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Autodesk Gallery Exhibit: Buoyant Ecologies

San Francisco's waterfront is lined with rows of historic warehouses — elegant vestiges of old-world industry (think tugboats and textiles). Living among these classic monuments to commerce is Autodesk's Pier 9 office — our digital fabrication workshop where computers and... Read more →

Autodesk Raytracer (ART) for 3ds Max Graduates from Autodesk Labs

There is a long history of rendering for Autodesk Labs. We started with Project Freewheel where we showed that 3D DWF files could be rendered using just the browser. We used Project Showroom to simulate how a shopping experience could... Read more →

The free Meshmixer 3.0 is available for download

As its name suggests, Autodesk Research is our research group. In addition to writing papers and presenting them at conferences, they also develop prototypes. Ryan Schmidt is one of the members on our research team, and the application he works... Read more →

I'll Be On Vacation On The Rock Boat XVI Next Week

Next week I will once again be on vacation on The Rock Boat. This is the fifth time my wife and I are enjoying this event. As in the past, Sheryl, and I are taking this cruise with my college... Read more →

Maya Kremien: KIDmob and Autodesk Superhero Cyborgs at Autodesk Pier 9

Maya Kremien was one of our summer interns who put Fusion 360 through its paces and shared her results directly with our CEO, Carl Bass. You may recall this blog post. Maya recently contacted me about an event she participated... Read more →

Expiration Dates for free Technology Previews available via Autodesk Labs

My last two blog posts have been about retiring existing technology previews, so I figured it was time to repost an updated version of my milk carton blog article. Most technology previews are like milk cartons. They have expiration dates... Read more →

Project Dalton retires from Autodesk Labs

For those of you who read yesterday's blog post, this is going to seem like deja vu. When a technology preview debuts on Autodesk Labs, it has a published end date. On the end date, based on the volume and... Read more →

Project Harmony for Moldflow retires from Autodesk Labs

When a technology preview debuts on Autodesk Labs, it has a published end date. On the end date, based on the volume and sentiment of the feedback collected during the preview, one of three things happens: The technology graduates to... Read more →

Nature: Three-dimensional visualization of nanostructured surfaces and bacterial attachment using Autodesk Maya

Nature is a magazine and website published by the Nature Publishing Group. Today I got an email from Jos Stam. Jos is a member of the Autodesk Research team, and his research spans several areas of computer graphics: natural phenomena,... Read more →

20 Todd Rundgren Songs For Almost Every Occasion In Your Life

Via Facebook, I saw this article yesterday: I have been a Todd Rundgren fan since 1973, and I thought to myself, "I can do that." So using the same goofy categories as the BuzzFeed article, here are "20 Todd Rundgren... Read more →

The Telegraph: Chris Tarrant: on board the world's extreme railways

Mr. Eiji Nakatsu next to 500 Series Shinkansen train Back in April 2013, I attended a lecture by Dr. Eiji Nakatsu at the Autodesk Gallery. This led to my writing of a blog article: Eiji Nakatsu: Lecture on Biomimicry as... Read more →

Wet Lab Accelerator graduates from Autodesk Labs to an Open Source Project

A Wet Laboratory is a laboratory space where chemicals, drugs, or other material or biological matter are tested and analyzed requiring water, direct ventilation, and specialized piped utilities. Wet Lab Accelerator is a tool for researchers working in synthetic biology... Read more →

2015 Update: The Dollars and Cents of My Home Energy Audit (we have now come out ahead)

My wife, Sheryl, and I have a townhouse at Crown Harbor in Alameda, California. In a series of blog posts, I outlined the process we followed to make some energy improvements to our home: A Modest Proposal: Results of My... Read more →

You're welcome Bay Farm School Students

My wife is a substitute teacher in the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD). Her personalized license plate for her car is: One of the schools where she teaches is Bay Farm School. It's the school that both of our children... Read more →

Project VUE Viewing for Navisworks extended to March 31, 2016

Everyone likes more time. Yesterday I blogged about how I extended Project Scandium for Moldflow Insight to July 31, 2016. That reminded me that while on Christmas vacation, I also extended Project VUE using an internet connection from my mother-in-law's... Read more →

Project Scandium for Moldflow Insight extended to July 31, 2016

Just when you thought your time was up... Project Scandium for Moldflow Insight is our free technology preview that extends simulation capabilities by offering new capabilities that you can try and provide feedback. You can have this technology preview installed... Read more →

My Favorite Blog Posts of 2015 - thanks for reading

I have been blogging since February 14, 2006. Normally I write about new, updated, retired, or graduated technology previews on Autodesk Labs. Blogging is a way to spread the word about a technology to encourage potential users to try the... Read more →

Happy New Year from Autodesk Labs

Happy New Year. We look forward to sharing more technology previews with you in 2016 and continuing to get your feedback. Try a free technology preview. As we progress throughout the year, we add and graduate/retire technology previews, so please... Read more →