Posts Tagged ‘Autodesk’
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 [...]
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
Autodesk went on a green shopping spree the last couple of month: After announcing the full aquisition of Green Building Studio now the acquisition of Ecotect was a surprise.
I hope all the resources behind Autodesk help leapfrogging innovation
in the building analysis and simulation field and it would be great if some of those items would [...]
Autodesk updated the recently acquired Green Building Studio. This web service integrates sophisticated engineer’s tools with architectural design software and enables architects to evaluate the energy use of their designs.
Part of the update is a tighter integration with the 2009 line of the Revit platform. The external application was added to the Tool pull down [...]
News came lately that Autodesk is in the process of acquirering Green Building Studio.
Green Building Studio Inc. developed the Green Building XML (gbXML) schema and launched the Green Building Studio web service in 2004. The web service offers whole building energy, carbon, and other analysis tools for architects.
Hopefully this aquisition will better implement energy modelling [...]
