It is Alive in the Lab

Project Sundance extended to October 15, 2014 on Autodesk Labs

source: movieclips.com When I was only 9 years old, I saw the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with my parents. In one scene when the main characters jumped off a cliff into a river far below, they both... Read more →

Autodesk Labs Innovation Edge Newsletter Announcement - July 2014

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 →

Project Cassidy extended to October 15, 2014 on Autodesk Labs

Project Cassidy is our free technology preview of a composite plate bending simulation tool that allows designers and engineers to optimize composite layups for complex-geometry plates under bending loads. Project Cassidy allows you to import your own 3D part geometry... Read more →

Great Use of Mesh Enabler for Autodesk Inventor

Ever since I posted a note in the Inventor discussion forum and published "Student Access to Mesh Enabler for Inventor" on my blog, I get emails from students requesting a copy of the Mesh Enabler for Autodesk Inventor. This add-on... Read more →

My Weekend Trip to Cambria, California

On Thursday night of last week, my wife and I drove to Cambria, California to meet some long-time friends. The drive took about 4 hours. Our plan was to: see the Pacific Ocean: visit Hearst Castle: taste wine at local... Read more →

Pipe Dream Becomes A Reality Invented by Someone Else

About 10 years ago, when I left Autodesk to go work for Océ, I worked on an online plan room. The premise was simple: People who created designs, like architects, would upload their plans to an online plan room called... Read more →

Updated Project Arro for Simulation Mechanical/CFD/Moldflow users on #AutodeskLabs

Project Arro for Simulation Mechanical/CFD/Moldflow is an Invitation Only Technology Preview. This not our normal public technology preview because the simulation team is interested in working exclusively with existing Autodesk Simulation users. Project Arro is designed to enable Autodesk Simulation... Read more →

Updated 2D to 3D Tool for Inventor 2015 available via Autodesk Labs

The 2D to 3D tool for Inventor is our free technology preview that allows you to quickly create 3D models from 2D-designed parts. Activated as part of file import, the 2D to 3D Tool automatically transforms drawing views into orthogonal... Read more →

Make. Hack. Craft. That’s the motto at Pumping station: One. We got an up-close look at this Chicago “hackerspace” on the #3DRV.

The #Chicago #makermovement is growing like crazy. Have you heard about @pumpingstation1? Our #3DRV team was introduced to the Shapeoko 3D Carving machine — such a cool 3D design machine! Creativity and innovation came together at Pumping Station. Read about... Read more →

Taste Test: Sugared Hot Chocolate versus No Sugar Added Hot Chocolate

Since it's a Friday, I try not to blog about Autodesk Labs-related stuff. My family and coworkers make fun of me in that they say I am too Spock-like. They cringe when I write blog posts like: Will it flush?... Read more →

Mickey McManus: LinkedIn Blog - Warp and Weft

Mickey McManus is a visiting research fellow in the Office of the CTO, spending 3 months exploring the implications for design, business, technology, and education of a future where computing ceases to be confined to any particular, "box," but instead... Read more →

Autodesk 3DRV Continues Its Journey

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, they say you can bring Mohammed to the mountain or you can bring the mountain to Mohammed. We have a team that is showcasing the design process on the road. Autodesk is... Read more →

GOAL! #AutodeskGallery shows #WorldCup games on gallery walls

Normally our Autodesk Gallery looks like this: We have exhibit-related graphics on the gallery walls. However during the World Cup, the Autodesk Gallery team used our projection screens to broadcast the games. Enlarge During the World Cup, particularly during the... Read more →

Updated Project Memento manual/automatic mesh fixer Available via Autodesk Labs

Tatjana Dzambazova at a recent TED talk Project Memento is our technology preview of an end-to-end solution for converting any reality capture input, such as photos or scans, into a high quality 3D mesh that can be cleaned up, fixed,... Read more →

Autodesk Cloud Server Maintenance on July 12

Autodesk Cloud Operations will be performing the monthly Microsoft security maintenance to our windows server and virtualization infrastructure environments this week. This activity will require brief outages to the following applications: BIM 360 Glue // more Buzzsaw // more Constructware... Read more →

Project Miller retires from Autodesk Labs

Project Miller was our free technology preview that allowed you to optimize and validate your design before you built it. Project Miller helped you improve results with 3D printing. Is my model geometry printable? What changes can be made to... Read more →

Labs Will Be Down for Maintenance Tonight

Autodesk Labs is part of the Autodesk Feedback Community. It's the same platform used for the Autodesk Beta program. The Autodesk Feedback Community is undergoing an update to a new release tonight. The maintenance window starts at 7:00 pm tonight... Read more →

Design Night: Tech couture - Thursday, August 7, 6-10 p.m. at Autodesk Gallery, 1 Market Street, San Francisco

No doubt about it, fashion is strutting its way into the digital age, and a lot of the outfits about to be rocked were imagined and created using high-tech tools. We’re talking fashion forward—literally. From wearables to would-be fashion designers... Read more →

Inventor Simplification graduates from Autodesk Labs

The Autodesk Labs process is: So when a technology preview ends, it can graduate to the next step, retire for now, and undergo another round of feedback collection. Inventor Simplification was our technology preview of a new and easy way... Read more →

Happy 4th of July from Autodesk Labs

Today is July 4 - Independence day - recognition of the day the Declaration of Independence was first read publicly by Colonel John Nixon. (Although actually it occurred on July 8, 1776.) The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence... Read more →

Project Bonfire allows sharing Autodesk information with an employee perspective

I am the Program Manager for Autodesk Labs so I routinely use social media. I have a blog, It's Alive in the Lab, so I can write about the availability of technology previews so prospective participants can learn about them.... Read more →

Project Commuter for InfraWorks available via Autodesk Labs

Here is my commute to work. Drive from home to parking lot. 5 minutes. Ride ferry from Alameda to San Francisco: 20 minutes. Walk from Ferry Building to One Market: 5 minutes. What if software helped model the cost of... Read more →

Lighting Analysis Extension for Revit with Daylighting for LEED graduates from Autodesk Labs

I got some information from Sales Readiness and Marketing Manager for Sustainability, Nicole Shumaker. Daylight analysis just got easier. We built a new extension for Revit to perform very fast and physically accurate daylighting analysis from within Revit 2014 and... Read more →