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In the holiday spirit... 2010 Holiday Mail for Heroes campaign

Lance Corporal Steven Sheppard, United States Marines As a follow up to my post from last year, it's that time again. Andrew Saladino, working with Pitney Bowes, reached out to me regarding the 2010 Holiday Mail for Heroes campaign with... Read more →

Panel Gap for Alias Surface and Alias Automotive Now Available

source: http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2010/02/25/mind-the-gap/ Working with panels and resulting gaps can be a complicated process. The width of the gap space and the shapes of the edges of the surfaces that meet to form the gap must be defined. We would like... Read more →

November ADN Plugin of the Month: ScriptPro 2.0 for AutoCAD Now Available

Just in time for Halloween, we are releasing the November ADN Plugin of the Month a few days early. This month's plugin was written by DevTech India Manager, Virupaksha Aithal with input from Kean Walmsley. From its read me, the... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Exhibits for Media and Entertainment

Recently we redesigned the Autodesk Labs home page to make it easier to locate technologies By Industry. The Autodesk Gallery at One Market has many exhibits. These appeal to visitors from many industries. Though each exhibit has its own unique... Read more →

Updated Project Bluestreak Now Available

Paper doesn't have to be blank to be "plain." You can do better than "plain old paper." The Project Bluestreak team released an update yesterday. Recall that Project Bluestreak is a technology preview on Labs that helps distributed AEC project... Read more →

Project Twitch Is Back Up

Project Twitch is our technology preview where you can try Autodesk applications (AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, Maya) without downloading and installing them. It uses a software as a service approach known as application remoting. You can learn more about it at:... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Exhibits for Education

Recently we redesigned the Autodesk Labs home page to make it easier to locate technologies By Industry. The Autodesk Gallery at One Market has many exhibits. These appeal to many industries. Though all of the exhibits have something to offer... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Exhibits for Manufacturing

Inspired by how we redesigned the Autodesk Labs home page to make it easier to locate technologies By Industry: I thought I would do the same thing for the Autodesk Gallery. The Autodesk Gallery at One Market has many exhibits.... Read more →

Book Review: The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Recently I finished reading The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Allow me to take a shot at summarizing each chapter in only one sentence. "The Mystery of Being" Although classical realism is useful for describing everyday observable... Read more →

White Paper: Understanding Performance Monitor for AutoCAD

The Performance Monitor for AutoCAD can alert you as to when virtual memory is running low so you can save any work in progress before the system potentially decreases in stability. Such a condition is less likely to happen on... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Hyper-Threads Exhibit

The IDEA Studio at the Gallery at One Market is a place where industry and academia come together. For example, we've have hosted professors and students from institutions like the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern... Read more →

Updated Photo Scene Editor and Project Photofly Service Now Available

Although it's only been a short while since our last Project Photofly update, we released another update yesterday. Recall that Project Photofly is a technology preview of our service for creating 3D scenes from photographs. The Photo Scene Editor is... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Exhibits for the Automotive and Transportation Industry

Recently we redesigned the Autodesk Labs home page to make it easier to locate technologies By Industry. The Autodesk Gallery at One Market has many exhibits. These appeal to many industries. Though each exhibit has something to offer everyone, I... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Estonian Academy of the Arts Design Competition

What would happen if you combined automotive design with building design? No - you wouldn't get a building on wheels - you would get a building whose facade glistens like the hood of an expensive sports car. The Estonian Academy... Read more →

Autodesk Single Sign-On Login Maintenance Interval on Saturday

Our Enterprise Information Systems team will be conducting some routine maintenance. Oxygen is our internal name for the infrastructure that lets you log into the Autodesk Labs community. This means that you will be deprived of Oxygen and unable to... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Exhibits for the AEC Industry

Recently we redesigned the Autodesk Labs home page to make it easier to locate technologies By Industry. The Autodesk Gallery at One Market has many exhibits. These appeal to many industries. Though all of the exhibits have something to offer,... Read more →

Autodesk Software for Video Game Development

Yesterday one of my facebook friends inquired about developing a video game. He wanted to read up on Autodesk applications that were suited to the task. Although not related to Autodesk Labs, I thought this would make an interesting blog... Read more →

New Orleans - Follow Their LEED

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system that provides third-party verification that a building or community was designed/built using strategies to improve performance in areas such as energy consumption, water usage, CO2... Read more →

Autodesk Board of Directors

VP of Autodesk Labs, Brian Mathews, recently presented the vision and mission of Autodesk Labs to the Autodesk Board of Directors. Though as employees we pay attention to who makes up our board, I thought many of you as users... Read more →

Now Available: Second Photofly Contest

You can win: Project Photofly is our web service that converts collections of your photos into 3D photo scenes. The Photo Scene Editor allows you to upload your photos and work with the photo scenes returned by the service. Using... Read more →

Updated BrowsePhotosynth for AutoCAD plugin Now Available

The DevTechs perform live 5 days a week. As reflected on the updates page, Kean Walmsley and the DevTechs (Wow that sounds like a 60's band.) have been responding to feedback: This latest release fixes a problem where sometimes the... Read more →

Get the Geometry, Don't Get the Point[s]

The Photo Scene Editor allows you to export a photo scene as a DWG. The content of the DWG is actually a collection of many, many individual points. Version 1.1 of the Photo Scene Editor does not use the AutoCAD... Read more →

Photo Scene Editor: Can I delete a photo?

Project Photofly is our web service that converts collections of photographs into 3D models. The Photo Scene Editor is a small Windows application that you install on your computer to upload images and work with the photo scene that is... Read more →

October ADN Plugin of the Month: BrowsePhotosynth for AutoCAD Now Available

Is browsing for point clouds driving you crazy? Well no more... This month's plugin comes to us from our own Senior Manager of Worldwide DevTech, and Mr. October, Kean Walmsley. As Project Photofly aficionados, we are keenly aware of what... Read more →

Project Photofly Building Contest: We have a winner...

Project Photofly is our web service that converts collections of photographs into 3D models. The Photo Scene Editor is a small Windows application that you install on your computer to upload images and work with the photo scene that is... Read more →

I like Katy Perry's _Teenage Dream_ - knock me over with a feather

picture source: Mirror.co.uk I don't normally enjoy albums that are artificially popular, but for some reason I like Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. When I listen to it, it reminds me of a variety of styles I have heard before.... Read more →

ADSK and TED

My recent blog posting about Where good ideas come from got me to thinking about TED. You should check out Tom Wujec's talks, find out about one of our most interesting Technical Fellows, and our company's involvement. Videos of Tom... Read more →