Lots of Feedback in FY08 - thanks

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:

1. Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview
2. Translator Add-ins for Autodesk Inventor
3. general comments to Autodesk Labs
4. Project Freewheel

Thanks to you, listening to users is alive in the lab.