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Our Autodesk Labs offices are located on the third floor of our Civic Center South building on the Autodesk campus in San Rafael. The majority of our walls are whiteboards. Developers routinely draw software architecture diagrams on our walls. The... Read more →
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First there was the Bourne Identity. Then there was the Bourne Supremacy. The latest movie was the Bourne Ultimatum. I guess movies often come in sets of three. Such is the case with Autodesk Labs and our movies for the... Read more →
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Publishing your design from Revit to Project Freewheel is as easy as one click. I will show you. Here's a short 2 minute YouTube video. YouTube: Watch the Revit video Non-YouTube: Watch the Revit video So give it a try.... Read more →
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Senior Product Designer, Ursula Sadiq, has an article about Project Freewheel collaboration on her In the Pipes blog: P&ID Markups with [Project] Freewheel Although the 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit installer only locates and installs for vanilla... Read more →
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The 3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for Revit installs itself in the first copy of Revit that it finds. Some people wish to manually move it to a designated install of Revit 2008. To manually do so: Make sure you have all... Read more →
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We recently upgraded Project Freewheel to build 32 of our 1.0.1 release. This build added some new functionality in the way of: support for DWFx files, a correction for cache file handling, more robust event handling, better error messages, and... Read more →
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We are in the process of updating our Project Freewheel servers. The plan is for the service to be down for a few hours. So please bear with us while we make these changes. The production version of the service,... Read more →
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Customer load testing of the newly released build 32 of Project Freewheel has identified an issue. We are grateful to our loyal users for this feedback. For the moment, we have disabled the Impression rendering technology from Project Freewheel. We... Read more →
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For the posting on Content Search, Click Here. The other Autodesk Labs team members make fun of me. They say I am too scientific. You be the judge. I started buying CDs in 1983. So when I got my iPod... Read more →
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On September 19 we made an update to our Project Freewheel servers. We updated them to build 1.0.1.32. I know you're thinking "Wow! I've been waiting for build 32! I can't believe it's here. It seems like it was only... Read more →
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The Project Freewheel service is back up. Our testing is complete and was a success. This was a planned outage that allowed us to make updates. Thank you for your patience and your ongoing interest in Project Freewheel. You can... Read more →
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We are in the process of upgrading our Project Freewheel servers. The plan is for the service to be down for approximately 2 hours. So please bear with us while we make and test our improvements. The production version of... Read more →
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Systems Engineer, Deryl Sequeira, wants all of our Autodesk Labs community members to know that the Project Freewheel server will be shut down for maintenance. The scheduled maintenance starts at 6:00 AM Pacific time and will last approximately two hours.... Read more →
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or Yesterday's blog article demonstrated that publishing your design from Autodesk Inventor to Project Freewheel is as easy as one click. YouTube: Watch the Inventor video or non-YouTube: Watch the Inventor video As a follow up, publishing your design from... Read more →
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Publishing your design from Inventor to Project Freewheel is as easy as one click. I will show you. Here's a short 2 minute YouTube video. YouTube: Watch the Inventor video or non-YouTube: Watch the Inventor video Download the 3D/2D ShareNow... Read more →
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For those of you who wish to receive my audio feed, Talkr Principal and CMO, M. Scott Williams, reports that Talkr has been experiencing a growth spurt, and something weird is happening to the It's Alive in the Lab feed.... Read more →
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Autodesk University has always been a great place to learn about Autodesk technologies. This year is no exception. Project Freewheel and Autodesk Freewheel will be featured in several classes including: ID Course Speaker Type Date Time CD105-1 Beyond the Paper:... Read more →
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Okay maybe he's still not Jerry Maguire, but Product Line Manager, Eric Stover, reports that the Command Complete Bonus Tool is now available for the 64-bit version of AutoCAD 2008. The bonus tool continues to be compatible with the 32-bit... Read more →
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I recently added Talkr for people who want to hear this blog. That reminded me that there is more than one way to read this blog. You can use your web Browser to visit http://labs.blogs.com. Using this method, you come... Read more →
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Technology is a key ingredient to going green. At Autodesk Labs, we're all about technology. Green is practically our middle name. (OK, well at least its our color.) According to Senior Web Editor, Maura Gitny, here are the top 5... Read more →
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Much like a red acid to a blue base, we're comparing items in the lab again. Between this blog and Beyond the Paper, I have written a few articles about Buzzsaw: Software as a Service versus Software Applications DWF in... Read more →
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How would you like to see YOUR designs in a virtual world where millions of people could experience them? Second Life is a combination of a simulation game and social network. Second Life is played by creating an avatar which... Read more →
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A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in? How do I publish an entire project's worth of drawings to Project Freewheel using the AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager? VP of Autodesk Labs, Brian Mathews, was in the Freewheel... Read more →
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My article on Project Freewheel Collaboration Geared for Multiple Interactive Users generated many questions on how Project Freewheel is different from Autodesk® Design Review. We also have Autodesk® Freewheel. I thought it best to summarize the differences in a table.... Read more →
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Some people have asked to see my business card: They don't believe me when I tell them I have my blog address printed on it. Read more →
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I hooked up my blog to Talk today. You can subscribe to an RSS feed and get the blog for listening on your iPod. The apostrophe in It's Alive in the Lab throws it for a loop, but it does... Read more →
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Project Showroom is one of our many solutions for design visualization. The scenario for this technology preview is a home builder who allows clients to customize their homes by selecting accessories. The clients can then see a realistic rendering [as... Read more →
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We are in the process of upgrading our air conditioning units that cool the Project Freewheel servers. The plan is for the data center to be down for the rest of today and possibly until tomorrow morning sometime. So please... Read more →
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Gyorgy Ordody is one of our Autodesk Labs developers. He put on the funny glasses just for this picture. He is not a mad scientist - just a scientist. He is a serious programmer. A while back Gyorgy alerted me... Read more →
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At the time of downloading the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview, users have the ability to "opt in" to receive more information. For users who have done so, the September issue of the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview Newsletter will... Read more →
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As part of Project Freewheel testing, I clear my browser cache and cookies often. Actually I am an Internet Explorer 7 user, and I usually just nuke everything with: I am a big fan of the "Delete all..." button. This... Read more →
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There are two ways to bring a design into Project Freewheel. Depending on which method you chose, you may need to be aware of an internet concept known as "cache headers" if you change your design and want to ensure... Read more →
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In celebration of the holiday, we're having our Labor Day Blowout sale. You can download the following utilities from Autodesk Labs for free! Labs Item Installer Download Feedback Command Complete for AutoCAD Command Complete.zip [email protected] Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD... Read more →
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