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Microsoft Unveils IFTTT-Like Tool Called Flow

by Rajdeep
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Microsoft Unveils IFTTT-Like Tool Called Flow

Microsoft has made an IFTTT-like tool named Flow that would connect several services together and allow users to create workflows. The service for now is not ready for launch, and is only available in its preview version. For those unaware, IFTTT or If This Then That is a tool that connects several Web services and apps, and allows users to create simple ‘recipes’ or workflows that perform a function if a certain condition is met. For instance, one can create a formula where if one tweets an image on Twitter, it would automatically be saved to one’s connected cloud storage account.

Found by Microsoft watcher and Twitter user h0x0d last month, Microsoft Flow can connect together more than 35 services such as Twitter, Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Github and Office 365. Microsoft calls recipes ‘flows’, and is planning on adding more services each week.

More details can be found on the company’s dedicated blog post, which was live for some time before being taken down. The post by Stephen Siciliano, Group Program Manager for Microsoft Flow however, can still be accessed via cached view. The Microsoft Flow website remains live, though it had been briefly pulled.

“Microsoft Flow makes it easy to mash-up two or more different services. Today, Microsoft Flow is publicly available as a preview, at no cost. We have connections to 35+ different services, including both Microsoft services like OneDrive and SharePoint, and public software services like Slack, Twitter and Salesforce.com, with more being added every week,” says the blog post.

Flow can be used to automate certain actions such as getting a SMS when you receive an email from a particular user, get a slack notification when someone uploads a file on Dropbox, or copy certainOneDrive filed to SharePoint. One can access the Microsoft Flow preview with a Work or School Office 365 account, or a non-Outlook.com email address.

Microsoft Flow concept was introduced in November last year with a different moniker – Logic flows for PowerApps. The feature was then launched in a ‘private preview’ version. The feature is also similar to Microsoft’s Azure Logic Apps.

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InstantCAD Tool Promises to Make 3D Design Easier and Faster

by Loknath Das
written by Loknath Das

InstantCAD Tool Promises to Make 3D Design Easier and Faster

To make computer-aided design (CAD) programmes process easier and faster, researchers have developed a new tool called “InstantCAD” that lets designers interactively edit, improve and optimise CAD models using a more streamlined workflow.

Developed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Columbia University, “InstantCAD” integrates with existing CAD programmes as a plug-in.

“From more ergonomic desks to higher-performance cars, this is really about creating better products in less time,” says Adriana Schulz, lead author of the study.

“We think this could be a real game changer for automakers and other companies that want to be able to test and improve complex designs in a matter of seconds to minutes, instead of hours to days,” Schulz said in a paper that will be presented at SIGGRAPH computer-graphics conference in Los Angeles this month.

With “InstantCAD”, the process of improving and optimising the design can be done in real-time, saving engineers days or weeks, the research said.

After an object is designed in a commercial CAD programme, it is sent to a cloud platform where multiple geometric evaluations and simulations are run at the same time.

Users can instantly improve and optimise the design in two ways with this precomputed data.

With “interactive exploration”, a user interface provides real-time feedback on how design changes will affect performance, like how the shape of a plane wing impacts air pressure distribution.

With “automatic optimisation”, users can simply tell the system to give a design with specific characteristics, like a drone that’s as light in weight as possible while still able to carry the

“‘InstantCAD’ could be particularly helpful for more intricate designs for objects like cars, planes, and robots, particularly for industries like car manufacturing that care a lot about squeezing every little bit of performance out of a product,” said Wojciech Matusik, Associate Professor at MIT.

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