Here is a great tip! Use the scan sketch feature on Autodesk’s sketchbook for mobiles, it lets you quickly and easily pull your real life sketches into your smartphone with transparency. Scan Sketch With Autodesk’s Sketchbook Mobile. You can also see a chain of EXTREME (not that extreme) action shot mobile photos on the SolidSmack Twitpic page, which reminds me, if you’re following SolidSmack on Twitter, you’ll get some mildy interesting insight there as well.Scan Sketch With Autodesk’s Sketchbook Mobile “tradigital art” while travelling light 20 minutes to complete with loud music and everyone watching. Al Dean, Kenneth Wong, Martyne Day, another guy and Greg Corke A coffee cup picture taken with Al Dean's 35mm Nikor lense The entrance to the Exhibition hall The nVidia Booth in the exhibition hall The Cut & Paste Design competions. Bringing Inventor into Showcase The AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) Lounge A long row of Survey Stations The Manufacturing Lounge Press peeps watching an Inventor Publisher presentation How Will You Design in 2020? Wall The Main Stage in the Event Center CTO Jeff talkin' Augmented Reality The floor of the Lunch Hall Carl Bass talkin' to the Press peeps. Random AU Photo Sweets Industrial Design Session. The Manufacturing Keynote also showed off Alias Sketch for AutoCAD, Fusion, Sketchbook Mobile and most interesting, Alias modeling tools inside of Inventor.He’s passionate about putting your butt in space and holding competitions for other new tech. Convince several people to ditch their Blackberry’s buy iPhones and start using their saving to buy apps and music. Somehow I ended up doing an Sketchbook Mobile demo at the Autodesk kiosk.
Lots of new CAD Tech is entering the Possible stage. CEO, Carl Bass talked about the 5 stages of Tech – Impossible, Impractical, Possible, Expected, Required.There were fog machines and pretty lights. The Main Keynote was in the Mandalay Bay Event Center, an indoor arena that seats 12,000.The other went through the process of using scanned surface data to produce spicy surfaces in Alias. One went through bringing Inventor files into Showcase visualization software. I hit two Industrial Designers Design Surfacing Sessions.There were about 150 people (~110 bloggers?) eating tapas and alcoholics. There was a blogger social Monday Night.Covers over 20 specialties from Architecture to Water and Waste.Over 6,000 attendees, over 16,000 virtual attendees.2009 is first year the conference is simulcasted virtually.This is the 4th year it’s been in Las Vegas.