Category AutoCAD Products

The Coolest 3D Printed Speakers in the World

Autodesk teammates Arthur Harsuvanakit and Evan Atherton are an amazing dynamic duo (3Duo) researching digital design, fabrication, and 3D printing technologies. They have developed some 3D printed speaker enclosures after Maurice Conti said “Hey, this would make a cool speaker” and then determined the project goals. The first speaker appeared on the cable channel Current TV with Autodesk CEO Carl Bass as well as featured in my Autodesk University 2012 session.

AutoCAD Tip: Using an Updating Text Field to Display Area of Hatch

In this example I am using AutoCAD for Mac 2013 but it is also applicable to AutoCAD for Windows.

AutoCAD Drawing with Hatched Area

So you have an area of a drawing in AutoCAD that is closed and has a Hatch pattern applied. What you want is an easy updated way to show the area in text even when the area hatched is changed. No problem use an AutoCAD Field.

APPHACK Winner PhotoGeoDWG

AuAutodesk held a AppHack competition at Autodesk University to get Autodesk Developer Network members to write an app and demo it live at AU.

One of the winners apps just went live on the Autodesk Exchange. PhotoGeoDWG is a really creative app allowing you to add camera markers to the raster images in your drawing. No more asking yourself or others “where is this location” when in a drawing file or in the field.

AUGI Wish List 2012 Results for 8 Autodesk Products

Every year at Autodesk University Autodesk Users Group International “AUGI” present their members nominated and voted product wish lists to Autodesk at their annual meeting which precedes the infamous beer bust. This year was the most products covered in wish lists with:

AutoCAD
AutoCAD Architecture
AutoCAD Civil 3D
Inventor
Navisworks
Revit Architecture
Revit MEP
Revit Structure
I want to sincerely thank every AUGI member that participated in the process. Get ready for one really long blog post.