Easily Try 3 New InfraWorks 360 Technology Previews

"Let me tell you about the new world order
 Not the kind to make you run for the border
 It's a new religion wrapped in a revolution
 With a prudent solution for your mental pollution"
— Todd Rundgren, "No World Order," No World Order, an interactive musical CD, 1993.

Some technology previews allow you to download an add-on for one of our desktop products.

• 2D to 3D Tool for Inventor
• Cloud Sync for AutoCAD Architecture / AutoCAD MEP
• DesignScript for AutoCAD
• FABmep Import for Revit MEP
• Inventor Simplification
• Project Chronicle for AutoCAD Family / Inventor / Revit
• Project Octopus for Robot Structural Analysis

Some technology previews run stand-alone:

• Project Dalton
• Project Memento
• Project Miller
• Project Scandium (requires Simulation Moldflow Insight license)

Other technology previews allow you to try a totally new cloud-based solution:

• Light Analysis Extension for Revit
• Project Khan for Maya
• Project Shapeshifter

We even have a technology preview that runs on an iPad:

• Project Carbon

In addition to those, here we have something that can be considered the new world order. Let's say you are an Autodesk InfraWorks 360 user.

• Recall that InfraWorks is our desktop application that manages larger-scale infrastructure models created from existing data sources and generates proposals and early design concepts in the context of the built environment. Many of you may remember it on Autodesk Labs as Project Galileo.
• For those who are not InfraWorks 360 users, it is the cloud-based version where Autodesk infinite computing servers can be applied to the problem. Many of you may remember this on Autodesk Labs as Project Galileo Online.

So if you are using a cloud-based solution like InfraWorks 360, how do you try new functionality? Unlike for desktop companion technology previews, there is no installer to download and install. Also there is no totally new service to try, since the new functionality is part of the existing service. What to do? What to do? The answer is to allow the new technology to be enabled via the existing service. And exactly what the InfraWorks 360 team has done. There are 3 new technology previews you can try.

You enable them via sliders that appear in the InfraWorks 360 user interface:

Once you do and you try them for yourself, you can then provide your feedback via these Autodesk Labs technology preview projects on the Autodesk Feedback Community:

• Corridor Optimization for InfraWorks 360
• Drainage Design and Watershed Analysis for InfraWorks 360
• Model Builder for InfraWorks 360

Corridor Optimization

• Email: [email protected]
• Forum: on Autodesk Feedback Community

Drainage Design and Watershed Analysis

• Email: [email protected]
• Forum: on Autodesk Feedback Community

Model Builder

• Email: [email protected]
• Forum: on Autodesk Feedback Community

Thanks for giving these a try and sharing your feedback. Based on your participation, it is quite possible that we will try more technology previews this way. Your feedback shapes not only the future of our technology but also the future of our processes. Here's to the new world order...

Easy enablement is alive in the lab.