I am happy to announce that the Autodesk Labs site is now supported by the same underlying that supports Mosaic at Autodesk. http://labs.autodesk.com/ You may recall Project Mosaic as a technology preview on Autodesk Labs. In addition to the consistency... Read more →
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29 posts from July 2012
July 31, 2012
July 30, 2012
Please do us the honor of voting for Project Geppetto
Architects, engineers, and designers can use Project Geppetto to enrich the context of their presentations with realistic crowds that autonomously navigate their designs. Project Geppetto comes with a set of animations and characters for use in common public settings like... Read more →
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Project Vasari Talk 16: Using Visual Programing to enhance conceptual design and analysis in Autodesk Project Vasari
It's time for the third talk in our summer series of talks known as Project Vasari talk. This is your chance to get together with the Project Vasari team and hear directly from them. You can register in advance and... Read more →
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July 27, 2012
Three Retirements from Autodesk Labs today
It's practically a retirement party around here. Some technology previews are retiring from Autodesk Labs today. Though these technology previews will continue to run for a few more days for existing users, I have removed the Autodesk Labs pages today... Read more →
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Project QuickShare graduates from Autodesk Labs
The technology preview of Project QuickShare put the power in your hands to quickly share design files from anywhere at any time. Participants could explore DWF files in real-time using a highly interactive online viewer. Project QuickShare used the power... Read more →
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July 26, 2012
Book Review by Jon Pittman - Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
Jon Pittman is our VP of Corporate Strategy and Engagement - reporting to the CTO. Jon is also a Lecturer at the Haas School of Business of the University of California at Berkeley. Jon provided a review of Jonah Lehrer's... Read more →
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July 25, 2012
Autodesk Labs Feedback: What should I say?
Autodesk Labs has a variety of feedback mechanisms for technology previews. Each technology preview has its own email alias such as [email protected]. Each technology preview has its own forum (e.g., Project Spark) or at least a thread in one of... Read more →
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July 24, 2012
A Better World by Jon Pittman
The Autodesk POV Dispatch is our internal newsletter, published monthly, where we discuss the big ideas that are important to us and our customers. It is published by our Corporate Strategy & Engagement (CS&E) team of which Autodesk Labs is... Read more →
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July 23, 2012
Book Review from POV - Abundance: the Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The POV Dispatch is our internal newsletter where we discuss big ideas that are important to Autodesk employees and Autodesk customers. In addition to guest authors like Lynelle Cameron or Gonzalo Martinez, the newsletter features contributions from the Corporate Strategy... Read more →
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July 20, 2012
TED Marshmallow Challenge Gets Upscaled
People often say "Bigger is better." Here is an example. I first blogged about Autodesk Fellow, Tom Wujec's, marshmallow challenge in October of 2010. So I was thrilled when I read another letter that Tom shared with us the other... Read more →
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July 19, 2012
Project Vasari Talk 14: Rhino/Project Vasari Interoperability
It's time for another talk in our series of talks known as Project Vasari talk. This is your chance to get together with the Project Vasari team and hear directly from them. You can register in advance and participate live,... Read more →
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July 18, 2012
3D Printing Would Obviate Waiting For The Repairman
My garage door was broken and inoperable. For the past few days my wife and I have parked our cars a few houses down in publicly designated spots in our homeowners association. Today I worked from home so Madden Garage... Read more →
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Into Africa: How Autodesk is Helping Create Archaeology 2.0 by Gonzalo Martinez
In my continuing series of sharing articles from our internal monthly newsletter, POV Dispatch, here is Technical Evangelist Gonzalo Martinez's submission about his trip to Africa with Shaan Hurley. Question: How do you find fossils in the vast spaces of... Read more →
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July 17, 2012
Inventor Fusion technology preview for Mac: Be ready when the Mountain Lion is uncaged
Senior Principal Engineer, Kris Berg, let me know that the Inventor Fusion team had a new technology preview (TP) build for the Mac available. This build is just an update of TP1 with fixes for running on OS X Mountain... Read more →
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RIP Stephen Covey
RIP Stephen Covey - author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The list of habits includes: They take initiative. “Be Proactive.” They focus on goals. “Begin with the End in Mind.” They set priorities. “Put First Things First.”... Read more →
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Creating A Better World: What Will Your Contribution Be? by Lynelle Cameron
Lynelle Cameron is one of our Senior Directors who focuses on sustainability. So it's fitting that she shared her thoughts in our recent internal monthly newsletter POV Dispatch. With her permission, I am sharing it with It's Alive in the... Read more →
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July 16, 2012
free technology preview of Mesh Enabler for Autodesk Inventor 2013 Now Available
Software Development Manager, Wayne Catalfano, provided me with a new installer for the Mesh Enabler that extends the team's ability to get feedback from Inventor 2013 users. Download Mesh Enabler for Inventor 2013 or 2012 via Autodesk Labs This technology... Read more →
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July 13, 2012
Scheduled Autodesk Freewheel Down Time for July
This is my once-a-month copy/paste blog posting to let you know when Autodesk Freewheel will be unavailable. Months ago Project Freewheel graduated from Autodesk Labs. Project Freewheel users are now using Autodesk Freewheel - the production version. To check it... Read more →
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July 12, 2012
free ADN Plugin of the Month: RemovePrefix for Maya
I really thought the ADN Plugin of the Month technology preview had run its course. I thought Wall Chamfer and Fillet for Revit would be our last one. I was pleasantly surprised when Senior Manager of DevTech Americas, Stephen Preston,... Read more →
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July 11, 2012
Project Geppetto for 3ds Max 2013 / 3ds Max Design 2013 Now Available
Re-animator is a 1985 movie that I really enjoyed. The story features a dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend who become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student... Read more →
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July 10, 2012
FABmep Import for Revit MEP: A picture is worth 1,000 words
Yesterday I had a blog post: FABmep Import for Revit MEP Now Available on Autodesk Labs I decided to capture the workflow that Steven Butler described: Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought I would share it.... Read more →
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How an extra "to" can make a big difference
On Friday I had the following blog post: 3 sentences every American should know how to say in every language In case I get arrested in a foreign country, in that post I had original English for: I am an... Read more →
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July 09, 2012
FABmep Import for Revit MEP Now Available on Autodesk Labs
There's a new free technology preview available for Revit MEP users. // Learn more about FABmep Import for Revit MEP Do you need to import Autodesk Fabrication FABmep models into Autodesk Revit MEP? If so, this technology preview is for... Read more →
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July 06, 2012
3 sentences every American should know how to say in every language
My blog post last month about the Project Artoo Read Me document being localized into additional languages reminded me of this. Unfortunately, like many Americans, I am only fluent in English. Oh sure I studied Spanish in high school, but... Read more →
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July 05, 2012
Autodesk Gallery: Jason Medal-Katz recap of TEDGlobal
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, Autodesk is a TED partner and participates in conferences like TEDGlobal. Gallery Curator, Jason Medal-Katz, attended TEDGlobal and filed this report. We presented the Autodesk Gallery at TEDGlobal with exhibits in the... Read more →
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July 04, 2012
Happy 4th of July
It's July 4 - Independence day - recognition of the day the Declaration of Independence was first read publicly by Colonel John Nixon. (Actually it occurred on July 8, 1776.) The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence did not... Read more →
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July 03, 2012
Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D Graduates to Subscription Center
Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D provides functionality to create AutoCAD solids from AutoCAD Civil 3D Subassembly shapes that are contained in an AutoCAD Civil 3D Corridor Model. By creating solids from subassembly shapes, representative real-world objects such as tunnels,... Read more →
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July 02, 2012
YouTube: Hyatt Chicago Global Volunteer Initiative
Earlier today I blogged that although my daughter, Stephanie Sheppard, has a totally different job (PR for Hyatt Hotels and Resorts) than I do (Program Manager for Autodesk Labs), we were both able to enjoy the same reading material. Book... Read more →
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Book Review: Reputation Rules by Daniel Diermeir
My daughter loaned me her copy of Reputation Rules by Daniel Diermeier. She works PR for Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. I work as a technology evangelist at Autodesk Labs. How could we possibly need to read the same book? As... Read more →
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