Autodesk helps you - help yourself…
From the site:
What is Autodesk® Seek?
It is a web service that allows designers - architects, engineers, students - to search and find generic or manufacturer-specific building products or components and associated design content. This content could include 3D models, 2D drawings, specifications, [...]
A magnificent combination…
Get Free CAD Software (Student editions) - Make great designs - Win Prizes…
It’s the Autodesk Student Design Challenge
From the site:
You are the designers of the future. Go build something.
You sketch all over napkins and paper scraps. You think about how you could have designed the latest gadget just a little bit better. You [...]
There has been swirl of information recently in the circles I run in about the concern for those of us that use Riverbed devices for WAN acceleration. The firm I am with has heavily invested in Riverbeds. We use them in all of our offices. Many other firms use them [...]
From a Press Release today…
Revit Architecture 2009 (BIM for architects and designers) allows customers to capture early design concepts with improved analysis and visualization capabilities via:
Increased sustainable design and energy analysis capabilities through easy exchange with partner applications
Improved visualization functionality with the new Mental Ray [...]
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Feb. 12
Autodesk, Inc. is expanding its portfolio of software solutions to support sustainable design in the architecture, engineering & construction (AEC) markets with the acquisition of technology assets of two energy analysis software companies. Autodesk announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Green Building [...]
Continue reading about Autodesk to aquire Green Building Studio and Carmel Software
Wow - are we all getting old - or what? Well maybe it is just me…
AutoCAD is turning 25. And I remember it when it was just a toddler tool (sniffle, sniffle). It has grown up…
And there is a web site to celebrate the milestone…
Here is a blurb they sent me…
“Autodesk [...]
Here is some very interesting news… Autodesk rocks the BIM world again…
Acquisition to Enable Construction, Plant Design and Marine Design Customers to Leverage Building Information Modeling and Digital Prototypes for Increased Productivity and Collaboration
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 31 - Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire NavisWorks, a privately-held [...]
With my tongue firmly placed in my cheek (in other words, I am poking fun here…)
Some interesting notes from my review of trademark policies on the Autodesk website.
Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to use the Autodesk website or transmit or otherwise submit personal information to Autodesk. (Please pass this on to [...]
I was looking through the readme file for AutoCAD 2008 and stumbled onto a list of the trademarks that Autodesk has used and is using.
Some of these are active and some are nostalgic in nature…. I still have an Actrix box on my shelf.
The following are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., in [...]

