Get the Autodesk 123D Catch app on the App Store (works best with iPad2 and iPad3). Users can also share their projects and explore other people’s creations from an online gallery that supplies an abundance of ideas for creative projects. In this full-color book, Jesse Harrington Au-Autodesks Maker Advocate-shows you how to design objects from scratch, work with existing models, or scan real-world objects. This feature will enable users to share files between products- 123D, 123D Catch, 123D Make, and 123D Sculpt - to explore their creative ideas, or even use that model to create a physical object through personal fabrication services (think Shapeways, Ponoko). Design and create real-world objects with 3D printers, laser cutters, or common materials that you assemble yourself. Autodesk also introduced a new feature for 123D products called My Corner, which provides cloud storage for all 123D design projects while connecting 123D product workflows.

The 123D family (link to all the free maker apps at Autodesk) provides users with the ability to capture, design and make their ideas, and connect with others for support or inspiration. The new Autodesk “123D Catch” program may sound the death knell for 3D scanners just like Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones sounded the bell for the handheld GPS market. The app is more than a photo capture program, although it is a super powerful one tied into the cloud.

Cities and physical locations of all types can use reality capture tools with 3D drones to take photos and video to model an area or building or roadway.

Coral Reef protection – there’s a team documenting how coral reefs deteriorate using 123D Catch and then stitching together the pieces.

This cool project is in its infancy to document specimens in the National Museums of Kenya and in labs around the country.

MyProjects provides access to models created in 123D Catch, 123D Make and 123D Creature. Easier access to all of your models and projects, regardless of the app you made them in. is a fossil preservation project with Kenyan Paleontologist Louise Leakey. Get Autodesk 123D Design 1.4 Updatefor Desktop A new UI introduces similar look and feel with other products from the 123D family, like Tinkercad.

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