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Project Geppetto - very alive pinocchios in 3ds Max
An interesting technology for 3ds Max was introduced on the Autodesk Labs website. Project Geppetto (after the carver who created the Pinocchio) is a generator of highly realistic walking characters and crowd scenes for animations in 3ds Max. The definition of pedestrian positions, movement res…

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AutoCAD 2012 Language Packs for Design Suites
Users of Autodesk Design Suites in non-English speaking countries can now localize the AutoCAD part of their suites. While AutoCAD is available in 14 different languages (localizations), the Autodesk Design Suite packages have only limited set of localizations (at least in the version 2012). The …

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Does it have a command line? It must be AutoCAD!
A couple of days ago, Autodesk has released a new AutoCAD WS for Mac and updated its mobile versions for iOS and Android. Today, they have released also an updated version of AutoCAD WS for web browsers, i.e. on the former platform of this free "online" AutoCAD. Similarly to the previou…

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Three new AutoCADs for Mac - and AutoCAD WS 1.3
Like three magic nuts in fairy-tales, Autodesk brings three magic apples to its AutoCAD family of products. In a massively promoted " DESIGN816 " event Autodesk has today announced three new AutoCAD versions for Mac - from a full desktop version to a free lightweight WS version. Besi…

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AutoCAD fan? Something new is coming 8.16.
Autodesk will present an interesting announcement on Aug 16th 17:00 GMT. If you are an AutoCAD fan, don't miss it. You can watch the "DESIGN816" event live via LiveStream:

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When Autodesk goes shopping
Like all big IT corporations, also Autodesk acquires new technologies not only through its own research and development but also through acquisition of technologies or whole companies from all over the world. These acquisition activities by Autodesk are especially intensive in the last 10 years, wh…

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Make 3D, Show 3D
Two recent Autodesk applications help creating 3D objects and displaying them interactively in 3D - also on mobile devices. Both are free. The first one is Autodesk Project Photofly - described earlier on this blog. Photofly magically converts a series of photos to a 3D model. Autodesk names th…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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 …

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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 …

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