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Happy 34th Birthday Autodesk!

It was 34 years ago today on January 30th in 1982 a small group of people held an initial meeting to organize what became Autodesk. On April 26th 1982 Autodesk was incorporated in the State of California. Since that date... Read more →

3D Printed Shells Help Tortoises Survive

Here is an amazing story combining Autodesk Memento software and 3D printing to help save endangered tortoise lives in the American Southwest. 3-D Printed Shells Help Tortoises Survive Hostile Desert Life –FastCo Conservationists are using new technology to study what... Read more →

Kids Design Their Own 3D Printed Prosthetics

This is such a great story and well worth spreading far and wide. I remember speaking with one of the volunteers working on this and just humbled by the use of simple 3D printed parts making a difference and creating... Read more →

Autodesk Inventor Answer Day is Here

If you have questions about Autodesk Inventor, today is a great opportunity to get them answered with the Inventor Answer Day. For 12 hours today from 6am to 6pm Pacific the Autodesk Inventor Team members from 15 cities and several... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Feb 1st to 5th

In honor of the big NFL football game between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers in the Bay Area on the 7th of February and the Super Bowl City event being help literally just outside our doors, we are... Read more →

The Hive at Autodesk University 2015

The Hive was designed and constructed over the course of 3 days by the a collaboration of robotics and Autodesk University attendees to create a architectural structure with computer controlled LEDs. The project was designed by the Office the CTO... Read more →

3D Print Your Own Stormtrooper

3D print your very own Stormtrooper action figure using Autodesk Tinkerplay. http://autode.sk/1ZOfad7 Read more →

Meshmixer 3.0 Released at SIGGRAPH

Meshmixer is one of the most helpful software tools to help modify, repair, and prepare 3D geometry for 3D printing. This new Meshmixer 3.0 update from Autodesk Research’s Ryan Schmidt was released January 19, 2016 at SIGGRAPH and adds a... Read more →

Throwback Thursday - AutoCAD at COMDEX 1984

This 5.25” floppy represents the very early days of AutoCAD where the introduction of the 2 year old AutoCAD version 2 was being exhibited at the FALL COMDEX 1984. AutoCAD 86 was first shown publicly at COMDEX 1982. It is... Read more →

Autodesk's Project Ignite Brings Design-Based Learning to Classrooms

Teachers, you can help empower the next generation of innovators. We have Ready-to-go lessons & projects, just for you and your students. Project Ignite enables learners of all ages to gain practical hands-on experience with new software and hardware to... Read more →

18 Years at Autodesk Today

Autodesk has since it’s founding been a well known dog friendly workplace in the Bay area so I think it is fair to say I have worked for Autodesk 18 years or 126 dog years (18 x 7.) I joined... Read more →

UAV/UAS Registration in the United States

The deadline is approaching and on this Wednesday January 21, 2016 at midnight when the mandatory registration will no longer free and be $5 and they must be registered by February 19, 2016. We all knew that the FAA would... Read more →

Dynamic Drawings on the Web with Project Draco

Bring you art to life using the Technology Preview of Project Draco developed by Autodesk Research. Project Draco is different and much better and makes animation as easy as sketching. Project Draco aims to bring the power of intricate animation... Read more →

Run a Half Marathon Before AU 2016

I received a great deal of good feedback about running early mornings at Autodesk University 2015 with over 20 AU attendees each day running up to 4 miles. Ron Nightingale who ran mornings with us at AU 2015 said “it... Read more →

FIRST Robotics 2016 Kicked Off this Weekend

The start of the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) 2016 was revealed Saturday with the new game challenge named STRONGHOLD by FIRST Founder Dean Kamem. This years revealed game field is one of the most challenging for the robotics competition of... Read more →

Nikola Tesla Helps You with Math

Not only was Nikola Tesla one of the most brilliant inventors in history so many scientific fields, he also figured out an interesting way look up solutions to mathematics. Reads More Long lost Nikola Tesla drawings reveal genius map for... Read more →

Throwback Thursday - AutoCAD 86 Floppies

You may have seen a 5.25” floppy in the 1980’s, but what about a 8” floppy? Back in 1984 AutoCAD-86 version 2.40 was released for the NEC platform on 8” floppy disks. Increasingly these days most under the age of 30 have never seen a floppy disk and don’t recognize what the floppy image on the standard software “save” icons really is. Read more →

Autodesk Releases Wet Lab Accelerator to Open-Source

The Autodesk Bio/Nano Research Team has released a new wet lab tool to open-source on GitHub at https://github.com/Autodesk/bionano-wetLabAccelerator. This tool is for researchers working in synthetic biology and virology to design robotic wet lab protocols using a visual UI without coding. https://wla.bionano.autodesk.com Read more →

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass Speaking at CES 2016

After Carl Bass said he would not be interested in going to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ever again, he changed his mind after he was asked by the United States White House. Megan Smith, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer... Read more →

The Hydrous Maldives 2015 Expedition

Such a visually stunning story with a very important educational angle about the ocean by Sly Lee and the 501 (c)3 non-profit organization The Hydrous. The Hydrous do what they proclaim by “communicating science beautifully.” They were recently in the... Read more →

Golden Gate Bridge is 83 Years Old Today

Happy Birthday Golden Gate Bridge! It was 83 years ago today that the Golden Gate Bridge construction was started. I am so proud that about 20 year ago and just before I joined Autodesk I got to work on the... Read more →

Happy New Year!

Two of my photos of my New Years Day sunrise in Portland. This is my first New Years Day back living in Portland in 18 years. What an amazing sunrise start to 2016, but so very cold. I am looking... Read more →

Olympic Recurve Bow Created with Generative Design

Amazing example on how design software is pushing further the limits of design using generative design. Project Dreamcatcher is a new design technology from Autodesk. Read more about Autodesk’s Project Dreamcatcher developed by Autodesk Research - http://autodeskresearch.com/projects/dreamcatcher. “The Dreamcatcher system... Read more →