It is Alive in the Lab

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**-10 Wavelength of Hard X-Rays

I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My standup-desk is right across from our Gallery at One Market. One of our newer exhibits is called Powers of Design. It was first featured at the... Read more →

February issue of Autodesk Labs newsletter 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 →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**-11 Fluorine Ion

I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My standup-desk is right across from our Gallery at One Market. One of our newer exhibits is called Powers of Design. It was first featured at the... Read more →

Come to Design Night on March 7 at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco

On Thursday, March 7, 6-10 p.m., the Autodesk Gallery will host Design Night: Illumination, where we will explore how artists and designers are using light to enhance our lives, from the very practical to the stunningly beautiful. From solar power... Read more →

I'll Be On Vacation Next Week on The Rock Boat XIII

I will be on vacation next week. My wife and I will be taking a short cruise on The Rock Boat. This is our second time doing so. We’ll start in Miami and set sail February 24 to March 1... Read more →

IDEAS Conference Notes on Synthetic Biology

Some of your are familiar with our IDEAS program. www.autodesk.com/ideas Our IDEAS program can be described as: An exploration of the role of design in fostering innovation. A discussion about design as a systematic approach to problem-solving and innovation —... Read more →

Project Scandium for Simulation Moldflow Available Again on Autodesk Labs

It's back on Labs. The Moldflow team provided me with new installers for an updated technology preview of Project Scandium. This update extends the preview to August 17, 2013, so the team can continue to get feedback. I posted them... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**-12 Gamma Rays

I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My standup-desk is right across from our Gallery at One Market. One of our newer exhibits is called Powers of Design. It was first featured at the... Read more →

Meet Project Chronicle's Ruslana Steininger

Got a Project Chronicle question? Ask Ruslana Steininger. Project Chronicle is our free technology preview where we look at ways of improving video tutorials. After all, videos are the new textbooks. With Project Chronicle, you can record an AutoCAD or... Read more →

List of Expiration Dates for Autodesk Labs Technology Previews

I blog about this every once in a while. Most technology previews are like milk cartons. They have expiration dates on them. When a technology preview expires, the technology preview no longer operates. A preview has a time bomb in... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**-13 Nada, Zilch, Zero, Zip

I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My standup-desk is right across from our Gallery at One Market. One of our newer exhibits is called Powers of Design. It was first featured at the... Read more →

Updated DesignScript technology preview (build 0.4.31.6050) Now Available

Four years in the making, DesignScript is our free technology preview created by Dr. Robert Aish in Farnborough and his merry men around the globe. The goal is to get customer feedback on exploratory design. The technology preview consists of:... Read more →

Scheduled Down Time for Autodesk Freewheel in February

Happy Valentine's Day. This is my once-a-month copy/paste blog posting to let you know when Autodesk Freewheel will be unavailable. Many months ago Project Freewheel graduated from Autodesk Labs. Project Freewheel users are now using Autodesk Freewheel — the production... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**-14 Atomic Nucleus of a Uranium Atom

I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My standup-desk is right across from our Gallery at One Market. One of our newer exhibits is called Powers of Design. It was first featured at the... Read more →

Please Vote for Scott and Sheryl's Story for How We First Met

My wife of almost 32 years and I are celebrating Valentine's Day by attending a show called "How We First Met." It features an Improv Group that re-enacts how three couples met. The storylines are based on how three couples... Read more →

Richard Esterle: Fun with Math and 3D Printing

Enlarge I recently gave an Autodesk Gallery tour to a maker named Richard Esterle. Richard was attending a math conference in the Bay Area and stopped by the gallery. At the conference Richard made math tangible for students by sharing... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**-15 Protons and Neutrons

This exhibit is all about size — everything from 10-15 to 1026 in magnitude. There's an item illustrating each magnitude. I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My standup-desk is right across from our... Read more →

Autodesk Labs: FY13 was second most active fiscal year ever

The Autodesk fiscal year runs from February 1 through January 31. So we just completed FY13 and are now in FY14. Looking at the number of new, updated, and graduated/retired technology previews as documented on What's New, I see that... Read more →

Call for Proposals for the IDEA Studio by February 15

Among other marketing duties, Architecture and Construction Management Education Specialist, Glenn Katz, works with our IDEA Studio. The Autodesk IDEA Studio is a scholar-in-residence program located in San Francisco that supports researchers who are using Autodesk software in imaginative ways... Read more →

AutoCAD Isometrics WS Retires from Autodesk Labs

The AutoCAD Isometrics WS technology preview was a technology preview of a service for creating, storing, viewing, and sharing isometric drawings. You could design and collaborate on isometrics across multiple platforms - desktop, web, and mobile devices - with full... Read more →

free ADN Plugin of the Month: ExplodeGeometry for 3ds Max

On a TV network long, long ago, Late Night with David Letterman used to come on around midnight. With the hour being so late, Dave would do funny things like jump into water wearing a suit made of Alka Seltzer... Read more →

River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 / AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 Extended to June 30, 2013

I have blogged about this before. My neighbor, Paul Medved, got his civil engineering degree from the UC Davis. As noted on Wikipedia, "the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) in Davis, California developed the River Analysis System (RAS) to aid hydraulic... Read more →

Updated free technology preview of Augmented Reality for Showcase Now Available on Autodesk Labs

A popular technology preview on Autodesk Labs is Augmented Reality for Showcase. // Download Augmented Reality for Showcase The add-on works with Showcase 2013 or Showcase Professional 2013. Basically it works like this: You prepare your virtual object in Showcase... Read more →

The 2,000th It's Alive in the Lab blog post

As a DWF Technical Evangelist, I started blogging by supplying Shaan Hurley with guest articles that he would post on his blog, Between The Lines, for me. On February 14, 2006 I started my own blog, Beyond the Paper, using... Read more →