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A few weeks ago, "Project Chronicle" came of age and has gone live after being after spending time in the Autodesk Labs area. What is Project Chronicle, you say - well its an extremely useful tool that allows users to easily capture, share and learn from software workflows.  It allows users to to record and capture information from within Autodesk software thereby creating excitedly useful and interactive video tutorials. I can see that this technology will be a valuable tool when dealing with technical support issues...  Check out the Project Chronicles website for some great videos already uploaded...

Project Photofly has been a very popular technology preview. People from all over the globe have created 3D models from their 2D photographs using the power of the Autodesk Cloud. Now it's time to take the next step. With today's release, the technology has been incorporated into 123D Catch Beta… Scott Sheppard's " Its Alive In The Labs " blog announced earlier today about Project Photofly's graduation Are you ready to start?  Click on the  123D Catch Beta…  link to access the website to download the Autodesk 123D Beta.  Once its downloaded, open the self-extracting zip file to start the installation

W oo Hoo, as commented earlier  I can now report that the  Project Vasari technology preview Is Now Available You can download Project Vasari via Autodesk Labs here Project Vasari is a design tool with analysis capabilities available via the cloud. Project Vasari is compatible with Revit in that files created by Project Vasari can be opened using Revit 2011, and Revit files can be opened by Project Vasari. There are some limitations in that, as a conceptual modeler, Project Vasari does not support some features (e.g., detailed model elements such as walls, windows, doors, etc.) The thinking is that you would start with Project Vasari and then continue with Revit 2011 to make more detailed models - not the other way around. In a nutshell… Project Vasari it's basically Revit for people who don't need all of Revit.  

Just visited  David Light's blog  - he's done a simply awesome review on Project Vasari. WOW… I can't wait when this will be " Alive in the Lab "

Autodesk Labs "It's Alive in the Labs" has recently posted details to the update to Revit 2011 for The Solar Radiation Technology Preview. This is an update to the Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit 2011, fixing a number of important issues. If you have already installed the previous technology preview, you will need to uninstall that version before installing this version.  Full details about this update can be found on  Autodesk Labs "It's Alive in the Labs" . Free Download of Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit via Autodesk Labs

I was catching up on reading on some favourite blogs, when I came across this interesting article that Scott Sheppard of " It's Alive in the Lab " fame posted some time back.  In response to one of his blogs about analysing your iTunes music, another blogger Jason Pratt sent him this link… Free Download of Super Analyzer 2.1 from SourceForge   which is fine if you're a PC user… but if you're a Mac user, I figured there'd have to be something similar about… and there's probably plenty about but the one I used was this… Super Analyzer (Mac) As per the PC version, its a Java Runtime program that requires no installation and will extract all the information from your iTunes to produce graphs and charts on your music library. You'll be able to see the evolution of genres, tracks you like, or highest playing times. Super Analyzer will also let you know the most played, highest rated songs and includes a whole list of count stats. The application only tak...