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Autodesk was ranked 25th on Fast Company's list the 50 most innovative companies: The World's Most Innovative Companies Showcasing technologies from all of our divisions (and some developed by our group), Autodesk Labs is proud to be doing its part... Read more →
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The free ShareNow utility allows you to publish your design to Project Freewheel with one click. The utility publishes a DWF from your design, uploads it to the Project Freewheel server, and invokes your browser so you can see your... Read more →
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The plot thickens. Last week I highlighted two postings on Scott Adams', the creator of Dilbert, blog where he is designing the ultimate house. Ultimate House Ultimate House Plan (take two) When he uses the word ultimate, he is going... Read more →
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In yesterday's blog article, Project Freewheel: DWFx Ready, some of you noticed that the build number on Project Freewheel is now 1.0.2.36. Yes we posted a new build on Friday. This build incorporates changes in our software architecture to improve... Read more →
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Project Freewheel supports both DWF and DWFx files. As new information about our 2009 Autodesk products rolls out, you may have noticed that these products mention DWFx. For 2009, DWFx is now the default. For the uninitiated, DWFx is our... Read more →
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I have Yahoo alerts turned on for DWF. I want to be on top of it every time a divorced white female does something newsworthy. :-) So i just got the following alert. So I visited this link and saw... Read more →
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WARNING: We found an issue in the tool for Frame Generator Customization authoring. In some cases, when the structural profile is authored, some of the sketch constraints are lost. WORKAROUND: Product Designer, Loren Jahraus, notes that constraints to projected origin... Read more →
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Our house is a very very very fine house With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy 'cause of you I'll light the fire While you place the flowers in the vase... Read more →
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Look at the athletic shoes that Senior Strategic Designer, Doug Look, created for Autodesk Labs: Years ago when I was a DWF Technical Evangelist, I created a design for my own set of shoes using the colors from the DWF... Read more →
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Autodesk Labs is happy to announce the availability of Project Draw 0.7.1. The following activities were undertaken by the Autodesk Labs team as part of this release: Ensured compatibility with Google Gears 0.2.14 (an upgrade from 0.1.54). Project Draw automatically... Read more →
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They say it's not easy being green? Perhaps it's not easy not being green? Are you outside the green? The other day we made improvements to the server architecture that supports Project Draw. All users should see better performance -... Read more →
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As part of our Project Freewheel development, I had been testing with Firefox 3 Beta 2. Project Freewheel and Firefox 3 seem to get along quite nicely: I have seen a minor issue with a few extra display redraws, but... Read more →
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Senior Strategic Designer, Doug Look, patiently waits for his turn at the multi-touch wall while CEO, Carl Bass, has a hands on experience: larger image "They also serve who only stand and wait." -- John Milton :-) There was more... Read more →
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Today is the second anniversary of my hand at blogging. Between Beyond the Paper and It's Alive in the Lab, I can't believe it's been two years. February 14, 2006: Why Beyond the Paper? February 14, 2007: Beyond the Paper... Read more →
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About half of you who read this blog, without using an RSS reader, use Internet Explorer: Of you Internet Explorer browser users, most of you use Internet Explorer 7: Yesterday I read Mary Jo Foley's All About Microsoft blog where... Read more →
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Sometimes you look at things and see what you want to see: Image Source Do you see the old couple or the goblet in between? The Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons in Project Freewheel look like: Despite looking at... Read more →
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I routinely watch/listen to a 5 minute broadcast about the Internet from a site called: Webb Alert The site name is a play on the word "web" based on the hostess' last name. Today there was a story about Google... Read more →
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Content Search Alpha is our overall Autodesk framework for aggregating design content in a searchable way. It leverages the richness of design data that separates it from traditional forms of information sharing such as images. Visual Search is a technology... Read more →
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In my Lots of Feedback in FY08 - thanks posting earlier in the week, I noted how you have been so kind as to provide feedback to our various email aliases; however, there are other ways for you to provide... Read more →
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The feedback from our first LabFair webinar is that you want to see some cool drawings done with Project Draw. While we certainly have an array of diagrams that we have created during our testing, we thought it would be... Read more →
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The Autodesk fiscal year runs from February 1 through January 31. So we just finished FY08. We're now into FY09. So you'll see products that we release later in the year reflect the 2009 moniker. Autodesk Labs is all about... Read more →
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I got questions about the image in yesterday's post: The most frequently asked question was "What is it?" Variants of this question were "What the heck is that?" and "What is that thing?" The comments reminded me of that Steve... Read more →
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Two of the developers from the Autodesk Labs team, David Falck and Shelly Mujtaba, discussed their experiences in updating Project Draw to support Google Gears: Autodesk Labs: Project Draw Offline They highlight how direct feedback from Autodesk Labs users, e.g.... Read more →
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We have ended our Impression technology experiment of Project Freewheel. Today I reconfigured the servers to "turn off" this capability. Thanks to everyone for the great feedback we received with regard to artistic renderings of designs without installing additional software.... Read more →
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