Autodesk Labs Autodesk University 2007 Exhibits

Autodesk Labs had several booths in the Exhibit Hall at Autodesk University.

These included:

• Download Station
  This kiosk provided a convenient, very high bandwidth way, to download the tools found on http://labs.autodesk.com onto USB drives.

• Digital Pen Technology
  Perhaps you consider paper outdated? What if it could be used as an input device? By using a special pen with designs printed on specially dotted paper, visitors could mark up their designs and have those markups magically appear in Autodesk Design Review - without touching the computer. This technology literally goes beyond the paper.

• Multi-Touch Wall
  
  Visitors got a hands-on experience of using Autodesk Design Review (a specially instrumented Labs build) with all ten fingers. Visitors could select, orbit, and zoom in one continuous motion. It just doesn't get more natural.

• Project Freewheel with Impression technology
  3D/2D ShareNow Add-in for Autodesk, Inventor, Inventor LT, and Revit
  Project Draw
  This booth allowed users to see the ShareNow Add-in publish to Project Freewheel. Visitors could view the designs on Windows or the Macintosh using just a browser. Once published, designs could be rendered using the same technology that appears in Autodesk Impression. For users who wished to create diagrams without installing any additional software, they could try Project Draw.

• Boom Chameleon
  
  Visitors would hold the Boom Chameleon in front of them with two hands (as you would a map). They looked into the display. They saw a virtual model of a car. They walked slowly forward. As they moved, they could follow the contour of the entire car and get a feel for the surface, shape, and design, or move in close to inspect a detail.

• Visual Search
  Project Showroom
  It's all about the look! Exhibit hall visitors could use http://visualsearch.labs.autodesk.com to search for designs using their own models or by doodling (hand sketching), To see how a home manufacturer might allow customers to configure and visualize a bathroom, users could try http://showroom.labs.autodesk.com.

• Explore a 3D City
  
  Visitors flew through the city before them. They used a Gyro mouse to pan and scan. The city included buildings modeled with Autodesk software.

• Content Search alpha
  Visitors used http://cs.labs.autodesk.com to find generic or manufacturer-specific building products or components. This leveraged the rich metadata that describes designs in detail.

• Scan/Modify/Print
  
  This booth presented the workflow of scanning an existing model, modifying it with Autodesk Inventor, and printing a prototype of the modified model using a 3D printer. It answered the question as to how the original mouse became the modified mouse.

Demonstrating that design matters is alive in the lab.