Autodesk Design and Manufacturing solutions through Digital Prototyping and Interoperability
Each month Autodesk selects one of the cutting edge companies using Inventor Software, to be recognized as “Inventor of the Month”. After the year is over, the community is encouraged to vote for their favorite, who will be designated as “Inventor of the Year”. This year you have the opportunity to make sure that RND Automation and Engineering, Sean Dotson’s Tampa based company, is selected as the winner. Sean has been an integral part of the [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Did you ever wonder what's up with NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture, or how it pertains to the Quadro pro-graphics cards? I decided to see what the new Quadro's are made of. ...Read the rest of this article...
On the Civil 3D discussion group, there was a post requesting help getting an MText label with 2 leaders attached, to line up with text orthogonal in 2 different views. After trying to solve it, I realized I had never encountered the exact combination requested. The Qleader (MText attached leaders) will always rotate and align to the MText rotation. In the Viewport to the right the view is twisted, but the MText rotation is still [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Here are some Autodesk Inventor tips I collected while working a simple frame design this weekend. Find out some of the things I use to make Frame Generator a success in my designs. ...Read the rest of this article...
Civil 3D is the king of the hill for Civil Design, and can develop elegant and detailed construction plans. Using Objects provided by the application, such as Surfaces, Pipes, Structures, Gradings, etc, revisions that would have taken a week can be performed in a day’s time. I did say ‘can be’. However, what happens after the plans are released, and the site is constructed? We need a CO, and what often stands in the way [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
The new year is upon us. I’m thinking back on all the events that occurred in 2010 and wondering if there is any way that 2011 can top it. I guess my first hope is that everyone can get a job. Some companies that were able to hold on are seeing some hope, but others are far too extended to continue. In the last weeks of 2010 GCT picked up Marek Scotka, my friend and [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
InventorCAM 2010 is completely integrated in Autodesk Inventor 2011. It's Intuitive nature made every step seem like I already knew how to use it. ...Read the rest of this article...
Here’s a simple and quick idea to consider next time you are beating out an initial concept. Use the awesome capabilities of Multi-body modeling to create separate components in an assembly, but don’t add Dimensional or Geometric constraints…yet. Look, let’s say you’re having trouble working some details out in your mind. You want to start adding rough components and then refine them later. Perfect. Not adding dimensions and the like make things so much easier [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Brian Matthews, Vice-President of Autodesk Labs presented a fabulous discussion on new technologies that will shape future of Autodesk Manufacturing and AEC design. ...Read the rest of this article...
Autodesk Labs releases the Civil 3D Corridor Subassembly Composer Technology Preview. This little app should add some much desired flexibility into many designs. ...Read the rest of this article...