When a technology preview ends, one of three things can happen. The technology can graduate to the next step such as Autodesk Beta. The technology preview can be retired. It could resurface at a later date or in another form.... Read more →
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When a technology preview ends, one of three things can happen. The technology can graduate to the next step such as Autodesk Beta. The technology preview can be retired. It could resurface at a later date or in another form.... Read more →
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Project Memento is one of our newer technology previews on Autodesk Labs. Project Memento is a state of the art toolset that visualizes huge meshes from laser scans, photos, or any modeling application. It also automatically analyzes meshes for errors... Read more →
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The Autodesk fiscal year runs from February 1 through January 31. So our quarters are Feb-Mar-Apr, May-Jun-Jul, Aug-Sep-Oct, and Nov-Dec-Jan. On July 31 we ended Q2 of fiscal year 2014. In my role as Program Manger for Autodesk Labs, I... Read more →
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Yesterday my Twitter account was compromised. I am in the process of updating the Autodesk Labs site, so I cleared my browser cache to test my changes. So at some point during the day when I clicked on a link... Read more →
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As you can see above, my blog has a new banner. Although It's Alive in the Lab started out covering just Autodesk Labs, over the years it has expanded to include the Autodesk Gallery, Autodesk Research, and all things from... Read more →
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I work at our offices in San Francisco. Autodesk Labs is part of the Office of the CTO, but our offices worldwide are a mixture of employees from various divisions. Design, Lifecycle, & Simulation Finance / Enterprise Information Services Global... Read more →
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"If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do, is to save every day 'til eternity passes away..." — Jim Croce The internet way back machine is the new version of the Library... Read more →
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I am part of a team that sends out an internal newsletter each month. It is called POV Dispatch because it shares a point of view about ideas that are important to Autodesk and our customers. Innovation is frequently one... Read more →
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"We had a good thing! We had Fring, we had a lab, we had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork! You could have shut your mouth, cooked, and made as much money as you ever needed. It... Read more →
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My colleague, Bill O'Connor, is one of our corporate strategists. Bill crafts papers, speeches, visuals, and videos to support the CEO, CTO, and other members of Exec Staff in sharing Autodesk's thoughts on technology and innovation. I have previously blogged... Read more →
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A while back I posted a blog article that poked fun at two placards that were hanging in the entrance area of the 2nd floor of One Market. Design like you've never seen it I walked past those every day... Read more →
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As part of Autodesk's continuing work in education, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) hosted 10 interns this summer. Our 10 worked with another intern hosted by the Design, Lifecycle, & Simulation (DLS) group. On Thursday we had... Read more →
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In the name of science... My wife and I live in a townhouse condominium that is part of a homeowner association (HOA). The HOA sewer system terminates at a point that is lower than the city sanitation system. As a... Read more →
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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 →
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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 version. To check... Read more →
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It's never too late to graduate — Hey I'm a poet, and I don't know it. As I mentioned in a previous blog posting on Labs retirements versus graduations, technology previews are not intended for production use. After all, they're... Read more →
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The Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco celebrates design - the process of taking a great idea and turning it into a reality. With more than 20 different exhibits regularly on display that showcase the innovative work of... Read more →
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The technology preview of the Maximo Integration for Autodesk Revit 2013 products helped extend the value of a Revit building information model (BIM) into the operations phase of the building lifecycle. Maximo is an enterprise asset management solution from IBM.... Read more →
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A memento is something commemorative — a keepsake, a remembrance, or a souvenir. Project Memento is our newest new free technology preview on Autodesk Labs. For those of you who work with reality capture (scanning or photos), please try it... Read more →
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Autodesk is a software company. As someone with a background in software engineering, I find what we do fascinating: Agile requirements gathering and analysis, object oriented design, platform independent coding, stepping through code with a debugger, code coverage testing, source... Read more →
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"Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Oooh, fashion!" — Davie Bowie Past Design Night is open to the general public, It is an events program at the Autodesk Gallery. At each event, guests explore a different... Read more →
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Logo design by Anh Look With apologies to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for the title of this blog posting, it was 20 years ago today (actually yesterday) that Ithaca Software was acquired by Autodesk. Autodesk HR provided me... Read more →
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As its name suggests, our Reality Capture team works with point cloud technology and photogrammetry — technologies that make it possible to bring real world objects into the computer. 3D printing can be considered its complementary technology that makes it... Read more →
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Autodesk Sketchbook Pro has been a popular product for Autodesk. Learn more. So years ago when a few of the software developers suggested to our CEO, Carl Bass, that they make a mobile version of it, Carl said "That's the... Read more →
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