Expert Elite 2013
Autodesk Labs & Autodesk Beta
Scott Sheppard
Program Manager, Autodesk Labs
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Labs vs. Beta
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Development Stages
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Customer Participation
 Labs
Beta
64K members
123 countries
33% US
 Publicly available
 Browse freely
 Beta
 Product teams
 Exclusions
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Banned countries
Competitors
Inclusions
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Feedback Community profile
Size
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AutoCAD 2014 = 30,000
Small projects = 200
Geography
Communities
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Autodesk Participation
 Labs
 Discretion of teams
 Feedback on concept and UI
 Not a “sure thing”
 Beta
 Most products
 Discretion of teams
 Expanding to cloud and mobile
 Labs (17
active)
 Pinocchio
 Falcon
 Basejump
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 Beta (143 active)
 360 Fusion
 360 Mobile
 AutoCAD for Mac
Sign up
 Labs
 Autodesk Single Sign-on
 Only on Download
 Beta
 Autodesk Single Sign-on
 Update Profile
 Products Willing to Test
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Commitment
 Both
 Download or Try it
 Feedback
 Labs
 Teams plus Shaan and Scott
 24-hour response to email messages
 Beta
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Fight Club – don’t talk about Fight Club
Limited so participate
Drop inactive participants
CIP-enabled (MTBF collection)
Application virtualization
Feedback
 Labs
Augmented Reality for Showcase
 Sentiment
 Volume
 Silence = Apathy
ADN Plugin of the Month
Project Basejump for AutoCAD Map…
 Beta
Project Geppetto for 3ds Max / 3ds…
 Feature Requests
Project Falcon
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Shape Extraction for AutoCAD
 Defect Classification
Project Simulus
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DesignScript
Bridge Modeler for AutoCAD Civil 3D
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AutoCAD Isometrics WS
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EMAIL FEEDBACK
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Implement
Wish List
50
100
FORUM POST
150
200
250
300
350
SURVEY RESPONSE
400
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Urgency
Severity
Frequency
Defect Tracking
System
Bug scrub process
Process
Labs
Beta
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