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3DRV Week of August 18th

The Autodesk 3DRV is currently on the East Coast of the US as it makes its long trek to Autodesk University in December. August 18 – MakerBot Innovation Centers Company Tour (New York, NY) August 19 – Statue of Liberty (New York, NY) August 20 – Quirky company tour…

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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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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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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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