Autodesk is celebrating Earth Day in a virtual way with our own internal site called Autodesk Earth Day.
You can find out more about our green efforts at:
In keeping with that spirit, you can celebrate by trying:
3D/2D ShareNow for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and Design Review instead of printing to paper
or
the Sustainable Materials Assistant for Inventor to determine your model's carbon footprint.
Celebrating Earth Day is alive in the lab.
We listen to feedback from around the world
Q: How do I report problems or make suggestions for ShareNow?
A: You can contact Autodesk Labs in the following ways:
EMAIL: labs.freewheel@autodesk.com
You can send email. A ShareNow team member normally responds in under 24 hours.
FORUM: Autodesk Freewheel
You can post messages on the discussion forums. You may get a response from an Autodesk employee or a fellow ShareNow user.
BLOG: http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/3d2d_sharenow/index.html
You can post comments to blog entries. Comments are usually responded to very quickly. Your comments give other blog readers the opportunity to chime in.
Q: How do I use the ShareNow add-in inside Autodesk products?
A: The ShareNow add-in is same as other add-ins inside Autodesk products. Here are some screen shots for ShareNow on Autodesk 2010 products. You can find more details in related YouTube Videos from Autodesk Labs website: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ShareNow/.
ShareNow in AutoCAD 2010
ShareNow in Inventor 2010
ShareNow in Revit 2010
Fly right by installing and running Autodesk applications before installing ShareNow
Q: How do I install ShareNow?
A: ShareNow is distributed using Microsoft Install packages (MSI). You can follow the install wizard to finish the installation process. There are two points before you install:
Directions for picking an installer
Q: Which ShareNow installer should I select to install?
A: The downloaded file from the Autodesk Labs site is a ZIP package. It contains three install packages:
AutodeskShareNowSetup2009.msi
This package supports AutoCAD 2008/2009 (including all verticals), Inventor 2008/2009 (including all verticals), and Revit 2008/2009 (including all verticals).
AutodeskShareNowSetup2010.msi
This package supports AutoCAD 2010 (including all verticals), Inventor 2009/2010 (including all verticals), Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009, Inventor LT 2010, and Revit 2010 (including all verticals).
Note that both versions of Inventor LT are supported by the 2010.msi package.
Q: Where can I get ShareNow?
A: You can download the 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and Design Review from Autodesk Labs website: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ShareNow/
Share your designs with the world with one click
Q: What's ShareNow?
A: ShareNow is a group of add-ins for Autodesk products. These add-ins publish a design from AutoCAD, Inventor, Inventor LT, Revit, or Design Review to the Project Freewheel server. With one click of the ShareNow icon, your design application publishes a DWF file of your current design, uploads it to Project Freewheel, and invokes your browser with a view of your design. You can then leverage all of the benefits that Project Freewheel has to offer - without installing additional software. Collaborate with your team members on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh OSX, or Linux. They can use Internet Explorer or Firefox. They can use a PC, Mac, PDS, or a cell phone -- whatever has a compatible browser with an internet connection.
ShareNow works for both 3D and 2D designs.
See what's cooking in the lab.
So twiddley-dee, twiddley-dum
Look out baby, 'cause here I come.
(Get ready 'cause here I come) I'm on my way.
(Get ready 'cause here I come)
"Get Ready," The Temptations, 1966.
Maybe I am the only one old enough to remember 1966? Forget the past - this blog post is about the future. The 3D/2D ShareNow add-on is ready for 2010. To learn more and download this free utility, see:
Yesterday I added an installer to the ZIP file for the 3D/2D ShareNow for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and Design Review. This update of our Autodesk Labs technology preview supports the 2010 releases of these applications. We added support for Autodesk Design Review 2010 earlier in the month. So to be specific, you can work with your designs in the English versions of these 2010 applications and share your designs with others with one click:
The other people you collaborate with only need to use their browsers. They don't install anything. They can be on Windows PC, a Macintosh, or a cell phone. This is made possible via our Project Freewheel service. Once you share, you can even host your own electronic review process using just browsers.
Getting ready for the 2010 releases is in the lab. We're ready when you're ready.
The ShareNow Add-in lets you share your designs with others using Project Freewheel. It only takes one click. You can download it at:
Yesterday I updated the add-in so it supports Autodesk Design Review 2010. This will allow the testers on My Feedback to try it with the Design Review 2010 beta. For the general public, when Autodesk Design Review 2010 is released, you can immediately get ShareNow from the Autodesk Labs site. We're ready when you're ready. The 2010 experience is the same as the 2009 experience as exhibited in this YouTube video.
Staying ahead of the curve is alive in the lab.
The 3D/2D ShareNow add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and Design review is dirt simple. Let's say you're looking at one of your designs in one of these applications, and you want to share it with someone who doesn't have the application. Maybe the person wants to see it on a Mac, Linux, or a cell phone.You click he ShareNow button. Your design appears in Project Freewheel. How hard was that?
The prerequisite to this process is downloading and installing the add-in.
This has been quite a popular activity this past year:
For those of you who do not use ShareNow, I would love to know why. I really would. Negative feedback is what we could to make ShareNow better: labs.freewheel@autodesk.com. Don't hold back. We can take it.
Using ShareNow to share designs with others via Project Freewheel is alive in the lab.
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