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I was recently asked a question about sharing data via Autodesk Inventors BIM Exchange tool. The question was about material consistency from one to the other.
These two screenshots show the model in Inventor with textures and colours and the same thing in Revit when opening the .adsk file into Revit.
As you can see, they both have the same colours and textures applied!
An image created as the result of contest #11 at the NAPP site. It's a self portrait of myself in a steampunk theme.
The addition of user created iLogic forms means it is really quick and easy to add a form to help automate your design
I'm working on a project with Autodesk colleagues from our Civil division and this is a concrete motorway gantry that I have put together based on the AutoCAD Civil3D road data.
This shows the geometry in Autodesk Inventor 2012 using the Image Based Lighting and Ray Tracing.
More screenshots of Autodesk Inventor 2011. This is a dataset I put together of my sons toy fork lift truck in Inventor R10 and wanted to see how the new visualisation tools in Inventor made it look.
Dean Kamen is a well known American inventor.
He invented the AutoSyringe, a new type of mobile dialysis system for medical applications, the first insulin pump, and an all-terrain electric wheelchair known as the iBOT, using many of the same gyroscopic balancing technologies that later made their way into one of his best-known inventions, the Segway. See more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen
This is a photo of him at IBM's Pulse conference showing an LED lightbulb.
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#6 Sir William Armstrong ~ The 110 ton gun
According to the inventor pedaling backwards is much more powerful and efficient than pedaling forwards.
Check out bakfiets-en-meer for lots of utility bike stuff from Amsterdam and elsewhere.
23489 “Peter Cooper” – New Market Battlefield Military Museum, 9500 George Collins Parkway, New Market, Shenandoah, VA. May 25, 2018. Decimal Degrees: 38.652680, -78.674131
“Peter Cooper (2/12/1791 – 4/4/1883)”
“Peter Cooper was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist and candidate for president of the United States. He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb and founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art of Manhattan, New York City. \
In 1821, Cooper purchased a glue factory on Sunfish Pond for $2,000 in Kips Bay where he had access to raw materials from the nearby slaughterhouses for many years producing a profit of $10,000 (equivalent to roughly $200,000 today) within 2 years, developed new ways to produce glues and cements, isinglass and other products and becoming the city’s premier provider to tanners, manufacturers of paints, and dry-goods merchants. Cooper owned a number of patents for his inventions, including some for the manufacture of gelatin, and he developed standards for its production. The patents were later sold to a cough syrup manufacturer who developed a pre-packaged form which his wife named ‘Jell-O’.
In 1828 he plunged into another enterprise. This was the Canton Iron Works, built on 3,000 acres of land in Baltimore, primarily to supply the new Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The route of the railroad, however, was so hilly and twisting that English engineers despaired of running an engine over it. Cooper at once undertook to build a suitable locomotive and by 1830 had the diminutive but powerful ‘Tom Thumb’ experimentally pulling a load of 40 persons at 10 miles an hour. He put together the Tom Thumb steam locomotive from various old parts, including musket barrels, and some small-scaled steam engines he had fiddled with back in New York. The engine was a rousing success, prompting investors to buy stock in B&O, which enabled the company to buy Cooper’s iron rails making him what would be his first fortune.
The resulting success of the B&O contributed to Cooper’s rapid expansion of business interests and growing fortune. In 1854, in his new factory at Trenton, N.J., the first structural-iron beams for buildings were rolled. He persevered in his support of Cyrus Field’s Atlantic cable project until it was successfully concluded, and he became president of the North American Telegraph Company. During the same time period he displayed remarkable inventive talent, producing a washing machine, a compressed-air engine for ferry boats, a waterpower device for moving canal barges and several other devices.”
Top row of artifacts:
“Peter Cooper with his wife Sarah & children Sarah Amelia and Edward”
“Manassas Gap Railroad”
“Construction began in 1851 from a junction with the Orange and Alexandria Railroad west to Piedmont, Front Royal and on to Strasburg in 1854; in 1859 it ended at Mt. Jackson.
During the Civil War in 1861, the Manassas Gap Railroad became the first railroad in U.S. history to move troops to a major battle, the first Battle of Bull Run, July 21,1861.”
“Henry H. Granger 10th Massachusetts Artillery MWIA at Hatcher’s Run 10/27/1864 Was Brevetted Captain, Major & Lt. Colonel on 10/27/1864. Died of wounds 10/30/1864”
“Capt. John Brenan Co. A, 15th Virginia WIA Weldon RR 10/27/1864 DOW 11/21/1864”
“Pvt. Robert A. Butcher –Co. H 82nd Pennsylvania -- A South Side RR 4/2/1865 2 sabre cuts”
Second row:
“Capt. Thomas R. Sharp 1834-1909”
“On June 18, 1861, as Quarter master agent of the Confederate States of America, he was ordered to Harper Ferry, Va. To bring back any locomotives, cars, machinery or railroad material to the Manassas Gap Railroad.”
“Weldon Rail Road Section”
“Ran form Wilmington, NC to Richmond, VA. Wilmington was the only open port to carry goods and supplies to Gen. R. E. Lee’s Army of Virginia. The rail road became known as ‘The lifeline of the Confederacy’.
This section of rail was excavated near Ream’s Station, Virginia.”
Third row:
“Manassas Gap Railroad Company Receipt Dated February 25, 1859 for transportation of merchandise.”
Bottom row:
“Virginia Central Railroad”
“Established 1858 and ran from Richmond to Covington, VA a distance of 206 miles.”
The sleeve on this glass negative simply said “Inventor”.
Image derived from the original glass negative.
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing
$5,010,000 USD | Sold
From Sotheby's:
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Alan Kay (born 1940), Computer Scientist
In 1954, decades of incremental technological development, design, and success on the racetrack by Mercedes-Benz—inventor of the automobile and the dominant brand in automotive innovation—culminated with the launch of the most iconic car of all time, the 300 SL “Gullwing.” Instantly changing the game, it shifted the paradigm in automotive design and performance forever.
After names such as Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio, racing heroes indelibly etched into the automotive history books, had achieved unprecedented success in competition with the 300 SLR (W196S), Rudolf Uhlenhaut’s engineering brilliance saw these pure racecars take production form in the 300 SL “Gullwing” Coupe of 1954. The 300 SL was a fully road-legal production car, yes, but it was also so much more than that: Beneath its shapely skin was an Uhlenhaut-designed, racing-style tubular chassis, and its styling fundamentals would be closely mirrored in the gullwinged 300 SLR “Uhlenhaut Coupe,” which recently became the most valuable car in history after a $150 million RM Sotheby’s sale.
As the fastest production car in the world upon its debut, the 300 SL clearly had Silver Arrow dominance in its DNA. In sum, the Gullwing was an exquisite reflection of Mercedes-Benz’s position at the pinnacle of the automotive space in the mid-1950s, exceeding all that Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo, and Aston Martin could throw at them.
More than 60 years later, it is for good reason that “Gullwing”’ is a name that resonates with everyone, not simply car collectors. It transcends generations, connects old with new, and is both classic and sporty. It can be found in lyrics of hip-hop songs, Hollywood cinema, and even Andy Warhol pop-culture contemporary art. DeLorean’s futuristic car pulled the Gullwing doors in the 1980s—as did Tesla in the 2020s with their Model X. All serves as recognition of the incredible, outsized impact of the Gullwing, a car that was only ever owned by the fortunate few.
BRED FOR COMPETITION
In the 1950s, as in the modern era, Mercedes-Benz understood that its clients valued exclusivity, so they limited Gullwing production to 1,371 standard cars. For dedicated racers, as well as those sophisticated enthusiasts who wanted the almost unattainable, the factory minted an additional 29 competition-bred special-order cars with a lightweight alloy body, a more powerful engine, and other bespoke options. These were the 300 SL Alloy Gullwings: The 300 SL variants most directly linked to the world-beating 300 SLRs, and cars that—even in comparison to their already desirable steel-bodied counterparts—have long been the ultimate prizes for the world’s top collectors.
Distinctive in many ways from their standard steel-bodied brethren, these incredibly rare and historically significant Alloy coupes thrived at fulfilling the purpose for which they were built. All the most important race victories achieved by the 300 SL were, in fact, secured by one of these lightweight competition versions of the model (in addition to “secret” works entries and prototypes). Works-supported drivers secured no fewer than 50 important victories in sports car races across Europe and North America between 1954 and 1957. Notable triumphs include the Nürburgring 1000 KM, Tour d’Europe, Mille Miglia, Coppa d’Oro, Acropolis Rally, and Liège–Rome–Liège (as well as multiple SCCA and European Rally championships).
CHASSIS NUMBER 5500786
This rare 300 SL Alloy example was ordered new by Rene Wasserman, an industrialist and sports car enthusiast living in Basel, Switzerland. Research confirms that it is the 21st of those 24 alloy-bodied cars scheduled for production during the 1955 calendar year (although it was actually completed before car number 20). The car’s factory build sheet, a copy of which is on file, notes that Wasserman ordered his new alloy Gullwing with a plethora of special options, including special high-gloss white paint (DB 50), a red leather interior (1079), two-pieces of matching luggage, sports suspension, sealed-beam headlights with separate parking lights, 3.64 ratio rear axle, Rudge wheels and instruments in English, and the Sonderteile (“special parts”) engine with an impressive 215-horsepower output—surely making it one of the most well-specified Gullwings built.
The car was completed on 5 October 1955, and rather than having it delivered to Switzerland, Wasserman picked up the car himself in late November and drove his new 300 SL back home. While it is not known when Wasserman sold the car, by the early 1960s it had been exported to the United States, where its second owner was Jerome Seavey of Chicago, Illinois, followed by John K. Scattergood III, a principal at Blenheim Motors, located in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
THE SENATOR’S GULLWING
This 300 SL remained in Pennsylvania with its next owner, Keystone State politician and enthusiast Senator Theodore Newell Wood. Along with representing the 20th District of Luzerne, Susquehanna, Pike, Wayne, and Wyoming counties in the Pennsylvania State Senate, Senator Wood enjoyed sports car racing in his spare time and served as the president of the Hill Climb Association. He also founded the Brynfan Tyddyn Road Races, which were held from 1952 to 1956, with the last year featuring Carroll Shelby as a driver. The SCCA even gave Senator Wood a free lifetime membership for his efforts in sponsorship and participation in racing in the Northeast.
After passing through the hands of Bill Kontes and Joe Marchetti, the 300 SL was acquired by Leslie Barth in 1983. Barth kept the car until 1989. In its next ownership, with Swedish businessman and collector Hans Thulin, it was consigned to Kienle Automobiltechnik in Stuttgart, Germany. One of the world’s foremost facilities, Kienle is known for their restorations of Mercedes-Benzes, and 300 SLs in particular. The car was sold to a German collector, who in turn commissioned Kienle to perform a full restoration. Notably, damage to alloy-bodied 300 SLs is remarkably common, as the aluminum is notoriously thin and can quite literally bend under the pressure of an ill-placed hand. Furthermore, the bodies are known to deteriorate at the mounting points, where aluminum meets steel. As a result, almost all lightweight examples have been reskinned or repaired at some point, and on this particular car, any parts of the body that were irreparable were replaced.
Upon completion, the car was repainted in traditional Mercedes-Benz Silver-Grey Metallic (DB 180) and retrimmed in its original interior color of red leather (1079). As is to be expected, the quality of the workmanship is absolutely superb, with the tremendous attention to mechanical detail and factory-correctness befitting a Kienle restoration.
After passing through a collector in Switzerland, the car was acquired by its current custodian. The Gullwing has been preserved in immaculate condition ever since, with its odometer displaying 2,607 kilometers (~1,620 miles) at time of cataloguing, presumably accrued since Kienle’s restoration. As a result of its limited road use, a recent inspection indicates that to bring the car back to its peak performance level, a light mechanical servicing would be in order. The inspection further revealed the car retains its numbers-matching chassis, engine, gearbox, rear axle, steering box, and front axles.
Undeniably exclusive, this spectacular 300 SL features all of the highly desirable options and accessories one would want on an Alloy Gullwing, including the more powerful Sonderteile engine, sports suspension, Rudge knock-off wheels, special-order upholstery, and a two-piece luggage set executed in matching red leather.
The 300 SLRs have long been regarded by the collector community as being the world’s most valuable cars. This was proved to be true in May 2022 when RM Sotheby’s sold the 300 SLR “Uhlenhaut Coupe” for nearly $150 million. As a special production counterpart, the 300 SL Alloy Gullwing represents the “holy grail” of all Gullwings—and as one of only 29 cars built, this example will instantly become the centerpiece of any truly great collection.
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Kristina and I headed over to RM Sotheby's at the Monterey Conference Center to view some glorious cars at their auction preview.
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Had a blast with our auto-enthusiast friend and neighbor, Fred, at Monterey Car Week 2022.
Empresa: Ingeniería Epecializada S.A
Realizó: Grupo de ingeniería
Software Utilizado: AutoCAD Inventor 2010
Dominator III from BBC's Robot Wars TV show was designed using Autodesk Inventor. These are some visualisations from Inventor and Showcase
Cibils Beef Extract "Inventors & Their Inventions" issued in 1900.
Johannes Gutenberg ~ The Printing Press
Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2011 now includes Frame Analysis for checking the strength of the structural frames created using Frame Generator.
(The following information is compliments of various Wikipedia entries, and the cemetery brochure, which is available to all who visit.)
Final resting place of Charles Feltman, "inventor of the hot dog."
Green-Wood Cemetery in the western part of Brooklyn is a large (478 acre) historic cemetery. It was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery by Hezekiah Pierrepont. (He's buried on a manmade hillock in the cemetery.)
The cemetery grounds were considered so beautiful that it's usually referred to as the first public park in New York, and inspired the design and creation of nearby (a few blocks northeast of here) Prospect Park and Central Park in Manhattan.
Other places of interest nearby are Prospect Park, directly northeast, the Windsor Terrace neighborhood -- between the cemetery and Prospect Park, and the Park Slope neighborhood, which is considered one of the best neighborhoods in the entire country. (On a tangent, the number of notable people from Park Slope is...impressive.) Accessing the cemetery is also easy. There are four gates -- two of which are city landmarks -- with the main one being at 25th Street in the northwest part of the cemetery. They were designed by Richard Upjohn. The cemetery easily accessible via the NYC subway system as well. Nearest the main gate is the 25th Street station on the DNR lines. The 36th street station on the same line is directly next to the Sunset Park gate. The 9th Avenue station on the DNR line is next to the south side of the cemetery (though I'm not sure if it's near a gate).
Finally, to comment on the cemetery itself? If you were to make a matrix of different characteristics of a cemetery -- aesthetic/natural beauty, historical value, notable interments, architectural aspects -- this may very well be the best cemetery in the country to visit. (It did, after all, inspire the creation of two very famous parks, one of which is known in most parts of the world.) I'll address my above mentioned characteristics with some comments.
Aesthetically, this cemetery has lots of small hills, curving paths, lakes. The highest natural point in all of Brooklyn is located within the cemetery (and is pictured here). The cemetery was expanded a few times, and the only part of the cemetery that's reasonably flat is the southeastern part near the Fort Hamilton entrance. This was acquired last and basically left as is. As the cemetery isn't flat, you can always find some relaxing, distinct panoramic views (of the cemetery alone, or with the surrounding neighborhoods as a backdrop, or even Manhattan framed in a photo or two). The landscaping also has a very diverse collection of flora and fauna, along with trees (the latter of which include European beech, sassafras, tulip, gingko, elm, and others).
The cemetery also has historical value, especially regarding the foundation of the country. There were Revolutionary War battles fought on what would become the grounds of the cemetery, and you'll find some signage on your walk or drive through the park (though walking is certainly better) that can tell you about the localized battles that took place here in the 1770s.
Notable interments? Where to begin? They cover most all aspects of life in this country. African American history? James Weldon Johnson, author of the "black national anthem" Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing is buried with his wife Grace in her family's plot in the eastern end of the cemetery. The Freedom Lots, where African Americans were buried separately are in the southeastern portion of the cemetery. Art? Jean-Michel Basquiat is interred here (also in the eastern end of the cemetery). The Tiffany family plot contains the graves of Louis Comfort Tiffany (stained glass artist) and his father (who founded the Tiffany Jewelry Company (of Breakfast at Tiffany's fame, and also the company that makes each U.S. sports main trophies -- Stanley Cup, Lombardy Trophy, Larry O'Brien Trophy, World Series Trophy, etc.) Notoriety? William Poole, also known as Bill the Butcher (who Daniel Day Lewis portrayed in Gangs of New York) is laid to rest in the southern part of the cemetery. Science? Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph & Morse code is here, along with Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine. Baseball? Charles Ebbets and Henry Chadwick are here, not terribly far from each other. (Both had far-reaching impacts on the sport that are taken for granted today, with the latter being one of two credited as the Father of Baseball.) Civil War history? Major General Henry Halleck (general in chief of Union forces for a year and a half until Grant succeeded him) is here, along with Laura Keene (the actress who was on stage at Ford's Theatre when President Lincoln was shot). Politics? The Roosevelt family plot is a circle of graves in the center of the cemetery that contain the remains of many of Teddy Roosevelt's immediate family including his parents and first wife Alice are here. (Teddy, however, is buried near his Sagamore Hill home out on Long Island with his second wife Edith.) Governor De Witt Clinton (of Clinton's Folly/Erie Canal fame) is also here. Famous for corruption, William "Boss" Tweed is laid to rest here. Music? Leonard Bernstein (of West Side Story renown, among other works) and Pop Smoke (hip hop artist born in 1999 and murdered in a house break-in) are here. The Steinway (of piano renown) crypt is also on the grounds. Native American culture? An Iowan princess/daughter of a chief named Do-Hum-Me is buried in the western end of the cemetery. Also here is artist George Catlin's grave.
He most famously documented and glamorized Native American culture through art and traveled the west on subsequent journeys with Meriwether Lewis in the 1800s.
Superlatives? The oldest (at death) person in the cemetery is Sarah Kairns, who was about 40 years old at the beginning of the American Revolution, and breathed her last 7 years before the U.S. Civil War. Margaret Pine, the last enslaved African American in New York, is here as well. And this is just touching the surface of people you'll find here.
Architecturally, you'll find a trove of interesting details here, from the aforementioned gates, to mausoleums and crypts, the chapel, monuments and sculptures, obelisks, and other headstones/grave markers throughout the cemetery. The architectural styles you'll see are Classical, Egyptian, Gothic, and Romanesque, among others.
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#17 Robert Stephenson ~ bridge building and railway engineering