The new firm is headed by CEO LeeAnn Manon and chief product officer Chris Cheung: both Autodesk veterans, although neither was working for the company at the time of the spin-off.Ĭheung was previously part of the SketchBook Pro product team at Autodesk, before going on to head up work on Mischief, Foundry’s now-discontinued digital sketching software. “After careful consideration and evaluation, we found the perfect home for SketchBook with a company formed by people who previously built and evangelized the SketchBook brand.” “While we value SketchBook and feel an obligation to the community … we also recognize that much has changed at Autodesk,” wrote Autodesk VP for automotive, concept design and XR Thomas Heermann. This week, Autodesk broke that radio silence to announce that development of Sketchbook has been taken over by a new independent company, Sketchbook Inc. Now developed by the people ‘who built and evangelized’ the brand The app’s social media accounts also went silent, with tweets from Sketchbook pausing in December 2020. The spin-off marks the latest change of ownership (and name: it has now lost the capital ‘B’) for Sketchbook, which was orignally developed by Alias and acquired by Autodesk along with Maya in the 2000s.Īt Autodesk, it went through a number of further changes in format and pricing, eventually ending up in 2018 as a free app for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, with a separate commercial Enterprise edition.Īfter that, things seemed to stagnate: the last update to the desktop version was in 2019, which was to remove the need to log in to use it, although the mobile editions were updated more recently. The apps will continue to be available from the Apple, Google and Microsoft app stores, where they can currently be downloaded for free, but delivered by their new owners.Īnother change of owner for the veteran digital sketching software Scroll down for news of the price changes.Īutodesk has spun off SketchBook, its digital sketching software, to a new company, Sketchbook Inc. Gravitarium2 – Music/interactive app running over 5000 particles and allows you to use up to 10 fingers at once. Star Walk for iPad – If you enjoy astronomy or are simply interested in that bright dot in the sky, this will show you everything in stunning detail using gps and gyroscopic aware location technology ($2.99 and totally worth it!) SamCard – Take a picture of a business card, creates a contact from it instantlyįlipboard – Consolidate multiple feeds (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, blogs, news sources) into one location to “flip” through content Instagram – Take and edit photos for a vintage effectĪdobe Photoshop Express – Photoshop on the goĭragon Dictation – You say it, it types it Neu.Annotate PDF – Open PDF’s, mark them up with shapes, highlights & added text & share Skitch – Take a picture, add markups, share with anyone Some of these come courtesy of Evan Troxel in the Ontario studio from his essential list, plus a few others.ĭocScan HD – Take a picture with the iPad, fix flaws, markup/make notes, convert to PDF/image and email/share.ĬloudOn – Microsoft Word, Excel & PPT on your iPad, integrated with Dropbox I’ve also come up with a few other apps that are essentials or just needed for when you feel like taking a break. TinkerBox – A physics puzzle game for the kid in all of usĬonstructware – Access info from the jobsite application from AutodeskĪutodesk Area Mobile – Access Autodesk forums for media and entertainment products like 3ds Max or Maya Pixlromatic – Another photo editing software, but from Autodeskīuzzsaw – If you are on a project with a buzzsaw account, you can access your files and view them in AutoCAD WS or Design Review Mobileīluestreak – Working on a project using Bluestreak and Revit Server? Get your notifications and messages on your iPad now!ġ23D Sculpt – Feed your inner sculptor with this clay modeling appĪutodesk ForceEffect – Physics simulator for testing forces against design modelsĪutodesk Imagine Design Create – eBook about design created with Autodesk productsįluid FX – Something for the kids to tinker with *** $0.99 Sketchbook Pro for iPad – More features *** $4.99 Read on for my full list…ĭesign Review Mobile – Wiew and markup DWF files (like a PDF but any Autodesk tool can print them) You can find any of these apps by searching the iTunes store with the name provided. When I was done crafting it, I couldn’t believe how many apps are available already. Do we call each other on FaceTime now instead of the phone? Do we share info via iMessage? Anyways, now that I’ve had time to sit on it and let it soak in, I found myself crafting a list of apps that I’ve found useful to share, and naturally it included all the Autodesk apps. It’s still hard to believe, but HMC has given everyone an iPad 2! Now the possibilities for collaborating just went through the roof. By Steve Bennett, originally published on Adventures in the World of BIM
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