It is Alive in the Lab

Showcasing the work of Autodesk customers

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our... Read more →

How Autodesk Gallery Exhibits are Designed and Made

Senior Exhibit Designer, Paula Berggren, next to one of the first exhibits that she designed. Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a... Read more →

Steelcase Improves Its Own Processes and Provides a Better Customer Experience with Autodesk Forge

image source: Steelcase 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 or Revit Building Information Models. If you'd like to leverage that data to showcase your... Read more →

Autodesk's Lake Oswego Office Transitioning to Portland

Michele Wolpe, Director of Employee Communications, shared some news. Autodesk's new Portland, Oregon office will open on April 16. The new Portland office is located about 10 miles from the Lake Oswego office on the shores of the Willamette River.... Read more →

Mike Haley: AI could expand design beyond boundaries imposed by the bias and groupthink that humans can succumb to

Mike Haley is a Senior Director of Machine Intelligence at Autodesk. Mike spoke with MIT Tech Review a few weeks ago to provide background on generative design and how artificial intelligence is being used to automate parts of the design... Read more →

Traveling Day

For the last week, my wife and I have been in Key West, vacationing with friends. All good things must come to an end, and we are traveling back home today. I will be blogging about Forge later in the... Read more →

Updated: Learn More about the Autodesk Gallery exhibits

The Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco celebrates design — the process of taking a great idea and turning it into a reality. With about 60 different exhibits regularly on display that showcase the innovative work of Autodesk... Read more →

Data Management Webhooks APIs Now Part of Production Autodesk Forge

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party developers... Read more →

New banner for It's Alive in the Lab blog

If you are reading this in a web browser as compared to RSS, you can see that It's Alive in the Lab has a new banner. My old banner featured large black letters on a multicolored background that looked like:... Read more →

TED Talk: The importance of self-care

Psychologist and author, Guy Winch, asks us to take our emotional health as seriously as we take our physical health — and explores how to heal from common heartaches. Check out his TED Talk: In summary, here are the 7... Read more →

Here's a website development tip: Dynamic Drive

I maintain the website for my homeowner association. Perhaps you maintain your own websites? I have found that Dynamic Drive has free code samples available that can help you jazz up your site. For example, I found some JavaScript code... Read more →

Don't worry, the glass won't break.

I recently updated my Facebook cover image with a picture of the New Orleans skyline that my lifelong friend, Tim Barrios, took while we were aboard The Norwegian Pearl, also known as The Rock Boat. image source: Tim Barrios The... Read more →