A few months back, the good folks at 3D Connexion sent me a SpaceMouse Wireless Kit. I’ve been using the kit every day for some time now, and I love it. The kit comes with both a SpaceMouse and a CadMouse. Many years back, I had a full sized SpaceMouse permanently connected to my CAD … More SpaceMouse Wireless Kit Review
And that’s a wrap! 2020 is on the horizon. I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has visited the site in 2019, thank you for your support. I run this site as a hobby, generally putting blog posts together on the weekends, usually early on Saturday mornings with a cup of … More 2019 – A Year in Review
Autodesk University London 2020 call for proposals is open. Submissions close on the 2nd of March 2020. AU London 2020 will be held at London’s Excel on the 23rd and 24th of June 2020. If you would like to submit a class proposal, follow the link below: Propose a Class
If you use AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Fusion360, Vault, or pretty much any of the main stream Autodesk products, you will have at some stage used an Autodesk cloud service. To help understand any planned maintenance or outages, Autodesk have created a “Health Dashboard”, which shows the current status of all cloud services, as well as … More Autodesk Cloud Services Up-time Dashboard
It’s finally here, for those of you who enjoy this site on the go, you can now get to it via the Unofficial App. The new version of the app was uploaded on the 26th of December 2019. Click on the image above to download the “Unofficial Inventor” App for Android. The app is currently only … More Download the Unofficial App
Another successful AU London done and dusted! The 3rd Annual Autodesk University was held at the Tobacco Dock in London this week. If you missed it, you really missed out, but you can see recordings of the live main stage presentations here: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/conference/live-stream the classes will probably go live in a few weeks. I just wanted … More AU London 2019 – Thank You!
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post up for weeks! As you may or may not know, this comping week, I will be presenting my Autodesk University London class. The session is called: School of Rock: Building an Electric Guitar with the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (Code: AULON565) In preparation for the class, I … More My First CAM Project in Fusion 360
It’s just about that time of year again! I’ll be presenting at the 3rd Autodesk University at the Tobacco Dock in London. The event is on the 18th and 19th of June. If you don’t have a ticket yet, hurry, they won’t be available after the middle of this week. This year I decided not … More Let’s Rock at AU London 2019
Anyone who has worked with me, will know that I am not a fan of the IGES file format. Having worked in the Automotive OEM supply chain in the early 2000’s, I have had my fair share of issues with IGES files. Mostly related to geometry that contained missing faces, gaps or faces oriented incorrectly … More 3 Reasons To Stop using IGES Files
Something a little different, how about a heart modelled in Fusion 360 T-Splines! Here’s the workflow: Start with a T-Splines Box Set the Display Mode to Box Display (Alt+1) Add 2 new edges on the top face (insertion side = both) Delete the 2 bottom edges (this gives us a Vee-shape) Move the edge … More Fusion 360: T-Splines Valentines Day Heart
