Autodesk photos on Flickr

Autocad allows to use of lines, polygons, shapes, text, and other visual items to create scale-model blueprints of whatever structure happen to be designed. This is incredibly important in the process of building, as someone well-versed in the workings of Autocad can provide a blueprint accurate down to the millimeter.

Autodesk Autocad by raccoonpaw

To watch me watch drowned snow lift from the lake.

From point to point of meaningopen? closed?What can we know of whatever picture-plane

Trampled snow is the only rose.Two of us, Docteur and Madame Machin, who stand

Beneath the snowflakes I notice façadesWide, whited fields, a way unframed at last

And Mère Chose's square of world, even as theyBeneath a pile of corpses, lying massed

Dismal, endless plainAlthough December's frost killed the winter crop,

Wheezing ravens, whenYour gloved hands covering your lips' good-bye

Astonished that you have returned to goOnly a fox whose den I cannot find.

Away from their profundity of surface.VII. Hudson and His Strait; Baffin and His Bay

Along the walls are only empty niches,Floating on the sky.

Autodesk Workshop at Pier 9 by Fabrice Florin

Autodesk gave us a great tour of their state-of-the-art workshop on the San Francisco waterfront, organized by the ReMake Education Summit team.

Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop explores new ways of making things, using state-of-the-art production tools and machinery. They support a community of designers, engineers, artists, and innovators who are putting all this technology to good use.

It’s also a great example of what a large and well-funded makerspace can look like, and how it works. It inspired me to try some of these tools and techniques, and bring some of their process into our own makerspace at Tam Makers -- as well as into my Maker Art classes.

Learn more about the Autodesk Workshop at Pier 9: www.autodesk.com/pier-9

Learn more about Tam Makers: www.tammakers.org/

Learn more about the Maker Art classes I teach: bit.ly/teaching-maker-art

Autodesk Instructors Course by The Burly Photographer

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Autodesk University 2007 by Tencue