Categories Announcements

Autodesk Screencast Launched

Formerly known as Autodesk Project Chronicle has graduated and is now known officially as a new free Autodesk service Autodesk Screencast. (https://screencast.autodesk.com/) Autodesk Screencast provides a whole new way to share knowledge in short video recordings and provide training with in-depth contextual meta data from Autodesk products like…

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Categories Reality Computing

Capturing a Skatepark in 3D

This is a great YouTube video that shows combining a GoPro camera on a small DJI Phantom UAV to take photos then using cloud based Autodesk ReCap Photo to automatically create a textured 3D Model of the skatepark in San Francisco.

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Categories AutoCAD

Project Chronicle Recording 10 Years of AutoCAD Tips

The phrase eating our own dog food or dogfooding describes someone or a company using their own created tools to better understand them. Autodesk Project Chronicle has evolved into a really powerful tool for communicating steps in Autodesk products AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor where you can see the…

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Categories Autodesk

Happy 32nd Birthday Autodesk

On this day January 30th, 1982, 32 years ago a small group of people held an initial meeting in Marin County California to organize what became Autodesk. They risked it all including all the money they could scrape together and it paid off for millions of people from…

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Categories Announcements

Project Chronicle Google+ Hangout

Yesterday we held a live Google+ Hangout with Autodesk's Project Chronicle Product Manager Eric Stover and myself.It was a fun time with Eric and I in the Office of the CTO brainstorm room complete with lawn chairs on fake grass, but there was one big issue. We had…

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Categories AutoCAD

Viewing DWG Files

Do you need a free viewer for DWG files ? If you want to view the DWG/DXF files on a Windows PC you can use the free Autodesk DWG TrueView. Autodesk DWG TrueView 2014 is the same exact software code as AutoCAD 2014 but limited to viewing, converting,…

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