20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
Keep Inventor Solids Simple (KISS) when exporting.
This new technology preview for Autodesk Inventor 2013 named Inventor Simplification has just been posted on Autodesk Labs allowing you to reduce models, include or exclude parts and remove IP before exporting for use in a Revit BIM model using the .adsk file format.
Some great news (as usual) was found in the April Edition of Autodesk Labs Innovation Edge newsletter. http://labs.blogs.com/apr2012/innovation_edge.htm
You can try the brand spanking new AutoCAD LT 2013 Online Trial without having to download or install anything.
Project Vasari is an AEC conceptual design and analysis software and a new update has just been made available for download on Autodesk Labs.
Project Vasari is an AEC conceptual design and analysis software that has been getting accolades since it was first launched on Autodesk Labs. Now there is a new updated Project Vasari 2.5 coming.
Project Falcon is a free technology preview on Autodesk Labs. Project Falcon standalone version allows you to import a STL file and subject it to digital wind tunnel simulation testing to better understand the structure, topology, or a design and improve it. Most Autodesk and applications that work with 3D geometry can export a STL mesh file to be used in Project Falcon.
Project Vasari is a free Autodesk Labs technology preview for AEC conceptual design and analysis. The Project Vasari team will be holding a live talk tomorrow on thermal zoning and custom glazing.
Autodesk Labs has just released named Interactive Terrain Shaping for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.
You will be able to interactively create and visually explore new conceptual grading plans. To me it appears the direct modeling paradigm or dynamic model interaction has come to civil design.
If you have or receive point cloud data I wanted to point out Autodesk Labs currently has some preview technologies to convert the point cloud data into geometry and features in some Autodesk products. These preview technologies hosted on Autodesk Labs are free to use with the only purpose and request for posting them is we want your feedback.
I have been spending my annual holiday week off with the family, cleaning my office and computers as well as dipping deeper into the Maker movement with 3D printing. I finally received a MakerBot 3D printer yesterday and got to printing right away learning the tips and tricks to this open source hardware.
What do I have planned for 2012?
I will continue to cover Autodesk technologies and products from A to Z like AutoCAD, Autodesk Labs projects, 3ds Max, Revit, Inventor, 123D, 123D Catch, to general technology topics and of course my wandering off topic fun, warped humor, and photography related posts. My focus is to have a broad spectrum view on all industries and nooks and crannies where technology is used by students, Makers and DIY’ers, to the professionals.
I am planning for a year better than any previous and hope you have an amazing new year as well. Forget about those crazy end of the world prophecies 2012 as it will be what you make of it, so make it great!
Scott Sheppard posted the Top Ten Autodesk Labs projects of 2011 (http://bit.ly/trVdkG) on the It’s Alive in the Lab blog. One big change in the Top Ten is that the technology preview that had held the number one download title since the founding of Autodesk Labs in 2006 had been unseated.