Archive for the '3D Modelling' Category
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) today launched a plug-in to Google SketchUp. This plug-in links directly to IES’s free VE-Ware tool which accurately determines the Yearly Energy Consumption and associated Carbon Dioxide Emissions for any building, in any part of the world.
How to determine a buildings Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions for free in 5 easy [...]
Dr. Andrew J. Marsh, the principal author behind Ecotect comments on a future Mac OS X compilation of the software in the Autodesk Ecotect discussion forum:
Basically I’d love to do a Mac version of ECOTECT… I’ll need to go entirely OpenGL in v6.0 of ECOTECT. This will break the link with GDI and make both [...]
Autodesk Ecotect Solar Analysis data can be imported into ParaCloud Modeler and converted as solar numeric matrix. The matrix data can be used as a population matrix or as driving parameters values.
On the ParaCloud Community Blog you can find a tutorial that covers the following subjects:
Importing surface from ParaCloud into Ecotect
Exporting Ecotect solar calculation data [...]
Learn about Composition and Cameras, Modeling, Lighting, Rendering and Post and find out how Neoscape produced their well known Loft 5 project (Video from YouTube).
Tutorials
The following tutorials give insight into techniqes using AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp 3ds Max and V-Ray.
See the tutorials at en.9jcg.com:
Exterior Scenes Part 1 - Composition & Cameras
Exterior Scenes Part 2 - Modeling [...]
If Rhino, AutoCAD, Revit and 3ds Max are part of your work flow you will find some great video tutorials on this website: designreform.net
These direct links lead you to two of many excellent screencasts:
Learn how to link complex organic geometry that was modeled in Rhino into Revit as a mass element
This one shows us how [...]
Autodesk anounced the availability of Ecotect 5.60 for purchase online. It almost doubled in price compared to previous versions.
Read the news at the Autodesk/Square One website
The movie above illustrates a visualisation of N02 in London by CASA, University College London,in association with the Environmental Research Group at Kings College London.
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2): NO2 is produced in high temperature combustions processes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere. Road transport is responsible for 60 per cent of emissions of NOx (the pollutant [...]
Find a tutorial on using Demeter and SketchUp to get an energy analysis report and some interesting discussion on the Greenspace Research forum.
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“SketchUp and Green Design” - a video from Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp conference in Mountain View, California. You will see how to use Sketchup with additional tools like Chhaya, Greenfoot, SPOT, AGI32 and the Energy Design plugin (as featured in an earlier post) to explore green building design opportunities.
You can find more 3D Basecamp session [...]
