Outside the Lines

Technical Marketing Manager Todd Hunter provides his colorful views, opinions, and expertise on Autodesk Impression, remote controlled helicopters, Triumph motorcycles, and everything in between. Read his blog and chances are you’ll learn more about treble, bass and oil filter maintenance.

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posted 01/18/07 by Todd Hunter Come and Get It!
The latest preview version of Impression is avalable on labs.autodesk.com.
This is by far the most mature build of Impression to date and many of the workflows have been streamlined. The first thing you will notice is the dashboard panel on the left side of the UI. This frees up more of the canvas and keeps the most used paletts available. The Style Editor palette is now in the middle of the dashboard and is context sensitive so that based on what you have selected, it displays the apropriate style swatch. You can easily see the style element stack by rolling out the Edit button. Acsess the editable parameters of each element with the fly-out arrows next the element name.

One of my favorites new features is the ability to re-size a style.

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Another one of my favorites is the way you can navigate to, and load individual styles from another .IRF file instead of having to load the entire saved style library.

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Go ahead and download it and give it a try. You can install it after you uninstall the previous version. All of your current work will open and function transparently in the new version, as one would expect.
As always, we want to hear your comments and ideas.

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User Comments

  • As a first time "Impressions" user I'm over the moon with its abilities, wish i'ed discovered it before, its going to add a whole new diamension to my work, hopefully bringing my archaeolgical projects back to life.
    many kind regards

    Posted 1/19/2007 1:42 PM by Simon Mayes

  • I saw this demo at AUGI CAD Camp, Jan 18. I have just downloaded and hope to use in our presentation classes at ITT. Works Great!

    Posted 1/20/2007 10:33 AM by Mike McGuire

  • Triumph motorcycles huh? Send me an email with your email address and I'll send you a nice pic of what we ride around these parts. ;)
    Keep up the great work on the blog, it helps me get through my day!

    Tim McDougald
    cadgroup@kmbdesign.com

    Posted 1/23/2007 11:39 AM by Tim McDougald