It is Alive in the Lab

Google Translate Added to It's Alive in the Lab

Today I saw on the Inside the Factory blog that Erik Egbertson had added the Google translate capability to his site. So I did the same. I located the translator UI element right under the map that shows the locations... Read more →

It's Alive in the Lab: Thanks for a successful FY10

As I have mentioned, this month is the start of a new fiscal year for Autodesk. So right now we are busy looking at how we did last year. In terms of this blog, my colleagues who supply me with... Read more →

Autodesk IDEA Studio: Chaotic Mixing Design for Engineered Wetlands

Dr. Evan A. Variano To date I have had a couple of blog posts about IDEA Studio: Autodesk Gallery Idea Studio Grant Program Autodesk Gallery Idea Studio Follow up Last week I was able to see it in action first... Read more →

Project Butterfly: Popular in its first month

Project Butterfly launched via Autodesk Labs on January 19. We took a look at the statistics as of February 20. After one month of operation, you have helped make Project Butterfly a flying success. Stat Value Number of visitors 41,200... Read more →

Project Butterfly Update Now Available

The hits just keep on coming. The Project Butterfly team has a new release. And as a software as a service based solution, you can use it right away. No download. No install. No nothing. Just point your browser to:... Read more →

Feedback Mechanisms for Project Cooper Renamed

Now that Project Cooper has been renamed, we have also changed the names of the feedback mechanisms: [email protected] email address AutoCAD Freestyle Technology Preview discussion forum AutoCAD Freestyle blog category The previous identifiers continue to work. Please continue to use... Read more →

Project Cooper Now AutoCAD Freestyle Technology Preview

With regard to this morning's post, Project Cooper Soon to Be AutoCAD Freestyle Technology Preview, the Autodesk web site has been updated. The new download is now available: http://www.autodesk.com/projectcooper Please do continue to provide your feedback to [email protected] or the... Read more →

Project Cooper Soon to Be AutoCAD Freestyle Technology Preview

The Project Cooper team will have a new download later today. This new download will incorporate a lot of the feedback we received at [email protected] and the project cooper discussion forum. In addition to improvements in the ability to read... Read more →

Check out these Dacor and Autodesk Partnership Pages

In addition to making Autodesk Showroom functionality available via the Style Viewer and Product Selector, Dacor has created some informational pages on its site Design Tools using New Web Services from Autodesk Find Dacor on Autodesk Seek These pages show... Read more →

Autodesk IDEA Studio Follow Up

Although we don't have money to burn, we do have some set aside for the IDEA Studio... About a week ago I blogged about the Autodesk IDEA Studio grant program. Since then I have gotten some more information from Senior... Read more →

The Three Faces of the Labs home page

By default the Autodesk Labs home page presents technologies and utilities grouped by the industries that Autodesk serves: A while back as part of the home page redesign, Amanda Collins and Doug Look added tabs for grouping technologies and utilities... Read more →

Project Twitch YouTube video

I was somewhat torn. For a while people have been asking me to make a Project Twitch video. I knew I could do that, but all it would show would be our design applications running in a window. Using Project... Read more →

How do I contact thee? Let me count the ways...

Autodesk Labs is all about feedback. We share our ideas as technology previews early in the process. Based on your feedback, the technologies go on to make it into shipping products or die an early death. Your experience shapes the... Read more →

CommunityCommands for AutoCAD Now Available

What command should I learn next? Some people are curious about signing up for our Customer Involvement Program (CIP). They wonder what we do with the CIP data that we collect. Typically, we look at aggregated data for trends, to... Read more →

Autodesk Showroom 1.1.28 integrated into Dacor.com - go see it

Modern kitchen alternative to the existing Traditional kitchen As of 5 minutes ago, you can now choose between two different kitchens on Dacor.com when shopping for appliances: Traditional or Modern. Check it out now: See the Scene Viewer on the... Read more →

Autodesk Labs: FY10 bigger and bolder than FY09

The Autodesk fiscal year runs from February 1 through January 31. By shifting one month from the calendar year, we don't have to close out the year-end books while trying to observe the winter holidays. Since our current fiscal year... Read more →

Inventor Screenshot: New and Improved Classic Version

image source: Google Maps A Mr. Scott Moyse of Whangarei, New Zealand wrote in: I can't get this plugin to work with the Classic UI. When I go to addins under tools, it shows the load at startup box is... Read more →

Saints - Burning Down the House

I am from New Orleans. I have relatives there. With the Saints' Super Bowl victory over the Colts on Sunday, Saints mania is alive and well. As someone in the Bay Area surrounded by 49er fans, for the past two... Read more →

Dacor.com site allows "What if" scenarios using Project Showroom

I was looking at the Project Showroom integration on Dacor.com. Recently we remodeled the kitchen in our townhome. Although ours is smaller than the traditional kitchen depicted on the web site, I couldn't help but notice that I could approximate... Read more →

Revised Labs Autodesk Showroom Page

Most technologies on Labs have a Try it button so you can try the technology preview of the service. Others have a Download Now button so you can download the installer for the technology preview of the utility. Project Showroom... Read more →

Doug Look's Dissertation on Apple Genius

Apple support is as easy as pie. Senior Strategic Designer, Doug Look, filed this report. What a compelling, wonderful experience that I had this weekend in my quest for Apple product support. The situation: our high school student son has... Read more →

Autodesk IDEA Studio Grant Program

Attention Students: Get involved! I sit right across from Senior Marketing Manager, Kimberly Whinna. Kimberly manages many aspects of our One Market Gallery. She's actually training me to be an Autodesk One Market Gallery Ambassador. I thought we'd use the... Read more →

Updated Alias Sketch for 64-bit AutoCAD Now Available

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the technology preview of Alias Sketch for AutoCAD. We are happy to see that you want to paint, work with images, and illustrate as part of your AutoCAD drawings. In fact some of you... Read more →

ADN Plugin of the Month: Screenshot for Inventor Now Available

Yesterday we released an update to the Clipboard Manager for AutoCAD. Today in keeping with our long-standing tradition (OK it's only been 6 months), we have released the ADN plugin of the month for February: Free download of Screenshot for... Read more →

Updated Clipboard Manager for AutoCAD ADN Plugin of the Month Now Available

Senior Manager, Worldwide DevTech, Kean Walmsley, provided me with an update for the Clipboard Manager for AutoCAD ADN plugin. In direct response to your feedback at [email protected], Kean noted: "The code wasn’t distinguishing between the clipboard formats for a full... Read more →

Project Butterfly Update Now Available

Software Development Manager, Tal Weiss, let me know that the team updated Project Butterfly yesterday. Free Project Butterfly Technology Preview on Autodesk Labs The update included new features and fixes requested by the community. As a service offering, the team... Read more →

Program Manager - going to the dark side?

I have been a software development manager for many years. I have been fortunate to work as part of teams that brought you HOOPS, Heidi, AutoCAD R14, WHIP!, Volo View, Buzzsaw, Design Review, Project Freewheel, Autodesk Freewheel, Project Draw, Boomless... Read more →