Archive for March, 2010

SixthSense Device

Autodesk® Design Review software

Accelerate architecture, engineering, or construction design workflows with Autodesk® Design Review software. The free*, integrated 3D model viewer provides team members who don’t use CAD software easy access to rich designs. It also reinforces the use of complete design data for building information modeling (BIM).

Accelerate Project Review Cycles
Significantly reduce time from building review and approval cycles and reduce printing and shipping costs by using Autodesk Design Review to mark up and review designs created with Revit® and AutoCAD® software products.

Effectively Show Designs in Client Presentations
Fully visualize drawings and walk through building models to create presentations that enable clients to experience a project before it is built.

Document Construction Change Orders
Use the markup and status-tracking tools in Autodesk Design Review to track the changes required throughout the construction process.

Publish, Share, and View
Conduct virtual walk-throughs of architectural models using the navigation wheel.

Virtual iTheatre

The Autodesk Seize the Opportunity Virtual Event

Increase your speed and power without sacrificing flexibility. Deliver building, transportation, and environmental engineering projects faster and more economically. Design, visualize, and simulate ideas on screen – with no need for a physical prototype. It’s all possible with Autodesk® 2011 software.

Learn more at the Autodesk Seize the Opportunity Virtual Event. Attendance is free.

Right on your desktop, you can attend sessions, such as:

  • See the Difference: Lynn Allen’s AutoCAD 2011 Tips & Techniques
  • Go Beyond 3D to Digital Prototyping with Autodesk Inventor 2011
  • Getting to Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • On the Road to Success: Autodesk Solutions for Roads and Highways
  • Take Control with AutoCAD LT 2011 Software
Date: April 19
Time: 7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time

What’s new in Revt Architecture 2011?

So what’s in RAC 2011 you may ask? RAC 2011 introduces some new concepts, an improved interface (needed too after the grief that Autodesk got about the Ribbon for 2010) as well as some genuine user feature requests. Whilst this blog just covers the main features it does not cover everything, but I do plan to cover specific functionality in future articles.

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Nor-Son’s Idea Gallery

Nor-Son has updated it’s popular Idea Gallery. The Idea Gallery is the place to draw inspiration for your dream home. The new navigation is simple and elegant, check it out at www.nor-son.com

Project Chicago – LEEDs

Autodesk Project Chicago – LEEDs Visualization Tool from Tom Wujec on Vimeo.

IPD + BIM

IPD is the Infrastructure and B.I.M. is the vehicle.

Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.

A vehicle (Latin: vehiculum) is a mechanical means of conveyance, a carriage or transport.

NPR Tools and SketchUp

What’s New in 3ds Max 2011

What's New in 3ds Max 2011

Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2011 3D modeling, animation, rendering software includes the following new and enhanced features:

  • Slate, a new node-based material editor, enables you to more easily visualize and edit material component relationships.
  • Quicksilver hardware renderer enables you to create high-fidelity pre-visualizations, animatics, and games-related marketing materials in less time.
  • Graphite modeling and Viewport Canvas tools help accelerate modeling and texturing tasks.
  • The new 3ds Max Composite feature offers high-performance, HDR-capable compositing tools and is based on technology from Autodesk® Toxik® software.
  • 3ds Max 2010-compatible format enables you to save scene files to help manage the transition to 3ds Max 2011.

Watch Videos of these new features in Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2011

After Effects CS4 Beyond the Basics

Google SketchUp Essential Training

After Effects CS4 New Features