It is Alive in the Lab

Random Bridge Ramblings

Autodesk Labs Software Developer, Gyorgy Ordody, submitted this. As we now know in the Bay Area, it’s not easy to maintain and build bridges. We have the Bay Bridge (or James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge) trouble going on as this... Read more →

Project Cooper: You Name It!

[Amanda Collins writing for Scott Sheppard while he is on sabbatical] Have you tried Project Cooper with Win 7, Vista or even XP? Be sure to email [email protected] with any comments you might have. What do you think it should... Read more →

MFG Community Wiki Help Beta

[Ben Cochran here, while Scott Sheppard is on sabbatical] On Monday, the Manufacturing (MFG) Wiki Help went live. The MFG Wiki Helps enable community collaboration by enhancing and extending Autodesk Help content. You can share and edit videos, add instructions,... Read more →

More on Project Cooper

[Amanda Collins writing for Scott Sheppard while he is on sabbatical] One of the divisions at Autodesk is named Platform Solutions & Emerging Business (PSEB). Autodesk Labs is part of the “emerging” area. Another Emerging Business team in PSEB, led... Read more →

Inventor Fusion Update

[Ben Cochran here, while Scott Sheppard is on sabbatical] I wanted to let you know the Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion Technology Preview has been updated. It now includes Inventor Fusion change manager functionality. I am excited about Fusion because the preview... Read more →

Project Cooper evaluated on CNET

Rafe Needleman from CNET evaluates Project Cooper on Win7 with multi-touch. If you remember a few years ago, multi-touch on the desktop was obscure and unsupported. Now you can see how multi-touch is entering the desktop environment. Check it out! Read more →

Looking for programs to install with Windows 7? How about Autodesk Project Cooper?

[Amanda Collins writing for Scott Sheppard while he is on sabbatical] As you probably know, Microsoft launched Windows 7 on Thursday with a big event in New York City. Autodesk announced its support for Windows 7 here. If you have... Read more →

Introducing the Project Cooper Technology Preview

[Amanda Collins writing for Scott Sheppard while he is on sabbatical] In an earlier blogpost, Scott hinted about an exciting new technology preview coming your way: Autodesk Project Cooper. Drum roll, please .. it has arrived! Check out this easy-to-use... Read more →

Project Twitch now runs on Windows XP x64 and Vista x64

[Frederic Loranger here as a guest writer while Scott Sheppard is on sabbatical] ® Project Twitch is a technology preview that lets you try AutoCAD® 2010, Inventor® 2010, Revit® Architecture 2010, and soon Maya® 2010 over the internet without the... Read more →

Solar Radiation Technology Preview Update

[Ben Cochran writing for Scott Sheppard while he is on sabbatical] People using Revit® Architecture 2010 Update 2 and Revit® MEP 2010 Update 2 have been asking about the Solar Radiation Technology Preview on Labs. The previous preview supported Revit®... Read more →

Project Twitch Coverage – Update

[Frederic Loranger here as a guest writer while Scott Sheppard is on sabbatical] When we first launched Project Twitch – an internet delivery of application trials – we enforced that participants be within 1000 miles from our data center located... Read more →

Interview With An Idea

Diagram: State Transition of an Idea IDEA AS ARTIFACT: Interview with an Idea This exercise comprised tracking an idea as an artifact, from its initial inception and over the course of a few weeks, its transformation and journey through life.... Read more →

Book Review: We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives by Paul Shaffer

Scott prepares to attend a friend's surprise 50th birthday party that has a Beatles theme With time on my hands during my sabbatical, I was able to read Paul Shaffer's book, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives,... Read more →

Facebook at Work?

This is Ben Cochran. Scott is on sabbatical, and I've been invited to be a guest writer while he is out. Facebook is great! If you are like me, you have multiple e-mail addresses. One for work, one for personal... Read more →

Technology, Business, and Design

Entropy carpet tile from Interface, Inc. Last week I attended the Rocky Mountain Institute 2009 Conference in San Francisco, where I saw some great examples of how technology, business, and design can be combined to yield effective sustainability solutions. Technology:... Read more →

Project Twitch Range Expanded: can YOU connect?

[Brian Mathews here as a guest writer while Scott Sheppard is on sabbatical] Originally when we launched Project Twitch (internet delivery of Application Trials), we had a requirement that participants be within 1,000 miles of our Santa Clara data center.... Read more →

Got a design challenge? Ask Nature, Thank a Genius!

RMI 2009 This past weekend I [Brian Mathews] attended the excellent RMI 2009 Conference. RMI is the Rocky Mountain Institute, which is a non-profit think-tank formed in 1982 concerned with promoting an economically favorable path towards sustainable design and energy... Read more →

Solar Radition Technology Preview Not Compatible with Revit Service Pack 2

The Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit is available for download from: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ecotect/ With the recent release of Service Pack 2 for Revit, the combination of the technology preview and the service pack results in: Since I am on sabbatical... Read more →

The Informant Is a Bad Movie

Yesterday my daughter and I saw the new Matt Damon movie The Informant. This could be the most uninteresting movie both of us have ever seen. It's not that the acting was bad. Although the film looked like a film... Read more →

The Latest Labs News

Hello - this is Ben Cochran. Scott is on sabbatical, and I've been invited to be a guest writer while he is out. I wanted to let you know the latest additions and changes to Autodesk Labs. I just learned... Read more →