Category Autodesk Products

Autodesk Providing Free Software and Curriculum to Students

It is that time of the year that students and educators are going back to the campus and classrooms for another year of education. Autodesk loves and supports students and provides many free resources for students. Over 30 of Autodesk’s professional design and visualization software are available for students and educators for a free 3 year license at the Autodesk Education Community http://students.autodesk.com. This includes not only AutoCAD, but Revit, 3ds Max, Autodesk Inventor and many more including some Autodesk 360 storage.

Also check out the Autodesk Digital STEAM Workshop

The Autodesk Digital STEAM Workshop science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) provides highly visual curriculum that delivers an engaging project-based learning experience for students while enabling teachers to focus on teaching rather than software expertise. Each project is accompanied by comprehensive resources such as videos, lesson plans, data sets, and real time 3D interactive viewers of completed projects.

Autodesk ReCap Photo Updated & Spiral Tooth Shark 3D Model

An updated Autodesk ReCap Photo is now available. Create high quality professional grade 3D models from photos including high resolution TIFF images. http://bit.ly/12j2Zph. This is the product that is the professional higher resolution version of the extremely popular consumer focused Autodesk Photofly which then became the current Autodesk 123D Catch which is free.

Recently I visited with my friend Brock down at Fossilogic and captured some of his rare fossils in 3D using only my digital camera and then processing the photos using Autodesk ReCap Photo. One was of a Woolly Mammoth and the other a spiral tooth shark. Both of these as well as many others Brock works on for museums are the original fossils. The Spiral Tooth Shark (Helicoprion) was found stuck in a coal seam in a Utah coal mine and I am told many fossils are found in these coal mines after all coal is remnants of ancient plant material.

Spiral Tooth Shark Fossil 3D Model Created by Photos Processed in Autodesk ReCap PhotoSpiral Tooth Shark Fossil TIFF Photos to be Processed in Autodesk ReCap Photo

Using only 38 high resolution TIFF photos to automatically create a highly detailed 3D model and export the 3D geometry with textures to OBJ format and open in 3ds Max in minutes is amazing. There is no way I could accurately model some objects in 3D and texture them in the short time it takes to photograph and process them in Autodesk online image based modeling service Autodesk ReCap Photo.

AutoCAD Customer Council

AutoCAD Customer Council

On the AutoCAD team, we have created a Customer Council program as a way to partner with customers throughout the development of our key features.

Building Trust: AutoCAD Customer Councils http://autode.sk/166UYoD

The Customer Councils go hand in hand with Autodesk Feedback Community projects like early alpha and beta programs as we want our customers involved in shaping the products they use.

Autodesk Mockup 360 Trial Now Available

Autodesk Mockup 360 provides a simple way to pull together large scale project data from many CAD sources in a real-time cloud based collaboration and visualization tool. You can share among teams as well as look for interferences aka clashes of objects in the design before the project is built saving time and money.

Inventor HSM Express Beta 5 is Available

The Autodesk CAM Team are happy to announce that we have a new Beta build that is ready for you to download and test. We received a great deal of feedback from the previous Beta builds.

If you are not a participant in the beta currently, or signed up to be considered for other Autodesk product betas please sign up now at the Autodesk Feedback Community http://beta.autodesk.com