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How to Trick Get Your Boss to Buy You an iPad (Tablet)

If you are a design professional (or just a CAD Geek in general) you may already have purchased an Apple iPad (or Android Tablet.) Perhaps you haven’t but you would like one. Here is a method that you can use to get your boss to purchase you one. Read more →

Capturing Ancient Remains in Kenya with a Remote Octo-Copter

Jambo! Gonzalo Martinez and myself (Shaan Hurley) are currently in the extremely remote Turkana Basin of Kenya where many of the hominin fossils (our human ancestors) were found along with a great deal of other fossils and tools. We are researching aerial video and photo capture with Louise Leakey using a state of the art eight bladed remote copter mounted with lots of high tech equipment and cameras that we have named the Autodesk Octo-Copter for many exciting potential uses. Read more →

Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad

The long awaited app Autodesk SketchBook Ink for the iPad has just launched in the Apple App store at an introductory price of $1.99. It took a couple weeks longer than we had expected, but we took the time to make sure it was the best possible experience rather than just shipping it end of April as it was announced and shown on the Apple iPad 3 main stage launch. Like good wine, you do not want to ship it until it is ready. Read more →

Moving AutoCAD Architecture Projects, even if Windows objects

AutoCAD Architecture projects are best moved via the Project Browser interface (below). It’s usually a simple matter of selecting the Project, Right Click > Move Project… (1) and selecting the destination. AutoCAD Architecture moves the entire folder structure (even non-ACA folders) and initiates a re-path to update project file links. Read more →

Five ways to use Autodesk Inventor’s End of Part Marker in your Daily Workflow

The ‘End of Part Marker’, or ‘EOP’ sits at the end of Inventor’s feature browser to let us know that there are no more features. Read more →

Flying the Autodesk Octo-Copter in a very very very remote region of East Africa.

If you go to the middle of nowhere in East Africa, go North, and turn right, then drive another couple hours in the blazing heat, you will be where I am. Gonzalo Martinez and myself of Autodesk are capturing some of the most remote geography in Africa using a remote controlled eight bladed Octo-Copter. The photos and video are amazing as are the reaction from local nomadic tribe members when they see the copter fly by and they run to... Read more →

CAD notes Blog Most Popular 2009-2012

Edwin Prakoso’s blog CAD notes http://cad-notes.com/ published a list of the the his blogs most popular posts from 2009 to 2012. Read more →

Bones of Turkana Documentary

For US readers; please tune in for Bones of Turkana on PBS May 16th, 2012. This is a new documentary about the Leakey's human origins research in Kenya's Turkana Basin: http://t.co/si59ckRu Read more →

Saved From Being Eaten By Wild Animals

I have posted to this blog regularly for over 8 years and even found remote connections to post to the blog even while in the deepest of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Over the next couple of weeks I will be in a extremely remote region without any real connections other than voice satellite phone. To save me from having to stand in the middle of an open area to try to post a message at a very slow speed oer a satellite phone and looking like a fat juicy meal to a large carnivore, a few bloggers have graciously provided guest posts.The guest posts will go live over the time I am traveling. Read more →

Autodesk 123D Make Available – Make 3D Models Real

In the first release of Autodesk 123D Make it was available for only the Mac and took imported 3D models and sliced them into patterns so that you could create a real 3D object. Now there is not only a new version of 123D Make for the Mac but also for Windows as well as a web hosted version. Now you can take a 3D model from the community gallery or one you captured or created and create the pattern... Read more →

New 123D Catch for Windows, Web Hosted, and Apple iPad Available and FREE

Autodesk 123D Catch is a technology where you take photos with your digital camera and then using cloud computing it constructs a textured 3D mesh model. There are three new flavors of this delicious 3D treat - one for the Windows desktop, one for the Apple iPad, and one web hosted version you run in a browser. Read more →

The Avengers Movie Visual Fx

I must be one of the few that did not run out to the movie theaters last weekend to see the new Avengers movie. The movie blew away box office records and at least 3 of my family has seen it but I was unfortunately buried under a long list of things to do before some upcoming overseas travel. After all the buzz about the movie from those that have seen it, I need to make it a priority to see the movie this week. Behind the scenes it was a who's who of visual effects companies, many are also using Autodesk software to use the power of visual effects to compliment the storytelling and dazzle moviegoers retinas and release the flood of endorphins in the brain. Read more →

AutoCAD 2012 for Mac Service Pack 2

In an effort to continue to improve the quality of our products we are releasing a free update that resolves compatibility issues that have been reported while using the software on the latest versions of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and Mac OS X Lion. It also resolves problems reported by the Customer Error Reporting (CER) utility and other general problems. Read more →

Do You Want Early Access to Autodesk Products?

If you want early access and input on Autodesk products there are a couple of great and free methods. Read more →