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AutoCAD celebrates 30 years of its existence. Come with us on a journey through its rich history in the attached infographic. From humble beginnings in a version that worked in a whopping 128kB of memory(!), through Rel.10 - the first version that supported 3D, and through the launch of "indus…

Get CAD applications given out by CAD Studio as traditional Christmas presents - this year for the tenth time already. Presents are available for all AutoCAD and Inventor users. Play Minesweeper in Inventor, become a maker of an interesting mathematical 3D model, get a set of add-on tools, or pic…

Now you can test your 3D model (digital prototype) in a virtual wind tunnel, directly inside the CAD application Autodesk Inventor Professional. The add-on utility "Project Falcon" from Autodesk Labs, released in August 2011 for Autodesk Alias and in August 2012 as a standalone version fo…

On the Autodesk University 2012 conference, Autodesk has announced a new cloud application - Fusion 360 - the first full-featured 3D CAD software based on the web cloud. Autodesk Fusion 360 builds on the concepts of "Inventor Fusion" and of the recently released maker apps "Autode…

The news season related to the Autodesk University is starting ... The new mobile application - Autodesk FormIt - helps to capture building design concepts digitally anytime, anywhere. You can use real-world site information to create 3D building forms in context and experience a continuous Bu…

Autodesk is active also in areas which are apparently not related to their primary business - CAD, GIS and M&E. The newest activity confirming this is the "Project Sci-Viz" - a scientific visualization tool for biology. This is not their first activity in a similar area. Already in 19…

Not only an easy to use 3D modeling but also 3D printing and CNC machining is now available for free for everyone and virtually on any device. The family of web cloud applications Autodesk 123D was extended with the "123D Design" tool - a very easy 3D modeling application, which runs dir…

CAD Studio Inc. has earned three new Autodesk Specializations - PLM, Process Plant and Product Support. Autodesk Partner Specializations enable value added resellers such as CAD Studio to highlight and brand their expertise in delivering services in key industry areas - and to be a trusted adviser …

The "AppStore" for add-on applications and plug-ins for AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Vault and other Autodesk software - Autodesk Exchange Apps - has reached 100,000 downloads of the individual tools. All the plugins can be installed and uninstalled with a single click - either through you…

During my Friday's visit of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, I have seen an interesting, mechanically simple machine drawing complex curves - guilloches: A similar machine at work: As we have received a lot reactions and feedbacks on the 3DPlot utility we released in Februa…

Readers of the CAXMIX magazine had a chance to participate in a competition sponsored by CAD Studio. The first prize was a hot-air balloon flight. The participants had to give right answers to a couple of technical questions and guess the number of newly registered users on the CADforum.cz portal.…

This week, Autodesk has announced two acquisitions. The first one is an important milestone and it will probably change the CAD and manufacturing industry quite substantially. HSMWorks , a well known CAM tool for Solidworks, is now "Autodesk HSMWorks" and still remains an important CAM…

The web-cloud PLM system "Autodesk PLM 360" is now available in multiple language localizations, including Czech. The language support is implemented on the server (in the cloud). Language switching is done automatically when a user logs-in with his/her web browser language settings. If…

One of the frequent visitors on the CADForum.cz portal asked us to add a section which would summarize all Autodesk products with their Service Packs, product keys, registry keys and build numbers. All this data is already published on the portal but it is spread into multiple sections and tips. …

A very interesting technology comes to CAD world with the new plugin for Autodesk Showcase 2013 released on Autodesk Labs - " Augmented Reality ". Augmented reality is a live view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated input such as render…

With the new format and resolution of preview thumbnails stored in the AutoCAD 2013 DWG files, we wanted to benchmark the influence of thumbnail settings to the overall size of DWG files. The thumbnail size is controlled by the THUMBSIZE variable - it specifies the pixel resolution of PNG previews …

During the conference SIGGRAPH 2012 on computer graphics, Autodesk has released the traditional annual "show reel" - presenting the best works of his customers using the "Media and Entertainment" products by Autodesk - first of all animations and videos from the area of TV ads, …

The newest member of the quickly spreading Autodesk 360 cloud family is the "Autodesk 360 Publisher Technology Preview". This cloud version of the well known desktop application Inventor Publisher can easily create visual instructions for assembling, installation, maintenance and repair …

There are many low-priced AutoCAD clones on the market - some have already vanished, some new are coming. All of them are trying the same thing - mimick as much as possible the AutoCAD functionality plus UI, and achieve compatibility with the genuine AutoCAD DWG file format to capture (at least tem…

The popular mobile and web version of AutoCAD - AutoCAD WS - offers in its recent version 1.5 a new function - "Design Feed". With Design Feed you can attach comments and discussion posts directly to individual elements of your drawing and share them with other users. This simplifies com…

Many of the problems you may encounter when running AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max or other Windows applications are caused by improperly installed or damaged instances of an important system component - the "Microsoft .NET Framework". Microsoft has released an automatic tool for fix…

Artoo (probably from the R2-D2) is a useful tool for all of us who work with external GIS data connected (or imported) to AutoCAD Map 3D. Project Artoo is an add-on tool for Map 2013 and it is available as a "technology preview" from Autodesk Labs. For the data connected via FDO, Artoo…

The CAD tips and tricks repository at CADforum.cz offers already 2.266 tips for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and other Autodesk products (plus about 6.000 CAD tips in Czech). CAD Forum offers also other CAD resources avalilable to already more than 281.000 registered users - CAD models and symbols, vi…

CAD Studio as a member of Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) has developed hundreds of plug-ins for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, Civil 3D, Vault and other Autodesk products. Some of these plug-ins are now available also on the Autodesk "appstore" - Autodesk Exchange Apps . As the most part o…

The application Autodesk 123D Catch (formerly "Photofly"), which uses web-cloud technologies to convert a series of photos to a realistic 3D model, now works also on Apple iPad and in web browsers (Google Chrome). So you can control the whole conversion process on your mobile device - f…

Yesterday, Google released its long awaited cloud disk - the web service "Google Drive". Other providers of cloud storage services have quickly refreshed their offerings so you can new e.g. upgrade your storage space to 25 GB in "Microsoft SkyDrive". Besides the storage capa…

" Project Simulus " is a new 3D simulation tool from Autodesk Labs, developed under the codename "Kraken". Project Simulus offers integrated editing functionality thanks to the embedded Inventor Fusion and very intuitive tools for simplification of 3D models for simulation stu…

Autodesk ForceEffect Motion is an interesting extension of the functionality introduced in the recently released mobile application Autodesk ForceEffect . The "Motion" version of Autodesk ForceEffect allows to analyze and simulate moving kinematic mechanisms and mechanical systems. So…

One of the new features in the Autodesk 2013 product family is the enhanced " Autodesk Exchange Apps " store. This online "AppStore" is integrated into AutoCAD 2013 (and most industry versions of AutoCAD), Inventor 2013, Alias 2013, Inventor Publisher 2013, Revit 2013, Simulatio…

Most Autodesk products were (or will be in next couple of days) released in new versions "2013". These new applications emphasise integration, communication and web cloud services, now called "Autodesk 360". Many existing CAD users consider online functions as something unnece…

This year, due to an information leak on the Autodesk Japan web site, news about the new AutoCAD version are spreading earlier than the usual mid-end of March. So what can we expect from the new AutoCAD 2013 ? Here are some of the new features, full disclosure will be available only at the releas…

The new version of the free mobile AutoCAD - AutoCAD WS Mobile 1.4 - brings 3 major enhancements: 3D, GPS support and plotting/ePrint (see the release announcement ). AutoCAD WS Mobile can be used on any mobile phone or tablet with the operating systems Google Android or Apple iOS. This mobile v…

The 3DPlot AutoCAD add-on utility we have released a couple of days ago can be used to "materialize" (print) math expressions describing interesting 3D surfaces. This can be used both for educational purposes and for manufacturing nice pieces of technical art. 3DPlot generates 3D mesh…

Users of the mobile phones and tablets based on the Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems can now download an updated version of the mobile/cloud DWG editor - AutoCAD WS 1.4 . This free application is a DWG/DXF file viewer and editor, connected with the desktop version of AutoCAD 2012 an…

Autodesk has released a new version of its free mobile viewer for 2D and 3D CAD data - Autodesk Design Review Mobile 2.0 . The new version of this fast and easy-to-use viewer is available in multiple languages, including Czech. The language selection is automatic. Autodesk Design Review allows f…