Category Science

Explore Science Contest

Would you like to win a airborne UAV or a underwater OpenROV submersible robot to go exploring with? You have the chance to with a recent Explore Science contest being held by Instructables and OpenExplorer. "Scientific breakthroughs make the world…

Catch a Dinosaur by the Toe

Current scientific evidence indicates the dinosaurs as we know them are all gone, but they left fossilized bones, tracks, and other traces behind telling the story. Last week I was working on a project in Northern Arizona and found an…

Project Recover on Veterans Day

On this U.S. Holiday of Veterans Day we would like to place the spot light on Project Recover. "Project Recover is a collaborative effort to enlist twenty-first-century science and technology in a quest to find the final underwater resting places…

Autodesk is SO Much More than CAD – 3D Printed Virus to End Cancer

Most know us at Autodesk as the folks that develop AutoCAD, Revit, 3ds Max, Maya, Autodesk Inventor, and over 115 or so other products, but we are into the non CAD fields as well. We pride ourselves as being highly…

Teams Conduct 3D Survey of USS Arizona and USS Utah

Story covered in the U.S. Navy All Hands Magazine. What an absolute lifetime honor to be involved as an Autodesk team member and SCUBA diver on both the USS Arizona and USS Utah. http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/ftrStory.asp?issue=3&id=84177

USS Arizona and USS Utah 3D Survey Project

Just returned from another special project SCUBA diving and scanning the USS Arizona BB-39 and USS Utah BB-31 in Pearl Harbor Hawaii to gather more 3D data for the first comprehensive survey in over 30 years. We at Autodesk have…

3D Printing in the Final Frontier!

Check out all the buzz being made about Made in Space sending a 3D printer via SpaceX to the International Space Station for 3D printing in space and the unique microgravity environment. Astronauts To Make Spare Parts From 3D Printer…

Modeling 3D printable coral reefs

Modeling 3D printable coral reefs with Autodesk ReCap and an underwater camera: This was an amazing project to be part of. It will help scientist better understand the changes our oceans are experiencing, and how coral reefs are responding…

3D Prints of USS Arizona Artifacts

Autodesk partnered with the US National Park Service to undertake the most complete study of the USS Arizona in 30 years both above and below water using many 3D capture technologies. Two of the artifacts captured using photos and Autodesk…

USS Arizona in 3D Project Behind the Scenes

On Memorial Day 2014 the US National Park Service and Autodesk announced for the first time in over 30 years that a scientific survey of the USS Arizona had been competed using the latest in technology. I wanted to share…