Inside Hues
Product Marketing Manager Lisa Crounse takes you on a behind the scenes tour of what goes into developing a new technology for Autodesk Labs. Lisa introduces you to members of the Impression development team and shares their unique ideas and insights.
Latest Post
- posted 02/26/07 by Lisa Crounse Read our first review
- Okay, I've been a bit swamped ever since World Press Day. So, while I work on transcribing some interviews that I did with the team a few weeks ago, take a look at this review on the 3DAllusions web site.
I'll be back later this week with an interview with our Program Manager, Amy Peterson.1 comments In Inside Hues >
Previous Posts
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Playing with the big boys and girls
Posted 02/12/07 by Lisa Crounse
What a relief! After months of having to evade answering the question "When will Impression be available?" - I can now tell you the truth.
Autodesk Impression will officially be part of the Autodesk product line up starting this spring. It must be true - its in a press release, after all.
I'll tell you all a bit more about availability as the ship date draws near, but for now, rest assured - Impression is here to stay. (and yes, that Technology Preview you are using will expire one of these days, but not until after we've shipped a "real product" so keep using it!) And keep your feedback coming!
The real deal:
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Tips from the Team
Posted 02/07/07 by Lisa Crounse
As you may have noticed, the Tips database could benefit from a new tip or two. In an effort to rectify this situation, I asked team members to send me their tips. As you can see by peeking at the Tips page, Shana Priwer did a great job of entering tips.
Yan Schober, a Product Designer on our team also e-mailed me a bunch of tips. Because he went to great lengths to produce visuals to go along with them, I thought that I'd share them with you in this forum. Without further ado - here are Yan's tips:
1. Create separate layers for your Area Fill objects
This will make it easier for you to select them later, or adjust their draw order relative to objects on other layers.
2. Use Block Styles in the Styles palette to edit the appearance of your blocks – no need to explode.
3. Hold the SHIFT key while creating area fill objects to create single objects.
4. Hold ALT key to create or modify objects from their center.
5. Resize Styles: Rather than adjust each style parameter individually, use the Resize Style dialog to resize all style parameters in one step.
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And we'll all get to know Yan better when we release the next Technology Preview.
