20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
The Autodesk Beta and Autodesk Labs projects on the Autodesk Feedback Community will have short maintenance window coming on Tuesday March 4th. Start Time: Mar. 4, 2014 at 18:00 PST (Tuesday at 6:00 pm) Estimated End Time: Mar. 4, 2014…
Do you want to test & help improve the next versions of Autodesk products? Beta season is in full swing at https://beta.autodesk.com/.
Sign up to participate in the Navisworks beta testing program. You can get a preview of a future release and provide your feedback.
Fresh out of a customer beta at the Autodesk Feedback Community is Autodesk Inventor HSM Express, a free 2.5 axis Computer Aided Manufacturing "CAM" software for Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor LT.
Inventor HSM Express is Now Live! http://cam.autodesk.com
The recorded product launch video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/mT7mf-vrqAg
Autodesk Inventor HSM Express video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/h_xLy47uWuE
Articles from around the interwebs about Inventor HSM Express Launch:
IT’S OFFICIAL, THE FREE CAM SOLUTION FOR AUTODESK INVENTOR IS HERE
http://bit.ly/1dYq7NM
Autodesk introduces integrated CAM for Inventor with HSM Express by metalworkingcanada
http://bit.ly/1g8kKxF
For those who participated in the beta testing using the pre-release product to provide feedback and improve the quality, I give you a big THANK YOU and shower you in sparkling CNC metal shavings of gratitude for your participation. Please ensure to install the final released version. An issue was identified in the beta versions which causes Inventor to crash on start-up. Installing the release version will automatically will resolve this. This goes for any beta, always uninstall and start fresh with the final release of a product to avoid conflicts or time out of the beta software.
For those that use HSMWorks CAM solutions for SolidWorks fear not we are continuing to support and develop that product.
Cheers,
Shaan
We are rapidly approaching the big pre-release alpha and beta season for Autodesk. There are already a couple Autodesk products in testing now and you can sign up to participate by registering at http://beta.autodesk.com. By joining almost 70,000 Autodesk customer that participate in hundreds of pre-release feedback projects every year you will improve the quality of the products and you become a vital extended member of the product teams and help us shape the direction of the products you use, or future products and solutions you may need.
AutoCAD Customer Council
On the AutoCAD team, we have created a Customer Council program as a way to partner with customers throughout the development of our key features.
Building Trust: AutoCAD Customer Councils http://autode.sk/166UYoD
The Customer Councils go hand in hand with Autodesk Feedback Community projects like early alpha and beta programs as we want our customers involved in shaping the products they use.
The Autodesk CAM Team are happy to announce that we have a new Beta build that is ready for you to download and test. We received a great deal of feedback from the previous Beta builds.
If you are not a participant in the beta currently, or signed up to be considered for other Autodesk product betas please sign up now at the Autodesk Feedback Community http://beta.autodesk.com
There will be about an hour downtime for maintenance tomorrow Tuesday August 13th, 2013 at 16:00 PST (4pm) for the Autodesk Feedback Community. Cheers, Shaan
We have been working this Summer on many updates and improvements to the Autodesk Feedback Community where most Autodesk product betas and future research goes on. I was placed in charge of this 65,000+ member community again this Spring and had a list of things to do from the fellow admins and the participants in the community. We have some major upgrades coming and making the community easier to login and participate in but the most visual will be to switch from a dark theme to a light and bright theme like other Autodesk communities switches to a recently in addition to the new logo.
In response to participant feedback we also moved the logout to the upper right and extended the community timeout to 90 minutes.
I will talk more about the exciting feature upgrades in the future, but here is a look at the new Autodesk Feedback Community Light theme mockup that goes live today at 1PM PST.
We are currently working on a major update of the Autodesk Feedback Community. The Autodesk Feedback Community is where most all pre-release testing of Autodesk product betas are managed and run as well as a bunch of research projects, gunslingers, and now some Autodesk Labs projects. There are 65,000+ members of this community of bleeding edge adopters that want to help shape the future of Autodesk products and technologies as well as be part of our vital extended product team members. We can have over 100 projects a year including desktop, mobile, and cloud hosted products.
While many companies view beta and feedback projects as a project check list item to gather bugs or a marketing activity on ready to ship products, Autodesk sees the true value of beta and pre-release projects beyond just bug reporting and that is engagement of the participants as they are truly integral to the success of the product. A company or team will not learn how to best improve your products unless they actually talk with customers on how they use the product and the features that need work or the missing features to improve the product. It is a relationship between project participants and Autodesk. The participants are truly external members of the product teams.
Some of the big changes coming:
New look as we change from the black theme to a white themed community.
A complete mobile version of the Autodesk Feedback Community so you can participate in the discussions or report a bug in a project from your desktop or tablet and phone both web based mobile schema and native apps.
New platform update with many new enhancements including simplification of the system.
Streamlined feedback and defect reporting including the social ability to allow fellow participants to vote and rank defect reports and feature requests.
Better reporting and management of your reported items and their current status.
Working on a better Autodesk single sign on experience to make it more transparent.
We need your creativity genius:
I was thinking that during our big change from black to white community themes and since we have some of the worlds most creative members, that we could crowd source a landing page image and an icon that convey “feedback and participation”. I might be able to not only give you some public recognition but possibly scrounge up some goodies.