Posts Tagged ‘Revit’
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 [...]
VE-WARE from IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd) is now available to download. It works as a Revit plug-in only for now, other options for inputting the geometry data will be coming soon.
Some highlights are:
Suitable for all building types across worldwide locations
Assesses performance against the Architecture 2030 Challenge
Easy to use – produce results at the touch [...]
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 [...]
Use the vast amount of 3d models from Google’s 3D Warehouse site within Revit.
Here is how
Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Berlin based Mental Images (the maker of the Mental Ray render engine) let’s us speculate if this is going to bring us a step closer to hardware accelerated real time global illumination?
Clearly this move will have some implications to the architectural visualisation and simulation market.
The Mental Ray render engine ships as [...]
This looks like a very promising application for Revit and 3ds max user:
“nPower’s Revit to Max bi-directional translation solution provides your design visualization team the most advanced Revit to 3ds Max translation tools on the market today. nPower Software’s precise surface and solid modeling technology plugs directly into 3ds max enabling an accurate data transfer [...]
Good tutorial on how to bring the free form modeling capabilities of Rhino together with the systematic BIM approach of Revit.
HOK Cad Solutions Blog: Workflow - Rhino to Revit
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 [...]
