

And I’m one of the lucky ones that gets to work out of the manufacturing workshop at Pier 9 in San Francisco. So where technically I’m the Director of Autodesk Circuits, the other tools within my team include Tinkercad, the 123D apps, and now of course EAGLE. When I signed on, I took on not just the electronics tools, but also the maker/hacker/startup portfolio. The goal from the outset at Autodesk was to really round out the product portfolio with the tools necessary to design and manufacture the whole product. Prior to that, I spent much of my career at Altium. I joined Autodesk from Supplyframe, which as many of the Adafruit folks know, are the “overlords” that now own Hackaday 🙂 and also Tindie, Findchips and heaps of other engineering-friendly sites.
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Feel free to share your background working at Altium, SupplyFrame/Hackaday, etc! Matt, what’s your role at Autodesk, specifically which group are you in and tell us a little about Autodesk for the folks who don’t exactly know. Matt Berggren (Director of Autodesk Circuits) was able to give this exclusive interview to Adafruit after the purchase! Thank you Matt! Based on a quick search, it appears total net debt for 2015 was about $272m, so maybe – about $20m to $22m ? About 5 years ago, back on MAKE, Autodesk purchased Instructables ( overview). What does this mean for makers? We’ll see! As far as how much it sold for, looks like we’d need to know the total net debt Premier Farnell and then subtract 8%. Note that Tinkercad does not have options like orthographic view or a proper text tool compared to 123D.We posted up last week ( and in our daily “Maker Business newsletter ) that Autodesk PURCHASED CadSoft EAGLE, not just a one-seat license, the entire thing 🙂 I recommend it for beginners who want to try out Tinkercad but may not be ready to commit. When creating complex designs, 123D can sometimes run very slowly and I’ve often experienced crashes.
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123D vs Other Platformsġ23D is a free software mainly targeted towards beginners or users with some basic CAD experience. Simply enter the dimensions of your 3D printer’s plate and you’re good to go. However, before exporting, remember to convert it back to millimeters! Edit gridĮdit Grid allows you to set the grid size to match your 3D printer.

If you want to use inches, you can by adjusting the unit. Otherwise, you could end up making a huge error. Knowing this, be careful when drawing custom designs. UnitsģD printers use millimeters as the default unit for measurements. If required, the user can turn it off and drag the object randomly around the grid. Snap decides the intervals that an object can be moved/rotated on the grid.

After selecting the primitive from the menu, you much first input the dimensions of the object and then the object can be dropped on the grid. One cool aspect of primitives is that users can adjust their size. Primitives are pre-made 3D models that users can start a design with, but they are limited. Meshmixer and 123D Make are both handy tools I use to check my model before exporting it to my 3D printer. I only work with STL but highly recommended that users figure out their 3D printer’s requirements and choose the appropriate format based on that. With Import, users can import a 3D model or a sketch/2D image in SVG format and then extrude this sketch to 3D.Įxporting as a 3D model provides four format options: STL, SAT, X3D, and VRML.

123Dx extension, which means these files can only open in 123D. Note: Files saved to your computer are saved with a. The tabs shown by the green arrow are Undo (ctrl+Z) and Redo (ctrl+Y) and come in very handy when designing a model.
