Project Snap: ____________________________________
Inventor Fusion: _________________________________
Project Butterfly: _________________________________
AutoCAD Freestyle: _______________________________
Not all product names are androgynous. Here are a couple that are completely clear as their their purpose:
Google Earth Extension: an extension that works with Google Earth._____
Rhino Import Translator: a translator that imports Rhino._________
Project Snap: Designing crocodile enclosures
Inventor Fusion: Designing nuclear power plants
Project Butterfly: Designing children's clothing
AutoCAD Freestyle: Designing swimming pools
Do I win a prize?
Posted by: Steve Johnson | May 16, 2010 at 08:59 PM
Problem is, Steve, I don't know if your answers are correct.
Posted by: Ralph Grabowski | May 16, 2010 at 10:02 PM
To be fair to Autodesk, naming stuff can be hard, especially when you have dozens of products that do similar things.
To be fairer, Fusion and Freestyle do kind of make sense.
To be even fairer, what about Teigha? What kind of name is that? What does it mean? How do you pronounce it? How often do people spell it wrong in search engines? Is it a friend of Weineigh the Puigh?
Fairest of all, don't get me started on dumb web site names. What about upFront.eZine? Or blog nauseam?
Posted by: Steve Johnson | May 17, 2010 at 12:47 AM
Ralph, what about "Project Draw"? Autodesk’s universal drag-and-drop diagram editor?
Or "Project Dragonfly" alias "Homestyler"? The state-of-the art design software for kitschy single-storey homes with lots of oriels and lattice windows?
"Project Butterfly" is great to draw ground plans and estates in Google Maps (would still be better, if there was a way to get correct length measurements out of the satellite photos).
"Snap", "Fusion" and "Freestyle" are projects I never heard of before. Steve's definitions sound reasonable. I will check that later.
Posted by: Rüdiger Bernard | May 17, 2010 at 01:21 AM