThe Everhart Museum currently has an exhibition on Prohibition and has included the infamous Engineers Guide to Drinks Drawing framed on the wall. I will be releasing the 3D DWG version of this drawing very soon thanks to the hard work of a volunteer named Robert Lupo. The…
Read MoreOK the jury might still be out if I am an alien life form, or not. Last night I had a funny out of this world experience while practicing and testing flight control technologies with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at dusk in NW Portland’s Cathedral Park. The…
Read MoreThis will surely brighten anyone’s day! Some of us take our love of Autodesk products to the extreme in fact I have seen wedding proposals and invitations made in AutoCAD. It was great to see my friend Donnie Gladfelter (aka The CADGeek) become a new parent along with…
Read MoreI noticed an experiment yesterday in a Portland area park located atop a dormant volcano where an adult and a child had drawn their designs for a future home. Mind you this is in no way scientific, but does match other examples I have heard. Dr. Saul Griffith…
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