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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......
Between the Poles
Chrome browser exceeds IE for the first time
According to StatCounter, Google's Chrome share of the market rose to 32.8% in the week ending May 20, while Internet Explorer's share of the market dropped to 31.9%. This is the first week that Chrome has exceeded Internet Explorer....
AutoCAD Insider
Okay, all you pressure-prompted people! The time for procrastinating is past! Today’s the LAST DAY to answer the Call for Proposals for AU 2012. You don’t have to have the whole class written, just a synopsis. Classes can be tips......
Lynn Allen's Blog
Kick up the IQ of your AutoCAD objects
I’m not going to lie…I don’t want to do any more work than I absolutely have to. The ultimate punishment for me – having to do things over again! Smart objects ultimately mean less work for me in the long......
Through the Interface
Creating a 3D viewer for our Apollonian service using HTML5 Part 3
To finish off our look at developing an HTML5-based 3D viewer for our Apollonian web-service, today’s post integrates the trackball capability of the Three.js library. Many thanks to Jeff Geer for once again pointing me in the right direction on......
Without A Net
A new service pack for AutoCAD 2012 and AutoCAD LT 2012 is now available at the following links: [AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 2][1] [AutoCAD LT 2012 Service Pack 2][2] Consult the readme file for installation instructions and be sure to......
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
Okay, all you pressure-prompted people! The time for procrastinating is past! Today’s the LAST DAY to answer the Call for Proposals for AU 2012. You don’t have to have the whole class written, just a synopsis. Classes can be tips......
Beyond the Paper
Project Blink Beta - Sign Up Today!
Our partners over at Autodesk Labs want to let you know that Autodesk customers can sign up for the Project Blink Beta. Project Blink provides you with the ability to access your design software from anywhere. Interested? Limited number of......
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
In Which Applications Can I Find the Autodesk Vault Add-in?
Here is a list of applications that have Vault 2013 Integrations. Application Vault Basic 2013 Vault Workgroup 2013 Vault Collaboration 2013 Vault Professional 2013 Vault Office 2013 Alias 2013 Yes Yes Yes Yes Alias Automative 2013 Yes Yes Yes Yes......
It's All Just Ones and Zeros
The Autodesk Developer Network has put out a bunch of new blogs recently. These blogs cover the APIs for all Autodesk products. There you will find tips, tricks and all the sample code you can eat. The Vault stuff can be found in the Manufacturing DevBlog. There are also DevBlogs for AEC, AutoCAD, and infrastructure....
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
The POV Interview: Vijay Vaitheeswaran
It's time for another excerpt from our internally distributed newsletter POV (Point of View) Dispatch. Vijay Vaitheeswaran is an award winning correspondent for The Economist. His new book on the future of global innovation is Need, Speed, and Greed: How......
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
Electrical Controls in Industrial Robots
Not too long ago, I posted a piece about the FIRST Robotics competition, Electro Mechanical design on a smaller scale. Well, here is a scaled up version!! Autodesk just released a press release that you can read here: Autodesk.com newsroom. It speaks to how Kawasaki Heavy Industry adopted Autodesk Digital Prototyping software to design electrical controls in industrial robots. To quote Hashimoto-san, the GM of the Robot Division "... With AutoCAD Electrical, we can achieve greater efficiency and...
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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