20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
AUGI (Autodesk Users Group International) is asking for members to submit their Autodesk product wishes to be voted on by AUGI members using their new AUGI Wish List System. Top wishes are provided to Autodesk at Autodesk University to encourage for future product development.
AUGI basic membership is free.
I received both Tricks and Treats for AutoCAD and Civil 3D after posting for readers to send Autodesk product tips and tricks as Tricks and Treats. There are 8 tricks for AutoCAD based products and 3 treats for Civil 3D for you to try.
For the 6 people submitting these tricks and treats I will send them something fun. If they are attending Autodesk University 2013, I will give it to them there and of course buy them a beverage of their choice as a small token of thanks for participating and sharing in the fun.
Enjoy the Tricks and Treats!
If you program AutoCAD using the AutoLISP programming language, then this news should provide a valuable resource for you. Lee Ambrosius let me know that the AutoLISP documentation has been updated for the recent AutoCAD 2014 for Mac but it is also applicable to the Windows version of AutoCAD.
A free online guide to CNC is available free from Autodesk's HSMWorks group who develop CAM solutions for both Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks. If you ever wanted to better understand the process machining and milling using CNC this would be a great resource.
Last week on this Between the lines blog fun competition was announced to share Autodesk product tips and tricks in the spirit of Halloween. Autodesk Product Trick or Treats 2013 Request for Submissions
A couple great submissions have already been received. Both submitted were tricks and we need some treats to share and more products covered. Send in your trick or treats for Autodesk products lie AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Fusion 360, Civil 3D, InfraWorks, 3ds Max, and many more. We have thousands of daily readers of this blog and many are Autodesk product ninjas with great tricks and treats to share.
It is that spooky time of the year where people dress up in costumes and you guess if they are in costume, or if that is how they really look. Not many things in the office more awkward than commenting "Nice Halloween costume Kurt" and Kurt responding "what, I am not wearing a costume."
To avoid the awkward situations, why not have some fun and also help your fellow Autodesk product users such as 123D products, 360 products, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, InfraWorks, Inventor, Fusion 360, Maya, Navisworks, Recap Pro and Recap Photo, Revit, Smoke, or one of the many other Autodesk products with a tip or trick?
Provide your best Autodesk product trick to fool or torture someone or a treat to help their productivity with a helpful tip or show something really cool that you created. I will with my very own personal wealth (small sandwich bag partially full of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters hidden in my closet) purchase some fun yet inexpensive gifts to gift to some of the submitters with the best tip and the funniest and most creative submissions.
Guidelines are simple to follow as this is just for fun and not a contest or official competition.
Submit a Trick
Show how to prank someone like setting their mouse wheel zoomspeed to warp factor increments. More examples were in a past blog post AutoCAD Pranks. But please make sure the tricks are non-destructive and in the spirit of fun. NO setting their UNDO command to UNDO 3 times and save the file thus making them lose work. How about code to make their computer beep when they do something like use UNDO.
Submit a Treat
Show how to do something ninja like in an Autodesk product saving time and creating nice things. Or how about a pixel treat showing something really amazing you created using an Autodesk product.
Make sure you try to keep the Trick or Treat short and simple but yet detailed enough that people will understand it. Screen captures, sample files, scripts and LISP are welcome.
Deadline: October 29th,2013
Submit Your Entry or Entries Now
Spread the word so we gets lots of tricks and treats to share in a series of blog posts on October 31st!
Cheers,
Shaan
Fresh out of a customer beta at the Autodesk Feedback Community is Autodesk Inventor HSM Express, a free 2.5 axis Computer Aided Manufacturing "CAM" software for Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor LT.
Inventor HSM Express is Now Live! http://cam.autodesk.com
The recorded product launch video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/mT7mf-vrqAg
Autodesk Inventor HSM Express video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/h_xLy47uWuE
Articles from around the interwebs about Inventor HSM Express Launch:
IT’S OFFICIAL, THE FREE CAM SOLUTION FOR AUTODESK INVENTOR IS HERE
http://bit.ly/1dYq7NM
Autodesk introduces integrated CAM for Inventor with HSM Express by metalworkingcanada
http://bit.ly/1g8kKxF
For those who participated in the beta testing using the pre-release product to provide feedback and improve the quality, I give you a big THANK YOU and shower you in sparkling CNC metal shavings of gratitude for your participation. Please ensure to install the final released version. An issue was identified in the beta versions which causes Inventor to crash on start-up. Installing the release version will automatically will resolve this. This goes for any beta, always uninstall and start fresh with the final release of a product to avoid conflicts or time out of the beta software.
For those that use HSMWorks CAM solutions for SolidWorks fear not we are continuing to support and develop that product.
Cheers,
Shaan
Have you ever had to train someone else on how to do something in software using text, images, or even video? I bet the majority of you have, and while videos with narrations are a great way to train someone especially over the web the actual details and technical steps of what you are doing are sometimes not included in the narration or clear enough in the video or text instructions.
With Autodesk Project Chronicle currently on Autodesk Labs you get the best of all worlds with an interactive video, narration and the actual indexed steps from the actual Autodesk product Project Chronicle helps you create & share your own free interactive video training materials for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. You can choose to make them private for internal training or share with the world.
Check out Project Chronicle and capture, share or learn some knowledge: http://autode.sk/17CdN1X
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