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Autodesk's 33 Year Anniversary

On this day January 30th, 1982, 33 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 employees, customers, partners, and investors. 33 years have passed or: 396.0 months 1,721.8 weeks 12,053.0 days 289,272.6 hours 17,356,358.1 minutes 1,041,381,488 seconds A sincere thank you to John Walker and all the... Read more →

Winter Weekend Outdoors

I had an amazing time this weekend, and hope you did too. I was practicing my radio controlled quad copter piloting skills on my new UAV quad copter a DJI Inspire 1 in preparation for future flights to capture 3D models using Autodesk Recap Photo and Project Memento. I flew up the Provo Canyon near the frozen Bridal Veil Falls and also flew at the amazing Diamond Fork Hot Springs with my oldest son and got in a nice hot... Read more →

How Can I Restore the "Classic" AutoCAD Interface with Menus and Toolbars?

So you would like to have AutoCAD look and feel like previous classic release. This is one of the powerful traits of AutoCAD and that is it can be customized seven ways from Sunday. Read more →

AutoCAD Save (Three Different Ones)

SAVE is one of the most common AutoCAD commands; we all know what it does, but did you know there’s more to save than just the little floppy disk icon? Here’s a look at the ins and outs of saving files, and pass the savings on to others! Read more →

Autodesk 123D Sculpt+ for iOS and Android

Create anything from fighter jets to frogs by sculpting using the new Autodesk123D Sculpt+ for Android and iOS tablets. This is a great way to pass time, improve your creativity, or even give your kids something constructive on their tablets. I can even create semi-cool looking things using this app that I can export to Autodesk 3ds Max or Maya or order as a 3D print! Read more →

3D Engineers Guide to Drinks

The 3D Engineers Guide to Drinks collaboration project started this week with a handful of talented and energetic AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Fusion 360, and 3ds Max users. I will provide more details on the team and progress in the future. One team member has already started constructing all the glasses in 3D. The goal is simple,bring the old 1970's era plot test 2D AutoCAD drawing into 3D in current Autodesk 3D products. I am sure we will have some exciting... Read more →

iPhone Photo Prank this Week

A friend texted me the following image this week: "You see that camera button next to where you type? Hold it down and slide your finger up to the other camera button above your finger, and then let go. A bunch of new picture filters will pop up. Thank me later." If you follow the simple instructions your iPhone will automatically send a photo or video to that person. I did not fall for it, but a few I sent... Read more →

Making Property Selection Filters in AutoCAD

When you have a large drawing to work it becomes necessary that you act smart in order to remain productive and reduce your drawing edit time there are many tools in AutoCAD which will help you in becoming more productive and efficient one such tool is Quick Select which can be used not only for making selection filters but it can also be used to count number of objects of a particular type in AutoCAD. Read more →

REAL 2015

If you are involved in 3D reality capture, 3D computing technologies or a 3D creative you want to be at this REAL 2015 event being held in beautiful San Francisco at the historic waterfront Fort Mason on February 25th and the 26th, 2015. There will be many industry expert presenters vendors covering a wide variety of topics. Reality capture like laser scanning is only one aspect. There is also a Synthetic Biology and Maritime track. There will also be a... Read more →

Congratulations to CAD Notes and All CAD Bloggers

Its been well over 12 years since CAD Blogs became kind of a big thing and grew as a valuable resource for people to share information and tips and tricks, as well as add real faces to the CAD community. Many friends and relationships have developed and Autodesk even holds a meetup as a way of saying a sincere thank you for all the great work they do for free and keeping us on our toes. So let me congratulate... Read more →

Good New Years Resolution - Backup Data

I always backup my data on multiple online and physical drives as even a backup can go bad. It is always a good plan to make sure those sources are healthy and move the data around regularly as storage media can degrade and corrupt over time. Don't just back up all your data and photos to an external drive and stick it in a closet as it will corrupt with time or could be subject to a physical damage like... Read more →

Happy 2015

Happy New Year! It will take another few months before I get used to writing and saying 2015, but it offers all of us another fresh start if only on the calendar. If you had a less than stellar year then this is your fresh year to make it a good one or complete your resolutions or goals. Last year 2014 was simply an amazing year for me and one of the best in recent memory overall with several Autodesk... Read more →

Engineers Guide to Drinks Lives On and Will Move to 3D

The Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing or Infographic as it is now called in reality was really just a test drawing was originally created by someone that was very creative or very bored in order to test pen plotters back in 1972. I was not the original creator, and never have taken credit for it other than re-drawing it again in AutoCAD and bringing it back to life. In bringing it back to life on this blog it has taken... Read more →