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When I published my blog article, Touch Wall: Manipulating CAD data with just your hands, I got lots of positive emails about the possibilities of manipulating CAD models using the Perceptive Pixel Touch Wall. In a word, Autodesk customers thought... Read more →
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A while back, Technical Evangelist, Lynn Allen, developed a Tips and Tricks Guide for AutoCAD 2007. It is available as a PDF file. AutoCAD 2007 Tips & Tricks PDF I recently posted an article, Wikipedia: Appropriate for Autodesk documentation?, which... Read more →
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Second Life is a combination of a simulation game and social network. Second Life is played by creating an avatar which a virtual representation of yourself. You navigate that avatar through a virtual world and interact with other virtual characters,... Read more →
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Autodesk supplies some of our DWF partners in the commercial printing industry with technology that allows DWF files to be printed by reprographic software. This technology is referred to as the DWF Printer Development Kit (PDK). A reprographic customer recently... Read more →
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Lead Software Engineer, Eric Haines, shared this joke with us. What's an annotation? I thought I would pass it on. Obviously this was feigned using an image editing program, but it is funny nonetheless. Read more →
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My blog posting with a request for DWF files went quite well. Files came in from around the globe. I have already mentioned the file that came from Jürgen Wagner from Germany. I will mention three other contributors in this... Read more →
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Inventor QA Manager, Sanjay Jayabal, reports that the technology preview of the Feature Recognition for Autodesk Inventor has been updated for Autodesk Inventor 2008. We are happy to share it with you via Autodesk Labs. Feature Recognition for Autodesk Inventor... Read more →
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Product Line Manager, Eric Stover, reports that the technology preview of the Google Earth Publishing Extension has been updated for the AutoCAD 2008 family of products. We are happy to share it with you via Autodesk Labs. Google Earth Extension... Read more →
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Jürgen Wagner was the first to respond to my post entitled Internal Autodesk Contest: Looking for cool DWF files for Autodesk Freewheel. Jürgen supplied me with a DWF file that was so fun, I immediately shared it internally. You can... Read more →
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Autodesk Freewheel is the production version of the service that has graduated from Autodesk Labs. Internally, we have a contest in the works. The contest is limited to Autodesk employees. A nice aspect of this contest is that employees don't... Read more →
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A Ms. Richelle Feder from Fort Lee New Jersey writes: Do the Translator Add-ins work for either Autodesk Inventor or the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview? How do I download the Translator Add-ins for Autodesk Inventor and the Autodesk Inventor... Read more →
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DWF Beta Manager, Volker Joseph, reports that our product design team is asking for your input: When it comes to text search, we know what you want. While viewing a DWF file, you want the ability to type in a... Read more →
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The Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview is covered in the May Issue of MCAD Magazine. Check it out! The Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview is alive in the lab and people are noticing. Read more →
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The DWF Toolkit is used internally by Autodesk developers to read and write DWF files. We openly post the source code and DWF specification to the web. As a result. other companies also use the toolkit to support DWF in... Read more →
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VP of Autodesk Labs, Brian Mathews, prepared a video podcast of a behind the scenes look at what it takes to put on the main stage presentation at Autodesk University. Final AU Podcast 7 minutes 41 seconds Check it out.... Read more →
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Technical Evangelist, Brian Pene, has just launched a new web site. http://www.CADoogle.com CADoogle demonstrates the power of Autodesk Freewheel and allows you to search, preview, and download publicly available CAD files indexed by Google. It’s free to use and leverages... Read more →
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According to its own site, Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. The name is a combination of the words wiki (a type of collaborative web site) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers who have "expert"... 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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Many people remember the movie Minority Report. The movie is set in the future. Tom Cruise plays a police detective who prevents crime. While working on a case, he browses through a set of computer files. He does so by... Read more →
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Senior Product Manager at Autodesk, Allister Lundberg, wants to know: Question: If you had to choose between these two options, which would you choose? A DWFx file that can be ubiquitously viewed on Microsoft Vista but is 80% larger in... Read more →
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Some of you are expecting to see the download link in the email that contains your serial number. It's not there. It's part of the download process from the web site. I originally posted a short video to demonstrate what... Read more →
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As mentioned in my Wired Magazine post, Autodesk has several communities: Civil Engineering Community DWF Community Impression Community Industrial Design Community Manufacturing Community The Area - 3D Animation Community When you register for one of these communities, you obtain a... Read more →
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Autodesk Impression is selling well in the United States and Canada. Product Marketing Manager, Lisa Crounse, reports that a technology preview of Autodesk Impression is available in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand,... Read more →
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A compass points people in the right direction. So does a survey. Autodesk Senior Product Manager, Allister Lundberg, would like to know your thoughts regarding Project Freewheel (the one available from Labs at http://freewheel.labs.autodesk.com) and Autodesk Freewheel (the production version... Read more →
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Due to overwhelmingly high initial customer demand for the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview, we are currently focusing on the high volume of customer feedback we have received so far and have decided to make the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology... Read more →
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In addition to our posting of the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview, Autodesk Labs is also happy to share news with you that Autodesk has added some new blogs to the fold. So check them out! Read more →
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Wow - look at the mouth on that horse. :-) Q: Why does the Autodesk Inventor LT technology preview install Autodesk DWG TrueView 2007 when Autodesk DWG TrueView 2008 is already installed? A: This is an oversight on the part... Read more →
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At the start of the Autodesk Inventor LT technology preview download process, you specify an email address. This email address is used to send you your serial number. You use the serial number as part of your activation process. Once... Read more →
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When first released we recommended that customers not try to run the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview on VMWare or on VirtualPC. Customers reported that there seemed to be a problem with running the application in software graphics mode. This... Read more →
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Many of you are downloading Autodesk Inventor LT. We are excited to see this. We are getting some email bounces due to invalid addresses - but for the most part, things are going well. Your email address is used to... Read more →
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LT stands for "Limited Technology" - but don't let that sway you. There's a lot you can do. The general philosophy of an "LT" product is to focus on crucial, commonly used functionality and make it more accessible to a... Read more →
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If you visit the Autodesk Labs web site later today, you'll probably notice some changes. We're excited about the "Extreme Makeover" that our Labs web site has undergone. ("Extreme Makeover" is the name of an American television show on ABC.)... Read more →
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