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Our new URL for Freewheel is http://freewheel.labs.autodesk.com. This contains release 1.0.1 of the Autodesk Labs version of the service. Our old URL: http://dwfit.com contains release 1.0 of the Autodesk Labs version of the service. The old URL is being redirected... Read more →
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In the tradition of fun on a Friday, this is an oldie but a goodie. Punish your Microsoft Developer Perhaps technologies and utilities from Autodesk Labs could make use of WSYP technology? Perhaps you consider the feedback emails we receive... Read more →
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Earlier in the month our Location Services Development Team launched a blog for the geospatial industry. Points of Interest With so many authors, these various points of view could get very interesting. They can prove that eight heads are better... Read more →
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The Project Showroom service is back up. Our testing is complete and was a success. This was a planned outage that allowed us to move our technology preview to a more robust and reliable environment. Thank you for your patience... Read more →
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Network and Security Engineer, Kumar Upadhyay, wants all of our Autodesk Labs community members to know that the Project Showroom server will be shut down for maintenance. The scheduled maintenance starts at 10:00 AM Pacific time and will last approximately... Read more →
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Yesterday I recapped the list of customer facing features of Project Freewheel 1.0.1. In addition to these features, we did some work on the engine underneath. One of the performance enhancements we implemented involved orbiting a model along the Z... Read more →
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There are several new customer facing features included in Project Freewheel 1.0.1: Real-time Collaboration - Share: Invite, Chat, and Join You can share your designs with others in a sharing session. They see what you see. People can take turns... Read more →
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Vertical Solutions Sales Executive, Anthony "Da Govna" Governanti, has a new blog. Check it out. Read more →
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Now that Project Freewheel has been updated to make use of the Autodesk Labs login, Labs registration is becoming more important. We've gotten a request or two from users who wish to reset their passwords. This can be done by... Read more →
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Software Engineer, Doug Redmond, works on the Autodesk Vault Mirror utility that is available on Autodesk Labs. For Autodesk Vault Mirror to operate properly, Autodesk® Vault 5 or Autodesk® Productstream® 5 must be installed, as well as Microsoft® .NET 1.1.... Read more →
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Project Freewheel Product Design and Manager, Doug Look, pointed out this YouTube video to me. Microsoft Paint by freeloveforum Lead Software Engineer, Eric Haines, brought it to Doug's attention. Was our old friend Eric poking fun at Autodesk Labs? You... Read more →
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The electronic review process associated with Autodesk Design Review is referred to as round tripping. Take AutoCAD as an example. The data starts in a drawing, makes its way to DWF, gets marked up in the DWF, gets its markups... Read more →
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The 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit provides you with the ability to see your design in Project Freewheel with the click of a button. The utility is available for AutoCAD 2008, Inventor 2008, and Revit 2008. When... Read more →
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With the release of the "3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit" and "Project Freewheel 1.0.1," some articles are starting to appear in various blogs. Collaborate in Freewheel JTB World (blog) Jimmy Bergmark http://jtbworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/collaborate-in-freewheel.html http://jtbworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/project-freewheel-3d2d-sharenow-utility.html Project Freewheel 3D/2D ShareNow... Read more →
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We pushed a minor update to the Project Freewheel 1.0.1 servers today. The update included: We improved the robustness of our use of the Autodesk Impression rendering technology by adjusting some of the timing values on our servers. We made... Read more →
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My previous blog posting: YouTube Video: Doug Look and the Multi-Touch Wall proved to be very popular. In the tradition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, all good movies deserve a sequel. Our multi-touch wall movie is no exception.... Read more →
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The 2D to 3D tool for Autodesk Inventor helps you create 3D models of parts that were designed in 2D. Yesterday we posted an updated version of the tool on Autodesk Labs. The new version is compatible with the Autodesk... Read more →
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To quote Sally Field from her 1984 Best Actress Oscar acceptance speech: "You like me. You really like me." We've gotten our first bit of feedback regarding the AutoCAD Command Complete Bonus Tool. A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee,... Read more →
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At Autodesk Labs we're all about innovation. Actually Autodesk is all about innovation. It has been from the start. We have many products and services now, but it all started with AutoCAD in a big way: AutoCAD: Celebrating 25 Years... Read more →
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Today's issue of CCNTV, CAD News on Demand, features an interview with Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division Vice President Andrew Anagnost. http://www.engineeringautomation.net/CCNTV.html Covering a variety of topics, he talks about the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview available on Autodesk Labs. Check... Read more →
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The Autodesk Labs site is based on our community platform. Recall that when you register with any one of our many communities, you have a login for Autodesk Labs. We are in the process of upgrading our community servers to... Read more →
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Okay maybe he's not Jerry Maguire, but Product Line Manager, Eric Stover, reports that the Command Complete Bonus Tool is available for AutoCAD 2008. We are happy to share it with you via Autodesk Labs. Command Complete Bonus Tool for... Read more →
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In my article on the 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit, I depicted how a design can be easily shared from AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit. This is as simple as one click. With the traditional method of using... Read more →
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Though we routinely update Project Showroom servers to provide a more robust and reliable environment, we recently made some updates that have customer facing effects. In our latest build of the service we included: Due to popular demand, the servers... Read more →
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Response to Project Showroom has been wildly greater than anticipated. I am not exaggerating. People love this concept. So many people are "playing with the knobs," don't be surprised if you see a message of the form: Demonstrating the ability... Read more →
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A few of you have been unable to download the 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit. This issue is under investigation. This utility is available on Autodesk Labs in the same manner as the other utilities on the... Read more →
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As part of the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview, we sometimes contact our users. We recently completed a short survey using a subset of the technology preview user base. To our surprise, some of our Inventor LT users were unaware... Read more →
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Back when I was authoring Beyond the Paper, I wrote an article entitled Autodesk Design Review 2008: 2D Navigation Wheel. I depicted the 4 wheels available in Autodesk Design Review 2008: 2D Navigation, 3D View Object, 3D Tour Building, and... Read more →
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The Project Freewheel 1.0.1 update includes the ability to render your 2D designs with a limited version of the same technology that enables Autodesk Impression. Though the application version of Autodesk Impression allows for many rendering choices, the Project Freewheel... Read more →
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The DWF Toolkit is used by Autodesk developers to read and write DWF files. Other companies also use the toolkit to support DWF in their own products. The DWF Toolkit includes C++ source code for reading and writing DWF files.... Read more →
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Technologies and Utilities are available on Autodesk Labs as ZIP files. For those security minded individuals who wish to ensure that a downloaded ZIP file is an exact copy of what was posted to Autodesk Labs, you can download and... Read more →
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The use of Project Freewheel 1.0.1 and the 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit has been astounding. People are really liking the new release. Here's some of the feedback we've gotten so far. The ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD... Read more →
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In the interest of presenting data in new and exciting ways, I too was fascinated with the about Websites as Graphs site. So I followed in the footsteps of Robin Capper and Jimmy Bergmark and specified http://labs.blogs.com to the site.... Read more →
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Suppose you are working with a 3D model in AutoCAD, Inventor, or Revit and want someone to look at it. Wouldn't it be great if you could click a button, call the person on the phone, and instantly collaborate. The... Read more →
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Though the official unveiling isn't until August 7, I am sharing a sneak preview with my loyal Autodesk Labs readers. We're moving. There's a new Project Freewheel coming on line. The new URL is http://freewheel.labs.autodesk.com. This new 1.0.1 URL allows... Read more →
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From the archives... Autodesk Fellow, Tom Wujec, takes us on a tour of the Autodesk Alias Visualization Studio: See the YouTube video Check it out. So what did you think: [email protected]? Read more →
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