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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.... Read more →

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... Read more →

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 →

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... Read more →

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.... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →