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Autodesk Mudbox - where CAD is not enough
One of the less known components of the new Autodesk Design Suites is the modeling application Autodesk Mudbox . Despite its "dirty" name it is a useful tool - it can help to model 3D shapes that would be impossible or very difficult to model in standard CAD applications. Autodesk Mu…

Autodesk Neon renders your Revit projects
The web-cloud rendering service Autodesk Project Neon now supports not only DWG scenes from AutoCAD but also Revit projects. Project Neon comes from Autodesk Labs and it was launched about 1 year ago. Revit projects cannot be uploaded directly as RVT files but you need to install a Revit 2012 …

Get your AutoCAD add-on through Autodesk Apps
Autodesk has just launched a new online tool providing access to many add-on applications directly from AutoCAD 2012 - Autodesk Apps - an Autodesk Exchange store (a kind of "Autodesk Market" similar to Android Market or Apple iTunes). CAD Studio was one of several companies - develope…

Can your AutoCAD talk?
Yes it can. Any Windows version of AutoCAD can access the system "voice" API and send output through this "speech" interface. With surprisingly little programming (in VisualLISP, VBA, or .NET) you can "tell" various important messages to your AutoCAD operators. This …

Online service for converting STL files to AutoCAD and Inventor
In October 2010, we have started a free online service - STL2DWG - for web-based conversion of 3D stereolithography files (.STL) back into CAD applications. It would be sexy to call this a "web-cloud service" but it currently runs on our own physical CAD Forum internet server, so there …

Autodesk mobile GIS on Apple iPad
Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server (the software formerly known as Topobase web ) is not limited to access only from "thick" clients (AutoCAD Map Enterprise) and web browsers on desktop computers. Most of its key GIS functions can be provided also online, for terrain workers, through the…