It is Alive in the Lab

A few Autodesk facts

I saw a PowerPoint slide that one of our teammates used recently. Click to enlarge I thought it summed up Autodesk well. I thought I would share it. Read more →

Autodesk Design Review and Navisworks Freedom: We have ways to make you talk...

We want to hear your ideas. Despite my earlier blog posting, Product Design Manager, Dirk Ruiz, is still looking for a few good men and women. He would like to get your thoughts regarding interoperability between Navisworks Freedom and Autodesk... Read more →

Autodesk Labs: To log in or not to log in - a follow up

In a previous blog posting, I posed the question about requiring login to be able to download technologies from Autodesk Labs. The quandary is that we want to know who downloaded what, so we can follow up with you, but... Read more →

Platinum LEED Certification for our One Market facility

Our Scottsdale home is for sale so we can relocate to the Bay Area. I will be trading my home office for a spot in our One Market office in San Francisco. The Autodesk Gallery at One Market and newly... Read more →

How large of an image can I get using Project Freewheel?

Project Freewheel is our software as a service approach to viewing and collaboration using just a web browser. Think of it as Autodesk Design Review without the install. Or think of it as a way to view designs on the... Read more →

Memorial Day Tribute to those in uniform

To help put the memorial back in Memorial Day, my wife, Sheryl, and I attended a memorial service at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. The service featured a fly over of actual 1940 WWII antique fighter planes: Arizona Governor,... Read more →

Happy Memorial Day

Today United States employees for Autodesk have the day off to honor those who have fallen in the name of the freedoms we enjoy. Read more →

Comcast Town: a Project Dragonfly wannabe?

Software Engineer and Technical Lead, Gyorgy Ordody has worked on Project Freewheel for design visualization and Project Showroom for photorealistic rendering. He noted that it seems like building likenesses of one’s real and/or hoped-for living quarters is the thing to... Read more →

I broke it, so I fixed it.

I fixed it. I updated new images for EMAIL, FORUM, BLOG, and SOCIAL media. I have wired them in. You will no longer see broken images. Read more →

I broke it. I'll fix it.

When you look at the Autodesk Labs site right now, you will see some missing images: In a fit of spring cleaning, I removed the old Inventor LT page. This removed the supporting files. Alas the other site pages were... Read more →

Autodesk Labs: To log in or not to log in - that is the question

To date Autodesk Labs has been wide open. We allow visitors to peruse the web site, try services, and download utilities without any fuss. We want to make sure there are no hoops to jump through to try things and... Read more →

Peruse Chapter 12 of Wasim Younis' Simulation Book

I got another 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. As noted in a previous blog posting, Wasim recently completed... Read more →

Food with a View

View from our table that I took with my iPhone Yesterday I turned 50. My family went out to dinner at Grayhawk Golf Club. I don't golf. I just like the food - and the view. Thanks to everyone for... Read more →

Project Showroom: Consumers and Manufacturers - win, win

As our software as a service approach to shopping, consumers will benefit from Project Showroom in that they can visualize fixtures, appliances, and surfaces in real world settings as part of making purchasing decisions. Customers can experience these new items... Read more →

iCopy for Inventor Now Available

iCopy allows for fast copying - like the shadow of a runner on the sand Copy and paste are certainly two of my favorite commands when using a word processing application. In fact control-C/control-V are part of most applications. Their... Read more →

Book Review: Uranium by Tom Zoellner

I recently finished Tom Zoellner's book entitled Uranium. It is a fascinating look at the science and history behind this plentiful element. The book offers much to think about given the dual possibilities for the use of this substance -... Read more →

President Obama: ASU Commencement Address

Last night my daughter graduated from Arizona State University (ASU). President Obama gave the commencement address. Since he had only been in office 100 days, ASU did not grant him an honorary degree — igniting much controversy. President Obama addressed... Read more →

Project Showroom: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

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 design... Read more →

Help Drive Collaboration Solutions and Earn $150

Product Design Manager, Dirk Ruiz, is looking for a few good men and women. He would like to get your thoughts regarding interoperability between Navisworks Freedom and Autodesk Design Review. As part of this, we’re kicking off a user research... Read more →

Design + Implementation: Meeting of the Minds (part 2)

In yesterday's post about design and implementation professionals working hand in hand, Software Architect, Ben Cochran, shared his thoughts. Today Senior Product Designer, Mark Anderson, weighs in. User Experience (UX) Designers are responsible for defining how people will experience technology.... Read more →

Design + Implementation: Meeting of the Minds (part 1)

The other day we stumbled across former Autodesker, now Microsoft Research Principal Scientist, Bill Buxton's post: On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter Senior Strategic Designer, Doug Look, sent the link to us. I forwarded Doug's message on to our... Read more →

New and Improved Project Dragonfly Now Available

The Project Dragonfly team has been busy at work. They updated the servers today with new functionality in the following areas: Resizable content Design and navigation toolbars Item detail pop-up toolbar Nudge Alignment feedback for content (2D and 3D) Scale... Read more →

Spring Cleaning of Autodesk Blog List

The list of Autodesk blogs continues to grow. In an effort to make the blog load quicker in the browser, I have changed the home page to: The "See alphabetical list..." takes you to a page I created that has... Read more →

RDB Link for Revit Family Now Available on Autodesk Labs

Now that I have cleaned up the blog categories, let me add a new one: Revit RDB Link Yesterday I added a new utility to the Autodesk Labs site: RDB Link Tool for Revit Family For those of you who... Read more →

Spring Cleaning of Blog Categories

The Autodesk Labs site pull down menu shows the current list of technologies and tools available: Once technologies and utilities are no longer available on the Labs site, they are moved to the Graduates section. Typically each technology or utility... Read more →

Please Consider Autodesk Labs in your Autodesk University 2009 Voting

Voting for Autodesk University 2009 classes is open until May 8. You can identify your preferences at: http://au.autodesk.com/?tagent=em29&nd=au_voting_login There are two Autodesk Labs related classes that you might be interested in: and Thanks for making your preferences known. Looking forward... Read more →

Autodesk Project Dragonfly YouTube Channel

Project Dragonfly is one of our newest technologies on Autodesk Labs. It is a technology preview of our software as a service approach to floor planning. As our newest technology, the Dragonfly team decided to delve into the area of... Read more →

Project Showroom: Life Imitates Art Redux

Happy Cinco de Mayo! In a previous blog posting, Project Showroom: Life Imitates Art, you had the chance to compare a photograph of the bathroom in my house to a photorealistically rendered bathroom of a computer model from one of... Read more →

Google Crazy - the eyes don't have it

I thought I might be having some trouble on my RSS feed. So I thought I would log into Feedburner to check it out.The RSS feed for this blog is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ItsAliveInTheLab Google is in the process of converting some accounts,... Read more →

Project Dragonfly in the Wild

Why do the students always sit in the back of the class? There have been previous posts: Feedback: Project Freewheel in the wild More Project Freewheel in the wild Project Dragonfly is our software as a service approach to floor... Read more →

Kitchen Bathroom Industry Show Starts Today

Today starts the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show in Atlanta. If you are attending this show, please stop by the Jenn-Air booth and talk to our own Mary Hope McQuiston or Noah Kennedy about Project Showroom. Kitchens and bathrooms are the most... Read more →