In an earlier post, Software as a Service: Are we the telephone company?, I noted that although Software as a Service (SaaS) is all the rage, Autodesk solutions like Buzzsaw, Constructware, and Streamline have been offered as services for years.... Read more →
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Many of you may recall my Beyond the Paper blog article entitled DWF-This-Link Bookmarklet. You will now find this functionality on Project Freewheel as Render-This-Link. Autodesk Legal requested that we not use DWF as a verb. So we changed the... Read more →
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Autodesk Labs is our home for new prototypes, experiments, applications, and technologies. Members of the Autodesk Labs team analyze and develop new and viable market driven business ideas. Sometimes our quest for technologies that are of interest to customers takes... Read more →
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Autodesk is 25 years old today. In America, at 16 you can drive a car. At 18, you can vote. At 21, you can drink. I think the only thing that happens at 25 is that your auto insurance goes... Read more →
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On his Between the Lines blog, Technical... Read more →
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Pecha Kucha is a presentation format that started in Tokyo in 2003. I mention "format" because Pecha Kucha centers on form instead of content. There are actually no restrictions on the type of content that can be presented using the... Read more →
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At Autodesk we recognize that our customers sometimes work in mixed environments. With this in mind, we have posted a technology preview of Autodesk Inventor 2008 translators for Parasolids parts (Versions 9-18 of .x_t or .x_b files) and UG-NX™ parts... Read more →
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Many of you have probably not heard of Second Life. Many of you are probably saying to yourself: "I hardly have time for my first life let alone a second life." Second Life is a combination of a simulation game... Read more →
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Baseline Magazine, where technology meets leadership, has an article that lists the companies that spent the most for research and development (R&D) in 2006: I.T.'s Top 84 R&D Spenders Autodesk was number 30. Overall R&D spending jumped 17% from 2005.... Read more →
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Software as a service (SaaS) is all the rage, but this is nothing new for Autodesk. Solutions like Buzzsaw, Constructware, and Streamline have been offered as a service for years. Way back in 1996 I was working with Sprint on... Read more →
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At Autodesk, much of what we are about is technology. But technology is only valuable if it is useful to our customers. A few nights ago Autodesk won some CODiE awards for some of its technology. CODiE awards are presented... Read more →
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When people think of Frankenstein, they often think of the picture on the left. But in reality Frankenstein was the name of Dr. Frankenstein - not the monster he created. The creator was confused with his creation. Years ago when... Read more →
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A Mr. Dwight Schrute from Scranton, Pennsylvania writes in: Are Project Freewheel and Autodesk Freewheel the same? Although the objectives for the two Freewheels are different as outlined in It's two, two, two Freewheels from one... (one company that is),... Read more →
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Many of us at Autodesk were part of Buzzsaw.com. We saw personally how the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. At the time, investors concluded that the web was... Read more →
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All of us at Autodesk Labs express our sympathies for the families of the victims at Virginia Tech University. The pool spreads 'cross the pavement where the sniper made him lie And he looks just like my youngest, and I'm... Read more →
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Please excuse the word "naked" in the posting title, but that's what the magazine article is called. I am sure the presence of the word will wreak havoc with search engines. What hath CAD wrought? Wired Magazine Cover Overlay The... Read more →
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I have been listening to It's Alive by The New Cars. Elliott Easton and Greg Hawkes from the original The Cars band have teamed up with Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton (Meat Loaf bass player), and Prairie Prince (The Tubes drummer)... Read more →
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It's Friday the 13th - bad things are supposed to happen. Some people come to this site to read the blog content using their browser. Others have the content brought to them using an RSS reader. If you prefer not... Read more →
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Now that Freewheel has launched as a free DWF-based service, many of you are wondering what will happen to the Freewheel on Autodesk Labs. Fear not - it will be around. Autodesk is offering both Freewheels to our customers. Item... Read more →
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In addition to his authorship of Between the Lines, many of you are familiar with AutoCAD Technical Marketing Manager, Shaan Hurley's, work on the My Feedback at Autodesk site. Some of you may be wondering what are the differences between... Read more →
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Hear it for yourself: It's Alive MP3 (38K) Welcome to my new blog. Some of you may already know me as "that DWF guy" from my work on the Beyond the Paper blog. I recently returned to my roots and... Read more →
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