In the Machine

KETIV AMA | 2009 Event in California

If you live in Northern or Southern California, KETIV is hosting a Manufacturing Academy.

The Academy provides local access to world-class information that are taught by pros—the engineers, designers, and support people who do this every day. They'll share their years of experience on what works and what doesn't.

For more information, check out their website.

http://ama.ketivtech.com/

Another use for a Wiimote

For those of you that have been lucky enough to find a Nintendo Wii and wonder what else you can use that Wiimote for - now you can use it to navigate your 3D models around on your PC. The folks over at labs.autodesk.com have recently posted a way to connect the Wiimote to Design Review. If you don't have a Wii and would like to try this out,  you can still purchase a Wiimote for about $40 since that is all you need (it works through Bluetooth).

If you are interested on how this can be done today head on over to the labs site and check it out. I also ran across a video that has already been posted of somebody doing this if you would like to see it in action.

Enjoy

Garin

a.k.a. Xbox gamer tag AntimatterBomb

 

 

Running of the horse

Without knowing you have probably seen this mechanical horse in several Hollywood productions. The most recent was in  Super Bowl XXII where Shaquille O’Neal is a jockey in a horse race, ultimately winning by “his own” nose.

The horse was initially designed for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and has had an appearance in other Hollywood titles.

Datum3 had to design and ship a lifelike mechanical horse in 21 days and needed to be as creative as possible to pull off the deign. Datum3 created a digital prototype of the horse using Inventor then manufactured and assembled it in just seven days.

Take a look at the Datum3 website for more information and other interesting projects they have been involved in.

 

Summer Camp with Inventor

You've got to start young to be a techno-wizard in the 21st century. Read how youngsters in Michigan are using Dynamic Designer and Inventor  at a Virtual Simulation Summer Camp.

-Amy

UL Certification Survey

We are doing some basic research on UL (Underwriters Laboratories) certification and how important it is to our customers.

Autodesk would like your input on certification of your products. Please take the time to answer our brief (7 question) survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=63265475952.

Your answers may help define future Autodesk solutions.


Thanks!

Amy