
Get the Autodesk 123D Catch app on the App Store (works best with iPad2 and iPad3). To help build a model, Slicer for Fusion 360 also creates 3D instructions you can interact with.

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. Built upon the 123 Make technology, Slicer for Fusion 360 is a free tool to slice and convert 3D models (US site) into 2D patterns that can be cut flat. 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). 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.

This cool project is in its infancy to document specimens in the National Museums of Kenya and in labs around the country. is a fossil preservation project with Kenyan Paleontologist Louise Leakey.
