Last week, the Autodesk Portland office was fortunate enough to have one of our Autodesk Foundation grantees visit and speak to our employees and product teams about their non profit named Limbitless.
Limbitless is working with OHSU, a local hospital and one of four in the United States that are running medical trials to get FDA medical approval from testing prosthetics with children. Limbitless uses Fusion 360 and Eagle to design the prosthetics and also use Maya for developing a game to tech the children how to use their prosthetic and learn new skills. These prosthetics are styled like super heroes, video game characters, or princess themed all customized by the kids using an online 3D viewer.
It was an inspiring talk to hear from 4 people using our software to change the lives of children. I hope to be posting the base prosthetic 3D model as a fun contest for more sculpted designs for these children to select from and wear.
A couple photos from the visit and talk.
If you are interested in learning more, you can watch the great talk Albert Manero gave at Autodesk University just 4 months ago.
Reimagining How We Design Neuroprosthetic Limbs – Albert Manero of Limbitless in the AU 2019 Theater Talks
Dear
What I thing about it is that autocad is not only a cad engines it had intelligence level and the most important thing is that it can communicate with other software.
Inspite of this I found some drawbacks that I would like to share to you.
1.During extraction of models it is very difficult to extract 3d objects into 2d sections by conventional method. If it is possible to extract the drawings of elevations like(plan view, longitudinal view & transverse view) of a single command then it would be very helpful to us.
2.During drawing we use symbols to identify individual systems or objects. In a large scale dwg there are huge numbers of such symbols so the difficulty comes during the making of bill of materials. So I would like to suggest that bill of materials with certain formats would be required for this.
3.Present autocad modes (that we use in office) are having the facility to connect with databases by using dbconncet command but how to connect the dwg with that is not properly mentioned with an example in the help file nor in the site. I suggest that the software should be intelligent enough so that it can communicate with the database for easy generation of bill of materials, error free management.
4.In shipbuilding we have to use different and confusing software to deal with piping, electrical fitments, mechanical &outfitting.
We have to make a composite layout dwg and then we have to extract the dwg(which contains plan view, longitudinal view, transverse view, isometric view). Can it not be possible to make a module for shipbuilding which will contain all this facilities. And all this things can be extracted with ease of button.
I think that this software should have the intelligence to specify and warn if there is a collision of equipments, while placing in models.
It will aromatically generate tables for the equipments for bill of materials.
It should be capable of updating the latest version of class requirements and accordingly it can warn if designer is doing any mistake which is against class requirements.
Cant it be possible to make a module like this, like u have civil, mechanical, electrical etc??
Though I don’t knew much about the policies of this, but still I request you for the above mentioned improvement.
We are using this for years and we will be using this software for years in drafting for its user friendly graphics. I think that this will be much better if we add more intelligence into it regarding 3 dimensional extraction.
Regards
Shubhankar Banerjee
Dear
What I thing about it is that autocad is not only a cad engines it had intelligence level and the most important thing is that it can communicate with other software.
Inspite of this I found some drawbacks that I would like to share to you.
1.During extraction of models it is very difficult to extract 3d objects into 2d sections by conventional method. If it is possible to extract the drawings of elevations like(plan view, longitudinal view & transverse view) of a single command then it would be very helpful to us.
2.During drawing we use symbols to identify individual systems or objects. In a large scale dwg there are huge numbers of such symbols so the difficulty comes during the making of bill of materials. So I would like to suggest that bill of materials with certain formats would be required for this.
3.Present autocad modes (that we use in office) are having the facility to connect with databases by using dbconncet command but how to connect the dwg with that is not properly mentioned with an example in the help file nor in the site. I suggest that the software should be intelligent enough so that it can communicate with the database for easy generation of bill of materials, error free management.
4.In shipbuilding we have to use different and confusing software to deal with piping, electrical fitments, mechanical &outfitting.
We have to make a composite layout dwg and then we have to extract the dwg(which contains plan view, longitudinal view, transverse view, isometric view). Can it not be possible to make a module for shipbuilding which will contain all this facilities. And all this things can be extracted with ease of button.
I think that this software should have the intelligence to specify and warn if there is a collision of equipments, while placing in models.
It will aromatically generate tables for the equipments for bill of materials.
It should be capable of updating the latest version of class requirements and accordingly it can warn if designer is doing any mistake which is against class requirements.
Cant it be possible to make a module like this, like u have civil, mechanical, electrical etc??
Though I don’t knew much about the policies of this, but still I request you for the above mentioned improvement.
We are using this for years and we will be using this software for years in drafting for its user friendly graphics. I think that this will be much better if we add more intelligence into it regarding 3 dimensional extraction.
Regards
Shubhankar Banerjee
I’m a student currently working on a project dealing with the renovation of a historic district, and the street face of the building cannot be changed. These building were old, so the brick masonry was what decided the dimensions of the building’s windows, doors, etc. Working with Auto CAD on these buildings, the hatch is never able to line up with the windows, and it’s been a very frustrating few days trying all possible methods in Auto CAD to line them up. Whenever I try moving the hatch, the outlines of the poly-line without hatch moves with it. My suggestion for the next Auto CAD update would be to add an option that let’s you position the Hatch without the outline of the objects moving with it. Like making the hatch into a view port to line it up with certain details of the building.
I’m a student currently working on a project dealing with the renovation of a historic district, and the street face of the building cannot be changed. These building were old, so the brick masonry was what decided the dimensions of the building’s windows, doors, etc. Working with Auto CAD on these buildings, the hatch is never able to line up with the windows, and it’s been a very frustrating few days trying all possible methods in Auto CAD to line them up. Whenever I try moving the hatch, the outlines of the poly-line without hatch moves with it. My suggestion for the next Auto CAD update would be to add an option that let’s you position the Hatch without the outline of the objects moving with it. Like making the hatch into a view port to line it up with certain details of the building.
Hi Shaan, I wish I had found this blog years ago but anyway I have a couple of suggestions that I believe would be very beneficial to the AutoCAD family.
1. What if you could select similar objects only from what is displayed on your screen or a window and not from the entire drawing. This would help if you have similar objects throughout the drawing but you only want to concentrate in one area.
2. What if there was a hot key that could be depressed while selecting an object on a locked layer that would allow you to manage it as if the layer wasn’t locked. Lets say I want to delete a line that is currently in a locked layer, I could hold down the [Ctrl + Alt] keys while selecting that line and it would temporarily remove the lock allowing you to be able to delete it. This would save time from having to unlock the layer, delete the line, than lock the layer again.
Thank You!
Hi Shaan, I wish I had found this blog years ago but anyway I have a couple of suggestions that I believe would be very beneficial to the AutoCAD family.
1. What if you could select similar objects only from what is displayed on your screen or a window and not from the entire drawing. This would help if you have similar objects throughout the drawing but you only want to concentrate in one area.
2. What if there was a hot key that could be depressed while selecting an object on a locked layer that would allow you to manage it as if the layer wasn’t locked. Lets say I want to delete a line that is currently in a locked layer, I could hold down the [Ctrl + Alt] keys while selecting that line and it would temporarily remove the lock allowing you to be able to delete it. This would save time from having to unlock the layer, delete the line, than lock the layer again.
Thank You!
I am a civil engineer. I often get drawings from Architects and landscape architects, that have linear features like walks and roads, which are made up of short segments of varying radii (which are not even whole numbers). They created them using polyline arcs, by freehand. Often some of the segments are not even tangent. I end up having to appoximate their curves with two or three compound curves, by a sort of trial and error process…drawing arcs or circles of various radii and moving them around to see how they fit the sketched curve. Then it is often an exercise in geometry to fit them together to form a smooth polyline with whole number radii (preferably multiples of 10). It would be helpful to have a command that could approximate a random polyline with another polyline such that I could control certain parameters, like radii in multiples of 1, 5, 10, 20, 40, etc., force tangency at angles, how far it can stray from the original PL, minimum length of straight line tangents, and minimum radii.
Tim,
That is a great suggestion. You can send your request direct to the product teams at
http://autode.sk/feedback and also on the AUGI.com wish list.
Best Regards,
Shaan
I am a civil engineer. I often get drawings from Architects and landscape architects, that have linear features like walks and roads, which are made up of short segments of varying radii (which are not even whole numbers). They created them using polyline arcs, by freehand. Often some of the segments are not even tangent. I end up having to appoximate their curves with two or three compound curves, by a sort of trial and error process…drawing arcs or circles of various radii and moving them around to see how they fit the sketched curve. Then it is often an exercise in geometry to fit them together to form a smooth polyline with whole number radii (preferably multiples of 10). It would be helpful to have a command that could approximate a random polyline with another polyline such that I could control certain parameters, like radii in multiples of 1, 5, 10, 20, 40, etc., force tangency at angles, how far it can stray from the original PL, minimum length of straight line tangents, and minimum radii.
Tim,
That is a great suggestion. You can send your request direct to the product teams at
http://autode.sk/feedback and also on the AUGI.com wish list.
Best Regards,
Shaan