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Pixar Animation Behind the Scenes

Have you ever wondered how the amazing animated movies such as Up, Cars, Finding Nemo, Toy Story and many more are created from beginning to end by Pixar? We at Autodesk are always amazed at what customers like Pixar do... Read more →

Autodesk ReCap and Leica Webinar Sept.1

Just a heads up and reminder for those that use laser scanning and heard of the Autodesk Leica announcement and how they may be working together. Accurate by Design: Learn How to Streamline Point Cloud Workflows with Leica ScanStation P16... Read more →

AutoCAD 2.18 Fun Challenge from Autodesk University Australia

Recently my Irish friend living in Australia Sean Twomey asked me how I managed to get AutoCAD 2.18 to run on modern hardware. I told him all you needed was to create a virtual machine and then create a virtual... Read more →

Throwback Thursday - SolidWorks 95

SolidWorks 95 from the mid 1990’s and developed for the mighty Windows 95 platform. I have this package and CDROM in my collection of classic computer design tools. While this is not an Autodesk developed tool it is a classic... Read more →

Autodesk University 2015 Registration Open

Start your AU engines get making your pitches to your management and register early for discounts and the best class selections. In only 97 days Autodesk University Las Vegas will kick off and over 10,000 will descend on Vegas to... Read more →

Engineers Guide to Drinks on Display in Everhart Museum

The Everhart Museum currently has an exhibition on Prohibition and has included the infamous Engineers Guide to Drinks Drawing framed on the wall. I will be releasing the 3D DWG version of this drawing very soon thanks to the hard... Read more →

3D Printing Making Dreams a Reality - Kieran's Hand

Everyone needs an inspiring and feel good story to start off their work week, and this is a great one about an amazing young boy and technology. Kieran was born with a birth defect of Amniotic Band Syndrome and has... Read more →

12 Year Blog Birthday

Yes, It seems like only yesterday but it has been millions of hits to thousands of pages of content and comments since this blog was started 12 years ago today. First blog post in August 2003: Getting the feel for... Read more →

I am Not an Alien with a UFO

OK the jury might still be out if I am an alien life form, or not. Last night I had a funny out of this world experience while practicing and testing flight control technologies with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)... Read more →

Sell Your 3D models on our New 3D marketplace!

Do you create 3D content and also need some extra cash? Start making some extra money selling your 3D models on our new 3D marketplace! Power to the 3D artists! The marketplace built to support amazing independent 3D content creators... Read more →

Autodesk Memento Beta New Build Posted

A new Autodesk Memento build 1.2.0.7 was just posted. http://memento.autodesk.com A few tasty highlights: Smooth boundary tool – you can now select an edge loop to smooth it and not have any more the jiggered cuts Surface tool enhancements New... Read more →

Friday Fun – Flying Over a Forest

Last evening myself and Autodesk colleague George Hudetz met up at a park while I flew a UAV/UAS to practice flying skills as well as capture some photos and video of the landscape from an aerial perspective. The location was... Read more →

AutoCAD Beta Program Transforms to Year Around Customer Council

Things are changing in many of the Autodesk Beta programs as many transition to new development cycles and technologies to continually improve the product and participant experience and move to year around customer feedback cycles. Last week I sat in... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Pop-up Tokyo

Autodesk Gallery Pop-up Tokyo 23 Oct – 0... Read more →

Fun Giveaway of a Rare Tee-shirt

Last year at Autodesk University 2014 we had the MegaBots team modify their big paintball firing robot arm to fire tee-shirts out into the audience using compressed air. A couple of the shirts were a rare shirt with an image... Read more →

The Hitchhiker's Guide to AutoCAD Basics

If you are looking for a fun way to learn the basics of AutoCAD, then this free online document is perfect for you. Learning any professional CAD application can be challenging so Autodesk has created a great deal of learning... Read more →

Autodesk Stingray Game and VR Engine and AEC Walkthroughs

Autodesk caused a great deal of excitement and options this week by announcing Autodesk Stingray a game engine that in addition to working close with Autodesk 3ds max and Autodesk Maya also allows for AEC walkthroughs. Now there is another... Read more →

Need to View a Design File for Free Without Installing Anything?

To view a design file such as a DWG, RVT, or IPT and over 50 other design file formats all you need to do is drag and drop to Autodesk cloud based A360 Viewer with nothing to install. After viewing... Read more →

WTH Wednesday - 3D Sea Cockroach

Recently I visited Colleen Flanigan an artist working to save the Mesoamerican reef and some marine biologists at the UNAM University in Puerto Morelos Mexico. While there I saw a skeleton of what was called a “sea cockroach” or “sea... Read more →

Autodesk Provides a Streamlined 3D Printing Experience for Windows 10

Autodesk played a vital role in the newly released Windows 10 embedded 3D Printing functionality. To make 3D printing more accessible to Windows users worldwide, the Spark 3D printing platform will provide an optimized 3D printing experience directly within Windows... Read more →

Congratulation to Donnie and Helen Gladfelter

This will surely brighten anyone's day! Some of us take our love of Autodesk products to the extreme in fact I have seen wedding proposals and invitations made in AutoCAD. It was great to see my friend Donnie Gladfelter (aka... Read more →