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This week on Engineer vs Designer we have a little chat with Matt Sederberg, co-founder of T-Splines, recently acquired by Autodesk. Matt dishes the goods on how T-Splines came about and takes evasive maneuvers when we pry on the future of T-Splines.
The organic lining of the universe, my eyelids and the inside of my colon is quivering quite vigerously at the moment. Early this morning, T-Splines announced that it has been acquired by Autodesk. T-Splines is creator of organic surfacing plugins for SolidWorks and Rhino. Here are the details we know.
If you’re a Mac user and love to toddle around lines and splines in AutoCAD, you’ll be freezing and unfreezing your layers in frantic excitement today. AutoCAD for Mac is back. You’ve likely felt the screen-shifting vibrations from the Autodesk marketing machine over the past two weeks. All to build up for the reveal over the facewaves of their Facebook facecast. That’s a lot of face. Let’s see what Autodesk is dishin’ out.
If you’ve run out of excuses to slop sour cream on your iPad screen with frantic glee while modeling in sweet 3D, that’s all about to change. Today, as a supplement to their free 3D modeling program, 123D. Autodesk has introduce Autodesk 123D Sculpt for the iPad. They’re spreadin’ the 3D bulgin’ love all over Vancouver where they are showing it off at SIGGRAPH 2011 and they already have it up in the iTunes apps store, ready for you to download and poke around in. Here’s a short video of the awesome capabilities and a breakdown of the features.
Yesterday, Autodesk gained the upper hand in the CAD industry by now being able to say, “Here’s how to bake a helicopter cake and a paper catapult with which to launch it into the air.” Autodesk has acquired DIY project site and passionate user community Instructables in an all out effort to seal their takeover of sites bringing food and engineering together, while at the same time extending the reach of their creative tool suite of software products and third-party service. Check it.
We just can’t resist the extremely riveting acquisition news of late. First 3D Systems acquires Alibre. Now, the announcement of Autodesk acquiring flash-based, online photo editor Pixlr. They offer photo editing tools Pixlr Editor and Pixlr Express, screengrabbing tool Pixlr Grabber, a slick “post process” darkroom Pixlr-o-matic and one-click photo sharing with imm.io. I think you’d agree that it lines up with their cloud computing mobile efforts quite well, but there’s another editor in Autodesk’s arsenal which could see some Pixlr pounding action.
You may have guessed it would happen. You may have seen a small group of children exiting a school yard in a zombie-like state chanting, “FEED US, FEED US EASY TO USE 3D SOFTWARE.” No doubt to create and manufacture some killer Barbie/Truck mods. Same for the maker crowd. Is there any 3D software created specifically around the idea of DIY? Easy enough for anyone to use, create and send off to make? I, as would many others, say, NO… not until now.
Autodesk is launching a new modeling program into the maker-sphere. A free program, an easy program focused directly on getting that idea out of the digital space and into the living space. It’s Autodesk 123D and it’s the first time we’ve seen a 3D software company officially team up with DIY fab friends, Ponoko and Techshop. Here’s what to look forward to.
Sometimes when the sun is shining and there’s a light, misty acid in that air… you run screaming, jump into a barrel with your friends and push yourselves down a hill to escape the skin melt. Inevitably, the conversation in the barrel turns to the edgy discussion of Direct vs. Parametric modeling. For good reason too. It’s just the topic to get your mind off acid burn.
Such a discussion occurred today. Picture if you will, a webcast where the best and brightest of the CAD World gather together to discuss the age-old topic of Direct vs. Parametric modeling. In attendance, one 3D modeling software user and five 3D modeling software vendors. Certainly a lack of users. So now, it’s your turn. Direct or Parametric?
Today, Autodesk did two things. They released a new iPad app called Tinkerbox and increased the smile coefficient you have with your child as you heap the joys of physical simulation upon them level by platform-stacking level. That is if you have an iPad. If you have an Android tablet, send Autodesk a napkin soaked with the tears of your child. Flip it!
In the future, your entire photo collection will be on your mobile device. That is, if it’s not already. But that’s only the beginning. First, you’ll make people giddy with delight as you show them photos of yourself in comical situations, then they will gasp in abject horror as you hold them down, turn off the lights and scan their screaming face.
It’s madcap, photo scanning fun and PhloSoft is the first to make it happen with the Trimensional app on the iPhone. This is big news, because Autodesk is after the same technology with their Photofly photo scene editor product. Who will be the first to bring it into your models? Check this out and cast your vote…
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