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Join us on a journey through 30 years of AutoCAD history
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…

CAD Studio gives out CAD tools for Christmas
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…

Autodesk Project Falcon - wind tunnel in Inventor 2013
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…

Autodesk Fusion 360 - full 3D CAD in the cloud
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…

Autodesk FormIt - free BIM modeler for iPad
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 in biology - Project Sci-Viz
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…

Autodesk 123D Design - 3D modeling for everyone
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…

3 new Autodesk specializations for CAD Studio
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 …

Autodesk Exchange reaches 100,000 downloads
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…

Guilloche and parametric math curves in AutoCAD
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…

Winners of the CAXMIX contest - balloon flight
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.…

It's an acquisition season for Autodesk
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…