It is Alive in the Lab

It's Alive in the Lab: Nation, do you speak Mandarin?

I saw this on Facebook moments ago: Today one of my colleagues gave me this: Enlarge What does it say? Curiosity is alive in the lab. Read more →

Project Factory.Modz() Once Again Available on Autodesk Labs

Once again, this technology preview provides the missing Linc*. This is a re-release of this technology preview. It is the same as before with a few defect corrections based on user feedback. The re-release is based on user requests for... Read more →

Augmented Reality for Autodesk Showcase: Why Showcase?

One of our newer technology previews is Augmented Reality for Autodesk Showcase. It has been quite popular. The technology preview allows you to overlay semantically in context information (graphics, text, video, sound) on to a live video feed of the... Read more →

Our first Raspberry Pi Progress Report: Teaching A Parrot To Talk

Some of you may recall that we had a Raspberry Pi contest here at Autodesk and announced the winners. Internal Raspberry Pi Contest: And the winners are... One of those winners was Software Architect for Solver Technology Research, Franco Costa,... Read more →

Please register for Design Night at the Autodesk Gallery: Let's get small

Design Night at the Autodesk Gallery is a new thing for Autodesk. The Gallery team has launched this new program that will be held in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market on the first Thursday of every month. At each... Read more →

FAQ: What's the difference between graduated and retired?

Technology previews are not intended for production use. After all, they're still in the early preview stage. They are in their infancy and are not fully baked. We are realists and recognize that some customers use them at their own... Read more →

Autodesk Labs: I am a stand-up kind of guy

Last night facilities reconfigured my office: Years ago the company supplied each employee with a Fitbit pedometer. I have used mine every day ever since. This device showed me that although the goal is 10,000 steps per day, I rarely... Read more →

Bay Bridge Tour 2012 with Bart Ney

When completed, the eastern span of the new Bay Bridge, will include the longest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world. Self-anchored sets itself apart from typical bridges that anchor their cables from the bridge to the land. In the case... Read more →

Clicking On Download Now Lets Me Login But Does Not Take Me To The Download Page

Problem Sometimes you visit a technology preview page, click on Download Now, login with your Autodesk Single Sign-On credentials, but the download page does not appear. Immediate Solution In this situation, just click on Download Now again. To Avoid The... Read more →

INKtalks: Tom Wujec - Towards a new tech-tonic shift

Watch Autodesk Technical Fellow, Tom Wujec, cover: Digitized Reality Infinite Computing Rapid Fabrication Check it out at INKtalks. Shifting is alive in the lab. Read more →

Project Vasari Graduates to Autodesk Vasari Beta 1

They grow up so fast. Project Vasari has graduated from Autodesk Labs to become Autodesk Vasari Beta 1. Visit http://autodeskvasari.com/. Thanks to everyone who helped shape this technology. The volume of your downloads and insightful feedback propelled this technology to... Read more →

Download is located in the upper right of each technology preview page

The old Autodesk Labs site had the Download link in two places: in the upper right and just below the preview image: When the new site was launched, it was only available in the upper right: I got feedback of... Read more →

Project Vasari Talk 15: Conceptual Energy Modeling for Early Design Decisions

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 →

Book Review: WWGD by JJ

What we do is what we do It's all the same, there's nothing new What we do is what we do It's turnin' 'round on me and you What we do is what we do Just different names, it's nothing... Read more →

How to start my day: In Through The Out Door

I take the Oakland-Alameda Ferry to work and walk across the street from the Ferry Building to our office at One Market. As I approached our office door on the second floor I saw: On closer inspection it reads: So... Read more →

free technology preview of Maximo Integration for Autodesk Revit 2013 Products Now Available

Q: What can you make with an asset management tool, a building information modeler, and a little glue? A: Maximo Integration for Autodesk Revit 2013 products It's our newest technology preview. The free technology preview of Maximo integration for Autodesk... Read more →

Are you expert enough for an early version of DesignScript?

Dr. Robert Aish and a team at Autodesk are developing DesignScript for a technology preview later in the year. For now, the core audience for this technology will be fairly limited. To date, there has been a small group of... Read more →

Updated free technology preview of Project Simulus Now Available

Project Simulus is a free technology preview that showcases a number of innovative approaches to mechanical simulation using geometry modification capabilities through embedding Inventor Fusion along with a very intuitive simplification environment to prepare various CAD models for different simulation... Read more →

Scheduled Autodesk Freewheel Down Time for August

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 →

August issue of Innovation Edge Now Available

There's another issue of Innovation Edge, the Autodesk Labs newsletter, available for your perusal. This brief publication highlights technologies and utilities available on Autodesk Labs. Something people don't always know is that technology previews are free. All we ask is... Read more →

Book Review: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

I'll bet The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen is a fascinating read. I say that because I read the summary courtesy of the getAbstract service, and those 5 pages just flew... Read more →

free technology preview of Augmented Reality for Showcase Now Available

There was this one time, at band camp... Oh wait - that's another story. There was this one time, at Autodesk University, when CTO, Jeff Kowalski, pulled a 3D motorcycle out of the screen. Well it's time for more antics... Read more →

Attention Inventor Simplification users: Please complete a short survey

The Inventor Simplification technology preview gives you a new and easy way to simplify parts and assemblies for downstream consumption. If you have not tried it yet: // Download Inventor Simplification via Autodesk Labs For those who have tried it,... Read more →

Project Scandium for Simulation Moldflow 2013 Now Available

Yesterday I resurrected the free technology preview of Project Scandium for Simulation Moldflow on the Autodesk Labs site. // Learn more about Project Scandium for Simulation Moldflow This technology preview requires that you have a copy of Autodesk Simulation Moldflow... Read more →

Structure Generator for Revit Now Available on Autodesk Subscription Center

Many of you provided feedback on the Structure Generator for Revit when it was a technology review on Autodesk Labs. Thank you for that. Based on its popularity, the technology is now available as an extension in the Autodesk Subscription... Read more →

YouTube: Autodesk Octo-Copters supporting Louise Leakey

As a follow up to Into Africa: How Autodesk is Helping Create Archaeology 2.0, my colleague, Gonzalo Martinez, posted this video of he and Shaan Hurley working with Dr. Louise Leakey in Africa. The thought is that one day the... Read more →

An iconoclast for icons - the saga of icons on the Labs site

One of the goals of the Autodesk Labs site port to the Mosaic platform was to gain more flexibility. The old site had a feedback section that looked like: One of the drawbacks of this was that each technology preview... Read more →

Geek System: Competitive Wikipedia Searching Makes For An Oddly Compelling Sport

Senior Director of Global Alliances, Robert Vizza, shared this with our team. Since the Olympic games are underway, I thought it appropriate to share it. Laughter is alive in the lab on a Friday. Read more →

free August ADN Plugin of the Month: Math Node for Maya

With the emergence of the App store, I thought the ADN Plugin of the Month technology preview had run its course. So last month I was pleasantly surprised when Senior Manager of DevTech Americas, Stephen Preston, shared a new plugin... Read more →

Internal Raspberry Pi Contest: And the winners are...

Our CTO, Jeff Kowalski, got his hands on 8 Raspberry Pi units. He decided to have some fun with them by sponsoring an internal-Autodesk contest. Since Jeff had 8 of the devices, there would be 8 winners. WHO: Autodesk employees... Read more →

Book Review by Jon Pittman: Great By Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen

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 Great By... Read more →