It is Alive in the Lab

Bands That I Have Seen in Concert?

photo credit: Tim Barrios Since it's a Throwback Thursday, I will blog about something other than technology or application program interfaces such as Autodesk Forge. There is a Facebook meme going around where you post a list of bands that... Read more →

Teaching Computer Programming to Kindergartners (Part 3)

In previous blog articles, I talked about using Kodable to teach kindergarten students how to computer program — eventually to write JavaScript: teaching kindergarten students about sequencing teaching kindergarten students about conditionals Kodable is coding for kids with measurable student... Read more →

Autodesk Forge Example: BLDG360

Autodesk Forge is our platform that we use to create web services and allow our customers and partners to extend those web services. Though Forge is applicable to any aspect of the design/make/use lifecycle for places, things, and media, one... Read more →

Autodesk Forge DevCon (Developer's Conference) Call for Proposals

Knowing that I would be making the switch from being a Labs guy to helping the Office of the CTO with our internal Autodesk Forge usage, I attended last year's DevCon in San Francisco. This was the most photographed side... Read more →

New Neptune's Restaurant in Alameda, CA

I am working from home today, so I tried a new Alameda restaurant for lunch. Neptune's is located on Central Avenue where the old Fosters Freeze was. Let me summarize by saying that I will go back, but I would... Read more →

Using Fusion 360 for the Time Machine

Arthur Harsuvanakit and Lucas Prokopiak are on our team. Speaking of teams, they teamed up with Autodesk CEO Emeritus, Carl Bass, as well as two guys from LUNAR Design to imagine, design, and create a clock. You may recall that... Read more →

Some like it hot: A little more detail behind the Autodesk Forge API

Enlarge This is a more detailed rework of a previous blog post. "Feel the heat pushing you to decide Feel the heat burning you up, ready or not Some like it hot, and some sweat when the heat is on...... Read more →

Generative Design: It's not just for breakfast anymore

When I was growing up, entertainer, Anita Bryant, was featured in an ad campaign for Florida orange juice where she exclaimed: "Orange Juice — it's not just for breakfast anymore." I was reminded of this by a story I saw... Read more →

Dr. Erin Bradner, Distinguished Research Scientist

I have blogged about Autodesk's own Erin Bradner before: Dr. Erin Bradner says "You're very welcome" to Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Recurve Bow designed with Project Dreamcatcher Why the AutoCAD UX Team is Really a Lean Startup Power... Read more →

My Autodesk Gallery Tour on March 14, 2017

On March 14, the AutoCAD team hosted some bloggers to share what was in the upcoming AutoCAD 2018 release. AutoCAD 2018 has since been released: #AutoCAD 2018 Features The day started off for this bloggers with me giving them a... Read more →

What's so hot about that Autodesk Forge thing?

Let's say you've been an Autodesk customer for a long time. You've got decades of your intellectual property captured in AutoCAD drawings. If you'd like to leverage that data to showcase your work to your customers, then Autodesk Forge is... Read more →

It's Alive in the Lab is 10 Years Old Today

As a DWF Technical Evangelist, I started blogging by supplying Shaan Hurley with guest articles that he would post on his blog, Between The Lines. On February 14, 2006, I started my own blog, Beyond the Paper, using Shaan's naming... Read more →

Some @BGFleet Commuter Ferry Etiquette for Newbies

It's Friday, so let's talk about something besides Autodesk Forge. This is a blog post that I have wanted to write for years. Now if I can just get people to read it. I commute to the Autodesk office in... Read more →

Feedback on the new Autodesk Design Review

Yesterday I blogged about a newly released version of Autodesk Design Review. New Autodesk Design Review Available for Download It wasn't long before the accolades started rolling in. For example, I received an email message from Adam Hockley. You may... Read more →

New Autodesk Design Review Available for Download

Autodesk VP in our product development group, Brian Mathews, was on our team when he invented the DWF format. Our first foray into sharing design data via the internet was a WHIP! plug-in for the Netscape Navigator browser. Internet Explorer... Read more →

TED: Riccardo Sabatini: How to read the genome and build a human being

This is a fascinating TED Talk. Who knew that moms were 3D printers? The eye opener for me was that if the human genome (the sequence of letters that make up a person: A, C, G, & T) was printed... Read more →

Hey Landscape Architects, Do Medium-sized Bark Chips Last Longer than Small-sized Bark Chips?

Am I doing the wrong thing? Do larger bark chips last longer than smaller ones? I know many landscape architects use AutoCAD, so what say you? Are larger chips a better investment? Here's my personal story. Apparently I have become... Read more →