Autodesk
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After taking a look at Project Memento, last week, using it to manipulate a mesh I'd previously created with ReCap Photo, I decided to try out the latest update to the latter of these two tools. The first thing to notice with this new, improved version of ReCap Photo is that it has its own portal showing your active projects: The tool itself works in the same way: you simply select multiple photos in Autodesk 360 and select "Create 3D model" from the action menu. In fact, all I had to do to try this new version was to resubmit…
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This morning I went back to look at Project Memento, with a view to using it to trim down a model I captured using ReCap Photo. I started with the model of the Morgan 3 Wheeler shown in this previous post. The first thing you'll notice when launching Project Memento is the modern, chrome-free user interface making copious use of marking menus. Navigation is fairly simple using a 3-button mouse. It was straightforward to select sections of the mesh and delete them: I repeated this – along with various zoom/pan/rotate operations to make different sections of the model visible for…
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Another bit of news from while I was out on vacation – so my apologies if this is old news for you, personally – the ADN team is running a Portathon on September 13-14, 2013 to encourage developers to get their apps posted on Autodesk Exchange. You do not have to be an ADN member to participate and neither do you need to pay in any way (other than with your time and effort). In fact there's even a financial incentive for participants: for the first 5 apps per developer that get accepted in the Exchange Store – and be…
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In case you missed it, last week Scott Sheppard announced the availability of a new version of DesignScript on Autodesk Labs. This release unveils DesignScript Studio which brings a visual programming environment to the DesignScript language. People who are familiar with Rhino Grasshopper or SoftImage's ICE will be aware of the benefits of working with a graphical tool for mapping associations and flows of data. I personally prefer working directly in code, myself, but there are certainly times when this kind of tool can help unravel complexity. The other primary feature is a new lightweight OpenGL-based script execution tool that…
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I've now finished my recent trio of long-haul trips: the San Francisco Bay Area in late April, Singapore in mid-May and Boston in early June. So I can take a breather for a few weeks (maybe even months), at least: I have no firm travel plans until AU, although no doubt something will come up before then. [For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the title of the post is a reference to a common British house name. In the UK people often name (or used to, anyway) their houses in this way to announce that they're "Done…
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This isn't new news – it was announced a few weeks ago at NetSuite's SuiteWorld 2013 event – but I thought I'd mention it here mainly because of a personal connection of mine. The announcement was regarding a broad strategic alliance between Autodesk and NetSuite, as well as a specific technology integration between PLM 360 and NetSuite ERP. Here's the on-stage announcement of the alliance which includes a pretty neat video (that I hadn't seen before) introducing Autodesk technology to the ERP-centric audience: Here's a demo of the technology integration between PLM 360 and NetSuite Manufacturing Edition. As an area,…
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The ADN team has announced a free webinar (and free to all, not just to ADN members) on "How developers can ride and profit from the adoption wave of Autodesk Exchange Apps", being held on June 13th, 2013. We've all seen how mobile-focused marketplaces such as Apple's App Store and Google Play have revolutionised the way we find and use apps on these platforms. Apple and Microsoft have provided stores for users of their desktop operating systems to find apps that work there, too. As a large application vendor with a vibrant development community, we see an opportunity to serve…
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You're hopefully by now familiar with 123D Catch – a technology I've talked about before, a consumer-focused tool for reconstructing 3D models from photos – but Autodesk is also providing a professional-grade version of the system on Autodesk 360 called Autodesk ReCap Photo. To get access to the trial version of this tool, simply log in to Autodesk 360 and upload some photos of the scene you'd like to capture. You can then multi-select the photos, right-click and select "Create 3D model". You'll be presented with the "photo-to-3D settings" window that allows you to enter the name for the project…
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I arrived yesterday morning in Singapore, coming in on a Singapore Airlines A380 from Zurich. It was a great flight, as far as long-hauls in economy go: comfortable seats with a great choice of films to watch (my favourite on this leg being "The Cloud Atlas", an excellent adaptation of a brilliant novel lent to me by Jeremy Tammik a couple of years ago). I even managed to catch an hour or two of sleep, which is surprising for a daytime flight, even if it landed at 6am local time in Singapore. I rested for a few hours at the…
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For those of you who may have missed it, I really like the Morgan Motor Company, and in particular the latest incarnation of their iconic Morgan 3 Wheeler. Which is why I was very happy to see it featured during Autodesk's recent 2014 launch event: What's fascinating to me is the use of a high-tech design process to create something – which is then built by hand, with a wooden chassis – that has such a low-tech, no frills driving experience: I'm also a big reader of science fiction, so the idea of donning steampunk aviator goggles and leather helmet…