It is Alive in the Lab

Feature Recognition for Inventor Now Available in App Center for Subscription Customers

Download from App Center. Many of you recall Feature Recognition for Inventor as a technology preview on Autodesk Labs. The technology allows you to convert neutral 3D CAD models, such as STEP, SAT, or IGES solids, into full-featured Inventor models.... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**17 Great Orion Nebula

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 →

Book Review: The FIVE Dysfunctions of a TEAM by Patrick Lencioni

Autodesk Labs is part of the Corporate Strategy & Engagement team that is part of the Office of the CTO. As part of a team building exercise, we all read The FIVE Dysfunctions of a TEAM: A Leadership Fable by... Read more →

Autodesk Research Paper Wins Best Student Paper Award

The Research team is part of the Office of the CTO (OCTO) Research Scientist, Michael Glueck, of Autodesk Research’s Environment & Ergonomics Research Group, has been chosen to receive the Best Student Paper in the HCI track at this year’s... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**16 Pillars of Creation

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 →

YouTube: Engineering Design: A Vision for the Future

"I can't stop running. I have a vision of myself breaking the finish line string." — Todd Rundgren Today we have the day off to honor those who have sacrificed for the freedoms we enjoy. Our son is a United... Read more →

FORA.tv: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession with Dodo

Educational TV show MythBusters co-host, Adam Savage, tells a tale of how, without the aid of any software, he manually crafted a complete Dodo bird skeleton by looking at thousands of web sites and photos. Oh Adam, if only you... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**15 Cat's Eye Nebula

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 →

The Infinite Resource: the case for GMO instead of organic farming

I have no desire to eat pesticides. I really don't. Actually, when I was a child growing up in New Orleans, a "fog truck" used to come down our street weekly and spray huge plumes of insecticide to kill mosquitoes.... Read more →

My ConnectMyDNA Results

my unique gene ring I was born and raised in New Orleans. I know a little about my family history. As part of an honors history course in college, I had to research my family tree. For example, I know... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**14 The Solar System

"The fireball that we rode was moving But now we've got a new machine Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah the freaks said Man those cats can really swing They got music in their solar system They've rocked around the Milky Way... Read more →

Life of Pi shows why Robots will one day have emotions

"I love my computer you make me feel alright every waking hour and every lonely night" — Bad Religion When I attended Design Night on robotics, there was a discussion as to whether or not robots would ever have emotions.... Read more →

Augmented Reality for Showcase retires from Autodesk Labs

Scanning and photogrammetry are ways to get something in the real world into the computer. 3D printing is one way to get something out of the computer into the real world. Augmented reality is a way to visualize something in... Read more →

Full Scale 3D Printed Motorcycle: Is our wheel backwards?

At AU 2008 I happened to be nearby when our team was hoisting the 3D printed motorcycle for display. Autodesk had given me a FlipCam to take some video, so I did. I got this comment on my YouTube video... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**13 Voyager 2

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 FABmep Import for Revit MEP Now Available via Autodesk Labs

Autodesk Fabrication CADmep supports detailing, fabrication, and installation workflows for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) contractors, and provides tools that extend design-intent to create more accurate, intelligent, constructible models of building services systems. Autodesk Revit is specifically built for Building... Read more →

Autodesk Labs versus Beta: Experts Elite Presentation

photo courtesy of Adrianna Schneider, @LEEDing-Lady The Expert Elite program was spearheaded by many, including Technologist, Shaan Hurley, and launched at AU during our Launch & Lunch event with our CEO Carl Bass. The Expert Elite program is designed to... Read more →

From the Ground Up: Autodesk Shared Reference Point Tool – Now available

The BIM Coordinator for AutoCAD Civil 3D and Revit was our free technology preview that assists project team members with building and site grids. The technology preview automated the more error-prone manual steps in the coordination of site and building... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**12 Distance from Pluto to the Sun

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 →

DesignScript Now Supports AutoCAD 2014 too

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

Please Take our Project Pinocchio Survey

Chris Andrews is one of our Product Line Managers at Autodesk. He has been busily poring over all of the feedback that has come in for Project Pinocchio. Recall that Project Pinocchio is our free technology preview where you can... Read more →

Dear Labs and Beta Communities -- Thank You

In 1946 computer program defects got termed as bugs after a moth got caught in a computer relay. Autodesk is full of product teams wanting to make their products perfect, but for several reasons, a zero defect product is not... Read more →

Autodesk Participates in XPRIZE Visioneering

Jonathan Knowles At the end of April, Autodesk participated in XPRIZE Visioneering. Autodesk CTO, Jeff Kowalski and Autodesk Advisor to the CEO/CTO, Jonathan Knowles were "Visioneers." Autodesk Fellow, Tom Wujec, was one of the facilitators. Visioneering is a process where... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**11 Distance from Jupiter to the Sun

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 →

Project Chronicle Updated on May 1 -- Try It

Leverage your hardware to add more to your visual training materials. Project Chronicle is our technology preview from the Autodesk Research team that lets you make better training videos. Instead of just a screen capture and voice narration, Project Chronicle... Read more →

free technology preview of Design Checker for Inventor Now Available on Autodesk Labs

"Come on baby, let's do the twist." — Chubby Checker Technology previews on Labs are free. All we ask is that you try them and tell us if you like them or not. Our newest technology preview comes to Labs... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**10 Distance Light Travels in 34 Seconds

"And if you feel that you can't go on And your will's sinkin' low Just believe, and you can't go wrong In the light, you will find the road" — Led Zeppelin I work out of our office on One... Read more →

Design Night in the Autodesk Gallery on June 6: Faster. Stronger. Tech-ier.

Past Design Night is an events program at the Autodesk Gallery. At each event, guests explore a different theme — such as biomimicry, light, or robotics — that challenges the conventionally narrow definition of design. The theme is reflected in... Read more →

Project Sci-Viz extended to November 1, 2013

No that's not Dick Cheney's EKG — that's the number of downloads for Project Sci-Viz for 3ds Max. Atoms are atoms. Molecules are molecules. Cells are cells. All small but certainly something that could benefit from visualization. Researchers from the... Read more →

Autodesk Labs Site Back Up

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Shanghai Tower is now the tallest structure in China

computer-generated image With its twisting and tapering shape, the Shanghai Tower is a shining example of performance design. I have shared information about the Shanghai Tower before: autodesk.com: The Shanghai Tower Gallery Exhibit It's Alive in the Lab: The Shanghai... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10**9 The Sun

"I want the world to see I don't care when it will be There's no doubt I wanna go to the sun, everyone" — Peter Frampton I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My... Read more →

Autodesk POV: From Fast Follower to Technology Leader

The POV Dispatch is our Autodesk 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 →

Technology Previews are like cheese?

Enlarge Autodesk Labs is our home for free technology previews. When a technology preview ends, one of three things can happen: The technology can graduate from Autodesk Labs. This means it is ready to take the next step. Often this... Read more →