In my view, there are three main things that we can do to make manufacturing cool again. In a technology-drive world, I think coupling technology and education in a fun environment will be critical to reconnecting youth to manufacturing.
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Studica, Inc., the education focused, value-added reseller of software and learning tools, is excited to announce that it is now a reseller for design3, a premier game development and 3D animation training portal. Studica now offers design3 student memberships worldwide.
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Digital Prototyping brings together design data from all phases of the product development process into a single digital model in Inventor. This model can then be manipulated in many ways to test certain aspects of the model that would normally be handled with a physical prototype. Things such as stress analysis can be handled in Inventor. Or, you can bring your prototype into a Revit model to see how it will fit into a factory setting.
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Autodesk has announced the second release of AutoCAD for the Mac. AutoCAD 2012 is designed to natively support the new OSX 10.7 Lion from Apple. In addition to the robust feature set from last year’s 2011 product, Autodesk has added several new enhancements. AutoCAD 2012 offers new features to improve usability, documentation, design, communication, and licensing. Major new attributes include … Read More
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Autodesk recently created a new curriculum for teachers and students called the Digital STEAM Workshop. The Digital STEAM workshop is a highly visual curriculum that delivers an engaging project-based learning experience for students while enabling teachers to focus on teaching rather than software expertise.
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Certiport has just announced a great promotion for our education community of teachers and instructors in North America. You can now request free practice tests and exam vouchers for a limited time only. Certification tests and exams are available for Autodesk AutoCAD Certified User and Inventor Certified User, as well as Adobe Certified Associate and Microsoft Office Specialist, among others.
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Autodesk created something called Project Neon a little while back. Project Neon is a cloud-based rendering service Autodesk is testing out. Basically, Neon is a plugin that you install into AutoCAD or Revit 2012 and you can use it within the program to send a drawing or a view up to Autodesk servers and have it rendered
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Autodesk Labs is the place to visit to see innovative new Autodesk technologies while they’re still in an early conceptual stage. Products and technologies are developed that are relevant to customers designing in architecture, manufacturing, civil engineering, movies, games or other industries.
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Students from across the province gathered in Waterloo Ontario this week to promote, practice, and celebrate the technological trades available for students in today’s industries.
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Autodesk now offers software certification for secondary schools! Students no longer have to take the same exam as industry professionals. AutoCAD and Inventor (Revit Architecture coming SOON) exams are based on a series of tasks and objectives that are common to all releases.
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