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New AutoCAD 360 Version for iOS

AutoCAD 360 3.0 for iOS devices has been released and is still free for the standard version providing DWG viewing and editing on the cloud and your mobile devices. The immediate thing you notice about the new version is the apps design has been made to look more iOS 7 styled. AutoCAD 360 Pro gives you added features and storage. The AutoCAD 360 Team had this to say about the upgrade “We collected all the feedback that you gave us... Read more →

USS Arizona in 3D

Just had the most amazing and emotional Memorial Day experience ever. Rode out to the USS Arizona with one of 10 remaining survivors Don Stratton and the project team from NPS and Autodesk I have been working with. Two photos from today at World War !! Valor in the Pacific press event: I will be posting about this project, the team, the technology, partners, my participation, and sharing some of the photos of this amazing experience including finding that I... Read more →

Beta Test the AutoCAD 2015 Service Pack

In response to the customer feedback for 2015 products, the AutoCAD team is working on the Service Pack to address some of the items customers are reporting. If customers would like to get an early preview of this Service Pack, please sign up with our beta site: AutoCAD 2015 SP1 Beta Enrollment Read more →

Autodesk Going Wide Open on 3D Printing

A new open platform for 3D printing, powering the Autodesk 3D Printer. #BOOM! By Carl Bass, Autodesk President and Chief Executive Officer For years, I’ve been fascinated by the promise and frustrated by the reality of 3D printing. Today, Autodesk is announcing two contributions to help make things better. First is an open software platform for 3D printing called Spark, which will make it more reliable yet simpler to print 3D models, and easier to control how that model is... Read more →

Howdy Wyoming – Looking for 3DRV Stop Friends

The Autodesk 3DRV will be passing through the beautiful state of Wyoming and visiting some of the amazing National Parks like Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park. We are looking for Autodesk partners and resellers in the area and in Jackson Hole that would like to participate in a 3DRV stop or just say "howdy." Email me if interested Follow along at www.3drv.com #3DRV Read more about the 3DRV on the Autodesk PR Blog In the Fold Read more →

Please Don't Take Your UAV on Vacation to U.S. National Parks

I love flying my quad copter UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to capture imagery or to create 3D models using Autodesk;s 123D Catch or Recap Photo. I have even flown them in Kenya experimenting on mapping fossils in remote Northern Turkana and next week on a remote Hawaiian island studying coral colony health. UAVs (please don't call them drones) have a wide variety of uses beyond just taking photos or video or just seeing things like a bird does as they... Read more →

Autodesk ReCap Photo & Coral Reef Preservation

While capturing 3D geometry with a standard digital camera is challenging and takes advanced technology, capturing 3D geometry underwater can be even more difficult. Difficult because of the optical changes and physical demand to operate in subsurface environment while trying to take photos. Over the past few months I have been involved in some of these projects that made use of not only photogrammetry but recently underwater Lidar (yes underwater laser, not mounted on a shark) and handheld sonar generating... Read more →

Autodesk Labs Project Cassidy

Project Cassidy is a free* technology preview of a composite plate bending simulation tool that allows designers and engineers to optimize composite layups for complex-geometry plates under bending loads. Project Cassidy allows users to import their own 3D part geometry for composite plates and simulate their response for a specific laminate and load configuration. Project Cassidy walks through the simulation steps required for composite materials by helping the user build laminates, define material orientations of the laminate on the geometry,... Read more →

Project Memento Update 1.0.8.0

We just launched a new update of Project Memento, our an end-to-end solution for converting any reality capture input (photos, scans) into high quality 3D mesh that can then be cleaned up, fixed, prepared and optimized for further digital use or fabrication. The Project Memento development team runs fast and they have posted a new updated build of Memento, build number 1.0.8.0. The following list reflects the improvements introduced in Build 1.0.8.0: Brand new full resolution 3D Print environment (replaces... Read more →

Autodesk Develops a New Virus

As a software company this headline writes the jokes itself, but it is no laughing matter, and not what you thought. Autodesk has for the past few years been researching bio and nano technologies with some of the brightest researchers in the field today. Andrew Hessel is one of those bright minds in the field of bio technology and has developed a new virus a synthetic Phi-X174 bacteriophage. Don't worry the 3D printed virus is benign, but it is alive.... Read more →

Moving 11 Years of Blog Comments to Disqus Platform

I am migrating the current Typepad blog comments to the Disqus commenting system early this week. The Disqus system is much better for commenting on blog posts and if you experience any issues after the migration, please let me know. Blogger and Autodesk colleague Kean Walmsley of Through the Interface blog has migrated to Disqus and noticed some loss of the threading format of migrated comments. Cheers, Shaan Read more →

Reality Computing Meetup in SF

We're hosting a Reality Computing Meetup in San Francisco, May 5, 2014. Laser scanning + UAV drones + 3D Printing and more! Join Us! autode.sk/1lDiSQw "For this first event, we will be sharing our view of what Reality Computing is with interesting presentations made by Autodesk and several others. Introduction to Reality Computing Laser scanning: is that for me? From flying drones to creating 3D models From 3D photos to 3D prints We will have plenty of time to network,... Read more →