It is Alive in the Lab

October ADN Plugin of the Month, Inventor LinkParameters, Now Available

The October Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) Plugin of the Month is brought to you by our own Manufacturing Technical Consultant, Jan Liska. It was reviewed and enhanced by our own Developer Consultant, Philippe Leefsma. Inventor LinkParameters available as the plugin... Read more →

LaunchPad for Product Design Suite Now Available

Since there has been a recent focus on Autodesk applications that have been combined into suites, it's time we start offering technology previews that help tie everything together. Your feedback will tell us if this is a good idea or... Read more →

Project Spark Now Available Worldwide

Project Spark is a technology preview of a simplified 3D building information modeling (BIM) solution. Using Project Spark, building professionals can: create designs efficiently with real-world building objects, produce more reliable documentation faster, and share files with consultants using Revit... Read more →

Project Nitrous and Project Neon graduate from Autodesk Labs to Autodesk Cloud

"Hey, hey, you, you, get [on to] my cloud..." - Rolling Stones, 1967. We are happy to announce that Project Nitrous and Project Neon have graduated from Autodesk Labs. They are now document and rendering services of Autodesk Cloud. //... Read more →

Easily snag missing content for Project Spark

For the vast majority of users, a Project Spark install works fine; however we have received a handful of reports where the content files do not install correctly. To avoid requiring another full download and install, we have created a... Read more →

Project Neon down this weekend for maintenance

You can relax at the beach while we arrange our stacks of computers. Dear Project Neon user. This is to inform you that during the weekend of September 24-25, Project Neon will be offline for maintenance. Submissions and gallery access... Read more →

It takes a village...

Autodesk Labs is part of our Platform Solutions and Emerging Business division - affectionately known as PSEB. The Reality Capture portion of Autodesk Labs is responsible for technology previews such as: Project Photofly Point Cloud Feature Extraction for AutoCAD Civil... Read more →

Project Photofly Facecast

Principal Engineer, Stephane Negri, and I did our first Facecast this morning. We talked about Project Photofly. Thanks to everyone who watched it live and sent in questions. You can watch the recorded version. Read more →

Recent Project Photofly YouTube videos from users

Unless you've been living under a rock someplace, you've probably heard about Project Photofly - our technology preview that converts 2D photographs into 3D models. Project Photofly on Autodesk Labs One of the convenience features of the Photo Scene Editor,... Read more →

Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?

"Hey! Nice curves!" - jcatoline Corridor Solids for AutoCAD® Civil 3D is a technology preview that creates solids from AutoCAD Civil 3D Subassembly shapes that are contained in an AutoCAD Civil 3D Corridor Models. By creating solids from subassembly shapes,... Read more →

Use the Autodesk Download Manager to Download Project Spark

With power often comes size. Project Spark is our technology preview of a simplified 3D building information modeling (BIM) solution. Using Project Spark, building professionals can create designs efficiently with real-world building objects, produce more reliable documentation faster, and share... Read more →

Inventor Publisher Publish to Social technology preview Now Available

Let's get social. Roopinder Tara recently had some kind words for Autodesk with regard to Social Media. CAD Insider: How NOT to do Social Media We get it. Social Media is everywhere and is here to stay. So for those... Read more →

The Facts of BIM

"Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, the moon up above, and the thing called love." - Dean Martin Our Revit family of products is based on the notion of building... Read more →

YouTube: Autodesk Moldflow - Project Argon

Many of you may recall Project Krypton when it was a technology preview available on Autodesk Labs. The Project Krypton Technology Preview provided early stage design advice to plastic part designers. Integrated into the Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Inventor LT, SolidWorks,... Read more →

What's New in Project Vasari 2.1

My blog post is late today, and boy is my face red. Project Vasari is our technology preview of conceptual modeling with analysis based in the cloud. Project Vasari on Autodesk Labs The team released its 2.1 update on September... Read more →

2D to 3D Tool for Inventor Also Supports Inventor 2012

Earlier in the month the Inventor team provided me with an update of the 2D to 3D tool. I placed it on the Autodesk Labs site for download. http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/2d_to_3d_tool/ This latest update adds support for Autodesk Inventor 2012 and Autodesk... Read more →

How To Activate Project Spark

Today's blog post comes compliments of Emily Marcus. Emily is a Principal Engineer in our AEC division. Project Spark is available as a technology preview until July 7, 2012. However, to use it after downloading from the Autodesk Labs site... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery: Navisworks and Mixed Reality Interface

I work on the fourth floor of our office at One Market Street in San Francisco. Technical Evangelist, Brian Pene, is a cool guy. He works on the second floor. The Gallery at One Market is also located on the... Read more →

Planned Autodesk and Project Freewheel Downtime on Saturday

Several times during the year, new functionality is released into Autodesk’s Enterprise Information Systems to enhance the company’s services to partners / customers and help the organization run more efficiently. The next update is scheduled for three hours on September... Read more →

Project Vasari 2.1 technology preview now available

Project Vasari is our technology preview of conceptual modeling with analysis in the cloud. The team released a technology preview update yesterday. Project Vasari on Autodesk Labs You can see what's new on the what's new page: What's New in... Read more →

Point Cloud Feature Extraction for AutoCAD Civil 3D Now Supports Both 2012 and 2011

The Reality Capture team provided me with an updated 2011 installer for the Point Cloud Feature Extraction for AutoCAD Civil 3D technology preview. I added it to the download which is now a zip file containing 2011 and 2012 subfolders.... Read more →

Viewing IPM files generated by Project Photofly

"Darling, you send me, honest you do, honest you do." "You Send Me," Sam Cooke, 1959 Project Photofly is our technology preview of converting photographs to 3D models. You start with a set of photographs that you load into a... Read more →

Updated Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD 2012 Family Now Available

Month in, month out, the Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD is a popular download. Google Earth Extension on Autodesk Labs The Google Earth extension supports version of AutoCAD as far back as 2007. For this update, only the 2012 compatible... Read more →

University of Louisiana Lafayette Adds Versatile Academic Degree

I graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL). I had planned to go to Louisiana State University (LSU) like my brother and sister had done, but LSU had punch cards, and USL had a $6.5M Multics system. As a... Read more →

Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D Now Available

According to Monty Python's skit entitled "Four Yorkshiremen": FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: ...We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to... Read more →