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Inexpensive SLS 3D Printing Just Got a Bit Easier

Autodesk and Sinterit announced Netfabb support for the startup company’s inexpensive SLS 3D printer, opening a window for increased access to the powerful 3D printing process.

Making Threaded Parts for 3D Printing: Easier Than You Think

Budget-Conscious makers have been challenged to develop threaded holes and bolts for their designs, but that problem seems to be going away.

Not a Surprise: Autodesk Drops Ember

Why has Autodesk abruptly ceased manufacturing their open source resin 3D printer, the Ember?

Autodesk’s Roadmap for Fusion 360

Fusion 360 is Autodesk’s flagship product for 3D CAD in the market. But where is it going? Let’s find out.

Why is Autodesk Meshmixer Still Alive?

I’ve noticed a reason why Autodesk’s free Meshmixer tool might still be supported.

Autodesk’s Hobbyist Strategy is Now Clear

With the demise of many of Autodesk’s free 3D offerings, it seems they have been following an ingenious strategy all along.

3 Features That Make Fusion 360 a Powerful Engineering Tool

I know, I know. I sealed off simulation with the 5 reasons I would use Simulation in Fusion 360 months ago.

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass Steps Down, Spending More Time With His Robots

This is right out of the blue. As of today, Carl Bass is no longer CEO of Autodesk.

Titan Robotics’ Multi-Headed Escher

Titan Robotics has constructed one of the most unusual 3D printers I’ve yet seen.

Autodesk Consolidates The 123D Suite

For several years Autodesk has supported the 3D modeling and 3D printing community through their highly useful 123D suite. Now, that may change.

Autodesk’s PrintOne Enables Safe Generation of 3D Printed Musical Instruments

Designing a musical instrument just got a lot simpler thanks to an experiment by Autodesk.

5 New, Must See Features Coming to Fusion 360

If you want to find out what Autodesk is up too, Autodesk University is the place to be each year.

This Insane Wood Chair Was Created Using Generative Design

While plenty of exciting developments are happening in the product design space, few are as revolutionary as advancements in generative design.

Variable Layer Slicing for The Ember 3D Printer: Good Idea or Not?

Autodesk has introduced something called “VariSlice” for their Ember desktop 3D printers.

And Where Did Netfabb Basic Go?

After our story regarding Netfabb’s new release last week, an anonymous reader pointed out that Netfabb’s “Basic” version appears to be missing.

Autodesk Releases Upgraded NetFabb

Autodesk released Autodesk Netfabb 2017, which includes numerous improvements.

Autodesk Announces Gift of $25,000 in Product Design Software for Every Fab Lab

When it comes to equipping tomorrow’s designers and engineers with the tools they need to create compelling projects today, few companies have been as generous in offering access to software, tools and even fabrication facilities as Autodesk has.

Free 3D Software for the New School Year

It’s that time of year for many students about to enter another year of learning, hopefully many in 3D. Fortunately, there are many ways to access free 3D software.

Autodesk Announces Design Graph, Punches Shape Search in Solar Plexus

You know when you cried into that bucket of bolts because you couldn’t find the matching hardware? Those were sad, rough times.

Hands On With Autodesk’s Sculpt+

I’ve finally had a chance to check out Autodesk’s tablet-based Sculpt+ 3D creation app.

6 Steps to Understanding Integrated CAM in Fusion 360 (and Why It Matters)

The O’Jays. Remember those guys? Probably not, but I guarantee you’ve heard their most popular song, For the Love of Money.

Autodesk Remakes Autodesk Memento Into Autodesk ReMake

Autodesk continues shuffling their 3D products around, with the popular Memento system being renamed as “ReMake”.

5 Ways Fusion 360 Improves Team Collaboration

Well, well, well. We have quite a cocktail coming together here. We’ve poured in some Fusion 360 part modeling and assembly features, and squeezed in a little simulation.

RetroFab: 3D Printed Parasitic Interfaces For Ancient Appliances

A bizarre project from Autodesk Labs investigates whether one can generate new physical interfaces for old appliances: They Can!

Can You Use ReCap 360 On An iPad? Yes You Can!

Well, sort of. Autodesk has announced a technology preview of ReCap 360 Mobile that qualified persons can join.

3D Printer Goes into Beast Mode

Origin Laboratories promised to go into beast mode. They sold the idea that they could guarantee the authenticity of a line of Beast Mode footwear with an electronic tag, but now they had to produce it.

Autodesk’s Project Escher Attempts To Combine 3D Printing With Other Manufacturing Processes

This could be a very big deal: Autodesk has taken up the challenge of opening up 3D printing to a much wider audience with Project Escher.

Speeding Up Any Resin 3D Printer With Autodesk’s Ember Tuning

Autodesk has found a method to dramatically speed up certain types of 3D prints on their Ember resin-based 3D printer – and these adjustments might work on other resin 3D printers, too.

Does Autodesk’s Recent Layoffs Portend Problems For 3D Printing?

3D software giant Autodesk suddenly announced layoffs for approximately 10% of their staff. Does this imply there’s troubles ahead for 3D printing?

If You Can Image It, You Can 3D Scan It

The ability to create detailed 3D scans of practically anything is in everyone’s hands and most people don’t realize it.

Apollo 11 Coming Soon To Your 3D Printer?

A team from The Smithsonian and Autodesk are performing an intricate 3D scan of the actual Apollo 11 capsule.

Autodesk Memento Now Available for OS X

If you haven’t tried Autodesk Memento for optical 3D processing, you might want to, especially now that it’s available for both Windows and OS X.

Autodesk’s Ember Becomes A Much More Colorful 3D Printer

Autodesk announced the development of colored resins for use in their Ember 3D printer reference platform.

Design of the Week: Caress of the Gaze

This week’s selection is the astonishing “Caress of the Gaze” by artist Behnaz Farahi.

123D Design Upgraded to 1.7 And Adds Some Very Useful Features

The free 123D suite of apps from Autodesk just got a lot better with the release of 123D Design 1.7.

Autodesk Acquires netfabb!

3D software giant Autodesk signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire netfabb, a well-known producer of 3D model and printing software.

Want an Ember 3D Printer? Now You Can Build One Yourself!

Autodesk has released the firmware and electronics for their high resolution resin 3D printer, the Ember.

Another MeshMixer Update For You To Download

Autodesk has released another update to their increasingly useful (and free) MeshMixer 3D utility.

Voxel8 Raises USD$12M For Their Electrically Conductive 3D Printer Technology

Startup company Voxel8 announced they’ve raised a massive USD$12M in a series A funding round.

A Glimpse at Autodesk’s Robotics Lab of the Future

A recent piece by FastCompany details the new direction that software giant Autodesk is moving at their Applied Research Lab at Pier 9 in San Francisco.

Autodesk’s “Within” Could Generate Industrial Change

Autodesk introduced a new product called, “Within” that generates lattice structures within 3D models. It could change everything.

Autodesk Files Patent For Unusual 3D Printing Materials System

US Patent Application 20150093465 recently filed by Autodesk describes a very strange 3D printing approach.

Battle of the 3D CAD Systems

Autodesk jiggered the features on their subscription CAD service, Fusion 360. Why did they do so?

Meshmixer Version 2.9 Released

Autodesk Meshmixer is one of my favourite apps for 3D printing.

3MF Consortium Hopes to Standardize 3D Print Formats

Several key 3D print-related companies announced a new consortium focused on promoting a new, more powerful 3D model file format: 3MF.

A Review of Autodesk’s Tinkerplay

Autodesk have been making a big push into the 3D printing software space, mostly with free software like the fantastic Meshmixer.

Autodesk Invests $10 Million Dollars in Carbon 3D

Autodesk, Inc. announced an investment of $10 million in Carbon3D from the Spark Investment Fund.

Autodesk’s Ember 3D Printer Now On Sale

The Spark initiative by Autodesk has finally released their first 3D printer for public sale, the Ember.

A Profound MeshMixer Update

MeshMixer 2.8 has been released and it fills a very significant gap in the 123D suite of 3D applications.

See Autodesk’s Ember 3D Printer In Action

A video of Autodesk’s new high-resolution 3D printer has been released.

Rejoice! 123D Catch Now Available on Android

Autodesks’s 123D Catch 3D scanning app, perhaps the most popular 3D scanner around, is now available on Android devices.

Autodesk and Local Motors Collaborate on First Spark 3D Platform Implementation

Earlier this year, Autodesk announced plans to introduce Spark, a new open platform for 3D printing, aimed at making it simpler and more reliable to print 3D models and easier to control how that model is printed.

Autodesk’s Fusion 360 Can Be Yours

Looking for a more powerful 3D modeling tool to design things to print? Look no further than Autodesk’s Fusion 360, which can be your at no charge.

Autodesk’s Spark Initiative

Autodesk announced a new initiative they call “Spark”. It’s an “open 3D printing platform” that could change many things in 3D printing.

Some Pretty Big Updates from 123D

Autodesk has delivered some pretty substantial updates to their 123D suite of 3D modeling tools.

Meshmixer Updates With Cool New Features

If you aren’t yet using Autodesk’s free 3D model manipulation software Meshmixer, you should be. Two new features were announced that we think are pretty cool.

Project Shapeshifter Improves

Autodesk’s 123D initiative’s subproject, Project Shapeshifter, recently received a very exciting upgrade.

Project Shapeshifter: How To Torture Objects

Autodesk certainly has delivered very interesting free 3D software available recently – and another that might join the suite might be “Project Shapeshifter”. It’s a web-based service that can be used to develop 3D models. The service is terribly easy to use: start with a template and simply shift the sliders (as seen in… Continue reading Project Shapeshifter: How To Torture Objects

123D Offers More 3D Content

One of the best introductory 3D toolsets you can use is Autodesk’s 123D Suite, particularly the 123D Design tool. But when you’re designing something, it’s often very helpful to begin your design with an existing model that you can modify. 123D does this by providing a library of thousands of starter models you can… Continue reading 123D Offers More 3D Content

Meshmixer Joins 123D

Autodesk announced that Meshmixer, a tool for easily manipulating 3D meshes, has been added to their 123D suite of 3D modeling applications. Meshmixer has been around for quite a while and is frequently used by hobbyists and others to fix and mix 3D models. It provides an easy ability to combine multiple meshes to… Continue reading Meshmixer Joins 123D

A Raspberry Pi 3D Print Challenge

Are you a designer looking for a challenge? The team of Raspberry Pi, Autodesk 123D and i.Materialise have opened up a contest to produce the most “original and fun” case for a Raspberry Pi in polyamide material. If you don’t know, a Raspberry Pi is an integrated single board microcomputer suitable for embedding into… Continue reading A Raspberry Pi 3D Print Challenge

123D Design Gets Better

For those of you using Autodesk’s free 3D modeling utility, 123D Design, there is very good news: a new version has been released. The new version includes some very key features that were lacking until now: The ability to import existing STL files, critical for handling 3D scans captured elsewhere Text! You can… Continue reading 123D Design Gets Better

Autodesk’s 3D Print Utility

Autodesk has released yet another 3D print-friendly free tool, the 3D Print Utility. Autodesk has been punching out many different free 3D tools in the past few years, but this one is perhaps closest to 3D printing. What does the 3D Printing Utility do? It accepts an STL format 3D model and then offers… Continue reading Autodesk’s 3D Print Utility

3D Model Captured With Google Glass

Google Glass is a set of glasses that include processing, networking and sensory elements. It’s an experimental platform upon which developers many now invent new kinds of applications. One such experiment is Todd Blatt’s 3D scanning project. The glasses themselves do not have the processing capability to generate a 3D model, nor do the… Continue reading 3D Model Captured With Google Glass

BioHacking Leads to 3D BioPrinting?

A report on TechCrunch describes the work of two bio companies, Genome Compiler and Cambrian Genomics. They are developing hardware and software to design and print (the DNA) of new life forms. The idea is to provide software (that’s Genome Compiler’s part) that allows a designer to combine different gene sequences together into a… Continue reading BioHacking Leads to 3D BioPrinting?

MakerBot – Autodesk Discount Available

If you happen to be interested in purchasing a MakerBot Replicator 2 personal 3D printer and a premium membership in Autodesk’s highly useful 123D apps, you’re in luck: there’s a discount available. If you upgrade from the free version of 123D to premium level, you’ll receive a USD$40 discount on purchase of a MakerBot… Continue reading MakerBot – Autodesk Discount Available

123D Offers Premium Memberships

We’ve seen Autodesk offer several incredibly (and totally free) useful web-based 3D tools, such as 123D Make, Catch and Design. Free tools are always welcome in a space where professional tools can cost many thousands of dollars. But you gotta wonder how Autodesk hopes to recover their investment in the 123D suite. How will… Continue reading 123D Offers Premium Memberships

Surprise! 123D Design Updated

We were very pleasantly surprised to see an update arrive yesterday for our copy of 123D Design, the free 3D design tool from Autodesk. What’s got us so excited? It can now export STL. The previous version of 123D Design permitted saves only in its own proprietary format, with a possible intent of… Continue reading Surprise! 123D Design Updated

3D Worms Infect The Net!

Do you use AutoCAD? If so you might be a victim of one of the most unusual cases of 3D theft we’ve seen yet. It seems that certain AutoCAD templates have been infected with malware that does something blatantly nefarious: it sends your AutoCAD drawings to email addresses in China! What a highly efficient… Continue reading 3D Worms Infect The Net!

Free Autodesk Inventor Fusion for OSX and Windows

Have no money and need fancy 3D modeling software? If that’s your situation, you’re in luck: Autodesk is now offering a free preview of their Inventor Fusion 3D modeling software. Inventor Fusion is Autodesk’s tool that unites both parametric and direct modeling approaches, hence its name, “Fusion”. The new version incorporates some very cool… Continue reading Free Autodesk Inventor Fusion for OSX and Windows

Autodesk’s Two New Things: Catch & Make

With the success of their first web-based design tool, 123D, Autodesk has launched (at least for preview) two new apps, Catch and Make. They’re both quite different, but readers will find them both useful. Make is a 3D slicer that converts a 3D model into layers suitable for manual assembly. This is probably best… Continue reading Autodesk’s Two New Things: Catch & Make

Free 123D T-Shirts!

Autodesk is running a promotion to raise interest in their new web-based 3D modeling tool, 123D, which we’ve written about before. You don’t get a t-shirt for nothing, though. You have to make an image of your original 3D Jack-o-lantern design and share it within their online gallery. This could be easier than you… Continue reading Free 123D T-Shirts!

Autodesk Acquires Instructables

3D software giant Autodesk, makers of Maya, Revit, 3DS Max and AutoCAD announced they’ve acquired Instructables. Instructables provides do-it-yourself instructions for a wide variety of projects, some of which involve 3D printing. Instructables chief Eric J. Wilhelm says: Autodesk gives us the scale and support to grow and improve Instructables, build some great apps, and… Continue reading Autodesk Acquires Instructables

Wujec on 3D Printing

Tom Wujec, Fellow at AutoDesk, spoke at the Thinking Digital event earlier this year. In a video of his fascinating talk, Tom speaks of the nature of emerging technologies, specifically tech evolution and tech possibilities. He describes a special moment in the evolution of technology where the previously “impossible”, suddenly becomes possible. This is… Continue reading Wujec on 3D Printing

Mudding with Autodesk

We’re always looking for ways to simplify the process of personal manufacturing, and Autodesk is pioneering a technology that we think might be able to break down some of the barriers. According to a great blog post at Robinz CAD Blog, we’re seeing the results of Autodesk’s 2007 acquisition of SkyMatter, as Autodesk recently… Continue reading Mudding with Autodesk