SolidWorks Blog. Autodesk Cloud Hard Sell Today I attended part of a web cast from Autodesk introducing their 2014 line of products. I have to say that they have an amazing breadth of tools . Some of the tools they have acquired are truly tops in their respective industries, like Alias, 3DSmax, Moldflow, and many others. It’s hard getting past my vision of Autodesk as being the cheap junk aisle of the CAD market. Products in the past such as AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, Inventor, and Algor have reinforced this notion.
SolidSmack. The Antikythera Mechanism. 2000 Year Old Design Tells the Future - SolidSmack. Take those gear pegs out of your nostrils and look at this. I think I just found a reason for you to visit the nearest LEGO store, purchase every gear available and spend the next month cogging up your workspace with bits and blocks. You could recreate 2,000 year old mechanism that predict the future. That’s exactly what Andy Carol, a software engineer at Apple, does in his spare time. One of his latest creations was a challenge to build an ancient device dating back to 100 BC which predicts solar and lunar eclipses within an accuracy of 2 hours. The Antikythera Mechanism.