A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey asks: I am trying to make my own profile library. After I export to XML, I try to open the file with Microsoft Excel 2000. It opens but looks wrong. Asking... Read more →
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A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey asks: I am trying to make my own profile library. After I export to XML, I try to open the file with Microsoft Excel 2000. It opens but looks wrong. Asking... Read more →
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In my post about Project Draw 0.7 being released, I highlighted Google Gears. In fact I followed it up with a few other posts: The Project Draw Google Gears Experience Project Draw usage: ONLINE, OFFLINE (connected), and OFFLINE (disconnected) I... Read more →
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When you want to obtain the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview, you provide your email address. An email is sent to you that contains two important items: a unique serial number and a generic part number. You have two basic... Read more →
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This weekend my brother and his wife visited us in Scottsdale, Arizona. My wife and I took them to beautiful Sedona for a Pink Jeep tour. The Jeep starts out like this: It took us to see rock formations along... Read more →
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There have been several articles published about our new Customer Briefing Center in Lake Oswego, Oregon. A few include: Autodesk Opens Customer Briefing Center in Oregon Autodesk Unveils Customer Briefing Center Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions opens state-of-the-art customer briefing center in... Read more →
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Autodesk Labs Software Engineer, John Schmier, traveled to Tampa for the DistribuTECH conference. He brought our Multi-Touch Wall with him. John filed this report from this T&D (Transmission and Distribution) conference. From John Schmier Autodesk Labs recently displayed the Perceptive... Read more →
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When Project Freewheel was first unveiled, many readers first asked: How does it work? The question still comes up today. Back in my days when authoring Beyond the Paper, Software Architect, Ben Cochran, and I provided a high level overview:... Read more →
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A design loaded into Project Freewheel can be shared simply by starting a session which involves picking a unique name. Although you can require a password if you like, one is not required. Our of QA Engineers, Shana Piver, noted... Read more →
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When I tested Google Gears with Project Draw as documented in The Project Draw Google Gears Experience, I was testing a portion of only one of three possible base use cases. Autodesk Labs Software Engineer, David Falck, provided a simple... Read more →
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Someone actually tried to phish me using Skype: I thought I had seen it all. Normally it's just Trojan Horse emails. I guess these miscreants have expanded their repertoires. Read more →
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Our first LabFair featuring Project Draw was a big success. We had many more people sign up and attend than we first imagined. As this was our first webinar, we did learn a thing or two regarding logistics. If we... Read more →
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My posting on Can we host Freewheel ourselves? generated a follow up question via user feedback: Q: Can any Autodesk employee look at my designs uploaded to a Freewheel server? A: Autodesk Freewheel is the production version of the Freewheel... Read more →
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David Falck is an Autodesk Labs software engineer. He is one of the original developers of Project Draw. David will be presenting a webinar on Project Draw. I will assist him online by typing responses to your questions. Amanda Collins,... Read more →
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Pei Zhan is one of our newer software developers at Autodesk Labs. He has worked on technologies like Project Freewheel and the 3D/2D ShareNow Utility. If someone asked "Is there a doctor in the house?" we could answer "Yes." Pei... Read more →
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A feature of Project Draw 0.7 is support for Google Gears. As part of our testing process, I thought I would share my Project Draw experience. Amid a purple haze of activity last week, I used an internal test server.... Read more →
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Project Draw 0.7 is available now at http://draw.labs.autodesk.com. The new features include: Multi-select shape operations have been optimized Expanded color palette Offline-support using Google Gears If you use Project Draw in OFFLINE mode, please note that the online->offline synch takes... Read more →
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Do great minds think alike? Let's find out. Take one of your parts designed with Autodesk Inventor and see if it matches the set of parts indexed in our Visual Search technology preview: Visual Search from Autodesk Labs powered by... Read more →
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This morning we corrected a problem with the "Remember me" functionality of the Autodesk Labs web site for Firefox users. So now if you chose to have your Autodesk Labs login remembered as in: you will be logged in when... Read more →
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I got such great feedback on my articles: A Wii Bit of Fun Wiimote Commands for Autodesk Design Review 2008 Since I don't have a Wiimote myself, I asked Technical Evangelist, Brian Pene, to make a video for me. He... Read more →
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I had a meeting with Shaan "Johnny Appleseed" Hurley today and got some advice on how to make it easy for people to read blogs via RSS. One way is to centralize use of the Feedburner feed. With this in... Read more →
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If you use Autodesk Inventor 2008 in combination with Microsoft Vista, you can download a new installer for the Feature Recognition Tool. Regardless of your operating system, if you are a Feature Recognition user, please take a few minutes to... Read more →
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One of the frequently asked questions I get is "How can I use the AutoCAD 'Publish to Web' capability with Project Freewheel?" I am no Lynn Allen (a.k.a. the original Melanie Stone Perry) or Shaan Hurley, but I decided to... Read more →
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In addition to our core team in San Rafael, we are pleased to announce that Autodesk Labs is growing under the direction of Zhiguo "Richard" Lu at our Autodesk China Research and Development center (ACRD) in Shanghai. Richard joined the... Read more →
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When a computer program needs memory, it allocates it. When it no longer needs it, it frees it. Computer memory is shared among programs, so it really is bad practice to hold on to memory when it is no longer... Read more →
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Autodesk Labs Marketing Manager, Amanda Collins, spent a lot of her time at our download station at Autodesk University. Autodesk University attendees wanted to get their hands on cool tools and technologies. Amanda noted that hundreds of attendees (~500) asked... Read more →
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Please take a few minutes to take a Feature Recognition for Inventor survey and share your thoughts! The Feature Recognition Tool for Inventor is available on Autodesk Labs. http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/feature_recognition/ You can use this utility to convert STEP, SAT, or IGES... Read more →
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You asked for it. We listened. Autodesk Labs works like that. Technical Consulting Manager, Chris Nailer, reports that an updated Drawing Cleanup Utility is available. The previous one ceased operation on November 30, 2007. We are happy to share the... Read more →
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One of our Autodesk Design Review developers received the following email from a Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey: Subject: Holy 3D, Batman! I finally took the plunge tonight, and loaded up my copy of Max onto my... Read more →
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