Posts

CAD Studio's tools for Christmas
Get CAD applications given out again by CAD Studio as a traditional Christmas present - this year for the eleventh time already. Presents are available especially for AutoCAD users. Find address of a place on a map, find the shortest path connecting points, publish point coordinates to OpenOffice…

Please touch the museum artifacts
The american Smithonian Institute now offers 3D scans of museum specimens in a form of an interactive software application X 3D developed by Autodesk. Precious artifacts are no longer separated from visitors and researches with security glass - on the contrary - visitors are encouraged to "t…

AutoCAD 2014 for Mac - new apple-flavoured AutoCAD
Several months after the Windows version, Autodesk releases a new version of AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD LT 2014 for Mac. The delay was caused mainly by aligning the release with the newly supported Apple operating system OS X Maverick, as well as by technological modifications for the future, includ…

AutoCAD 2015 will not support Windows XP
Autodesk announced that AutoCAD 2014 (and the whole AutoCAD 2014 product family) is the last release officially supported in Windows XP. Microsoft itself will end Windows XP support already on 8th April 2014. So if you plan to stay on the WinXP platform for any reason, make sure you upgrade your CA…

Hedgehog in the Cage - winners of the 3D contest
CAD Studio has organized a designer contest "Hedgehog in the Cage" in cooperation with the CAXMIX magazine and with 3D-tisk.cz . "Hedgehog in the Cage" (in Czech "Ježek v kleci") is the most popular mechanical puzzle in the Czech Republic, featured in adventure stori…

Inventor on an iPad? Simply - with Autodesk Remote.
This summer, Autodesk introduced an interesting application for remote access to desktop CAD software - Autodesk Remote . This application was available only in North America but now it is released worldwide. Autodesk Remote (former "Project Blink") is one of the benefits for Subscript…

Autodesk FormIt - conceptual BIM editor now also for Android
Free mobile application Autodesk FormIt helps to capture building design concepts and ideas - anytime, anywhere. FormIt is now available not only for Apple iPad but also for Android tablets. You can build your conceptual 3D models on top of real-world site information. Establish a continuous Bu…

Autodesk ForceEffect Flow - your mobile wind tunnel
The newest member of the family of Autodesk mobile apps is the simulation tool "Autodesk ForceEffect Flow". Right on your iPad, you can perform 2D analysis of aerodynamic flow around a conceptual prototype described by its outline. You can get this outline from an existing CAD design, fr…

The longest AutoCAD command name
Thanks to a comment by CAD-a-Blog on Facebook, we have rerun the query for the AutoCAD command with the longest name (from the AutoCAD command database on CADforum.cz/commands ). As you probably know, the previous leader was the "CUSTOMERINVOLVEMENTPROGRAM" command. This is no longer true…

WebGL Export-Publisher - from Revit straight to the web
The Autodesk "appstore" site Exchange Apps offers an interesting add-on for Revit, which allows to easily export Revit 3D models into interactive 3D graphics for display in web browsers. You can simply present your 3D projects directly on your website. This method is an alternative to th…

New cloud apps - Autodesk Configurator 360, Mockup 360 and Sim 360
Autodesk introduced a trio of new "Autodesk 360" cloud CAD applications. Shortly after the recent launch of the cloud-based 3D CAD software Autodesk Fusion 360 , this family of new generation advanced design tools for design and manufacturing grows again. Autodesk Configurator 360 Th…

Autodesk Fusion 360 - desktop 3D CAD fuses with web-cloud
Autodesk 360 cloud services are being added and updated almost every week. But this new member of the Autodesk's cloud family is unique - it literally changes the CAD industry. Autodesk Fusion 360 is the first full-featured cloud CAD tool which offers a broad set of 3D functions, professional s…

AutoCAD WS grows and graduates to AutoCAD 360
AutoCAD cloud version - AutoCAD WS - is one of the most successful free applications by Autodesk. Since its launch two years ago it was downloaded already by 12 million users. An enhanced version of this software now becomes part of the "Autodesk 360" cloud family and its name is changed…

Ready to print with Autodesk 3D Print Utility
"Ready to print" is the most characteristic message of the new free tool from the "maker" application family Autodesk 123D - Autodesk 3D Print Utility . This utility allows to read 3D models in the STL and OBJ formats and perform final pre-flight checks and adjustments before …

New cloud service Autodesk ReCap Photo
Those who have tried the application Autodesk 123D Catch, formerly known as Photofly, will get it quickly. The new cloud tool "ReCap Photo", now included in the standard function set of the "Autodesk 360" cloud, uses similar technology. ReCap Photo can convert a series of photos…

Autodesk Exchange Apps in localized versions
Many users of Autodesk products add plug-in modules and utilities to their CAD software. These tools help to automate repeated wokflows and enhance the original software application with additional functionality. The Autodesk "appstore" is a rich source of such add-on applications -- &qu…

My name is Design Suite. Autodesk Product Design Suite 2014.
The recently released design suite for digital prototyping - "Autodesk Product Design Suite 2014" - based on Autodesk Inventor, contains tools for part design, surfacing, parametric 3D parts and assemblies, electrical design, drawing documentation, photorealistic visualization and animati…

Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 - first impressions
Today, Autodesk has released the new version of its flagship product - " Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 " (note the newly extended name), together with other new products of the large "2014" family. The product graphics reflects the new Autodesk visual identity, with the new blue-green …

World polygon maps - countries and continents
The Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU) of the U.S. Department of State publishes and updates vector data of international boundaries, coastlines and islands, including their sovereignty. This data is called "Large Scale International Boundaries" ( LSIB ). The latest March 2013 update …

Autodesk Project Pinocchio - wood carver in the cloud
Demanding, power hungry 3D applications can easily move to mobile devices and plain PCs today, thanks to web cloud. The proof is also in the newest multimedia application by Autodesk - Project Pinocchio. On the web site projectpinocchio.autodesk.com you can use your internet browser for detailed c…

As time goes by the Autodesk logo
With the recently unveiled new face of the Autodesk logo and brand, we searched the depths of our archives and reminisce nostalgically about the older shapes of this logo, as it accompanied us through the common history with CAD Studio. In the very beginnings of CAD Studio and its ccoperation wit…