It is Alive in the Lab

What are the odds that a technology preview becomes a product or service?

Autodesk customers typically imagine, design, and create: places things media (film, TV show, commercial, game) As we help our customers design, make, and use their creations, we have gathered our solutions into collections for: Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Product Design... Read more →

What is a Technology Preview from Autodesk?

Autodesk has a variety of contact points with customers — everything from a "research project" to a full production "service." My focus has been on technology previews. The question has come up: "What is a technology preview?" Here are some... Read more →

August 2016 issue of Innovation Edge highlights Free Technology Previews from Autodesk

There's another issue of Innovation Edge, our technology preview newsletter, available for your perusal. This brief publication highlights technology previews available to the community. Something people don't always know is that technology previews are free. All we ask is that... Read more →

Summer Interns: Virtual Reality for Design

Virtual reality is an artificial world consisting of images and sounds created by a computer that is affected by the actions of a person experiencing it. Most first-person video games are examples of virtual reality. Augmented reality is an enhanced... Read more →

Summer Intern Uses Fusion 360 and Project Dreamcatcher to Imagine, Design, and Create a Cool-Looking Chair

As I blogged yesterday, we had interns work with us over the summer. One intern was Brittany Presten. Brittany Presten Brittany is a glutton for punishment. This is her sixth year interning at Autodesk (started in high school) where she... Read more →

Summer Interns Imagined, Designed, and Created a Mechanical Octopus using Fusion 360

As I have mentioned in previous posts, we had some summer interns working to put Fusion 360 through its paces and report back to our CEO and the Fusion 360 team. Here is the final project for 3 of them.... Read more →

List of Expiration Dates for Active Technology Previews from Autodesk

It's been a month, 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 →

Autodesk Labs and NASA Technology Readiness Levels

Have you ever noticed that projects on Autodesk Labs are called technology previews instead of alphas or betas? There's a reason for that. When someone is evaluating an alpha, their assumption is that the next step is beta. When someone... Read more →

Project Draco 1.0 (56) ready to be tested on an iPad using TestFlight

Project Draco continues as our free technology preview from Autodesk Research that makes animation as easy as sketching. The easy-to-use interface allows you to add a rich set of subtle, continuous animation effects to your images (e.g., JPGs, PNGs, GIFs)... Read more →

Autodesk Interns: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Autodesk hosts a lot of interns over the summer. We have high school and college students who help us with our marketing, sales, development, testing, financial, and customer support efforts. Though there are a few still hanging around, for most... Read more →

Secretary of Defense Fellow, Zach Miller, conducts joint research with Autodesk

Our new Secretary of Defense Fellow, Zach Miller, started last week. Zach will be with us in the Office of the CTO for a full year learning about how we explore, invent, and innovate and will be sharing some of... Read more →

Alameda Recreation and Parks Alameda Hospital Walk

The Alameda Recreation and Parks Department provides advice, coordination, and guidance on parks and recreational facilities in the city of Alameda. One of the activities they conduct is called Alameda Walks where they invite Alameda residents to lace up their... Read more →

"As you have brewed [the soup], so you must drink [the soup]." by Lisa Rotzinger

Lisa Rotzinger is one of our newest employees. She is a Designer for Networked Matter. You may recall Lisa from last year when she was an intern and presented at the Autodesk Leadership forum at Autodesk University in Las Vegas.... Read more →

End of Molecule Viewer technology preview

Historically, Autodesk has served three industries: Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Manufacturing Media & Entertainment By serving these industries, I mean we deliver technologies that enable the future of making things, whether that be a building, mechanical part, or the... Read more →

Play with Project Play and Provide Feedback via Autodesk Labs

Some technology previews are wide-open. Others are limited. Project Play is a technology preview where you request participation. The team looks at how many slots are available and adds participants on an ongoing basis. Project Play — the technology that... Read more →

Indexed-Like Review of 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. In a series of posts, I reviewed... Read more →

Autodesk Labs list of What's For Me? by Industry Collection

When you go to the Autodesk Labs home page, you see a set of available technology previews in alphabetical order. Visit the site. But suppose you want to see what is new? For that I have a page on my... Read more →

The Autodesk Innovation Genome is part of a Process

Last week I posted a blog article about the Autodesk Innovation Genome. "How Studying Past Innovations Revealed 7 Questions that Can Lead to Future Innovations" That article covered how our innovation Strategist, Bill O'Connor, came up with 7 questions whose... Read more →

YouTube: The Future of Making and Generative Design

Project Dreamcatcher allows designers to specify functional requirements like material type, manufacturing method, performance criteria, and cost restrictions, and based on these design requirements, Dreamcatcher searches a procedurally synthesized design space to evaluate a vast number of generated designs for... Read more →