Email is easy. I have my work email: [email protected]. I have my personal email: [email protected]. Laptops are easy. I have my IBM ThinkPad for work. It is upstairs in my office. I have my DELL Inspiron for personal use. It... Read more →
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Email is easy. I have my work email: [email protected]. I have my personal email: [email protected]. Laptops are easy. I have my IBM ThinkPad for work. It is upstairs in my office. I have my DELL Inspiron for personal use. It... Read more →
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A 3D model is more tangible than a 2D printout. STL is a file format native to stereolithography. The file format is supported by many 3D printers. As such, it is often used for rapid prototyping and computer-aided manufacturing. A... Read more →
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I got this via email the other day: Click to enlarge. Now there's a winning combination: Autodesk + Grey Goose Vodka. A good time will be had by all. Read more →
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Put Feature Recognition in the palm of your hand... The Feature Recognition Tool allows you to convert STEP, SAT, or IGES solids models into fully featured Autodesk Inventor models. You can execute feature mapping automatically or interactively to maintain your... Read more →
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I got an email from Wasim Younis yesterday. He and I had previously corresponded when he provided feedback on the Advanced Simulation Technology Preview when it was on Autodesk Labs. Wasim has recently completed his book on simulation. The book... Read more →
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In a blog posting from way back, I talked about When Images Go Bad.These errant images are the results of when our rendering server encounters a problem and the pixels go awry. The other day one of our lead developers,... Read more →
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Autodesk is celebrating Earth Day in a virtual way with our own internal site called Autodesk Earth Day. You can find out more about our green efforts at: Sustainable Design In keeping with that spirit, you can celebrate by trying:... Read more →
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As some of you may have noticed, I started working on this yesterday. I normally use an RSS reader to read blogs. For It's Alive in the Lab, I sometimes use Internet Explorer just to make sure the web site... Read more →
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Inventor Product Manager, Simon Bosley, provided me with an updated 2D to 3D Tool for Autodesk Inventor. I was happy to update the Autodesk Labs web site: 2D to 3D Tool for Inventor The updated version adds installers that support... Read more →
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This is not a photograph. It is a rendering of a 3D scene. Click to enlarge. Project Showroom is a technology preview that establishes a vision for a service for home furnishing suppliers to enable their customers to visualize their... Read more →
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Autodesk Labs Software Engineer, Frederic Loranger, filed this report. When it comes to finding an alternative to traditional Enterprise Data Storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) comes as a valuable option. The solution offered by Amazon is reliable, scalable, and... Read more →
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Project Showroom is a technology preview of a service for home furnishing suppliers to enable their customers to visualize their products in real-life room settings. It is based on computer renderings that look like photographs. It's our version of kitchen... Read more →
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There's nothing like curling up with a good book. what if the book were replaced by a web site? In May of 2007 I asked: If we had Autodesk documentation available as a Wiki, would you trust it? We're not... Read more →
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No need to fret over uninstalling in preparation for an upgrade. The process is easy. Since the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009 expires on May 1, many of you will wish to uninstall it. For the vast majority of... Read more →
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In working with one of our partners on Project Showroom, they had trouble determining the difference between the reference photographs and the results generated from our bank of computers that creates the photorealistic images. Since we recently had our bathroom... Read more →
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It was two years ago today that we cut the ribbon on this blog. Today is the second anniversary of this blog. To date there have been 738 posts. The streak of daily business day postings lives on. It's a... Read more →
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On Tuesday I wrote about Project Showroom = Temporary Sanity. Although the ONION article is faux news story whose sole point is humor, I do have my own Lowe's paint story. We had a smudge on our ceiling. Though people... Read more →
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Autodesk Labs Marketing Manager, Amanda Collins, was interested in the history of how the name came about. Amanda filed this blog report. Her original theory was that dragonflies often symbolize change. In Japanese art, they often represent light and joy.... Read more →
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Project Showroom is a technology preview that establishes a vision for a service for home furnishing suppliers to enable their customers to visualize their products in real-life room settings. It is our software as a service approach to kitchen and... Read more →
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Channel and Education Manager, Angela Simoes, shared this information today. As an Autodesk blogger, I am helping her get the word out. Designers, Engineers and Architects Can Receive Software, Training, Certification and Other Company Resources to Help Extend Their Skills... Read more →
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Many of you embed your designs in your web pages. Visitors to your sites view your designs, plus pan, zoom, and orbit to see more than what could be accomplished with just a picture. In cases where you rely on... Read more →
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Our IT department planned on conducting some network maintenance on April 3 from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Pacific time. Service to Project Freewheel and Project Showroom would have been affected and these technology previews would not have been available.... Read more →
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Many of you have watched: TED Project Newport Autodesk Labs Living Homes v3 This video is about 3 minutes long. Some of you asked for a condensed 1 minute version that you could show to your colleagues as part of... Read more →
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Our IT department will be conducting some server maintenance today: April 1 from 9:00 am - 11:00 am Pacific time. Project Freewheel will be unavailable. We thank you for your patience. Read more →
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