What if you could create the perfect part unlike anything that exists today? New CAD tools combined with 3D printing can make that happen, makers say. Jean Thilmany, Senior Editor No matter what you call the design method, having the computer generate the designs from am engineer’s directions may just be the future. Unorthodox, 3D […]
AutoCAD 2019 with specialized toolsets released
Autodesk released its 2019 version of AutoCAD. Included in the release are multiple specialized toolsets to help improve design productivity. Subscribers will have access to seven specialized toolsets, more than 750,000 intelligent objects, styles, parts, features, and symbols to choose from when drawing. Designers can automate floor plans; quickly draw piping, plant equipment, or electrical […]
Webinar: Cloud Premium: Cluster Computing Arrives for Autodesk CFD
Following is the transcript from the recent webinar, “Cloud Premium: Cluster Computing Arrives for Autodesk CFD,” presented by James Neville of Autodesk. My name is James Neville and I am a simulation engineering here at Autodesk. I want to welcome everyone here today to our webinar, and thank you all for coming out to learn a […]
The Self-taught design system
Just where will artificial intelligence fit in with CAD software? Here’s a look at where developments stand now, and a preview of what might be coming. Jean Thilmany, Contributing Editor Artificial intelligence has a place in the future of computer-aided design technology, but right now, the role AI will play isn’t clear. That’s the view […]
Changes in CAD—what you need to know
With the March release of Inventor 2018 and AutoCAD 2018, it’s a good time to review several of the recently released major CAD programs. Here’s a look at some of the biggest enhancements and key features of these programs. Jean Thilmany, Contributing Editor CAD packages are updated with the same regularity as other major software […]
Cloud Invent launches Cheetah Solver for AutoCAD
Cheetah Solver for Autodesk AutoCAD is a plugin that replaces the built-in parametric of AutoCAD with the enhanced parametric technology developed by Cloud Invent to enable much more efficient sketching, design modification and motion simulation. Cheetah Solver is a robust and powerful parametric tool that boosts user productivity and lowers engineering costs and errors. Cloud […]
Design for use, lessons in adapting tools to other cultures through CAD
Jean Thilmany, Contributing Editor A functional, well-designed item is a luxury, says Tim Prestero, founder and chief executive officer at Salem, Mass.-based Design That Matters. It’s not that functional items are hard to come by, but in impoverished areas of the world those items may not be designed to fit users’ needs. Medical equipment tends […]
If you draw it, can you print it?
by Jean Thilmany, Contributing Editor 3D printing enables you to reduce part weight, raw material used and cut total energy used in production. But to truly take advantage of 3D printing, engineers need updated, intuitive, easy-to-learn CAD tools. To keep pace with advances in 3D printing, CAD technology must move into the cloud, become easier […]
Autodesk Fusion 360 uses the cloud to facilitate collaboration, add upgrades
by Diane Sofranec, Contributing Editor Your photos, music and movies are stored on the cloud, so why not your CAD designs, too? Autodesk’s Fusion 360 is a cloud-based mechanical CAD solution. Officially released at Autodesk University in 2012, Fusion 360 was launched in 2009 through Autodesk Labs as Inventor Fusion. But it’s not software you […]
What’s New in Inventor 2016
Autodesk introduced the newest version of its desktop 3D CAD product, Autodesk Inventor 2016, which provides a trio of modeling tools: parametric, direct editing and freeform design tools. Inventor 2016 also enables users to associatively connect their Inventor data to non-native CAD formats so their electrical and mechanical data can be integrated into one single […]
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