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Autodesk Fusion 360 with online collaboration
The newest version of Autodesk Fusion 360, a cloud-based 3D modeler, offers extended tools for online collaboration of design teams. The application dashboard gives an easy to use overview of the latest changes in your models and in projects you are participating in. A similar dashboard is accessi…

Icosidodecahedron and other 3D folded paper models from 123D Make
Autodesk 123D Make is a free maker application which can process 3D models and allow to make them real using stacked cardboard slices. This web application now offers also a second producing method for your 3D models - folded paper panels. Load any mesh model (STL or OBJ file), set the "fol…

Acquisition of Circuits.io and libraries for Intel Edison
In September 2013, Autodesk started cooperation with Circuits.io and integrated this cloud app with its own tools of the Autodesk 123D family. Autodesk now performed a complete acquisition of the technology and development team of Circuits.io incorporating this design tool to its portfolio of ap…

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…