Autodesk
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I spent some time back down at our local Fab Lab, today, finishing the laser cutting work for the jigsaw project I mentioned previously. Since I last mentioned it, we managed to procure some Plexiglas – in our case it was Perspex, in fact – and cut various sections of the puzzle, with each piece […]
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The 2nd VR Hackathon, which took place in San Francisco over the weekend, was an absolute blast. It was held at Galvanize, a co-working space about a 15-minute walk from our 1 Market Street office. The venue was great: it had plenty of space but also with a fair amount of natural light (very important […]
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This is very cool. As Stephen Preston has reported, over on the Cloud & Mobile DevBlog, the A360 team has delivered a widget that can be embedded in web-pages and views design files – including DWG files saved from AutoCAD, of course – that are dragged & dropped onto it. Basically allowing you to view […]
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I'm on the train to Zurich airport, where I'll hop on the direct flight to San Francisco. This evening I'm staying in San Jose, as tomorrow I'll be visiting the SVVR 2015 expo hall to do some research on the latest virtual reality technologies in advance of the coming weekend's VR Hackathon (following on from […]
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A reminder that proposals are open for AU2015 until May 26th. I've just submitted two, myself. Of the three topics I had in mind – relating to VR, AutoCAD I/O and TypeScript – I decided to submit proposals on the first two: I'll do my best to use TypeScript for one or both of the […]
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In the past I've mentioned the Autodesk Foundation and to some extent the focus Autodesk has on benefiting local communities. Today I was very happy to participate in a charitable teambuilding activity in the office: a group of volunteers spent a couple of hours building prosthetic hands for people in developing countries – very often […]
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Autodesk is running a series of "Answer Days", where you can get answers to your product questions directly – and hopefully in real-time – from Autodesk's development and support teams. The first is for AutoCAD and will run from 6am and 6pm Pacific. It's not just about the product, either. The ADN team will also […]
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The countdown for Autodesk University 2015 starts with the Call for Proposals opening on April 22nd. It will remain open until May 26th. I have a few ideas for possible topics to present at this year's event… Virtual Reality using Autodesk's View & Data API Developing JavaScript applications for AutoCAD using TypeScript Processing drawings in […]
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A couple of updates from our Reality Solutions team… Firstly, a new, expanded portfolio of ReCap products is now available for download. They include the newly branded ReCap 360 Ultimate – previously known as ReCap Pro. For more information head on over to this blog post. Secondly, Autodesk Memento has been updated to version 1.0.15.10. […]
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Thanks for all the interactions, yesterday. April 1st is really one of my favourite days of the year: there's lightheartedness and creative energy everywhere you look. But all good things come to an end – even if the years seem to tick by increasingly quickly – so it's time for more serious matters. Today's post […]