Through the Interface

Kinect

  • Virtually done

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    Over the weekend, from Friday to Sunday, I spent far more hours than I'd have liked finishing off my AU Virtual class for this year, "Secure Your AutoCAD Environment" (I'm increasingly involved in security-related activities for the AutoCAD development organisation). Preparing material for AU Virtual is often pretty tough, whether it's being recorded in person […]

  • Waiting for my Raspberry Pi

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    While I was away on holiday, Scott Sheppard announced an Autodesk-internal competition of which the eight lucky winners would receive a currently-still-hard-to-come-by Raspberry Pi Model B (so named in homage to the computer that helped inspire a generation of British programmers, the BBC Micro). All that contestants had to do was submit an idea for […]

  • Face tracking inside AutoCAD using Kinect

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    After discovering, earlier in the week, that version 1.5 of the Kinect SDK provides the capability to get a 3D mesh of a tracked face, I couldn't resist seeing how to bring that into AutoCAD (both inside a jig and as database-resident geometry). I started by checking out the pretty-cool FaceTracking3D sample, which gives you […]

  • Integrating Kinect with AutoCAD 2013

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    As promised in the last post, today we're going to see the adjusted point cloud import workflow applied to the previously posted  Kinect integration samples. This was also an opportunity to look at the improvements in version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows SDK. When the SDK was announced, my initial reaction was "OK, but […]

  • Indexing point clouds programmatically in AutoCAD 2013

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    Thanks to RS for raising this issue via a blog comment and to my esteemed colleague, Christer Janson, for suggesting the solution during England's epic Euro 2012 victory over Sweden on Friday evening (sorry, Christer – I couldn't help but rub it in just a little ;-). On a slightly more serious note, I find […]

  • 360 convergence

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    This is all very exciting: given the recent launch of a number of "360" products by Autodesk – including Autodesk 360, Autodesk PLM 360 and Autodesk BIM 360 – it looks as though we're about to enter a strategic relationship with Microsoft to make Autodesk products interoperate seamlessly with their industry-leading games platform, the Xbox […]

  • Updated AutoCAD + Kinect for Windows samples

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    Thanks to some recent coverage on a Channel 9 blog (which I consider a great honour – I've been a huge fan of Channel 9 since its inception :-), I decided to get around to posting an update to the AutoCAD + Kinect samples I demonstrated at AU 2011. While attending the recent hackathon, I […]

  • Kinect for Windows release date and pricing

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    As expected, Microsoft has announced at CES 2012 that Kinect for Windows devices will become available from February 1st, priced at $249. Those of you who attended my Kinect class at AU 2011 will probably remember me speculating about the eventual cost for this device, and that it would preferable for Microsoft to recoup more […]

  • Inventory: heading home from AU

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    What a great week! The highlight – and that's from a lot of great moments – was probably the AutoCAD + Kinect session: the demos were clearly fun to do, but there was a high degree of audience participation and we all laughed a lot. For those who weren't able to attend in person, I'm […]

  • A quick AUpdate

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    So, here we are on Wednesday, day two of AU proper (although my team was busy with ADN-only sessions on Sunday and Monday). Yesterday was really fun: I was part of the "Meet the AutoCAD API Experts" panel (along with Stephen Preston, Albert Szilvasy, Mike Dickason, Bill Adkison, Davis Augustine and Fenton Webb), which is […]