It is Alive in the Lab

Happy Halloween

Today is the strange holiday in the United States where we send our children out to accept candy from strangers.On Halloween, we also have costume parties. Scott and Sheryl Sheppard pay homage to Spiderman and Super Girl. Our costumes go... Read more →

3D Printed San Francisco Model at Autodesk Gallery at One Market

We have a 3D printing future cities exhibit in our gallery at our One Market Office in San Francisco. People: Steelblue // more Autodesk // more Stratasys // more Related Autodesk software: Autodesk Infraworks // more Autodesk Recap // more... Read more →

Join Project Rosenfeld and Share Your Feedback

When Senior Sustainable Buildings Product Manager and Sustainable Building Program Manager, Aniruddha Deodhar, contacted me about hosting Project Rosenfeld on Autodesk Labs, I had no idea what the project was about. So I googled Rosenfeld and found images of Alexandra... Read more →

Project EnergyPlus Cloud Now Available on Autodesk Labs

Here's a question you never ask yourself: Have I googled too much today? You never ask that. Anytime you want to search for something on the web, you type in some text into the address window and hit return. It's... Read more →

Sneak Peek of Project Energy Cost Range Available on Autodesk Labs

"Money, money, money, money, money Some people got to have it Some people really need it You wanna do things, do things Do things, good things with it Talk about cash money — "For The Love of Money," The O'Jays... Read more →

How I wish Twitter Would Work

I view gardening as something different than landscaping. For gardening, I tend to use a trowel. I get down on my hands and knees, dig a small hole, plant a plant, and water it. It has a very individual feel... Read more →

Solar Radiation for Revit Now Available via Autodesk Labs

I am happy to announce another technology preview available via Autodesk Labs that you can try for free. Revit 2014 and 2015 users can now quickly, easily, and iteratively perform solar analysis on the faces of a mass in Autodesk... Read more →

Project ECMFin Now Available via Autodesk Labs

I have been tracking my own savings with my energy conversation measures. Without these measures, it would be like burning money. Project ECMFin is our free technology preview that allows you to conduct financial analyses on desired energy conservation measures... Read more →

Three Flavors of Project Scandium on Autodesk Labs

Join the project. Project Scandium for Autodesk Simulation Moldflow Insight is our free technology preview that extends simulation capabilities by offering new capabilities to try out and provide feedback. The Project Scandium technology preview is free, but requires Autodesk Simulation... Read more →

Project Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Infraworks now available via Autodesk Labs

The Sustainability team had created a project for Green Stormwater Infrastructure. They wanted to get some more feedback, so I converted it to an Autodesk Labs technology preview. It is now free, open to the public, and participants are not... Read more →

Autodesk Cloud Server Maintenance on October 18

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 Sundance retires from Autodesk Labs (for now)

Project Sundance was our free technology preview that allowed you to export the fiber orientation results from your Autodesk Simulation Moldflow simulation and use them to run a nonlinear structural analysis in Abaqus Standard or Explicit. The result for users... Read more →

Autodesk Office of the CTO dips its toe into the Maritime R&D water

OCTO (Office of the CTO) spelled out in nautical flags We recently kicked off our Maritime R&D efforts in the Office of the CTO. As part of that, our team christened our boat. Representatives from the Port of San Francisco,... Read more →

Updated Project Ventus for Simulation CFD Now Available via Autodesk Labs

Project Ventus is a big hit with the student community. Project Ventus for Simulation CFD is a surface wrapping tool that is meant to take a model, surface wrap it, add an external volume, and generate a CFD quality mesh... Read more →

In memory of Robert Wagner (no, not that Robert Wagner)

My family history in New Orleans dates back to 1838 when Joseph Sheppard emigrated from Northern Ireland. So I have lots of family in Louisiana. When I went to college in Louisiana, I got my degree programming on a Honeywell... Read more →

Updated Project Arro for Simulation Mechanical/CFD/Moldflow available via Autodesk Labs

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 →

Commissioning of the USS America Amphibious Assault Ship

This week is fleet week in San Francisco. Autodesk has been heavily involved as documented on the In the Fold blog. USS America: Building the U.S. Naval Forces Platform of the Future … Today I am attending 3 events: Thursday... Read more →

Book Review: Codermetrics by Jonathan Alexander

I got my undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). All my childhood I grew up thinking I would go to Louisiana State University (LSU), following in the footsteps of my brother and... Read more →

Project Cassidy team wins Design Innovation Award from the JEC Group

Autodesk Labs is a process. Divisions in the company that want to shape some technology based on customer feedback host technology previews on Autodesk Labs. It's very much like the Beta program which is why Autodesk Labs and Autodesk Beta... Read more →

Updated free mesh fixer available on Autodesk Labs

Project Memento is a free technology preview available on Autodesk Labs. Project Memento provides 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 and... Read more →

Design Night on November 6 at One Market: Tiny tech, big ideas

Purchase tickets. Getting small but grandiose is alive in the lab. Read more →

What's Happening with Spark and the Autodesk 3D Printer

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 team of which Autodesk Labs is a... Read more →

It's the year 2014 - send out your phone number when making a phone call

I don't have an office phone. I use my computer instead. It's cheaper than having a separate phone line, so it saves the company money. When I don't answer the phone, and a caller leaves a voice message, I actually... Read more →

Updated Revit Credit Manager for LEED Now Available on Autodesk Labs

The Revit Credit Manager for LEED allows you to automate calculations for your LEED Daylighting and Views IEQ 8.1 (Daylight Option 1 Simulation and Option 2 Prescriptive) and IEQ8.2 (Views) credits as well as streamline the submittals conveniently from inside... Read more →

Trifecta of Articles about Autodesk in Forbes Magazine

George Harrison, Living in the Material World I grew up with the Beatles in the 1960's, so I found it fun to see: Autodesk recently caught the eye of Forbes Magazine as evidenced by 3 stories. These stories combine to... Read more →