The Autodesk fiscal year runs from February 1 through January 31. So we just finished FY08. We're now into FY09. So you'll see products that we release later in the year reflect the 2009 moniker.
Autodesk Labs is all about feedback. And thanks to you, it's working. For each technology or utility we make available on Autodesk Labs, I set up an email address to receive your feedback. I am a member of all of these email addresses, so I get to see all of the wonderful comments and suggestions that come in. I read each and every message. I also have the thrill of deleting the SPAM. :-) As a refresher, let me point out the email addresses we have for your feedback:
| area | item | Feedback Email Address |
| Technologies | Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview |
labs.inventorlt@autodesk.com |
| Project Draw | labs.draw@autodesk.com | |
| Content Search Alpha | Labs.ContentSearch@autodesk.com | |
| Project Freewheel | labs.freewheel@autodesk.com | |
| Visual Search | Labs.VisualSearch@autodesk.com | |
| Project Showroom | Labs.showroom@autodesk.com | |
| Utilities | DWG Export for Maya |
labs.maya.dwg@autodesk.com |
| Frame Generator Customization Tool for Inventor |
labs.iv.frame.generator@autodesk.com | |
| Drawing Cleanup Utility for AutoCAD |
labs.drawing.cleanup@autodesk.com | |
| Command Complete Bonus Tool for AutoCAD |
labs.command.complete@autodesk.com | |
| 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit |
labs.freewheel@autodesk.com | |
| Translator Add-in for Inventor [and Inventor LT] |
labs.iv.trans@autodesk.com | |
| Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD |
labs.acad.google@autodesk.com | |
| 2D to 3D Tool for Inventor |
labs.iv.2dto3d@autodesk.com | |
| Feature Recognition for Inventor |
Labs.IV-FeatureRecog@autodesk.com | |
| General | Anything else | TheLabs@autodesk.com |
As a side-effect of my involvement, I use Outlook rules that tally the volume of messages that come in. For FY08 we got feedback on every technology or utility:
You can see that our top four things that you like to email us about are:
- Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview
- Translator Add-ins for Autodesk Inventor
- general comments to Autodesk Labs
- Project Freewheel
Thanks to you, listening to users is alive in the lab.

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