Tomorrow is our 28th wedding anniversary. Sheryl and I dated through high school and college and got married 3 months after graduation. John Schmier took this picture a while back. Those really are my fingers on the keyboard. We were... Read more →
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31 posts from July 2009
July 31, 2009
July 30, 2009
Autodesk Labs Site Down Time for New Facelift
At the urging of Robin Capper, I have replaced the image of the wrenches in a coat pocket. As previous mentioned, Autodesk Labs Marketing Manager, Amanda Collins, has been leading our efforts to give the Autodesk Labs site a makeover.... Read more →
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July 29, 2009
San Francisco Gallery at One Market Pecha Kucha
Autodesk is hosting Pecha Kucha Night tomorrow in the Gallery at One Market Thursday, July 30 (Doors open at 7:30 pm; Show starts at 8:20 pm). Recall that Pecha Kucha is a presentation format where a presenter tells a story... Read more →
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Crash Proof: Precision of Silver as Compared to Gold
Last week I read Crash Proof by Peter D, Schiff. Having already shared an excerpt from the book about gold, I thought I would mention silver. The United States dollar was first defined by the Mint Act of 1792 as... Read more →
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July 28, 2009
An Introduction to Autodesk Systems
Image courtesy of Organika Image courtesy of Ace Digital House Image courtesy of Smoke&Mirrors Seeing is believing I never thought I'd be here Is this really real Or am I dreaming? No way of knowing "Seeing is Believing," Andrew Lloyd... Read more →
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July 27, 2009
Project Cooper Technology Preview Coming Soon
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Julliet, William Shakespeare, 1594. Project Cooper is our easy to use sketching tool that allows consumers to communicate their visions.... Read more →
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July 24, 2009
Through the Interface: Plugin of the Month
Our pal Kean Walmsley has a post on his blog: Coming soon to Autodesk Labs... Plugin of the month Check it out. Expanding our nexus from tool users to tool developers is alive in the lab. Read more →
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Going to California with an aching in my heart...
Made up my mind to make a new start, Going to california with an aching in my heart. Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams, Telling myself its not as hard, hard, hard as it seems. "Going to... Read more →
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July 23, 2009
Updated Autodesk Freewheel Service Now Available
Recall that version 1.0 of Autodesk Freewheel was fully released as an Autodesk service on April 10, 2007. Project Freewheel continued its technology preview path by extending its capabilities. On July 20, 2009 Autodesk Freewheel was updated to include elements... Read more →
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July 22, 2009
Project Draw down time: 9 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time
One of our developers, Frederic Loranger, is visiting our Petaluma Data Center this morning to upgrade some of our DELL PowerEdge servers. He will need to power off the physical server running the virtual machines that host Project Draw. The... Read more →
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Engineering a Man on the Moon
Yesterday we got an email from Brian Mathews, VP of Autodesk Labs. With his permission, I thought I would share it with you. From: Brian Mathews Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 9:35 AM To: Autodesk Labs Dev Subject: Man on... Read more →
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July 21, 2009
Autodesk Announces Expanded Support for Mac Users via Boot Camp
No, not that kind of Boot Camp. Senior Public Relations Manager, Noah Cole, shared some interesting news with Autodesk bloggers, Autodesk is now officially supporting Apple Boot Camp, a component of the Mac OSX operating system that enables customers to... Read more →
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Updated iCopy for Inventor Now Available
The iCopy team has a new iCopy install available on the Autodesk Labs site. It has been verified by the Inventor QA team. Free Download of iCopy for Inventor Technology Preview Just like the original install, there are 4 flavors... Read more →
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July 20, 2009
Inventor Fusion Feedback from far and wide
Inventor Fusion is a new Digital Prototyping technology that showcases intuitive direct manipulation capabilities for direct modeling. Recall that technology preview one provides an opportunity for you to provide feedback on our user interface for direct modeling. Our current plans... Read more →
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July 17, 2009
Over 2500 Revit Families Available
Michele Bousquet reports that the Revit Market catalog, TurboSquid, recently made it to 2500 Revit families for sale, by users and for users. Here is the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2626534.htm When she started Revit Market six months ago, Michele surveyed users... Read more →
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Sneak Peek: Autodesk Labs Site Under Construction
The Autodesk Labs site is in the process of getting a makeover. Basically we want to make technologies easier for you to find. We want to allow you to see them by industry, by associated application, or alphabetically. The tab... Read more →
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Autodesk Labs Community Down Tonight from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM Pacific Time
Our IT department will be performing some maintenance on the Autodesk community site platform, As a result, the Autodesk Labs community will be down on Friday from 10:00 PM to Saturday 1:00 AM Pacific time. We thank you for your... Read more →
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July 16, 2009
Updated Sustainable Materials Assistant for Inventor Now Available
Oh, mercy mercy me Oh, things ain't what they used to be Where did all the blue sky go? Poison is the wind that blows From the north, east, south, and sea Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our... Read more →
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July 15, 2009
Sample Autodesk Labs Feedback from June
Autodesk Labs is all about feedback. Every once in a while I get an email that says "I have downloaded the utility from the site. I have been using it. What kind of feedback are you looking for?" To give... Read more →
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July 14, 2009
Updated Inventor Fusion Technology Preview Now Available
On Thursday, July 9, we posted an update to the Inventor Fusion Technology Preview. This update corrects some of the crashing defects you have reported to [email protected]. Thanks for the defects. Please keep the feedback coming. This is exactly why... Read more →
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July 13, 2009
Autodesk Revit Solar Radiation Technology Preview Now Available
Solar radiation analysis is one of the ways architects can consider ecology when creating their designs. "Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it's all right." "Here Comes the Sun," George Harrison, The Beatles, Abbey Road,... Read more →
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July 10, 2009
Request for Survey Participation: Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
Dear owner, architect or energy consultant, You are invited to participate in an online survey on the use of building energy simulation during design, construction and operation. A special emphasis of the survey is to better understand who on the... Read more →
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Project Freewheel will be down on Monday from 9 AM to 12 PM
Our IT department will be performing some routine maintenance on Monday. As such, the Project Freewheel servers will be down from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific time. We thank you for your patience and your continued interest in Project... Read more →
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July 09, 2009
Twitter Status: Tweets, Following, and Followers
I will follow you. Will you follow me? All the days and nights that we know will be. I will stay with you. Will you stay with me? Just one single tear in each passing year there will be. "Follow... Read more →
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July 08, 2009
Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline: Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco
Marketing Communications Manager, Julie Hayes, let me know that recently, the award-winning broadcaster Dave Graveline, host of the technology talk show “Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline,” interviewed Autodesk leaders and customers at the Autodesk Gallery at One Market. A sampling... Read more →
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thinkdigit: The Online Desktop Experience: Autodesk Project Dragonfly
Product Manager, Patrick Aragon, alerted me to a recent review of Project Dragonfly. Recall that Project Dragonfly is our software as a service approach to floor planning. For the review, see: thinkdigit: The Online Desktop Experience: Autodesk Project Dragonfly This... Read more →
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July 07, 2009
Return from Feature Recognition in Inventor 2010
In 1962 Elvis Presely had a hit entitled "Return to Sender." The song tells the story of unrequited love as demonstrated by a letter being returned unopened by its recipient. I couldn't help but have that song play through my... Read more →
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July 06, 2009
It's Gold I Tell Ya, Gold
On our vacation, I have been reading Crash Proof by Peter D. Schiff. One of the anecdotes in this book is a quote from the author's father who was also a writer. Irwin Schiff published a book entitled The Biggest... Read more →
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July 03, 2009
Happy Fourth of July
Tomorrow is the day America celebrates its independence. As they have been all week, our Autodesk offices in the Unites States are closed today. Tomorrow we will spend the day with family, eat hot dogs, and watch fireworks at night.... Read more →
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July 02, 2009
I Thought You Might Like A CAD Application Like This
Eddy Kuo is one of our Autodesk Labs developers. Eddy has worked a great deal on multi-touch. Eddy worked with Hans Kellner to integrate the multi-touch capabilities into our demo version of Autodesk Design Review. Many of you have gotten... Read more →
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July 01, 2009
Autodesk Labs Graduates Page under construction
Today is our third day of vacation, so I can't fix this right now. When a technology or utility graduates from Labs, I create an entry on the Graduates page: http://labs.autodesk.com/graduates/ Our graduating class for Labs has outgrown the number... Read more →
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