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AUGI HotNews May 2012 - Spring Release: New Autodesk Software
Features Letter from the President - 2012 May AUGI President David Harrington takes a look at recent AUGI developments. Spring Release: New Autodesk Software Autodesk has made the transition to new software easier, but there are still some protocols you......
Virtual Reality
Meshing – What is Average Element Size
In the next couple of weeks I will be uploading a series of posts on the topic of meshing a key attribute in obtaining accurate stress analysis results. In this first article I am going to start of with how Inventor Stress Analysis creates meshes using the average element size value within the Mesh settings [...]...
In the Machine
We have been slaving away at our little cottage this past year to bring you all new software. What awaits you in the next release of Inventor? Check out several interviews Mr. Cohee conducted concerning our 2012 lineup....
Between the Poles
Benefits of a 3D land and property information system for sustainable urbanization
At the GSDI 13 conference in Quebec City, Serene Ho and Abbas Rajabifard from Australia delivered a paper on the benefits of a 3D land and property information system (3D-LPIS) to an increasingly urbanized society. 70% of the population of......
AutoCAD Insider
Did you know that speakers at AU 2012 get free admission to the entire conference? It’s true! That’s in addition to the prestige of adding “AU Instructor” to your resume…and the speaker shirt to impress your friends. The Call for......
Lynn Allen's Blog
Catch My Virtual AutoCAD 2013 presentation!
Hi everyone! For those of you who haven't been able to catch one of my live presentations - I want you to know I'm doing my first AutoCAD 2013 virtual presentation(s) this week for Imaginit. You have three days to......
Through the Interface
Creating a 3D viewer for our Apollonian service using HTML5 Part 2
In the last post, we created another, basic 3D viewer for the data from our Apollonian web-service – this time using HTML5 via Three.js. In this post, we’ll extend the code to listen for keyboard events and manipulate the model......
Without A Net
Performance issues in AutoCAD when Autodesk Showcase 2013 is running at the same time
Some users have experienced performance degradation in AutoCAD and other Autodesk products when running them side by side with Autodesk Showcase 2013. This issue has been resolved in Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Showcase 2013 which can be downloaded from......
Between the Walls
AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 2 Released
Autodesk has released Update 2 for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010. http://bit.ly/d3HfrA & http://bit.ly/9ApjyI...
LT Unlimited
Did you know that speakers at AU 2012 get free admission to the entire conference? It’s true! That’s in addition to the prestige of adding “AU Instructor” to your resume…and the speaker shirt to impress your friends. The Call for......
Beyond the Paper
Autodesk Design Review Mobile - Now for Android!
You asked. We listened! The wait is over for our Android customers. The free Autodesk Design Review mobile app is now available on the Android Market! Similar to its IOs cousin, the Android version of the Design Review mobile app......
Being Inventive
Migrating content center libraries with custom materials to 2013
I wanted to make everyone aware that due to the new way of working with materials and appearances/colors in 2013, extreme caution has to be observed when migrating custom Content libraries that contain custom materials. The order in which you do things is of utmost importance. The proper migration order is: 1. Migrate your custom material style into a 2013 material library first 2. Make sure that the proper material library is active in your project file 3. Update the content center library I'll...
Ellipsis
Observations and Random Thoughts on PLM
Wow! Blowing the dust off the 'ol keyboard here. Been a while since my last post huh? That's what 59,000 airline miles in three months will do to you. So what have I been up to you ask? If you're following me on Twitter then you know I've been jet......
Mod the Machine
Inventor 2013 SDK and API Help Update
The SDK and API Help that went out with Inventor 2013 were found to have a few issues that we want to correct. SDK The initial SDK that was delivered with Inventor 2013 tried to remain compatible with Visual Studio......
Easter Island Prokect Diary
Nobody knows who carved the huge stone figures, or why. There are 1000 of them, ranging from 6 feet to more than 30 feet in height. The biggest weighs about 270 tons. All have the same appearance: a long shaped......
Cracking the Vault
Increasing Timeouts for Autodesk Project Sync
If you need to synchronise a large amount of data between Vault and Buzzsaw after installing Autodesk Project Sync, you may get a timeout error. There are three components to Project Sync that would need to be configured:- Autodesk Vault......
It's All Just Ones and Zeros
One of the optimizations in Vault 2013 is the use of JPEG as the format for storing thumbnails. Previously, the format used by the CAD file was stored in the database. For example, Inventor uses the metafile format, which is usually much bigger than a JPEG when at thumbnail size. Regardless of what format the file’s thumbnail is, the Vault 2013 Server converts it to JPEG when storing it in the database. What this means for the Vault developer is that you have to handle 2 possible image formats...
Under the Hood
PLM Tip of the Week - Linking Workspaces in PLM 360
“That rug really tied the rooms together,” -The Dude Lebowski Today’s post will cover some best practices in tying linking data together within PLM 360. Items from one Workspace can call upon and provide a link to items in another Workspace. There are a number of ways to do this,......
It is Alive in the Lab
eTransmit for Revit 2013 Available in Subscription Center
eTransmit for Revit is a free technology preview of an add-in application for Revit Architecture 2012, Revit Structure 2012, and Revit MEP 2012. With eTransmit for Revit, you can: copy and detach a Revit model and associated files to a......
Voice of Community
An event is not a community, but...
My wise friend and brilliant futurist Wayne Hodgins once told me, “never confuse an event with community” but there I was at Autodesk University 2011 the other week, surrounded by community. Communities of mechanical engineers, automotive engineers, civil engineers: bridge builders, highway engineers, canal builders, “dirt movers”; architects – high rise and low density residential, hotel and stadium architects, institutional architects designing schools, hospitals, universities and prisons;...
Classroom Connection
Animation Academy - Providing Another Pathway...
If you haven’t read it – you better. By "it" I’m referring to the draft report on Multiple Pathways developed by WestEd. created in response to CA Assembly Bill 2648 (Bass) that “ requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction......
Engineering Education for Mechanically Inclined
PLM in Education? Is that really even possible?
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is a term that’s been around for a long time. It’s also a subject that has been made to seem so incredibly large in scope that only a few wise sages huddled in caves on steep......
Point-to-Point
Autodesk University 2012 Call for Proposals - now open!
The Call for Proposals for Autodesk University 2012 is open now till May 22nd. There will be 4 key industry segments featured this year: Automotive, Industrial Machinery, Building Product Fabrication, and Consumer Products. We are interested in classes that help engineers thoroughly understand the tools used for designing, visualizing, and simulating their designs digitally. Find out more information here: http://bit.ly/KZMlmK. Send in those proposals! - Ananda Arasu...
Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions
This week Autodesk announced that 123D Catch is now available for iPad on the App Store. This new free* app lets users take images from their iPad camera and upload them to the Autodesk cloud service that transforms the images into a 3D model. Complementing the desktop and newly released......
CAD Application Development
Point Cloud Fix in Revit 2012 Web Update 1
One of the biggest problems that people have had with the new Point Cloud capabilities of Revit 2012 is how it dealt with multiple point clouds inserted into your Revit project. If you had multiple scans that all were from the same origin, and you inserted them all origin-to-origin, then they would all line up, right? wrong...Some of the problem related to how Revit handled large coordinate values (as you may know, Revit doesn't like it when elements start showing up miles from the model origin)....
CADDHELP
Recently bought a Dell XPS9100. Be sure you research the components before you buy from Dell...or you will regret it. I've had several problems so far all related to the video card and misinformation on the Dell website. Then in trying to sort it out I get the runaround between sales, technical support, returns, etc. That of course is broken up by the eventual disconnect at about the 45-50 min mark during the support call. At this point I have given up...sigh....
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