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I managed to get Paul Grayson, Founder and CEO of Alibre, to go public on his views on CAD on the cloud. With his permission I am reproducing an email he sent to me a short while ago: Hi Deelip, I have been following all of the coverage that cloud computing has gotten  [more...]

HTML v5 holds the promise of adding a huge amount of power to the Web brower, and eliminating unwieldly add-ons, like Flash.One key to the increase in graphics capability is the new tag. Over at mrdoob.com/blog/post/689, Ricardo Cabello is displaying his visual experiments  [more...]

One of the very important aspects of PLM as enterprise software is the ability to be implemented in the fast and easy way. I think you will agree, that long implementation cycle can put your PLM project into the wastebasket as well as your carrier on hold. I’m  [more...]

Like I said in my previous post “A Cloudy Conversation with Mike Payne“, a lot has been said about CAD on the cloud by people like me who are nowhere close to actually shaping the future of the CAD software industry. In my quest to find out what other CAD  [more...]

A good engineer can recite whole sections of his favorite reference book…a smart engineer knows how to find the information when needed. And having a fully stocked reference library can save valuable research time and could have an impact on how fast your turn  [more...]

You may have read some of my previous postings on prosthetics and how they are being dramatically affected by advancements in 3D scanning and printing. But there is so much more benefits that prosthetics are providing for many other advancements [more...]

Click the File Locations tab of the Options dialog to set paths for files and directories. Files and Directories Default template file: Specify the path for the default template file. The Revit Architecture installation automatically sets this path; however, you may  [more...]

A prospective customer put this question to me today: It has been great trying to use SYCODE software to import 3DS files from ArchiCAD to Alibre. I would love to work with both platforms more interconnected. Do you have a suggestion of how I could do that? I plan  [more...]

There is a new pre-release Rhino OS X build available, Wenatchee 2010-03-08, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Including: Additions:Rhino OS X now runs Python scripts. See this forum post for further information.Changes:Various bug fixes.Everyone  [more...]

Bob McNeel, CEO of Robert McNeel and Associates, the developers of Rhinoceros, had this to say about CAD on the cloud: Any new technology direction in the CAD industry takes awhile to show user benefits. The “Cloud” is one more technology that might help designers  [more...]

Manage TabThe Manage tab is the sixth static (always available) tab provided in the out-of-the-box ACA CUI. The image below and all screen captures in this article are based on the shipping version.Navigate PanelThe Action Recorder Panel contains commands related  [more...]

TecnoGold 2010 is the 12th Annual Technology Fair for Gems and Design in the jewelry industry. TecnoGold 2010 will be held in São Paulo, Brazil on April 22-24.Location: Centro de Eventos São Luis, São PauloDates: April 22, 23, 24Come and see RhinoGOLD, RhinoGOLD Render  [more...]

Repost: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/like-fatherlike-son-not-exactly.htmlBack in the 80’s, there was a movie that came out called Like Father Like Son, starring Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore.It was a hilarious comedy about a teenage son (Cameron)  [more...]

Repost: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/an-attached-structural-foundation-will-be-moved-to-the-bottom-of-the-column.htmlBy design, a structural foundation will automatically attach to the bottom of a structural column. If you try to adjust the column  [more...]

You heard it here first folks!  Remember my sneak prevue post?  iPhone + Photos + 3D Objects = Yum!  Ok, look again (or for the first time) and notice the lead photo.  Nah, not the 3D object superimposed on the 2D photo.  Look at the person sitting in the chair.  Yeah,  [more...]

Multidisciplinary Transportation, Infrastructure and Urban Development Projects Demonstrate Integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM) ProcessSAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar 10, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 2D and 3D design,  [more...]

Back in the 80’s, there was a movie that came out called Like Father Like Son, starring Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore. It was a hilarious comedy about a teenage son (Cameron) who switches bodies with his surgeon father (Moore). [more...]

So you have a plan view with the following View Range:which should only show elements in the shaded area:Notice that the beams are above our view range. However in a plan view, you get this: Why on earth are those beams showing up in that plan view? After taking a  [more...]

Here's an amazing best practices tip. You know, we never have this problem when working with 2D. Why does 3D have to make everything so complicated? Insert sarcasm here. I'd like to give a special thank you to Doctor of BIM, Harlan Brumm, who's responsible for  [more...]

I received a question from a Between the Lines blog reader John Reid this week in response to a previous post “StarBacks BBQ Floor Space Planning with AutoCAD FIELDS”. I thought it would be a great lunchtime challenge to break free of all the other things I was doing,  [more...]

Hey everyone.  Interested in learning about some of the new features of 3ds Max 2011?  Check out these videos: http://area.autodesk.com/3dsmax2011 - Scott

It is springtime and a young man’s fancy turns, of course, to lawn care! Well, not so much, me not so much anyway. In springtime, I start to think about how to eliminate lawn care. I frankly hate our lawn and hate the 60 or so Briggs & Stratton engines that  [more...]

By design, a structural foundation will automatically attach to the bottom of a structural column. If you try to adjust the column base, the foundation will automatically move with it. Though this is by design, if you need to move [more...]

Mac CAD and 3D News: Luxion is being used by one of the world's top auto photographers for Ford and Graphisoft is hosting a series of BIM Webinars.

I have an article in the new AugiWorld magazine on creating a Revit MEP fire alarm device. If you are new to Revit MEP families this can help get you started and it applies to all kinds of electrical and mechanical Revit families. Flip to page 34 to see the article.Before  [more...]

Autodesk Congratulates the 82nd Annual Academy Award(R) Winners and NomineesSAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar 10, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- For the 15th consecutive year, every Oscar(R)-winning movie for Best Visual Effects was created with the help of filmmaking  [more...]

You are invited to try the Bongo 2.0 animation plug-in for Rhino 4.0. The ninth work-in-progress version is now available.Download Bongo 2.0 WIP 9 from here. [more...]

New video from SolidWorks talks about macros that are available on 3DContentCentral.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - For the 15th consecutive year, every Oscar®-winning movie for Best Visual Effects was created with the help of filmmaking tools from Autodesk, Inc. . Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation software was also used to help shape this year’s nominees  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - Hi5, the largest social entertainment site focused on gaming, announced a new Game Developer Program designed to accelerate user adoption and revenue generation of social and online games. Hi5 president and CTO Alex St. John, provided details  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - MySpace has announced a new MySpace Games experience that creates a more social gaming environment with new tools and functionality for users and developers, says a representative. The site, available at myspace.com/games, launched at the Game  [more...]

We've got several great promotions you can take advantage of this month, take a look:Buy a seat of SolidWorks Professional or Premium and get one Introduction to SolidWorks 3DU course at 50%... Do you want to know how to create sections in 3D? How about forgotten  [more...]

Plan regions can cause some confusion related to their default behavior. This can become more complicated when involving floors in the view. I’ve included a few important items to keep in mind related to these topics: Objects Intersecting a Plan [more...]

I met up with Bob Leung from Woobius a couple of times last week (including at the launch of StickyWorld's Collaboration Cafe at London's Building Centre - pwcom post), and he updated me on progress with Woobius Eye (see post). [more...]

I was browsing through the Help files for blog inspiration, and came across a nice collection of the system variables that affect how you select objects. They're grouped under the Selection Modes section of the Selection tab of the Options [more...]

Outdated perceptions by manufacturers about the cost of investing in design technology are hampering their business growth, according to Autodesk.

This tutorial shows the steps involved in creating a car rendering in Photoshop starting from a handmade sketch and using simple brushes, the path tools, some predefined layers and filters. The author is Belgian illustrator Koen Balthazar. [more...]

By Wanda Meloni As an analyst I am drawn to trends that shift markets. I see nothing shifting the gaming market more significantly right now than the impact that girls and women are having on the industry. The growth and market dynamics related to female players  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for 3D interactive content on the Web, PC, Mac, Wii, and iPhone platforms, introduces Unity 3.0 at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). In addition, Unity Technologies announces  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. – Attendees at GDC10 find out why Georgia Got Game on Thursday, March 11, from 9 – 10am in the North Hall, Room 123. Georgia offers the aggressive incentives in the nation for video game development under the Georgia Entertainment Industry Investment  [more...]

San Antonio, Texas - NewTek, manufacturer of 3D animation and video products, extends congratulations to all the 2010 Visual Effects Society (VES) Award winners who pushed the limits of technology to deliver outstanding visual effects in film, animation, television,  [more...]

Sunnyvale, Calif. - AMD announced that, along with partners Pixelux Entertainment and Bullet Physics, it has added significant support to the Open Physics ecosystem by providing game developers with access to the newest version of the Pixelux Digital Molecular Matter  [more...]

Robert McNeel and Associates gave us a nice mention in their Marc 2010 Newsletter.Take a look: Newsletter [more...]

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Autodesk, Inc. , a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced that Figueiredo Ferraz, one of Brazil’s foremost engineering companies, has been selected to receive an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for its  [more...]

In 1974 when New Zealand hosted the Commonwealth Games I was Eight. It’s a tribute to the graphic design that I can still remember (and regret losing) the pencil case, ruler, stickers and pens adorned with these icons.NZ Design Icons: 1974 Commonwealth Games  [more...]

A couple of tweets between CAD authors @thecadgeek & @SWGeek (right) combined with a need to reprint a sheet, several times, prompted me to think about the paper wasted with CAD. I read the tweels and dreamed this post up while waiting for my car pool ride, how  [more...]

Autodesk has announced Autodesk Maya 2011 software [more...]

Ok, just to be straight with everyone, Bill Taylor from SW gave me a call this afternoon. Bill is in charge of something to do with SWWorld, SW Community or something in that range, I don’t know exactly what. I hear from Bill a couple times a year about one thing  [more...]

CAD tip for ACAD, LT, ADT, Civil: Files with the .CEL extension are usually block libraries from the software application Microstation. AutoCAD does not support direct import of such files, but you can use a simple ...  [more...]

Three CAD vendors -- Lattice, Elysium, and Kubotek -- are partnering with Boeing to present a half-day seminar later this month on the problems of dealing with 3D CAD data.The conference has the unhappily-long title of "Improve Aerospace Supply Chain Quality and Productivity  [more...]

When Integration is introduced in Calculus, determining the Area of a region is a common exercise. This video takes you through defining two sketches. The upper bound is (secx)^2, the lower bound is sinx. Using Sketch Driven Curve and that [more...]

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Inspired by the success of Avatar and the role Autodesk MotionBuilder software played in that success, I visited the avatarizeyourself.com site and saw what I would have looked like had I been a part of the movie. Thinking back on [more...]

The David Emanuel Academy tennis team got the 2010 season off to a great start by winning both of their matches last week. On Monday the boys team won 3-2 over Edmund Burke while the girls took the victory by a score of 6-0. In action on Thursday, the Eagles won 5-0  [more...]

One of the most requested items for Project Cooper was better DWG compatibility with other Autodesk applications. This latest release, which also renamed Project Cooper to AutoCAD Freestyle Technology Preview, made strides in this area. Technical Product Manager, Lisa  [more...]

Proton Holdings Bhd will implement a RM26 million Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution in May which will manage the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. Proton Holdings Group Managing Director  [more...]

From today's Autodesk press release:Pricing and AvailabilityAutodesk anticipates that 3ds Max 2011 will be available in English in April 2010. Autodesk expects to announce Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 software in late-March 2010. The Autodesk suggested retail price  [more...]

Yeah, it's only for 3ds Max 2011, but it's something. What's New in 3ds Max 2011 Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2011 3D modeling, animation, rendering software includes the following new and enhanced features:Click to play video  [more...]

Which will yield the most BTUs of energy--a gallon of oil, a pound of coal or a gallon of gasoline? *Answer will be posted March 17.

We recently discussed a comment from Mike King on how to specify openings when constructing a slab, and that reminded me of some interesting sample code I received from Ning in a comment on using the NewWall method and passing [more...]

A popular network rendering controller for Lightwave, Maya, Modo, Messiah Studio, 3DSmax, XSI, Digital Fusion, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, 3Delight and more has been updated with over 10 new features - Including support for 'LightWaveHC 10' and 'Houdini'!

SGI Integrated Blade Cluster Surpasses IBM, HP and Dell Systems in Key SPEC Benchmark

DM Solutions, Delcam?s reseller based in Derry, New Hampshire, will demonstrate how Delcam?s software for artistic applications can help professional modelmakers at the APMM conference taking place in Boston from 26th to 29th March. [more...]

A story by Creaform That’s the (very philosophical) question that was casually thrown on Creaform's team meeting table back about a year ago, as we were trying to find a way to stretch our legs with a project that would pose a technical challenge to our team and soothe  [more...]