Category Autodesk Labs

The Browser That Ran Revit (And Why Autodesk Killed It)

In November 2013, Autodesk successfully ran full versions of its applications like Inventor and Revit in web browsers through a partnership with Mozilla, OTOY, AWS, and NVIDIA. Despite the groundbreaking performance, Autodesk chose not to launch the product due to pricing, internal politics, and fear of disrupting existing profits, ultimately opting for limited cloud features instead.

The Power of Experimentation: Lessons from Labs

Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It thrives in an environment where ideas can be tested, refined, and most importantly fail forward fast. That’s exactly what we built with Autodesk Labs several years ago when I was an Autodesk employee.…

From Vision to Victory: Lessons from Both Sides of the Table

Having been both a customer and user of Autodesk products, and as a member of product teams, I’ve had the unique experience of seeing things from both perspectives. I’ve been the voice of the customer, advocating for their needs, interpreting their sentiment, and translating real-world use cases into product strategy. Whether you’re a startup or scaling up, here are some lessons that might help you focus on what really matters.

Autodesk Offers Free & Extended Access to Cloud Collaboration Products

In response to customer feedback, we’re offering an Extended Access Program for several of our flagship cloud collaboration products to better support our customers during this challenging time. Learn more here: ”Customers & Partners Autodesk Offers Free & Extended Access…

Autodesk Feedback Community Planned Outage February 19th, 2017

The Autodesk Feedback Community where Autodesk Betas are hosted will be down for planned security and hardware maintenance on February 19th for approximately two hours. Planned Maintenance Sunday, February 19th. The maintenance window is from 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM…

SketchBook Motion Released for the iPad

Autodesk has just released SketchBook Motion on the Apple App Store which was formerly available as as pre-release Project Draco from Autodesk Research. Now you can easily create compelling web based animations for illustrations or art using your Apple iPad.…

Using Generative Design to Design a Bike Stem

There is an article published by SolidSmack explaining Autodesk’s Generative Design technology named Dreamcatcher developed by Autodesk Research. The article discusses Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence Che-Wei Wang using Dreamcatcher to design an optimized 3D printed metal bike stem. In…

Project Expo Tech Preview – Blowing Minds

I wanted to share and highlight one of our amazing tech previews for Revit users that is getting great feedback in our Autodesk Feedback Community where Autodesk pre-release alpha/betas and Autodesk Labs projects are managed. Project Expo brings Revit models to life in an interactive real-time environment on desktop, mobile, the web, or VR.

“Project Expo is expected to upend the visualization world for the entire AEC industry – giving you a new tool to wow your clients and to help make informed decisions – together – in real-time. Project Expo uses the Autodesk Stingray game engine, which was released in August 2015 to incorporate a recent acquisition of a gaming engine to move Revit models to this environment via Autodesk 3ds Max rendering software. With Project Expo technology under the hood, Autodesk’s cloud platform, and a truly simple one-button rendering in Revit, what more could you ask for? The experience is immersive, real-time and far more intimate between your firm and client. “

Changes to the Autodesk Feedback Community

Over the past two weeks we have had some changes like the username and password split into two steps in the Autodesk community sign in process that impacted projects for users of Autodesk Beta and Autodesk Labs. My colleague Scott…

Autodesk Feedback Community Maintenance Notice for Thursday April 7th, 2016 at 9:00pm PDT

We will be upgrading server hardware in our Autodesk Feedback Community platform that hosts both Autodesk Beta and Autodesk Labs for over 200,000 users around the world assist Autodesk with improving our products and technologies. Beta and Labs participants are…