Posts Tagged ‘Ecotect’
Watch this beautiful visualisation of an acoustic analysis inside a torus knot done in Ecotect.
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 [...]
Ecotect 5.6 will be a free update for existing customers. You can download the Release Candidate on the Square One website as a fully functional trial (expires August 15, 2008).
Some of the new features in this release include:
Import and export gbXML model files (schema 0.35).
Fully VISTA compatible.
A new wizard-based approach to the creation of common [...]
Sometimes a less high-tech, more simple and robust design might be more appropriate even if life cycle efficiency would be inferior. Many current regulations and codes focus on energy efficiency during the operational life of a building. Therefore we tend to forget possible wider impacts of the materials we choose or about potential future waste [...]
Here are some links I came across today grazing the web for Ecotect tutorials. I wrote an email to the Ecotect guys once and asked for software training possibilities. They did not get back to me yet. So I am trying to teach myself for now (nevertheless some introductionary training would be super, just to [...]
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