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My Favorite Blog Posts for 2016 - Thanks for reading

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

Mesh Enabler for Autodesk Inventor is also free to teachers and students

The Mesh Enabler started out as a technology preview of an add-on for Autodesk Inventor. As shipped, Autodesk Inventor creates mesh features when you import mesh data from certain file formats. The mesh features are for visualization purposes and cannot... Read more →

Christmas Letter 2016

December 2016 Dear Family and Friends: The big news for our family is that Stephanie is getting married. She and Blake Lerdall are tying the knot in September 2017. My duties are: propose a toast, attempt a father-daughter dance, and... Read more →

Merry Christmas and Happy New year

We have time off from December 23, 2016 through January 2, 2017. We'll get back to responding to your technology preview feedback up our return. Happy Holidays. As a scientist with a Catholic upbringing, I find archaeology associated with Jesus... Read more →

Sarah Krasley at UnreasonableWomen.com: Highlights and lowlights of our first year

Sarah Krasley and I are colleagues. Actually, I have now her desk next to Autodesk CEO, Carl Bass. I got this prime real estate when Sarah relocated to our Autodesk New York office. She has since started her own company,... Read more →

Project Scandium extended to August 1, 2017

Technology previews are about feedback. We make them available for free and ask that project participants share their thoughts. We need affirmation of the technology before it takes the next step. It's not a done deal. If that were the... Read more →

Updates to Project Play and Autodesk ReMake go Hand in Hand

Most 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. Recall that there is a relationship... Read more →

Progress Report of Customized Shirt from @MTailor

As I have mentioned before, Autodesk believes that the future of making involves 3 fundamental changes: Products themselves will be smarter with enablements via the internet of things. Processes will move towards automation via robots and greater efficiency through techniques... Read more →

Sustainability Efforts Can Be Independent of Climate Change Perspective

Since we have the holidays coming up, instead of writing about technology previews, today I thought I'd write about climate change. I believe in science. As Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, pointed out on his blog: If science says something is... Read more →

What makes a robot a robot?

"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine Where have you been? Welcome my son, welcome to the machine What did you dream?" — "Welcome to the Machine," Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd, 1975 When you push a vacuum cleaner... Read more →

Scanning the USS Pampanito Submarine drydocked in Alameda for repair

Mitko Vidanovski is a Customer Success Manager at Autodesk who works in our Reality Computing Group. Reality Computing is related to getting reality into the computer (via techniques like scanning or photogrammetry with software such as Autodesk ReCap 360) or... Read more →

Tovi Grossman: Trip Report - Mimus at the London Design Museum

Tovi Grossman is a Distinguished Research Scientist for Autodesk in our Toronto office. You may be familiar with his work on Autodesk Screencast and Autodesk Sketchbook Motion. During the week of Autodesk University, Tovi had the pleasure of visiting the... Read more →

Milling for Chocolate by Philippe Videau and Lucas Prokopiak

Philippe Videau is Technical Assistant to the Head of Product Development at Autodesk. You may recall Philippe when he was one our interns for the Summer of Fabrication 2015. Lucas Prokopiak is a Technical Assistant to the CEO for Applied... Read more →

free technology preview of Project Calrissian for CFD extended to March 6, 2017

We've extended the technology preview. Now, it's your move. Project Falcon was our original technology preview that simulated air flow around vehicles, buildings, outdoor equipment, consumer products, or other objects of your choosing in a virtual wind tunnel. Falcon technology... Read more →

Happy with my new Acer Predator PC

Here's a blog post that I started on Friday. It's the old and the new. My Christmas present arrived early. I got a new PC. I got an Acer Predator G9-791. Though I have historically bought DELL computers for my... Read more →

Dumping @Original Stitch - On to @MTailor

As I have mentioned before, Autodesk believes that the future of making involves three fundamental changes: Products themselves will be smarter with enablements via the internet of things. Processes will move towards automation via robots and greater efficiency via techniques... Read more →