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Would you like to win a airborne UAV or a underwater OpenROV submersible robot to go exploring with? You have the chance to with a recent Explore Science contest being held by Instructables and...

The invention of flight by man was one of this biggest changes to the last century as it changed the time people and goods took to get to distant places. Airliners have become indispensible in...

The past two days almost a thousand have attended the REAL 2015 event here in San Francisco California at the historic Fort Mason. The conference covered everything dealing with Capture Compute and...

AutoCAD comes with several attributed blocks in various shapes, but they are sort of hidden. If you create or edit an MLEADER style, you can see these blocks. Of course if you need blocks like this...

The Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing was really just a test plot drawing was originally created by someone to test pen plotters back in 1972. This drawing has gone crazy viral ending up in online...

In 30 some odd years Autodesk has had literally hundreds of products, and currently just over 100 active products. In those years we have seen many a creative name for a product. So for some fun,...

The very first bound AutoCAD Manual and Command Reference.* More...

To my friends and colleagues in China: Gong Hey Fat Choy! 恭禧發財 It is now the Year of the Goat! I seen remnants of firecrackers in San Francisco Chinatown during my morning run. I do...

With so many projects and so many different drawings - it can be difficult to keep track of the various drawing directories. Whether you want AutoCAD to always display the file directory in the...

We all want to get more done in less time so that we can go home early, Sorry - so that we can concentrate on value added tasks, such as Designing or Engineering ;) The trouble is, experimenting...

The Wave - Sandstone Lines, a unique story told by nature. I know of only one other thing in my life with as much red beauty, style and grace. A photo posted by Shaan Hurley (@shaanhurley)...

I love love love this free utility to modify, repair, and and work with 3D scanned data and even create 3D models from photos and a new bug release has been posted. Go check out Scott's blog post on...

Suppose that you want to rename some text labels. For example, you have some part numbers that start with G- and now you want them to start with J- or you want to change every instance of “box” to...

It may be Friday the 13th today but its only superstition and for those paranoid there is another Friday the 13th in March, In any case tomorrow is February 14th Valentines Day for most. For those...

Ever wanted to know the differences between AutoCAD, *AutoCAD LT, and the AutoCAD Design Suite? Or maybe the differences between AutoCAD for Windows and AutoCAD for Mac OS? *Check out the links...

Here is a great list of recently published AutoCAD solutions by some AutoCAD Team Members: Date Article Author ...

Let’s start off the week with a little fun. *Are you super jazzed up about your CAD related occupation? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Let’s find some more out there? Do you...

Here is a menu macro that will open Windows Explorer to the directory of the current drawing in AutoCAD. ^C^C(startapp "explorer" (strcat "/e, "(getvar "dwgprefix"))); Create a new command in the...

While not everyone was able to attend the creative art show at our amazing Autodesk Pier 9 office and workshop I am providing details on the packed and much talked about event. The Autodesk Artist in...

On this Throwback Thursday I give you Autodesk's 3D Studio R1 for DOS from 1990. 3D Studio was the predecessor to the very popular Autodesk 3ds Max. This is from back when when 3D was for more...

Current scientific evidence indicates the dinosaurs as we know them are all gone, but they left fossilized bones, tracks, and other traces behind telling the story. Last week I was working on a...

For those of you who watched the Super Bowl...why did Wilson throw the ball instead of handing it over to Lynch? How embarrassing (and my dog will never get over it) And speaking of not being totally...