I visited the Autodesk Fusion 360 site today—documenting some changes to Autodesk Building Design Suite—and thought they were winding me up. Fusion 360 is part of the Autodesk 360 family and the page (below) features “3D CAD like never before” with Gus Petrika’s lovely ‘The Hook’ wearable
Another year has flown by and it is 2014. Time to look back at 2013 from a bloggy (not just CAD) perspective: Best Blog Event: For me the event of the year, blog’wise, was the Revit Technology Conference. It was an inspiring mix of education, inspiration, meeting new folks
I saw this question on Twitter from Edwin: @EdwinPrakoso I chose One Note as got "free" with Office & @windowsphone supports — Robin Capper (@robincapper) October 14, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js I’m a OneNote novice, just basic lists and notes, but have used it more since
Glanced at the phone yesterday and thought it was that special day which brings the whole community together, commemorated with the exchange of material goods without payment. Then realised I had forgotten to change the recurring appointment and rubbish day (usually Wednesday) was deferred to today. Merry Christmas & Happy
From Kaikoura to Tibet?
Design and Art
This is off topic for the CAD Blog but if you have any interest in science and/or art you must see: Radiolab Live: Apocalyptical and Amazing - RobiNZ Personal Blog
I’ve heard all their podcasts—so expected the typical Radiolab brilliance—but this video of the Radiolab Live tour is amazing. I heard the audio version on Sunday and just watched the video. If you have any interest in science and/or art you must see this. Robert Krulwich
John’s Background Switcher is one of my favourite Windows Utilities. I found it after stumbling across his post about a search for new small car (which turned out to be a Fiat 500)! It randomly picks images from my Flickr or local machine and creates a new desktop image,
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I couldn’t get to Autodesk University 2013 but won’t miss out entirely thanks to technology; both virtual and real. Autodesk University Online AU Online makes some of the the formal side of AU (Keynotes, Innovation Forums and some classes) available to all from the comfort of your office,
While Design Web Format (DWF) is better for drawings, and models, you sometimes still do need to make PDFs. If you already have the DWF the simplest way to do this is ‘print’ to PDF from the DWF file. Many machines already have PDF writers, installed by other software, but
Reading about the new MINI being larger than its already obese predecessor reminded me of this recent sighting. The Citroën AX was always pretty rare in New Zealand, to see one now even more so. Although the styling is incredibly Euro-drab, especially for a Citroën, the minimalist design is