#Autodesk Software

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[symetriie]

Bluebeam Tool Sets: Your Secret Weapon for Project Success

To leverage the full potential of Bluebeam Revu, consider integrating Bluebeam tool sets in your workflow; 1.Drawing and Document Management: Store, manage and organise entire drawing sets 2.Peer review and quality control: Perform reviews faster and avoid errors 3.Quantity taking and calculation: Take fast, accurate measurements and win more bids 4.Site Logistics: Create and manage detailed site logistics plans 5.Requests for Information (RFIs) and Subs: Publish RFIs in drawings quickly and share them among different entities 6.Roundup: Assign, track and close discrepancies on the go 7.Project handover: Create comprehensive and easy-to-navigate digital handover packages.

[symetriuk]

The Most Realistic Architectural Visualization Tool on the Market.

Twinmotion can import your data in a matter of minutes, with no detail loss. Once linked, you can continue to refine in your design software before sending those changes to Twinmotion with a single click.It comes with 10,000 high-quality smart assets, which can be dragged and dropped into your scene. The large library of manmade and natural physically based materials – everything from trees growth, doors opening, people movement, cobblestones and non-slip flooring, to water, sand, and mud - it's easy to get the look you want.

[ternterntern0]

guh(friend's oc + mine, again)

[sarahbduck]

Subscription for a Paintbrush

A painter might feel like a paintbrush is an extension of themselves, developing muscle memory and skill to create beauty. But what happens when that tool is owned by someone else, and they charge rent? What if they've decided to take it away from you? What if they've decided your art isn't yours?

As a 3D artist, I was professionally trained in using Autodesk Maya, a 3D modelling and animation application. I became really good with it, and grew to love it! I used it at work and at home for my own projects. It became muscle memory, an extension of myself, an organ for expression.

The full version of Maya is ludicrously expensive at CA$2,500 a year! So I had to settle for a cheaper version called Maya LT. It was missing some features, but I wasn't using them at the time so it worked out. I paid CA$360 a year for 3 years.

COVID struck, and I lost my job. I had to use savings to continue paying my license for an additional 2 years, yet in that time they provided no updates. I was just paying for access.

In 2022, Autodesk announced that Maya LT was being discontinued, replaced by a new version called Maya Creative. Instead of a subscription, you'd buy "tokens", spending one token for 24 hours of use. You could only buy tokens in bulk, the cheapest being 100 tokens for CA$405, and they expire after one year.

I've never seen such a predatory, disgusting pricing model for a piece of software. It's like an arcade machine! I thought subscriptions were bad enough! I refused to participate.

Despite spending nearly two grand, the tool I love is going to deactivate itself soon, and I don't have any say in it. It's bytes will still be on my computer, but it'll refuse to launch. Maya LT had a proprietary file format, so all of my projects will be unusable.

It feels like I'm losing a part of myself.

I feel like a fool for even letting this happen in the first place. I let myself become attached to a tool I didn't even own, run by a faceless corporation! My own art is being held hostage! How unfair! Should it even be called a tool, or a service?

I've been avoiding 3D art lately, focusing on programming and game development. My friends and I started working on a game in the Unity Game Engine. A couple months in, Unity's owners were saying and doing some unsavoury things, so we swapped to the Godot Engine. I feel incredibly lucky that we did because of the Unity drama that followed.

Unity wanted to start charging a fee for every user that installed your game. They wanted this to apply to every Unity game retroactively. This is obviously a stupid idea, and they walked it back, but it begs the question: Do you even own the game you developed? It seems like you don't.

I don't want to let myself fall into this trap again. I feel like we as artists form a personal relationship with our tools, and it shouldn't have to be an abusive one! I want to own my art and tools! That shouldn't be difficult as a digital artist! I've been recommended some proprietary subscription based "tools" by friends recently, and I refuse to use them. I won't let this happen to me again.

I'm going to use as much open source software as I can. Open source software is the only software you can truly "own". You have access to the code, and you can do with it as you please! It's often democratically run by the community! You can distribute it to your friends, and it's not piracy! There's a ton of excellent open source art software out there, and I encourage you to check it out!

Autodesk broke my heart. When I get back into 3D art, I'm going to be learning Blender.

[punctuation-completionist]

“potentially do something of your choosing” - could you show some examples of those prospective wallpapers?

these are some of the phone proportioned wallpapers, and while i can't find where it's saved, my blog header is also a thing that i designed! these are a tad old—i mean they're from september and i have gotten better at graphic design and i think that my minor amount of pixel art experience somewhat helped me—but i think they should give an idea of what i can do!

[zlo-sovs-lifeboat]

What program do you use?

The that one.

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

someone needs to add the ability to add doors to curtain systems in revit I am going insane in the membrane over the brokenness of the curtain system what am I supposed to do?? Just lay down and die??

revit why

whyyyyyyyy

For anyone wondering I just did a door opening and then put a brick wall outside the curtain system so I can add the door and the door opening allows me to have a door that actually leads outside, it doesn’t look bad but why the fuck is it impossible to put doors on curtain systems???

Why should I have to make a whole separate mass or even void mass when we could just allow the fucking doors in curtain systems????

honestly in general the curtain system is just fucked, why is it so broken???

do they not have play testers or something??? I’ve encountered like 50 separate issues and glitches in 2024 and 2025 and you’d think it wouldn’t be so crazy but like every time I livestream it in 2025 it starts flashing and strobing??? Like the fuck how???

I’d complain so so much but the autodesk website is too confusing.

BOOOO

[shoecrabs]

just lost about 5 years' worth of art because my app crashed and deleted itself as i tried exporting a painting

[isa-the-great-and-powerful]

They were Maya earrings!

[maliciousnbgoose]

Switching to Infinite Painter because Autodesk isn't working for me anymore.

I need a grossing, well built software that is NOT SUBSCRIPTION-BASED. I aint using CSP and Medibang. Even a one-time payment is better than financing for a fucking photoshop filter.

[error404vnotfound]

for the history of maths project we have to do a video

guess who got convinced to make an animated intro

[symetriie]

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[symetriuk]

Unity's Augmented Reality Revolutionizes Construction with VisualLive

Unity's Augmented Reality for Construction software VisualLive, allows real-time 3D visualisation, collaboration, and field-to-office communication across all stages of construction. These include design review, quality assurance/control, facilities management, and more.The software works by overlaying large BIM and CAD files onto job sites using augmented reality, allowing construction professionals to visualise designs and collaborate in real-time.

[theuniversesvoicebox]

What are good Alternatives to Shotgrid?

**GOOGLE IS BROKEN** I want honest opinions!

I mean the PRICE is too high for me, but this...NAME CHANGE, just killed my need for ever using it again. **JUST SAY "no" to FPT** AUTODESK, HOW DARE YOU! No, I will never use this program again. Not only is it overpriced, but now the NAME is awful.

SEEKING CHEAP/FREE: Film/TV/VFX/Graphic Art Production Project Management software.

[im-not-a-sheep]

I just found a bunch of paper of an old animation idea I never started 💀