The past two days almost a thousand have attended the REAL 2015 event here in San Francisco California at the historic Fort Mason. The conference covered everything dealing with Capture Compute and Create. There was everything from laser scanning systems,... Read more →

The Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing was really just a test plot drawing was originally created by someone to test pen plotters back in 1972. This drawing has gone crazy viral ending up in online magazine, named a top infographic... Read more →

In 30 some odd years Autodesk has had literally hundreds of products, and currently just over 100 active products. In those years we have seen many a creative name for a product. So for some fun, which product name/s were... Read more →

The very first bound AutoCAD Manual and Command Reference. Read more →

To my friends and colleagues in China: G... Read more →

We all want to get more done in less time so that we can go home early, Sorry - so that we can concentrate on value added tasks, such as Designing or Engineering ;) The trouble is, experimenting with different... Read more →

The Wave - Sandstone Lines, a unique story told by nature. I know of only one other thing in my life with as much red beauty, style and grace. A photo posted by Shaan Hurley (@shaanhurley) on Feb 15, 2015... Read more →

I love love love this free utility to modify, repair, and and work with 3D scanned data and even create 3D models from photos and a new bug release has been posted. Go check out Scott's blog post on what... Read more →

It may be Friday the 13th today but its only superstition and for those paranoid there is another Friday the 13th in March, In any case tomorrow is February 14th Valentines Day for most. For those into mathematics here is... Read more →

It's Thursday (Throwback Thursday), the day after hump day when you show photos or info from history and the wayback machine. Today I proudly present you a screen capture I took from AutoCAD 2.18 circa 1985 showing all commands it... Read more →

Here is a great list of recently published AutoCAD solutions by some AutoCAD Team Members: Date Article Author 10/8/2014 HP printers do not work with AutoCAD 2015 on Windows 8 Daniel Kuhmann 10/23/2014 Cannot import SketchUp files Karen Mason 10/23/2014... Read more →

While not everyone was able to attend the creative art show at our amazing Autodesk Pier 9 office and workshop I am providing details on the packed and much talked about event. The Autodesk Artist in Residence (AiR) Exhibition was... Read more →

I wanted to share an amazing project by Autodesk colleague Craig Barr recent created using a series of Autodesk products, a 3D printer, and above all his mad creative skills. He brought a wild digital character top the physical world. The workflow is fairly specific, but the 3D Printer is an ABS extruding type and could be one one of many brands out there now. Read more →

On this Throwback Thursday I give you Autodesk's 3D Studio R1 for DOS from 1990. 3D Studio was the predecessor to the very popular Autodesk 3ds Max. This is from back when when 3D was for more difficult and primitive... Read more →

Current scientific evidence indicates the dinosaurs as we know them are all gone, but they left fossilized bones, tracks, and other traces behind telling the story. Last week I was working on a project in Northern Arizona and found an... Read more →

MegaBots is finally on their way to San Francisco to start working on their next project, a new Humanoid Robot! You can get involved and win both Makerfaire Fame and some fortune by submitting a winning design for this challenge.... Read more →

Recently I republished a popular post about setting up your AutoCAD with the classic workspace (How Can I Restore the "Classic" AutoCAD Interface with Menus and Toolbars?) but the steps changed with AutoCAD 2015. Autodesk's Dieter Schlaepfer recently published an... Read more →