Reality capture
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This isn't exactly new news, but it was to me. Today I found out we've made a very useful component, the Autodesk Reality Solutions SDK, available to the public. This is a C++ library that allows you to read and write Autodesk's RCP and RCS formats, as well as to create custom plugins for new […]
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For those of you who – like me – weren't able to travel to Las Vegas for this year's Forge DevCon, I thought I'd do a quick round-up of the major news that I could extract over the wire. I'm sure there will be further blog posts from the Forge team summarising more of things […]
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I've been interested in participating in – or at least attending – an AEC Hackathon for a couple of years now. I was first introduced to them during the VR Hackathons I attended in SF in 2014 and 2015 (Damon, Greg and Paul, who help organize the AEC Hackathons, were also organizing/involved in/attending the VR […]
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My favourite mesh generation and manipulation tool, Autodesk Memento, is now available (in Beta) for the Mac. I've been part of the Alpha programme for the OS X version for some time: admittedly not very actively, but I did install a number of builds and report an error or two. I'm very happy to see […]
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Some serious updates to our reality computing tools have been released in the last few days… here's a quick round-up with links you can use to go and find out more. ReCap 2.2 Each member of the ReCap portfolio – ReCap, ReCap 360 and ReCap Ultimate – has significant new features in this release. Full […]
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So yes, I'm back flying again. I'm not travelling anywhere, though. Some of you will remember my abortive attempts at UAV piloting from around a year ago. My Quanum Nova has been gathering dust, since then (it's also in pieces because I tried – so far unsuccessfully – to install a Bluetooth telemetry module). But […]
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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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Back when FARO announced their new Freestyle3D handheld scanner, I contacted them to see whether they might have one for me to take a look at. They very kindly obliged, and a few weeks ago I received a loaner model in the post. I won't be writing an exhaustive review – at least not in […]
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A little while ago you may remember an HTML progress meter I created while looking at "future API features". The API feature in question was of course for AutoCAD 2016, and related to the extraction of floorplans programmatically using .NET, a topic we're covering in today's post. We're going to see some fairly basic code […]
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After our quick look at AutoCAD 2016 from a user perspective, let's now spend some time looking at the things important to developers in this latest release. Compatibility Off the bat it's worth stating that AutoCAD 2016 is a DWG compatible release: it's using the same file format as AutoCAD 2013, 2014 and 2015. It's […]