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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. Read more →

Thank You for the Birthday Wishes

Yesterday was my birthday and I received literally hundreds of wishes in social networks and email. My Facebook timeline was so active with wishes I could hardly keep up and might have spent the entire day replying to each one and thanking them. So thank you everyone for the kind birthday wishes it really meant a lot. I spent my xxth birthday working then going and taking my EFR endorsement for my diving certifications. Her are my two friends during... Read more →

Freeform 3D Printing Metal Robot MX3D-Metal

"We can 3-D print myriad plastic goods, fabric for apparel, burritos, candy, and perhaps in the not-so-distant future, human organs. Metal--the material that forms the skeleton of any city, building, or car--has been less accessible. Now, a collaboration between Dutch designer Joris Laarman and software company Autodesk has yielded something groundbreaking: an affordable technique for printing large metal structures, called MX3D-Metal." FastCompany Check out the following two great articles on this fascinating new technique. 3D Printing has been in the... Read more →

Autodesk Flashback - AUTODESK the Software

Back in the early 1980's when Autodesk was being founded there was indeed a product named AUTODESK. Trivia for bonus points: What exactly did it do? Read more →

Working with AutoCAD Xrefs and Autodesk Vault

This video tip comes recommended by Autodesk's Kevin Robinson and produced by training company Ascent. Some AutoCAD users get confused on how to properly work with AutoCAD XREFs and Autodesk Vault, but this video will help clear this confusion up. http://youtu.be/rstxXwn1NKg Cheers, Shaan Read more →

Autodesk ReCap Photo & Coral Reef Preservation

Sly Lee is a Marine Ecologist and Toxicologist that has been exploring the use of technology to document coral and the marine ecosystem. Currently Sly is using photos of corals to generate 3D models using Autodesk Recap Photo to document coral and examine changes over time. Sly is currently based on the island of Molokai Hawaii but spending much of February in Guam, Saipan, and Palau. I will be doing some underwater research work with Sly in May and am... Read more →

Scuba Diving in the Utah Desert

On this long holiday weekend I started my PADI Advanced Open Water Scuba certification for certification. I can select 5 types of dives to get my certification in and I chose depth, night, altitude, buoyancy control, and navigation. I was able to complete 3 of the five this weekend out in the Utah desert in a salt water spring location named Bonneville Seabase with my friends & instructors Jess and Will from Scuba Utah. You can get to over 60... Read more →

Using CAD for Valentines Cards

Do you use AutoCAD or other Autodesk design tools to create your Valentines cards? I am am not quite sure whether to congratulate you, or suggest that you seek help. Happy Valentines Day! -Shaan Read more →

Autodesk Knowledge Network Now Live

Autodesk has just started placing product help, support, training, and community forums under Creative Commons at http://knowledge.autodesk.com Check it out and share the knowledge! Read more →

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 exact steps and commands used in addition to the video of the screen. While a photo may tell a thousand words, and video tells much more, but Project Chronicle for Autodesk product... Read more →

Autodesk Is Giving Software to Every Middle & High School in the US

This is big news for US schools both teachers and students as well as future architects, designers, digital artists, engineers, makers, and many more. Autodesk Commits $250 Million in Software & Services to American Middle & High Schools Expansion of Autodesk Design the Future Program to Help Prepare Students for Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics San Francisco & Washington DC, Feb. 4, 2014 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) is joining with President Barack Obama and other leading... Read more →

Autodesk Products for Free

If you are a individual student or faculty you can get most of the Autodesk products for free from the Autodesk Education Community. There is really no catch as these are the full Autodesk products and the software license is for 3 years. Included are AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Maya, Inventor, Revit and many many more. You will also receive 25Gb of Autodesk cloud storage. http://students.autodesk.com Read more →

Big Game Stadium Winds in Real-Time

Today is the big football game in the US where the Seattle Seahawks will face the Denver Broncos in an open stadium in the Winter cold of New Jersey. Fox Sports is using Autodesk Flow Design to determine where the winds will be blowing in the stadium in real-time. http://autode.sk/1bhu7q1 YouTube video on how they modeled the wind in the stadium using Autodesk Flow Design: http://autode.sk/1nAqRhP Who am I rooting to win the game? I am torn having lived in... Read more →