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Spatial Sustain: Mathews of Autodesk Labs Updates His Seven Trends #au2010

Brian Mathews, VP of Autodesk Labs, presented the 7 technology trends that guide Autodesk Labs: http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/mathews-of-autodesk-labs-updates-on-seven-trends-au2010.html Check it out. Read more →

Inventor Optimization Technology Preview on Autodesk Labs ends

Today marks the end of the Inventor Optimization Technology Preview on Autodesk Labs. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback. More information is available on the Autodesk Customer Feedback Programs site. Read more →

Project Vasari design and analysis update Now Available

A new download of Project Vasari is available that includes critical stability and usability fixes. Please note that the streaming install has not been updated yet. This version will be made available in about a week. The portable executable version... Read more →

Book Review: A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio by Paul Myers

Having grown up listening to the music of Todd Rundgren, today I finished reading the book A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio by Paul Myers, This book chronicles the history and behind the scenes detail of... Read more →

Mac or PC?

I received another guest post from Software Engineer, Gyorgy Ordody. I am happy to share it with you. A few weeks ago there was a discussion at lunch about a familiar topic: What laptop to get for home? The discussion... Read more →

Photos from Autodesk Labs at AU China

On the heels of Sydney Xu's report on Autodesk Labs participation in AU China, Integrated Marketing Manager, Allen Xu Ke, shared these two photos. The Labs booth looked fantastic. Visitors learned a great deal about our technology previews. Thanks Allen. Read more →

Happy Thanksgiving

We at Autodesk wish you happiness regardless of whether or not you celebrate this American holiday. The United States employees have today and tomorrow off. Then it's time for Autodesk University in Las Vegas. Representing Autodesk Labs in person this... Read more →

Project Galileo technology preview coming soon to Autodesk Labs

Many of you may remember the Project Metropolis work on flying through digital cities that we showed at Autodesk University 2007. Autodesk University Main Stage: in the round Many of you are also familiar with Land Xplorer Studio that enables... Read more →

Spoon hosted version of Autodesk Design Review

User Assistance Manager, Chris Blocher, found a review of Autodesk Design Review running in the cloud via Spoon. This is an application remoting version of Spoon. Recall that Autodesk Labs is using a streaming/sandbox version of Spoon for Inventor Fusion... Read more →

Citrix-based AutoCAD LT trial available on www.autodesk.com

Just in time for the holidays... One of the Autodesk Labs areas of focus this year is Rapid Application Delivery. We want to work with technologies that allow you to test drive our design applications more quickly. It is for... Read more →

Autodesk Helps Synthetic Biology Innovators Design the Living World

Yesterday, Senior Product Designer, Carlos Olguin, came by my desk. My Texai robot buddy and Technical Adviser to the Office of the CTO, Jonathan Knowles, sent him over. Carlos has just returned from an Autodesk-sponsored international competition for the creation... Read more →

Autodesk Labs participation in AU China has a huge success

Last week Autodesk held Autodesk University China, and Autodesk Labs was proud to be a part of it. Guilin "Sydney" Xu, our lead Autodesk Labs developer in China, filed this report. Sydney" joined the Autodesk Labs team in November 2007... Read more →

YouTube: Autodesk Labs Technology Previews and Seven Technology Trends

As part of one of our customer's visit to the Autodesk Gallery at One Market, I was asked to give a presentation on Autodesk Labs. After doing so, since I had the PowerPoint deck, I decided to make a YouTube... Read more →

BIM Family Toolkit Now Available on Autodesk Labs

When Principal Engineer, Alison Davis, contacted me about a technology preview on Labs called BIM Family Toolkit, I couldn't help but think of Sly and the Family Stone. For the uninitiated, Sly and the Family Stone was a 70's group... Read more →

Project Photofly Contest 2: 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 →

Updated Clipboard Manager for AutoCAD Now Available

Yesterday Kean Walmsley and the Dev Techs provided me with an updated Clipboard Manager for AutoCAD. Recall that the Clipboard Manager for AutoCAD was the October 2009 Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) plugin of the month. The Clipboard Manager can be... Read more →

Autodesk Labs MOST POPULAR technology previews

The overall layout of the Autodesk Labs home page has been updated to add a new section. The new section is: This section lists the five most popular technology previews currently on the Autodesk Labs site. So now in addition... Read more →

Project Vasari technology preview Now Available

Modeling with cloud computing allows concepts from brain to model with lightning speed Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian and architect who was born in 1511 and died in 1574. He is remembered for his biographies of other... Read more →

Updated ScriptPro 2.0 for AutoCAD ADN Plugin of the Month Now Available

The November ADN Plugin of the Month is a script processing tool for AutoCAD. From its read me: ScriptPro 2.0 is a batch processing utility that allows you to apply a set of commands to multiple drawings. Simply specify a... Read more →

Updated traditional installer for Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 4 Now Available

Last night the Inventor Fusion team gave me an update to the traditional installer. I placed the update on the Autodesk Labs site for download. Inventor Fusion Technology Preview Download Form This update fixes a problem related to installing and... Read more →

Request for Feedback on Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD-based products

We're listening for your suggestions. Right now the Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD allows you to: Publish your 3D models from AutoCAD directly into the Google Earth. Import a Google Earth image into AutoCAD. Drape a Google Earth image onto... Read more →

Updated Project Neon Now Available

Project Neon is our rendering service where you can upload your DWG files and get back a rendering from our servers in the cloud. You can learn more about Project Neon at http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/neon/ On Monday night the Project Neon team... Read more →

Autodesk Labs and other communities down for maintenance Thursday night

Our community platform service provider will be conducting some routine maintenance on what is our Thursday night here in sunny California. As such, the following communities will be down for maintenance: Alias Design Autodesk Labs Manufacturing The maintenance will be... Read more →

Clock. Calculator. Text Editor. Rinse. Repeat.

Today's guest blogger is Software Engineer, Gyorgy Ordody. Gyorgy has worked on many Labs projects like Freewheel, Showroom, and Twitch. Back in the earliest of times (at least for me), there were the Unix terminals in college. They had pine... Read more →

Planned Project Twitch down time

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 →

Once again the Project Photofly Contest Entries Are In

The deadline for submitting entries has passed - November 5, 2010. Thanks to everyone who put Project Photofly through its paces. For those who uncovered problems with the Photo Scene Editor in pursuit of the contest - thank you. Like... Read more →

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 4 Now Available

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 4 The Inventor Fusion team has released an update to the technology preview. The new features include: Surfacing support - You can now work seamlessly between solids and surfaces. By enhancing the existing translators to read... Read more →

Time running out for second Project Photofly contest

There are only a few hours left on our Project Photofly Building contest. As per the offical rules, the contest ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time on Friday, November 5, 2010. We do have several entries but always welcome more.... Read more →

Current Solar Radiation Technology Preview ends - another coming soon

The current technology preview for Solar Radiation for Revit has ended. The application stopped working on November 5. We have learned a great deal from those who have downloaded the technology preview and provided feedback. Our plan is to update... Read more →

TED: Tom Chatfield: 7 Ways Games Reward The Brain

I have told you many times that I am fan of TED. Here is a lecture from the most recent email I received from TED: From the lecture, the 7 ways are: Experience bars measuring progress Multiple long-term and short-term... Read more →

SF Giants World Series Parade

As a 51 year veteran of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, parades are nothing new to me. When the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl to claim the NFL championship, the parade that followed was much like Mardi Gras.... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Exhibits for the Government

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 people from many industries. I thought I would list the ones... Read more →

Book Review: The Mesh by Lisa Gansky

One of our (my wife and I) longtime friends is a dentist. One of his patients is Lisa Gansky - the author of a book entitled The Mesh: Why The Future of Business Is Sharing. Lisa gave our friend a... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery at One Market: Exhibits for the Utilities and Telecommunications Industry

As reflected on the Autodesk Labs home page, Autodesk serves seven industries: In the same way that the home page groups technology previews By Industry, I have been listing Gallery at One Market exhibits By Industry.To date I have covered:... Read more →