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May 16, 2010

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Steve Johnson

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?

Ralph Grabowski

Problem is, Steve, I don't know if your answers are correct.

Steve Johnson

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?

Rüdiger Bernard

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.

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