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Book Review Part 9: The Principles of Product Development FLOW: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen

In a previous blog article, I mentioned how I was getting back to my programming roots and reading The Principles of Product Development FLOW: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen. I am in the process of reviewing... Read more →

How Studying Past Innovations Revealed 7 Questions that Can Lead to Future Innovations

Groups visit Autodesk and want to talk about innovation. They come to offices like the Autodesk Gallery and ask "How does Autodesk innovate?" when what they really want to know is "How can I innovate?" In response, Autodesk has developed... Read more →

In the Fold: Introducing Design Graph: How machine learning will transform 3D engineering

Imagine you are designing a bicycle and need a rear wheel sprocket. You could model it yourself using Fusion 360 or Inventor. But maybe this is not your first bicycle design, and you have sprockets from previous projects, so you... Read more →

free technology preview of Project Kameleon infrastructure modeling software extended to October 15, 2016

Everyone wants and could use more time. Project Kameleon is our free technology preview where you can try our new infrastructure model content authoring tools that are compatible with InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D. The technology preview includes a... Read more →

Reality Computing: How Reality Computing is Helping MegaBots Create Giant Fighting Robots

We often think of computers as big number crunchers. Although they do that, reality computing is where computers play a role in interacting with the real world. This can involve getting the real world into the computer via methods like... Read more →

All Intern Fusion 360 Presentation in the Autodesk Gallery

Here s how I spent my Tuesday morning: Gary Hercules is our Marketing Specialist on Worldwide Education team. Autodesk is hosting a large group of college interns for the summer. To share Autodesk's thoughts on the future of making, Gary... Read more →

ReCap 360 Mobile retired from Autodesk Labs

ReCap 360 Mobile was a technology preview for viewing, annotating, and sharing 3D laser scan projects created in Autodesk ReCap 360. ReCap 360 users could bring their projects into the field to streamline maintenance, demolition, and construction workflows. ReCap 360... Read more →

Autodesk Simulation users can request participation in Project Arro to help shape the future of SimStudio

Project Arro 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. The project originally got its name because it is an acronym:... Read more →

Updated Project Scandium for Moldflow Insight available via Autodesk Labs

The Moldflow team Provided me with new installers for their technology preview of Project Scandium. I posted them for download and updated the site. Recall that Project Scandium is our technology preview that extends simulation capabilities with new capabilities. Moldflow... Read more →

What is this thing? Any ideas?

On our walk back home from the farmer's market today, Sheryl and I encountered this: From what we could see, there is only one of these on this street. We are not sure what it is. It's on Santa Clara... Read more →

How a Garlic Press Revealed that this Software Guy should stick to Software

The year was 1975. I was a junior at an all-boys Catholic high school in New Orleans. Mr. Hebert, one of our math teachers, decided to offer computer programming as an elective. I decided to take it. Computer programming was... Read more →

On Thursday, August 4, 6-10 p.m., the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco will host Design Night: BUILD IT!, an architecture fête!

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Expiration Dates for free Technology Previews Available via Autodesk Labs

It's been a while, so I figured it was time to repost an updated version of my milk carton blog article. We do have a few technology previews finishing at the end of the month, so act now if you... Read more →

Talkin' 'bout my Generation, my Generative Design

With apologies to The Who for the title of this blog post, Generative Design is a process where a human gives the computer a set of parameters that expresses his overall goals, and the system uses algorithms to explore all... Read more →

Autodesk Interns: Straight Talk Directly from the Horse's Mouth

After taking the July 4 week off, we returned to work yesterday. As I have mentioned in other blog posts: Summer of Fabrication 2016 is underway Week 2 of the Autodesk Summer of Fabrication 2016 Week 3 of the Autodesk... Read more →

Project EnergyPlus Cloud to graduate to Insight 360

Since I mentioned Project Boulder's planned graduation into a future version of InfraWorks 360, I would be remiss if I did not mention the fate of Project EnergyPlus Cloud. Project EnergyPlus Cloud was our technology preview for running EnergyPlus simulations... Read more →

Project Boulder for InfraWorks 360 to graduate from Autodesk Labs

Autodesk InfraWorks 360 (i.e., automated 3D model building, cloud technology, and specialized features for road, bridge, and drainage design) helps civil engineers plan and design transportation infrastructure. It allows them to manage larger-scale infrastructure models created from existing data sources,... Read more →

Week 3 of the Autodesk Summer of Fabrication 2016

To see who are summer interns are and what the internship program is about, check out their previous reports Summer of Fabrication 2016 is underway Week 2 of the Autodesk Summer of Fabrication The motto for week 3 was "Let... Read more →

Autodesk Labs: Week of July 4 Vacation

Autodesk employees in the United States (and Canada) are following the 4th of July holiday with 4 days of vacation. We will be returning to work on Monday, July 11. For those of you who provide feedback this week on... Read more →

Pizza by the Slice

This YouTube video is going viral: Warning: Not Safe for Work Language Obviously, slicing a pizza into 8 slices instead of 12 "because I can't eat 12 slices" in the wrong answer. 100% is 100% no matter how you slice... Read more →