Time Management When You Do Not Have the Time
20+ years in this industry has taught me a lot. I have fortunately won more battles than I have...
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Let me Frame it for you: A review of fra.me
Frame is a different spin on using the cloud. Using Frame you put your software, applications, and related tools in the cloud and access it through a web browser, anywhere, on just about any device. Mike takes Frame for a spin, puts it through its paces, and provides us this review.
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Work Outside the Box: 3 Simple Ways to Boost Design Creativity
Design & Motion are honored to host this guest post from 3Dconnexion. They share 3 ways to boost design creativity, in doing so they share a number of resources to help with each point. Finally they offer up more than 25 pages of expert creativity advice in their Creativity Handbook for 3D Professionals.
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Autodesk Vault | To Item or not to Item, that is the question
Are you considering whether or not your should go Pro with Vault? Do you already own Vault Professional and are thinking about leveraging Items? In these cases understanding Items is important. Mike provides you with the questions you need to ask about Vault Professional Item usage.
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Getting Sketch-y with Autodesk Inventor 2015
Inventor 2015 is here with a lot of new features, something for everyone, so it might be easy to miss the powerful new features contained within the Sketch Environment. In this post Mike takes a deeper dive into what’s new within the sketch environment.
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Vault Professional 2015’s Item Master is ‘da BOM’!
We review Autodesk Vault Professional 2015’s Item Usability Enhancements, Bill of Material (BOM) Long-Lead item implementation, Item-first workflows, and much improved In-CAD workflows. Is this one of the best releases of Autodesk Vault ever?
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Max Morgan! A Minimalist Guide to rendering in 3ds Max
This is the first time Peter has written for Design and Motion. He has contributed in the background a few times, but he lands on our pages with a BANG hooking up our readers with an excellent rip, shit & bust tutorial showing how easy it is to knock out a photorealistic rendering for the Morgan 3 Wheeler Ad design competition. 3ds Max is an intimidating beast the first time you launch it, Peter’s tutorial cuts through all of that. Enjoy!
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Tip for Contact Pairs in Autodesk Simulation Multiphysics
Here’s a tip I picked up while working with Autodesk Simulation Mechanical. If you use surface contact pairs, this will make your life much easier.
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UAS, GIS, and CAD?
A former co-worker of mine and long time friend sent out an email last week showing off the...
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Autodesk announce intent to acquire Delcam!
I’m staggered & insanely excited to read that Autodesk have just announced their intent...
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Why should I use AutoCAD Mechanical? The Finale
Mike caps off his AutoCAD Mechanical series with his final post filling us in on the benefits of utilizing this tool
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What’s Up with AutoCAD Mechanical? Part 3
Mike comes at us again with his AutoCAD Mechanical Love in the 3rd part of his series. This time he shows us Power Dimensions, Mechanical Symbols & Hole Tables.
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